Old NASA satellite plunges to Earth over Sahara Desert
Thursday, 20 April 2023 18:59
An old NASA satellite that studied the sun for more than a decade fell to Earth over the Sahara Desert, the space agency reported Thursday.
Our pledge to diversify the space industry workforce continues | Open Letter
Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:04
The results from the first year of Space Workforce 2030 activity are in and we are trending in a positive direction.
SpaceX Starship experiences rapid unscheduled disassembly 3 minutes after launch
Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:26
SpaceX's Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, exploded on Thursday during the first test flight of the spacecraft designed to send astronauts to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
The gigantic rocket successfully blasted off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT) from Starbase, the private SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas.
The Starship capsule had been scheduled to separate from t Starship lifts off on first integrated test flight, breaks apart minutes later
Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:01
SpaceX’s first integrated Starship vehicle lifted off on a long-anticipated test flight April 20, only to tumble and break apart minutes later.
SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas
Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:47
SpaceX's giant new rocket exploded minutes after blasting off Thursday on it first test flight and crashed into the Gulf of Mexico.
Elon Musk's company was aiming to send the nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship rocket on a round-the-world trip from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. It carried no people or satellites.
Images showed multiple engines weren't working on the 33-engine rocket as it climbed from the launch pad, reaching as high as 24 miles (39 kilometers.)
The flight plan had called for the booster to peel away from the spacecraft minutes after liftoff, but that didn't happen. The rocket began to tumble and then exploded four minutes into the flight, plummeting into the gulf.
ESA’s technical centre expands
Thursday, 20 April 2023 11:38
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ESA’s technical centre expands NASA starts consortium for ISAM technologies
Thursday, 20 April 2023 11:06
NASA announced April 19 the creation of a new organization devoted to advancing technologies for in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing (ISAM).
Introducing World Cereal
Thursday, 20 April 2023 11:05
Global food security is a major challenge in the face of population growth and climate change. One of the first steps in achieving food security for all is to know which crops are growing where and how – each season. Launching today, ESA’s WorldCereal is the world’s first dynamic system capable of providing seasonally updated crop information to help monitor agricultural production across the globe.
SpaceX takes second shot at launching biggest rocket
Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:55
SpaceX prepared to launch the biggest and most powerful rocket Thursday, working nonstop after the first shot at a test flight fizzled earlier in the week.
The nearly 400-foot (120-meter) Starship was poised to blast off from the southern tip of Texas, near the Mexican border. SpaceX's Elon Musk gave 50-50 odds of the spacecraft reaching orbit on its debut.
None of the rocket will be recovered. Instead, if all goes well, the first-stage booster, dubbed Super Heavy, would drop into the Gulf of Mexico.
'Awesome' solar eclipse wows viewers in Australia, Indonesia
Thursday, 20 April 2023 07:26!['Awesome' solar eclipse wows viewers in Australia, Indonesia](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2023/awesome-solar-eclipse.jpg "The sun and moon are photographed near Exmouth, Australia, during a solar eclipse on Thursday, April 20, 2023. The lucky few in the path of the hybrid solar eclipse will either get plunged into the darkness of a total eclipse or they'll see a "ring of fire" as the sun peeks out from behind the moon. Credit: Aaron Bunch/AAP Image via AP")
Under a cloudless sky, 20,000 eclipse chasers crowded a tiny outpost to watch a rare solar eclipse plunge part of Australia's northwest coast into brief midday darkness Thursday while temporarily cooling the tropical heat.
SpaceX counts down toward Thursday launch of Starship rocket
Thursday, 20 April 2023 06:20
SpaceX will again attempt to launch the first test flight of its fully integrated Super Heavy booster and Starship rocket on Thursday.
The launch from SpaceX Starbase in Texas is slated for no sooner than Thursday, with a 62-minute launch window beginning at 8:28 a.m. CST.
The test flight is highly anticipated because it represents a crucial step toward sending a manned mission b VERTIGO concludes with telecom data transmission on a laser link at record high power
Thursday, 20 April 2023 06:20
Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), and its partners are pleased to announce that the VERTIGO project has concluded with the successful demonstration of a high-power optical data transmission system at the Thales laboratory in Palaiseau, France.
This is a key success for the development of future geostationary communication satellites using optic Google selects SpaceChain into its Startups Program
Thursday, 20 April 2023 06:20
SpaceChain has been accepted into the Google for Startups program. The Google program is designed for early-stage companies such as SpaceChain to help build a sustainable, successful business over the long-term by providing the support, services and technology to do so.
Under the Google for Startups program, SpaceChain will be able to strengthen its position in leading data and transaction SatixFy and Presto Engineering test rad-hard space-grade ASICs
Thursday, 20 April 2023 06:20
SatixFy has announced a strategic partnership with Presto Engineering, a recognized expert in ASIC design and semiconductor engineering and production services. This partnership supports SatixFy's growth of the Satellites constellation-based communication market by developing high-quality, space-grade and radhard (radiation hardened) ASICs (Application-Specific Integrated Circuits).
ASICs Inside the "space factory"
Thursday, 20 April 2023 06:20
Bigger. And even better. That's the trajectory of Space Systems Operations - aka the "space factory" - since its 2002 opening outside Tucson, Arizona.
Run by Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a business of Raytheon Technologies, the space factory covers over 49,000 square feet. Inside are dozens of clean rooms housing space simulating technologies to support production and testing of complex