Surrey Satellite joins forces with the Air and Space Institute
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:37
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) is delighted to announce a partnership with centre of excellence and training provider, The Air and Space Institute. SSTL's Head of Customer Training Stu Jones is pictured (right) with ASI's Assistant Principle Ross Tarnowski (left), visiting ASI's soon to be completed dedicated Aerospace building in Newark, Notts.
By joining forces with ASI, SSTL Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth's crust
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:37
If you could sink through the Earth's crust, you might hear, with a carefully tuned ear, a cacophany of booms and crackles along the way. The fissures, pores, and defects running through rocks are like strings that resonate when pressed and stressed. And as a team of MIT geologists has found, the rhythm and pace of these sounds can tell you something about the depth and strength of the rocks aro Bumping to a Better Position: Sols 3973-3974
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:37
Earth planning date: Monday, October 9, 2023: After the drive this weekend, Curiosity has arrived at another light-toned band that we hope to evaluate for drilling before solar conjunction begins next month. We have some light-toned, slightly nodular rocks in our workspace serving as potential drill target candidates.
The goal today at the start of planning was to do contact science with A Plot thickens in hunt for ninth planet
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:37
A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet might instead be evidence within the solar system of a modified law of gravity originally developed to understand the rotation of galaxies.
Researchers Harsh Mathur, a professor of physics at Case Western Reserve University, and Katherine Brown, an associate professor of physics France's Arianespace launches 12 satellites into space
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 09:37
The French-based Arianespace successfully launched a rocket with 12 satellites into space.
Arianespace's 100-foot-tall Vega rocket took off from Kourou, French Guiana on Sunday and deployed the satellites into space about one hour later in the rocket's first mission of 2023.
The European Space Agency said the package of satellites included an Earth-observing THEOS-2 satellite and New Gaia release reveals rare lenses, cluster cores and unforeseen science
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 07:00
Today, ESA's Gaia mission releases a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Among other findings, the star surveyor surpasses its planned potential to reveal half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster, identify over 380 possible cosmic lenses, and pinpoint the positions of more than 150 000 asteroids within the Solar System.
Russia reports coolant leak in backup line at space station and says crew not in danger
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 06:40
First month of science for Huginn
Tuesday, 10 October 2023 06:30
Andreas Mogensen had a busy first month in space, with plenty of science from sleeping in orbit and capturing pictures of thunderstorms to making chocolate mousse. Here is an overview of Andreas’s first month of science on the Space Station.
Space insurers brace for more claims after propulsion trouble on four GEO satellites
Monday, 09 October 2023 21:58
New head of smallsat supplier Blue Canyon sets sights on defense market growth
Monday, 09 October 2023 20:26
Vega flight takes satellites to space
Monday, 09 October 2023 18:21
Today (Oct. 10) at 22:36 local time (02:36 BST, 03:36 CEST) the 23rd Vega flight saw its two main satellites launched and released into Earth orbit. The rocket's main passengers were the Earth observing THEOS-2 satellite and the meteorological satellite Triton.
THEOS-2 (THailand Earth Observation System-2) is an observation satellite manufactured by Airbus for the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand. THEOS-2 is the largest of the two satellites in the series and will provide the Ministry of Agriculture of Thailand with information on water resources, weather and land use for planning and management.
Triton (formerly known as FORMOSAT-7R) is a Taiwan Space Agency (TASA) satellite that will collect signals that bounce off the sea surface to help scientists calculate wind field over our oceans. This data will be shared with Taiwan's Central Weather Administration, contributing to the forecast of typhoon intensity and their trajectory.
The satellites were released in a sun-synchronous orbit, meaning they will fly over the same spot on Earth at the same time each day—following the sun.
Russian ISS segment springs third leak in under a year
Monday, 09 October 2023 18:20
Liquid has leaked from the Russian portion of the International Space Station but the crew are not in any danger, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
"The Nauka module of the Russian segment of the ISS has suffered a coolant leak from the external (backup) radiator circuit, which was delivered to the station in 2012," Roscosmos said on Telegram suggesting there was no danger to the orbiting laboratory.
Last month, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut landed back on Earth after spending a year at the ISS.
The three men had traveled on a Russian Soyuz to the ISS last year, in a mission that was meant to last only six months.
But the Soyuz suffered a leak probably due to impact from a tiny meteorite, so Moscow sent another rocket with no crew onboard.
The Russians and American then carried out the mission of the crew that was due to replace them.
The trio spent a year on the ISS—a rare venue for cooperation between the US and Russia—as tensions between Washington and Moscow intensified over the conflict in Ukraine.
Coolant leaked from Russian part of ISS, crew safe: Roscosmos
Monday, 09 October 2023 18:20Liquid has leaked from the Russian portion of the International Space Station but the crew are not in any danger, the Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
"The Nauka module of the Russian segment of the ISS has suffered a coolant leak from the external (backup) radiator circuit, which was delivered to the station in 2012," Roscosmos said on Telegram suggesting there was no danger to the orbiting laboratory.
Last month, two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut landed back on Earth after spending a year at the ISS.
The three men had traveled on a Russian Soyuz to the ISS last year, in a mission that was meant to last only six months.
But the Soyuz suffered a leak probably due to impact from a tiny meteorite, so Moscow sent another rocket with no crew onboard.
The Russians and American then carried out the mission of the crew that was due to replace them.
The trio spent a year on the ISS—a rare venue for cooperation between the US and Russia—as tensions between Washington and Moscow intensified over the conflict in Ukraine.