Spaceflight and Rocket Factory partner to fly Sherpa OTVs on RFA launches from Europe
Wednesday, 21 September 2022 12:30
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At the International Astronautical Congress 2022 (IAC), Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, has announced it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for upcoming launches with Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA). The agreement formalizes the plan for Spaceflight to fly its Sherpa orbital transfer vehicles (OTVs) and other rideshare payloads on upcoming RFA missions fro SpinLaunch closes $71M Series B funding round
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SpinLaunch reports that the company has closed a $71 million Series B funding round. The funds will be used to continue the development and commercialization of the world's first kinetic launch system and satellite product line, designed to provide low-cost, high-cadence, environmentally responsible space access.
The round was led by ATW Partners, and includes Kleiner Perkins, GV, ATMA Cap Wagner Corp teams with Virgin Orbit to bring air-launch capability to Australia
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Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB), a leading launch provider, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Wagner Corporation, one of the region's most successful privately-owned companies and proprietor of the Toowoomba Wellcamp Airport and Business Park in Queensland, Australia. The agreement will allow the companies to begin the process of implementing a national launch capability from Austr Researchers at SLAC use purified liquid xenon to search for mysterious dark matter particles
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Sitting a mile below ground in an abandoned gold mine in South Dakota is a gigantic cylinder holding 10 tons of purified liquid xenon closely watched by more than 250 scientists around the world. That tank of xenon is the heart of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, an effort to detect dark matter - the mysterious invisible substance that makes up 85% of the matter in the universe.
"People hav Redwire, Bradford Space and SSC to jointly develop commercial orbital debris removal service
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Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with both Bradford Space and the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) to develop a commercial orbital debris removal service. Through this collaboration, Redwire will expand the development team and add extensive space robotics and guidance, navigatio MDA announces second commercial sale of space robotics technology to Axiom Space
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MDA Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, has announced the second commercial sale of its products derived from Canadarm3 technology to Axiom Space.
The new contract is for the delivery of 62 payload interface pairs for Axiom Space's Axiom Station. The interfaces will provide mechanical, electrical, and data Maxar awarded G-EGD contract renewal to provide mission-ready imagery for US Govt
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Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has been awarded an Option Year 3 contract renewal by the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) program. The contract, which began September 1, 2022, is valued at $44 million. This is the third of three opt Maxar offering new space-monitoring service to help track objects in orbit
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Maxar Technologies has received regulatory approval to use its satellites to monitor the space environment and sell that data commercially.
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IAC 2022: ESA DG and astronauts meet the press
Wednesday, 21 September 2022 11:00 Write a comment
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ESA astronauts Thomas Pesquet, Luca Parmitano, Alexander Gerst, and Matthias Maurer, together with the ESA Director General answered questions from journalists at the IAC in Paris. Andreas Mogensen joined remotely and Samantha Cristoforetti connected directly from the the International Space Station.
Artemis Accords signatories hold first meeting
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Nations that have signed the U.S.-led Artemis Accords met in person for the first time Sept. 19 as an initial step to elaborate on the principles for safe and sustainable space exploration.
New Webb image captures clearest view of Neptune’s rings in decades
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The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope is showing off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune. Not only has Webb captured the clearest view of this peculiar planet’s rings in more than 30 years, but its cameras are also revealing the ice giant in a whole new light.
Zooming in on drought from space
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We are all aware that the summer of 2022 has been one of the hottest on record, causing drought and raging wildfires in many parts of Europe. Satellite data have been used to report the baking temperatures of the land surface and map fires, but the Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission has also been used to zoom in and provide very high-resolution measurements of the actual moisture content of the surface soils. Maps of northern Italy, for example, show how dry this summer has been compared to two years ago.
American, Russians to blast off for ISS as war rages in Ukraine
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A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are set to blast off to the International Space Station Wednesday on a Russian-operated flight despite soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1354 GMT, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Rubio will become the first US astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine on February 24.
In response, Western capitals including Washington have hit Moscow with unprecedented sanctions and bilateral ties have sunk to new lows.
American, Russians blast off for ISS as war rages in Ukraine (Update)
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A US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are set to blast off to the International Space Station Wednesday on a Russian-operated flight despite soaring tensions between Moscow and Washington over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
NASA's Frank Rubio and Russia's Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin are scheduled to take off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1354 GMT, according to Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Rubio will become the first US astronaut to travel to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into pro-Western Ukraine on February 24.
In response, Western capitals including Washington have hit Moscow with unprecedented sanctions and bilateral ties have sunk to new lows.
Weightless on Earth with VIVALDI
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During missions on the International Space Station, astronauts’ bodies go through a wide array of changes due to lack of gravity - everything from vision to cardiovascular health to bone density is affected.
Though astronauts exercise and take supplements to mitigate some of these effects, understanding more about deconditioning in microgravity could allow physicians to design better treatments. This wouldn’t just be useful for spacefarers; it could also improve treatment strategies for common health conditions here on Earth.