Week in images: 17-21 October 2022
Friday, 21 October 2022 12:12
Week in images: 17-21 October 2022
Discover our week through the lens
OneWeb launch sign of greater role for India in commercial launch market
Friday, 21 October 2022 10:53
The launch of a set of OneWeb satellites on an Indian rocket could be the harbinger of a greater role India will play in a commercial launch industry straining to satisfy demand.
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Grasp acquires AirPhoton to form Grasp Global
Friday, 21 October 2022 10:00
French startup Grasp SAS has acquired Baltimore, Maryland-based AirPhoton to create Grasp Global, a U.S. Earth-observation company.
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ESA finalizes package for ministerial
Friday, 21 October 2022 09:36
ESA is putting the finishing touches on a package of programs it will ask its member states to support at a council meeting in November.
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Virgin Orbit and Luxembourg sign agreement to advance allied responsive space capabilities across Europe
Friday, 21 October 2022 08:50
Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and the Luxembourg Minister of Defence has signed a Letter of Intent that will begin the process towards developing responsive space capabilities inclusive of mobile launch infrastructure that would be based in Luxembourg, but available for NATO partners, and other Allies across the European continent. As part of the agreement, Virgin Orbit, in close coordination with NASA readies Superstack for upcoming JPSS-2 launch
Friday, 21 October 2022 08:50
Two very different payloads flying on one rocket are ready for their ride to space. Creating an integrated stack that stands 25 feet tall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) and NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) spacecraft are safely secured inside the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V roc NGC delivers first GEM 63XL solid rocket boosters to support Vulcan first flight
Friday, 21 October 2022 08:50
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first two 63-inch-diameter extended length Graphite Epoxy Motors (GEM 63XL) to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.
The solid rocket boosters will support the inaugural flight of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket planned for first quarter 2023. At approximately 72-feet-long, and weighing over 117,000 pounds, the GEM 63XL is the New Site, New Sights, New Science: Sols 3628-3629
Friday, 21 October 2022 08:50
For the first time in a little while we're at a new location after a drive in the last plan, which means new targets for the Geo team to investigate, and slightly different viewsheds for ENV to work with. Power was a bit tight, especially for the first sol with two hours of science time, a drive, and arm activities. Still, we managed to pack in lots of targeted science before driving away. Arecibo Observatory-led Team discovers large near-earth asteroid has changing rotation
Friday, 21 October 2022 08:50
Ateam of scientists led by Arecibo Observatory and the University of Central Florida has measured a change in the rotation period of the potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon, a future spacecraft target.
Phaethon is just the 11th asteroid with a measured change in its rotation period, and it is the largest of them.
The discovery is an example of progress in global e To explore space means defying dust
Friday, 21 October 2022 07:02
As the world’s space agencies prepare to return to the Moon and explore the planets, space materials engineers have been getting to grips with a challenging enemy: dust. The abrasive, talcum-like dust enshrouding the Moon and other planetary surfaces can obscure surfaces, wear away at coatings and clog space mechanisms.
Earth from Space: Inhambane Bay, Mozambique
Friday, 21 October 2022 07:00
Inhambane Bay, in southeast Mozambique, is featured in this true-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.
ESA spacecraft catch the brightest ever gamma-ray burst
Friday, 21 October 2022 06:30
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ESA spacecraft catch the brightest ever gamma-ray burst Reprogrammable OneSat on track for success
Friday, 21 October 2022 06:14
The OneSat family of geostationary software-defined telecommunications satellites has passed successfully its first qualification review.
Sidus Space executes launch agreement with Vaya Space
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company, focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, has signed a launch agreement with Vaya Space for four launches over multiple years. Vaya Space is an emerging leader in sustainable space access and this agreement expands Sidus Space's ability to d NASA orders three more Orion spacecraft from Lockheed Martin
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) is now under contract to deliver three Orion spacecraft to NASA for its Artemis VI-VIII missions, continuing the delivery of exploration vehicles to the agency to carry astronauts into deep space and around the Moon supporting the Artemis program.
Lockheed Martin is the prime contractor to NASA for the Orion program and has completed two Orion vehicles-EFT-1 whi