India’s new SSLV rocket suffers “data loss” in maiden flight; satellites’ status unaccounted for
Sunday, 07 August 2022 12:09
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The Aug. 6 maiden flight of India’s newly developed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) went awry with “some data loss” that occurred in the terminal stage of the mission.
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India’s new SSLV rocket fails in first launch
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The Aug. 6 maiden flight of India’s newly developed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) went awry with “some data loss” that occurred in the terminal stage of the mission.
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Entire NASA astronaut corps eligible for Artemis missions
Saturday, 06 August 2022 14:52 Write a comment
As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agency’s chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not a previously announced subset, is eligible for that flight and future missions to the moon.
Italian satellite may fly NASA Earth science payload
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NASA is in talks with the Italian Space Agency to fly an Earth science instrument originally planned to go on a commercial smallsat.
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Space Development Agency to take another stab at space-to-aircraft laser communications
Friday, 05 August 2022 19:31 Write a comment
SDA is seeking proposals for a demonstration of laser communications between orbiting satellites and aircraft in flight
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Aging Telesat satellite running out of fuel as projected LEO costs soar
Friday, 05 August 2022 19:22 Write a comment
Canada’s Telesat is bracing for a revenue hit in 2023 after being forced to retire its Anik F2 satellite from full service three years earlier than planned.
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FCC considers opening up more Ku-band to non-GEO satellite operators
Friday, 05 August 2022 17:28 Write a comment
The Federal Communications Commission is considering opening up more Ku-band spectrum to Starlink and other non-geostationary satellite (NGSO) operators to improve broadband speeds.
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10 years since landing, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover still has drive
Friday, 05 August 2022 15:30 Write a comment
Despite signs of wear, the intrepid spacecraft is about to start an exciting new chapter of its mission as it climbs a Martian mountain.
Ten years ago today, a jetpack lowered NASA's Curiosity rover onto the Red Planet, beginning the SUV-size explorer's pursuit of evidence that, billions of years ago, Mars had the conditions needed to support microscopic life.
NASA Goddard's 'Web Around Asteroid Bennu' shows in SIGGRAPH film fest
Friday, 05 August 2022 15:20 Write a comment
Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney's "Encanto" and Warner Brothers' "The Batman," a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival honoring standout works of computer animated storytelling.
"A Web Around Asteroid Bennu" highlights the tricky navigation it took for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the video will show in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Aug. 8 in the SIGGRAPH computer graphics conference's Electronic Theater, a qualifying venue for Academy Award consideration.
OSIRIS-REx completed a series of complicated maneuvers around Bennu over the course of two-and-a-half years before collecting its sample with a touch-and-go, or TAG, maneuver and exiting orbit. The various segments of this web-like flight path were highlighted in full by data visualizer Kel Elkins, of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at Goddard.
"I started working with the trajectory data in 2015," Elkins said. "And when you first see an image of all the different maneuvers it looks like a rat's nest. But it was really exciting to see these complicated maneuvers in 3D space.
NASA's ShadowCam launches aboard Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter
Friday, 05 August 2022 15:20 Write a comment
NASA's ShadowCam is heading to the Moon aboard Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)'s Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO) mission. KPLO, also known as Danuri, launched at 7:08 p.m. EDT on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Launch Complex 40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on August 4.
Developed by Arizona State University and Malin Space Science Systems, ShadowCam is one of five instruments on board KARI's KPLO spacecraft.
A hypersensitive optical camera, ShadowCam, will collect images of permanently shadowed regions near the Moon's poles. This will allow ShadowCam to map the reflectance of these regions to search for evidence of ice deposits, observe seasonal changes, and measure the terrain inside the craters.
Op-ed | Sealing the ISS Airlock Behind Putin
Friday, 05 August 2022 12:27 Write a comment
While the Western world and much of the global space industry severed ties with Russia over the war, NASA’s administrator and key managers for the International Space Station have continued to embrace the pariah state as a valued partner.
Week in images: 01-05 August 2022
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Week in images: 01-05 August 2022
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Pure gold pin for space testing
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Pure gold pin for space testing South Korea’s first lunar orbiter on way to the moon
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South Korea’s first lunar orbiter has begun its voyage toward the moon on a mission critical to the country’s future space projects.
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US Space Force conducts innovative talent acquisition process
Friday, 05 August 2022 10:32 Write a comment
In May 2022, the U.S. Space Force held a Cyber Constructive Service (CCS) Credit Board, in which the service called for applications from civilian cyber professionals to become cyber officers in the Space Force.
Casting a wide net, approximately 1,000 people attended a virtual conference, with more than 400 applying. The board further narrowed the field and 10 cyber professionals accepted