Waves and a Rock: Sols 3778-3779
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
Monday's planned drive positioned Curiosity with a new workspace to investigate. We have left the Marker Band, with Natalie's blog nicely summarizing our campaign there. As a physicist and spectroscopist by training, I find myself looking more at the analytical data, in particular X-ray fluorescence data, acquired on rocks, than the rocks themselves. But there was something about the primary roc Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists sharpen their sights
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they've ever been to finding an analog of Earth's "twin."
If they succeed in locating one, it could reveal valuable insights into Earth's future, and our risk of developing a runaway greenhouse climate as Venus did.
Scientists who wrote the paper began wit Searching for life with space dust
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
Following enormous collisions, such as asteroid impacts, some amount of material from an impacted world may be ejected into space. This material can travel vast distances and for extremely long periods of time. In theory this material could contain direct or indirect signs of life from the host world, such as fossils of microorganisms. And this material could be detectable by humans in the near China launches carrier rocket for satellite installation
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
China launched a Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket on Wednesday afternoon at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwestern desert, placing four meteorological satellites in orbit, according to China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.
The State-owned company said in a release that the solid-propellant rocket blasted off at 5:09 pm from its launch vehicle and then placed four A common thread linking subatomic color glass condensate and massive black holes
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
Physicists have discovered a remarkable correspondence between dense states of gluons-the gluelike carriers of the strong nuclear force within atomic nuclei-and enormous black holes in the cosmos. The dense walls of gluons, known as a color glass condensate (CGC), are generated in collisions of atomic nuclei. This CGC measures a mere 10-19 kilometers across-less than a billionth of a kilometer. Metaspectral Selected to join leading Australian Space Program
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, is announcing that it has been selected to join Venture Catalyst Space.
Venture Catalyst Space is a leading commercial space accelerator and incubator program delivered by the University of South Australia's Innovation and Collaboration Centre (ICC) and is funded by the Arkisys Announces Contract Award With US Space Force
Thursday, 23 March 2023 10:05
Arkisys and partners to demonstrate building and assembling a satellite in orbit on the Port
The U.S. Space Force awarded a $1.6 million contract to Arkisys to demonstrate robotic satellite assembly.
Under a SpaceWERX Small Business Innovation Research contract, Arkisys and its partners, Novawurks, Motiv Space Systems, Qediq, iBoss, and Texas A and M University will demonstrate how t ESA School Days – ESRIN, 13-17 March 2023
Thursday, 23 March 2023 09:00
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In the week of 13-17 March 2023, more than 1400 students attended the ESA School Days event at ESRIN, the ESA Centre for Earth Observation located in Frascati, near Rome, Italy. The students and their teachers, coming from Lazio and other Italian regions, discovered more about ESA and the projects it is involved in, thanks also to creative hands-on labs, a visit to the Earth observation multimedia centre and the launch of rocket models. During the full-day visit, the focus was on themes such as Earth observation, satellites in orbit, ESA launch programmes, asteroid tracking, and how
Europe’s Spaceport: digitalisation contract opportunities
Thursday, 23 March 2023 08:00
ESA and CNES invite space and non-space companies from all European Member, Associate and Cooperating States to support the digital modernisation of several activities at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket fails to reach orbit
Thursday, 23 March 2023 03:43
Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket, Terran 1, failed to reach orbit after an anomaly occurred during its second-stage separation. The rocket had been launched successfully on its third attempt and was designed to carry over 1000 kg of cargo into low Earth orbit. It was intended to gather data and demonstrate that 3D-printed rockets can withstand the rigors of liftoff and spaceflight.
The Webb Telescope spots swirling, gritty clouds on remote planet in spectrum data
Thursday, 23 March 2023 03:43
Researchers observing with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet's atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during its 22-hour day, bringing hotter material up and pushing colder material down. The resulting brightness changes are so dramatic that it is the most variable planetary-mass object known to date. The te Virgin Orbit to bring small staff back to work on Thursday
Thursday, 23 March 2023 03:43
Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's satellite launcher service, is expected to return a small staff work on Thursday after suspending operations last week and putting its employees on unpaid furlough.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, Virgin Orbit Holdings said it would begin an "incremental resumption of its operations" that would include working on its ne Relativity launches first Terran 1
Thursday, 23 March 2023 03:20
Relativity Space’s first Terran 1 rocket successfully got off the launch pad March 22 but failed to reach orbit because of an upper stage malfunction.
SpaceX experiencing problems with first upgraded Starlink V2 satellites
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 22:07
The first set of larger second-generation Starlink satellites is experiencing problems that could require SpaceX to deorbit at least some of them.
Relativity Space to make third bid to launch 3D-printed rocket
Wednesday, 22 March 2023 19:49
The world's first 3D printed rocket is scheduled to make its third attempt to lift off on Wednesday for the maiden flight of an innovative spacecraft billed as being less costly to produce and fly.
The unmanned rocket, Terran 1, had been scheduled to launch on March 8 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, but it was postponed at the last minute because of propellant temperature issues.
A second attempt on March 11 was scrubbed due to fuel pressure problems.
Relativity Space, the California private aerospace startup that built the rocket, is hoping that the third time's the charm.
The company's three-hour launch window begins at 10:00 pm Eastern Time on Wednesday (0200 GMT Thursday).
Once it does take off, Terran 1 is set to reach low Earth orbit after eight minutes on a voyage intended to gather data and demonstrate that a 3D-printed rocket can withstand the rigors of liftoff and space flight.