Spaceflight signs with NewSpace India to launch Astrocast IoT satellite into orbit
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 11:05
Spaceflight, the leading global launch services provider, has announced it will launch four Astrocast 3U spacecraft aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission under a commercial arrangement with NewSpace India Limited (NSIL). This mission, scheduled for October 2022, will launch from Sriharikota, India's Satish Dhawan Space Center, carrying the Astrocast spacecraft as a co-pass Slingshot Aerospace rolls out free space-traffic control service
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 11:00
Slingshot Aerospace, a space data analytics company, announced Sept. 13 it is offering a free version of its space traffic control software to satellite operators
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ESA Boost! for RFA One Launch Services
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 11:00
Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), a German startup developing the three-stage RFA One orbital launch vehicle designed to operate at a high cadence, has received a contract worth €11.72 m from ESA's Boost! commercial space transportation services programme.
Speedcast nets first Starlink reseller deal for enterprise and maritime
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 10:56
Remote communications provider Speedcast has become the first company to sign a distribution deal to resell SpaceX’s Starlink broadband services to enterprise and maritime customers.
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Artemis 1 launch plans slip again
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:50
Days after NASA proposed to make its next attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission on Sept. 23, the agency changed course and pushed back the launch.
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First Eurostar Neo satellite ready to ship
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 08:25
The first satellite to be built under ESA’s Eurostar Neo programme stands ready to be shipped to its launch site.
Redwire and Sodern to cooperate on star tracker
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:51
Redwire and Sodern announced a partnership Sept. 12 where Redwire will produce in the U.S. a version of a Sodern star tracker.
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The future of space exploration – ESA at IAC 2022
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 07:36
Join us at the ESA stand at the 73rd International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2022), taking place from 18 to 22 September at the Paris Convention Centre in Paris. A week of lively interactions awaits the world space community, this year under the theme 'Space for @ll'. The congress will open its doors to the general public on 21 September.
ESA seeks major funding increase at ministerial
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:43
ESA will seek a roughly 25% increase in funding from member states this fall despite economic and geopolitical challenges in Europe.
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Media invitation: International Astronautical Congress 2022 in Paris
Tuesday, 13 September 2022 06:33Press Release N° 46–2022
The International Astronautical Congress 2022 (IAC) will be hosted in Paris, France, from Sunday to Thursday, 18-22 September 2022, at the Paris Convention Centre (1 place de la Porte de Versailles, 75015 Paris).
Uncrewed Blue Origin rocket crashes, capsule recovered
Monday, 12 September 2022 19:44
An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth, Jeff Bezos' space company said.
The company tweeted a short video clip showing the moment when the capsule fired emergency thrusters to separate from its booster rocket, around a minute after launching from Blue Orig Blue Origin rocket suffers booster failure, prompting emergency abort system
Monday, 12 September 2022 19:44
Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket suffered a booster failure after lifting off Monday morning, causing an emergency abort system to separate the capsule from the booster.
The unmanned mission was carrying 36 payloads from academia, research institutions, and students across the globe and was expected to reach the edge of space and return in a series of suborbital flights.
It was t SpaceX says likely won't need 42,000 satellites for Starlink internet
Monday, 12 September 2022 19:44
SpaceX, which has requested authorisation to deploy up to 42,000 satellites to provide its Starlink satellite internet service, probably won't need to launch that many into orbit, its chief operations officer said Monday.
Starlink - the satellite internet service of tech billionaire Elon Musk - offers high-speed broadband service to customers in areas that are poorly or not served by fixed Webb telescope captures 'breathtaking' images of Orion Nebula
Monday, 12 September 2022 18:04
The wall of dense gas and dust resembles a massive winged creature, its glowing maw lit by a bright star as it soars through cosmic filaments.
An international research team on Monday revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers "blown away."
The stellar nursery is situated in the constellation Orion, 1,350 light-years away from Earth, in a similar setting in which our own solar system was birthed more than 4.5 billion years ago.
Astronomers are interested in the region to better understand what happened during the first million years of our planetary evolution.
The images were obtained as part of the Early Release Science program and involved more than 100 scientists in 18 countries, with institutions including the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Western University in Canada, and the University of Michigan.
CHEOPS space telescope celebrates first thousand days in orbit
Monday, 12 September 2022 17:57
After 1,000 days in orbit around the Earth, the CHEOPS space telescope shows almost no signs of wear. Under these conditions, it could continue to reveal the fascinating details of many exoplanets for many years to come. CHEOPS is a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Switzerland, led by the University of Bern (UNIBE) in collaboration with the University of Geneva (UNIGE).
Since its launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, on December 18, 2019, the CHEOPS telescope in Earth's orbit has demonstrated its functionality and precision beyond expectations. During this time, it has revealed the characteristics of numerous fascinating planets beyond our solar system (exoplanets) and has become a key instrument for astronomers in Europe and worldwide.
In over 1 million of minutes of observation time, CHEOPS has revealed exoplanets from every angle: their night sides when they pass in front of their stars, their day sides when they pass behind their stars and all the phases in between, just like the moon.