Samantha Cristoforetti and the rest of Crew-4 arrives at the International Space Station
Thursday, 28 April 2022 07:00ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert “Bob” Hines and Jessica Watkins arrive at the International Space Station after docking at 01:37 CEST on Thursday 28 April 2022.
Collectively known as Crew-4, the four astronauts were launched at 08:52 BST/09:52 CEST Wednesday 27 April from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida USA. Transit to the Station is expected to take under 24 hours.
Samantha is the third ESA astronaut to travel to the orbital outpost in a Crew Dragon. During the journey she and Jessica will serve as mission specialists. Kjell is Crew-4 Commander and Bob
AFRL'S new lab to accelerate hybrid space architecture
Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:32The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon cutting ceremony April 12, 2022, to herald its newest facility, the Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development, or RAPID, laboratory that will provide better, faster and smarter space technology to our nation's warfighters. The $7,326 million lab is nearly 14,000 square feet and will develo
PAR Government teams up with BlackSky to deliver near real-time imagery
Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:32PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary PAR Government Systems Corporation (PGSC) has incorporated BlackSky's (NYSE: BKSY) commercial satellite data into the Sit(x) cloud-native situational awareness suite making it possible for tactical and operational end users to access near real-time imagery on the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) mobile platform.
Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids
Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:32Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts are available for delivery and could have contributed to the development of the instructional molecules on early Earth
Inmarsat CEO issues warning over space sustainability with 'unmanaged expansion'
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05Rajeev Suri, Chief Executive Officer of Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, issued a stark warning Wednesday that unmanaged space sector expansion could exacerbate environmental damage, stifle innovation and undermine the long-term capability of satellites to help combat climate change. Addressing the Royal Aeronautical Society's conference 'Towards a Spa
Canada's first commercial spaceport lists on the NEO Exchange as Maritime Launch Services
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05NEO is proud to welcome Maritime Launch Services Inc., a Canadian-owned commercial space company, as they list today on the NEO Exchange. Maritime Launch is now available for trading on NEO under the symbol MAXQ. Maritime Launch is building a Spaceport in Nova Scotia, which is positioned to become a world-class commercial launch complex. The first of its kind in Canada, Spaceport Nova Scot
SpaceX launches NASA's Crew-4 to ISS after week-long delay
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05NASA and SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station early Wednesday. Crew-4 boarded a brand new Crew Dragon capsule and launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the ISS at 3:52 a.m. EDT from launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are joined by European Space Agency astronaut Samantha
Campaign #2: The Delta Front
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05This week on Mars, Perseverance officially began the "Delta Front Campaign." This second campaign of the mission commenced on April 18th, 2022, the 415th sol since landing. Each campaign represents a sub-portion of the Mars 2020 mission and is dedicated to exploring a distinct region, drilling designated sets of cores for possible future return to Earth, and taking numerous in situ science obser
Mars Helicopter spots landing rig and chute from Perseverance
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Engineers with the Mars Sample Return program asked whether Ingenuity could provide this perspective. What resulted were 10 aeri
The instability at the beginning of the solar system
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05Michigan State University's Seth Jacobson and colleagues in China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar system evolved. Specifically, how did the gas giants - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - end up where they are, orbiting the sun like they do? The research also has implications for how terr
NASA gives boost to Boston University-led effort to model solar system's protective bubble
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05A Boston University-led team that has pioneered major advances in our understanding of the bubble protecting the solar system-and all life on Earth-has won a major new grant from NASA. The SHIELD (Solar wind with Hydrogen Ion Exchange and Large-scale Dynamics) DRIVE Science Center has been awarded a new five-year grant to continue advancing its breakthrough work in heliophysics, the study of how
China opens Shenzhou-13 return capsule
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05On Tuesday, China opened the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship which carried three astronauts back to Earth on April 16, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Items carried by the spacecraft, including crop seeds, 8K high-definition memory card storing images and videos taken by the astronauts in orbit, commemorative stamps, and paintings by Hong Kong teenager
DLR provides female measuring mannequins for the NASA Artemis I mission
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05In 2022, NASA's Artemis I mission will send a spacecraft capable of supporting a human crew to the Moon for the first time in almost 50 years. On this uncrewed test flight, it will be the twin measuring mannequins Helga and Zohar on board the Orion capsule. The MARE experiment devised by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), will use two identical 'phantom
US Judge denies Musk bid to scrap SEC deal barring him from tweeting about Tesla stake
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05Elon Musk on Wednesday lost his legal challenge against a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order restricting him from tweeting about his stake in the electric car manufacturer Tesla, with a judge describing as "meritless" Musk's argument that the arrangement impinged on his right to free speech. "The motion [...] to terminate the consent decree is DENIED," Judge Lewis Liman wrot
Minerva mission begins as Samantha arrives at Space Station
Wednesday, 27 April 2022 21:30Crew Dragon spacecraft Freedom, carrying ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and her NASA colleagues Kjell Lindgren, Robert Hines and Jessica Watkins, docked to the International Space Station at 01:37 CEST Thursday 28 April.