NSLComm's BeetleSat LEO satellite launched on SpaceX Transporter 6 mission
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
BeetleSat (the Company), formerly known as NSLComm, a fast-growing satellite technology start-up, today announced the successful launch of its second nanosatellite from Cape Canaveral, Florida, onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Now in Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) at 550Km altitude, the nanosatellite will provide BeetleSat's public sector customer with store and forward, very high throughput NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative Deploys 150th from Space Station
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station released four CubeSats into low-Earth orbit Dec. 29, marking the 150th deployment for NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative.
The CubeSats, part of an educational launch satellite mission, include:
+ MARIO from the University of Michigan
+ petitSat from NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center
+ SPORT from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Momentus launches Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle on Transporter-6 Mission
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
Momentus has seen its second demonstration flight of the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle (OSV) launched into low-Earth orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission earlier today. Momentus established contact with its Vigoride vehicle on its first orbital pass and confirmed that both solar arrays are deployed, and the vehicle is generating power and charging its batteries.
The Vigoride OS D-Orbit Launches two ION Satellite Carrier on its seventh orbital transportation mission
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
D-Orbit, the space logistics and orbital transportation company, launched Second Star to the Right, the seventh commercial mission of ION Satellite Carrier (ION), D-Orbit's proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV), and the first mission carrying to space two IONs on a single launch.
The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off today, January 3rd, 2023, at 9:56 a.m. ET (14:56 UTC) from the Space Launch China not in 'space race', industry insiders say
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for a "space race" with other nations, according to insiders in China's space industry.
"We carry out spaceflights to develop high technology and improve economic growth and people's living standard. We don't take part in a space race with any other countries b China's space exploration spurred by helping humanity
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
All of China's activities in outer space are intended for the country's social, economic and technological development rather than for the "space race" with other nations, said insiders in China's space industry.
"We carry out spaceflights to develop high technology and improve economic growth and people's living standard. We don't take part in the space race with any other countries becau Sidus Space awarded Bechtel Cable Assembly contract for Mobile Launcher 2
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
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 today has been selected by Bechtel Corporation to manufacture cables for the NASA Mobile Launcher 2 project.
Sidus was previously awarded a contract to fabricate custom cables and populate unique PSI Io Input/Output observatory discovers large volcanic outburst on Jupiter's moon Io
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
A large volcanic outburst was discovered on Jupiter's moon Io by Jeff Morgenthaler of the Planetary Science Institute using PSI's Io Input/Output observatory (IoIO).
PSI Senior Scientist Morgenthaler has been using IoIO, located near Benson, Arizona to monitor volcanic activity on Io, since 2017. The observations show some sort of outburst nearly every year, but the largest yet was seen in Modified gravity, galactic rotation curves, modified inertia and dark matter
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
One of the mysteries of the universe is that Einstein's general relativity, which is a relativistic theory of Newton's universal law of gravity, requires large amount of dark matter in individual galaxies and in the vast space of the universe. Dark matter inferred by general relativity has never been identified in non-gravitational experiments.
This opens up the possibility that gravity's Viasat awarded 5 year $325M IDIQ contract by US Special Operations Command
Wednesday, 04 January 2023 10:28
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has been awarded an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract award worth up to $325 million over a five-year period to support the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM). This sole-source IDIQ is an extension of a $350 million IDIQ contract awarded to Viasat in 2017.
Under the contract award, Viasat will continue to provide advanced mission equip Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham dead at 90
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 21:17
Walter Cunningham, the last surviving astronaut from the first successful crewed space mission in NASA's Apollo program, has died.
Space Force launches weather-imaging cubesat for year-long demonstration
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 18:23
The U.S. Space Systems Command on Jan. 3 launched a cubesat intended to demonstrate commercial weather imaging technologies for military use.
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Iridium enters service agreement for direct-to-smartphone satellite service
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 17:02
Iridium has entered into a service provider agreement with a company widely expected to be Samsung to connect its satellites to smartphones.
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SpaceX begins 2023 with Transporter-6 launch
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 15:54
After a record-setting year of launch activity in 2022, SpaceX kicked off the new year Jan. 3 with a Falcon 9 launch of more than 110 smallsats.
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China is considering where to build a lunar research station
Tuesday, 03 January 2023 13:24
The second moon race is in full swing, with the world's two big superpowers angling to score a new set of firsts on the lunar surface. NASA's Artemis program recently clocked up its first success with the splashdown of Orion, but China is looking to take the lead when it comes to setting up a fully-fledged lunar research station. One of the first steps in that process—figuring out where to put it. That is what a new paper attempts to quantify, and it comes up with a practical solution—the south pole.
There are plenty of advantages to the lunar south pole. It also checks many of the boxes that the Chinese scientists were looking for when they developed their criteria for potential landing sites.
They broke those criteria into two categories—scientific and engineering constraints. Engineering constraints included considerations like the illumination a site receives, its general slope, and the ease with which explorers could access other parts of the moonscape.