The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft is speeding towards its historic first close pass of the Sun. On 14 March, the spacecraft will pass the orbit of Mercury, the scorched inner planet of our Solar System, and on 26 March it will reach closest approach to the Sun.

China  launched a set of commercial satellites Saturday for testing broadband services, on-orbit networking and integrating communications and remote sensing technologies.

Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 04, 2022
Earlier in the week, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin refuted claims that the Russian space agency had allegedly "lost control" of its satellites, stressing that any cyberattacks against the country's satellites are a "casus belli". Russia will stop deliveries of rocket engines to the United States, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin announced Thursday. "Not only are we refusing to supply th

Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2022
China's Tiangong space station is scheduled to be completed before the end of this year and will become a massive spacecraft stack with a combined weight of nearly 100 metric tons, according to a program leader. Zhou Jianping, chief designer of the nation's manned space program, said the assembly phase of the Tiangong program will begin in May and will involve the launch of two astronaut c

Washington DC (SPX) Mar 07, 2022
With China, Russia, Iran and North Korea all pursuing advancements in their own nuclear capabilities, and both China and Russia developing advanced hypersonic weaponry and space capabilities, the United States will continue to rely on nuclear weapons as a central part of its own strategic deterrence. But there will need to be more than just nuclear weapons if the U.S. is to maintain its own secu

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022
The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry en route to the site of it's next science campaign. It's been a trip down memory lane since leaving Seitah on Sol 340 (Feb 2, 2022) and retracing our tracks back to the Octavia E. Butler landing site. Familiar views and rocks greet us like old friends as

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022
The terrain continues to challenge us as we make our way up onto the Greenheugh pediment. Monday's drive ended sooner than expected when the rover sensed the road was rockier than anticipated, so it paused to wait for further instructions from Earth. In the mean time, we took advantage of this brief pause to 'sniff' the rock field all around us. First, we took ChemCam and Mastcam of "Tobar

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 04, 2022
Do two promising structural materials corrode at very high temperatures when in contact with "liquid metal fuel breeders" in fusion reactors? Researchers of Tokyo Tech, YNU and QST now have the answer. This high-temperature compatibility of reactor structural materials with the liquid breeder-a lining around the reactor core that absorbs and traps the high energy neutrons produced in the plasma

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Aitech Systems to support LizzieSat Constellation. Through this partnership, Aitech Systems is developing and delivering custom LizzieSat Command and Data Handling (C&DH) flight computers

Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2022
A new way of dating collisions between asteroids and planetary bodies throughout our Solar System's history could help scientists reconstruct how and when planets were born. The research, which was led by the University of Cambridge, combined dating and microscopic analysis of the Chelyabinsk meteorite - which fell to Earth and hit Microscopic view on asteroid collisions could help us unde