Kayhan, Astroscale, UT Austin win Space Force study contract for in-orbit servicing technology
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 10:00
Kayhan Space, and partners Astroscale US and the University of Texas at Austin, won a U.S. Space Force contract to develop software for in-orbit servicing vehicles.
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China seeks new partners for lunar and deep space exploration
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 06:35
China is looking to build partnerships for its upcoming missions to the moon and deep ventures into the solar system, while omitting mention of main partner Russia.
NASA says Artemis launch before November will be 'difficult'
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 06:23
It will be "difficult" for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space agency said Tuesday, with a lift-off in November looking more likely.
The SLS rocket, the most powerful ever designed by NASA, had to be returned overnight to its storage hangar in order to shelter it from the approach of Hurricane Ian.
The next possible lau NASA to assess SLS work and next launch opportunities after rollback
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 23:49
With the Space Launch System now safely back inside the Vehicle Assembly Building ahead of Hurricane Ian, NASA is now studying what work to do on the rocket to prepare for a next launch attempt unlikely to occur before mid-November.
NASA moon rocket back in hangar, launch unlikely until November
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:35
NASA's moon rocket returned to the safety of its hangar Tuesday as Hurricane Ian approached Florida, its launch now unlikely before mid-November.
Instead of trying to send it on its first test flight, the launch team moved the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket off the pad at Kennedy Space Center.
Zhurong rover finds evidence of possible flooding on Mars billions of years ago
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:40
Crew-5 launch preparations continue amid hurricane threat
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 13:26
NASA is, for now, moving ahead with plans for a launch of the next crew to the International Space Station early next week as it watches an approaching hurricane.
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China conducts trio of orbital launches across two days
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:54
China launched eight classified remote sensing satellites across three launches in recent days, adding to the country’s development of reconnaissance capabilities.
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DART asteroid impact impresses in ESA’s view from the ground
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 12:00
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Last night at 23:14 UTC, NASA's DART spacecraft successfully struck asteroid Dimorphos, the 160-metre moonlet orbiting around the larger Didymos asteroid. About 38 seconds later, the time it took for the light to arrive at Earth, people all over the world saw the abrupt end of the live stream from the spacecraft, signalling that the impact had happened successfully – DART was no more.
Astronomers on a small slice of our planet’s surface, extending from southern and eastern Africa to the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Peninsula, could actually watch it live with their telescopes. Among those
Mission seeks to test technology to mitigate potential asteroid or comet impacts of Earth
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:44
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully hit its target Sept. 26, and now scientists are analyzing to what degree the kinetic impact changed the trajectory of Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos.
The mission is a test to see if hitting a body headed for Earth with a small spacecraft could redirect the threat away from us.
Five Planetary Science In DART hits asteroid in first-ever planetary defense test
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:44
After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration - successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 p.m. E New theory concludes that the origin of life on Earth-like planets is likely
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:44
Does the existence of life on Earth tell us anything about the probability of abiogenesis - the origin of life from inorganic substances - arising elsewhere? That's a question that has confounded scientists, and anyone else inclined to ponder it, for some time.
A widely accepted argument from Australian-born astrophysicist Brandon Carter argues that the selection effect of our own existenc ClearSpace secures a major UK contract to help clean up space
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:44
In October 2021, the UK Space Agency (UKSA) commissioned the ClearSpace UK-based subsidiary to perform a feasibility study for a mission to remove at least two UK-registered derelict objects from low Earth orbit (LEO). In this study, the team explored different mission scenarios, defined the mission and system requirements and selected the technologies necessary for the implementation of the mis UH astronomers map distances to 56,000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:44
How old is our universe, and what is its size? A team of researchers led by University of Hawai?i at Manoa astronomers Brent Tully and Ehsan Kourkchi from the Institute for Astronomy have assembled the largest-ever compilation of high-precision galaxy distances, called Cosmicflows-4. Using eight different methods, they measured the distances to a whopping 56,000 galaxies. The study has been publ SES, ESA and EC partner to deliver satellite quantum cryptography
Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:44
An SES-led consortium of 20 European companies, with the European Space Agency (ESA) and European Commission support, will design, develop, launch and operate the EAGLE-1 satellite-based end-to-end system for secure Quantum Key Distribution (QKD), enabling in-orbit validation and demonstration of next-generation cyber-security across Europe.
The groundbreaking partnership between ESA and a