Harris says U.S. to update commercial space regulations
Friday, 12 August 2022 20:46
Vice President Kamala Harris said Aug. 12 that the National Space Council will work to revise commercial space regulations that have become “simply outdated” as the industry evolves.
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Anuvu buys Signal Mountain Networks to expand government business
Friday, 12 August 2022 17:16
Mobile satellite connectivity specialist Anuvu is looking for more avenues for growth with the acquisition of Signal Mountain Networks, a satellite communications provider to the U.S. government.
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Intelsat and OneWeb to provide multi-orbit inflight connectivity
Friday, 12 August 2022 16:04
Intelsat said Aug. 11 it has signed a global distribution deal with OneWeb to provide multi-orbit inflight connectivity solutions for airlines.
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Making oxygen with magnets could help astronauts breathe easy
Friday, 12 August 2022 15:17
A potentially better way to make oxygen for astronauts in space using magnetism has been proposed by an international team of scientists, including a University of Warwick chemist.
The conclusion is from new research on magnetic phase separation in microgravity published in npj Microgravity by researchers from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom, University of Colorado Boulder and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany.
Keeping astronauts breathing aboard the International Space Station and other space vehicles is a complicated and costly process. As humans plan future missions to the Moon or Mars better technology will be needed.
Lead author Álvaro Romero-Calvo, a recent Ph.D. graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder, says that "on the International Space Station, oxygen is generated using an electrolytic cell that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen, but then you have to get those gasses out of the system. A relatively recent analysis from a researcher at NASA Ames concluded that adapting the same architecture on a trip to Mars would have such significant mass and reliability penalties that it wouldn't make any sense to use.
Week in images: 08-12 August 2022
Friday, 12 August 2022 12:23
Week in images: 08-12 August 2022
Discover our week through the lens
Artemis I to launch first-of-a-kind deep space biology mission
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Poised to launch on Artemis I from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, BioSentinel - a shoebox-sized CubeSat - will perform the first long-duration biology experiment in deep space. Artemis missions at the Moon will prepare humans to travel on increasingly farther and longer-duration missions to destinations like Mars, and BioSentinel will carry microorganisms, in the form of yeast, to fill WVU space robotics research helps Mars rovers find their footing
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
West Virginia University scientists have developed a way for extraplanetary rovers to use nonvisual information to maneuver over treacherous terrain. This research aims to prevent losses like that of the Martian exploration rover Spirit, which ceased communications after its wheels became trapped in invisibly shifting sands in 2010.
Space roboticist Cagri Kilic, a Statler College of Engine Antaris close seed funding round to accelerate development of software solutions for space
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Antaris, the software platform provider for space, announced the company has closed a $4.2 million seed round of funding led by Acequia Capital and Possible Ventures. The round also includes investment from leading space tech investors Lockheed Martin Ventures, HCVC, E2MC and Ananth Technologies
"We created Antaris to make space easy," said Tom Barton, Co-Founder and CEO of Antaris. "Our p Intelsat and OneWeb partnership brings multi-orbit connectivity to airlines worldwide
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Leading satellite communications companies OneWeb and Intelsat have signed a global distribution partnership agreement to offer airlines a seamless inflight connectivity (IFC) solution with the best combination of performance, coverage, and reliability on the market.
The partnership enables Intelsat to distribute OneWeb's ground-breaking low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite services to airlines HKATG tooling up for satellite mass production
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group Limited (01725. HK), which is committed to promoting Hong Kong's industrialization and supporting Hong Kong's becoming an international innovation and technology hub announced on 2 August 2022 that HKSML, its indirect wholly-owned subsidiary entered into a fit-out contract regarding the 2/F and 8/F Advanced Manufacturing Centre (AMC) in Tseung Kwan O. The con Fleet Space' Exosphere Earth Scanning Technology tested at lithium exploration site
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Fleet Space Technologies is delighted to announce the successful completion of a trial using its proprietary Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) technology to faster and non-invasively find critical lithium deposits.
This was commissioned by Australia's newest lithium miner, Core Lithium, at its Finniss Project in Australia's Northern Territory. This is in line with its mission to provide the g Yale project brings creative expression to space flight
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
Picture a spacesuit. It's functional, and the mirrored visor is fun. But you can't dance in it. While the first astronaut to set foot on Mars probably won't pirouette or perform a jazz split on the planet's rust-colored soil, folks at Yale are nonetheless thinking about how to encourage artistic expression in space exploration.
In the spring course "The Mechanical Artifact: Ultra Space," Y New study of moon rocks finds they contain gases from Earth
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
A new study of six moon rocks has discovered proof that the moon includes chemical elements from Earth's interior - a finding that supports the theory that the moon was created when something smashed into Earth.
Doctoral research by Patricia Will at ETH Zurich found that six lunar meteorites found in Antarctica contained traces of helium and neon. Those gases, called noble gases, rarel Meteorite provides record of asteroids "spitting out" pebbles
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
In 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be shooting off swarms of marble-sized rocks. Scientists had never seen this behavior from an asteroid before, and it's a mystery exactly why it happens. But in a new paper in Nature Astronomy, researche Northwestern rocket to image supernova remnant
Friday, 12 August 2022 08:31
A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the stars - well, a dead star, that is.
On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. The rocket will spend 15 minutes in space - just enough time to snap a quick image of supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star in the Cassiopeia constellation that exploded ap