The UK’s ‘Astra Carta’ moment: Building a Space Sustainability Growth Platform
Wednesday, 20 July 2022 05:00
The U.K. sees satellite servicing, debris removal and orbital sustainability as an opportunity to emerge as a major global space power.
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NASA selects Falcon Heavy to launch Roman Space Telescope
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 22:10
NASA has selected SpaceX to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy, but at a price significantly higher than previous agency contracts.
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ESA funds Skimsat demonstrator study for VLEO
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 19:12
The European Space Agency has awarded funds to develop a demonstrator for Skimsat, a small satellite platform designed to operate in very low Earth orbit (VLEO).
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Oxford Space and SSTL unveil Wrapped Rib SAR antenna
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 19:12
The United Kingdom’s Oxford Space Systems and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. completed construction of a deployable, Wrapped Rib antenna for small synthetic aperture radar satellites.
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New collaborative X-ray observatory stands tall as testing begins
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 18:19
NASA Awards Launch Services Contract for Roman Space Telescope
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 18:02
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch service for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission. Op-ed | Today’s space race as a catalyst for regulatory reform
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 17:36
Space is a blank canvas on which reform can be tested, adapted and used to demonstrate success
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Microsoft reveals Azure Space Partner Community
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 14:00
Microsoft is expanding its relationships with space companies through the Azure Space Partner Community, an initiative unveiled July 19 at the Microsoft Inspire 2022 conference.
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Video: The secrets of Jupiter
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 13:59
Discover the top five mysteries that ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission will solve.
Jupiter, its magnetic environment, and its moons form one of the most intriguing systems in the solar system. Juice, planned for launch in 2023 and arrival at Jupiter in 2031, will reveal more about this fascinating planet and its natural satellites.
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A mission concept to fly a solar neutrino detector close to the sun
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 12:44
Astronomers have proposed a concept mission to fly a neutrino observatory into orbit around the sun to get a better picture of what's happening in the sun's core.
Astronomers have very few tools to peer into the heart of the sun. Thankfully, the nuclear reactions constantly happening in the core of the sun as it fuses hydrogen into helium release a non-stop flood of neutrinos. Neutrinos are tiny ghost-like particles that hardly ever interact with matter.
On the Earth we have built giant detectors to catch the occasional neutrino. Astronomers have used those neutrinos to understand the nuclear processes happening inside of the sun and to probe the edge of known physics.
NASA delays VIPER lunar rover launch by a year
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 10:01
NASA has delayed the launch of an ice-prospecting lunar rover by a year to perform more testing of its commercial lander, the agency announced July 18.
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Quantum physics: Record entanglement of quantum memories
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:33
A network in which data transmission is perfectly secure against hacking? If physicists have their way, this will become reality one day with the help of the quantum mechanical phenomenon known as entanglement. For entangled particles, the rule is: If you measure the state of one of the particles, then you automatically know the state of the other. It makes no difference how far away the entangl SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites to orbit after Dragon docks with ISS
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:33
SpaceX on Sunday launched 53 Starlink satellites after the company's Dragon cargo craft carrying crew supplies and scientific experiments docked with the International Space Station on Saturday.
The Starlink satellites were launched to orbit from a Falcon 9 rocket at the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 10:20 a.m. Sunday.
It was the 31st Space Systems Command's Next Industry Day to Highlight Space Domain Awareness
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:33
Space Systems Command (SSC) officials and other agencies involved in Space Domain Awareness (SDA) will meet with traditional and non-traditional space industry professionals July 28 in Colorado Springs to exchange ideas and methods to execute SDA missions at the next SSC Industry Day. To register, visit the SSC Front Door webpage.
"Strengthening partnerships with industry and having valuab Successful startup of the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Detector at Sanford
Tuesday, 19 July 2022 09:33
Deep below the Black Hills of South Dakota in the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF), an innovative and uniquely sensitive dark matter detector - the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) - has passed a check-out phase of startup operations and delivered first results.
The take home message from this successful startup: "We're ready and