Op-ed | Don’t wait for a disaster: Industry-led space traffic management
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 14:30
History indicates that it will take a crisis for any government-led STM solution to receive the necessary funding and reforms. Thus, the commercial space industry needs to step in now.
Type One Ventures raises investment target
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 13:00
Type One Ventures has raised $34 million of the $50 million it plans to invest in space technology and deep technology startups through its second fund.
Communications problem delays JWST launch
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 11:14
A communications problem has delayed the launch of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope by at least two more days, the agency announced late Dec. 14.
SatRevolution Secures Series B Funding from Virgin Orbit
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 10:00
SatRevolution S.A. has secured Series B funding from Virgin Orbit, the US-based responsive launch and space solutions company that has announced a planned business combination with NextGen Acquisition Corp. II. The Transaction values SatRev at approximately $150 million, and will support SatRev's business development.
The Transaction, signed at World Satellite Business Week, follows a stra Parker Solar Probe data bolsters theories in long-running solar riddle
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 10:00
Data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe bolsters theories previously put by University of Michigan researchers about one of the sun's greatest mysteries-why its outer atmosphere is hotter than its fiery surface.
Two years ago, U-M engineers predicted when the probe would pass a constantly moving, invisible barrier in the sun's upper atmosphere called the Alfven point. They also anticip Experiments riding 24th SpaceX Cargo Mission to USS included bioprinting, crystallization, laundry studies
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 10:00
The 24thSpaceX cargo resupply services mission, targeted to launch in late December from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, carries scientific research and technology demonstrations to the International Space Station. The experiments aboard include studies of bioprinting, crystallization of monoclonal antibodies, changes in immune function, plant gene expression changes, laundering clothes AFRL celebrates successful rocket launch at STEM Academy
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 10:00
"Five...four...three...two...one...launch," the Range Safety Officer called out. The Launch Control Officer pushed the red button, and the rocket took off, whoosh! about 1,000 feet in the air.
On a beautiful sunny fall day, 184 New Mexico middle school students from Christ Lutheran, Cleveland Middle, Holy Ghost Catholic, Menaul, Mesa View Elementary, and Peralta Elementary Schools, and sev Dinosaurs' last spring: Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 10:00
A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and an international team of scientists conclusively confirms the time year of the catastrophic Chicxulub asteroid, responsible for the extinction of dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth 66 million years ago. Springtime, the season of new beginnings, ended the 165-million-year reign of dinosaurs and changed the course ExoMars discovers hidden water in Mars’ Grand Canyon
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 09:00
The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted significant amounts of water at the heart of Mars’ dramatic canyon system, Valles Marineris.
Chinese Kuaizhou-1A rocket launch fails
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 08:31
A Kuaizhou-1A solid rocket failed after liftoff late Tuesday with the loss of a pair of commercial satellites to test navigation enhancement for autonomous driving.
NASA: Webb telescope launch delayed by communication problem
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 08:21
Webb Telescope placed on top of Ariane 5 rocket
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 08:17
On Saturday, Dec. 11, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was secured on top of the Ariane 5 rocket that will launch it to space from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
After its arrival in the final assembly building, Webb was slowly hoisted nearly 130 feet and then perfectly aligned on top of the Ariane 5, after which technicians bolted Webb's launch vehicle adapter down to the rocket. This whole process was performed under strict safety and cleanliness policies, as it was one of the most delicate operations during the entire launch campaign for Webb. A custom 'shower curtain,' already installed between the two platforms where technicians worked to connect Webb to its launch vehicle, served as the walls of a clean room to keep the observatory dirt-free.
The next step ahead is to encapsulate Webb inside the Ariane 5's specially adapted fairing.
Webb will be the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. As part of an international collaboration agreement, the European Space Agency (ESA) is providing the telescope's launch services using the Ariane 5 launch vehicle.
NASA selects second private astronaut mission to Space Station
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 06:42
NASA has selected Axiom Space for the second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. NASA will negotiate with Axiom on a mission order agreement for the Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) targeted to launch between fall 2022 and late spring 2023.
Ax-2 will launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a mission of no more than 14 days docked to the space station. NASA an BWXT Delivers Fuel to NASA to Support Nuclear Thermal Propulsion
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 06:42
BWX Technologies, Inc. has reached a critical milestone in the nation's pursuit of space nuclear propulsion by delivering coated reactor fuels to NASA in support of its space nuclear propulsion project within the agency's Space Technology Mission Directorate.
Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is one of the technologies that is capable of propelling a spacecraft to Mars and back. Innovative Tiny meteors leave smoke in the atmosphere
Wednesday, 15 December 2021 06:42
It's time for the Geminids, the annual December meteor shower! Every year, Earth passes through the debris trail from the asteroid 3200 Phaethon. The pea-sized rocks it leaves behind burn up in our atmosphere, producing glowing trails in the night sky. People around the world will stare skyward and marvel at these meteors, also known as shooting stars.
What we can't see with the naked eye