Indian PM Modi backs Indian Space Agency's version of Google Maps
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 10:23
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Earlier this month, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) partnered with national tech firm MyAppIndia to develop an alternative to Google Maps. Indians cheered the news, calling it the biggest challenge to the western Big Tech monopoly, which has thrived in India for some time now.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that the government's move to deregulate map and geo-sp China explores space with self-reliance, open mind
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Chinese President Xi Jinping met representatives of space scientists and engineers who participated in the research and development of the Chang'e-5 lunar mission in Beijing Monday.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, also visited an exhibition on the lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 probe China launches trio of Yaogan-31 ocean reconnaissance satellites
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 09:12 Write a comment
HELSINKI — A Long March 4C rocket sent a latest series of three Yaogan-31 reconnaissance satellites into orbit late Tuesday.
ESA plans mission to explore lunar caves
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 08:52 Write a comment
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon's subterranean secrets, in 2019 we asked for your ideas to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be studied in more detail, each addressing different phases of a potential mission.
China's Mars craft enters parking orbit before landing rover
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Mars rover's giant parachute carried secret message
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![Mars rover's giant parachute carried secret message](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2021/marsroversgi.jpg "This illustration provided by NASA shows a diagram added over the parachute deployed during the descent of the Mars Perseverance rover as it approaches the surface of the planet on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Systems engineer Ian Clark used a binary code to spell out "Dare Mighty Things" in the orange and white strips of the 70-foot (21-meter) parachute. He also included the GPS coordinates for the mission's headquarters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)")
Greener way to get satellites moving
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Greener way to get satellites moving The cost of avoiding collision
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Collision avoidance: what's the cost? White House not making near-term plans to nominate a NASA administrator
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 03:19 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — The White House said Feb. 23 has no schedule for nominating a NASA administrator as a new round of rumors swirl about who might be selected to lead the agency.
The topic arose at a press conference when a reporter asked press secretary Jen Psaki about rumors that the Biden administration was considering Bill Nelson, a former senator from Florida, for the post.
EchoStar reports Jupiter-3 delay and nanosatellite failures
Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:24 Write a comment
SAN FRANCISCO – EchoStar Corp. announced another delay in the launch of its Jupiter-3 communications satellite and the failure of two nanosatellites to reach their intended orbits, during a Feb. 23 quarterly earnings call.
Lawmakers call for open dialogue on Chinese, Russian advances in space and nuclear weapons
Monday, 22 February 2021 22:02 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — The leaders of the House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic forces during a hearing Feb. 23 called on the Defense Department and other agencies to more openly discuss the threats posed by China and Russia as these nations advance their space and nuclear weapons technologies.
Youngest American to go into space is also a cancer survivor
Monday, 22 February 2021 18:34 Write a comment
By the end of the year, Hayley Arceneaux will be the youngest American in space and one of the first tourists to enter orbit unaccompanied by professional astronauts.
It is a feat made all the more remarkable by her battle to overcome a childhood cancer that robbed the 29 year old of her dream of becoming an astronaut herself.
Due to the bone cancer she overcame, Arceneaux has steel rods in her left leg—which until recently were enough to shatter her hopes of going into space.
SpaceX blames failed Falcon 9 booster landing on heat damage
Monday, 22 February 2021 17:50 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — A Falcon 9 booster failed to land after its most recent launch Feb. 15 because of “heat damage” it sustained, but a SpaceX official said he was confident that the boosters can be reused 10 or more times.
Op-ed | Why the National Space Council matters
Monday, 22 February 2021 16:38 Write a comment
NASA marked another milestone last week with the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars. Perseverance is now the fifth and most technologically advanced rover to reach the surface of the red planet.
Space Force awards engineering contract for certification of ULA’s Vulcan rocket
Monday, 22 February 2021 16:01 Write a comment
WASHINGTON — Millennium Engineering and Integration received a $13.2 million award from the U.S. Space Force on Feb. 19 for services in support of the certification of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket.