Upgrades to NASA's Space Communications Infrastructure Pave the Way to Higher Data Rates
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45
The ability to transmit and receive data is crucial in space exploration. Spacecraft need robust networking capabilities to send data - including large files like photos and videos - captured by onboard instruments to Earth as well as simultaneously receiving commands from control centers. NASA has made significant strides to improve the agency's space communications capabilities while simultane Medspace: Setting sights high for interplanetary health kits
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45
Just over a week after Richard Branson flew to the edge of space, fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos set-off on his own high-stakes trip onboard Blue Origin's Shepard Rocket. The trip was a success, with Bezos going down in history for taking part in the first unpiloted flight with a civilian crew.
With the flight including the youngest and oldest people to fly to space, the trip surpassed many Earth's vital signs worsen amid business-as-usual mindset on climate change
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:45
Twenty months after declaring a climate emergency and establishing a set of vital signs for the Earth, a coalition headed by two Oregon State University researchers says the updated vital signs "largely reflect the consequences of unrelenting business as usual."
Authors led by OSU's William Ripple and Christopher Wolf, in a paper published in BioScience, are calling for a phase-out of foss Isar Aerospace raises $75 million
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 06:00
WASHINGTON — Isar Aerospace, a German small launch vehicle company, has raised an additional $75 million that will allow the company to expand its manufacturing and launch capabilities.
The company announced July 29 that it added $75 million to a Series B round it raised in December 2020.
First test of Europe’s new space brain
Wednesday, 28 July 2021 05:56
ESA has successfully operated a spacecraft with Europe’s next-generation mission control system for the first time. The powerful software, named the 'European Ground System - Common Core' (EGS-CC), will be the ‘brain’ of all European spaceflight operations in the years to come, and promises new possibilities for how future missions will fly.
Weather key issue for Starliner launch
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 21:21
WASHINGTON — NASA and Boeing say a second test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle remains on track for launch July 30, with weather the biggest concern.
A launch readiness review for the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) 2 mission July 27 confirmed that both the Starliner spacecraft and its Atlas 5 launch vehicle were ready for the launch, scheduled for 2:53 p.m.
Anuvu orders first satellites for small GEO mobility constellation
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 20:14
TAMPA, Fla. — Anuvu has ordered the first two of an eight-strong constellation of small geostationary orbit satellites as demand returns for Wi-Fi on aircraft, boats and remote locations.
The company, which changed its name from Global Eagle Entertainment after exiting bankruptcy protection March 23, secured a long-term agreement with satellite maker Astranis for the constellation.
House panel wants details on Space Force plans to upgrade launch infrastructure
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 16:54
WASHINGTON — The House Armed Services Committee’s subcommittee on strategic forces in its markup of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act raises concerns about the state of the U.S. space launch infrastructure and questions DoD’s procurement of commercial space data.
Astroscale and rocket maker MHI team up to develop debris removal technology
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 15:16
WASHINGTON — Astroscale, an orbital debris removal and satellite servicing company based in Japan, announced July 27 that it will be working with rocket maker Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on technologies to help clean up space junk.
Galileo Project to search for ET artifacts in galactic space
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:16
The multi-institutional, international Galileo Project founders, research team and advisory boards, in conjunction with the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian, today announce the Galileo Project .
It is a transparent scientific project to advance a systematic experimental search for cross-validated evidence of potential astroarcheological artifacts or active technical equipm NASA's role in agriculture
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:16
Everybody needs to eat. Food is a basic necessity, and it is at the heart of every human culture and our sense of home. It also represents one of our most important connections to Earth. Crops and animal products, whether gathered from the ocean or the land, raised on farms big and small, across vast fields or in our backyards and urban communities, draw on sunlight, water and soil to grow and t What you need to know about Starliner's Test-2
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:16
NASA and Boeing are taking another major step on the path to regular human spaceflight launches to the International Space Station on American rockets and spacecraft from American soil with the second uncrewed flight test of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
NASA's Boeing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) is targeting launch of the Starliner spacecraft Space food costs are out of this world
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:16
Space exploitation/exploration is expensive. For example, the transportation cost for each lemon sent to the International Space Station (ISS) may cost over $2,000. Such lemons and other food supplies are sent to the station periodically by cargo modules from U.S. and Russian suppliers.
Since the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, NASA has been using other sources for resupplying the Zhurong marks 1st anniversary since launch with dune exploration
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:16
China's Zhurong Mars rover finished exploring a sand dune on the red planet on the first anniversary of the launch of the country's first interplanetary expedition, the China National Space Administration said on Friday.
The robot headed toward the dune earlier this week and began to take photographs, then activated onboard scientific equipment to survey the dune and its surroundings, the How Chinese astronauts stay healthy in space
Tuesday, 27 July 2021 11:16
Three Chinese astronauts have been living and working in China's space station core module Tianhe for more than a month. They are scheduled to stay in space for three months.
The astronauts have been exercising, maintaining healthy diets and undergoing regular check-ups to reduce the effects of living in a microgravity environment.
Scientists have found that microgravity weakens both