Twenty years of Europeans on the Space Station
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
On 23 April 2001, ESA astronaut Umberto Guidoni first set foot, or hand, on the International Space Station, making him the first European to visit and work the orbiting outpost. Since then, the Space Station has grown immensely, as have the number of Europeans to have worked in it, together with the science experiments performed in orbit.
When Umberto arrived, he flew on the Space Shuttle Scientists find CO2-rich liquid water in ancient meteorite
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
Water is abundant in our solar system. Even outside of our own planet, scientists have detected ice on the moon, in Saturn's rings and in comets, liquid water on Mars and under the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and traces of water vapor in the scorching atmosphere of Venus.
Studies have shown that water played an important role in the early evolution and formation of the solar system NASA's Webb to study young exoplanets on the edge
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
Before planets around other stars were first discovered in the 1990s, these far-flung exotic worlds lived only in the imagination of science fiction writers.
But even their creative minds could not have conceived of the variety of worlds astronomers have uncovered. Many of these worlds, called exoplanets, are vastly different from our solar system's family of planets. They range from star- Astronomers release new all-sky map of Milky Way's outer reaches
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
Astronomers using data from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) telescopes have released a new all-sky map of the outermost region of our galaxy. Known as the galactic halo, this area lies outside the swirling spiral arms that form the Milky Way's recognizable central disk and is sparsely populated with stars. Though the halo may appear mostly empty, it is also predicted to contain a massive re Record-breaking flare from Sun's nearest neighbor
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
A team of astronomers including Carnegie's Alycia Weinberger and former-Carnegie postdoc Meredith MacGregor, now an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, spotted an extreme outburst, or flare, from the Sun's nearest neighbor - the star Proxima Centauri.
Their work, which could help guide the search for life beyond our Solar System, is published in The Astrophysical Jou Outback radio telescope discovers dense, spinning, dead star
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
Astronomers have discovered a pulsar - a dense and rapidly spinning neutron star sending radio waves into the cosmos - using a low-frequency radio telescope in outback Australia.
The pulsar was detected with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope, in Western Australia's remote Mid West region.
It's the first time scientists have discovered a pulsar with the MWA but they believ OneSat Final Design Review successfully achieved
Thursday, 22 April 2021 03:38
Airbus has passed an important milestone for the OneSat flexible satellite product line, with the Final Design Review successfully achieved with customers and space agencies.
The fully reconfigurable OneSat product line features major innovations and disruptive technologies including the latest digital processing and active antennas enabling several thousand beams. In addition, to meet the Lawmakers continue to question Space Command’s move to Alabama
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:28
WASHINGTON — U.S. Space Command has close ties to other military space organizations in Colorado, but if it has to move to Alabama it could continue to do its job without major disruption, Gen.
Nelson sails through NASA administrator confirmation hearing
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 22:19
ORLANDO — The Biden administration’s nominee for NASA administrator, Bill Nelson, got a friendly reception from former colleagues on the Senate Commerce Committee during a confirmation hearing April 21 but offered few specifics about how he would run the agency.
Space Development Agency to add more laser links to satellites if the price is right
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:25
WASHINGTON — Each of the satellites in the Space Development Agency’s mesh network known as the Transport Layer could have as many as five laser links so they can talk to other satellites, airplanes, ships and ground stations.
Downrange weather delays Crew-2 launch
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:00
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — NASA has delayed the scheduled April 22 launch of the Crew-2 commercial crew mission by a day because of weather not at the launch site but at potential abort locations in the Atlantic Ocean.
Optical imagery-focused EarthDaily Analytics emerges from UrtheCast
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:19
TAMPA, Fla. — Private equity firm Antarctica Capital has formed a Canadian optical satellite imagery provider called EarthDaily Analytics, after buying parts of UrtheCast that sought creditor protection last year to avoid bankruptcy.
A company official for New York-based Antarctica Capital, which manages more than $2 billion of assets, told SpaceNews it is in talks about buying other businesses in complementary areas.
Scientists find carbon-rich liquid water in ancient meteorite
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 17:00
Space Force pushing procurement reforms but culture change is a slow go
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 16:22
WASHINGTON — The Space Force is standing up a new procurement organization and taking other actions to speed up acquisitions of cutting-edge technology from the commercial space industry. But change won’t happen overnight due to the military’s deeply ingrained culture, said Gen.
Op-ed | Conjunction risk drives need for information sharing
Wednesday, 21 April 2021 14:45
The recent announcement that NASA has entered into discussions with China’s space agency over the sharing of ephemeris data for Mars orbital conjunction analysis is certainly positive and necessary.