Three bacterial strains discovered on space station may help grow plants on Mars
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
In order to withstand the rigors of space on deep-space missions, food grown outside of Earth needs a little extra help from bacteria. Now, a recent discovery aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has researchers may help create the 'fuel' to help plants withstand such stressful situations.
Publishing their findings to Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers working with NASA describ China plans to build research station on moon's south pole: chief designer
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
China has completed feasibility studies of the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program and is expected to build an international lunar research station on the moon's south pole in the future, said Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lunar exploration program.
In an interview with China Space News, Wu said that three missions are planned for the fourth phase of the lunar explorat When North was South, and South was North
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
About a hundred years ago, geologists first noticed that some volcanic rocks were magnetized opposite to the direction of the local Earth's magnetic field. Thus, the concept of magnetic field reversal was born. Estimates regarding the timing of magnetic field reversals were made about that same time and scientists initially thought that this phenomenon had occurred by the early Pleistocene age. There might be many planets with water-rich atmospheres
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
An atmosphere is what makes life on Earth's surface possible, regulating our climate and sheltering us from damaging cosmic rays. But although telescopes have counted a growing number of rocky planets, scientists had thought most of their atmospheres long lost.
However, a new study by University of Chicago and Stanford University researchers suggests a mechanism whereby these planets could Skoltech and MIT explore human landing system architectures for Moon landings
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick the best one in terms of performance and costs for the 'last mile' of a future mission to the Moon - actually delivering astronauts to the lunar surface and back up to the safety of the orbiting lunar station. The paper was published in the journal Acta Astronautica.
Ever sin NASA Partners with Companies to Test Satellite Fixtures for Robotic Grappling
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has chosen three companies to participate in a new partnership to test and evaluate satellite servicing technologies.
Altius Space Machines of Broomfield, Colorado, Honeybee Robotics of Brooklyn, New York, and Orbit Fab of San Francisco will provide cooperative robotic grapple fixtures and data to be studied by NASA's Exploration a LMT collaborates with Dimetor to enable connectivity in VLL airspace
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
Mobile innovator LMT and software company Dimetor have partnered to explore the integration of drones into VLL (very low level) airspace. This builds on earlier collaboration where the two companies succeeded in validating the viability of BVLOS drone flights using mobile networks. The current collaboration entails investigative research into the theoretical and practical possibilities of using Gamma Ray Observatory discovers origin of highest-energy cosmic rays in galaxy
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:55
A long-time question in astrophysics appears to finally be answered, thanks to a collection of large, high-tech water tanks on a mountainside in Mexico. The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) data shows that the highest-energy cosmic rays come not from supernovae, but from star clusters.
"The origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays in the galaxy has been an open question in astrophysics The March Council edition of ESA Impact is online
Monday, 15 March 2021 07:35
The March Council edition of ESA Impact is online
NASA astronaut may have extended stay on ISS
Sunday, 14 March 2021 23:48
WASHINGTON — A NASA astronaut flying to the International Space Station in April could spend up to a year on the station, an extended stay that he said he was “enthusiastic” about.
NASA announced March 9 that Mark Vande Hei would fly on the Soyuz MS-18 mission to the space station, launching April 9.
Veteran scientist Stefanie Tompkins takes the helm at DARPA
Sunday, 14 March 2021 20:23
WASHINGTON — Stefanie Tompkins on March 15 assumed the top post at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Tompkins is DARPA’s 23rd director.
She is a former military intelligence officer in the U.S.
With SpaceX partnership, ISS enters its 'Golden Age'—but what comes next?
Sunday, 14 March 2021 18:10
After 20 years of continuous habitation, the International Space Station has entered its "Golden Age" and is abuzz with activity—thanks in large part to the return of US rocket launches via commercial partner SpaceX.
But though the near- future of this symbol of post-Cold War cooperation is assured, NASA wants to begin disengaging by the end of the decade, leaving a gap that the private sector and China hope to fill.
Air Force enlists Viasat to help integrate commercial and military satellite networks
Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:44
WASHINGTON — The incompatibilities between government and commercial satellite networks have been a nagging problem the U.S. Air Force spent years trying to solve.
In an effort to come up with solutions, the Air Force Research Laboratory signed a seven-year $50.8 million contract last month with the global satellite communications company Viasat.
How Speedcast is navigating the perfect storm: Q&A with CEO Joe Spytek
Sunday, 14 March 2021 16:40
Speedcast is emerging from bankruptcy into a very different satellite communications market.
Bankruptcies, acquisitions and an ongoing pandemic are continuing to reshape an industry in the midst of major technological and financial disruption.
But while COVID-19 disproportionally drags on verticals such as energy, maritime and aero — helping push satcom players like Speedcast, Intelsat and Global Eagle Entertainment into restructuring — it is also accelerating digitalization trends that promise new opportunities for connectivity providers that can ride out the storm.