Astrobotic hires space industry veterans to help with Griffin lander
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 22:08
Early Adopters of NASA's PACE Data to Study Air Quality, Ocean Health
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
From the atmosphere down to the surface of the ocean, data from NASA's PACE (Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem) satellite benefits ecosystems, human health, and underrepresented communities.
Years before the launch in February 2024, mission leaders from NASA teamed with dozens of applied scientists and environmental professionals to prepare for the many practical uses that could be Japan attempts to revive Moon lander after second lunar night
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
Japan's space agency said on Tuesday it will try to revive its Moon lander after a second frigid, two-week lunar night, following a surprising awakening last month.
The unmanned Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) touched down in January at a wonky angle that left its solar panels facing the wrong way.
As the sun's angle shifted, it came back to life for two days and carried out s China elevates atmospheric and space onitoring capabilities with new satellite
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
On Thursday afternoon, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation announced the successful launch of a Long March 2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. This launch marked the deployment of the second batch of Yunhai 2-series satellites into orbit, further bolstering China's capabilities in atmospheric monitoring and space environment observation.
The satel Aireon and Airbus Enhance Partnership to Distribute Space-Based ADS-B Data to Wider Audience
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
Aireon has broadened its partnership with Airbus through an expanded distribution deal, facilitating greater accessibility to its cutting-edge space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) data. This strategic move will see Airbus incorporating Aireon's comprehensive ADS-B data into its suite of advanced flight analytics and digital solutions, offering unprecedented benefits to Penn State's Satellite Technique Predicts Severe Storm Impact
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
A new technique developed by researchers at Penn State, leveraging satellite data, has shown promise in enhancing the accuracy of severe weather forecasts. This method, which integrates microwave data from low-Earth-orbit satellites into conventional computer weather models, has successfully predicted the intensity and location of surface gusts during the severe Midwest Derecho of 2020.
Yu New Study Unveils Inadequacies in Traditional Theories of Van Allen Belts
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
A new study spearheaded by the University of Birmingham has thrown a challenge at the space science community to deepen our understanding of the hazardous zones close to Earth, known as the Van Allen Belts. This research marks a major advance towards evolving new theories and methodologies capable of predicting and analyzing the dynamics of space particles more accurately.
Historically, th BurstCube: NASA's Compact Satellite Takes on the Cosmos' Most Explosive Mysteries
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 21:04
In a significant step toward unlocking the universe's most explosive phenomena, NASA's BurstCube has embarked on its journey to the International Space Station. This compact, shoebox-sized satellite, aboard SpaceX's 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, aims to explore short gamma-ray bursts - the universe's most intense explosions.
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Tuesday, 26 March 2024 17:05
Europe space telescope's sight restored after de-icing procedure
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:30
The vision of the Euclid space telescope has been restored following a delicate operation that successfully melted a thin layer of ice that had been clouding its sight, the European Space Agency announced on Tuesday.
There had been fears that the creeping ice could delay the mission of Europe's space telescope, which blasted off in July on the world's first mission to investigate the cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.
However a de-icing procedure to gently warm up an optimal mirror on the telescope "performed significantly better than hoped", the ESA said.
"After the very first mirror was warmed by just 34 degrees, Euclid's sight was restored," it added.
In November, scientists on the ground noticed that they were losing a little light coming into the telescope's visible light imager.
They determined that the problem was a layer of ice—thought to be just the width of a strand of DNA—building up on the telescope's optical surfaces.
New NASA software simulates science missions for observing terrestrial freshwater
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 16:11
From radar instruments smaller than a shoebox to radiometers the size of a milk carton, there are more tools available to scientists today for observing complex Earth systems than ever before. But this abundance of available sensors creates its own unique challenge: how can researchers organize these diverse instruments in the most efficient way for field campaigns and science missions?
To help researchers maximize the value of science missions, Bart Forman, an Associate Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland, and a team of researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center prototyped an Observational System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) for designing science missions dedicated to monitoring terrestrial freshwater storage.
SpaceX sends 23 more Starlink satellites into orbit in Falcon 9 launch from Florida
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:23
SpaceX on Monday successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The craft took off as scheduled from Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:42 p.m.
The Falcon 9's first stage landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean following the launch, SpaceX Bankrupt FTX sells stake in hot AI startup Anthropic
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:23
FTX, the bankrupt company once run by disgraced crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried, will sell two-thirds of its shares in hot AI startup Anthropic for $880 million, a court filing said on Monday.
The shares in Anthropic were considered plum assets in the remains of the FTX empire that collapsed in late 2022, when revelations showed occurrences of massive fraud by Bankman-Fried and his close assoc Marvel at stunning echo of 800-year-old explosion
Tuesday, 26 March 2024 15:00
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In the year 1181 a rare supernova explosion appeared in the night sky, staying visible for 185 consecutive days. Historical records show that the supernova looked like a temporary ‘star’ in the constellation Cassiopeia shining as bright as Saturn.
Ever since, scientists have tried to find the supernova’s remnant. At first it was thought that this could be the nebula around the pulsar (dead star) 3C 58. However closer investigations revealed that the pulsar is older than supernova 1181.
In the last decade, another contender was discovered; Pa 30 is a nearly circular nebula with a central star in