Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2024
Karman Space and Defense ("Karman"), a solutions provider for complex industry challenges, announces the launch of its redesigned website and new tagline "Impossible Ends Here." The new site features a fresh look, color palette, and typefaces. Karman leads in technological advancement and mission success by integrating engineering, design, and analysis for system development with in-house

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2024
New data from NASA and its partners suggests more cost-effective strategies for addressing orbital debris. A report by NASA's Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS) offers new insights into measuring the risks from orbital debris. "Growing activity in Earth's orbit has brought us everything from faster terrestrial communications to a better understanding of our changing cl

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 22, 2024
A private Chinese commercial space company, in collaboration with a Thai university, has conducted the first trial of a low-orbit satellite internet broadband communication network successfully in Thailand. The trial represents the initial overseas use of China's low-orbit broadband satellite internet. GalaxySpace, a satellite manufacturer based in Beijing, established a ground test

Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 22, 2024
University of Copenhagen astrophysicists have presented evidence that massive stars can collapse into black holes without a supernova explosion. Their study focused on a binary star system, VFTS 243, which suggests that stars can completely collapse under their own gravity. Massive stars usually end their lives in supernova explosions, ejecting energy and mass into space. However, this new

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 22, 2024
A technology demo on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help increase the variety of distant planets scientists can directly image. The Roman Coronagraph Instrument on NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help pave the way in the search for habitable worlds outside our solar system by testing new tools that block starlight, revealing planets hidden by the glare of their pa

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2024
In the effort to understand a warm gas-giant exoplanet, Arizona State University researchers have helped uncover its secrets. WASP-107b has puzzled astronomers for some time, but recent findings with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have provided new insights into its unusual characteristics. A key revelation in the exploration of WASP-107b is the unex

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 22, 2024
Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure, has been awarded a NASA/JPL contract to study a Redwire-led commercial Mars spacecraft. The project will use Redwire's spacecraft technology to provide surface imagery for industry and government customers, potentially supporting future Mars exploration missions. "This presents an exciting opportunity to advance scientific

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ESA’s Earth Cloud Aerosol and Radiation Explorer (EarthCARE) mission is designed to advance our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting incident solar radiation back out to space and trapping infrared radiation emitted from Earth’s surface.

Developed as a cooperation between ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), this exciting mission will make a range of different measurements that together will shed new light on the role that clouds and aerosols play in regulating Earth’s delicate temperature balance. 

With global climate change increasingly affecting our planet, EarthCARE is poised to provide data for climate

Follow OPS-SAT's atmospheric reentry live

The latest telemetry during the mission's final hours

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 21, 2024
NASA, in collaboration with industry partners, is set to design a new jet engine core for ultra-efficient airliners, moving into the project's next phase. In its pursuit of sustainable aviation, NASA is developing a small core for a hybrid-electric turbofan jet engine aimed at reducing fuel burn by 10% compared to current engines. A jet engine's core mixes compressed air with fuel to