Planet and NASA Harvest launch commercial partnership to advance food security
Friday, 13 January 2023 03:45
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Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and NASA Harvest, the federal space agency's Global Food Security and Agriculture Program, has announced a partnership to further support the joint Food Security and Agricultural Monitoring Solution. The offering aims to deliver policy-grade agricultural monitoring and assessments of potential threats to globa Kleos Observer Mission Update
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Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1), a space-powered defence and intelligence technology Company, announces that two-way communication has been achieved with all four Observer Mission (KSF3) satellites that launched successfully on 3 rd January aboard the Transporter-6 SpaceX mission.
Bi-directional communication has been achieved with all four Observer Mission satellites. The sate TESS discovers planetary system's second Earth-size world
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Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star - the range of distances where liquid water could occur on a planet's surface. The world is 95% Earth's size and likely rocky.
Astronomers previously discovered three planets in this system, called TOI 700 b, c, and d Model-Independent Method to weigh protoplanetary disks
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Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make assumptions about the relative amounts of different types of gas, making this method more accurate and robust than previous methods.
Planets form in protoplanetary disks of gas and dust around young stars. Scientists study protoplanetary disks by looking at their spectra, the Virgin Galactic restructures leadership as it prepares to resume flights
Thursday, 12 January 2023 23:07 Write a comment
As Virgin Galactic moves closer to resuming flights of its SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle, the company is reorganizing its leadership and parting ways with a senior executive.
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U.S. Space Force chief: Russia’s missteps in Ukraine serve as a cautionary tale
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Gen. B. Chance Saltzman said he wants to make sure the Space Force is not caught unprepared for the next conflict
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ESPA satellites maturing as the preferred ride for small national security payloads
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The newest version of the ESPA ring deploys experiments but also more advanced operational smallsats
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NSF and SpaceX reach agreement to reduce Starlink effects on astronomy
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NSF has reached an agreement with SpaceX to mitigate the effects of the company’s second-generation Starlink satellites on astronomy, even as another organization goes to court to block the constellation’s deployment.
U.S. Space Force considers a second NOAA weather satellite
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The U.S. Space Force is holding discussions with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration about replacing a geostationary weather satellite over the Indian Ocean.
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SpiderOak raises $16.4 million in Series C funding round
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Cybersecurity specialist SpiderOak raised $16.4 million in a Series C investment round led by Empyrean Technology Solutions, a space technology platform affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm.
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Virgin Orbit: Premature shutdown behind rocket launch fail
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XMM-Newton spies black holes eating the same stars again and again
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Two teams of astronomers using ESA’s XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black holes that partially destroy stars again and again. This discovery is unexpected, since outbursts of black holes usually appear only once when a black hole consumes a star.
Virgin Orbit blames launch failure on upper stage anomaly
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Virgin Orbit says its first LauncherOne mission from the United Kingdom failed to reach orbit Jan. 9 when an anomaly caused a premature shutdown of the rocket’s upper stage.
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Snowless ski slopes from space
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Europe has kicked off the new year with an intense winter heatwave. The warm temperatures and lack of snowfall in the Alps has left several ski resorts with little or no snow. The difference in snow cover is visible in these Copernicus Sentinel-2 images captured in January 2022 ESA Preview 2023
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At the start of 2023 the European Space Agency ESA is happily looking forward to another year filled with a host of thrilling new missions, cutting edge science and the continued effort to guarantee independent access to space for Europe. We will see the first images of the first Meteosat Third Generation satellite, the launch of the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, and of Euclid and another Sentinel-1 satellite launch. It will also be the year of Ariane 6 which will make its inaugural flight and the first Dane in space, Andreas Mogensen will return to the ISS