Air Force to launch Link 16 tactical communications cubesat
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 21:25
A U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory cubesat equipped with a Link 16 tactical communications radio will launch to low Earth orbit as early as June on the SpaceX Transporter 8 rideshare.
Satellite manufacturer LeoStella focused on defense market as commercial demand softens
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 20:29
LeoStella, a manufacturer of small satellites, is pursuing U.S.
European space giants join forces for IRIS²
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 19:57
Europe’s largest space companies have banded together to bid for a role in the European Union’s proposed multi-orbit connectivity constellation.
New video series captures team working on NASA's Europa Clipper
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 19:32
Destined for Jupiter's icy moon Europa, the Europa Clipper spacecraft—the largest NASA has ever flown on an interplanetary mission—is being readied to launch in October 2024. Between now and then, thousands of hours of work will go into assembling and testing the spacecraft to ensure it's hardy enough to survive a six-year 1.6-billion-mile (2.6 billion kilometer) journey and sophisticated enough to perform a detailed science investigation of this mysterious moon.
ESA extends AI and cloud computing to space
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 13:00
Despite the rain trickling down the windows, the atmosphere in this room is bright. Twelve teams are gathered in ESA's ESTEC technology centre to explore how we can use the latest developments in AI and advanced computing to make satellites smarter. To make them more reactive, agile and independent.
African space agencies have the potential to lead the global space race
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 12:30
African nations have the potential to become leading competitors in the space industry due to the continent’s rapidly expanding space industry, the amount of institutional knowledge already available, and its large youth population poised to become the next generation of space innovators.
Watch live: ESA's class of 2022 astronaut candidates first news conference
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 12:09
BlackSky releases rare satellite image of alleged airship in China
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) released the first and only known public satellite image, according to a third-party intelligence analyst, of an alleged aerostat at the Korla East Test Site, China. The rare image was captured Friday, November 4, 2022, at 9 a.m. local time and is one of only two images, from among more than 1,000 images collected over the duration of one year, that shows a Massive radio array to search for ET signals from other civilizations
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
One of the world's most powerful radio telescope arrays is joining the hunt for signals from other galactic civilizations. The National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), situated about 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico, is collecting data that scientists will analyze for the type of emissions that only artificial transmitters make, signals that would betray the exist Zhurong Rover finds evidence of water at low latitudes on modern Mars
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
The Zhurong rover has found evidence of water on dune surfaces on modern Mars by providing key observational proof of liquid water at low Martian latitudes, according to a study led by Prof. QIN Xiaoguang from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics (IGG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Researchers from the National Astronomical Observatories of CAS and the Institute of Atmospher Conservation groups sue US regulator over SpaceX launches
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
US conservation groups on Monday announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program.
The move came after the world's most powerful rocket exploded on its first integrated test flight, just four minutes after launching from Boca Chica, Texas on April 20.
SpaceX video showed a hail of debris bein Falcon Heavy launches massive GEO satellite for Viasat
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a Falcon Heavy rocket with a payload of satellites from the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday after having to abort the mission days earlier.
The two-stage rocket - loaded with competitor ViaSat-3 Americas broadband Internet satellite, as well as satellites by Astranis and Gravity Space - was scheduled to launch Friday evening but the mission was aborted with Just a Little Scoot: Sols 3814-3816
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
We arrived this morning to Curiosity at a new location with some bright toned, and more rounded rocks in our vicinity. Unfortunately, we could look but not touch as our wheels were positioned such that we could not safely unstow the arm for contact science. We typically have a large suite of arm activities in weekend plans but with those now removed, the science team had ample power and time to Webb finds water vapor, but from a rocky planet or its star
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
The most common stars in the universe are red dwarf stars, which means that rocky exoplanets are most likely to be found orbiting such a star. Red dwarf stars are cool, so a planet has to hug it in a tight orbit to stay warm enough to potentially host liquid water (meaning it lies in the habitable zone).
Such stars are also active, particularly when they are young, releasing ultraviolet an Nifty nanoparticles help 'peel back the curtain' into the world of super small things
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 11:08
Physicists at The Australian National University (ANU) are using nanoparticles to develop new sources of light that will allow us to "peel back the curtain" into the world of extremely small objects - thousands of times smaller than a human hair - with major gains for medical and other technologies.
The findings, published in Science Advances, could have major implications for medical scie