NASA's Perseverance cores 12th sample, team assessing rover's coring bit
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
Images and data downlinked Thursday from Perseverance show that we've successfully cored, sealed, and stored our 12th sample of the mission. As the team always does, images of several sample collection system components were taken after completion of the coring activity.
In those images, two small pieces of debris were visible - a small object on the coring bit (stored in the bit carousel) Perseid meteor shower peaks Aug. 12, but the full Moon may spoil the show
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
The Perseid meteor shower, one of Earth's biggest, is set to peak with best viewing starting Aug. 11.
The annual meteor shower will peak the next day, but this year the full moon may interfere with visibility, according to NASA.
"Sadly, this year's Perseids peak will see the worst possible circumstances for spotters," NASA astronomer Bill Cooke said in a statement.
"Most o A molecule of light and matter
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
Theoretically, this effect has been predicted for a long time, but now scientists at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at TU Wien, in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck, have succeeded in measuring this exotic atomic bond for the first time. This interaction is useful for manipulating extremely cold atoms, and the effect could also play a role in the formation A cosmic tango points to a violent and chaotic past for distant exoplanet
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see?
For most people, such thoughts conjure up systems that mirror the Solar System: planets orbiting a host star on near-circular orbits - rocky planets closer in, and giants such as Jupiter in the icy depths.
However, the more we study the cosmos, the more we begin to realise planetary syste Astrophysicists observe one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts ever
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
The collision of two distant neutron stars released one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts ever recorded, scientists say.
The collision marked the first time scientists have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion to be caused by the merger of a neutron star with another star. It was observed on Nov. 6, 2021.
The observation was made with the Atacama No trace of dark matter halos
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
Dwarf galaxies are small, faint galaxies that can usually be found in galaxy clusters or near larger galaxies. Because of this, they might be affected by the gravitational effects of their larger companions. "We introduce an innovative way of testing the standard model based on how much dwarf galaxies are disturbed by gravitational ,tides' from nearby larger galaxies", said Elena Asencio, a PhD Madrid Flight On Chip project wraps up design process
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
After more than three and a half years of project, Madrid Flight On Chip (MFoC) successfully culminates providing an important milestone for the implementation of advanced technological products and introduces disruptive changes in the design and verification of complex space systems. The researchers, engineers and technicians of the consortium organizations have positioned Madrid at the forefro SpaceWorks RED-Rescue delivers goods key to survival in wartime
Monday, 08 August 2022 11:01
SpaceWorks successfully demonstrated RED-Rescue, its new, low-cost solution in delivering life-saving food, supplies and equipment to downed or isolated Airmen. The flight test was conducted in March near Albuquerque, NM.
The U.S. Air Force had recently challenged industry to develop capabilities that provide on-demand and cost-efficient delivery of Personnel Recovery Kits (PRKs) to downed Benchmark acquires Alameda Applied Science Corp. electric propulsion
Monday, 08 August 2022 09:00Benchmark Space Systems announced plans Aug. 8 to acquire Alameda Applied Science Corp.’s electric propulsion technologies, and to begin offering customers hybrid chemical-electric propulsion systems.
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NASA heliophysics smallsats to share launch with astrophysics mission
Monday, 08 August 2022 02:34
Four smallsats designed to study the solar wind will share a ride to space on a Falcon 9 with a NASA astrophysics mission in 2025.
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India’s new SSLV rocket suffers “data loss” in maiden flight; satellites’ status unaccounted for
Sunday, 07 August 2022 12:09
The Aug. 6 maiden flight of India’s newly developed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) went awry with “some data loss” that occurred in the terminal stage of the mission.
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India’s new SSLV rocket fails in first launch
Sunday, 07 August 2022 12:09
The Aug. 6 maiden flight of India’s newly developed Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV) went awry with “some data loss” that occurred in the terminal stage of the mission.
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Entire NASA astronaut corps eligible for Artemis missions
Saturday, 06 August 2022 14:52
As NASA prepares to select the crew of the second Artemis mission, the agency’s chief astronaut says the entire astronaut corps, and not a previously announced subset, is eligible for that flight and future missions to the moon.
Italian satellite may fly NASA Earth science payload
Saturday, 06 August 2022 14:02
NASA is in talks with the Italian Space Agency to fly an Earth science instrument originally planned to go on a commercial smallsat.
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Space Development Agency to take another stab at space-to-aircraft laser communications
Friday, 05 August 2022 19:31
SDA is seeking proposals for a demonstration of laser communications between orbiting satellites and aircraft in flight
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