Lasers to probe origin of life on a Moon
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Highly porous rocks responsible for Bennu's surprisingly craggy surface
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Empowering Artemis with communications and navigation interoperability
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
NASA scientist looks to AI, lensing to find masses of free-floating planets
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Eutelsat raises its shareholding in OneWeb
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Simulating space on Earth: NASA receives hardware for testing satellite servicing tech
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Student experiments float over New Mexico
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
China's Mars probes suspend explorations due to Sun outage
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Rare micrometeorite may have originated from a Ceres-like asteroid
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
First European map of the insulating effect of forests
Thursday, 07 October 2021 09:49
Longtime SpaceX executive joins Mynaric board
Thursday, 07 October 2021 04:41
Hans Koenigsmann, one of the first employees of SpaceX and who recently retired from the company, has joined the board of satellite laser communications company Mynaric.
NGA to increase use of commercial analytic services
Thursday, 07 October 2021 01:15
David Gauthier said NGA has to transition away from government analysts exploiting raw imagery to commercial analytic services that can quickly provide answers
Hiber abandons plans for IoT satellite constellation
Thursday, 07 October 2021 00:24
Dutch company Hiber is dropping plans to deploy an internet-of-things smallsat constellation, electing instead to provide similar services through a third-party system.
Op-ed | Automation a key enabler of the future space economy
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 21:00
Robotics and automation are playing a huge role across the rapidly evolving new space economy and value chains adjacent to space
Highly porous rocks are responsible for asteroid Bennu's surprisingly craggy surface
Wednesday, 06 October 2021 20:10
Scientists thought asteroid Bennu's surface would be like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles, which would have been perfect for collecting samples. Past telescope observations from Earth's orbit had suggested the presence of large swaths of fine-grain material called fine regolith that's smaller than a few centimeters.
But when the spacecraft of NASA's University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission arrived at Bennu in late 2018, the mission team saw a surface covered in boulders.