Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 16, 2021
About a hundred years ago, geologists first noticed that some volcanic rocks were magnetized opposite to the direction of the local Earth's magnetic field. Thus, the concept of magnetic field reversal was born. Estimates regarding the timing of magnetic field reversals were made about that same time and scientists initially thought that this phenomenon had occurred by the early Pleistocene age.

Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 16, 2021
An atmosphere is what makes life on Earth's surface possible, regulating our climate and sheltering us from damaging cosmic rays. But although telescopes have counted a growing number of rocky planets, scientists had thought most of their atmospheres long lost. However, a new study by University of Chicago and Stanford University researchers suggests a mechanism whereby these planets could

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 16, 2021
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has chosen three companies to participate in a new partnership to test and evaluate satellite servicing technologies. Altius Space Machines of Broomfield, Colorado, Honeybee Robotics of Brooklyn, New York, and Orbit Fab of San Francisco will provide cooperative robotic grapple fixtures and data to be studied by NASA's Exploration a

Riga, Latvia (SPX) Mar 16, 2021
Mobile innovator LMT and software company Dimetor have partnered to explore the integration of drones into VLL (very low level) airspace. This builds on earlier collaboration where the two companies succeeded in validating the viability of BVLOS drone flights using mobile networks. The current collaboration entails investigative research into the theoretical and practical possibilities of using

The March Council edition of ESA Impact is online

WASHINGTON — A NASA astronaut flying to the International Space Station in April could spend up to a year on the station, an extended stay that he said he was “enthusiastic” about.

NASA announced March 9 that Mark Vande Hei would fly on the Soyuz MS-18 mission to the space station, launching April 9.

WASHINGTON — Stefanie Tompkins on March 15 assumed the top post at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Tompkins is DARPA’s 23rd director.

She is a former military intelligence officer in the U.S.

Speedcast is emerging from bankruptcy into a very different satellite communications market.

Bankruptcies, acquisitions and an ongoing pandemic are continuing to reshape an industry in the midst of major technological and financial disruption.

But while COVID-19 disproportionally drags on verticals such as energy, maritime and aero — helping push satcom players like Speedcast, Intelsat and Global Eagle Entertainment into restructuring — it is also accelerating digitalization trends that promise new opportunities for connectivity providers that can ride out the storm.

In a series of exciting video stories featuring the Playmobil toy system, the ever-knowledgeable robot host ROBert is assisted by ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano to explain how you can become an astronaut and what it’s like to live in space.