Beijing (AFP) Nov 30, 2022
China launched the Shenzhou-15 spacecraft on Tuesday carrying three astronauts to its space station, where they will complete the country's first-ever crew handover in orbit, state news agency Xinhua reported. The trio blasted off in a Long March-2F rocket at 11:08 pm (1508 GMT) from the Jiuquan launch centre in northwestern China's Gobi desert, Xinhua said, citing the China Manned Space A

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2022
Rain gauges are plentiful around the United States, but that's not the case elsewhere in the world - particularly over oceans and sparsely populated areas. That means scientists and other data users have to rely on satellite measurements - such as those provided by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission - to fill in the gaps. The list of data users now includes the U.S. Air

Cleveland OH (SPX) Nov 24, 2022
For a team of NASA and industry researchers seeking to make aviation more sustainable, it's all about the twist. No, we're not thinking of Chubby Checker and his signature song and dance. Instead, the focus here is on metal alloys whose molecules literally change shape when exposed to a certain temperature range. "It doesn't bend out of shape. It doesn't extend. It doesn't shrink. It

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2022
Today's spaceflights typically last a few days to a few months, so onboard medical treatment is mostly limited to first aid. But researchers are increasingly exploring new terrain-known as in-flight space medicine-that will be critical for maintaining astronauts' health during longer missions, such as the 21-month roundtrip to Mars. Polaris Dawn, the first of three missions in the Polaris

San Jose CA (SPX) Nov 29, 2022
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has signed a contract with the CUAVA Training Centre at the University of Sydney to deploy the CUAVA-2 CubeSat in low-Earth orbit in October 2023. CUAVA is the Australian Research Council Training Centre for CubeSats, Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles, and their Applications. CUAVA is a partnership centered at the University of Sydney that aims to fundamentally change t

Dallas TX (SPX) Nov 29, 2022
Texas Instruments (TI) (Nasdaq: TXN) has announced an expansion in its portfolio of space-grade analog semiconductor products in highly reliable plastic packages for a diverse range of missions. TI developed a new device screening specification called space high-grade in plastic (SHP) for radiation-hardened products and introduced new analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that meet the SHP qualifi

Cambridge UK (SPX) Nov 29, 2022
Researchers have been able to make some key determinations about the first galaxies to exist, in one of the first astrophysical studies of the period in the early Universe when the first stars and galaxies formed, known as the cosmic dawn. Using data from India's SARAS3 radio telescope, researchers led by the University of Cambridge were able to look at the very early Universe - just 200 m