Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 07, 2022
Our drive was successful, and we ended with some lovely flat bedrock with some gorgeous veining running through it. As APXS payload uplink lead today, I saw several targets that the APXS team would have loved to analyze. Sadly, the timing didn't work in our favour today. APXS prefers temperatures below -20 C - the colder it is, the better the data quality is. But daytime temperatures in Ga

Lowell MA (SPX) Jun 07, 2022
Some nights the Moon seems really close and bigger than usual. One summer evening when I was a child, I remember being mystified and then startled at a huge round shape slowly creeping up behind my friend Nancy's house, which sat on a hill on the other side of our village. At some point I suddenly realized it was the Moon, and I ran yelling through the garden to tell my dad and get h

Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jun 07, 2022
Quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a state of matter existing at extremely temperatures and densities, such as those that occur in collisions of hadrons (protons, neutrons and mesons). Under so-called "normal" conditions, quarks and gluons are always confined in the structures that constitute hadrons, but when hadrons are accelerated to relativistic velocities and made to collide with each other, as th

Alexandria VA (SPX) Jun 07, 2022
SCOUT Inc., a company developing next-generation space safety of flight and autonomous proximity operations services, and LEOcloud Inc., a company offering a scalable space-based, multi-cloud Infrastructure as a Services (IaaS) announced they have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to work jointly to enhance space operations safety. The collaboration is focused on integrating SCOUT's Space Do

Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jun 07, 2022
The Adelaide-based SmartSat Co-operative Research Centre has brought in Canberra-based EOS Space Systems to advance its Project CHORUS tactical satellite terminal. Now a core partner, EOS Space Systems will have priority to select and lead strategic research projects alongside leading universities and global corporations to assist in the development of breakthrough technologies in military

Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Jun 07, 2022
The Air Force Materiel Command reached Full Operational Capability for its servicing major command support to Space Force-assigned Airmen, June 1, 2022. As the servicing MAJCOM, AFMC is accomplishing the roles and responsibilities traditionally performed by a major command for the Airmen supporting the Space Force. These major command functions include, but are not limited to, providing po

Washington DC (UPI) Jun 7, 2021
Maine leaders have long been searching for ways to keep more of high school and college graduates from leaving the state. But lobstering and forestry, two stalwarts of the Maine economy, aren't what they used to be. Enter the new space economy. "There's something sexy about space," Terry Shehata, executive director of the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded nonprofit, tol

An ESA-led project constructed a test cylinder using a novel method of laying down carbon fibre, then tested it to buckling point within a crushing machine that subjected it to the equivalent of 10 tons of force. The cylinder met its predicted specifications perfectly, outperforming a traditionally-made equivalent using the same constituent materials. The company involved, iCOMAT in the UK, has now been shortlisted for the 2022 JEC World Composites Innovation Award – recognised as one of the year’s global top three main innovations in the field of aerospace composites.

Engineers have connected Japan and Europe via space-enabled next-generation 5G telecommunication links. It is the first time that such an intercontinental connection has been established between Europe and Japan.