Forres, UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2022
UK-based launch services company Orbex is hiring an additional fifty staff members over the next six months. The new team members will support the company's final push to prepare for the first vertical rocket launch from UK soil over the coming months. Many of the new roles will support 'integrated testing' of the complete rocket at the Orbex LP1 launch platform test facility at Kinloss. T

Arlington, TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2022
A new study by a trio of physics researchers attempts to quantify how many moons the Earth, or an exoplanet with the mass of Earth orbiting a Sun-like star, could host in its orbit. Their findings: Anywhere from three to seven, depending on the moon's mass. The study, titled "Moon-packing around an Earth-mass planet", was published in the August 1 online edition of the Monthly Notices of t

Boston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2022
When scientists unveiled humanity's historic first image of a black hole in 2019 - depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward it - they believed even richer imagery and insights were waiting to be teased out of the data. Simulations predict that, obscured by that bright orange glow, there should exist a thin, bright ring of light created by photons flung aro

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2022
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging, or Micro-X, experiment will launch Aug. 21 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The mission's target of study is some 11,000 light-

Singapore (SPX) Aug 24, 2022
Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has partnered with Vodafone PNG to deploy the satellite operator's Mobile Backhaul services, helping to greatly expand Vodafone PNG's voice and 3G/4G data network into rural areas of Papua New Guinea. Vodafone PNG based in Papua New Guinea, part of the Amalgamated Telecom Holdings (ATH) Group of companies from Fiji, successfully launched in Apri

Schriever SFB CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2022
Space Training and Readiness Command completed its first exercise iteration of SPACE FLAG (SPACE FLAG 22-3) since being accredited by the Joint Staff as a Joint National Training Capability. SPACE FLAG is the first Department of Defense space exercise to receive JNTC-accreditation, joining the likes of the U.S. Air Force's Red Flag and Green Flag exercises, as well as the U.S. Army's Joint

El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2022
The United States Space Force Space Systems Command's Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Wide Field of View Testbed is online and the bus checkout is complete. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Blossom Point Tracking Facility successfully acquired WFOV and is operating the satellite. Data is processed through Blossom Point and coordinated with Space Control Network. "First acquisition was righ

MCLean VA (SPX) Aug 23, 2022
SpaceLink, a company that provides secure data from any orbit, any time, announced it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a contract award. SpaceLink will participate in the Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program designed to connect the proliferated space domain. SpaceLink is building a constella

Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 24, 2022
Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all the way around the mountain to visit one another. But, if they wanted to get there faster, they could dig a tunnel straight through the mountain to create a shortcut. That's the idea behind a wormhole. A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that c

Washington DC (UPI) Aug 23, 2021
NASA says it's set to launch the first test flight Monday of its long-anticipated mission that will return U.S. astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years. The Artemis 1 mission is scheduled for liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida after 8:30 a.m. Monday within a two-hour window, the agency said in a briefing Monday. The mission is the first test of the newly m