Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
Atomic-6 has secured a Tactical Funding Increase (TACFI) of $3.8 million to enhance the development of its innovative Space Armor shielding tiles. This funding will support qualification testing and preparation for the technology's first flight deployment. Space Armor is engineered to address critical challenges in shielding mass, stowage efficiency, post-impact debris, and mission risks.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) has finalized launch preparations for LizzieSat-2 at the Astrotech Space Operations facility in Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. The satellite is now in SpaceX's custody, poised for deployment on the Bandwagon-2 rideshare mission, scheduled for December 2024. LizzieSat-2, built at Sidus Space's cutting-edge Florida Space Coast facility, integrates an adva

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), the largest and most sensitive filled-aperture radio telescope in the world, has identified over 1,000 new pulsars since it began operations, its operator announced on Tuesday. According to the National Astronomical Observatories under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), FAST's pulsar discoveries outnumber those made

Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
Researchers at the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have made a record-setting discovery while uncovering clues to a rare cosmic phenomenon known as long-period radio transients. Associate Professor Natasha Hurley-Walker, alongside then-undergraduate Csanad Horvath, identified a unique energy pulse while analyzing archival data from th

Paris, France (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
The elusive solar corona, a faint, ultra-hot layer of the Sun, has intrigued scientists for centuries. This region, responsible for solar winds and storms, is usually obscured by the Sun's intense light. While natural solar eclipses or specially designed instruments have provided glimpses, ESA's Proba-3 mission is poised to offer unprecedented access through advanced technology. Proba-3, c

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
NASA has awarded a $20.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, for the development of Suprathermal Ion Sensors as part of NOAA's Space Weather Next Program. These sensors will be critical for the Lagrange 1 Series project, providing real-time data to improve space weather forecasting. The contract, set to co

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
While NASA's NEOWISE telescope ended its journey through space on Nov. 1, 2024, the team at IPAC, a science center at Caltech, was working on one further gift from the prolific mission. The final data release from NEOWISE was released to the astronomy community just two weeks later, on Nov. 14, encompassing over 26 million images and nearly 200 billion sources detected by the telescope.

Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
A Neptune-sized planet, TOI-3261 b, makes a scorchingly close orbit around its host star. Only the fourth object of its kind ever found, the planet could reveal clues as to how planets such as these form. An international team of scientists used the NASA space telescope, TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), to discover the exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system), then ma

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
A new study led by Sofia Sheikh of the SETI Institute has revealed how pulsar signals - emissions from the spinning remnants of massive stars - are distorted as they traverse the interstellar medium (ISM). The findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, were developed through contributions from undergraduate researchers in Penn State's Pulsar Search Collaboratory, a student program origina

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2024
Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) is partnering with Starsite Pty Ltd to build and operate a 20-meter antenna at a new site in Western Australia. Starsite, the Australian landowner, will manage and maintain the installation, which is designed to support key lunar missions. Starsite was chosen to host the facility based on its expertise and commitment to operational excellence. The collab