ExoTerra gains flight heritage for Halo thrusters
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 12:00
ExoTerra Resources has demonstrated its first Halo Hall-effect thrusters in orbit on DARPA Blackjack satellites.
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Funded for further growth, Leaf Space prepares its ground station network for the upcoming SpaceX’s Transporter-9 mission and shares excitement for the sector
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:39
As recently announced by Leaf Space, the Italian company has now secured EUR 20M (USD 22M) in Series B funding, positioning itself among the world’s leading Ground Segment-as-a-Service (GSaaS) providers.
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter flies again after unscheduled landing
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:32
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter successfully completed its 54th flight on Aug. 3, the first flight since the helicopter cut its July 22 flight short. The 25-second up-and-down hop provided data that could help the Ingenuity team determine why its 53rd flight ended early.
Flight 53 was planned as a 136-second scouting flight dedicated to collecting imagery of the planet's surface for the Perseverance Mars rover science team.
Boeing says troubled Starliner will be ready to fly crew by March
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
Boeing on Monday said its Starliner spaceship will now be ready to carry out its first crewed flight by March - though the actual launch date will depend on space calendar constraints.
The troubled program has experienced numerous postponements but was finally meant to send astronauts to the International Space Station on July 21.
During testing, however, Boeing engineers identified new Hypersonics Capability Center: Northrop Grumman's next step beyond Mach 5
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
Northrop Grumman Corporation has unveiled its Hypersonics Capability Center (HCC) in Elkton, Maryland. This innovative facility is primed to deliver cutting-edge propulsion systems that will propel hypersonic missiles at speeds surpassing Mach 5.
In response to the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) increasing need for long-range and swift-response weapons, the HCC is purpose-built as a ne Nuclear spin's impact on biological processes uncovered
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
A research team led by Prof. Yossi Paltiel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with groups from HUJI, Weizmann and IST Austria new study reveals the influence of nuclear spin on biological processes. This discovery challenges long-held assumptions and opens up exciting possibilities for advancements in biotechnology and quantum biology.
Scientists have long believed that nuclear spin had IBM collaborates with NASA to launch Geospatial AI on Hugging Face
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
IBM, in partnership with Hugging Face, has released its advanced geospatial foundation model developed using NASA's satellite data, marking it as the most extensive geospatial model on the Hugging Face platform. Notably, it's also the premier open-source AI foundation model that boasts a collaborative creation process with NASA.
The contemporary world of climate science is characterized by Ionospheric study reveals surprising protection by Earth's magnetic field
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
The ionosphere, that expansive layer suspended between 60 and over 600 kilometers above Earth, plays a pivotal role in safeguarding crucial communication systems, satellites, and the vital ozone layer. A recent simulation study delves deeper into the intricacies of this region, particularly its interaction with high-energy electrons.
Tohoku University's geophysicist Yuto Katoh spearheaded NASA data helps Bangladeshi farmers save water, money, energy
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
With nearly 170 million residents, Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated nations in the world. Nearly half of its residents work on or live around farms, and rice crops are critical to feeding that population.
So when researchers from the University of Washington and Bangladesh's Ministry of Agriculture joined forces to use data from NASA and its partners to help the country's ri Solestial's Tech to Power Atomos's OTVs
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
In a notable development within the space-tech domain, Solestial and Atomos Space recently declared a joint sales accord centered around Solestial's innovative solar blankets. Atomos has pledged to acquire a minimum of 20 kilowatts from these unique, radiation-hardened solar utilities.
This collaboration is poised for an official debut by February 2024. At that time, Atomos's premiere miss Scientists reveal blueprint of China's lunar water-ice probe mission
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
Chinese space scientists have revealed in a paper how the country's lunar probe Chang'e-7, supported by a hopping detector, may go about investigating the water-ice in the shadow pit near the south pole of the moon.
China plans to launch the Chang'e-6 to land on the moon in around 2024 to collect samples from the far side of the moon, before sending the Chang'e-7 probe around 2026 to imple What happens if someone dies beyond Earth
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:23
There's no question that sending human beings to space is an extraordinarily difficult and perilous proposition. Since human space exploration began just over 60 years ago, 20 people have died - 14 in the NASA space shuttle tragedies of 1986 and 2003, three cosmonauts during the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission, and three astronauts in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire in 1967.
Given how complicated human KSAT unveils automated Ka-band network
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:00
KSAT is establishing an automated Ka-band ground network for small satellite constellations
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Busek lauds on-orbit performance of OneWeb’s Hall-effect thrusters
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 11:00
In-space propulsion specialist Busek said that more than 100 of the company’s BHT-350 Hall-effect thrusters are operating in orbit on OneWeb communications satellites.
NASA search and rescue team prepares for safe return of Artemis II crew
Tuesday, 08 August 2023 10:02
When Artemis II NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen splash down in the Pacific Ocean after a 10-day mission around the moon, NASA's landing and recovery team will be ready to bring the Orion capsule and our astronauts back to land.
A major player in the capsule recovery and Artemis II crew safety is NASA's Search and Rescue office based at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and managed by the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program at NASA Headquarters.
For over 40 years, the search and rescue office has aided the international Cospas-Sarsat Program in the development of search and rescue technologies. These technologies allow hikers, boaters, and pilots activate a distress beacon should they find themselves in trouble. Since 1982, the system has been responsible for saving over 50,000 Earth explorers.
Now, the office is applying their years of expertise to support NASA's Artemis moon missions. For Artemis II, NASA is equipping second-generation beacons called Advanced Next-Generation Emergency Locators (ANGEL) on the astronauts' life preservers and installing another location beacon onto the Orion capsule so both can be located quickly.