Italy’s post-pandemic space industry boost
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An Italian Earth observation project funded by pandemic relief euros has ordered at least 34 satellites and a pair of Vega launches in recent months.
NASA's Voyager will do more science with new power strategy
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The plan will keep Voyager 2's science instruments turned on a few years longer than previously anticipated, enabling yet more revelations from interstellar space.
Launched in 1977, the Voyager 2 spacecraft is more than 12 billion miles (20 billion kilometers) from Earth, using five science instruments to study interstellar space.
Sustainability in space—can you teach old satellites new tricks?
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We've all heard that we should "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" to save the planet, but what about applying any of the "three R's" to space?
Researchers at USC Viterbi's Information Sciences Institute (ISI) are tackling this challenge—looking at how to reuse physical items that are already in space, namely, old satellites.
Legacy Satellites
There are currently several thousand satellites orbiting Earth. Many have already completed their missions or have outlived their primary lifespans—these are "legacy satellites." And while some of them may have broken hardware and will eventually run out of energy, leave orbit, and burn out in space, others are physically in good condition. So, the question becomes: what to do with them?
Alefiya Hussain, ISI Research Team Leader explained, "This project is looking at ways to possibly reuse satellites for different things. We are collaborating with the software company Tangram Flex to figure out how we can replace the software components within the satellites to re-purpose them."
She continued, "The approach we've taken is to look inside the satellite and say, this particular piece of software did this particular function before, can we actually replace that function to make it do something else as a path to repurposing it?"
China plans full reusability for its super heavy Long March 9 rocket
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China is planning to make a fully reusable version of its Long March 9 rocket designed to launch infrastructure and deep space missions.
Could you be ESA’s official merchandise supplier?
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ESA is inviting companies with an interest in merchandising to submit a tender to become the space agency’s official ESA-branded merchandise supplier.
Another giant leap into space: Successful launch of Lumelite-4 to enhance maritime communications
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Arianegroup, Eutelsat And Magellium Selected To Improve French Space Surveillance Capabilities
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Voyager will do more science with new power strategy
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SpaceX aborts Starlink launch at last second, delays Falcon Heavy mission
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Out of gas in orbit? This US space company is here to help
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Creating new and better drugs with protein crystal growth experiments on the ISS
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New findings indicate gene-edited rice might survive in Martian soil
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Sols 3812-3813: Tiny Sticks Poking Out at Us
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Juice's first taste of science from space
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New black hole images reveal a glowing, fluffy ring and a high-speed jet
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