Hubble’s neighbourhood watch
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Hubble’s neighbourhood watch Earth from Space: Okavango Delta, Botswana
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Botswana’s Okavango Delta – the world’s largest inland delta – is featured in this multitemporal radar image, captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. How students built Ireland's first satellite
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How students built Ireland's first satellite
Electron launches two Capella Space radar satellites
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Rocket Lab launched its second Electron rocket from Virginia March 16, placing two Capella Space radar imaging satellites into orbit.
NASA selects Axiom Space for third private astronaut mission to ISS
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NASA has approved plans by Axiom Space to fly a third private astronaut mission to the International Space Station as soon as November, although with no details yet about who will go on the flight.
DoD seeking seamless military-commercial satellite communications
Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:33
Prototype telescope launched to the International Space Station
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A prototype telescope designed and built by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers has been launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida to the International Space Station (ISS).
Known as the Stellar Occultation Hypertemporal Imaging Payload (SOHIP), the telescope uses LLNL patented-monolithic optics technology on a gimbal to observe and measure atmospheric gravity waves and turbulence.
Satellite powered by 48 AA batteries and a $20 microprocessor shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk
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Common sense suggests that space missions can only happen with multimillion-dollar budgets, materials built to withstand the unforgiving conditions beyond Earth's atmosphere, and as a result of work done by highly trained specialists.
But a team of engineering students from Brown University has turned that assumption on its head.
They built a satellite on a shoestring budget and using off-the-shelf supplies available at most hardware stores. They even sent the satellite—which is powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries and a $20 microprocessor popular with robot hobbyists—into space about 10 months ago, hitching a ride on Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket.
Examining the state of suborbital space science
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Think there's nothing to learn through suborbital flight and that space science is only done in orbit? Think again.
Recently, a group of school students in Canada asked the question: do Epi-Pens work in space? These are epinephrine-loaded injectors used to help people with allergies survive a severe attack.
To get an answer, the class at St Brother André Elementary School worked with NASA, the University of Ottawa, and the non-profit Cubes in Space program to launch some Epi-Pens on suborbital flights aboard a rocket and a high-altitude balloon.
Virgin Orbit pausing all work, reportedly furloughs staff
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LEO constellations are starting to disrupt GEO capacity contracts
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Satellite broadband customers are increasingly demanding shorter-term contracts to hold out for better prices in a market set for a flood of low Earth orbit capacity, according to executives of regional satellite operators.
Student-built satellite uses 'beach ball' for an antenna
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Scientists and engineers at the University of Arizona have built instruments for three NASA telescopes, led two deep space missions and made it possible to see farther back in space and time than ever before. Adding to this list of space exploration accomplishments is a different type of project - one led entirely by students.
Near the university's main campus, students gather inside a cle Building on Luna and Mars with StarCrete the double stength concrete
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Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. Future space construction will need to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronauts, StarCrete offers one possible solution. The scientists behind the invention used simulated Martian soil mixed with potato starch and a pinch of salt to create the material that is twice as strong a New Horizons team discusses discoveries from the Kuiper Belt
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More than 5 billion miles from Earth and 17 years into a mission that included the first close-up exploration of Pluto and the first encounter with a planetary building block in the Kuiper Belt, NASA's New Horizons continues to shed light on the mysterious planets and smaller bodies of the outer solar system.
Launched in January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto and its m Study finds ocean currents may affect rotation of Europa's icy crust
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NASA scientists have strong evidence that Jupiter's moon Europa has an internal ocean under its icy outer shell - an enormous body of salty water swirling around the moon's rocky interior. New computer modeling suggests the water may actually be pushing the ice shell along, possibly speeding up and slowing down the rotation of the moon's icy shell over time.
Scientists have known that Euro