NASA loses contact with ICON spacecraft
Thursday, 08 December 2022 12:02
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A NASA space science spacecraft launched three years ago has been out of contact with controllers for nearly two weeks after suffering some kind of technical problem.
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Spirent brings realistic testing to emerging LEO satellite applications
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Paignton UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), the leading provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, has announced availability of SimORBIT, the first high-accuracy orbital modelling software solution specifically developed for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite simulation.
Created in partnership with spaceborne receiver developer SpacePNT, Spirent SimORBIT ena
Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), the leading provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, has announced availability of SimORBIT, the first high-accuracy orbital modelling software solution specifically developed for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite simulation.
Created in partnership with spaceborne receiver developer SpacePNT, Spirent SimORBIT ena Slingshot Aerospace raises $40M in oversubscribed Series A2 funding round
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Austin TX (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building data and analytics products to make space operations safer, has announced that it has raised $40.85 million in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round.
The round was led by Sway Ventures and included participation from others, including C16 Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and Draper Associates,
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building data and analytics products to make space operations safer, has announced that it has raised $40.85 million in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round.
The round was led by Sway Ventures and included participation from others, including C16 Ventures, ATX Venture Partners, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Valor Equity Partners, and Draper Associates, Orbital Assembly announces new equity offering to Advance Hybrid-Gravity Space Station development
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
Orbital Assembly (OA), a leader in the race to make Hybrid-GravityTM space accessible for leisure, commercial and industrial activities has announced a crowdfunding equity offering (Regulation CF).
The company continues to seek investment to initiate full scale human factors design in conjunction with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, to begin construction of the first orbital flight hard
Orbital Assembly (OA), a leader in the race to make Hybrid-GravityTM space accessible for leisure, commercial and industrial activities has announced a crowdfunding equity offering (Regulation CF).
The company continues to seek investment to initiate full scale human factors design in conjunction with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, to begin construction of the first orbital flight hard Absolut Sensing selects NanoAvionics to build demonstration satellite to be launched first half of 2024
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Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
Absolut Sensing, a subsidiary of the Absolut Group specialized in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a significant milestone with the selection of satellite manufacturer Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) to build its demonstration satellite dubbed "GEN1", after a rigorous selection process. Under the mission agreement, NanoAvionics will provide its 16U nanosatellite bu
Absolut Sensing, a subsidiary of the Absolut Group specialized in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a significant milestone with the selection of satellite manufacturer Kongsberg NanoAvionics (NanoAvionics) to build its demonstration satellite dubbed "GEN1", after a rigorous selection process. Under the mission agreement, NanoAvionics will provide its 16U nanosatellite bu The future market for small satellites
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
The German federal government has launched the Small Satellite Initiative with the aim of consolidating the German space industry and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially start-ups, actively involved in the small satellite sector. The Bundestag allocated 10 million euros for this purpose in 2022. On 6 December 2022, representatives from industry, research and politics
The German federal government has launched the Small Satellite Initiative with the aim of consolidating the German space industry and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially start-ups, actively involved in the small satellite sector. The Bundestag allocated 10 million euros for this purpose in 2022. On 6 December 2022, representatives from industry, research and politics From Shetlands to Azores, Europe's space race takes off
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Paris (AFP) Dec 8, 2022
Projects to develop space centres that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialisation of space.
By the end of this year, Spanish start-up PLD Space expects to launch its Miura-1 mini-rocket from the El Arenosillo site in the southern region of Andalusia.
Satellites will also be launched "in t
Projects to develop space centres that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialisation of space.
By the end of this year, Spanish start-up PLD Space expects to launch its Miura-1 mini-rocket from the El Arenosillo site in the southern region of Andalusia.
Satellites will also be launched "in t Arctic Sweden in race for Europe's satellite launches
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Esrange Space Centre, Sweden (AFP) Dec 8, 2022
As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests.
Hopes are high that rockets like this could carry satellites as early as next year, in what could be the first satellite launch from a spaceport in continental Europe.
At the launch pad, about an hour
As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests.
Hopes are high that rockets like this could carry satellites as early as next year, in what could be the first satellite launch from a spaceport in continental Europe.
At the launch pad, about an hour Southern Launch and ATSpace return to launch up to two Kestrel I rockets before the end of the year
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Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
by Kurtis Eichler for The Lead
After a severe electrical storm damaged an ATSpace rocket on the launch pad in November, the company has announced that repairs have been completed and they will attempt another launch in the coming weeks, followed by another already planned launch of a second rocket.
ATSpace CEO Dr Yen Sen Chen said they were pleased to discover that the repairs required to
by Kurtis Eichler for The Lead
After a severe electrical storm damaged an ATSpace rocket on the launch pad in November, the company has announced that repairs have been completed and they will attempt another launch in the coming weeks, followed by another already planned launch of a second rocket.
ATSpace CEO Dr Yen Sen Chen said they were pleased to discover that the repairs required to NASA advances Artemis Moon rocket production for future missions
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New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
NASA is moving forward with Space Launch System (SLS) production and assembly activities for future Artemis missions.
The agency is optimizing manufacturing capabilities by enabling SLS core stage lead contractor Boeing to use facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to perform some core stage assembly and outfitting activities beginning with the Artemis III rocket. In tandem,
NASA is moving forward with Space Launch System (SLS) production and assembly activities for future Artemis missions.
The agency is optimizing manufacturing capabilities by enabling SLS core stage lead contractor Boeing to use facilities at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to perform some core stage assembly and outfitting activities beginning with the Artemis III rocket. In tandem, New rocket successfully takes to outer space
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Beijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2022
Kuaizhou 11, the newest model of carrier rocket developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, carried out its first successful flight on Wednesday morning, lifting an experimental satellite into space, according to the company.
The rocket blasted off at 9:15 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert and soon deployed the Xingyun Transport VDES
Kuaizhou 11, the newest model of carrier rocket developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, carried out its first successful flight on Wednesday morning, lifting an experimental satellite into space, according to the company.
The rocket blasted off at 9:15 am at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert and soon deployed the Xingyun Transport VDES Can plasma instability in fact be the savior for magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters
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Sendai, Japan (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
A research group has demonstrated that spontaneously excited plasma waves may be the solution to a long-associated problem with magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters, turning conventional thinking on its head.
Details of their research were published in the journal Scientific Reports on December 5, 2022.
In magnetic nozzle radio frequency thrusters, sometimes referred to as helicon thrust
A research group has demonstrated that spontaneously excited plasma waves may be the solution to a long-associated problem with magnetic nozzle plasma thrusters, turning conventional thinking on its head.
Details of their research were published in the journal Scientific Reports on December 5, 2022.
In magnetic nozzle radio frequency thrusters, sometimes referred to as helicon thrust NSF-funded solicitation seeks physical science proposals to utilize ISS National Lab
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Houston TX (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
For the eighth year, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) and U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have partnered to solicit transport phenomena and fluid dynamics research leveraging the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory.
NSF will provide up to $3.6 million for multiple projects to utilize the space station's research facilities for fundam
For the eighth year, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) and U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have partnered to solicit transport phenomena and fluid dynamics research leveraging the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory.
NSF will provide up to $3.6 million for multiple projects to utilize the space station's research facilities for fundam NASA's Perseverance rover gets the dirt on Mars
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2022
NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand and dust similar to but smaller than a dune. Now contained in special metal collection tubes, one of these two samples will be considered for deposit on the Martian surface sometime this month as part
NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand and dust similar to but smaller than a dune. Now contained in special metal collection tubes, one of these two samples will be considered for deposit on the Martian surface sometime this month as part Tiny underwater sand dunes may shed light on larger terrestrial and Martian formations
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Washington DC (SPX) Dec 08, 2022
The English poet William Blake famously implored readers to "see the world in a grain of sand." In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, scientists from the University of Campinas, in Brazil, and the University of California, Los Angeles, have been doing just that - studying the "granular" dynamics of how crescent-shaped sand dunes are formed.
Known as barchans, these formations are common
The English poet William Blake famously implored readers to "see the world in a grain of sand." In Physics of Fluids, by AIP Publishing, scientists from the University of Campinas, in Brazil, and the University of California, Los Angeles, have been doing just that - studying the "granular" dynamics of how crescent-shaped sand dunes are formed.
Known as barchans, these formations are common