House committee questions FCC orbital debris rule
Thursday, 29 September 2022 09:24
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Ahead of a Federal Communications Commission vote on a proposal to set a five-year deadline for deorbiting low Earth orbit satellites, leaders of the House Science Committee are questioning the FCC’s authority to do so.
ESA Impact Q3 is now online!
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ESA Impact Q3 is now online!
Welcome to this edition of ESA Impact, an interactive publication covering stories and images from the third quarter of 2022.
Guetlein: improved space domain awareness essential for national security
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 23:05 Write a comment
With space essential to military operations, better understanding of what objects are in orbit and the threats they may pose is “foundational” for space security, a Space Force general said.
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Shift to remote work draws mixed reactions
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 22:45 Write a comment
Some space company leaders are embracing the trend toward remote work. Others caution against it. In any case, the pandemic has changed the calculus for current and prospective employees.
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Lamborn: ‘Merit on both sides’ of debate over Space National Guard
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 22:12 Write a comment
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.), a key congressional proponent of establishing a Space National Guard, said he would consider an alternative proposal endorsed by Space Force leaders and by the Biden administration.
Lynk Global to deploy experimental 5G payload in December
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:12 Write a comment
Lynk Global said Sept. 28 it will test the ability to send a 5G signal from a satellite launching in December to standard mobile devices, after getting funding for the demonstration from an undisclosed partner.
NRO signs agreements with six commercial providers of space-based RF data
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 18:10 Write a comment
The NRO awarded study contracts to commercial RF providers Aurora Insight, HawkEye 360, Kleos Space, PredaSAR, Spire Global and Umbra Lab.
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Scientists depict Dragonfly landing site on Saturn moon Titan
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 16:40 Write a comment
When NASA's 990-pound Dragonfly rotorcraft reaches the Selk crater region—the mission's target touchdown spot—on Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, Cornell's Léa Bonnefoy will have helped to make it a smooth landing.
Bonnefoy and her colleagues assisted the future arrival by characterizing the equatorial, hummocky, knoll-like landscape by combining and analyzing all of the radar images of the area acquired by the Cassini spacecraft during its historic 13 year exploration of the Saturn system. They used radar reflectivity and angled shadows to determine the properties of the surface.
Effectively, it's a scene of sand dunes and broken-up icy ground.
The research, "Composition, Roughness, and Topography from Radar Backscatter at Selk Crater, the Dragonfly Landing Site," was published Aug.
Cristoforetti becomes first European woman to command ISS
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 15:46 Write a comment
Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti on Wednesday became the first European woman to take over command of the International Space Station during a ceremony broadcast live from space.
The outgoing commander, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, used the occasion to seemingly make a rare space-bound reference to the war in Ukraine, saying that "despite the storms on Earth, our international cooperation continues".
During a relaxed ceremony, Artemyev handed Cristoforetti a golden key, symbolising that she is the new commander of the space station until she returns to Earth on October 10.
Cristoforetti, a 45-year-old European Space Agency astronaut and former Italian air force pilot, arrived for her second tour on the ISS in April.
She holds the record for the longest stay in space by a woman after spending 199 days in orbit in 2014 and 2015.
Astronomers hail first images of asteroid impact
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 12:54 Write a comment
The asteroid is flying through space in the grainy black and white video, when suddenly a massive cloud of debris sprays out in front of it, meaning only one thing: impact.
Astronomers have hailed this early footage of the first time humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, saying it looks like it did a "lot of damage".
That would be good news, because NASA's Double A Satellite Monitoring for Agribusiness: The White Label Solution
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The application of satellite images and data to provide valuable information is not technologically innovative. Initially, satellite technology was used mainly for military purposes and was generally unavailable to many users. However, subsequently, they received many applications for civilian purposes, especially since, thanks to various sensors that detect different types of radiation, technol ESA opens concept store in central Rome
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 11:10 Write a comment
ESA Space Shop is bringing space closer to the people of Rome! The first physical ESA Space Shop concept store mixes space fashion with cosmic in-store experiences and official ESA merchandise.
'Incredible': Astronomers hail first images of asteroid impact
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 10:26 Write a comment
The asteroid is flying through space in the grainy black and white video, when suddenly a massive cloud of debris sprays out in front of it, meaning only one thing: impact.
Astronomers have hailed this early footage of the first time humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, saying it looks like it did a "lot of damage".
That would be good news, because NASA's Double A DART impacts asteroid target in world first
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 10:26 Write a comment
After 10 months flying in space, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world's first planetary defense technology demonstration, successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday - the agency's first attempt to move an asteroid in space. Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT. Webb's icy instrument reveals complex structures
Wednesday, 28 September 2022 10:26 Write a comment
These spectacular images feature the spiral galaxy IC 5332, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (left) and the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope (right). The images display the powerful capabilities that both world-leading space telescopes provide, especially when combining their data.
The Webb image shows the spiral galaxy in unprecedented detail thanks to observations from