FAA delays SpaceX Starship environmental review for 4th time
Sunday, 01 May 2022 01:53
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The Federal Aviation Administration announced Friday that it has delayed its environmental review of SpaceX's Starship launch site in Texas for a fourth time.
The review was initially supposed to be completed Dec. 31, 2021. It was pushed back to Feb. 28, then March 28, then April 29, before the latest date - May 31.
"The FAA is working toward issuing the final Programmatic Envir NASA chooses small businesses to continue exploration tech development
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NASA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has chosen 110 U.S. small businesses for continued technology development. The range of projects support space exploration and improvements to life on Earth - from foldable solar array technology that could help power astronauts' work on the Moon to antenna technology that could improve satellite internet service.
NASA's SBIR program Booming fireball spotted in the skies above 3 states this week, NASA says
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A loud boom and a fireball streaking across the sky. That's the sight that dozens of people across three states saw this week, scientists said.
The startling fireball was spotted on Wednesday morning by people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. NASA says the streaking object was a "boldie" - or a bright meteorite.
The meteor was seen by more than 30 people, some of whom als Juno captures moon shadow on Jupiter
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NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 40th close pass by the giant planet on Feb. 25, 2022. The large, dark shadow on the left side of the image was cast by Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument (Figure A). At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno sp First solar eclipse of 2022 seen across South America, Antarctica
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The first solar eclipse of the year took place Saturday and was viewable from parts of South America and Antarctica.
A live stream of the partial solar eclipse began at 3:30 p.m. EDT and ended when the sun sunk below the horizon.
"If skies are clear, this eclipse is visible from South America, parts of Antarctica, and over the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans," according to TimeandDat Revealing the secret language of dark matter
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In the Universe, dark matter and standard matter "talk" to each other using a secret language. This "discussion" happens thanks to gravity, scientists say, but not in a way they can fully comprehend. A new SISSA study published in "The Astrophysical Journal" sheds light on this long-standing issue.
The authors of the research, Ph.D Student Giovanni Gandolfi and supervisors Andrea Lapi and Spinning stars shed new light on strange galactic signal
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Researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) have found an alternative explanation for a mysterious gamma-ray signal coming from the centre of the galaxy, which was long claimed as a signature of dark matter.
Gamma-rays are the form of electromagnetic radiation with the shortest wavelength and highest energy.
Co-author of the study Associate Professor Roland Crocker said What is CAPSTONE?
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A microwave oven-sized CubeSat weighing just 55 pounds will serve as the first spacecraft to test a unique, elliptical lunar orbit as part of the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE). As a pathfinder for Gateway, a Moon-orbiting outpost that is part of NASA's Artemis program, CAPSTONE will help reduce risk for future spacecraft by vali Blue Canyon Technologies expands into GEO with its first cubesat
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Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, assisted in the deployment of Ascent, the company's first CubeSat spacecraft bus launched to a geostationary, or GEO, orbit by the Air Force Research Laboratory as part of the U.S. Space Force's Test Program-3 mission.
Blue Ca Emirati astronaut to fly long-duration space station mission
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The United Arab Emirates will fly an astronaut on a long-duration mission to the International Space Station through an agreement with Axiom Space.
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50 years on, Apollo 16 moonwalker still 'excited' by space
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Fifty years after his Apollo 16 mission to the moon, retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke says he's ready for the U.S. to get back to lunar exploration.
Part of that effort, Duke said Friday, will come in the form of the Artemis program, which includes NASA's upcoming flight to the moon using its new Space Launch System rocket.
First Dream Chaser vehicle takes shape
Friday, 29 April 2022 21:28 Write a comment
Sierra Space says it is making good progress on its first Dream Chaser spaceplane as the company looks ahead to versions of the vehicle that can carry crews and perform national security missions.
Arabsat orders first fully software-defined satellite
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Saudi Arabian fleet operator Arabsat has ordered its first fully software-defined geostationary satellite to provide flexible coverage across the Middle East, Africa and parts of Europe.
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UAE to send astronaut on six-month ISS mission
Friday, 29 April 2022 13:40 Write a comment
The United Arab Emirates announced Friday it will send an astronaut on a six-month mission to space, as it seeks to become a major player in the industry.
The wealthy Gulf country signed "a new agreement to send the first Arab astronaut on a long 180-day mission to the International Space Station", tweeted UAE's vice president, Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum.
"Proud of the UAE's youth," he added.
According to the UAE's The National newspaper, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and Axiom Space signed a deal on Wednesday at the Emirati embassy in Washington.
Blasting Earth's location out to potential aliens is a controversial idea. Two teams of scientists are doing it anyway
Friday, 29 April 2022 13:05 Write a comment
If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot by building a fire or writing HELP in big letters. For scientists interested in the question of whether intelligent aliens exist, the options are much the same.
For over 70 years, astronomers have been scanning for radio or optical signals from other civilizations in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, called SETI. Most scientists are confident that life exists on many of the 300 million potentially habitable worlds in the Milky Way galaxy.