Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Sep 25, 2022
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) and cosine has announced that the hyperspectral imaging camera, HyperScout 2 Flight Model instrument, will be onboard the South Australia state satellite and is now ready to be integrated into the spacecraft. HyperScout 2 will be launched into space on board the satellite Kanyini, a 6U CubeSat, as part of the SA Space Services Mission and will pro

Jiuquan (XNA) Sep 22, 2022
China sent a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on Wednesday. The Yunhai-1 03 satellite was launched at 7:15 a.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-2D carrier rocket. The satellite will be mainly used for detecting the atmospheric, marine and space environments, disaster prevention and mitigation, and scientific exp

New York NY (SPX) Sep 22, 2022
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, along with the agency's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, have partnered with science and technology nonprofit First Street Foundation to enhance climate risk modeling, promote applied science research, and more effectively communicate the risks of a changing climate. NASA will now receive bulk access to First S

Kayhan Space, and partners Astroscale US and the University of Texas at Austin, won a U.S. Space Force contract to develop software for in-orbit servicing vehicles.

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Washington (AFP) Sept 27, 2022
It will be "difficult" for NASA to make a new attempt to launch its massive Moon rocket in October, an official from the US space agency said Tuesday, with a lift-off in November looking more likely. The SLS rocket, the most powerful ever designed by NASA, had to be returned overnight to its storage hangar in order to shelter it from the approach of Hurricane Ian. The next possible lau

With the Space Launch System now safely back inside the Vehicle Assembly Building ahead of Hurricane Ian, NASA is now studying what work to do on the rocket to prepare for a next launch attempt unlikely to occur before mid-November.

NASA is, for now, moving ahead with plans for a launch of the next crew to the International Space Station early next week as it watches an approaching hurricane.

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Last night at 23:14 UTC, NASA's DART spacecraft successfully struck asteroid Dimorphos, the 160-metre moonlet orbiting around the larger Didymos asteroid. About 38 seconds later, the time it took for the light to arrive at Earth, people all over the world saw the abrupt end of the live stream from the spacecraft, signalling that the impact had happened successfully – DART was no more. 

Astronomers on a small slice of our planet’s surface, extending from southern and eastern Africa to the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Peninsula, could actually watch it live with their telescopes. Among those

Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 27, 2022
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully hit its target Sept. 26, and now scientists are analyzing to what degree the kinetic impact changed the trajectory of Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. The mission is a test to see if hitting a body headed for Earth with a small spacecraft could redirect the threat away from us. Five Planetary Science In