DoD wants to change how it buys space technology – but can it?
Monday, 14 March 2022 20:00
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As the Pentagon prepares for the possibility that adversaries will target national and commercial satellites, the government’s ability to adopt commercial industry’s best technologies has become a major topic of discussion.
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NASA to Discuss Progress as Webb Telescope’s Mirrors Align
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NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at noon EDT Wednesday, March 16, to provide an update on the James Webb Space Telescope’s mirror alignment. US astronaut to ride Russian spacecraft home during tensions
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Pete Davidson headed to space on Blue Origin craft
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![Pete Davidson headed to space on Blue Origin craft](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2022/pete-davidson-headed-t.jpg "Jeff Bezos appears at the Baby2Baby Gala in West Hollywood, Calif., on Nov. 13, 2021, left, and actor-comedian Pete Davidson appears at the premiere of "Big Time Adolescence" in New York on March 5, 2020. Davidson is heading to space. The "Saturday Night Live" star will be among the six passengers on the next launch of Bezo's space travel company, Blue Origin. The company announced the March 23 flight on Monday. Credit: AP Photo")
Astra gears up for next launch, signs Spaceflight contract
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Astra Space says it will attempt its next Rocket 3.3 launch as soon as March 14 as the first flight in a multi-launch contract with Spaceflight.
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ESA probing navigation via the quantum realm
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ESA’s NAVISP programme – helping to invent the future of European navigation – is probing the science of the very small. The aim is to employ hyper-sensitive quantum technology-based sensors as supplementary navigation solutions, including tracking local variations in gravity that could be matched onto regional and global gravity maps.
Telescopes trained on Parker Solar Probe's latest pass around the sun
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Sanctions against Russia could provide opportunities for India's space sector
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Industry experts say US and European economic sanctions against Russia for military action against Ukraine could create economic opportunities for the Indian space sector, rather than burden it with economic costs.
He also felt that to seize the opportunity, India should accelerate its satellite launching capabilities, and announce Productivity Concessions (PLI) schemes for the aerospace s Scientists develop a new model of a fundamental process of Earth's global dynamics
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The tectonic plates that form the Earth's surface are like puzzle pieces that are in constant, very slow motion - on average, they move only up to around 10 centimeters a year. But these puzzle pieces don't quite fit together: there are zones on one plate that end up plunging under another - the so-called subduction zones, central to the dynamics of the planet. This movement is slow, but it can Chief designer details China's future lunar missions
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China will carry on its moon research in the future with Chang'e-6, Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 missions by 2030, chief designer of the country's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren said.
The Chang'e-6 is scheduled to bring back to Earth lunar samples with a mass of up to 2 kilograms; the Chang'e-7 will be tasked with landing on the lunar south pole and detecting local natural resources; and t Wildfire Workshop Accelerates NASA Firefighting Solutions
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In a changing climate, wildfires are becoming more widespread and devastating, threatening more people and land than ever before. In response, NASA is stepping up to the plate to determine what we can do to help fight wildfires - and we have some ideas.
NASA has long been involved in wildfire management through the Science Mission Directorate (SMD) using space-based technologies and other Icesat-2 data shows Arctic sea ice thinning in just three years
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Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to a decline in sea ice that persists over several years, called multiyear ice, according to a new study. The study also found sea ice is likely thinner than previous estimates.
Seasonal sea ice, which melts completely each summer rather than accumulating over years, is replacing thicke "Seafloor fertilizer factory" helped breathe life into Earth
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Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertilizer factory on the Earth's seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago.
The first major rise in oxygen levels on the Earth took place roughly 2.4 to 2.2 billion years ago during the early stage of the Great Oxidation Event.
Scientists are still unsure why and how the Gre Congress gives DoD more money for space, with caveats
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Defense appropriators in the 2022 spending bill added nearly $1.3 billion for U.S. Space Force and Space Development Agency programs above what the Biden administration requested.
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Op-ed | Congress must act now to avert a catastrophe in space
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Astronauts aboard the ISS have witnessed a significant number of near misses. It’s only a matter of time before the next catastrophic event takes place – one in which lives, or key national security and commercial assets, are lost.