Why NASA is trying to crash land on Mars
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
Like a car's crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact.
NASA has successfully touched down on Mars nine times, relying on cutting-edge parachutes, massive airbags, and jetpacks to set spacecraft safely on the surface. Now engineers are testing whether or not the easiest way to get to the Martian surface is to crash.
Rather than slow a spacecraft NASA instrument to measure temperature, pressure, and wind on Venus
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
The VASI (Venus Atmospheric Structure Investigation) instrument aboard NASA's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging, or DAVINCI, mission to Venus, together with the other instruments on this mission, aims to investigate Venus' mysterious atmosphere by painting a more detailed picture of it than ever before.
VASI will be installed on the DAVINCI mission' Deep learning with light
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don't have enough memory or power to store and run the enormous machine-learning models needed for the device to understand what a user is asking of it. The model is stored in a data center that may be hundreds of miles away, where Europe's police keep wary eye on threat from 3D-printed guns
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
A growing number of seizures of guns made at home from 3D-printed parts are raising alarm bells for European police over an emerging threat.
For now, interest among far-right activists may be limited, say analysts - and fears of a society awash with print-it-yourself weapons remain far-fetched.
But homemade guns have become more widespread since 2013, when a US weapons enthusiast first SpaceX deploys 3,500th Starlink satellite
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
SpaceX successfully launched its latest round of Starlink satellites Thursday, bringing the total number in orbit to more than 3,500, the company confirmed in a celebratory post.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:50 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The rocket was carrying a batch of 54 satellites into low-Earth orbit, the fourth shell of the D-Orbit announces launch contract with Elecnor Deimos for ALISIO-1
Friday, 21 October 2022 05:15
D-Orbit announces a contract in collaboration with Elecnor Deimos for the launch and deployment of ALISIO-1, a 6U CubeSat procured by Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC). ALISIO-1 will be launched onboard ION Satellite Carrier, D-Orbit's flexible and cost-effective satellite platform able to precisely deploy satellites in orbit and facilitate the testing of new technologies in space. Satellite operators gear up for Asia’s tidal wave of satellite capacity
Friday, 21 October 2022 01:31
Satellite operators in Asia are banking on soaring demand for connecting plane passengers and other customers on the move to absorb an exponentially increasing supply of capacity in the region.
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Boeing’s Starliner – Advancing Innovative Technology
Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:00
One day after launching May 19 from Florida’s Space Coast on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station, or ISS, signifying a historic moment for the program.
Space Force tries to turn over a new leaf in satellite procurement
Thursday, 20 October 2022 16:28
The Space Systems Command next year will seek industry bids for as many as four infrared sensing satellites for missile tracking from medium Earth orbit (MEO).
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover reaches long-awaited salty region
Thursday, 20 October 2022 15:55
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the "sulfate-bearing unit," a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals.
Scientists hypothesize that billions of years ago, streams, and ponds left behind the minerals as the water dried up. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, these minerals offer tantalizing clues as to how—and why—the Red Planet's climate changed from being more Earth-like to the frozen desert it is today.
China looked at putting a monitoring satellite in retrograde geostationary orbit via the moon
Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:33
China appears to have considered boosting its space situational awareness capabilities by placing a satellite in a retrograde orbit out at the geostationary belt.
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Twin tail revealed in new Hubble image of Didymos-Dimorphos system following DART impact
Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:00
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Hubble follow-up of DART impact Looking to move to a galaxy far, far away? An innovative system evaluates habitability of distant planets
Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:08
Webb uncovers dense cosmic knot in the early Universe
Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:00
Astronomers looking into the early Universe have made a surprising discovery using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s spectroscopic capabilities, combined with its infrared sensitivity, have uncovered a cluster of massive galaxies in the process of formation around an extremely red quasar. The result will expand our understanding of how galaxies in the early Universe coalesced into the cosmic web we see today.
European Space Agency to launch two missions on SpaceX rockets
Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:46
The European Space Agency announced Thursday it will use SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets to launch two scientific missions because of delays to its own Ariane 6 rocket and the cancellation of flights on Russia's Soyuz launchers.
The ESA's space telescope Euclid had been planned to launch next year on a Soyuz rocket, but in February Russia pulled out in response to European sanctions over Moscow's war in Ukraine.
Euclid, which aims to better understand the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter, will now instead catch a ride into space on the Falcon 9 rocket of billionaire Elon Musk's US company SpaceX.
The ESA's Hera mission, which will probe the Didymos asteroid that NASA successfully knocked off course in September by smashing the DART spacecraft into it, will launch on a Falcon 9 in late 2024, ESA director general Josef Aschbacher said.