NASA gives green light for OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to visit another asteroid
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:30
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will swing by Earth to deliver a sample from asteroid Bennu on Sept. 24, 2023. But it won't clock out after that.
NASA has extended the University of Arizona-led mission, which will be renamed OSIRIS-APEX, to study near-Earth asteroid Apophis for 18 months. Apophis will make a close approach to Earth in 2029.
The University of Arizona will lead the mission, which will make its first maneuver toward Apophis 30 days after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivers the sample it collected from Bennu back in October 2020. At that point, the original mission team will split—the sample analysis team will analyze the Bennu sample, while the spacecraft and instrument team transitions to OSIRIS-APEX, which is short for OSIRIS-Apophis Explorer.
Space companies donate funds for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 14:11
Several firms in the commercial space industry have each pledged $50,000 to finance humanitarian efforts in Ukraine
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Adranos, a startup that makes solid rocket motors, closes $20 million funding round
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 13:00
Adranos, a startup that manufactures solid rocket motors, announced April 26 it has closed a $20 million Series A funding round.
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U.S., South Korea agree to cooperate on space situational awareness for military purposes
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:43
The SSA pact is part of a broader space security agreement reached between John D. Hill, U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense for space and missile defense, and Cho Yong-geun, the South Korean defense ministry’s director of North Korea policy, during the April 25 session of the Space Cooperation Working Group (SCWG) in Washington
Living Planet Symposium: apply for student grants
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 12:20
Living Planet Symposium: apply for student grants
Agenda and Registration link now live for ESA Careers Week!
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 10:32
ESA Careers Week is just around the corner and we are excited to see you during this four-day virtual event from 2 - 5 May. Curious to know what’s on the agenda and how to register for the fair? Keep reading!
PredaSAR nears first launch of its radar imaging constellation
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 10:00
Radar imaging startup PredaSAR is preparing to deploy its first satellite on the SpaceX Transporter 6 rideshare, projected to launch in October.
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NASA to repurpose OSIRIS-REx for second asteroid encounter
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 09:32
A NASA mission to return samples from one near Earth asteroid will get an extended mission to visit a second asteroid under a plan approved by the agency April 25.
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Keeper of the winds shines on
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 07:00
Launched back in 2018, Aeolus has outlived its 36-month in-orbit design life – but going above and beyond, it continues to deliver excellent data. This shows that there’s life yet in the satellite, meaning ESA’s wind mission is now expected to continue shining a light on the wind for another year.
Watch live: Crew-4 liftoff to the International Space Station
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 07:00
Tune in to ESA Web TV this Wednesday 27 April to watch ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti begin her journey to the International Space Station. Launch is scheduled at 09:52 CEST (07:52 GMT), and live streaming will start at 06:00 CEST (05:00 GMT).
Space Blocs: The future of international cooperation in space
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 06:33
Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade suggest that the nature of cooperation in space is shifting, and fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has highlighted these changes.
I'm an international relations scholar who studies power distributions in space - who the main players are, wh Moody's and Planet Labs form strategic relationship for asset verification services
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 06:33
Planet Labs and Moody's have entered into an agreement to explore and address the growing demand for assessing and monitoring solutions on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks.
The companies will look to address how Planet's high-cadence geospatial data and Moody's market-leading entity data, methodologies, and products can be leveraged to further refine Moody's existing offer China mulls mission on far side of moon
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 06:33
Chinese scientists and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust and rocks from the far side of the moon, an ambitious endeavor that would likely be a world first, according to a senior space agency official.
Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, said the United States, Russia and China have brought lunar substances back to Earth, bu Kleos announces new Mission-as-a-Service offering
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 06:33
Kleos Space has announced a new product offering, access to dedicated, taskable RF Reconnaissance satellite capacity i.e. a Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS). Kleos says it is diversifying its business model to include Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) capability, providing customers with exclusive access to Kleos' dedicated, in-orbit radio frequency reconnaissance satellite clusters for fixed periods of ti BlackSky upgrades site monitoring with enhanced analytics and imaging capabilities
Tuesday, 26 April 2022 06:33
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) upgraded its site monitoring capabilities with new analytics and imaging features to meet customers' varied needs for information gathering and intelligence across geographically diverse environments.
"BlackSky released new imaging and analysis upgrades that, when combined with our high-revisit satellite imaging capabilities, will make monitoring the world's most crit