Slingshot Aerospace raises $25M in Series A-1 Funding Round
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building world-class space simulation and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability, has announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A-1 funds. The new money is in addition to the $9.6 million Series A funds raised in October 2020, bringing the total raised for the A and A-1 rounds to $34.6 million to date.
The oversubscribed A-1 rou AST SpaceMobile announces launch deal with SpaceX
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has announced it has signed a multi-launch agreement with Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ("SpaceX"). In addition to the planned summer launch of the BlueWalker 3 test satellite (BW3), the agreement covers the launch of the first Satellogic to launch five satellites on SpaceX Transporter-4 Mission
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, reports it has shipped five satellites to be launched in early Q2 from Cape Canaveral. The launch will be part of SpaceX's Transporter-4 mission onboard the highly flight-proven Falcon 9 reusable, two-stage rocket, under SpaceX's Rideshare program.
The upcoming launch includes the first deploymen Sidus Space completes LizzieSat Preliminary Design Review
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce the successful completion of the LizzieSat (LS) Preliminary Design Review (PDR).
A PDR ensures the design and basic system architecture are complete and that there is technical confidence the capability need can be s Esri releases updated land-cover map with new sets of global data
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
Governments and businesses across the world are pledging to adopt more sustainable and equitable practices. Many are also working to limit activities that contribute to climate change. To support these efforts, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in partnership with Impact Observatory and Microsoft, is releasing a globally consistent 2017-2021 global land-use and land-cover map of Sol 3411: Bonanza
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
After significant churn in Monday's planning, today turned out to be a single sol's worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identifies and targets an interesting rock near the rover by itself. ENV than planned a bonanza of atmospheric monitoring activities, as we had power to spare.
This included 7 dust devil movies with 4 The start of the birth of planets in a binary star system observed
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail.
Bringing together three decades of study, an international group of scientists have observed a pair of stars orbiting each other, to reveal that these stars are surrounded by disks of gas and dust. Research published in The Astrophysical Journal, s Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit
Friday, 11 March 2022 01:16
With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. in Namibia show for the first time the course of an acceleration process in a stellar process called a nova, which comprises powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf.
A nova creates a shock wave that tears through Astrolab unveils Artemis lunar rover design
Thursday, 10 March 2022 22:36
A California startup has developed and tested a prototype of a lunar rover that it plans to offer to NASA for use on future Artemis missions.
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Soyuz embargo strands satellites with limited launch options
Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:36
More than a dozen former Soyuz satellite missions need new rides after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, raising questions over how fast the launch market can absorb the loss of the workhorse rocket.
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Exploring the Rubin Observatory's giant data acquisition system
Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:02
When the Vera C. Rubin Observatory starts taking pictures of the night sky in a few years, its centerpiece 3,200 megapixel Legacy Survey of Space and Time camera will produce an enormous trove of data valuable to everyone from cosmologists to the people who track asteroids that might collide with Earth.
You may already have read about how the Rubin Observatory's Simonyi Survey Telescope will gather light from the universe and shine it on the Department of Energy's LSST Camera, how researchers will manage the data that comes from the camera, and the myriad things they'll try to learn about the universe around us.
What you probably haven't read about is how researchers will get that mountain of incredibly detailed images off the back of the world's largest digital camera, down fiber optic cables and into the computers that will send them off Cerro Pachón in Chile and out into the world.
Gregg Thayer, a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is the person in charge of Rubin's data acquisition system, which handles this essential process.
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The long goodbye Imagining an Earthly neighbor
Thursday, 10 March 2022 14:00
We do not yet know whether the sun-like stars closest to us, the α Centauri A/B binary, harbor an Earth-like planet. However, thanks to new modeling work, we now have a good sense of what such a planet, should it exist, would look like and how it might have evolved.
These are exciting times for exoplanet research, moving from demography towards detailed characterization. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successfully launched in December 2021, is projected to detect the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets transiting in front of M dwarfs—stars that are fainter than the sun—orbiting within the habitable zone. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), currently under construction in Chile, will be set up to directly image rocky exoplanets around nearby sun-like stars by the end of the decade. Looking even further ahead, ambitious future space mission concepts are currently being explored, including the Large Interferometer for Exoplanets (LIFE), which targets habitable-zone rocky exoplanets and their atmospheres.
ETH Zurich is leading or significantly involved in these and other observational infrastructures. Complementary research at the Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics in the Department of Physics concerns numerical modeling, which is indispensable for understanding habitable-zone rocky exoplanets and in guiding the future observations and instrumentation development.
DoD space agency funds development of laser terminal that connects to multiple satellite at once
Thursday, 10 March 2022 13:58
The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1.7 million contract to demonstrate point-to-multipoint communications
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DoD space agency funds development of laser terminal that connects to multiple satellites at once
Thursday, 10 March 2022 13:58The Space Development Agency awarded BridgeComm and Space Micro a $1.7 million contract to demonstrate point-to-multipoint communications
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