NASA supports Boeing as Starliner valve investigation continues
Wednesday, 20 October 2021 00:08
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NASA continues to stand behind Boeing as the company works to resolve a valve problem with its CST-100 Starliner that will push back operational missions of the commercial crew vehicle into 2023.
LeoLabs to construct radars in Western Australia
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 23:00 Write a comment
LeoLabs announced plans Oct. 19 to construct two phased-array radars in Western Australia, the sixth site for the Silicon Valley startup’s global space-tracking network.
Industry panel: U.S. space systems need protection against cyber attacks
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 19:06 Write a comment
The U.S. government does not technically consider space systems “critical infrastructure,” which is slowing down efforts to protect networks from cyber attacks, experts said.
Cloudy timelapse over Baja California
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 19:00 Write a comment
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Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”. The camera is setup to take pictures at intervals of two a second, and the pictures are then edited into this video that plays at 25 pictures a second. The video is around 12 times faster than real speed.
Thomas shared this video on social media with the caption:
“Soar over Earth for timelapse Tuesday: clouds, clouds, Baja California, and more clouds. There are often many clouds covering our planet!”
Over 200 experiments are planned during Thomas’ time in space, with 40 European ones
Kleos Space orders reconnaissance satellites for 2022 launch
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 18:39 Write a comment
Luxembourg-based startup Kleos Space has ordered four more RF reconnaissance satellites, securing a launch in mid-2022 to improve data collection and revisit times.
Humans to blame for warming lakes
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 13:20 Write a comment
While the climate crisis is, unfortunately, a reality, it is all too easy to assume that every aspect of our changing world is a consequence of climate change. Assumptions play no role in key environmental assessments and mitigation strategies such as we will see in the upcoming UN climate change COP-26 conference – it’s the science and hard facts that are critical. New research published this week is a prime example of facts that matter. Using model projections combined with satellite data from ESA’s Climate Change Initiative, this latest research shows that the global rise in the temperature of
Back to gravity: Russians talk about world's 1st space movie
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Germany’s Exolaunch expands overseas for larger share of U.S. launch market
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 12:37 Write a comment
German launch services provider Exolaunch is expanding to the U.S. in search of a greater share of the rapidly growing market, stepping up competition against Seattle-based rideshare broker Spaceflight.
Senate appropriators direct NASA to select second Artemis lunar lander
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 10:42 Write a comment
Senate appropriators want NASA to select a second company for its program to develop crewed lunar landers, but provided the agency with only a small increase in funding to support that.
A Chinese satellite is now active weeks after an anomaly during launch
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 10:30 Write a comment
The classified Chinese satellite Shiyan-10 is now active, nearly three weeks after suffering an anomaly during launch that appeared to result in the loss of the spacecraft.
Welcome to the Ariane 6 launch complex
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 09:30 Write a comment
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The Ariane 6 launch complex is a marvel of engineering. Take a tour at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. To watch a comet form, a spacecraft could tag along for a journey toward the sun
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 08:47 Write a comment
Deep in the solar system, between Jupiter and Neptune, lurk thousands of small chunks of ice and rock. Occasionally, one of them will bump into Jupiter's orbit, get caught and flung into the inner solar system-towards the sun, and us.
This is thought to be the source of many of the comets that eventually pass Earth. A new study lays out the dynamics of this little-understood system. Among China describes hypersonic test as a space vehicle trial
Tuesday, 19 October 2021 08:47 Write a comment
The Financial Times earlier reported that the test of the alleged hypersonic glider vehicle by China this summer "caught the US government by surprise" as it purportedly demonstrated the great progress achieved by Beijing in this area.
China did not carry out a test of hypersonic weapons, but instead carried out a trial of a spacecraft, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian has st Over half OneWeb constellation now deployed
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Arianespace has successfully performed Soyuz Flight ST36. This latest launch for OneWeb's placed 36 more satellites into orbit. ST36 represents an important step in OneWeb and Arianespace's partnership: the operator now has more than half, 358 satellites, of its constellation on orbit.
Performed on Thursday, October 14 at precisely 6:40 pm. local time at Russia's Vostochny Cosmodrome (9:40 China's longest-yet crewed space mission impressive, expert says
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China's Shenzhou XIII crewed spaceship successfully docked with the port of the space station core module Tianhe on Saturday, a move overseas experts have called another "key step" forward in China's space exploration.
Three Chinese astronauts aboard the Shenzhou XIII will stay in orbit for six months, making China's longest yet crewed mission for space station construction.
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