Xenesis and MBS Lab forge pact to test optical communications
Thursday, 09 September 2021 16:34
Optical communications startup Xenesis signed a memorandum of understanding with MBS Lab, the research group for Germany’s Media Broadcast Satellite, Germany’s largest teleport operator.
Satcom executives see growing military demand for more secure, mobile equipment
Thursday, 09 September 2021 16:09
The U.S. military is demanding more advanced technologies to protect its tactical communications systems from sophisticated electronic attacks.
Video: We asked a NASA scientist—do aliens exist?
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Hanwha Phasor teams up with American product designer for on-the-move antenna
Thursday, 09 September 2021 13:54
Hanwha Phasor, a phased-array antenna maker under South Korea’s conglomerate Hanwha Group seeking its own megaconstellation, has partnered with Wisconsin-based product designer Plexus to develop an ultrathin electronically steered array for satellite communications on the move.
Dates set for Space Station change of command as Franco-German relations awarded Media prize
Thursday, 09 September 2021 13:33
The dates have been set for ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s upcoming command of the International Space Station, as ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer prepares to join him on board.
Fourth spacewalk for Alpha mission
Thursday, 09 September 2021 12:24
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide are set to leave the International Space Station on a spacewalk on Sunday 12 September.
Replay: Cosmic Kiss news conference
Thursday, 09 September 2021 12:00
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Watch the full replay of ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer’s pre-launch news conference at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany.
Held in both English and German on 9 September 2021, the conference covers ESA’s vision for human and robotic exploration as well as the science and operations Matthias will support on the International Space Station during his six-month Cosmic Kiss mission.
Cosmic Kiss is Matthias’s first space mission. He will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA as a member of US Commercial Crew-3 alongside @NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron.
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Korean consortium invested $50 million in US launch startup Relativity Space
Thursday, 09 September 2021 11:51
The $50 million invested by a South Korean consortium was part of $650 million Relativity Space raised in a Series E funding round in June.
Moon rock class in session
Thursday, 09 September 2021 09:43
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School is also back in session for ESA astronaut Andrea Mogensen (right) and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. Together with European Astronaut Centre engineer Robin Eccleston (far left), the trio are taking part in this year’s Pangaea field training campaign to become better field scientists.
With all eyes set on the Moon, the three-week campaign has increasingly focussed on lunar geology. Now in its fourth edition, the course kicked off this week with background lessons by top planetary scientists on identifying rock samples of interest for exploration.
In this image Andreas and his fellow students use a microscope to analyse samples.
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Astronauts smell smoke, burning on Russia's ISS module
Thursday, 09 September 2021 07:49
A smoke alarm sounded Thursday in Russia's segment of the International Space Station (ISS) and astronauts smelled "burning" on board, Russia's space agency and NASA said.
The incident, which the Russian space agency Roscosmos said happened at 01:55 GMT ahead of a scheduled spacewalk, is the latest in a string of problems to spur safety concerns over conditions on the Russian segment.
"A Volcano analysis in real time
Thursday, 09 September 2021 07:49
Explosive volcanic eruptions often announce themselves: The dynamic of gas and magma flows inside the mountain change noticeably before eruptions and cause, among other things, the rising and lowering of the volcano's surface, which is recorded by satellites. To better analyse and interpret such changes, an interdisciplinary team led by Binayak Ghosh and Mahdi Motagh from the German Research Cen MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy
Thursday, 09 September 2021 07:49
It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the world's first Western US faces future of prolonged drought even with stringent emissions control
Thursday, 09 September 2021 07:49
Seasonal summer rains have done little to offset drought conditions gripping the western United States, with California and Nevada seeing record July heat and moderate-to-exceptional drought according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Now, new research is showing how drought in the region is expected to change in the future, providing stakeholders with crucial inform JWST gets mid-December launch date
Thursday, 09 September 2021 06:54
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is finally scheduled to launch Dec. 18 on an Ariane 5 from French Guiana after years of development delays.
Safeguarding clean water for spaceflight missions
Thursday, 09 September 2021 03:32
By all appearances, the universe beyond Earth is a vast, lonely, and sterile space. Yet, wherever humans may travel, an abundance of microbial life will follow.
In a first study of its kind, lead author Jiseon Yang at the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute, Center for Fundamental and Applied Microbiomics, and her colleagues characterized different bacterial populations isolated o