ESA advances Vega rocket evolution beyond 2025
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 11:00
ESA will further increase the competitiveness and environmental sustainability of Europe’s Vega launch system beyond 2025 through a contract signed with Avio in Italy.
Perseverance rover begins hunt for signs of Martian life
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 10:44
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has begun its search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. Flexing its 7-foot (2-meter) mechanical arm, the rover is testing the sensitive detectors it carries, capturing their first science readings. Along with analyzing rocks using X-rays and ultraviolet light, the six-wheeled scientist will zoom in for closeups of tiny segments of rock surfaces that Roscosmos says US greenlit import of Russia's RD-181M rocket engines
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 10:44
The United States has approved the purchase of a new batch of the Russian-made RD-181M space rocket engines, a spokesman for the Russian space agency Roscosmos, Vladimir Ustimenko, said on Tuesday.
"The US government has approved the contract between NPO Energomash [Roscosmos subsidiary] and US Orbital Sciences LLC company. This means that there will be new supplies of engines and new laun AFRL conducts 1,300 experiments on record-breaking satellite
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 10:44
The Air Force Research Laboratory is celebrating the completion of the Demonstration and Science Experiments (DSX) satellite mission, and processing a treasure trove of valuable data that will be studied by scientists for many years to come.
The spacecraft was launched June 25, 2019 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station after 16 years of development, integration, and testing.
"Most Cool flames created during a first for ISS research
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 10:44
Cool flames, flames that burn at extremely low temperatures, are nearly impossible to create in Earth's gravity. However, they are easily produced in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station.
Non-premixed cool flames, created when fuel and oxidizer are not mixed before reacting, were discovered in 2012 aboard the space station during the Flame Extinguishment (FLEX) s European Robotic Arm is launched into space
Wednesday, 21 July 2021 09:31
The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is on its way to the International Space Station after being launched on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 16:58 CEST today.
SuperBIT: A low-cost, balloon-borne telescope to rival Hubble
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 22:00
Durham, Toronto and Princeton Universities have teamed up with NASA and the Canadian Space Agency to build a new kind of astronomical telescope. SuperBIT flies above 99.5% of the Earth's atmosphere, carried by a helium balloon the size of a football stadium. The telescope will make its operational debut next April and when deployed should obtain high-resolution images rivaling those of the Hubble Space Telescope. Mohamed Shaaban, a Ph.D. student at the University of Toronto, will describe SuperBIT in his talk today (Wednesday 21 July) at the online RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2021).
Light from a distant galaxy can travel for billions of years to reach our telescopes. In the final fraction of a second, the light has to pass through the Earth's swirling, turbulent atmosphere. Our view of the universe becomes blurred.
New Shepard astronauts rave about suborbital spaceflight experience as Bezos faces backlash
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 21:37
VAN HORN, Texas — Jeff Bezos and the others who were on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital vehicle hailed the experience as better than expected, but Bezos is facing a backlash for spending part of his extreme wealth on space.
Space executives: Regulations and incentives needed to curtail collisions and debris
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 19:10
WASHINGTON — Safe deployment of satellites by governments and commercial companies is going to be increasingly difficult in the absence of globally accepted rules and incentives to make space a sustainable environment, executives said.
After conquering Earth, Bezos completes new mission in space
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 16:20
Jeff Bezos fulfilled his longtime dream of going into space Tuesday and potentially opening a door to space tourism - possibly the next mission for the man who built one of Earth's biggest business empires.
The Amazon founder spent a few minutes in space on reusable rocket built by his firm Blue Origin as part of a four-member crew, in a small step toward his stated goal of building floatin Bezos says 'awestruck' by Earth's beauty as seen from space
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 16:20
Jeff Bezos said the "most profound" aspect of his brief journey to space was the spectacular view he saw of Earth, which left him amazed by its beauty and fragility.
"Every astronaut who's been up into space, they say that it changes them ... they look at it and they're kind of amazed and awestruck by the Earth and its beauty, but also by its fragility, and I can vouch for that," he told rep Exoplanet discovery tool begins its mission
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:22
New method predicts 'stealth' solar storms before they wreak geomagnetic havoc on Earth
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 15:13
Blue Origin's first crewed flight minted four new astronauts
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:54
The world's richest man Jeff Bezos, his brother, a Dutch teenager who is now the youngest ever astronaut and a barrier-breaking female US aviator who is now the oldest have now been to space.
Here is a brief look at the crew of Blue Origin's historic first human flight on Tuesday.
The tycoon, Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos, 57, left behind the planet where he made his vast fortune for a few minutes on a spaceship built by the company he founded in 2000, when he was still merely a single-digit billionaire.
Six years before that, he started a small online bookstore called Amazon.com out of his garage. Bezos' net worth is today estimated at more than $200 billion.
Reprogrammable satellite fuelled prior to launch
Tuesday, 20 July 2021 13:09
A sophisticated telecommunications satellite capable of being completely repurposed in orbit has been fuelled ready for its launch on 30 July.