US, French astronauts make ISS spacewalk
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 06:33
A French and an American astronaut completed a six-hour spacewalk Sunday as they installed new solar panels to boost power supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said.
"It is a huge team effort each time and couldn't be happier to return with @astro_kimbrough," tweeted Frenchman Thomas Pesquet, referring to his American colleague Shane Kimbrough.
Pesquet is with the Eur Russian, US scientists spar over causes of astronauts' headache
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 06:33
US astronauts on board the International Space Station have been complaining of headache, with Russian and US scientists divided on whether an increased concentration of carbon dioxide in the station's atmosphere is the reason, according to a fresh report by Russia's Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre released on Monday.
"NASA put forward in 2008 requirements to reduce the level of car Princeton-led team discovers unexpected quantum behavior in kagome lattice
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 06:33
An international team led by researchers at Princeton University has uncovered a new pattern of ordering of electric charge in a novel superconducting material.
The researchers discovered the new type of ordering in a material containing atoms arranged in a peculiar structure known as a kagome lattice. While researchers already understand how the electron's spin can produce magnetism, thes The new wave of robotic automation
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 06:33
Ask Peter Howard SM '84, CEO of Realtime Robotics and MIT Sloan School of Management alumnus, what he thinks is the biggest bottleneck facing the robotics industry, and he'll tell you without hesitation it's return on investment. "Robotics automation is capable of handling almost any single task that a human can do, but the ROI is not compelling due to the high cost of deployment and the inabili Meringue-like material could make aircraft as quiet as a hairdryer
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 06:33
An incredibly light new material that can reduce aircraft engine noise and improve passenger comfort has been developed at the University of Bath.
The graphene oxide-polyvinyl alcohol aerogel weighs just 2.1kg per cubic metre, making it the lightest sound insulation ever manufactured. It could be used as insulation within aircraft engines to reduce noise by up to 16 decibels - reducing the Juice in Large Space Simulator
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 06:30
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Juice in Large Space Simulator Watch live: Signature of the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement
Tuesday, 22 June 2021 05:34
Watch live: Signature of the Financial Framework Partnership Agreement
Follow the online event marking the FFPA signature between ESA and the EU. Starts at 09:30 CEST.
Space Force, DoD agencies planning multi-orbit sensor network to track hypersonic missiles
Monday, 21 June 2021 23:08
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force last month selected Millennium Space Systems and Raytheon to design sensors that can track hypersonic missiles from medium Earth orbit.
If successful, sensors in medium orbits could become a new addition to the United States’ layered missile defense system that currently includes ground, sea-based and space sensors.
Yahsat joins public market listing rush
Monday, 21 June 2021 13:46
TAMPA, Fla. — Emirati fleet operator Yahsat plans to list at least 30% of its shares on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange in the third quarter of this year.
Mubadala, the United Arab Emirates’ state-owned investment company, will remain the satellite operator’s majority shareholder after it goes public.
New sea-level monitoring satellite goes live
Monday, 21 June 2021 13:30
Following liftoff last November and more than six months spent carefully calibrating the most advanced mission dedicated to measuring sea-level rise, Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich is now operational – meaning that its data are available to climate researchers, ocean-weather forecasts and other data users.
Stark reality of Californian drought from space
Monday, 21 June 2021 07:30
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Stark reality of Californian drought from space Take part in ESA’s Space App Camp
Monday, 21 June 2021 06:20
ESA is inviting up to 25 committed mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to observing Earth from space to join this year’s Space App Camp, which will be a virtual event over eight weeks, from 20 July to 20 September.
Take 2: Spacewalking astronauts install new solar panel
Sunday, 20 June 2021 19:26
Spacewalking astronauts equipped the International Space Station with the first in a series of powerful new solar panels Sunday, overcoming suit problems and other obstacles with muscle and persistence.
It took two spacewalks for French astronaut Thomas Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough to install and unfurl the panel to its full 63 feet (19 meters) in length.
The solar wing unrolled like a red carpet once the final set of bolts was released, relying solely on pent-up energy. The slow but steady extension took 10 minutes, with station cameras providing live TV views.
"It is beautiful," Pesquet called out.
"Well done, both of you," Mission Control replied once the operation was complete.
Mars smallsat mission gets second chance with Rocket Lab
Sunday, 20 June 2021 14:11
WASHINGTON — A NASA-funded smallsat mission to Mars that lost its ride last year may get new life through a partnership with Rocket Lab.
Rocket Lab announced June 15 it won a contract from the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) of the University of California Berkeley to begin design work on a new version of the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (EscaPADE) mission to Mars.
Novel chirped pulses defy 'conventional wisdom'
Sunday, 20 June 2021 01:59
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics was shared by researchers who pioneered a technique to create ultrashort, yet extremely high-energy laser pulses at the University of Rochester.
Now researchers at the University's Institute of Optics have produced those same high-powered pulses - known as chirped pulses - in a way that works even with relatively low-quality, inexpensive equipment. The new w