Space Force to clear refurbished Falcon 9 booster for upcoming GPS launch
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 13:49
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force this month will complete a design review of a previously flown SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that flew a military GPS satellite to orbit last fall. The booster is expected to fly another GPS satellite sometime in June.
Main stage of Chinese rocket likely to plunge to Earth soon
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 13:06
3D printing could be used in search for black holes
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 09:53
An X-ray telescope designed to search for supermassive black holes could be built using a novel 3D-printing technique called plasma metal deposition.
Loft Orbital wins Space Force contract for edge computing in space
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 09:00
WASHINGTON — Loft Orbital announced May 5 it won a small business innovation research (SBIR) contract from the U.S. Space Force to support the development of an edge computer that can analyze data in space.
60 years since 1st American in space: Tourists lining up
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:50
Sixty years after Alan Shepard became the first American in space, everyday people are on the verge of following in his cosmic footsteps.
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin company is finally opening ticket sales for short hops from Texas launched by a rocket named New Shepard. Details are coming Wednesday, the 60th anniversary of Shepard's Mercury flight.
Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic aims to kick off tourist flights next year, just as soon as he straps into his space-skimming, plane-launched rocketship for a test run from the New Mexico base.
NASA announces launch plans for new Dream Chaser spaceplane
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Washington DC (UPI) May 4, 2021
The Dream Chaser spaceplane, a cargo spacecraft built and operated by Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp., is to begin launching and landing in Florida in 2022, NASA and the company announced Tuesday.
The uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket from Kennedy Space Center for flights to the International Space Station.
Once it docks and del
The Dream Chaser spaceplane, a cargo spacecraft built and operated by Nevada-based Sierra Nevada Corp., is to begin launching and landing in Florida in 2022, NASA and the company announced Tuesday.
The uncrewed, robotic spaceplane will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance rocket from Kennedy Space Center for flights to the International Space Station.
Once it docks and del Virgin Orbit selects AVS to build key infrastructure for launches from Cornwall
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Long Beach CA (SPX) May 05, 2021
Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's responsive space company, reports that its UK subsidiary, Virgin Orbit UK Ltd., has signed a new manufacturing agreement with AVS Added Value Solutions UK (AVS) to build the Transportable Ground Operating System (TGOS) that will support Virgin Orbit's launch activities from Spaceport Cornwall. This manufacturing work, which will begin shortly in AVS' facilities in
Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's responsive space company, reports that its UK subsidiary, Virgin Orbit UK Ltd., has signed a new manufacturing agreement with AVS Added Value Solutions UK (AVS) to build the Transportable Ground Operating System (TGOS) that will support Virgin Orbit's launch activities from Spaceport Cornwall. This manufacturing work, which will begin shortly in AVS' facilities in China's Long March-5B rocket booster set for uncontrolled reentry
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Washington DC (UPI) May 05, 2021
A U.S. astrophysicist is raising concerns about a Chinese carrier rocket used last week to launch the main module of a space station, as the rocket's core could be falling out of the Earth's orbit.
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, said it is possible some parts of the rocket will survive re-entry and cause damage on land, The Guardian r
A U.S. astrophysicist is raising concerns about a Chinese carrier rocket used last week to launch the main module of a space station, as the rocket's core could be falling out of the Earth's orbit.
Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Astrophysics Center at Harvard University, said it is possible some parts of the rocket will survive re-entry and cause damage on land, The Guardian r Mindblowing: advances in brain tech spur push for 'neuro-rights'
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Santiago (AFP) May 4, 2021
As sci-fi thriller "Inception" topped box offices across the world, audiences were delighted and appalled by its futuristic story of a criminal gang invading people's dreams to steal valuable data.
More than a decade on, the technology envisioned by filmmaker Christopher Nolan is likely not far off, according to experts in Chile, who have moved the security debate beyond burglar alarms to sa
As sci-fi thriller "Inception" topped box offices across the world, audiences were delighted and appalled by its futuristic story of a criminal gang invading people's dreams to steal valuable data.
More than a decade on, the technology envisioned by filmmaker Christopher Nolan is likely not far off, according to experts in Chile, who have moved the security debate beyond burglar alarms to sa NASA's Parker Solar Probe Discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venus' Atmosphere
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2021
During a brief swing by Venus, NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet's upper atmosphere. This was the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years - and it looks quite different from Venus past. A study published Monday confirms that Venus' upper atmosphere undergoes puzzling changes over a so
During a brief swing by Venus, NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet's upper atmosphere. This was the first direct measurement of the Venusian atmosphere in nearly 30 years - and it looks quite different from Venus past. A study published Monday confirms that Venus' upper atmosphere undergoes puzzling changes over a so In a First, Scientists Map Particle-Laden Rivers in the Sky
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2021
Last summer, "Godzilla" came for the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast. This particular monster wasn't of the sci-fi variety, but a massive dust storm kicked up by winds from the Sahara Desert and carried an ocean away. The dust storm was an extreme example of a phenomenon that happens regularly: the global transport of dust, soot, and other airborne particles collectively known as aerosols by j
Last summer, "Godzilla" came for the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast. This particular monster wasn't of the sci-fi variety, but a massive dust storm kicked up by winds from the Sahara Desert and carried an ocean away. The dust storm was an extreme example of a phenomenon that happens regularly: the global transport of dust, soot, and other airborne particles collectively known as aerosols by j uGMRT reveals for the first time the patchy environment of a rare cosmic explosion
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Mumbai, India (SPX) May 04, 2021
Scientists from the National Centre for radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) Pune used the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) to determine that AT 2018 cow, the first of a newly discovered class of cosmic explosions, has an extremely patchy environment. Sources like AT 2018cow release an enormous amount of energy, nonetheless fade extremely r
Scientists from the National Centre for radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) Pune used the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) to determine that AT 2018 cow, the first of a newly discovered class of cosmic explosions, has an extremely patchy environment. Sources like AT 2018cow release an enormous amount of energy, nonetheless fade extremely r Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet Grows
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 04, 2021
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
"We just don't know very much about how giant planets grow," said Brendan Bowler of the University of Texas at Austin. "This planetary system gives us the first opportunity to witness material falling onto a planet. Our results open
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star.
"We just don't know very much about how giant planets grow," said Brendan Bowler of the University of Texas at Austin. "This planetary system gives us the first opportunity to witness material falling onto a planet. Our results open Small galaxies likely played important role in evolution of the Universe
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 04, 2021
A new study led by University of Minnesota astrophysicists shows that high-energy light from small galaxies may have played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. The research gives insight into how the Universe became reionized, a problem that astronomers have been trying to solve for years.
The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal, a peer-reviewed scientific jou
A new study led by University of Minnesota astrophysicists shows that high-energy light from small galaxies may have played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. The research gives insight into how the Universe became reionized, a problem that astronomers have been trying to solve for years.
The research is published in The Astrophysical Journal, a peer-reviewed scientific jou Are there anti-stars around us
Wednesday, 05 May 2021 07:17
Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2021
What if some of the antimatter that was thought to have disappeared was hiding around us in the form of anti-stars? Researchers from the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology are using the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope to put the most constraining limits ever on this hypothesis. The results of their work were published on April 20, 2021 in Physical Review D.
What is anti
What if some of the antimatter that was thought to have disappeared was hiding around us in the form of anti-stars? Researchers from the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology are using the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope to put the most constraining limits ever on this hypothesis. The results of their work were published on April 20, 2021 in Physical Review D.
What is anti