Terran Orbital Secures $15.2 Million Space Force Contract for Satellite Platforms
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a leading innovator in satellite-based solutions for the aerospace and defense industries, has recently announced a significant milestone in its ongoing contributions to national security and space exploration efforts. The company has been awarded a $15.2 million contract by the U.S. Space Force, facilitated through Axient Corporation, to provide Ambassad SWOT Satellite Catches Coastal Flooding During California Storms
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
In the wake of a series of atmospheric rivers that bombarded California with record rainfall and hurricane-force winds in February, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission has come under the spotlight for its critical role in capturing detailed data on the resultant coastal flooding. The satellite, a joint venture between NASA and the French space agency CNES, has demonstrated its SpaceX tentatively sets third Starship test flight for March 14
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
SpaceX plans to launch the third test flight of its Starship rocket as early as March 14 pending regulatory approval.
SpaceX stressed that the date is likely to change, which is common when it comes to developmental testing.
SpaceX said its third test flight will try successful ascent burns on its first and second stages, open and close Starship payload doors, perform a propellan Muon Space's second EO bird, MuSat2, deployed and communicating
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
Muon Space, an innovative space systems provider that is reshaping Earth monitoring from orbit, has reported the successful launch and operational readiness of its latest satellite, MuSat2. This marks a significant milestone for the company as it continues to push the boundaries of what's possible with satellite technology.
Launched on March 4 from Vandenberg Space Force Base aboard a Spac DOD General Counsel Emphasizes Multi-Domain Lawyering in Space at Legal Conference
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
In an address at the U.S. Space Command Legal Conference, the Honorable Caroline Krass, General Counsel of the Department of Defense (DOD), delivered a compelling vision for the future of space law. Her speech, titled "Space Law: Promoting the Rules-Based Order Through Multi-Domain Lawyering," underscored the pivotal moment we find ourselves in the realm of outer space-a domain undergoing rapid Boeing Secures $439.6 Million Contract for 12th WGS Satellite from U.S. Space Force
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
Boeing [NYSE: BA] has been awarded a significant contract valued at $439.6 million by the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command to develop the 12th satellite for the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system. This initiative underscores the ongoing commitment to enhancing the United States' strategic communications infrastructure, providing the U.S. military and its allies with vital high-capacity, Viasat and Rocket Lab unveil advanced data services for LEO satellites
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
In a strategic move to enhance space communications, Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has partnered with Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) to introduce a groundbreaking spacecraft bus and mission operation support for its upcoming hybrid space communications network demonstrations. These initiatives aim to showcase Viasat's comprehensive suite of multi-band, space-based communication services design Mongolia enters the space race with first satellites
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
In a significant stride towards the global space arena, Mongolia marked its entry by launching its inaugural satellites, catalyzing an era of innovation and amplifying the potential for investment in its evolving tech domain.
On 4th March 2023, Space-X's Falcon-9 rocket, lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carried two Mongolian low-earth-orbit nano satellites, Ondos Nicole McGaa: Ensuring safe travels in space
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
What do meteor showers, medicine, and MIT have in common? Aerospace engineering major Nicole McGaa. The senior has long been drawn to both space and medicine. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she would search for good hillsides for watching meteor showers with her brother and father. Meanwhile, her favorite TV shows featured doctors and healers as main characters. The "Star Trek" series w China Reports Significant Advances in High-End Equipment and Frontier Technology Research
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
In an era where technological innovation serves as the backbone of economic development and national prestige, China has firmly positioned itself at the forefront of this global trend. The Government Work Report presented at the second session of the 14th National People's Congress shed light on the substantial strides made in the past year, marking a notable year for Chinese research and develo Karman Space and Defense boosts ULA's Vulcan on Its Maiden flight
Friday, 08 March 2024 19:46
Karman Space and Defense ("Karman") has released details on its involvement in the first certification mission of United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Vulcan launch vehicle. This collaboration underscored Karman's strategic importance in the landmark debut flight of the Vulcan rocket, which occurred on Jan. 8, 2024.
The mission, known as Cert-1, carried two significant payloads: the Peregrine Lu Pentagon says no evidence of secret US work on alien tech
Friday, 08 March 2024 17:26
Has the United States confirmed sightings of alien craft, or worked to reverse-engineer extraterrestrial technology?
A more than 60-page Pentagon report released Friday says no, pouring cold water on popular conspiracy theories about government cover-ups of contact with aliens.
The report was mandated by Congress, which required the submission to lawmakers of a "written report detailing the historical record of the United States government relating to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs)," more commonly known as UFOs.
The Defense Department's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) "found no evidence" that any government investigation, academic research or official review "has confirmed that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial technology."
Instead, "all investigative efforts, at all levels of classification, concluded that most sightings were ordinary objects and phenomena and the result of misidentification," said the report.
It also "found no empirical evidence for claims that the USG and private companies have been reverse-engineering extraterrestrial technology."
AARO said the inaccurate reverse-engineering claims are "in large part the result of circular reporting from a group of individuals who believe this to be the case, despite the lack of any evidence.
NASA unveils design for message heading to Jupiter's moon Europa
Friday, 08 March 2024 17:05
When it launches in October, the agency's Europa Clipper spacecraft will carry a richly layered dispatch that includes more than 2.6 million names submitted by the public.
Drones could help map the lunar surface with extreme precision
Friday, 08 March 2024 16:55
Exploring the moon has become increasingly more of a focal point lately, especially with a series of landers recently launched with various degrees of success. One of the difficulties those landers and any future human missions face is understanding the terrain they are landing on and potentially traversing in the case of a rover or human. To help fight this problem, a team of researchers from Switzerland has developed a drone concept that could help map out some of the more interesting, potentially hazardous areas to explore on the moon.
Mapping the moon has already been a priority for years. However, some of the more exciting regions, such as the Permanently Shadows Regions (PSR) at the lunar poles that hold a significant amount of water ice, have only been mapped to a resolution of about 1m per pixel in the best images of them. That's including artificial enhancement by AI-backed algorithms.
That level of resolution isn't near enough to provide useful planning data for any potential rover or human missions—a given rover's wheel itself won't even more that in width, let alone hope to traverse an obstacle of that size.
We're working out how to solve crimes in space—the final frontier of forensic science
Friday, 08 March 2024 15:27
NASA's Artemis program is scheduled to return astronauts to the moon and establish a permanent orbiting laboratory by the end of the decade.
Meanwhile, private companies are making significant steps in taking paying customers further into space. As humanity's footprint expands beyond the familiar terrains of Earth to the moon and possibly beyond, an intriguing new field emerges from the final frontier: astroforensics.
This discipline, still in its infancy, is propelled by the inevitability of human nature. Space presents a unique and harsh environment for forensic investigations. Settings that present altered gravity, cosmic radiation, extremes in temperature, and the need for oxygen-providing climate systems provide a few examples of the unearthly variables that are faced by future explorers.
Unlike Earth, where gravity, a constant force, shapes many aspects of our reality, the significant reduction of gravity in space introduces novel challenges in understanding how evidence behaves. This shift is crucial for forensic sciences like bloodstain pattern analysis, which relies heavily on gravitational effects to determine the circumstances under which blood stains are formed.
The thought of gravity in space immediately conjures images of astronauts hauntingly suspended in the void of space or floating gymnastics in the International Space Station (ISS).