NASA's Lucy Spacecraft Discovers 2nd Asteroid During Dinkinesh Flyby
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.
"Dinkinesh really did live up to its name; this is marvelous," said Hal Levison, referring to the meaning of Dinkinesh in the Amharic language, "marvelous." Levison is principal investigator
On Nov. 1, NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.
"Dinkinesh really did live up to its name; this is marvelous," said Hal Levison, referring to the meaning of Dinkinesh in the Amharic language, "marvelous." Levison is principal investigator Five-Year Deal for Sidus Space in Support of Lunar Operations
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
Sidus Space, a company that operates within the sphere of Space and Data-as-a-Service, has recently secured a significant contract, marking a stride in its business trajectory. This contract, which is categorized as an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) agreement, will see Sidus Space deliver comprehensive support services to a US-owned entity that is actively engaged in commercial l
Sidus Space, a company that operates within the sphere of Space and Data-as-a-Service, has recently secured a significant contract, marking a stride in its business trajectory. This contract, which is categorized as an Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) agreement, will see Sidus Space deliver comprehensive support services to a US-owned entity that is actively engaged in commercial l Zephr raises $3.5M to bring next-gen GPS to major industries
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
Zephr, a leading developer of next-generation GPS technologies, has announced a $3.5 million seed round led by Space Capital and First Spark Ventures as it officially launches a groundbreaking "networked GPS" solution to dramatically improve GPS accuracy and reliability, creating new economic opportunities for many current and emerging industries. The new funding will support Zephr's GTM strateg
Zephr, a leading developer of next-generation GPS technologies, has announced a $3.5 million seed round led by Space Capital and First Spark Ventures as it officially launches a groundbreaking "networked GPS" solution to dramatically improve GPS accuracy and reliability, creating new economic opportunities for many current and emerging industries. The new funding will support Zephr's GTM strateg High-power propulsion for gateway will be electric blue
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently witnessed the vibrant blue glow of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) within its vacuum chamber during a critical phase of thruster qualification testing. This significant advancement in space technology reflects the culmination of efforts to create the most robust electric propulsion thruster to date. With a 12-kilowatt Hall thruste
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland recently witnessed the vibrant blue glow of the Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) within its vacuum chamber during a critical phase of thruster qualification testing. This significant advancement in space technology reflects the culmination of efforts to create the most robust electric propulsion thruster to date. With a 12-kilowatt Hall thruste SwRI's Dr. Alan Stern conducts space research during suborbital spaceflight aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2023
Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and associate vice president of Southwest Research Institute's Space Science Division, today flew aboard the Virgin Galactic commercial spaceship Unity on a suborbital space mission. During the roughly 60-minute mission, first mated to its carrier aircraft VMS Eve, and then horizontally launched into space, Stern tested equipment and trained for a future sub
Dr. Alan Stern, a planetary scientist and associate vice president of Southwest Research Institute's Space Science Division, today flew aboard the Virgin Galactic commercial spaceship Unity on a suborbital space mission. During the roughly 60-minute mission, first mated to its carrier aircraft VMS Eve, and then horizontally launched into space, Stern tested equipment and trained for a future sub Workshop to highlight NASA's support for mobility, in-space servicing
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
NASA leadership, including Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, will participate in a workshop on space mobility and in-space servicing on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST, the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities (COSMIC) workshop runs through Wednesday, Nov. 8. NASA announced the consortium in April, aiming to create a
NASA leadership, including Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy, will participate in a workshop on space mobility and in-space servicing on Tuesday, Nov. 7, at the University of Maryland in College Park.
Beginning at 8:30 a.m. EST, the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities (COSMIC) workshop runs through Wednesday, Nov. 8. NASA announced the consortium in April, aiming to create a NASA welcomes Netherlands as newest Artemis Accords signatory
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
During a ceremony at the Dutch Ambassador's Residence in Washington on Wednesday, the Netherlands became the 31st country to sign the Artemis Accords. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Netherlands Space Office (NSO) director Harm van de Wetering signed on behalf of the Netherlands.
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and the following
During a ceremony at the Dutch Ambassador's Residence in Washington on Wednesday, the Netherlands became the 31st country to sign the Artemis Accords. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson participated in the signing ceremony for the agency, and Netherlands Space Office (NSO) director Harm van de Wetering signed on behalf of the Netherlands.
NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and the following Jurassic worlds might be easier to spot than modern Earth
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
Might a tyrannosaur roam on Trappist-1e, a protoceratops on Proxima Centauri b, or a quetzalcoatlus on Kepler 1047c? Things may not have ended well for dinosaurs on Earth, but Cornell astronomers say the "light fingerprint" of the conditions that enabled them to emerge here - including abundant atmospheric oxygen - provides a crucial missing piece in our search for signs of life on planets orbit
Might a tyrannosaur roam on Trappist-1e, a protoceratops on Proxima Centauri b, or a quetzalcoatlus on Kepler 1047c? Things may not have ended well for dinosaurs on Earth, but Cornell astronomers say the "light fingerprint" of the conditions that enabled them to emerge here - including abundant atmospheric oxygen - provides a crucial missing piece in our search for signs of life on planets orbit Scorching, seven-planet system revealed by new Kepler Exoplanet list
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more radiant heat from their host star per area than any planet in our solar system. Also unlike any of our immediate neighbors, all seven planets in this system, named Kepler-385, are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. It is one of only a f
A system of seven sweltering planets has been revealed by continued study of data from NASA's retired Kepler space telescope: Each one is bathed in more radiant heat from their host star per area than any planet in our solar system. Also unlike any of our immediate neighbors, all seven planets in this system, named Kepler-385, are larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. It is one of only a f Black holes are messy eaters
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
New observations down to light-year scale of the gas flows around a supermassive black hole have successfully detected dense gas inflows and shown that only a small portion (about 3 percent) of the gas flowing towards the black hole is eaten by the black hole. The remainder is ejected and recycled back into the host galaxy.
Not all of the matter which falls towards a black hole is absorbed
New observations down to light-year scale of the gas flows around a supermassive black hole have successfully detected dense gas inflows and shown that only a small portion (about 3 percent) of the gas flowing towards the black hole is eaten by the black hole. The remainder is ejected and recycled back into the host galaxy.
Not all of the matter which falls towards a black hole is absorbed Scholars Probe Lunar Mysteries: Solar Wind Interaction Explored
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
In a recent comprehensive review published in Space: Science and Technology, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beihang University have synthesized the current understanding and prevailing mysteries surrounding the interaction between the solar wind and the Moon's surface.
The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, presents a unique environment for study, lacking a signifi
In a recent comprehensive review published in Space: Science and Technology, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Beihang University have synthesized the current understanding and prevailing mysteries surrounding the interaction between the solar wind and the Moon's surface.
The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, presents a unique environment for study, lacking a signifi Three-Body Tethered Satellite System Deploys Successfully in Simulations
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
In a groundbreaking study conducted by Zhongjie Meng and his team at Northwestern Polytechnical University, a new deployment strategy for tethered satellite systems (TSS) has been developed, addressing the complexity of operating a three-body chain in space. The detailed research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Space: Science and Technology.
The research focuses on a tomogr
In a groundbreaking study conducted by Zhongjie Meng and his team at Northwestern Polytechnical University, a new deployment strategy for tethered satellite systems (TSS) has been developed, addressing the complexity of operating a three-body chain in space. The detailed research has been published in the peer-reviewed journal Space: Science and Technology.
The research focuses on a tomogr Science in Space: Robotic Helpers
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
Crew time is a valuable resource on the International Space Station and its value only increases for future space missions. One way to make the most of crew time is using robotic technology either to assist crew members with various tasks and or to completely automate others.
A current investigation on the space station, JEM Internal Ball Camera 2, is part of ongoing efforts to develop thi
Crew time is a valuable resource on the International Space Station and its value only increases for future space missions. One way to make the most of crew time is using robotic technology either to assist crew members with various tasks and or to completely automate others.
A current investigation on the space station, JEM Internal Ball Camera 2, is part of ongoing efforts to develop thi ESA hones 3D Printed electromagnetic coils for spaceflight
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2023
The European Space Agency (ESA) has once again pushed the envelope of technological innovation by 3D printing electromagnetic coils in pure copper, a leap forward in the design of versatile tools essential for a myriad of space missions. This breakthrough comes as a result of one of the over 2,000 research contracts completed under ESA's General Support Technology Programme (GSTP), an initiative
The European Space Agency (ESA) has once again pushed the envelope of technological innovation by 3D printing electromagnetic coils in pure copper, a leap forward in the design of versatile tools essential for a myriad of space missions. This breakthrough comes as a result of one of the over 2,000 research contracts completed under ESA's General Support Technology Programme (GSTP), an initiative Researchers find gravitational lensing has significant effect on cosmic birefringence
Friday, 03 November 2023 02:53
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2023
Future missions will be able to find signatures of violating the parity-symmetry in the cosmic microwave background polarization more accurately after a pair of researchers has managed to take into account the gravitational lensing effect, reports a new study in Physical Review D, selected as an Editors' Suggestion.
How far does the universe extend? When and how did the universe begin? Cos
Future missions will be able to find signatures of violating the parity-symmetry in the cosmic microwave background polarization more accurately after a pair of researchers has managed to take into account the gravitational lensing effect, reports a new study in Physical Review D, selected as an Editors' Suggestion.
How far does the universe extend? When and how did the universe begin? Cos