Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
NASA recently unveiled a series of upgrades to its Mobile Operations Facility (MOF), a specially outfitted mission control center on wheels housed at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA's Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) National Campaign will use the MOF to test systems required to integrate air taxis, cargo delivery, and other AAM concepts into the National Airspace

Carlsbad CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global leader in satellite communications, reports it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Link 16 Tactical Data Links (TDL) business to L3Harris Technologies for $1.96 billion, subject to customary transaction adjustments in accordance with the agreement. The sale is expected to result in cash proceeds to Viasat of approximately $1.8 billion net afte

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Millennium is delivering the satellite for VICTUS NOX, a Tactically Responsive Space mission led by the Space Safari Program Office within Space Systems Command. "We're extremely excited to partner with Millennium Space Systems on our upcoming VICTUS NOX mission. Their innovative team is helping lead the way for Tactically Responsive Space, ensuring the U.S. has the ability to immediately

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce that, in the quarter ended September 30, 2022, it has received a combined total of over $1.9 million in new purchase orders for space and defense hardware and services supporting multiple customers. "Space and defens

Peterson SFB CO (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
The Australian Department of Defence and the U.S. Space Force declared initial operational capability for the Space Surveillance Telescope at Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt, Australia, Sept. 30, 2022. The SST is a military telescope that provides ground-based, broad-area search, detection and tracking of faint objects in deep space to help predict and avoid potential collisions

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 6, 2021
SpaceX is scheduled to launch two communication satellites into orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday in its third liftoff in two days. The 7 p.m. blastoff is slated to deliver the Galaxy 33 and 34 satellites into geosynchronous orbit, where they will help the telecommunications company Intelsat maintain service in North America. The planned launch follows two

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
The asteroid that struck Earth and led to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction 66 million years ago also triggered a worldwide tsunami that started as a wave more than a mile high, according to a new study. The tsunami was large enough to scour the ocean floor thousands of miles from the impact site on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The study, published in AGU Advances, presents th

Lampoldshausen, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2022
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) site in Lampoldshausen successfully tested the upper stage of Ariane 6 for the first time on 5 October 2022. A hot-fire test is a highly demanding experiment; the aim is to simulate flight-representative conditions on the test stand. In this way, the interaction of all components for launch preparation and flight

Daejeon, South Korea (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) and Seoul National University (SNU) research team announced that they have discovered a new plasma operating mode that can improve plasma performance for fusion energy based on an analysis of plasma operations with ultra-high temperatures over 100 million degrees (Celsius) at the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR). To generate ene

Canada (SPX) Oct 06, 2022
Some 250 million years ago - long before dinosaurs roamed the earth - global warming and acid ocean caused by the rapid volcanic emission of the Siberian Traps led to the Permian-Triassic mass extinction, which resulted in the elimination of over 95 percent of marine and 70 percent of terrestrial life. Then Mother Nature did what it does best - replenish itself. But why did it take her so