Juice’s first taste of science from space
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Juice’s first taste of science from space China to hunt for Earth-like planets with formation-flying telescopes
Wednesday, 26 April 2023 12:53
CryoSat reveals ice loss from glaciers
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When one thinks of the damage that climate change is doing, it’s probable that what comes to mind is a vision of huge lumps of ice dropping off one of the polar ice sheets and crashing into the ocean. While Greenland and Antarctica are losing masses of ice, so too are most of the glaciers around the world, but it’s tricky to measure how much ice they are shedding.
Thanks to ESA’s CryoSat satellite and a breakthrough way of using its data, scientists have discovered that glaciers worldwide have shrunk by a total of 2%
United States and South Korea agree to enhance space cooperation
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The United States and South Korea signed an agreement April 25 to enhance cooperation on space activities ranging from lunar exploration to Earth science, while providing few specific about those efforts.
Japanese company: 'High probability' lander crashed on moon
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A Japanese company's spacecraft apparently crashed while attempting to land on the moon Wednesday, losing contact moments before touchdown and sending flight controllers scrambling to figure out what happened.
How security in space helps Europe to cope with crises on Earth
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Keeping information and infrastructure secure is essential in a proposed rapid and resilient space-based system that will enable European governments to respond to crises caused by climate change as well as malicious attacks on power supplies and other vital services.
X-Bow announces $60 million STRATFI agreement
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X-Bow Systems, an Albuquerque, N.M., solid propulsion startup, announced a $60 million U.S. Air Force Strategic Funding Increase, or STRATFI, agreement.
ESA recruits for Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications and Director of Internal Services
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The European Space Agency is currently looking for a new Director of Connectivity and Secure Communications and new Director of Internal Services to join its executive board and support the Director General, with responsibility for relevant ESA activities and overall objectives.
Fly me to the Moon: Firms lining up lunar landings
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Japan's ispace on Wednesday became the latest company to try, and fail, at a historic bid to put a private lunar lander on the Moon.
Only Russia, the United States and China have made the 384,000-kilometre (239,000-mile) journey and landed safely on the Moon's surface.
Here are some of the companies who have made the journey, or plan missions soon:
- SpaceIL -
In February 2019, t SpaceX delays launch of 46 Starlink satellites
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SpaceX on Tuesday delayed its latest effort to populate the low Earth orbit with Internet communication satellites.
The company announced on Twitter that the launch of 46 new Starlink satellites, originally scheduled for Tuesday morning would be delayed 24 hours as it was now targeting a launch window of 9:40 a.m. EDT on Wednesday from the Vandenberg Space Station in California. Radio silence suggests failure of Japan Moon landing
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A Japanese startup attempting the first private landing on the Moon said Wednesday it had lost communication with its spacecraft and assumed the lunar mission had failed.
Ispace said that it could not establish communication with the unmanned Hakuto-R lunar lander after its expected landing time, a frustrating end to a mission that began with a launch from the United States over four months Hypersonix to partner with Rocket Lab for hypersonic tests
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Hypersonix USA, Inc is partnering with established launch provider Rocket Lab USA, Inc for the first launch of DART AE.
Defense Innovation Unit's (DIU's) hypersonic and high-cadence testing capabilities (HyCAT) project and its mission partners are prototyping a suite of modern, low-cost, high-cadence, dual-use airborne testing platforms (vehicles) that provide data that accelerates the eva Thales seizes control of ESA satellite in first Cybersecurity Exercise of its kind
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The European Space Agency (ESA) challenged cybersecurity experts in the space industry ecosystem to disrupt the operation of the agency's OPS-SAT demonstration nanosatellite. Participants used a variety of ethical hacking techniques to take control of the system used to manage the payload's global positioning system, attitude control system1 and onboard camera.
Unauthorised access to these Astraea launches new satellite tasking capabilities with major satellite imagery providers
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Astraea, Inc., a platform for spatiotemporal data and analytics, announces a new ordering service offering access to advanced satellite imagery sources from providers like Planet Labs PBC, among others. With the launch of the ordering service, Astraea customers get scalable access to the most advanced commercial satellite imagery on the market.
By providing access to all of the world's bes Russian cosmonauts delay ISS spacewalk
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Russian cosmonauts have delayed a spacewalk to move one of the airlock systems aboard the International Space Station from one module to another.
The delay was announced by Russia's state space exploration company Roscosmos Monday.
In a statement on Telegram, Roscosmos said the extravehicular activity "was postponed, tentatively, to the beginning of May due to the need for a more