A new tool for deforestation detection
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:46
Every second, the planet loses a stretch of forest equivalent to a football field due to
logging, fires, insect infestation, disease, wind, drought, and other factors. In a recently published study, researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center presented a comprehensive strategy to detect when and where forest disturbance happens at a lar AFRL conducts Swarm technology demonstration
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:46
The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, conducted a demonstration, April 5, 2023, of its high-power microwave counter drone weapon, the Tactical High-power Operational Responder, or THOR, as it engaged a swarm of multiple targets at the Chestnut Test Site, Kirtland Air Force Base.
"The THOR team flew numerous drones at the THOR system to simulate a real-world swarm attack," said Adrian Northrop Grumman ships IBCS to Poland for WISLA Air Defense system
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:46
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has delivered key Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) components for Poland's WISLA medium range air defense program. With this delivery, IBCS moves closer to being fully fielded as part of Poland's advanced air and missile defense program.
The recent delivery of the IBCS Integrated Fire Control Network (IFCN) relays supports the WISLA program's Around the bed in 60 days
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 08:04
Lying in bed for a full 60 days – with one shoulder always touching the mattress – might sound like bliss, but add cycling, spinning and constant medical tests to the equation and it becomes a challenging experience for the sake of human space exploration.
Annual global ice loss simulated over Oslo
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 06:00
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Satellites play a vital role in monitoring the rapid changes taking place in the Arctic. Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets and frozen land shows that Earth is losing ice at an accelerating rate.
Using information from ESA’s ERS, Envisat and CryoSat satellites as well as the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 missions, research led by Tom Slater of the University of Leeds, found that the rate at which Earth has lost ice has increased markedly within the past three decades. Currently, more than a trillion tonnes of ice is lost each year.
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Watch now: Global Space Conference on Climate Change
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 05:53
Watch now: Global Space Conference on Climate Change
Orbital Sidekick acquires first light imagery
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 02:11
Hyperspectral startup Orbital Sidekick is acquiring imagery from its first two satellites launched in April on the SpaceX Transporter-7 rideshare flight.
L3Harris wins IARPA HAYSTAC contract
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 00:59
L3Harris Technologies announced a contract May 22 from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to provide technology to help characterize and predict human mobility.
NGA to map lunar geography to enable GPS on the moon
Monday, 22 May 2023 23:23
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is working with NASA to develop a positioning and navigation system to guide visitors around the surface of the moon “as accurately and as safely as GPS does on Earth.
ISS welcomes its first Saudi astronauts, in private mission
Monday, 22 May 2023 21:20
A SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudi astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday, as part of a private mission chartered by Axiom Space.
Rayyanah Barnawi, a scientist who became the first Saudi woman to go into space, and Ali Al-Qarni, a trained fighter pilot, are the first two people from their country to fly to the orbital outpost.
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Monday, 22 May 2023 21:09
Commercial satellite imagery is helping NATO address its need for persistent monitoring in spite of cost, technical and licensing issues.
Axiom's private mission inches commercial space station dreams closer to reality
Monday, 22 May 2023 17:10
Axiom Space made history in 2022 with the first all-private mission to the International Space Station. The company is ready to do it again, but with more focus on its endgame: having its own commercial space station in what could potentially be a crowded playing field in low-Earth orbit.
"The goals of these missions, which we sometimes call precursor missions, are to build up first the Axiom internal operations capability—the tools, the processes—to train flight controllers that are going to be required down the line to operate our Axiom Station in the future," said Axiom Space's Derek Hassmann, chief of mission integration and operations.
The Axiom Mission 2 (Ax-2) flight is slated to send a crew of four to the International Space Station inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon Freedom atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-A.
Liftoff is targeted for Sunday at 5:37 p.m. with a lone backup opportunity on Monday at 5:14 p.m.
Space Launch Delta 45's weather squadron forecasts only a 60% chance for good conditions with worse weather predicted for Monday.
As a Black astronaut sets his sights on the moon, he feels the weight of injustice on Earth
Monday, 22 May 2023 17:00
NASA astronaut Victor Glover Jr. will travel farther into space than any Black person before him when he pilots the Artemis II lunar mission in 2024.
But he's already embarked on a personal mission that hits closer to home on Earth.
He wants to take his fellow Americans to school and guide them deep into the nation's psyche, to help them reflect on the paradox of a nation that has a track record of oppressing Black people sending him on a trailblazing trip around the moon.
Because of that legacy of racism, Glover says it's his duty to impress upon people that his voyage will represent more than a scientific triumph.
During a conversation over Zoom about the beauty of space flight and the contradictions of American life, the 47-year-old Pomona, California, native says he recommends to audiences at his public speeches and his co-workers at NASA a choice set of reading, listening and viewing materials.
He starts with the U.S. Constitution, whose words resound with the false promise of equality that has led to so much racial upheaval.
OneWeb announces Innovation Challenge Winners
Monday, 22 May 2023 15:56
OneWeb announced six finalists May 22 for its annual Innovation Challenge.
Exploration Upper Stage Unveiled: Revolutionary Leap in Crew Safety, Cargo Capacity, and Deep Space Power
Monday, 22 May 2023 15:15
After Artemis I launched in November 2022 atop the only super heavy-lift rocket capable of carrying crew and large cargo to deep space in a single lift, James Savage went […]