'No need to worry': Odds drop newly-found asteroid will hit Earth
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
The chances have plummeted that a newly-discovered asteroid with the potential to wipe out a city will hit Earth on Valentine's Day 2046, the European Space Agency said on Tuesday.
The asteroid, which is named 2023 DW and is estimated to be around the size of a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, was first spotted by a small Chilean observatory on February 26.
It swiftly shot to the top of N SpaceX cargo resupply mission CRS-27 scheduled for launch Tuesday
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
SpaceX mission CRS-27 is planned for launch to the International Space Station Tuesday, carrying food, equipment, and materials for experiments in orbit.
The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 8:30 p.m. EST from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its launch will be livestreamed by SpaceX.
The commercial resupply mission will carry about 6,300 pounds of food to the spac Firefly awarded payload delivery contract to Lunar Orbit and Lunar Far Side
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
Firefly Aerospace, Inc., an end-to-end space transportation company, was awarded a $112 million NASA contract to deliver multiple lunar payloads in 2026. As Firefly's second task order won under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload (CLPS) initiative, the company will use its Blue Ghost spacecraft in a two-stage configuration to first place a satellite into lunar orbit and then deliver two research pa Pinpoint simulations provide perspective on universe structure
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
The universe is peppered with galaxies, which, on large scales, exhibit a filamentary pattern, referred to as the cosmic web. This heterogeneous distribution of cosmic material is in some ways like blueberries in a muffin where material clusters in certain areas but may be lacking in others.
Based on a series of simulations, researchers have begun to probe the heterogeneous structure of th Princeton Chem, IAS uncover spatial patterns in distribution of galaxies
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
In late 2021, Salvatore Torquato, on sabbatical from Princeton's Department of Chemistry, reached across the aisle as it were and invited a young astrophysicist at the Institute for Advanced Study to apply the tools of statistical mechanics to his own work on the distribution of galaxies.
The astrophysicist, Oliver Philcox, now a postdoc at the Simons Foundation, was intrigued. A year-long MEASAT selects Hughes JUPITER System to connect Malaysia's unconnected
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
Hughes Network Systems reports that MEASAT Global Berhad (MEASAT), Malaysia's premier satellite operator, has selected the Hughes JUPITER System ground platform to enable broadband services on the MEASAT-3d High-Throughput Satellite (HTS). MEASAT-3d will leverage the JUPITER System gateway and terminals to extend its CONNECTme NOW satellite broadband services throughout Malaysia.
Yau Chyon HawkEye 360's latest satellite cluster begins operation
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
HawkEye 360 has reports its Cluster 6 satellites have begun operation. The rapidly growing constellation can collect up to 24 times per day over a region of interest, as often as once every hour. The enhanced payloads and an additional ground station optimizes the speed for delivering increased quantity and quality of data to customers around the world.
"The continued expansion of our RF-s Keysight introduces 2 GHz real-time spectrum analysis solution for satellite operators
Wednesday, 15 March 2023 03:13
Keysight Technologies has released a real-time spectrum analysis (RTSA) solution enabling up to 2 GHz RTSA bandwidth for use with the Keysight N9042B UXA Signal Analyzer. The software-based RTSA solution monitors satellite signals and interference, allowing satellite network operators to provide the highest quality of service (QoS) to users.
As the satellite communications (SATCOM) industr Why the Office of Space Commerce should supervise novel commercial space activities
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:44
Policymakers are considering establishing an additional supervisory regime to cover novel commercial space activities such as like in-space manufacturing, space tugs, and more.
Kayhan offers coordinated collision avoidance
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:35
Kayhan Space has upgraded its space traffic management platform to help satellite operators coordinate maneuvers to prevent collisions.
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Astranis gets order for a pair of Mexico-focused GEO broadband satellites
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:21
Mexican telco Apco Networks said March 14 it has ordered two small satellites from Astranis for a launch toward geostationary orbit next year.
Viasat deploying ‘zero trust’ cybersecurity across global network
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 19:05
Viasat developed a "zero trust" cybersecurity solution intended to protect its entire global network from hostile intrusions.
Webb captures rarely seen prelude to a supernova
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 17:00
A Wolf-Rayet star is a rare prelude to the famous final act of a massive star: the supernova. As one of its first observations in 2022, the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured the Wolf-Rayet star WR 124 in unprecedented detail.
Investors project space company funding to rebound in 2023
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 15:44
Despite the near-term shakeup caused by a bank failure and broader economic pressures, investors expect funding of space companies to rebound in 2023.
Amazon unveils Project Kuiper terminals for services starting in 2024
Tuesday, 14 March 2023 13:39
Although still weeks out from launching its first pair of prototype satellites, Amazon unveiled user terminals March 14 for a planned 3,200-satellite broadband constellation it expects will start providing beta services from low Earth orbit next year.