Firefly to buy remaining Virgin Orbit assets
Friday, 16 June 2023 15:39
Firefly Aerospace has agreed to buy Virgin Orbit’s remaining assets — inventory at two company production facilities — as part of Virgin Orbit’s bankruptcy proceedings.
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New ways to space Intelligence analysts confront the reality of deepfakes
Friday, 16 June 2023 13:00
As artificial intelligence takes center stage in the technology landscape, U.S. national security agencies see huge opportunities but also frightening risks.
Week in images: 12-16 June 2023
Friday, 16 June 2023 12:10
Week in images: 12-16 June 2023
Discover our week through the lens
NASA agreements to support work on commercial spacecraft and space stations
Friday, 16 June 2023 10:34
NASA partnerships announced June 15 would support development of new commercial capabilities that include a Blue Origin crewed spacecraft and a Starship-derived space station from SpaceX.
CesiumAstro to develop satcom terminal for U.S. Air Force drone
Friday, 16 June 2023 10:22
Intriguing correlation between earthquakes and cosmic radiation
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
There is a clear statistical correlation between global seismic activity and changes in the intensity of cosmic radiation recorded at the surface of our planet, potentially helping to predict earthquakes. Surprisingly, it exhibits a periodicity that escapes unambiguous physical interpretation.
Strong earthquakes usually result in many human casualties and huge material losses. The scale of Scientists report 'benchmarks' for extreme space weather
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
High-energy 'relativistic' electrons - so-called "killer" electrons - are a major source of radiation damage to satellites and so understanding their patterns of activity is crucial. Bursts of charged particles and magnetic fields from the Sun can tear open the Earth's magnetic field, giving rise to geomagnetic storms. During these events the number of killer electrons in the outer radiation bel NASA Offers Fly-Fix-Fly Testing for SmallSat Planetary Observation
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
After a 12-day stratospheric flight, winners of NASA's first TechLeap Prize are now analyzing data from technologies that may improve autonomous observation capabilities for small spacecraft flying over Earth, the Moon, or other worlds. Their payloads were selected through the TechLeap Autonomous Observation Challenge No. 1, which asked teams to develop technologies to autonomously detect, locat Record-setting launch sends 41 satellites to space
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Thursday afternoon to send a total of 41 satellites into space, setting a new national record for the most spacecraft transported on a single mission.
The rocket blasted off at 1:30 pm from a service tower at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province. After a short flight, the second stage of the rocket successfully placed the 4 Navigating underground with cosmic-ray muons
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
Superfast, subatomic-sized particles called muons have been used to wirelessly navigate underground in a reportedly world first. By using muon-detecting ground stations synchronized with an underground muon-detecting receiver, researchers at the University of Tokyo were able to calculate the receiver's position in the basement of a six-story building. As GPS cannot penetrate rock or water, this Lunar Characterization Device Gets Early Funding
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
An innovative flashlight to allow scientists to see the dark areas of the Moon to better understand their composition has been selected to participate in NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program.
The EmberCore Flashlight: Long Distance Lunar Characterization with Intense Passive X- and Gamma-ray Source Phase 1 project is a 9-month concept feasibility study that will evaluate sour China conducts extravehicular radiation biological exposure experiment on space station
Friday, 16 June 2023 08:01
China has performed a radiation biological exposure experiment outside the country's Mengtian lab module for the first time, a milestone achievement in radiation biology and space science research, according to a report by Science and Technology Daily.
The experiment equipment was jointly developed by the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Dalian Ma Earth from Space: Eastern Mediterranean
Friday, 16 June 2023 07:00
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Copernicus Sentinel-3’s wide view captures the eastern edge of the Mediterranean and surrounding countries. Final launch of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket postponed
Friday, 16 June 2023 06:18
The final launch of Europe's Ariane 5 rocket has been postponed due to a technical problem, French firm Arianespace said on Thursday, in the latest blow to European space efforts.
After 27 years of launches, the Ariane 5's 117th and last mission had been scheduled to blast off between 2126-1001 GMT on Friday from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
But "it has come to light that there is a risk to the redundancy of a critical function on the Ariane 5," tweeted Arianespace, which operates the rocket.
"Consistent with safety requirements, Arianespace has decided to postpone the roll-out of the #VA261 launch vehicle," it added.
"Analyses are underway to determine a new launch date."
The rocket and its payload of one French and one German communication satellite "are in the final assembly building in stable and safe conditions," Arianespace added.
The postponement comes as Europe struggles to find a way to independently blast heavy-load missions into space due to repeated delays for the next-generation Ariane 6—and Russia withdrawing its Soyuz rockets because of sanctions over its war in Ukraine.