NASA has approved for development a space telescope to search for near Earth objects as some members of Congress lobby the agency to move up the mission.

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Newquay UK (UPI) Dec 6, 2021
A tentative date has been set for Britain's first space launch. A launch window for Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne is scheduled to open Dec. 14, NASA's spaceflight editor Chris Bergin tweeted Tuesday. Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne system has been used on five prior occasions but those missions departed from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California. The upcoming LauncherOne mis

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) has created a U.S.-based wholly owned subsidiary to serve the defense and intelligence community. Rocket Lab National Security LLC (RLNS) will deliver reliable launch services and space systems capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. Since the Company's first launch of the Electron rocket in 2017, Rocket Lab has conducted multiple successful

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 5, 2021
SpaceX is rolling out a new business called Starshield to support U.S. military applications, building upon the company's existing satellite system. The latest Elon Musk endeavor expands on Starlink Internet satellite technology for national security uses, to include secure communications and space surveillance payloads, for its largest customer, the Pentagon. "While Starlink is

Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022
A Martian megatsunami may have been caused by an asteroid collision similar to the Chicxulub impact - which contributed to the mass extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs on Earth 66 million years ago - in a shallow ocean region, according to a study published in Scientific Reports. Previous research has proposed that an asteroid or comet impact within an ocean in the Martian northern lowla

Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Dec 06, 2022
How fast do electrons inside a molecule move? Well, it is so fast that it takes them just few attoseconds (1 as = 10-18 s or one billionth of billionth of a second) to jump from one atom to another. Blink and you missed it - millions of billions of times. So measuring such ultrafast processes is a daunting task. Scientists at the Australian Attosecond Science Facility and the Centre for Qu

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2022
When it comes to making real-time decisions about unfamiliar data - say, choosing a path to hike up a mountain you've never scaled before - existing artificial intelligence and machine learning tech doesn't come close to measuring up to human skill. That's why NASA scientist John Moisan is developing an AI "eye." Moisan, an oceanographer at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility near Chincoteague,

Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2022
Two meteorological satellites, along with their ground application systems, have officially started operation, said the China Meteorological Administration on Thursday. The trial operation of the two satellites, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E) and Fengyun-4B (FY-4B), began in June this year. They will provide observation data and application services to global users. The FY-3E, launched on July 5

An innovative ESA-backed instrument to sample the space weather environment in-situ is set to join the International Space Station. Norway’s multi-Needle Langmuir Probe, m-NLP, due to be fitted to the European-made Bartolomeo platform on the ISS, a ‘front porch’ open to space, will map the ionospheric plasma surrounding the Station in unprecedented high resolution, performing almost 10 000 measurements per second continuously along its orbit.

China is already considering adding modules to its recently-completed Tiangong space station complex, according to a senior space official.