Ride into microgravity with a 'spy' amongst numerous experiments
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 11:05
On 21 October 2022 at 09:25, the MAPHEUS 12 research rocket of the German Aerospace Center took off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden. It reached an altitude of 260 kilometres before descending back to Earth on a parachute. On board for the first time were nerve cells. The goal is to understand how their electrical signals deviate in microgravity.
The research te Mapping planet Earth for better positioning: ESA's GENESIS mission
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 11:05
ESA's Navigation Directorate is planning a new satellite whose results will enable the generation of an updated global model of Earth - the International Terrestrial Reference Frame, employed for everything from land surveying to measuring sea level rise - with an accuracy down to 1 mm, while tracking ground motion of just 0.1 mm per year. This improvement, at a stroke, will have a major impact Methane-eating 'borgs' have been assimilating Earth's microbes
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 11:05
In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with the intent of taking over the galaxy. Here on nonfictional planet Earth, Borgs are DNA packages that could help humans fight climate change.
Last year, a team led by Jill Banfield discovered DNA structures within a methane-consuming microbe called Methanoperedens that appear to supercharge the o China’s spaceplane raises orbit and national funding
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 10:49
A spaceplane launched by China in August has performed an orbit-raising maneuver and recently secured new funding to promote new modes of transportation.
Polaris Dawn crewed mission could suffer additional delays
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 10:05
A billionaire-backed private astronaut mission on a SpaceX Crew Dragon has slipped from late this year to March 2023 and could be further delayed, in part for issues beyond its control.
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Ten years: Warsaw at night
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 09:21
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Ten years: Warsaw at night Webb explores a pair of merging galaxies
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 06:55
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Webb explores a pair of merging galaxies From Rome to Cannes
Tuesday, 25 October 2022 05:45
The Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is currently in Cannes undergoing a series of demanding tests in preparation for launch in 2023. The third member of the Sentinel-1 radar family, part of Europe’s Copernicus programme, will continue the critical task of delivering key radar imagery of Earth’s surface for a wide range of services and scientific applications.
Sending DNA-infused Space Crystals to the moon
Monday, 24 October 2022 20:58
Space Crystals plans to send crystals grown in microgravity and infused with customer DNA to the moon next year.
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Final two Pléiades Neo imagery satellites land in French Guiana
Monday, 24 October 2022 20:44
The last two high-resolution imaging satellites for Airbus Defence and Space’s Pléiades Neo constellation have arrived in French Guiana ahead of their launch next month.
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Balancing risk and reward in planetary exploration
Monday, 24 October 2022 19:59
NASA's Mars rovers strive for groundbreaking scientific discoveries as they traverse the Martian landscape. At the same time, the crews operating the rovers do all they can to protect them and the billions of dollars behind the mission. This balance between risk and reward drives the decisions surrounding where the rovers go, the paths they take to get there and the science they uncover.
Researchers in the School of Computer Science's Robotics Institute (RI) have developed a new approach to balancing the risks and scientific value of sending planetary rovers into dangerous situations.
Space Force to activate sensor on Wide-Field-of-View missile warning satellite
Monday, 24 October 2022 19:28
A U.S. Space Force infrared sensing demonstration satellite launched in July will soon start receiving data, the Space Systems Command announced Oct. 24.
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War in Ukraine shifts priorities among European government agencies
Monday, 24 October 2022 17:12
The war in Ukraine has prompted European civil and military space to revise budgets, programs, and policies to fortify launch capabilities and meet emerging needs.
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NASA announces 16 people who will study UFOs to see what's natural—and what isn't
Monday, 24 October 2022 15:41
What is behind all these UFO sightings? We may find out.
NASA announced the 16 people who will spend the next nine months studying unidentified aerial phenomena, also known as UFOs.
Using unclassified data, the team will "lay the groundwork for future study" of UFOs by examining how the data is gathered by the public, local government and other sources. The goal is to have a roadmap for NASA's data analysis on the flying objects, and determine what events are natural or not.
"Exploring the unknown in space and the atmosphere is at the heart of who we are at NASA," Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA, said in a statement. "Understanding the data we have surrounding unidentified aerial phenomena is critical to helping us draw scientific conclusions about what is happening in our skies. Data is the language of scientists and makes the unexplainable, explainable."
The announcement of the study participants comes amid a renewed interest in UFOs. In June 2021, the office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence released a highly anticipated report examining unidentified aerial phenomena, but no "firm conclusions" could be drawn on more than 140 instances.
Analysis of gases recovered from asteroid Ryugu by Hayabusa2 spacecraft
Monday, 24 October 2022 12:59