Curiosity reaches long-awaited salty region on Martian mountainside
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the "sulfate-bearing unit," a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals.
Scientists hypothesize that billions of years ago, streams, and ponds left behind the minerals as the water dried up. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, these minerals offer tantalizing ARCA Space launches the AMiE crypto coin
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
ARCA Space started the first sale for the AMi Exploration (AMiE) utility token, issued in the Avalanche blockchain. For this first sale ARCA Space made available 675,676 tokens from the total of 1 billion issued. The regular price of one token is $0,1, and for this first sale the price is $0,075. The AMiE Token could be purchased with the USDt native token in the Avalanche blockchain.
The Celebrating committed orders for over 200 Astra spacecraft engines
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Astra celebrates cumulative committed orders for more than 200 engines and two full programs of Astra Spacecraft Enginesalready delivered.
"I'm thrilled that Astra has achieved both milestones: over 200 engines ordered and delivery of two full programs," said Chris Kemp, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Astra, "Thank you to our customers for their confidence in our team and products, and cong Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
NASA hit a bullseye in late September with DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which flew a spacecraft straight at the heart of a nearby asteroid. The one-way kamikaze mission smashed into the stadium-sized space rock and successfully reset the asteroid's orbit. DART was the first test of a planetary defense strategy, demonstrating that scientists could potentially deflect an asteroid he SwRI scientists compile Cassini's unique observations of Saturn's rings
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published recently in the scientific journal Icarus, will inform future investigations of the particle size distribution and composition of Saturn's rings, key elements to understanding their formation and evolution.
"For nearly two decades, N Webb takes star-filled portrait of pillars of creation
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape - the iconic Pillars of Creation - where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and dust that appear - at times - semi-transparent in near-infrared ligh New tool allows scientists to peer inside neutron stars
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Imagine taking a star twice the mass of the Sun and crushing it to the size of Manhattan. The result would be a neutron star-one of the densest objects found anywhere in the Universe, exceeding the density of any material found naturally on Earth by a factor of tens of trillions.
Neutron stars are extraordinary astrophysical objects in their own right, but their extreme densities might als Astronomers create new technique to assist in search for dark matter
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Meteors may help astronomers devise a new way to locate dark matter - mysterious and invisible particles that have so far only been discerned by the effect they have on the natural world.
Five times more prevalent than ordinary matter, dark matter makes up about 85% of the total mass of the universe, and about a quarter (26.8%) of the universe's total mass and energy. Humans are unable to Viasat and Inmarsat will work with CMA to demonstrate customer benefits of proposed transaction
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) and Inmarsat report they are working with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to demonstrate how the planned combination of the companies will benefit customers by improving efficiencies, lowering costs, and increasing the availability of in-flight connectivity (IFC) around the world.
The CMA announced today it will refer the transaction to a Phase 2 Distribution partners selected for Inmarsat's SwiftJet Business Aviation Inflight Connectivity Service
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Inmarsat's ground-breaking new SwiftJet inflight connectivity service for the business aviation market has passed an important milestone, after industry heavyweights Satcom Direct and Honeywell were named as the first global distribution partners.
The announcement comes less than five months after SwiftJet was launched as the world's fastest business aviation inflight connectivity service NASA extends contract with Planet Labs granting access to EO data to 300,000 scientists
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:40
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE:PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, reports that NASA has exercised an option to extend its contract with Planet under the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program through September 2023.
Planet has been providing data to NASA scientists and federally funded researchers under this program since 2018 and the company looks forward Shadow hunters capture Didymos asteroid eclipsing stars
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:29
After months of effort, astronomers have succeeded in capturing the momentary shadow cast by the Didymos asteroid, from tens of million km away as it passed in front of far-distant stars – a feat of observation only made possible when both the trajectory of the asteroid and the precise location of the stars are known. Even in that case, to have a chance of success, several observers had to be placed in meticulously predicted locations across the path of the shadow, to glimpse the fleeting fading of the star within just a fraction of a second.
Info session from the ESA Council meeting
Thursday, 20 October 2022 11:00
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Watch the replay of our Q&A with the media to learn about the outcomes of the 310th session of the ESA Council. Updates are provided on the ambitious package presented by ESA for the 22/23 November ESA Ministerial Meeting in Paris, but also on the further expansion of ESA memberships, the future of ExoMars, Space Transportation and the overall, delicate economic situation.
Mapping planet Earth for better positioning: ESA’s GENESIS mission
Thursday, 20 October 2022 09:43
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 in multiple navigation and Earth science applications, including enhancing the precision of the Galileo navigation system. This mission, called GENESIS, is being proposed to ESA’s Council Meeting at Ministerial Level next
Relativity Space expands engine test facilities at Stennis
Thursday, 20 October 2022 07:03
Launch vehicle developer Relativity Space will expand its engine test site at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, the second company in as many months to announce new or expanded facilities there.
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