No room for nationalism in space says China
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25Unreasonable queries are being raised online ever since Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, successfully docked with the core module, Tianhe, on Sunday. On Quora, someone said that only the Chinese language is used on the spaceship and asked if the country is "super-sealed", and if they are getting rid of scientists from other countries by using a non-international lang
Blue Origin to launch space tourist flight next week
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to launch its sixth space tourism flight next week with six people, including the first Egyptian and Portuguese crew members to reach suborbital space. Blue Origin said in a news release that NS-22 will lift off at 8:30 a.m. from Launch Site One at the company's site in West Texas on Thursday. The flight will make Sara Sabry, an Egyptian mechanical a
Space Perspective unveils patented capsule design
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25Space travel is about to get safer, more comfortable, and even more thrilling. Space Perspective, Planet Earth's leading luxury space travel company, unveils the patent-pending Spaceship Neptune capsule design now in production at the company's state-of-the-art campus, near its Operations Center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. As the only carbon neutral way to space, Space Perspec
Staring at the Ground: Sols 3546-3547
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25Today's plan is chock full of goodies! We start out sol 3546 with a ChemCam observation of a sand ripple "Deposito" and an RMI observation of the Bolivar outcrop in the distance. Then we'll do some Mastcam observations of Deposito, "Lilas" which is one of our robotic arm targets later in the sol, Bolivar, and "Deepdale." Once all that wraps up, we'll get into our robotic arm activities for the s
Wallaroo selected by US Space Force to solve edge model deployment challenges in Space
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25oday Wallaroo Labs announced that they have been selected by SPACEWERX, the innovation arm of the US Space Force (USSF), to solve edge model deployment challenges specific to On-Orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing (OSAM) missions. This fully funded Phase 1 project in collaboration with Catalyst Campus (CCTI) will look at edge model deployment challenges for use cases like satellite life
MDA selects NC and Raytheon to further develop Glide Phase Interceptor prototype
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25The Department of Defense has awarded two firm fixed price Other Transaction (OT) Agreement modifications to exercise options; one to Northrop Grumman and one to Raytheon through the Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) authority under 10 U.S.C. 4022. Each modification has an approximate value of $41.5M and an anticipated Period of Performance through February 2023. These modifications will allo
Rocket debris fall back to Earth
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25Debris of the recently launched Long March 5B carrier rocket of China fell back to the Earth and ended up in the Pacific Ocean early Sunday morning, with most of the remnants burnt up during the reentry process, the China Manned Space Agency said. The debris' atmospheric reentry and crash took place around 12:55 am (Beijing time), the agency said in a brief statement, noting the touchdown
Space travel: Bone aging in fast forward
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25Long periods in space damage bone structure irreparably in some cases and can make parts of the human skeleton age prematurely by up to 10 years. This is what a sport scientist at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) has now discovered in conjunction with other researchers from Germany, Canada and the USA. Adapted training programs in conjunction with medication could provide better prot
Balloon fleet senses earthquakes from the stratosphere
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25A new study in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the stratosphere. The technique could one day be applied on Venus, whose hot, dense and corrosive atmosphere limits our ability to sense Venus-quakes from the planet's surface. The balloons could also be used on Earth in hard-to-reach p
China launches two more remote sensing satellites into orbit
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25China used a Long March 2D carrier rocket to launch several remote-sensing satellites on Friday night, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor. The rocket blasted off at 9:28 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and soon placed the Yaogan 35-02 satellites, the third group of spacecrafts in the Yaogan 35 remot
Space Force to take on bigger role planning future DoD space investments
Monday, 01 August 2022 10:46As “integrator for joint space requirements" the Space Force will have to coordinate the wish lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, and recommend how to meet future needs
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Isotropic Systems rebrands as All.Space and unveils latest terminal
Monday, 01 August 2022 07:00Isotropic Systems is changing its name to All.Space as the British antenna manufacturer unveil its “fifth-generation smart terminal” to link cellular and satellite networks.
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No reported damage in Philippines from Chinese rocket debris
Monday, 01 August 2022 06:38NASA, companies reject concerns over commercial space station development schedules
Monday, 01 August 2022 02:02Both NASA and the companies selected by the agency to begin development of commercial space stations say they don’t share concerns raised by watchdogs that such stations may not be ready by the time the International Space Station is retired.
Roscosmos head revises comments about quitting ISS after 2024
Sunday, 31 July 2022 20:35The new head of Russia’s space agency backed away from comments suggesting Russia would withdraw from the International Space Station as soon as 2024 but expressed doubts Russia would be involved through 2030.