Watch live: Samantha Cristoforetti in-flight call to World Economic Forum (WEF) 2022 in Davos
Wednesday, 25 May 2022 05:57
Experts offer advice for space sector entrepreneurs
Wednesday, 25 May 2022 03:32
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At the Space Tech Expo May 24, space industry executives and startup founders shared advice for fledgling startups.
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Fighting Fires via Satellite
Wednesday, 25 May 2022 02:44 Write a comment
A forest fire is a massive wall of heat and flame. Driven by high winds, it can leap across roads, spin into columns of fire, turn homes to ash.
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Space Systems Command refines front-door concept
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 22:33 Write a comment
The U.S. Space Systems Command is continuing to refine its concept for establishing a single point of contact for commercial innovators called the front door.
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NASA Awards Contract to National Academy of Sciences
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 18:03 Write a comment
NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to the National Academy of Sciences of Washington to conduct studies on questions of national importance within the domain of NASA science and technology programs relating to space science, Earth science, and biological and physical science in space. AWS picks 10 startups for 2022 space accelerator
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:18 Write a comment
Amazon Web Services announced May 24 it has picked 10 startups to join its second annual space accelerator program, which helps early-stage companies learn how to grow their businesses with cloud and analytic technologies.
BlueHalo wins $1.4 billion contract to upgrade U.S. satellite control network
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:16 Write a comment
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office awarded BlueHalo a $1.4 billion contract to add satellite communications capacity to the ground network used by the U.S. military to command and control satellites .
Starlink’s RV service lets users jump the line for a price
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:13 Write a comment
A new Starlink plan lets customers pay more to skip waitlists to connect to its broadband satellites without a fixed address, although connection speeds for other users will be prioritized.
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Starlink’s RV service lets users jump the line — for a price
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 17:13 Write a comment
A new Starlink plan lets customers pay more to skip waitlists to connect to its broadband satellites without a fixed address, although connection speeds for other users will be prioritized.
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GHGSat joins ESA’s Third Party Mission Programme
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 15:15 Write a comment
GHGSat, a leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has officially joined ESA’s prestigious Third Party Mission Programme. Announced today at the Living Planet Symposium currently taking place in Bonn, data from the company’s fleet of commercial satellites will be provided, free of charge, to researchers working in the fields of Earth science and climate change. Users will be able to access greenhouse gas measurements from sites all around the world.
Azure Space offers Custom Vision tools for satellite imagery
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 14:00 Write a comment
Microsoft is working with partners to identify commercial space applications for the latest software tools the tech giant has developed.
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Revealing coastline dynamics of the Danube Delta
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 13:45 Write a comment
Hundreds of satellite images spanning 30 years have been compiled to show the evolution of the Danube Delta – the second largest river delta in Europe. These findings were presented today at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium taking place this week in Bonn, Germany.
Forget about Mars, when will humans be flying to Saturn?
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:59 Write a comment
It might be hard to fathom now, but the human exploration of the solar system isn't going to stop at the moon and Mars. Eventually, our descendants will spread throughout the solar system—for those interested in space exploration, the question is only of when rather than if. Answering that question is the focus of a new paper released on arXiv by a group of researchers from the U.S., China, and the Netherlands. Their approach is highly theoretical, but it is likely more accurate than previous estimates, and it gives a reasonable idea of when we could expect to see humans in the outer solar system. The latest they think we could reach the Saturnian system is 2153.
How to even start such a calculation is complicated, so it's best to start at the basics, which in this case involves a bit of calculus. To understand when humans will reach further out in the solar system, the authors needed two variables—distance and time. In this case, distance is defined as the distance from Earth that humans have traveled, and time is defined as having started at the beginning of the space race in 1957 when no human had yet left Earth.
Japan Air Self Defense Force awards contract to LeoLabs
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:15 Write a comment
Space mapping startup LeoLabs announced a multimillion-dollar contract May 24 to provide space domain awareness data, services and training to the Japan Air Self Dense Force.
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Africa in the spotlight at Living Planet Symposium
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 12:11 Write a comment
We live in uncertain times. The detrimental impacts of climate change are being felt around the world and threatening our future, we are emerging from the global COVID pandemic that halted life as we know it for more than two years, and now the Ukraine crisis is not only a tragedy for those directly affected but its rippling effects are jeopardising energy and food security far and wide. Some nations are able to weather these storms better than others, but a number of countries in Africa, for example, are already on the back foot, particularly when it comes to