Crew-4 arrives at ISS
Thursday, 28 April 2022 09:48A Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station with a new set of American and European astronauts April 27.
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Tantalising tectonics
Thursday, 28 April 2022 08:00This network of long grooves and scratches forms part of a giant fault system on Mars known as Tantalus Fossae, and is shown here as seen by ESA’s Mars Express.
NASA's Crew-4 docks at ISS
Thursday, 28 April 2022 07:15NASA astronauts Mission Commander Kjell Lindgren, Pilot Bob Hines, and Mission Specialist Jessica Watkins, and Mission Specialist Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA now are aboard the ISS following Crew Dragon's hatch opening. Crew-4 joins Expedition 67 crew of Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, all of NASA, Matthias Maurer of ESA, and cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev, Sergey Korsakov, and Denis Matveev of Roscosmos.
Samantha Cristoforetti and the rest of Crew-4 arrives at the International Space Station
Thursday, 28 April 2022 07:00ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Robert “Bob” Hines and Jessica Watkins arrive at the International Space Station after docking at 01:37 CEST on Thursday 28 April 2022.
Collectively known as Crew-4, the four astronauts were launched at 08:52 BST/09:52 CEST Wednesday 27 April from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida USA. Transit to the Station is expected to take under 24 hours.
Samantha is the third ESA astronaut to travel to the orbital outpost in a Crew Dragon. During the journey she and Jessica will serve as mission specialists. Kjell is Crew-4 Commander and Bob
AFRL'S new lab to accelerate hybrid space architecture
Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:32The Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Space Vehicles Directorate held a ribbon cutting ceremony April 12, 2022, to herald its newest facility, the Rapid Architecture Prototyping and Integration Development, or RAPID, laboratory that will provide better, faster and smarter space technology to our nation's warfighters. The $7,326 million lab is nearly 14,000 square feet and will develo
PAR Government teams up with BlackSky to deliver near real-time imagery
Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:32PAR Technology Corporation (NYSE: PAR) has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary PAR Government Systems Corporation (PGSC) has incorporated BlackSky's (NYSE: BKSY) commercial satellite data into the Sit(x) cloud-native situational awareness suite making it possible for tactical and operational end users to access near real-time imagery on the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK) mobile platform.
Could the blueprint for life have been generated in asteroids
Thursday, 28 April 2022 04:32Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to be discovered in samples from meteorites. While it is unlikely that DNA could be formed in a meteorite, this discovery demonstrates that these genetic parts are available for delivery and could have contributed to the development of the instructional molecules on early Earth
Inmarsat CEO issues warning over space sustainability with 'unmanaged expansion'
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05Rajeev Suri, Chief Executive Officer of Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, issued a stark warning Wednesday that unmanaged space sector expansion could exacerbate environmental damage, stifle innovation and undermine the long-term capability of satellites to help combat climate change. Addressing the Royal Aeronautical Society's conference 'Towards a Spa
Canada's first commercial spaceport lists on the NEO Exchange as Maritime Launch Services
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05NEO is proud to welcome Maritime Launch Services Inc., a Canadian-owned commercial space company, as they list today on the NEO Exchange. Maritime Launch is now available for trading on NEO under the symbol MAXQ. Maritime Launch is building a Spaceport in Nova Scotia, which is positioned to become a world-class commercial launch complex. The first of its kind in Canada, Spaceport Nova Scot
SpaceX launches NASA's Crew-4 to ISS after week-long delay
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05NASA and SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station early Wednesday. Crew-4 boarded a brand new Crew Dragon capsule and launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to the ISS at 3:52 a.m. EDT from launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins are joined by European Space Agency astronaut Samantha
Campaign #2: The Delta Front
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05This week on Mars, Perseverance officially began the "Delta Front Campaign." This second campaign of the mission commenced on April 18th, 2022, the 415th sol since landing. Each campaign represents a sub-portion of the Mars 2020 mission and is dedicated to exploring a distinct region, drilling designated sets of cores for possible future return to Earth, and taking numerous in situ science obser
Mars Helicopter spots landing rig and chute from Perseverance
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recently surveyed both the parachute that helped the agency's Perseverance rover land on Mars and the cone-shaped backshell that protected the rover in deep space and during its fiery descent toward the Martian surface on Feb. 18, 2021. Engineers with the Mars Sample Return program asked whether Ingenuity could provide this perspective. What resulted were 10 aeri
The instability at the beginning of the solar system
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05Michigan State University's Seth Jacobson and colleagues in China and France have unveiled a new theory that could help solve a galactic mystery of how our solar system evolved. Specifically, how did the gas giants - Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune - end up where they are, orbiting the sun like they do? The research also has implications for how terr
NASA gives boost to Boston University-led effort to model solar system's protective bubble
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05A Boston University-led team that has pioneered major advances in our understanding of the bubble protecting the solar system-and all life on Earth-has won a major new grant from NASA. The SHIELD (Solar wind with Hydrogen Ion Exchange and Large-scale Dynamics) DRIVE Science Center has been awarded a new five-year grant to continue advancing its breakthrough work in heliophysics, the study of how
China opens Shenzhou-13 return capsule
Thursday, 28 April 2022 02:05On Tuesday, China opened the return capsule of the Shenzhou-13 manned spaceship which carried three astronauts back to Earth on April 16, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). Items carried by the spacecraft, including crop seeds, 8K high-definition memory card storing images and videos taken by the astronauts in orbit, commemorative stamps, and paintings by Hong Kong teenager