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A NASA mission to return samples from one near Earth asteroid will get an extended mission to visit a second asteroid under a plan approved by the agency April 25.

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Launched back in 2018, Aeolus has outlived its 36-month in-orbit design life – but going above and beyond, it continues to deliver excellent data. This shows that there’s life yet in the satellite, meaning ESA’s wind mission is now expected to continue shining a light on the wind for another year.

Maxwell AFB AL (The Conversation) Apr 22, 2022
Even during times of conflict on the ground, space has historically been an arena of collaboration among nations. But trends in the past decade suggest that the nature of cooperation in space is shifting, and fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine has highlighted these changes. I'm an international relations scholar who studies power distributions in space - who the main players are, wh

San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2022
Planet Labs and Moody's have entered into an agreement to explore and address the growing demand for assessing and monitoring solutions on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks. The companies will look to address how Planet's high-cadence geospatial data and Moody's market-leading entity data, methodologies, and products can be leveraged to further refine Moody's existing offer

Luxembourg (SPX) Apr 26, 2022
Kleos Space has announced a new product offering, access to dedicated, taskable RF Reconnaissance satellite capacity i.e. a Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS). Kleos says it is diversifying its business model to include Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) capability, providing customers with exclusive access to Kleos' dedicated, in-orbit radio frequency reconnaissance satellite clusters for fixed periods of ti

Herndon VA (SPX) Apr 25, 2022
BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) upgraded its site monitoring capabilities with new analytics and imaging features to meet customers' varied needs for information gathering and intelligence across geographically diverse environments. "BlackSky released new imaging and analysis upgrades that, when combined with our high-revisit satellite imaging capabilities, will make monitoring the world's most crit

University Park PA (SPX) Apr 25, 2022
Electronics employing wide bandgap semiconductors promise better resistance against radiation damage over conventional silicon-based electronics, according to a newly funded national collaboration led by Penn State. To better predict and mitigate radiation-induced damage of wide bandgap semiconductors, the U.S. Department of Defense awarded the team a five-year, $7.5 million Defense Multidiscipl

The National Reconnaissance Office has issued contracts to satisfy immediate needs for commercial satellite data, while drafting requirements to bring commercial capabilities into an integrated architecture that includes classified U.S. government systems.

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