NASA's Lucy spacecraft prepares for second Earth gravity assist
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L3Harris ramps up satellite production in response to military demand
Thursday, 12 December 2024 14:00
Smile's other half arrives | Let’s Smile (action snippet)
Thursday, 12 December 2024 13:00
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On 9 December 2024, the Smile Platform arrived safely at Amsterdam Schiphol airport and was subsequently transported to ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. It came a long way, having travelled all the way from Shanghai, China.
This marks an important step in the Smile mission, as the spacecraft's two halves are now in the same location, ready to be joined together. Launching in around a year from now, Smile will study space weather and the interaction between the solar wind and Earth’s environment.
The Platform, built by the Chinese Academy of
Cofactr raises money to enhance supply chain and logistics platform
Thursday, 12 December 2024 12:00
Companies seek more support for Space Force’s commercial reserve initiative
Thursday, 12 December 2024 11:24
JPL completes investigation of Ingenuity’s final flight
Thursday, 12 December 2024 09:25
Pathfinder activity to pave the way for European very heavy reusable rocket
Thursday, 12 December 2024 09:24
Artemis Accords reach 50 signatories with Panama and Austria
Thursday, 12 December 2024 08:17
ESA to support Indian human spaceflight missions
Thursday, 12 December 2024 07:00
On 4 December 2024, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed an agreement that will see ESA provide ground station support to the missions in ISRO’s Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme.
High-altitude balloon ride offers new perspective for CAIRT
Thursday, 12 December 2024 06:30
A novel sensor that simulates the measurements that would be taken by one of the proposed satellites vying to be ESA’s eleventh Earth Explorer, has endured an extraordinary journey.
Carried aboard a high-altitude balloon on a four-day voyage from Sweden to Canada, the sensor provides new data that could help to refine the CAIRT mission concept – a mission that aims to unravel the complexities of Earth's atmosphere and enhance our understanding of climate dynamics.
3D printable bioreactor designs to support space nutrition
Thursday, 12 December 2024 00:53
NASA's Synthetic Biology Project is collaborating with the GrabCAD community to create innovative 3D-printable bioreactor designs. These bioreactors aim to reduce the mass and volume of supplies needed for extended space missions by enabling in-situ production of essential nutrients through reusable or recyclable solutions.
The project focuses on enhancing BioNutrient Production Packs, whi China observatory documents asteroid before entering Earth's atmosphere
Thursday, 12 December 2024 00:53
An astronomical observatory in Yunnan Province, southwest China, has successfully documented the rare event of a near-Earth asteroid falling to Earth, according to an announcement by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The Lijiang branch of the CAS Yunnan Observatories detected asteroid 2024 XA1 at 13:55 Beijing time on December 3 using its advanced 2.4-meter telescope. Hours later, at NASA administrator reaches for the stars while navigating budgets and politics
Thursday, 12 December 2024 00:53
Leaders of NASA sit in an awkward position. While they are the head of a widely recognized organization, they're often not the most famous individual in the agency. More people probably know the names of Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronauts currently "stranded" on the International Space Station, than Bill Nelson, the current NASA administrator.
Astronauts might be the people mo China's new Long March rockets to enable lunar and Mars missions
Thursday, 12 December 2024 00:53
China's next-generation Long March 10 carrier rocket will significantly boost the nation's capacity for manned lunar exploration, increasing its lunar transfer orbit payload from 8.2 tonnes to 27 tonnes, according to Long Lehao, a prominent rocket designer at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
Long explained that the Long March 10 is specifically being designed to suppo NASA's IXPE details shapes of structures at newly discovered black hole
Thursday, 12 December 2024 00:53
NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black hole - specifically, the disk of material swirling around it, and the shifting plasma region called the corona.
The stellar-mass black hole, part of the binary system Swift J1727.8-1613, was discovered in the summer of 2023 during an unusual brightening ev