China releases new-generation spacecraft OS
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:57
Beijing (XNA) Jan 26, 2022
China has released SpaceOS III, a new-generation operating system for spacecraft.
Developed by the Beijing Institute of Control Engineering under China Academy of Space Technology, the operating system has independent intellectual property rights. Earlier versions of SpaceOS have been used in more than 300 spacecraft.
According to SpaceOS developers, the system boasts outstanding rel
China has released SpaceOS III, a new-generation operating system for spacecraft.
Developed by the Beijing Institute of Control Engineering under China Academy of Space Technology, the operating system has independent intellectual property rights. Earlier versions of SpaceOS have been used in more than 300 spacecraft.
According to SpaceOS developers, the system boasts outstanding rel NASA's MRO Finds Water Flowed on Mars Longer Than Previously Thought
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:57
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 27, 2022
Mars once rippled with rivers and ponds billions of years ago, providing a potential habitat for microbial life. As the planet's atmosphere thinned over time, that water evaporated, leaving the frozen desert world that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) studies today.
It's commonly believed that Mars' water evaporated about 3 billion years ago. But two scientists studying data that M
Mars once rippled with rivers and ponds billions of years ago, providing a potential habitat for microbial life. As the planet's atmosphere thinned over time, that water evaporated, leaving the frozen desert world that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) studies today.
It's commonly believed that Mars' water evaporated about 3 billion years ago. But two scientists studying data that M Mysterious object unlike anything astronomers have seen before
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:57
Perth, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2022
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.
The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf-collapsed cores of stars-with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.
Spinning around in space, the strange object sends out
A team mapping radio waves in the Universe has discovered something unusual that releases a giant burst of energy three times an hour, and it's unlike anything astronomers have seen before.
The team who discovered it think it could be a neutron star or a white dwarf-collapsed cores of stars-with an ultra-powerful magnetic field.
Spinning around in space, the strange object sends out Instant turn-over of magnetism by gyro motion of relativistic electrons
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:57
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2022
Magnetic fields are detected throughout the universe and widely participate in astrophysical dynamics. Various fundamental phenomena, including coronal mass ejections, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts and pulsar winds, are dominated by variations in magnetic fields.
Although the mechanisms involved in the origin of magnetic fields in space are still uncertain, one of the widely accepted plau
Magnetic fields are detected throughout the universe and widely participate in astrophysical dynamics. Various fundamental phenomena, including coronal mass ejections, solar flares, gamma-ray bursts and pulsar winds, are dominated by variations in magnetic fields.
Although the mechanisms involved in the origin of magnetic fields in space are still uncertain, one of the widely accepted plau Tiny but very large wavelength perturbations solve Hubble Tension
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:57
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 27, 2022
It is generally believed that the Universe is isotropic and homogeneous on large distance scales, i.e., there is no preferred position or direction in the Universe. This hypothesis forms the basis of the standard Big Bang cosmology and is called the cosmological principle (CP). It implies that the Universe is expanding and, to a good approximation, has exactly the same properties at all spatial
It is generally believed that the Universe is isotropic and homogeneous on large distance scales, i.e., there is no preferred position or direction in the Universe. This hypothesis forms the basis of the standard Big Bang cosmology and is called the cosmological principle (CP). It implies that the Universe is expanding and, to a good approximation, has exactly the same properties at all spatial Island in a lake of lava - the Martian volcano Jovis Tholus
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:57
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 27, 2022
These images, created using data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, show the Jovis Tholus volcano and various other landscape features, such as tectonic faults, impact craters and solidified lava flows, in the Tharsis region of Mars. The Tharsis uplift, which is several kilometres high, was one of the most active volcanic regions near the Ma
These images, created using data acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, show the Jovis Tholus volcano and various other landscape features, such as tectonic faults, impact craters and solidified lava flows, in the Tharsis region of Mars. The Tharsis uplift, which is several kilometres high, was one of the most active volcanic regions near the Ma Ariane 6 central core set for assembly
Friday, 28 January 2022 09:00
The lower stage of ESA’s next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle has been installed on the assembly line at Europe’s Spaceport behind the upper stage. It is now time to join the two horizontally to create the central core of Ariane 6 in readiness for the first combined tests on the launch pad.
Earth from Space: Lesotho
Friday, 28 January 2022 08:00
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over northwest Lesotho – a small, land-locked country surrounded entirely by South Africa.
Toyota heading to moon with cruiser, robotic arms, dreams
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:40![Toyota heading to moon with cruiser, robotic arms, dreams](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2022/toyota-heading-to-moon.jpg "This graphic illustration provided by Toyota Motor Corp. shows a vehicle called "Lunar Cruiser" to explore the lunar surface. Toyota is working with Japan's space agency on the Lunar Cruiser to explore the lunar surface, with ambitions to help people live on the moon by 2040 and then go live on Mars, company officials said Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. Credit: Toyota Motor Corp. via AP")
Out of Pebble Purgatory
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:26
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2022
The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover's bit carousel are gone but not forgotten. I'll give you the latest on why they are gone and then tell you why we are not forgetting them - or the two other pebbles that made our first month of 2022 a busy one.
We had more than a suspicion the rocks had departed the Perseverance rover on Sunday when imagery of the bit carousel came dow
The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover's bit carousel are gone but not forgotten. I'll give you the latest on why they are gone and then tell you why we are not forgetting them - or the two other pebbles that made our first month of 2022 a busy one.
We had more than a suspicion the rocks had departed the Perseverance rover on Sunday when imagery of the bit carousel came dow US issues visa to Russian ISS cosmonaut
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:26
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2022
The United States has issued a visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub to undergo training in Texas before his flight to the International Space Station (ISS) after refusing him one last week, the Russian state space agency, Roscosmos, said on Wednesday.
"The United States has issued an entry visa to Roscosmos cosmonaut Nikolai Chub. The cosmonaut is headed to the United States for training
The United States has issued a visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub to undergo training in Texas before his flight to the International Space Station (ISS) after refusing him one last week, the Russian state space agency, Roscosmos, said on Wednesday.
"The United States has issued an entry visa to Roscosmos cosmonaut Nikolai Chub. The cosmonaut is headed to the United States for training Caltech names Laurie Leshin Director of JPL
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:26
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2022
Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has been appointed director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and vice president of Caltech. Leshin will formally assume her position on May 16, 2022, succeeding Michael Watkins, who retired in August 2021, and Lt. Gen. Larry D. James USAF (Ret.), who currently serves as JPL interim director.
She joins JPL from WPI, on
Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has been appointed director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and vice president of Caltech. Leshin will formally assume her position on May 16, 2022, succeeding Michael Watkins, who retired in August 2021, and Lt. Gen. Larry D. James USAF (Ret.), who currently serves as JPL interim director.
She joins JPL from WPI, on SpaceX scrubs launch of Italian satellite from Florida, will try again Friday
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:26
Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 28, 2022
SpaceX on Thursday scrubbed its planned launch of an Italian Earth-observation satellite, the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation 2 and said it plans to try again Friday.
"Due to unfavorable weather, now targeting Friday, January 28 at 6:11 p.m. EST for launch of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2," the company tweeted.
SpaceX plans to launch the satellite aboard the Falcon 9 rocket from
SpaceX on Thursday scrubbed its planned launch of an Italian Earth-observation satellite, the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation 2 and said it plans to try again Friday.
"Due to unfavorable weather, now targeting Friday, January 28 at 6:11 p.m. EST for launch of COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2," the company tweeted.
SpaceX plans to launch the satellite aboard the Falcon 9 rocket from Israel Signs Artemis Accords
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:26
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022
In becoming the first country to sign the Artemis Accords in 2022, Israel affirmed its commitment to a common set of principles to guide cooperation among nations participating in 21st century space exploration.
"Israel already has demonstrated its commitment to Artemis with the contribution of the AstroRad radiation protection vest on Artemis I, scheduled to launch this spring," said NASA
In becoming the first country to sign the Artemis Accords in 2022, Israel affirmed its commitment to a common set of principles to guide cooperation among nations participating in 21st century space exploration.
"Israel already has demonstrated its commitment to Artemis with the contribution of the AstroRad radiation protection vest on Artemis I, scheduled to launch this spring," said NASA Scientists make a new type of optical device using alumina
Friday, 28 January 2022 07:26
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 28, 2022
Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota, Tomotake Matsumura and Shaul Hanany, and their collaborators have made a new type of optical element that will improve the performance of telescopes studying radiation from the Big Bang.
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relic radiation remnant from the big bang. It
Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota, Tomotake Matsumura and Shaul Hanany, and their collaborators have made a new type of optical element that will improve the performance of telescopes studying radiation from the Big Bang.
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a relic radiation remnant from the big bang. It