Viasat buying Inmarsat in $7.3 billion deal
Monday, 08 November 2021 12:34
Viasat has agreed to buy British satellite fleet operator Inmarsat in a $7.3 billion deal to expand its broadband network globally in multiple orbits and spectrum bands.
Space tracking startup Privateer hires Jah as chief scientific adviser
Monday, 08 November 2021 11:23
A space sustainability startup still largely in stealth mode has hired a leading “space environmentalist” as its chief scientific adviser as it develops satellites to track objects in orbit.
Astronaut becomes first Chinese woman to spacewalk
Monday, 08 November 2021 09:44
Astronaut Wang Yaping became the first Chinese woman to walk in space, authorities said Monday, as her team completed a six-hour stint outside the Tiangong space station as part of its ongoing construction.
Tiangong - meaning "heavenly palace" - is the latest achievement in China's drive to become a major space power, after landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the Moon.
Its co High winds delay ISS astronauts' return to Earth
Monday, 08 November 2021 09:44
A capsule carrying four astronauts home will leave the International Space Station on Monday rather than Sunday, NASA said, blaming high winds at the landing site for the delay.
The group including France's Thomas Pesquet, Japan's Akihiko Hoshide and US spacefarers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will undock at 1905 GMT on Monday.
"Due to high winds near the splashdown zone, the Crew- Thomas returns to Earth – watch live
Monday, 08 November 2021 09:01
After almost 200 days in space it is time to return to planet Earth for ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide and NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur.
China's 1st woman to spacewalk works 6 hours outside station
Monday, 08 November 2021 08:34
High wind delays SpaceX crew homecoming after 6 months aloft
Monday, 08 November 2021 08:33
Stars and solar panels from Space Station
Sunday, 07 November 2021 20:00
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Timelapse video made during ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet’s second mission to the International Space Station, “Alpha”. The camera is setup to take pictures at intervals of two a second, and the pictures are then edited into this video that plays at 25 pictures a second. The camera was setup in the Japanese Kibo module and shows the solar arrays moving as they prepare to track the Sun when the Space Station flies back into sunlight. The new IROSA solar array upgrades can be seen that Thomas and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough installed over the course of three
Space Station tour with your guide Thomas, in 4K (in French with subtitles)
Sunday, 07 November 2021 16:00
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JoinESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on a tour of the International Space Station. On his second space mission Alpha, Thomas flew to space from Florida, USA, as part of Crew-2 in the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour together with NASA astronauts Megan McArthur, Shane Kimbrough and JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide
In this guided tour, a first shot in 4K, Thomas takes you through the modules of the International Space Station including the Dragon. Recorded in October 2021 the Space Station had just seen the departure of Soyuz MS-18 and the relocation of a Progress supply spacecraft. On board where also NASA
Space Development Agency to release new solicitation for constellation ground segment
Sunday, 07 November 2021 15:23
The Space Development Agency in early 2022 will seek bids for the ground segment portion of its low-Earth orbit constellation.
Crew-2 undocking delayed a day
Sunday, 07 November 2021 13:04
NASA has delayed the undocking of a Crew Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station by a day because of high winds at splashdown locations in the Gulf of Mexico, a move that won’t affect the launch of the next crew to the station.
NASA takes additional steps to investigate Hubble in safe mode
Sunday, 07 November 2021 07:21
NASA is continuing work to resolve an issue that has suspended science operations on the Hubble Space Telescope. The science instruments entered a safe mode configuration on Oct. 25 after detecting a loss of specific data synchronization messages.
The Hubble team is focusing its efforts to isolate the problem on hardware that commands the instruments and is part of the Science Instrument C Tidying up planetary nurseries
Sunday, 07 November 2021 07:21
A group of astronomers, led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, propose and have tested a mechanism that explains most of the properties observed in dispersing planet-forming disks around newborn stars for the first time. The key ingredients to this new physical concept are X-ray emissions from the central star and a calm inner disk, well shielded from the incident radiati NASA plans crashing spacecraft into asteroid to study Earth-impact defense
Sunday, 07 November 2021 07:21
NASA plans to launch a spacecraft as early as Nov. 23 and crash it into an asteroid next year so scientists can try to understand how to redirect dangerous space objects away from potential catastrophic Earth collisions.
The mission is NASA's first flight demonstration for planetary defense, space agency officials said.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, is scheduled for