Bridenstine, departing NASA, hopes Artemis continues
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 10:39
WASHINGTON — Jim Bridenstine used part of his final full day as NASA administrator to call on the incoming administration to continue the Artemis program and return humans to the moon.
A Jan. 19 briefing on the Green Run static-fire test of the Space Launch System three days earlier became an opportunity for Bridenstine, who leaves the agency Jan.
Rocket Lab launches secretive communications satellite for OHB
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 09:40
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched a communications satellite for German company OHB Group Jan. 20 in the first Electron mission of the year.
The Electron lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 at Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand, at 2:26 a.m.
Alabama museum to restore full-sized mockup of space shuttle
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 09:00
Tests prove carbon-fibre fuel tank for Phoebus upper stage
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 09:00
Recent tests show that lightweight carbon-fibre reinforced plastic is strong enough to replace metal used in upper-stage rocket structures. This is an important milestone in Europe for the development of a prototype of a highly-optimised ‘black’ upper stage, Phoebus, a joint initiative by MT Aerospace and ArianeGroup, funded by ESA.
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Seeing in a flash New Year, New Record for Australia's Gilmour Space
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:51
Australia's leading rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has ushered in the New Year with a successful hotfire of the world's largest single-port hybrid rocket engine. [See video]
"We achieved a record 91 kilonewtons (or 9 tonnes-force) of thrust in this initial verification test of our main engine," said Adam Gilmour, CEO and co-founder of Gilmour Space, a Queensland-based company NanoAvionics' built satellite for Aurora Insight to fly on SpaceX's Transporter 1 mission
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:51
NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has announced that the first of two nanosatellites, built and integrated for US radio frequency spectrum and wireless data provider Aurora Insight, will be part of SpaceX's "Transporter 1" rideshare launch onboard a Falcon 9.
The nanosatellite, nicknamed "Charlie", forms one half of the two-satellite mission con Florida's Space Coast the Number 1 Launch Site in the World in 2020
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:51
Historical launches like the return to crewed space flight and Mars2020 helped propel Florida's Space Coast to their busiest launch year in decades, putting the region on the top of the list for launch activity in the world.
In 2020, 31 successful attempts flew from Florida's Space Coast surpassing the record in 1966 of 29 successful launches out of 31 orbital attempts and two suborbital a Analyzing different solid states of water on other planets and moons
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:51
Just like on Earth, water on other planets, satellites, and even comets comes in a variety of forms depending on multiple factors such as pressure and temperature. Aside from the gaseous, liquid, and solid states we are accustomed to, water can form a different type of crystalline solid called clathrate hydrate.
Although they look similar to ice, clathrate hydrates have actually small wate China's space station core module, cargo craft pass factory review
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:51
The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said Thursday.
The completion of the factory review, conducted by experts at China's manned space program, means the construction project of the Solar activity reconstructed over a millennium
Tuesday, 19 January 2021 02:51
What goes on in the sun can only be observed indirectly. Sunspots, for instance, reveal the degree of solar activity - the more sunspots are visible on the surface of the sun, the more active is our central star deep inside. Even though sunspots have been known since antiquity, they have only been documented in detail since the invention of the telescope around 400 years ago.
Thanks to tha Biden’s Defense nominee embraces view of space as a domain of war
Monday, 18 January 2021 23:47
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for defense secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers Jan. 19 that China is the United States’ “most concerning competitor” and in written testimony identified space as a growing national security concern.
NASA explores solar wind with new view of small sun structures
Monday, 18 January 2021 21:06
Former U.S. Air Force secretary Heather Wilson joins Maxar’s board of directors
Monday, 18 January 2021 20:13
WASHINGTON — Former secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson has joined the board of directors of Maxar Technologies, the company announced Jan. 19.
Wilson currently is president of the University of Texas El Paso.
Testing the waters: Analyzing different solid states of water on other planets and moons
Monday, 18 January 2021 19:35
Just like on Earth, water on other planets, satellites, and even comets comes in a variety of forms depending on multiple factors such as pressure and temperature.