Shenzhou 18 crew conducts first spacewalk
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:40The Shenzhou XVIII crew conducted their first spacewalk outside the Tiangong space station on Tuesday, completing several assignments, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a news release that mission commander Senior Colonel Ye Guangfu and crew member Lieutenant Colonel Li Guangsu returned to the Wentian science module at 6:58 pm after floating nearly eight and a
Study: Under extreme impacts, metals get stronger when heated
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 20:40Metals get softer when they are heated, which is how blacksmiths can form iron into complex shapes by heating it red hot. And anyone who compares a copper wire with a steel coat hanger will quickly discern that copper is much more pliable than steel. But scientists at MIT have discovered that when metal is struck by an object moving at a super high velocity, the opposite happens: The hotte
FCC chair proposes new rules for accidental space explosion risk
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:46Successful engine test boosts Vega-C toward return-to-flight
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 18:22GOP senator calls for boosting Space Force capabilities to counter China
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 16:42New technique offers more precise maps of the moon's surface
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 16:24NASA to measure moonquakes with help from InSight Mars mission
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 15:12The technology behind the two seismometers that make up NASA's Farside Seismic Suite was used to detect more than a thousand Red Planet quakes.
The most sensitive instrument ever built to measure quakes and meteor strikes on other worlds is getting closer to its journey to the mysterious far side of the moon.
Sea-based launch startup scores $2.5 million Pentagon contract
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 13:57Fly across Nili Fossae with ESA’s Mars Express
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 12:00Mars’s surface is covered in all manner of scratches and scars. Its many marks include the fingernail scratches of Tantalus Fossae, the colossal canyon system of Valles Marineris, the oddly orderly ridges of Angustus Labyrinthus, and the fascinating features captured in today’s video release from Mars Express: the cat scratches of Nili Fossae.
Nili Fossae comprises parallel trenches hundreds of metres deep and several hundred kilometres long, stretching out along the eastern edge of a massive impact crater named Isidis Planitia.
This new video features observations from Mars Express's High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). It first flies northwards towards and
LEOcloud to send Space Edge datacenter to ISS
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 12:00Virtual flying lessons for Hera asteroid mission
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:47As ESA’s Hera spacecraft for planetary defence goes through pre-flight testing, the system that will steer it around its target binary asteroid system is also undergoing its final checks for space.
Verizon plots $100 million direct-to-smartphone satellite investment
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 10:30Open Cosmos wins Greek government satellite contract
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 10:15Chang’e-6 set for weekend landing attempt as sun rises over Apollo crater
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 07:49World's first wooden satellite built by Japan researchers
Wednesday, 29 May 2024 06:40The world's first wooden satellite has been built by Japanese researchers who said their tiny cuboid craft will be blasted off on a SpaceX rocket in September.
Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures just 10 centimeters (four inches).
The creators expect the wooden material will burn up completely when the device re-enters the atmosphere—potentially providing a way to avoid the generation of metal particles when a retired satellite returns to Earth.
These metal particles could have a negative impact on the environment and telecommunications, the developers said as they announced the satellite's completion on Tuesday.
"Satellites that are not made of metal should become mainstream," Takao Doi, an astronaut and special professor at Kyoto University, told a press conference.