Earth Blox delivers climate and nature analytics at scale through Google Cloud Marketplace
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Jan 09, 2024
Sustainability reporting SaaS company Earth Blox has announced its availability on Google Cloud Marketplace. The company provides customers with a scalable and customisable platform to rapidly assess climate and nature-related risks and impacts for millions of assets and facilities worldwide.
Google Cloud Marketplace lets users quickly deploy functional software packages that run on Google

Aurora Flight Sciences to build DARPA's X-65 utilizing Active Flow Control
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2024
Aurora Flight Sciences has been chosen by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to construct a groundbreaking full-scale X-plane. This aircraft, named the X-65, will serve as a technology demonstrator within the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. This initiative marks a significant shift in the realm of aircraft design, moving away from tradit

ISRO's Aditya-L1 enters Halo Orbit for Solar Studies
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 10, 2024
India's ambitious journey into solar exploration has achieved a significant milestone. The Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) maiden solar mission, Aditya-L1, has successfully reached its designated orbit in space, enabling continuous observation of the Sun. This achievement marks a critical step in India's expanding space exploration capabilities.
Launched in early September last

Rocket Lab secures $515M contract with Space Development Agency for Tranche 2 constellation
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2024
Rocket Lab USA has recently embarked on a significant venture, having been selected by the Space Development Agency (SDA) for a major project. The company is now under contract to design and build 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites (T2TL - Beta), marking a pivotal moment in its expansion as a prime contractor in satellite technology.
The firm-fixed price agreement

Sidus Marks Key Progress in AI sat tech ahead of LizzieSat-1 launch
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 10, 2024
As Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU) gears up for the launch of its ambitious satellite constellation, the company has announced achieving several critical milestones in both Artificial Intelligence (AI) and hardware, setting the stage for the March 2024 launch of LizzieSat-1. This satellite is poised to be a part of the SpaceX Transporter-10 mission, slated to take off from the Vandenberg Space Force

Ready for Contact Science: Sols 4062-4063
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2024
Earth planning date: Monday, January 8, 2024: With a successful bump backwards over the weekend, Curiosity is now positioned to execute contact science on a flat block of dark-toned bedrock in its workspace and continue investigating the composition and texture of the dark bands we've been observing from orbit. Our two-sol plan starts with a DAN passive, followed by brushing of the contact scien

NASA's Webb Finds Signs of Possible Aurorae on Isolated Brown Dwarf
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 16:47
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2024
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have found a brown dwarf (an object more massive than Jupiter but smaller than a star) with infrared emission from methane, likely due to energy in its upper atmosphere. This is an unexpected discovery because the brown dwarf, W1935, is cold and lacks a host star; therefore, there is no obvious source for the upper atmosphere energy. The team s

Micro-world within atomic clock
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 13:22
Watch live: ESA Director General’s annual press briefing
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 08:27
Join ESA's start-of-the-year press briefing with Director General Josef Aschbacher on 11 January from 10:00 CET.
Help ESA pave the way for a space circular economy
Wednesday, 10 January 2024 07:54
ESA plans to implement a circular economy in space by 2050. To achieve this, we are looking for creative solutions to contribute to greater sustainability in space activities.
Private US lunar lander faces failure after 'critical' fuel loss
Tuesday, 09 January 2024 19:17
Washington (AFP) Jan 9, 2024
A historic private mission to land on the Moon faced near-certain failure Monday after the spacecraft suffered a "critical loss" of fuel, dealing a major blow to America's hopes of placing its first robot on the lunar surface in five decades.
Fixed to the top of United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket, which was making its first flight, Astrobotic's Peregrine Lunar Lander blasted off over

China says successfully launches Einstein Probe satellite
Tuesday, 09 January 2024 19:17
Beijing (AFP) Jan 9, 2024
China on Tuesday successfully launched a satellite, state broadcaster CCTV said.
"At 3:03 pm Beijing time on January 9, 2024, China successfully launched the Einstein Probe satellite," CCTV reported.
The launch triggered immediate concern in Taiwan, where authorities issued emergency phone alerts, warning the public to "please beware of your safety".
The Einstein Probe set off from t

Rocket Lab to launch Space Situational Awareness mission for Spire and NorthStar
Tuesday, 09 January 2024 19:17
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2024
Rocket Lab USA has announced the launch window for its inaugural mission of 2024, the 'Four of a Kind' mission, which is set to deploy four cutting-edge Space Situational Awareness (SSA) satellites. The launch, scheduled no earlier than January 18, will take place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand between 19:15-20:00 NZT (06:15-07:00 UTC).
These satellites, the result of a co

NOAA Approves Sidus Space for Government and Commercial Earth Imaging
Tuesday, 09 January 2024 19:17
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2024`
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: SIDU), a prominent player in the satellite technology sector, has achieved a significant breakthrough with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) granting them a Tier 1 remote sensing license. This license is a testament to Sidus Space's advanced capabilities, particularly in Panchromatic (PAN) and Shortwave Infrared (SWIR) imaging technologies, and
