Telespazio buys satellite systems engineering firm to push into UK market
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:30
Downloading NASA's dark matter data from above the clouds
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 19:00
Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system designed by scientists at the University of Sydney. The system allowed the retrieval of gigabytes of information, even after communication failed and the balloon-based telescope was damaged in the landing process.
In April, the Super Pressure Balloon Imaging Telescope (SuperBIT) was launched from Wānaka Airport, New Zealand, suspended under a helium-filled balloon the size of a sports stadium on top of the Earth's atmosphere, and floated around the world 5.5 times. Unfortunately, it was damaged on landing in southern Argentina the following month.
Separately, two Data Recovery System packages storing more than 200 gigabytes of SuperBIT's information descended by parachute and landed safely, including a map of dark matter around galaxies and stunning photos of space. Dark matter is an invisible substance that has a mass six times greater than regular matter in the universe.
U.S. advisory commission: Intense U.S-China rivalry is ‘the new normal’
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 16:24
Blast from the past: gamma-ray burst strikes Earth from distant exploding star
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 15:00
An enormous burst of gamma rays, detected by ESA’s Integral space telescope, has struck Earth. The blast caused a significant disturbance in our planet’s ionosphere. Such disturbances are usually associated with energetic particle events on the Sun but this one was the result of an exploding star almost two billion light-years away. Analysing the effects of the blast could provide information about the mass extinctions in Earth’s history.
Europe needs to be strategic with its space ambitions, DLR head says
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 14:17
Europe’s quantum decade extends into space
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 13:59
Europe – and the world – is in the midst of the ‘quantum decade’: a period in which the peculiar properties of matter that manifest at the very tiniest of scales are being transformed from mere scientific curiosities into the basis of practical technologies and products. The result? Major leaps forward in communications, navigation, computing and environmental sensing.
The same is true in space: ESA is currently sending a quantum-enabled probe to Jupiter, developing communications based on quantum technologies and planning flying a quantum clock to the International Space Station, as part of its quantum technology cross-cutting
Quantum Space reveals plan for Scout-1 satellite and Sentry mission
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 12:00
Big bang: Dutch firm eyes space baby
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 08:20
Climate crises, nuclear Armageddon, or a sudden meteor strike - it's clear humanity could do with Planet B. But first we need to learn to reproduce safely in space, says Dutch entrepreneur Egbert Edelbroek.
Edelbroek's firm, Spaceborn United, is pioneering space sex research, with the eventual aim of natural conception and birth in the partial gravity environment found on Mars.
The chal Lost in space: $100,000 tool bag from NASA spacewalk
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 08:20
Every construction worker who ever accidentally left their tools at their worksite now has something in common with NASA astronauts, who lost a tool bag worth $100,000 during a spacewalk on Nov. 1, the space agency announced.
The white satchel, which can now be seen orbiting the Earth with a telescope or a good pair of binoculars, is hovering about 200 miles above the planet. The bag el Intuitive Machines planning up to three lunar lander missions in 2024
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 07:44
UTA developing more powerful rocket engines for space travel
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:48
A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher has received a NASA grant to use rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs) for in-space propulsion to make them more efficient, compact and powerful. Liwei Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), will lead the $900,000 project.
"Detonation is very fast combustion. Inside an RDRE, China develops 'GoMars' Model for enhanced Mars mission planning
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:48
Chinese scientists have taken a significant leap in Mars exploration technology by developing a comprehensive numerical model, "GoMars," to simulate Mars' atmospheric environment. This advancement is particularly crucial for the upcoming Tianwen 3 mission, scheduled around 2028, aimed at returning Martian samples to Earth. The study detailing this model was recently published in the Chinese Scie AI Chemist creates Mars-compatible oxygen catalyst from meteorites
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:48
The dream of colonizing Mars has taken a significant leap forward thanks to groundbreaking research led by scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). This research, recently published in Nature Synthesis, outlines a novel method for synthesizing oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts using Martian meteorites, driven by an Gemini North peers deeper into the dust with new instrument
Tuesday, 14 November 2023 04:48
Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new IGRINS-2 instrument. This next-generation spectrograph is an upgraded version of the high-demand visiting instrument IGRINS on Gemini South that will expand our understanding of cosmic objects shrouded by dust and gas.
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