Northrop Grumman planning Cygnus upgrades
Thursday, 03 August 2023 10:49
Northrop Grumman is planning upgrades to its Cygnus cargo vehicle, such as increased payload capacity, to support both the International Space Station and future commercial space stations.
Just add AI for smarter satnav... from rogue drone detection to safer driving
Thursday, 03 August 2023 07:54
With our society producing more data than ever before, Artificial Intelligence, AI, is allowing us to gather, analyse and make use of it in novel ways, including in space programmes. Now AI is also being applied to satellite navigation by the engineering teams of ESA’s NAVISP programme, working with European industry and academia to invent the future of navigation. The result is a growing portfolio of prototype services, variously employed to improve space and Earth weather forecasting, enhance the performance of autonomous cars and boats, and help identify rogue drones in sensitive airspace.
Simulating Aeolus’s demise: a bird’s eye view
Thursday, 03 August 2023 07:30
Aeolus’s mission is over, but weather forecasting is improved forever, and a new precedent has been set for safe satellite reentries. The trailblazing Earth Explorer returned through our atmosphere on 28 July, following the path it was guided on by ESA’s mission control over Earth’s most uninhabited regions, finally disintegrating over the Antarctic.
A week-long series of manoeuvres led to this point. They had never been performed before and pushed the satellite to its limits. Aeolus was never designed to fly at such low altitudes – its thrusters and fuel reserves were
Recycling parts for life on the Moon
Thursday, 03 August 2023 07:19
Probing the origin and evolution of water-rich asteroids
Thursday, 03 August 2023 02:07
More than half the work of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt is expected to be performed by UAE companies.
U.S. intelligence agency selects vendors for space debris tracking project
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 18:14
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity selected four vendors to develop technologies and new approaches for tracking small debris objects in space.
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Startup iRocket signs agreement to develop and test hardware at U.S. Air Force facility
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 13:00
Innovative Rocket Technologies, known as iRocket, has signed an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory to jointly develop and test rocket propulsion hardware.
Voyager Space and Airbus create commercial space station joint venture
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:54
Voyager Space is joining forces with Airbus Defence and Space on a joint venture for the development of the Starlab commercial space station.
Airbus partners with Voyager Space to build ISS replacement
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:39
Science enabling heat and air conditioning for long-term space habitats is almost fully available
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:39
Frosty the ChemCam: Sols 3902-3904
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:39
Pixxel lands iDEX funding for miniaturized satellites development
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:39
NASA hears 'heartbeat' from Voyager 2 after inadvertant blackout
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:39
Alabama Republicans blast decision to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado
Wednesday, 02 August 2023 10:39