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YPSat’s trial by vacuum RS21 earns patent for AI-based monitoring
Friday, 10 March 2023 13:00
RS21's artificial intelligence-based software called Space Prognostic AI Custodian Ecosystem, or SPAICE, is aimed at improving satellite monitoring.
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Galileo: no way without time
Friday, 10 March 2023 12:55
Europe’s Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, providing metre-level accuracy and very precise timing to its four billion users. An essential ingredient to ensure this stays the case are the atomic clocks aboard each satellite, delivering pinpoint timekeeping that is maintained to a few billionths of a second. These clocks are called atomic because their ‘ticks’ come from ultra-rapid, ultra-stable oscillation of atoms between different energy states. Sustaining this performance demands, in turn, even more accurate clocks down on the ground to keep the satellites synchronised and ensure stability of time and positioning for
Inspiring mocktail menu served up by Space Juice winners
Friday, 10 March 2023 12:00
An impressive 70 mocktail recipes representing a wide range of flavours of ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission were submitted to the Agency’s #SpaceJuice competition in January.
Galileo on the ground – infographic
Friday, 10 March 2023 11:56
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Galileo on the ground – infographic Momentus preparing for Vigoride thruster test as it ships next vehicle
Friday, 10 March 2023 10:39
In-space transportation company Momentus is gearing up for a key test of one orbital transfer vehicle as it ships another for launch next month.
China is developing a quantum communications satellite network
Friday, 10 March 2023 09:11
Chinese research institutes are working to construct a quantum communications network using satellites in low and medium-to-high Earth orbits.
Earth from Space: Graham Coast, Antarctica
Friday, 10 March 2023 08:00
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The icy landscape of Graham Coast, which lies on the west side of the Antarctic Peninsula, is featured in this Copernicus Sentinel-2 image. Seed funding sends European software into orbit
Friday, 10 March 2023 07:00
“You can read everything there is to know about driving a car, but you won’t really understand what it’s like to drive one until you get behind the wheel. That’s what it’s like to fly your software in orbit,” says David Evans, ESA’s OPS-SAT Space Lab manager.
Over the last year, 12 project teams have had the chance to experience this first hand thanks to a combination of seed funding from the Discovery element of ESA's Basic Activities and access to ESA’s experimental OPS-SAT CubeSat.
Hughes unveils Jupiter 3
Friday, 10 March 2023 04:27
Hughes Network System unveiled Jupiter 3, a massive geostationary communications satellite built by Maxar Technologies.
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Atlas joins forces with Viasat RTE
Friday, 10 March 2023 01:05
Through a partnership with Viasat Real-Time Earth, Atlas Space Operations will expand its antenna network and offer customers access to larger antennas.
SpaceX completes final dedicated launch for OneWeb
Thursday, 09 March 2023 23:30
SpaceX deployed 40 more satellites for OneWeb March 9 in its third and final dedicated mission for the British broadband operator, which is now just one launch away from having enough spacecraft to provide global services.
3D bioprinter to print human meniscus on the space station
Thursday, 09 March 2023 20:35
The knee is not only one of the largest and most complex joints in the body—it is also easily injured. In fact, one of the most common orthopedic injuries is the tearing of the meniscus, a half-moon-shaped piece of cartilage in the knee. Each knee has two menisci that allow the joint to move freely. Current treatments for a torn meniscus are less than ideal, involving removing or repairing the torn segment, which can ultimately lead to increased risk of arthritis or knee replacement, as the affected joint loses its cushioning.
To improve patient care on Earth and develop more effective ways of treating torn tissues, researchers from Redwire Space are turning to the microgravity environment of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory.
Redwire's upgraded BioFabrication Facility (or BFF) launched to the space station in November.
NASA to reveal crew members in April for flight around Moon
Thursday, 09 March 2023 20:29
NASA will announce the names next month of the four astronauts—three Americans and one Canadian—who will fly around the Moon next year, the head of the US space agency said Thursday.
NASA administrator Bill Nelson said the crew members of the mission known as Artemis 2 would be revealed on April 3.
"Astronauts—three from America and one from Canada—will fly around the moon and they'll test NASA's Space Launch System, which is our rocket, and the spacecraft called Orion," Nelson said.
The first Artemis mission wrapped up in December with an uncrewed Orion capsule returning safely to Earth after a 25-day journey around the Moon.
Artemis 2, scheduled to take place in late November 2024, will take a four-person crew around the Moon but without landing on it.
The ambitious program aims to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the historic Apollo missions ended in 1972.
‘Space resilience’ highlighted in Biden’s proposed defense budget
Thursday, 09 March 2023 20:16
The Biden administration on March 9 unveiled its proposed spending plan for fiscal year 2024 that includes $842 billion for the Defense Department — an increase of $26 billion or 3.2 percent above what Congress enacted in 2023.