Rocket debris fall back to Earth
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25
Debris of the recently launched Long March 5B carrier rocket of China fell back to the Earth and ended up in the Pacific Ocean early Sunday morning, with most of the remnants burnt up during the reentry process, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The debris' atmospheric reentry and crash took place around 12:55 am (Beijing time), the agency said in a brief statement, noting the touchdown Space travel: Bone aging in fast forward
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25
Long periods in space damage bone structure irreparably in some cases and can make parts of the human skeleton age prematurely by up to 10 years. This is what a sport scientist at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) has now discovered in conjunction with other researchers from Germany, Canada and the USA.
Adapted training programs in conjunction with medication could provide better prot Balloon fleet senses earthquakes from the stratosphere
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25
A new study in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the stratosphere. The technique could one day be applied on Venus, whose hot, dense and corrosive atmosphere limits our ability to sense Venus-quakes from the planet's surface. The balloons could also be used on Earth in hard-to-reach p China launches two more remote sensing satellites into orbit
Monday, 01 August 2022 13:25
China used a Long March 2D carrier rocket to launch several remote-sensing satellites on Friday night, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 9:28 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and soon placed the Yaogan 35-02 satellites, the third group of spacecrafts in the Yaogan 35 remot Space Force to take on bigger role planning future DoD space investments
Monday, 01 August 2022 10:46
As “integrator for joint space requirements" the Space Force will have to coordinate the wish lists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, and recommend how to meet future needs
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Isotropic Systems rebrands as All.Space and unveils latest terminal
Monday, 01 August 2022 07:00
Isotropic Systems is changing its name to All.Space as the British antenna manufacturer unveil its “fifth-generation smart terminal” to link cellular and satellite networks.
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No reported damage in Philippines from Chinese rocket debris
Monday, 01 August 2022 06:38
NASA, companies reject concerns over commercial space station development schedules
Monday, 01 August 2022 02:02
Both NASA and the companies selected by the agency to begin development of commercial space stations say they don’t share concerns raised by watchdogs that such stations may not be ready by the time the International Space Station is retired.
Roscosmos head revises comments about quitting ISS after 2024
Sunday, 31 July 2022 20:35
The new head of Russia’s space agency backed away from comments suggesting Russia would withdraw from the International Space Station as soon as 2024 but expressed doubts Russia would be involved through 2030.
Sneaky discovery sheds light on star death, black holes and gravity waves
Sunday, 31 July 2022 19:42
There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research.
Albert Einstein first published his book explaining the theory of general relativity - which postulated black holes - in 1922. One hundred years later, astronomers captured actual images of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. In a recent paper, a team of astronomers describes another exciti Scientists have systematized all the halos discovered over thousands of years of observations
Sunday, 31 July 2022 19:42
For the first time in the history of observations, scientists from the Helsinki and Ural Federal Universities Jarmo Moilanen and Maria Gritsevich have systematized information about all forms of atmospheric halos recorded by mankind at the end of 2021. From numerous sources of data on observations, the history of which includes 4-5 millennia, 119 different forms of atmospheric halo are known tod Next generation atomic clocks are a step closer to real world applications
Sunday, 31 July 2022 19:42
Quantum clocks are shrinking, thanks to new technologies developed at the University of Birmingham-led UK Quantum Technology Hub Sensors and Timing
Working in collaboration with and partly funded by the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl), a team of quantum physicists have devised new approaches that not only reduce the size of their clock, but also make it robust enough House appropriator discusses space priorities
Sunday, 31 July 2022 14:20
A key House member outlined his priorities for NASA and civil space activities that he says are necessary to compete in a new “space race” with China.
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Chinese booster rocket makes uncontrolled return to Earth
Sunday, 31 July 2022 08:19
A Chinese booster rocket made an uncontrolled return to Earth on Saturday, leading US officials to chide Beijing for not sharing information about the potentially hazardous object's descent.
US Space Command "can confirm the People's Republic of China (PRC) Long March 5B (CZ-5B) re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approx 10:45 am MDT on 7/30," the US military unit said on Twitter.
"We refer you to the #PRC for further details on the reentry's technical aspects such as potential debris dispersal+ impact location," it said.
In a statement posted to its official WeChat profile, the China Manned Space Agency later gave coordinates for an impact area in the Sulu Sea, about 35 miles (57 kilometers) off the east coast of the Philippines' Palawan Island.
"Most of its devices were ablated and destroyed during re-entry," the agency said of the booster rocket, which was used last Sunday to launch the second of three modules China needed to complete its new Tiangong space station.
ESA scaling back design of X-ray astronomy mission
Saturday, 30 July 2022 18:44
Faced within increasing costs, the European Space Agency is looking for ways to revise the design of a large X-ray space telescope, an effort that could have implications for NASA’s own astrophysics programs.
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