Space for a Green Future
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The climate crisis is the most urgent challenge faced by humankind – affecting every region, continent, and ocean on Earth. Space has an untapped potential to make a difference in tackling the threats and challenges faced by humanity. Satellites watch over Earth continuously, helping us to monitor, understand, model, predict and act on climate change and its related challenges.
As part of one of the three ‘Accelerators’ that will drive Europe’s increased use of space, the Space for a Green Future Accelerator will help Europe act to mitigate climate change. It will provide actionable information, helping form the
NASA to Hold Double Asteroid Redirection Test Launch Preview Briefing
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 12:36
NASA will hold a virtual media briefing at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Nov. 4, to preview the launch of the agency’s first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). Hunting for marine plastic
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 11:55
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Hunting for marine plastic Redwire acquires space biotech company Techshot
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 11:00
Redwire, a company built up by acquiring a series of space technology companies, has purchased space biotechnology company Techshot.
Medical issue delays Crew-3 launch
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 09:03
The launch of the next commercial crew mission to the International Space Station, already postponed by weather, has been further delayed by what NASA calls a “minor medical issue” with one of its four astronauts.
Change in the Arctic
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 08:00
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Satellites play a vital role in monitoring the rapid changes taking place in the Arctic. Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets and frozen land shows that Earth is losing ice at an accelerating rate. Currently more than a trillion tonnes of ice is lost each year. The sooner Earth’s temperature is stabilised, the more manageable the impacts of ice loss will be.
NASA, SpaceX delay ISS mission again for medical issue
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
NASA and SpaceX on Monday delayed for the second time a mission to send four astronauts to the International Space Station due to a "minor medical issue" with a crew member.
"The issue is not a medical emergency and not related to COVID-19," NASA said in a statement, without giving further details.
The members of "Crew-3" - US astronauts Raja Chari, Kayla Barron and Tom Marshburn, as we Building planets from protoplanetary disks
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
Planets and their stars form from the same reservoir of nebular material and their chemical compositions should therefore be correlated but the observed compositions of planets do not match completely those of their central stars.
In our Solar system, for example, all the rocky planets and planetesimals contain near-solar proportions of refractory elements (elements like aluminum that cond SwRI-Led cubesat to assess the origins of hot plasma in the Sun's corona
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
NASA has selected the CubeSat Imaging X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (CubIXSS), led by Southwest Research Institute, to measure the elemental composition of hot, multimillion-degree plasmas in the Sun's corona - its outermost atmosphere. The nanosatellite is expected to be launched in 2024 as a secondary payload on another satellite launch. CubIXSS will determine the origins of hot plasma - highly ion Amazon to launch two Project Kuiper satellites next fall
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
The first set of satellites Amazon plans to send to space along with Verizon will be launched next fall, according to an experimental launch license filed Monday.
The company plans to send up to 3,236 satellites as part of Project Kuiper, a satellite-internet service that will serve rural communities that lack terrestrial infrastructure.
Two satellites - called KuiperSat-1 and K Hubble remains in safe mode, NASA team investigating
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
NASA is continuing to investigate why the instruments in the Hubble Space Telescope recently went into safe mode configuration, suspending science operations. The instruments are healthy and will remain in safe mode while the mission team continues its investigation.
Hubble's science instruments issued error codes at 1:46 a.m. EDT Oct. 23, indicating the loss of a specific synchronization Major Artemis engine part arrives at Stennis for certification testing
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
The first four Artemis missions will use NASA's 16 upgraded RS-25 engines that previously powered space shuttle flights. For future flights on the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA and prime contractor Aerojet Rocketdyne are changing the way they build major parts for the RS-25. Engineers and technicians are fabricating some of these parts using advanced manufacturing techniques that increase reli New roles, combined offices for NASA Administrator Leadership Team
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson is announcing new leadership roles, as well as the merging of two offices into the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy (OTPS), in support of Biden-Harris Administration priorities and the focus on space strategy.
OTPS is being established to provide data- and evidence-driven technology, policy, and strategy advice to NASA leadership. The office is a me BICEP3 tightens the bounds on cosmic inflation
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
Physicists looking for signs of primordial gravitational waves by sifting through the earliest light in the cosmos - the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - have reported their findings: still nothing.
But far from being a dud, the latest results from the BICEP3 experiment at the South Pole have tightened the bounds on models of cosmic inflation, a process that in theory explains several p Groundbreaking findings in hunt for new neutrinos in the universe
Tuesday, 02 November 2021 07:28
Illinois Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Physics Bryce Littlejohn is part of an international team of scientists that has dealt a blow to a popular theory of the existence of a fourth "sterile" neutrino. The groundbreaking research results were announced at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory today.
Neutrinos, which come in three known "flavors," are smaller than atoms and