Op-ed | Guarding against greenwashing in space
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 10:00
Are these commitments resulting in meaningful performance? Or are they “greenwashing” — mere marketing pledges or virtue signaling with little actual impact on sustainability?
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How sherpas guide startups through government contracting terrain
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 08:00
U.S. defense and intelligence agencies are eager to tap into commercial innovation, and many startup founders are eager to win government funding. The problem is the two groups often have trouble communicating.
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An astronaut awakes | Cosmic Kiss
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 07:30
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ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer gives a glimpse into his morning routine aboard the International Space Station during his Cosmic Kiss mission.
Matthias’s crew quarters, known as CASA (short for Crew Alternate Sleep Accommodation), is located within the European Columbus science laboratory module. The glowing pink light of this module comes from NASA’s Veggie facility, where astronauts help researchers study plant growth in microgravity.
Each astronaut aboard the Space Station has their own crew quarter. No larger than a changing room, this is their bedroom in space where they can store personal items, use a laptop to contact friends and
Submissions open for Copernicus Masters 2022
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 06:43
Submissions open for Copernicus Masters 2022
Maxar eager to launch new satellites amid soaring demand for imagery over Ukraine
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 01:00
As Maxar satellites continue to collect images of Russia’s attacks on Ukraine, the company is working with customers so it can allocate more capacity to meet U.S. government needs, CEO Daniel Jablonsky told SpaceNews.
Most distant galaxy candidate yet
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:05
An international astronomer team has discovered the most distant galaxy candidate to date, named HD1, which is about 13.5 billion light-years away. This discovery implies that bright systems like HD1 existed as early as 300 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy candidate is one of the targets of the James Webb Space Telescope launched late last year. If observations with the James Webb S NASA working around valve issue to complete testing of Artemis
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:05
NASA on Tuesday plans to proceed with modified pre-launch tests of its next mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System.
The tests have been delayed due to a valve issue with the rocket's upper stage, agency officials said Monday, but they will be working around it - by not fully fueling the rocket - in order to finish the tests.
Issues with the rocket's helium pressure system -- L3Harris awarded $117M space object-tracking modernization contract
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:05
L3Harris Technologies (NYSE:LHX) has been awarded $117 million for option-year three of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to continue maintaining and modernizing infrastructure to track objects in space. The Maintenance Of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities (MOSSAIC) program has an estimated contract value of $1.2 billion over 10 years.
L3Harris won the in 17-year Neptune study reveals surprising temperature changes
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:05
The heating-and-cooling changes of Neptune's atmospheric and global temperatures have caught the attention of the astronomers who have monitored them over 17 years, a study released Monday shows.
The expert international team spent nearly two decades keeping a close watch on the gaseous planet's temperatures using ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory's Ve First-of-its-kind detection of reduced human CO2 emissions
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:05
For the first time, researchers have spotted short-term, regional fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) across the globe due to emissions from human activities.
Using a combination of NASA satellites and atmospheric modeling, the scientists performed a first-of-its-kind detection of human CO2 emissions changes. The new study uses data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (O Chinese satellite ground station receives Landsat-9 data
Tuesday, 12 April 2022 00:05
The China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station has formally acquired the capability to receive, process and distribute the data product transmitted from the Landsat-9 satellite, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The station has received data from the Landsat-5 since 1986. It also provides Landsat-7 and Landsat-8 observation data for Moog opens spacecraft-integration facility
Monday, 11 April 2022 22:22
Moog Inc. is quadrupling the size of its Colorado space vehicle production facility as the New York-based company long known as a spacecraft component supplier expands its role as a space vehicle integrator.
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Checking in on the cameras of NASA's asteroids-bound Lucy spacecraft
Monday, 11 April 2022 20:21
On Feb. 14, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is in the first few months of its journey to the Trojan asteroids, obtained a series of calibration images with its four visible-light cameras.
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Monday, 11 April 2022 16:52
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Giant space telescopes could be made out of liquid
Monday, 11 April 2022 16:24
The Hubble space telescope has a primary mirror of 2.4 meters. The Nancy Grace Roman telescope also has a mirror measuring 2.4 meters, and the James Webb Space Telescope has a whopping 6.5 meter primary mirror. They get the job done that they were designed to do, but what if… we could have even bigger mirrors?
The larger the mirror, the more light is collected. This means that we can see farther back in time with bigger mirrors to observe star and galaxy formation, image exoplanets directly, and work out just what dark matter is.
But the process for creating a mirror is involved and takes time. There is casting the mirror blank to get the basic shape. Then you have to toughen the glass by heating and slow cooling. Grinding the glass down and polishing it into its perfect shape comes next followed by testing and coating the lens.