America is losing its GPS dominance to China’s BeiDou satnav
Monday, 08 April 2024 15:24
‘State of the Space Industrial Base’ highlights supply chain and workforce challenges
Monday, 08 April 2024 15:17
NASA's LRO finds photo op as it zips past South Korea's Danuri moon orbiter
Monday, 08 April 2024 15:03
SAIC lands Pentagon contract for AI-powered small satellite, partnering with GomSpace
Monday, 08 April 2024 14:00
SpaceX knocks out early morning Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral
Monday, 08 April 2024 13:07
The Space Coast saw its 23rd launch of the year early April 5 with a SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of the company's Starlink internet satellites lifted off from Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:12 a.m.
The first-stage booster made its 14th flight and stuck another recovery landing downrange in the Atlantic on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas.
It was the 275th time SpaceX has recovered a Falcon 9 booster, part of the company's efforts to reduce costs through reusability.
SpaceX has flown all but one of the launches from the Space Coast this year, with United Launch Alliance responsible for the other, a Vulcan Centaur launch in January.
ULA has its second flight lined up, though, with the last launch ever of a Delta IV Heavy set for next Tuesday from Canaveral's Space Launch Complex 37 on a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. That comes after a delay because of issues with a gaseous nitrogen line to the launch pad that thwarted a launch attempt last week.
Pentagon ramps up investments in solid rocket motor suppliers to bolster domestic industry
Monday, 08 April 2024 13:00
Spire deploying space traffic management tools across fleet
Monday, 08 April 2024 12:48
Battling Without Borders: Cross-Domain Capability is the Future of Warfighting
Monday, 08 April 2024 12:45
Solar eclipses – and how to make them
Monday, 08 April 2024 11:00
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During a solar eclipse the Earth is plunged into darkness and the Sun’s ghostly atmosphere becomes visible. Scientists travel the globe to experience total solar eclipses, which occur for just a few minutes at a time every 18 months or so. But what exactly causes solar eclipses, and how do scientists try to make their own, including with ESA’s new Proba-3 mission?
Euclid mission team honoured with Space Foundation Award
Monday, 08 April 2024 10:37
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The Euclid mission team was awarded this year’s Space Achievement Award by the Space Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded in 1983 to foster collaboration across the global space community. ESA Director General, Josef Aschbacher (centre), and ESA Director of Science, Carole Mundell (right), collected the prize at the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, USA, on 8 April at 18:00 MDT (9 April at 2:00 CEST).
The Space Foundation recognised the partnership between ESA and the Euclid Consortium for their forward-thinking approach to global collaboration and team work to advance humankind’s understanding of the Universe.
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S. Korea says second spy satellite placed in orbit
Monday, 08 April 2024 07:39
South Korea put its second domestically made spy satellite into orbit, Seoul's defense ministry said Monday, after it launched from an American space center on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
The satellite successfully communicated with an overseas ground station shortly afterwards, the ministry said.
"Our military's second reconnaissance satellite successfully separated from the launch vehicle at around 09:02 (1202 GMT) and entered the target orbit," the defense ministry said in a statement.
The satellite "successfully established contact with an overseas ground station at approximately 10:57 (0157 GMT)", it added.
Seoul's military said its "independent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities have been further strengthened," by the successful launch.
"We will proceed with future satellite launches without a hitch," it added.
Seoul launched its first military spy satellite in December, which was also carried by one of Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
Huge crowds await a total solar eclipse in North America. Clouds may spoil the view
Monday, 08 April 2024 07:30
Millions of spectators along a narrow corridor stretching from Mexico to the U.S. to Canada eagerly awaited Monday's celestial sensation—a total eclipse of the sun—even as forecasters called for clouds.
The best weather was expected at the tail end of the eclipse in Vermont and Maine, as well as New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
It promised to be North America's biggest eclipse crowd ever, thanks to the densely populated path and the lure of more than four minutes of midday darkness in Texas and other choice spots. Almost everyone in North America was guaranteed at least a partial eclipse, weather permitting.
"Cloud cover is one of the trickier things to forecast," National Weather Service meteorologist Alexa Maines explained at Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center on Sunday.
Weather is the hot topic as eclipse spectators stake out their spots in US, Mexico and Canada
Monday, 08 April 2024 07:21
Eclipse spectators staked out their spots across three countries Sunday, fervently hoping for clear skies despite forecasts calling for clouds along most of the sun-vanishing route.