Adelaide, Australia (SPX) May 03, 2023
SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC), Australia's leading space research centre, has announced a prestigious program to fund two PhD students to undertake an intensive ten-week internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, USA. Aspiring space leaders Anne Bettens, from the University of Sydney, and Emily Ahern, from the University of Adelaide, have been paired w

Houston TX (SPX) May 03, 2023
NASA has named Emily Nelson its new chief flight director, leading the group that directs human spaceflight missions from the Mission Control Center at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Norm Knight, the agency's director of flight operations, selected Nelson to replace Holly Ridings, who held the position from 2018 to 2022, and now helps lead the agency's Gateway Program, an in

Edmonton, Canada (SPX) May 03, 2023
A University of Alberta researcher is among a group of scientists choosing which samples NASA's rover Perseverance will gather on Mars to bring back for analysis on Earth. For this mission, "return sample scientist" Chris Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and curator of the U of A's Meteorite Collection, will help determine which samples could answer the

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 03, 2023
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space and Defense-as-a-Service satellite company focused on mission-critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, launch planning, mission operations; and in-orbit support, is pleased to announce it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lulav Space, an Israeli robotics company specializing in spa

Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2023
Our weekend drive got us into a good position to attempt to examine a block we might attempt to drill. We don't dive right in; we have to make sure this is in fact where we want to drill. This means contact science on "Ubajara," which you can see on the left of the image above. The GEO team spent some time picking a special target name, which involved looking at pictures of national parks. Ubaja

Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2023
The first building blocks of life on Earth may have formed thanks to eruptions from our Sun, a new study finds. A series of chemical experiments show how solar particles, colliding with gases in Earth's early atmosphere, can form amino acids and carboxylic acids, the basic building blocks of proteins and organic life. The findings were published in the journal Life. To understand the

Beijing, China (SPX) May 03, 2023
Researchers led by Dr. XIN Liping from the Space-based Multi-band Astronomical Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) research team, National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC), have detected the prompt optical emission and its transition to the early afterglow of a gamma-ray burst (GRB 201223A), using the Ground Wide Angle Camera Array (GWAC) located at Xinglong Obser

Mountain View CA (SPX) May 03, 2023
What would the Earth look like to an alien civilization located light years away? A team of researchers from Mauritius and Manchester University has used crowd-sourced data to simulate radio leakage from mobile towers and predict what an alien civilization might detect from various nearby stars, including Barnard's star, six light years away from Earth. Ramiro Saide, currently an intern at the S

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ESA's astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany.

The five candidates are Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber. The group is part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States.

The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level for future space missions. Basic training includes learning about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalks and survival training.

ESA’s Euclid spacecraft finished its ocean cruise safe and sound on 30 April at Port Canaveral in Florida. Subsequently, the satellite was moved by road to the Astrotech facility near Cape Canaveral.