OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample will have new home in Houston
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:36
If everything goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx's sample return capsule will separate from the spacecraft, enter the Earth's atmosphere and parachute safely to Earth for recovery at the Department of Defense's Utah Test and Training Range, located about 70 miles west of Salt Lake City. "The OSIRIS-REx curation team is excitedly preparing for the Bennu samples," said Nicole Lunning, OSIRIS-REx l Long March 6 rocket carries experimental satellite to space
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:36
China used a Long March 6 carrier rocket to transport an experimental satellite into space on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, a leading State-owned space contractor.
The company said in a news release that the rocket blasted off at 11:18 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan 25 satellite into its p Rover on the home stretch to the Martian moon Phobos
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:36
The origin of the martian moons Phobos and Deimos is still an unsolved mystery in planetary research. Both moons will be the targets of the Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. A German-French rover will land on Phobos as part of the mission and conduct a mobile exploration - despite the extremely low gravity. At the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agen Continuing along the alternate route: Sols 3861-3864
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:36
Earth planning date: Friday, June 16, 2023 Hearing today's drive completed as planned for the third time in a row was a refreshing change from last week when Curiosity was struggling to get up a rocky and sandy slope. Our alternate route takes us laterally along this challenging terrain, rather than straight uphill, and this small change certainly seems to be helping.
I really hope we cont ESA backs Greek firms' and universities' CubeSats
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:36
Seven CubeSat missions that demonstrate a variety of services including connectivity and secure communications are being developed by small and medium-sized companies and universities in Greece, following an open call and selection by ESA.
The initiative underpins efforts - led by ESA on behalf of the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance - to expand the nascent space industry in Greece, en Iridium proposes a new model for monitored BVLOS UAS integration
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:36
Iridium Communications Inc. (NASDAQ: IRDM) has announced the results of an Uncrewed Aircraft System (UAS) flight trial highlighting Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) capabilities in the National Airspace System (NAS), with a published a whitepaper titled "Monitored BVLOS: A New Model for UAS Integration in the National Airspace System." The whitepaper highlights and solves for challenges faced Paris Air Show Live - Press briefing on Space Transportation
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 10:30
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Watch the replay of the press briefing on space transportation from Paris Air Show 2023. Speakers will share the current status of the Ariane 6 programme, and the next key milestones towards the inaugural flight.
Op-ed | The Space Race may already be won
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:30
Justin Fauntleroy is a government contractor responsible for writing future concepts and doctrine for the U.S.
The Space Race may already be won
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:30Justin Fauntleroy is a government contractor responsible for writing future concepts and doctrine for the U.S.
Paris Air Show 2023 in pictures – Day 3
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 09:05
We are almost halfway through the week of the 54th edition of the Paris Air Show.
ESA is taking part with an exhibition in the Space Pavilion alongside with CNES, the French National Space Agency. Throughout the week, the pavilion will host presentations, events and temporary exhibitions from both agencies, while several events will be held in the ESA/CNES shared area.
Click the link here to view the full programme of events being held in the ESA-CNES shared area.
Here below the photo highlights of Day n.3 from Le Bourget Airport. The event will take place from 19 to 25 June.
Space Forge names manager for U.S. manufacturing operations
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 03:01
Space Forge will flesh out its U.S. strategy with the help of Andrew Parlock, the U.K.-based startup’s new managing director for U.S.
FAA reduces airspace restrictions for Cape Canaveral launches
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 01:57
The FAA has started to reduce the amount of airspace it closes for launches from Cape Canaveral as part of efforts to limit the impact of growing launch activity on commercial aviation.
Indian SSA startup raises $10 million
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:36
An Indian startup has raised $10 million to start development of commercial space situational awareness (SSA) capabilities that will include data from spacecraft.
Vyoma raises $9 million for debris-monitoring satellites
Wednesday, 21 June 2023 00:30
German startup Vyoma said June 20 it has raised 8.5 million euros ($9.3 million) to develop space debris-monitoring satellites from investors that include French aerospace giant Safran, which will help develop the constellation.
Even though they're bigger, Generation 2 Starlinks are fainter than Gen1
Tuesday, 20 June 2023 16:17
We've filed plenty of reports here at UT warning about the potential impact of Starlink and similar satellites on the field of astronomy. We've gone so far as to point out that the granddaddy of space-based telescopes—Hubble—has already had some of its images tarnished by passing Starlink satellites.
However, SpaceX has been aware of the problem and is working to limit their product's brightness. The recently launched Gen2 satellites seem to have made a significant step forward—research from a team of amateur astronomers finds that the new Gen2 Starlinks are more than 10x fainter than previous Gen1 iterations.
Admittedly, that finding comes with a lot of caveats. But the pedigree of the team doing the research isn't in question. It was led by Anthony Mallama, a senior engineer at Raytheon and an author of numerous technical papers and articles discussing Starlink's brightness. He and six other amateur astronomers collected their own data for this paper, recently released on the arXiv pre-print server.