It’s belt-cinching time for space startups
Monday, 23 January 2023 14:25
Space startups are hunting for cost savings as the tough financial climate threatens their business plans, leading to more innovative working practices to come out on top.
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Op-ed | How Canada is Shaping the World’s Future in Space
Monday, 23 January 2023 13:47
For decades, Canada has taken part in space research, exploration and defense, and while the nation’s contributions are not always the flashiest, they are almost always mission-critical.
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Ingenuity's 40th flight on Mars tracks a rocky road
Monday, 23 January 2023 10:52
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired new images using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage, was pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon during the flight. The image shows the tracks of Perseverance running alongside a rocky outcrop.
On January 19, 2023 (Sol 681 of the Perseverance rover mission), Ingenuity completed Star visibility eroding rapidly as night sky gets brighter
Monday, 23 January 2023 10:52
Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday.
The researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Science, said the increase in light pollution - skyglow - that they found was much larger than that measured by sat Rare opportunity to study short-lived volcanic island reveals sulfur-metabolizing microbes
Monday, 23 January 2023 10:52
In 2015, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific erupted, forming the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai island, destined to a short, seven-year life. A research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) jumped on the rare opportunity to study the early microbial colonizers of a newly formed landmass and to their surprise, the Satellite mapping finds new colony of Emperor penguins
Monday, 23 January 2023 10:52
Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed Friday.
The find, announced by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to mark Penguin Awareness Day, brings the total number of known emperor penguin breeding sites around Antarctica's coastline to 66.
It is the latest in a series of Emperor penguin bre AIR launches high-resolution sensing and electrical stimulation neural activity study
Monday, 23 January 2023 10:52
A major interdisciplinary project "Research on high-resolution sensing and electrical stimulation of sleep-wake neural electrical activity", led by Prof. CAI Xinxia from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), in collaboration with Fudan University, Zhejiang University and Ruijin Hospital, has been approved by the National Natural Science Foundation ESA DG’s annual press briefing 2023
Monday, 23 January 2023 09:56
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Watch a replay of our start-of-the-year press briefing looking ahead at 2023, with ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA Directors. They presented the next steps of Agenda 2025, looking at new missions, science, space safety and commercialisation of space.
ESA to help develop secure quantum communications
Monday, 23 January 2023 08:00
Staying safe from cyberattacks that target vital services such as power supplies is increasingly important in today’s digital world. ESA is supporting European autonomy to keep people connected by working with satellite manufacturer Thales Alenia Space to develop highly secure technologies based on the unbreakable laws of quantum physics.
NASA to cooperate on Israeli astrophysics mission
Monday, 23 January 2023 02:17
The United States and Israel are finalizing an agreement that would see NASA contribute to an upcoming Israeli astrophysics mission.
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Star visibility eroding rapidly as night sky gets brighter: study
Sunday, 22 January 2023 14:20
Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday.
The researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Science, said the increase in light pollution —skyglow—that they found was much larger than that measured by satellite observations of Earth at night.
For the study of the change in global sky brightness from artificial light, the researchers used stellar observations from 2011 to 2022 submitted by more than 51,000 "citizen scientists" around the world.
Lockheed Martin eyes international customers for GPS augmentation systems
Sunday, 22 January 2023 10:22
Lockheed Martin developed a satellite-based augmentation system that leverages the L1C signal that is interoperable with both GPS and Galileo
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NASA, Boeing teams achieve milestone ahead of crewed flight
Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:08
NASA and Boeing recently completed a full start to finish integrated mission dress rehearsal for the company's CST-100 Starliner flight with astronauts to the International Space Station, which is scheduled to launch in April 2023.
The Crew Flight Test, or CFT, will launch NASA astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Suni Williams on Starliner - atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket - NASA's Lucy Mission Suspending Further Solar Array Deployment Activities
Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:08
NASA's Lucy mission team has decided to suspend further solar array deployment activities. The team determined that operating the mission with the solar array in the current unlatched state carries an acceptable level of risk and further deployment activities are unlikely to be beneficial at this time. The spacecraft continues to make progress along its planned trajectory.
Shortly after th Galileo tribute unveiled as Juice says 'Farewell, Europe'
Sunday, 22 January 2023 02:08
A commemorative plaque celebrating Galileo's discovery of Jupiter's moons has been unveiled on ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice. The spacecraft has just completed its final tests before departing Toulouse, France, for Europe's Spaceport to count down to an April launch.
As part of the final preparations a commemorative plaque was mounted on the spacecraft as a tribute to Italian ast