Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compounds
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work is published in Science Advances.
Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorite Astronomers dig out buried black holes with NASA's Chandra
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
Hundreds of black holes previously hidden, or buried, have been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result helps give astronomers a more accurate census of black holes in the universe.
The black holes in this new study are the supermassive variety that contain millions or even billions of times the mass of the Sun. While astronomers think that almost all large galaxies harbo Researchers create an optical tractor beam that pulls macroscopic objects
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first times that laser pulling has been used on larger objects.
Light contains both energy and momentum that can be used for various types of optical manipulation such as levitation and rotation. Optical tweezers, for NASA's Webb confirms its first exoplanet
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth's diameter. The research team is led by Kevin Stevenson and Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, both of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in La Cosmic superbubble's magnetic field charted in 3D for the first time
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA) have unveiled a first-of-its-kind map that could help answer decades-old questions about the origins of stars and the influences of magnetic fields in the cosmos.
The map reveals the likely magnetic field structure of the Local Bubble - a giant, 1,000-light-year-wide hollow in space surrounding our Sun. Like a hunk New Webb image reveals dusty disk like never seen before
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. These observations represent the first time the previously known disk has been imaged at these infrared wavelengths of light. They also provide clues to the composition of the disk.
The star system in question, AU Microscopii or AU Mic, is located 32 light-years away in the China's space-based solar camera publishes data on solar atmosphere
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
A China-developed space-borne solar camera studying the solar transition region released its first group of scientific data on Wednesday.
The 46.5-nanometer extreme-ultraviolet imager or Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI), mounted on SATech 01 satellite, was launched into space on July 27, 2022, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China by a Lijian 1 carrier roc Unibap receives order from Thales Alenia Space
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
Unibap AB (publ) has received an order from Thales Alenia Space to provide SpaceCloud solution for technology development targeting use on future satellite missions. The order value is KEUR 182.
Thales Alenia Space in Italy has placed a contract with Unibap to use SpaceCloud infrastructure to develop a next generation on-orbit processing solution for future satellite missions. Thales Aleni SES secures 300M Euro in financing from European Investment Bank
Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:55
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the financing institution of the European Union, and leading global content connectivity solutions provider SES announced details of their euro 300 million financing agreement at a press briefing at the SES headquarters in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.
The seven-year term loan will back investments related to the design, procurement and launch of three previousl Capella Space raises $60 million to accelerate constellation
Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:38
Capella Space has raised $60 million to allow the company to accelerate the deployment of its constellation and meet growing demand for its synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellite imagery.
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Space Force official: To beat China, U.S. has to spend smarter
Wednesday, 11 January 2023 21:27
Commercial innovation should be harnessed to compete with China and also deter conflict, Space Force procurement official Col. Eric Felt said Jan. 11
Progress and obstacles for space weather forecasting
Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:27
While Congress and the Biden Administration recognize the potential threat posed by space weather events, the United States still needs to improve its ability to monitor and model the phenomenon.
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Europe’s investment arm loans SES 300 million euros to bolster space industry
Wednesday, 11 January 2023 20:18
The European Investment Bank said Jan. 11 it is lending SES 300 million euros ($323 million) as part of efforts to increase the competitiveness of Europe’s space industry.
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Five things to know about the International Space Station
Wednesday, 11 January 2023 19:14
Here are some key facts about the orbiting laboratory set up to advance space exploration—and prepare to send humans to Mars—where Russians and Americans have worked together for a quarter of a century.
Size of a football field
The ISS is the largest man-made structure ever put into orbit.
Launched in 1998 by the United States, Russia, Canada, Japan, and members of the European Space Agency (ESA) it is the size of a football field and weighs about the same as a jam-packed Boeing 747.
Built at a total cost of about 100 billion dollars, mostly paid for by the US, it orbits the Earth every 90 minutes at an average altitude of 400 kilometres (250 miles).
It has been permanently occupied since November 2000 by Russian and American-led crews that usually stay for around six months to carry out experiments in microgravity (weightlessness) which have practical applications on Earth and help prepare for future Mars missions.
Webb confirms its first exoplanet
Wednesday, 11 January 2023 17:15
Researchers have confirmed the presence of an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the same size as our own, clocking in at 99% of Earth’s diameter.