GIT becomes Iridium Certus Service Provider to DoD and other Government customers
Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:28
Austin TX (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
GIT Satellite Communications (GIT) announced has become an Iridium Certus service provider and will support U.S. government customers with hardware platforms, airtime, and data services.
A long-time Iridium government service provider for narrowband voice and data services, GIT has now expanded its offering with Iridium Certus global satellite L-band broadband and midband connectivity. In

US Army space capabilities keep soldiers shooting, moving, communicating
Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:28
Redstone Arsenal AL (SPX) Jan 25, 2023
The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command focused on integrating Army space capabilities in many of its 2022 operations.
In February, the United States and Europe intervened to help Ukraine with air defense systems, artillery systems and munitions, counter-unmanned aerial systems, radars, and more following Russian President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
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Two studies of volatile elements discovered in meteorites constrain the assembly of Earth
Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:28
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
In two separate studies, researchers identify nucleosynthetic isotope anomalies in the volatile elements potassium (K) and zinc (Zn) in meteorites, which constrain the origins of the material that formed Earth. According to both studies, roughly 90% of Earth's mass was contributed by non-carbonaceous (NC) material from the inner Solar System and about 10% by carbonaceous chondrite (CC) material

ACME Lithium locates samples with high Lithium values using ASTERRA satellite technology
Sunday, 29 January 2023 01:28
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
ASTERRA and ACME Lithium, Inc. (ACME) jointly announced their teaming agreement and collaboration in which ASTERRA satellite-based technology was used in the discovery of the highest values of lithium to date in Fish Lake Valley, Nevada.
The use of ASTERRA technology produced a large number of locations of lithium value of above 100 parts per million (ppm), while traditional methods of exp

Europe seeks greater autonomy in space traffic management
Saturday, 28 January 2023 23:16
European officials say they’re making progress to achieve “strategic autonomy” in space traffic management by building up both capabilities and policy.
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Commerce Department outlines plans for basic space traffic management service
Saturday, 28 January 2023 16:53
The Commerce Department has outlined the services it proposes to offer free of charge to satellite operators from the space traffic management system it is developing.
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Camera captures night sky spiral after SpaceX rocket launch
Saturday, 28 January 2023 06:26
Solar System formed from 'poorly mixed cake batter'
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
Earth's potassium arrived by meteoritic delivery service finds new research led by Carnegie's Nicole Nie and Da Wang. Their work, published in Science, shows that some primitive meteorites contain a different mix of potassium isotopes than those found in other, more-chemically processed meteorites. These results can help elucidate the processes that shaped our Solar System and determined the com

NASA's Juno Team assessing camera after 48th flyby of Jupiter
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft did not acquire all planned images during the orbiter's most recent flyby of Jupiter on Jan. 22. Data received from the spacecraft indicates that the camera experienced an issue similar to one that occurred on its previous close pass of the gas giant last month, when the team saw an anomalous temperature rise after the camera was powered on in pre

Data from the first SLS flight to prepare NASA for future Artemis missions
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
NASA continues to evaluate data and learn more about the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's debut performance during the agency's Nov. 16 Artemis I launch. Following an initial data assessment and review that determined the SLS rocket met or exceeded all performance expectations, SLS engineers are now taking a closer look at the Moon rocket's performance to prepare for the first crewed Artemis m

Searching for buried treasure on Mars with RIMFAX
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
What do the Perseverance rover and Superman have in common? They both can "see" through solid rock! Superman has X-ray vision whereas Perseverance has RIMFAX, a ground penetrating radar or GPR, located on the lower rear of the rover. RIMFAX uses radio waves to image the subsurface rock layers as the rover drives along.
It is the first instrument of its kind sent by NASA to Mars and can "se

NASA selects nine technologies for commercial flight tests
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
selected nine space technologies for flight testing to advance innovations that address mission needs for both the agency and the commercial space industry.
Selected as part of the NASA's 2022 TechFlights solicitation, these technologies will fly aboard commercial suborbital vehicles such as high-altitude balloons, aircraft following parabolic flight profiles, suborbital rocket-powered sys

RIT scientists reach a milestone in the search for continuous gravitational waves
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Rochester NY (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
Scientists on the hunt for a previously undetected type of gravitational waves believe they are getting close and have refined techniques to use in upcoming observational runs. Researchers from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration outlined the most sensitive search to date for continuous gravitational waves from a promising source in a paper recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Starry tail tells the tale of dwarf galaxy evolution
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
A giant diffuse tail of stars has been discovered emanating from a large, faint dwarf galaxy. The presence of a tail indicates that the galaxy has experienced recent interaction with another galaxy. This is an important clue for understanding how so called "ultra-diffuse" galaxies are formed.
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope found a tail of star

NASA's Fermi detects first gamma-ray eclipses from 'Spider' Systems
Saturday, 28 January 2023 00:44
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2023
Scientists have discovered the first gamma-ray eclipses from a special type of binary star system using data from NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. These so-called spider systems each contain a pulsar - the superdense, rapidly rotating remains of a star that exploded in a supernova - that slowly erodes its companion.
An international team of scientists scoured over a decade of Fermi
