Voyager logs 45 years in space as NASA's longest mission to date
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
Launched in 1977, the twin Voyager probes are NASA's longest-operating mission and the only spacecraft ever to explore interstellar space.
NASA's twin Voyager probes have become, in some ways, time capsules of their era: They each carry an eight-track tape player for recording data, they have about 3 million times less memory than modern cellphones, and they transmit data about 38,000 time Russian spacewalk cut short due to issue with suit
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
A spacewalk by two Russians on Wednesday was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian space agencies said.
"Oleg, you must return to the airlock as soon as possible," the Earth-based Russian mission controllers ordered, more than two hours into his trip outside the International Space Stat Rocket Lab to launch 150th satellite with upcoming Synspective SAR launch
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced its upcoming 30th Electron launch will deliver its 150th payload and 300th Rutherford engine to space. The mission is a dedicated launch for Japanese Earth-imaging satellite constellation operator Synspective.
"The Owl Spreads Its Wings" mission is scheduled to lift-off from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand during a launch Virgin Orbit earns AS9100 Certification
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
The Performance Review Institute (PRI) Registrar recently certified Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) as having met stringent international standards. This achievement promotes Virgin Orbit's ongoing commitment to satisfying stakeholders, and the Company's dedication to continual improvement of its quality management system.
The globally recognized AS9100 standard builds upon the ISO 9000 family Sols 3562-3563: Adventures Over Sand
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
Curiosity is continuing the journey through Paraitepuy Pass. The image above shows why it is going to take some time to traverse through this area. Here the navigation cameras snapped a photo of Curiosity's wheel tracks over a sand ripple. The rover was designed to overcome terrain like this, but the rover planners still want to develop the drive paths very carefully as we drive through these ro Dust grains older than our sun found in Asteroid Ryugu samples
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
Microscopic grains of ancient material that predate our Sun's birth were found in samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission, according to new work from an international team led by Carnegie's Jens Barosch and Larry Nittler and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Named after a Japanese folktale, Ryugu is a near-Earth object shaped kind of like a spinning Series Futuristic Space Themed Centers
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
Space Hero, Lava and One Digital Entertainment has announced plans for the creation of Space Village, a series of 10 iconic futuristic space-inspired landmarks in different locations around the world. Space Village is designed by Alexander Rieck from German architectural firm LAVA. Each Space Village will feature a large space center and a glimpse of forward-looking technology that will stimulat Underwater snow gives clues about Europa's icy shell
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
Below Europa's thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves on Earth, but a new study shows that the same is likely true for Jupiter's moon, where it may play a role in building its ice shell.
The underwater snow is much purer than other kinds of ice, w Thailand's first comsat by mu Space Corp passes GISTDA tests
Thursday, 18 August 2022 03:40
mu Space and Advance Technology Company Limited is an aerospace manufacturer in Southeast Asia that also produces aerospace components and provides satellite communication services. The company develops satellites for communication purposes and is almost entirely made by professional in-house engineers.
From the 9th-11th of March 2022, mu Space tested their satellite parts with Geo-Informa SLS arrives at the pad for Artemis 1 launch
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 21:33
NASA’s Space Launch System made its third trip to the launch pad Aug. 17, this time with the intent of lifting by early next month.
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Commercial geospatial technologies that detect GPS disruptions to be tested in military exercises
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 21:29
U.S. military and allied forces in upcoming exercises will put to the test commercial technologies that could help detect GPS jamming or other activities that disrupt satellite-based navigation.
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Russian spacewalk cut short by bad battery in cosmonaut suit
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 18:30
NASA's moon rocket moved to launch pad for 1st test flight
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 18:29
NASA's new moon rocket arrived at the launch pad Wednesday ahead of its debut flight in less than two weeks.
The 322-foot (98-meter) rocket emerged from its mammoth hangar late Tuesday night, drawing crowds of Kennedy Space Center workers, many of whom were not yet born when NASA sent astronauts to the moon a half-century ago.
Facilitating the development of LEO mega constellations
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 16:36
The rapid development of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mega constellations has significantly contributed to several aspects of human scientific progress, such as communication, navigation, and remote sensing. However, unrestrained deployment of constellations has also strained orbital resources and increased spacecraft congestion in LEO, which seriously affects the safety of in-orbit operations of many space assets.
For the long-term and sustainable development of space activities in LEO regions, space environment stability must be maintained using more rational surveillance and governance mechanisms. In a review paper recently published in Space: Science & Technology, Jingrui Zhang from School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, analyzed the research gap and facilitated the development of LEO mega constellations.
First of all, the author reviewed the current developments of typical LEO mega constellations, including Starlink, OneWeb, Iridium Next, Globalstar, and Flock. Taking SpaceX's Starlink as an example, it aims to build a LEO constellation containing 42,000 satellites to achieve global coverage, high-speed, large-capacity, and low-latency space-based global communication system. Starlink has shown excellent performance in related fields, such as international aviation and ocean transportation. Moreover, Starlink can be constructed as a powerful command and communication network and has already been an important symbol of the weaponization of outer space in the United States.
Test chamber for NASA's new cosmic mapmaker makes dramatic entrance
Wednesday, 17 August 2022 15:32
After three years of design and construction, a monthlong boat ride across the Pacific Ocean, and a lift from a 30-ton crane, the customized test chamber for NASA's upcoming SPHEREx mission has finally reached its destination at Caltech's Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Pasadena.
Set to launch no earlier than June 2024, SPHEREx (short for Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) will make a unique map of the cosmos that will contain hundreds of millions of objects, including stars, galaxies, star-forming regions, and other cosmic wonders.