Benchmark works with Space Forge to develop reusable engines
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 08:00
Benchmark Space Systems announced plans May 24 to produce engines in the United Kingdom and to work with U.K. startup Space Forge to develop reusable chemical propulsion systems.
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Satellogic and UP42 team up to offer rapid monitoring capabilities
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 07:12
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, a geospatial developer platform and marketplace enabling direct access to Satellogic's satellite tasking high-resolution multispectral and wide-area hyperspectral imagery via the UP42 API-based platform. The agreement includes the archive of high-fre Mayday and Satellogic collaborate to modernize risk and disaster intelligence
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 07:12
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has entered into a teaming agreement with Mayday.ai ("Mayday"), a German-based provider of real-time risk and disaster intelligence, to improve and democratize data intelligence for risk and disaster management.
The combined technological capabilities of the two comp Accelerators gear up at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 05:58
Global climate change is the single most challenging issue faced by humanity – affecting every region, continent and ocean on Earth. It fuels a range of other top-level challenges such as food security, migration, biodiversity loss, risks to human health and economic losses.
This week, at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium taking place in Bonn, high-level ESA representatives, along with a mix of academia and policy experts, came together to discuss ESA’s ‘Space for a Green Future Accelerator’ – a major ESA initiative aiming to accelerate the use of space in Europe.
Mastcam-Ing All the Things: Sols 3480-3482
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:24
Coming into planning on Friday, we were greeted with a beautiful vista, with well preserved layering and amazing outcrops, and a reminder of just how stunning the planet Mars is. Mastcam takes a 360 degree image on a regular basis, and our last one was fairly recently, on sol 3474, but given the stunning views from here, it was suggested that we take another here if we could fit it in.
As Planets of binary stars as possible homes for alien life
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:24
Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the search for extraterrestrial life forms.
Since the only known planet with life, the Earth, orbits the Sun, planetary systems around stars of similar size are obvious targets for Gogo Business Aviation to launch LEO Global Broadband service
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:24
Gogo Business Aviation (NASDAQ: GOGO) has announced it will launch the first global broadband service in business aviation to use an electronically steered antenna (ESA) on a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite network.
Gogo's exclusive antenna assembly, designed in conjunction with Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes), will be small enough for installation on the fuselage of business aircraft Navarino teams with OneWeb to extend connectivity to commercial shipping
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:24
OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, and Navarino, one of the world's leading maritime technology companies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to become a global Distribution Partner to deliver high speed, low latency connectivity to the global commercial shipping industry.
Combining Navarino's maritime technology solutions with OneWeb's high spe New spin on galaxy rotation saves controversial gravity theory
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:24
An international group of astronomers, led by a physicist at the University of St Andrews, has revived an alternative gravity theory.
Headed by Dr Indranil Banik of the School of Physics and Astronomy at St Andrews, the study revealed a high predicted rotation speed of gas in a dwarf galaxy consistent with the previously debunked theory known as Milgromian Dynamics (MOND).
An earlier Human's motion perception revealed by spaceflight: study
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 02:24
Spaceflight, apart from exploring the unknown universe, can also help us, the inhabitants of Earth, to understand how gravity is affecting our brain in its visual perception.
Humans have evolved under the constant influence of gravity, though normally we don't notice it.
Human brains are selectively tuned to movement patterns initiated by living organisms like our peers, while turnin NASA plans to make Starliner crew assignments this summer
Tuesday, 24 May 2022 01:12
As Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner prepares to return from its brief trip to the International Space Station, NASA officials say they’ll wait until this summer to determine the schedule for the vehicle’s first crewed flight and the astronauts who will fly it.
Experimental payload with robotic arm to attempt metal cutting on orbit
Monday, 23 May 2022 22:50
Nanoracks, will launch a NASA-funded experiment to demonstrate on-orbit metal cutting using a robotic arm.
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Lockheed Martin, Filecoin Foundation plan demonstration of decentralized data storage in space
Monday, 23 May 2022 21:42
Lockheed Martin is working with the Filecoin Foundation to demonstrate an open-source blockchain network in space.
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Biden vows to expand space cooperation with South Korea, Japan
Monday, 23 May 2022 20:06
U.S. President Joe Biden promised to expand space cooperation with Japan and South Korea during back-to-back summits with the leaders of two East Asian allies.
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Full steam ahead for carbon dioxide monitoring mission
Monday, 23 May 2022 15:00
The Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission has taken another step forward as ESA authorises the mission’s prime contractor, OHB, to continue the development of the first satellite that will take it to being launch-ready and, in parallel, start production on the mission’s second satellite. Celebrated at ESA’s Living Planet Symposium in Bonn, this contract rider follows an initial contract that was signed in 2020.