Rocket Lab catches rocket booster returning from space with helicopter
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Long Beach CA (SPX) May 02, 2022
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully launched its 26th Electron mission, deploying 34 satellites to orbit. Rocket Lab has now deployed a total of 146 satellites to orbit with the Electron launch vehicle.
The "There And Back Again" mission also saw Rocket Lab complete a mid-air capture of the Electron booster with a helicopter for the first time. After launching to space, Electron's first
Rocket Lab (Nasdaq: RKLB) has successfully launched its 26th Electron mission, deploying 34 satellites to orbit. Rocket Lab has now deployed a total of 146 satellites to orbit with the Electron launch vehicle.
The "There And Back Again" mission also saw Rocket Lab complete a mid-air capture of the Electron booster with a helicopter for the first time. After launching to space, Electron's first New standard will aid in classification of commercial spaceflight safety events
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
West Conshohocken PA (SPX) May 03, 2022
ASTM's commercial spaceflight committee (F47) has approved a new standard that will help to enhance commercial spaceflight safety. The standard (F3550) provides guidance to space flight operators on classifying safety-related events.
"This new standard will help to classify events based on severity and impact," says ASTM International member Oscar Garcia, chairman and CEO, InterFlight Glob
ASTM's commercial spaceflight committee (F47) has approved a new standard that will help to enhance commercial spaceflight safety. The standard (F3550) provides guidance to space flight operators on classifying safety-related events.
"This new standard will help to classify events based on severity and impact," says ASTM International member Oscar Garcia, chairman and CEO, InterFlight Glob Successful test launch a giant leap for rocketry team
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 03, 2022
Students of the University of Sydney's rocketry society, the USYD Rocketry Team, have their eyes firmly set on gold after successfully launching their 2022 competition rocket in New South Wales's far west.
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the team will fly to the US in June to compete at Spaceport America Cup, an international student rocketry competition held annually in New Mexico.
Students of the University of Sydney's rocketry society, the USYD Rocketry Team, have their eyes firmly set on gold after successfully launching their 2022 competition rocket in New South Wales's far west.
After a two-year pandemic hiatus, the team will fly to the US in June to compete at Spaceport America Cup, an international student rocketry competition held annually in New Mexico. British rocket company calls for Iceland to grant licence for landmark launch
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Edinburgh UK (SPX) May 03, 2022
British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant the licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever suborbital rocket launch, originally set for September 2021. With the launch from Husavik, Iceland - for which it built Europe's largest mobile spaceport - Skyrora had been ready to take a crucial next step towards its goal of completing the first
British rocket company Skyrora has called on the Icelandic government to grant the licence that would end a months-long delay to Europe's largest-ever suborbital rocket launch, originally set for September 2021. With the launch from Husavik, Iceland - for which it built Europe's largest mobile spaceport - Skyrora had been ready to take a crucial next step towards its goal of completing the first NASA's new solar sail system to be tested on-board NanoAvionics satellite bus
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) May 03, 2022
NanoAvionics has been selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit demonstration of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 800 square foot (74 square meter) composite boom and solar sail system.
The aim
NanoAvionics has been selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit demonstration of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 800 square foot (74 square meter) composite boom and solar sail system.
The aim Farewell to the Torridon Quad - Sols 3459-3461
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 03, 2022
We have left the pediment behind and are making our way back to an alternate "MSAR" or "Mount Sharp Ascent Route." We are at the second (of three) observation stops for this area, chosen as they offer the best chance to acquire high resolution images of the structures in the buttes. We have noticed some dark layers which are reminiscent of the lenses at "The Prow" and may indicate changing grain
We have left the pediment behind and are making our way back to an alternate "MSAR" or "Mount Sharp Ascent Route." We are at the second (of three) observation stops for this area, chosen as they offer the best chance to acquire high resolution images of the structures in the buttes. We have noticed some dark layers which are reminiscent of the lenses at "The Prow" and may indicate changing grain Emirates Mars mission discovers new mysterious aurora
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) May 03, 2022
The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, today released stunning images of Mars' enigmatic discrete auroras, following a series of revolutionary observations that promise new answers - and new questions - about the interactions between Mars' atmosphere, the planet's magnetic fields and the solar wind.
The observations include a never-bef
The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, today released stunning images of Mars' enigmatic discrete auroras, following a series of revolutionary observations that promise new answers - and new questions - about the interactions between Mars' atmosphere, the planet's magnetic fields and the solar wind.
The observations include a never-bef China's Zhurong travels over 1.9 km on Mars
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Beijing (XNA) May 03, 2022
The Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 1.9 km since it first set its wheels on the surface of the planet in May last year, according to the latest data released by the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
As of Sunday, Zhurong had been operating on the surface of Mars for 342 Martian days at a distance of 240 million km from Earth. A
The Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 1.9 km since it first set its wheels on the surface of the planet in May last year, according to the latest data released by the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
As of Sunday, Zhurong had been operating on the surface of Mars for 342 Martian days at a distance of 240 million km from Earth. A Search reveals eight new sources of black hole echoes
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Boston MA (SPX) May 03, 2022
Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes - immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter, and even light, can never escape. Black holes are dark by definition, except on the rare occasions when they feed. As a black hole pulls in gas and dust from an orbiting star, it can give off spectacular bursts of X-ray light that bounce and
Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes - immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter, and even light, can never escape. Black holes are dark by definition, except on the rare occasions when they feed. As a black hole pulls in gas and dust from an orbiting star, it can give off spectacular bursts of X-ray light that bounce and QuantX Labs and SmartSat CRC accelerate the development of an orbiting space clock
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) May 03, 2022
SmartSAT CRC today announced $1 million to assist QuantX Labs in the development of its optical atomic clock satellite payload that will deliver the heart of a future Australian sovereign navigation and timing capability. This partnership will accelerate the space-qualification and commercialisation of a new type of atomic clock.
QuantX's clock delivers a quantum leap in timing performance
SmartSAT CRC today announced $1 million to assist QuantX Labs in the development of its optical atomic clock satellite payload that will deliver the heart of a future Australian sovereign navigation and timing capability. This partnership will accelerate the space-qualification and commercialisation of a new type of atomic clock.
QuantX's clock delivers a quantum leap in timing performance WVU scientists take on pioneering space weather research and forecasting project
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Morgantown WV (SPX) May 03, 2022
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers from West Virginia University are undertaking a pioneering project in space weather research to improve modeling and forecasting of space weather to safeguard satellites in orbit and infrastructure on Earth.
Space weather is a relatively unexplored phenomenon that is caused by large bursts of particles released by the sun. The unusually strong burst
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers from West Virginia University are undertaking a pioneering project in space weather research to improve modeling and forecasting of space weather to safeguard satellites in orbit and infrastructure on Earth.
Space weather is a relatively unexplored phenomenon that is caused by large bursts of particles released by the sun. The unusually strong burst New technique to discover brightest radio pulsars outside our own galaxy
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Canberra, Australia (The Conversaton) May 03, 2022
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts.
Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their fuel supply. They are extremely dense, with a mass similar to the Sun crammed into a region the size of Sydney.
Pulsars emit beams of radio waves from their poles. As those beams sweep across Earth, we can
When a star explodes and dies in a supernova, it takes on a new life of sorts.
Pulsars are the extremely rapidly rotating objects left over after massive stars have exhausted their fuel supply. They are extremely dense, with a mass similar to the Sun crammed into a region the size of Sydney.
Pulsars emit beams of radio waves from their poles. As those beams sweep across Earth, we can Cosmic Shielding to test Plasteel radiation shielding aboard Space Forge satellite
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 03, 2022
Cosmic Shielding Corporation (Cosmic Shielding), the leading space radiation management company and creator of Plasteel technology, today announced an agreement with European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge to test Cosmic Shielding's radiation shielding technology aboard Space Forge's new small class vehicle. The ForgeStar-0 will be launching on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne this S
Cosmic Shielding Corporation (Cosmic Shielding), the leading space radiation management company and creator of Plasteel technology, today announced an agreement with European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge to test Cosmic Shielding's radiation shielding technology aboard Space Forge's new small class vehicle. The ForgeStar-0 will be launching on Virgin Orbit's LauncherOne this S FCC grants experimental license to AST SpaceMobile for BlueWalker 3 cell phone tests
Tuesday, 03 May 2022 04:10
Midland TX (SPX) May 03, 2022
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones, today announced it has received an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting its U.S.-based testing of the BlueWalker 3 satellite.
The license covers BlueWalker 3 space-to-ground
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones, today announced it has received an experimental license from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) supporting its U.S.-based testing of the BlueWalker 3 satellite.
The license covers BlueWalker 3 space-to-ground Rocket Lab launches smallsats, catches but drops booster
Monday, 02 May 2022 23:21
Rocket Lab declared success in its effort to catch an Electron booster in midair after launch May 2, even though the helicopter had to release the booster moments later.
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