Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
While for humans the constants might be death and taxes, for planets the constants are gravity and collisions.
Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information about impacts to understand the history and the composition of planets, moons, asteroids and meteorites throughout the solar system.
"Impact cratering is the most ubiquitous surface process shaping planetary bodies," John Could a refined space weather model help scientists find life elsewhere
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
A refinement to a space weather model developed by a center director at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) could help scientists check out which planets outside our solar system are likely to have someone home.
Exoplanets are what planets are called when they orbit stars outside our own solar system, and the effort to winnow out those that could harbor life has been intensifying UCLA researchers discover source of super-fast 'electron rain'
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis but also poses hazards to satellites, spacecraft and astronauts.
The researchers observed unexpected, rapid "electron precipitation" from low-Earth orbit using the ELFIN mission, a pair of tiny satellites built and operated on Milky Way encirciles the Galactic Bar with vast stellar ring
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
Using a combination of observed stars and a realistic model of the Milky Way, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have found a new structure in our home galaxy. Just outside the Galactic bar, they found an inner ring of metal rich stars, which are younger than the stars in the bar.
The ages of the ring stars can be used to estimate that the bar must have for Hubble uses gravity lense to spot most distant star ever seen
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe's birth in the big bang - the farthest individual star ever seen to date.
The find is a huge leap further back in time from the previous single-star record holder; detected by Hubble in 2018. That star existed when the un How scientists reviewed the process and development of space intelligent robot technology?
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
It is an inevitable choice for the development of space automation technology to use space intelligent robots to realize space exploration and space resource utilization. China started with the successful launch of the Tianhe Core Module in 2021, and intends to build a large-scale, long-term manned national space laboratory during 2021-2022, and gradually develops into the China's Space Station Terran Orbital begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a leading small satellite manufacturer primarily serving the United States aerospace and defense industry, announced that its common stock and warrants will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange, March 28, 2022, under the ticker symbols "LLAP" and "LLAP WS", respectively.
Terran Orbital has made significant progress over recent months as it p SES expands O3b mPOWER Partner Ecosystem with Comtech for antenna systems
Thursday, 31 March 2022 03:06
SES has announced that Comtech Telecommunications Corp (NASDQ: CMTL) is supplying antenna systems for its second-generation medium earth orbit (MEO) O3b mPOWER gateways. The antenna hardware comes in a range of sizes - from the 5.5 metre gateway intended for telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) to smaller antennas for enterprise and government use. The antennas can also be deployed as customer Extreme precision needed to attach two main parts of Euclid spacecraft together
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 16:20
On 24 March, over a dozen engineers gathered at Euclid industrial prime contractor, Thales Alenia Space in Turin, to carefully attach the two main parts of the Euclid spacecraft together.
A record broken: Hubble finds the most distant star ever seen
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 14:00
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A record broken: Hubble finds the most distant star ever seen Journey to Destination Earth begins
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 12:40
Today, the European Commission, ESA, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) celebrated the official launch of the Destination Earth initiative: an ambitious project that involves creating a digital replica of Earth to help us move towards a sustainable future.
Jeff Matthews joins Radian Aerospace as director of strategy
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 12:00
Radian Aerospace, a startup developing a reusable spaceplane, announced March 30 that Jeff Matthews, a founding member of Deloitte Consulting’s space sector practice, would become the company’s director of strategy.
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Soyuz returns astronaut and cosmonauts from space station
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 11:11
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts landed in Kazakhstan March 30, an ordinary end of a mission in extraordinary times.
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Virgin Orbit looks beyond satellite launch for growth opportunities
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 10:29
Small launch vehicle company Virgin Orbit says it sees opportunities not just in satellite launch but also in hypersonics as it looks to increase its revenue.
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China to launch Einstein Probe in 2023 to observe violent cosmic events
Wednesday, 30 March 2022 09:55
A Chinese wide-field x-ray space observatory has passed a major review and is expected to launch next year to detect flashes from cataclysmic cosmic events.
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