Air Force awards contract for spaceborne weather data
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
A Hanscom team recently awarded a $19.3 million contract to support a constellation of high-tech weather satellites capable of observing precipitation and storm structures from space. As part of the agreement, Boston-based meteorological intelligence company Tomorrow.io will provide the Aerospace Management Systems Division, headquartered here, with three-dimensional global weather and ocean dat Raytheon Intelligence and Space Releases Latest Increment of FORGE Data Framework
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, released version 9.0 of the Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution, or FORGE, Mission Data Processing Application Framework.
Release 9.0 of the government-owned framework continues to evolve existing features such as scalability, visualization, cybersecurity hardening, and integration for the Overhead Persistent In SBIRS GEO-5 operationally accepted after exceeding on-orbit testing expectations
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed Martin, has been operationally accepted by the U.S. Space Force less than a year after being launched into orbit.
The early missile warning satellite is a "Go-Fast" success story, completing all on-orbit testing with accelerated analysis, resulting in a 40% improvement over GEO-1 thro Glaciers are melting faster and with more consequences than expected
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
Developments at the South Pole are raising new concerns. A group of smaller glaciers, named Pope, Smith and Kohler, are melting faster than expected. So far, the neighbouring giant glaciers, Thwaites and Pine Island, have been the focus of research because they are extremely fragile and could raise global sea levels by up to 1.2 metres.
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Lu Operational Optical Data Services for Meteosat Satellites
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
Following an open invitation to tender, the technology multinational GMV, European industrial leader in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), has been awarded a new contract by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), located in Darmstadt (Germany) for the provision of Operational Optical Data Services to suppo The abyssal world: the last terra incognita of the Earth surface
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
The deep-ocean floor is the least explored ecosystem on the planet, despite covering more than 60% of the Earth surface. Largely unknown life in abyssal sediments, from benthic animals to microbes, helps to recycle and/or sequester the sinking (in)organic matter originating from pelagic communities that are numerically dominated by microscopic plankton.
Benthic ecosystems thus underpin two A new programming language for high-performance computers
Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:28
High-performance computing is needed for an ever-growing number of tasks - such as image processing or various deep learning applications on neural nets - where one must plow through immense piles of data, and do so reasonably quickly, or else it could take ridiculous amounts of time. It's widely believed that, in carrying out operations of this sort, there are unavoidable trade-offs between spe NASA outlines concerns about Starlink next-generation constellation in FCC letter
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 23:48
NASA says that SpaceX’s proposal for a second-generation Starlink constellation with 30,000 satellites could lead to a “significant increase” in potential collisions in low Earth orbit and interfere with the agency’s launches and scientific activities.
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KSAT to support NASA LunIR mission
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 23:40
Kongsberg Satellite Services is providing ground network support for the Lunar InfraRed Imaging mission.
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Space Force asks launch companies for insight on where the industry is going
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 23:24
The U.S. Space Force is trying to identify what launch companies might challenge SpaceX and United Launch Alliance when their current contracts are re-competed in 2024.
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Surprisingly high fraction of dead galaxies found in ancient galactic 'city'
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 21:03
Dozens of SpaceX internet satellites lost to geomagnetic storm
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 20:51
Up to 40 SpaceX high-speed internet satellites have been knocked out of orbit by a geomagnetic storm shortly after launch, but pose little threat to Earth as they burn up in the atmosphere, the company said.
Geomagnetic storms are caused by ejections of the solar corona into space, resulting in disturbances to the Earth's upper atmosphere and increased drag on objects in low orbits.
The Viasat adds polar coverage to ground station-as-a-service business
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 17:31
Viasat plans to deploy an antenna in Sweden in April to give its ground station-as-a-service business polar coverage for the first time, the California-based satellite operator said Feb. 9.
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Satellite IoT companies don’t see broadband systems as competitors
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 16:07
Companies developing internet-of-things satellite constellations don’t see other broadband megaconstellations as direct competitors, but some see an opportunity to learn from them.
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SpaceX satellites falling out of orbit after solar storm
Wednesday, 09 February 2022 15:11