SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites; fourth takeoff in week
Saturday, 03 August 2024 21:58SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites into orbit early Friday morning from the Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 1 a.m., EDT, with the first stage returning to Earth to stick its Atlantic Ocean landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas. SpaceX moved back the launch for nearly an hour into the launch window, which started at 12:19 a.m.
Indian astronauts to start training for ISS mission
Saturday, 03 August 2024 19:59NASA retaining plans to select a single Artemis lunar rover
Friday, 02 August 2024 20:57Rocket Lab launches fifth Synspective satellite
Friday, 02 August 2024 19:30U.S. Air Force awards $14.9 million contract to Capella Space for radar imaging
Friday, 02 August 2024 18:00KVH Industries leans on maritime connectivity competitor Starlink for growth
Friday, 02 August 2024 17:22Space Perspective Unveils First Marine Spaceport
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52Space Perspective, the world's first carbon-neutral spaceflight experience company, has announced the completion and arrival of Marine Spaceport (MS) Voyager, the world's only marine spaceport for human spaceflight, to its home base in Florida. In collaboration with Guice Offshore, the 294-foot vessel is outfitted for launch and retrieval operations, positioning Space Perspective as the first sp
Omega Propulsion Service Enhances Satellite Operations
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52The Omega service allows customers to purchase and integrate ready-to-use propulsion systems for their satellites, offering comprehensive support from launch to end-of-life deorbiting. This turnkey service enables customers to utilize Omega throughout a satellite's entire lifecycle, including deployment and collision avoidance. "We are very impressed with what is being developed by the thr
Northrop Grumman completes PDR for SDA Data Transport Satellites
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for 74 high-speed data transport satellites for the Space Development Agency (SDA). These satellites, which incorporate advanced technology from the earlier Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture (PWSA), will enhance capabilities for U.S. Forces. The 74 satellites include both Tranch
Researchers Launch Underwater Study of Greenland's Glaciers
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52The University of Texas at Austin has initiated an expedition to explore the underwater boundaries of Greenland's coastal glaciers to gain insights into future sea level rise. The four-week international expedition will study the mechanisms controlling the melting of these massive glaciers, which hold about 23 feet (7 meters) of potential sea level rise within their ice. Accompanying
DARPA Launches Initiative for Next-Gen US Microelectronics Manufacturing
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52The Next-Generation Microelectronics Manufacturing (NGMM) program is set to revolutionize U.S. microelectronics production through a new agreement to establish the first national center dedicated to advancing domestic microelectronics manufacturing. DARPA is collaborating with the University of Texas at Austin and its Texas Institute for Electronics research center to form a consortium sup
Mesoscale Discoveries in Ferroelectric Materials Could Revolutionize Electronics
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52In electronic technologies, critical material properties change in response to stimuli like voltage or current. Scientists strive to understand these changes at various scales, from the nanoscale to the microscale. However, the often-overlooked mesoscale - spanning 10 billionths to 1 millionth of a meter - is now coming into focus. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argon
New catalyst developed from nanoscale cubes
Friday, 02 August 2024 16:52Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created innovative sheets of transition metal chalcogenide "cubes" linked by chlorine atoms. Unlike the widely studied atom-based sheets such as graphene, the team's research introduces the novel use of clusters. They successfully formed nanoribbons within carbon nanotubes for structural analysis and also created microscale sheets of cubes, whi
Experiment on photosynthesis is heading to the space station to explore effects of microgravity
Friday, 02 August 2024 14:20An experiment aimed at learning more about how plants grow in space will be aboard a National Aeronautics and Space Administration launch in early August from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
A Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft perched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will carry the plants to the orbiting laboratory, where astronauts will tend to them before the plants are returned to Earth.
The experiment created by scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will look at how two different types of grass grow on the space station. A PNNL team led by biologist Pubudu Handakumbura designed the experiment and will compare the results from space to identical plants being grown at the Kennedy Space Center.