KBR wins Air Force Research Lab contract to study non-traditional orbits
Monday, 31 July 2023 16:35
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KBR, a DoD and NASA contractor, won a $24.9 million contract to provide insights on the behavior of objects in nontraditional orbits.
Space Force programs get trimmed in Senate appropriations bill
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The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended about $1 billion in cuts from the U.S.
Elements: FIRE
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The summer fire season is well under way in Europe – countries all around the Mediterranean are experiencing record temperatures coupled with huge wildfires that have led to mass evacuations. In this enthralling new ESA documentary, explore how people on the frontline are using space to better monitor and fight the flames.
Follow the incredible stories of the firefighters who dealt with unprecedented fires in Gironde, France, and the forest officers using satellite data to plan for the forests’ recovery. Journey into the heart of Earth's elemental might and discover how space is changing the game for monitoring
Euclid test images tease of riches to come
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Euclid’s two instruments have captured their first test images. The mesmerising results indicate that the space telescope will achieve the scientific goals that it has been designed for – and possibly much more.
The life and times of dust
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This image shows the irregular galaxy NGC 6822, which was observed by the Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) mounted on the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. As their names suggest, NIRCam and MIRI probe different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. This allows the instruments to observe different components of the same galaxy, with MIRI especially sensitive to its gas-rich regions (the yellow swirls in this image) and NIRCam suitable for observing its densely packed field of stars.
NGC 6822 lies about 1.5 million light-years away, and is the Milky Way’s nearest galactic neighbour that
Mystery object on Australian beach identified as part of Indian rocket
Monday, 31 July 2023 06:55 Write a comment
A mysterious object that washed up on an Australian beach has been identified as debris from an Indian rocket, officials said Monday.
The bulky barnacle-encrusted cylinder was first spotted in mid-July near remote Jurien Bay, a coastal region two hours' drive north of Perth in Western Australia.
Amateur sleuths speculated online that the object might have a military origin or even be linked to the disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.
But the Australian Space Agency said it had concluded the object was "most likely" debris from an "expended third-stage of a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle".
The medium-lift launch vehicle is operated by the Indian Space Research Organization, the agency added.
The object, which measures some two meters (six feet) high and has cables dangling from the top, is being kept in storage.
Meanwhile, officials from both countries are working together to "provide further confirmation to determine next steps, including considering obligations under the United Nations space treaties", the Australian Space Agency said.
It is not the first time Australia has found itself a landing ground for space junk—last August, a sheep farmer in New South Wales found a charred chunk from one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions jutting out of his paddock.
Crew Dragon, Soyuz missions set for launches to ISS
Sunday, 30 July 2023 17:16 Write a comment
Two crewed missions remain on track to launch to the International Space Station over the next month and a half after addressing technical issues that included a Soyuz coolant leak.
India launches seven satellites on PSLV rocket
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India successfully launched seven Singaporean satellites into low Earth orbit July 29 on its workhorse PSLV rocket.
JUPITER 3 set to revolutionize satellite connectivity across the Americas
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The successful deployment of Hughes Network Systems' JUPITER 3 ultra-high-density satellite, also known as EchoStar XXIV, has marked a significant leap forward in the field of satellite internet connectivity. The mission was carried out with the assistance of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, launching from the iconic Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A in Florida.
The EchoStar subsidiary comm Oxford researchers pioneer outer space machine learning model
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In an unprecedented move, a research team at the University of Oxford has successfully trained a machine learning model aboard a satellite in outer space. This groundbreaking achievement has the potential to significantly enhance the functionalities of remote-sensing satellites, making real-time monitoring and on-the-spot decision making possible for a host of applications.
Remote-sensing Momentus completes payload deployment from vigoride-6 mission
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Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), the space technology firm, announced that it has successfully launched and deployed all payloads from its Vigoride-6 mission. The mission was carried out via the SpaceX Transporter-7 mission in April 2023.
Since last year, Momentus has had three successful missions, deploying a total of 15 customer satellites, along with placing three of its Vigoride Orbital S Voyager 2 goes silent with a temporary communication interruption with Earth
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Amidst its epic journey into the cosmos, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has temporarily lost contact with the blue planet. An accidental deviation of the antenna's alignment on July 21 has caused an unexpected silence in the spacecraft's interstellar communications.
Voyager 2, nestled over 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth, slightly misaligned its antenna by 2 degre Space storms could cause chaos without forecast developments
Sunday, 30 July 2023 09:06 Write a comment
The world is unprepared for the next big storm from outer space, an overwhelming majority of scientists agree.
Nine in ten space weather experts said that without accurate forecasting of space weather, Earth would suffer serious damage to its infrastructure. Of the 144 scientists surveyed on the dangers of geomagnetic storms, just over half said current forecasting capabilities were not go Robot grips intuitively and moves objects like a human
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Agile Justin knows how to grasp objects correctly - even if it does not recognise them yet. The humanoid robot can also turn these items in its hand in any desired direction - without looking. This is commonplace for humans, but extremely difficult for robots. A team from the German Aerospace Center has now trained a robot to acquire these highly complex skills. To do this, the researchers used NASA-led Mission to Map Air Pollution in 3D Over Megacities
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This summer, as wildfire smoke blankets large swaths of North America and heat-stoked summer haze reaches its seasonal peak, NASA and its partners are deploying several new tools to observe air quality and pollution from the street to the stratosphere.
Launched into orbit earlier this spring, TEMPO, short for Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution, is the first satellite instrumen