ArianeGroup begins testing prototype of multirole Susie upper stage
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 13:49
Earth bacteria could make lunar soil more habitable for plants
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:44
A series of planned crewed lunar missions worldwide have inspired a new wave of research in growing plants on the moon to sustain life. A new study by Chinese agricultural scientists found that bacteria on Earth soil could offer a solution.
Published in the journal Communications Biology in early November, the study showed that three species of bacteria could increase the amount of phospho CAPSTONE marks one year in near rectilinear halo orbit
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:44
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) mars the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). CAPSTONE, designed, built, and integrated by Terran Orbital and owned by Advanced Space, has demonstrated significant achievements during its mission.
CAPSTONE accomplished its primary objective within the first six months in NRHO, successfully testing Investigating the contribution of gamma-ray blazar flares to neutrino flux
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:44
Blazars belong to the family of active galactic nuclei called quasars. What differentiates them from quasars is that the flares ejected out of these active galactic nuclei are pointed toward the Earth. These flares contain high-energy cosmic rays which are released from the core of these galaxies as jets spanning many light years. Such cosmic rays can interact with photons to produce subatomic p University of Helsinki researchers solve cosmic conundrum
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:44
Our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger formation, the local Supercluster structure, which contains several massive galaxy clusters and thousands of individual galaxies. Due to its pancake-like shape, which measures almost a billion light years across, it is also referred to as the Supergalactic Plane.
Most galaxies in the universe fall into one of two categories: firstly, ellipt SDI Announces New Tech Demo Competition for Government Modernization
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 11:44
The Space and Defense Innovation (SDI) team has officially announced the launch of its Ignite Competition, a pivotal event designed to bridge the gap between groundbreaking technology and the federal sector's needs. This demo competition presents an unprecedented opportunity for tech companies to directly demonstrate their innovative solutions to key federal sector experts, furthering the U.S.'s 
Cairt and Wivern Earth Explorer candidates go forward
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:52
ESA has reached a significant milestone in its commitment towards a deeper understanding of Earth's dynamic processes and addressing pressing environmental challenges with the selection of two new candidates – Cairt and Wivern – to progress to the next development phase as part of the process of realising the Agency’s eleventh Earth Explorer satellite mission.
NASA Mars smallsat mission to be on first New Glenn launch
Tuesday, 21 November 2023 10:42
Battle of the Bands: What’s at stake for space at WRC-23
Monday, 20 November 2023 21:12
MDA gets $131 million from mystery NGSO constellation customer
Monday, 20 November 2023 21:05
In 2024, Space Coast gears up for most astronaut launches since '09
Monday, 20 November 2023 21:00
The business of sending humans into space has not yet risen to the levels seen during the space shuttle program, but 2024 could see the most U.S.-based orbital launches in 15 years.
There are seven missions slated from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral Space Force Station that look to place 26 humans into orbit. It's the highest number of crew launching from the Space Coast since 2009. That year saw five shuttle launches with 35 humans on board.
The seven planned launches would also be the most since the eight space shuttle launches in 1997.
The shuttle era finished with only three launches in 2010 and 2011 before its retirement, and U.S.-based launches did not happen again until the successful May 2020 liftoff of SpaceX's Demo-2 mission flying the Crew Dragon Endeavour to the International Space Station with humans on board for the first time.
Since then, SpaceX has been the only orbital U.S.-based launcher of humans in the game, mixing up a combination of missions under NASA's Commercial Crew Program to the ISS as well as private missions to both the station and standalone orbital flights.
Juice burns hard toward first-ever Earth–moon flyby
Monday, 20 November 2023 19:15
On 17 November 2023, ESA's Juice spacecraft carried out one of the largest and most important maneuvers in its eight-year journey to Jupiter.
Using its main engine, Juice changed its orbit around the sun to put itself on the correct trajectory for next summer's Earth–moon double gravity assist—the first of its kind.
The maneuver lasted 43 minutes and burned almost 10% of the spacecraft's entire fuel reserve. It's the first part of a two-part maneuver that could mark the final time that Juice's main engine is used until its arrival in the Jupiter system in 2031.
NASA's 'flawless' heat shield demo passes the test
Monday, 20 November 2023 18:50
A little more than a year ago, a NASA flight test article came screaming back from space at more than 18,000 mph, reaching temperatures of nearly 2,700°F before gently splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. At that moment, it became the largest blunt body—a type of reentry vehicle that creates a heat-deflecting shockwave—ever to reenter Earth's atmosphere.
The Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) launched on Nov. 10, 2022, aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket and successfully demonstrated an inflatable heat shield. Also known as a Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) aeroshell, this technology could allow larger spacecraft to safely descend through the atmospheres of celestial bodies like Mars, Venus, and even Saturn's moon, Titan.