Euclid’s view of globular cluster NGC 6397
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 12:15
This sparkly image shows Euclid’s view on a globular cluster called NGC 6397. Globular clusters are collections of hundreds of thousands of stars held together by gravity.
As first Vulcan flight nears, new space plane Dream Chaser preps for launch No. 2
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 09:45
The Sierra Space Dream Chaser looks like a mini space shuttle, and it's gearing up for its first trip to space atop United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan Centaur rocket in 2024.
The uncrewed spacecraft is designed for now to take cargo to the International Space Station, having won a NASA contract to join SpaceX and Northrop Grumman for commercial resupply missions.
The first nearly complete version of Dream Chaser is named Tenacity, and is set to leave Sierra Space's Louisville, Colorado, production facility to begin its journey to the Space Coast. Its first stop, though, will be to NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, for a battery of environmental shakedown tests in the coming weeks.
"Today we have arrived at a profound milestone in both our company's journey and our industry's future—one that has been years in the making and is shaped by audacious dreaming and tenacious doing," said Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice during an event heralding the completion of what is planned to be a fleet of Dream Chasers.
Just like the space shuttle, it will launch from Florida and land in Florida.
Helix hot-fire by Rocket Factory Augsburg
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 08:03
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Scenes from the first hot-fire test of the Helix rocket engine built by Rocket Factory Augsburg, known as RFA, at the Swedish Space Corporation Esrange site in Kiruna, Sweden. The final scene shows testing of the RFA One rocket fairing separation designed and developed by RFA in Portugal.
Rocket Factory Augsburg’s RFA One launch vehicle is being developed in Augsburg, Germany, with hot-fire tests of the engine and second stage performed at the Esrange Space Center in Sweden, under an initial Boost! co-funding committed by ESA in 2022.
Staged combustion technology has higher efficiency and performance compared to conventional
Ireland’s first satellite on its way to launch
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 07:00
After years of development with the support of the ESA Education programme, the Educational Irish Research Satellite 1 (EIRSAT-1) is set to launch in November, marking Ireland’s first steps into space.
CNES, Pasteur Inst and SupBiotech sending "Cerebral Ageing" experiment to ISS
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 06:17
Scheduled for early November, the Cerebral Ageing experiment will depart for the International Space Station (ISS) from Cape Canaveral, Florida, inside a Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 launcher. The experiment aims firstly to create the conditions for studying complex human cellular structures in vitro over long periods in space. It subsequently seeks to analyse the effects of long-term space Curiosity rover clocks 4,000 sols on Mars
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 06:17
Four thousand Martian days after setting its wheels in Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover remains busy conducting exciting science. The rover recently drilled its 39th sample then dropped the pulverized rock into its belly for detailed analysis.
To study whether ancient Mars had the conditions to support microbial life, the rover has been gradually ascending the base of 3- NASA seeks input for future lunar surface resource utilization demo
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 06:17
As NASA ushers in an exciting era of long-term exploration on the Moon with Artemis, new strategies are being formulated to determine how technology, infrastructure, and operations will function together as a cohesive and cross-cutting system.
As a sustained presence grows at the Moon, opportunities to harvest lunar resources could lead to safer, more efficient operations with less depende NASA discovers record-breaking black hole 13.2 billion light-years from Earth
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 06:17
NASA has discovered a record-breaking colossal black hole, formed after the big bang, using the space agency's "cosmic magnifying glass."
"Our NASAWebb and Chandra Xray space telescopes have discovered the most distant black hole ever seen in X-rays. Webb data shows the black hole's host galaxy is 13.2 billion light-years from Earth, when the universe was only 3% of its current age," NA Dust's Pivotal Role in Dinosaur Extinction Highlighted by Study
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 06:17
A groundbreaking study recently published in Nature Geoscience introduces new evidence on the cataclysmic events following the infamous Chicxulub impact, suggesting that the fine dust from pulverized rock played a more significant role than previously thought in the mass extinction event that eliminated the dinosaurs and approximately 75% of species 66 million years ago.
Scientists from th Ancient planet Thiea that collided with Earth may lie deep within Earth
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 06:17
Researchers at Caltech have presented a compelling narrative that potentially resolves a longstanding enigma in planetary science. According to a recent study published in Nature, massive structures deep within Earth's mantle may be the long-lost remnants of Theia, an ancient planetesimal whose cataclysmic collision with Earth is hypothesized to have given birth to the Moon.
These structur Canadian government backs 2024 space accelerator in Southern California
Tuesday, 07 November 2023 03:38
LeoLabs data shows on-orbit maneuvers by Russian satellites
Monday, 06 November 2023 22:44
