Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
Australia established a Defence Space Command in January this year, "to achieve our strategic space ambitions and lead the effort to assure Australia's access to space". The government also plans to spend around A$7 billion on space defence over the next decade. Many areas within defence are already engaged in space activities, but Defence Space Command will bring them together. It will ai

Austin TX (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could potentially help sustain alien life, according to a team of researchers led by The University of Texas at Austin. This theory has been proposed by others, but the researchers put it to the test by building the world's first physics-based computer si

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
It all started around 13.8 billion years ago with a big, cosmological "bang" that brought the universe suddenly and spectacularly into existence. Shortly after, the infant universe cooled dramatically and went completely dark. Then, within a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe woke up, as gravity gathered matter into the first stars and galaxies. Light from these

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
It looks like fireflies flickering in the darkness. Slowly, more and more amass, lighting up the screen in large chunks and clusters. But this is not a video about insects. It's a simulation of the early universe, a time after the Big Bang when the cosmos transformed from a place of utter darkness to a radiant, light-filled environment. The stunning video is part of a large suite of simula

Dunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can't be said for the Sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why. Study lead Dr Jonathan Squire, of the Department of Physics, says the surface of the Sun starts at 6000 degC, but over a short distance of only a few hundred kilometers, it suddenly heats up to mor

Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
A $157 million bid led by Queensland-based Gilmour Space Technologies to grow sovereign space manufacturing in Australia has been awarded the largest Modern Manufacturing Initiative Collaboration (MMIC) grant for Space by the Federal Government. Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor MP said in a statement that the Government's $52 million co-investment in the A

Paris, France (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
Euroconsult has released the 6th edition of its High Throughput Satellites (HTS) report - its in-depth analysis of geostationary (GEO) and non-geostationary (NGSO) HTS markets including major drivers, strategic issues, competitive landscape and detailed forecasts of capacity supply and associated demand take-up. After helping reshape the satellite communications industry through their ever

Boca Raton FL (SPX) Mar 25, 2022
Tailwind Two Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TWNT) has announced the completion of its business combination with Terran Orbital Corporation ("Terran Orbital"), a leading small satellite manufacturer primarily serving the United States aerospace and defense industry. In connection with the completion of the business combination, Tailwind Two has been renamed Terran Orbital Corporation (the "Compan

A French startup has raised an initial round of funding to begin testing of solar sails it believes can sharply reduce the cost of deep space missions.

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NASA plans to delay the next phase of its Mars Sample Return campaign and split a lander mission into two separate spacecraft to reduce the overall risk of the program.

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