House Armed Services Committee advances 2023 NDAA, increases DoD spending by $37 billion
The committee approved an amendment by Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) to increase the defense budget by $37 billion
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Lunar science stirring on Mount Etna
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Lunar science stirring on Mount Etna Methane levels surged in 2020 despite lockdowns
Levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A team of scientists, from the University of Leeds, have used data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite to pinpoint locations with large surges of methane emissions. These findings were presented during ESA’s Living Planet Symposium which took place last month in Bonn, Germany.
Ariane 5 orbits Malaysian, Indian telecoms payloads
Ariane 5 has delivered two telecommunications satellites, MEASAT-3d and GSAT-24, into their planned geostationary transfer orbits.
BepiColombo surveys Mercury’s rich geology
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BepiColombo surveys Mercury’s rich geology First Ariane 5 flight of 2022 launches two satellites for Asia-Pacific
Arianespace launched a pair of satellites aiming to improve broadband coverage in the Asia-Pacific region June 22 on the Ariane 5 rocket’s first flight of the year.
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On National Security | DoD’s buying habits a continuing source of frustration
Over the course of just six months, three senior defense officials responsible for technology programs announced they were stepping down, voicing disappointment in a culture they view as an impediment to innovation.
Microsoft, Xplore and NOAA demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations
Over the last year, Microsoft and Xplore worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to show how commercial services could support operations of polar-orbiting weather satellites.
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Office of Space Commerce on a “listening tour” for civil space traffic management
The new head of the Office of Space Commerce says he’s talking with industry on how his office can best take over civil space traffic management while also potentially taking on more regulatory responsibilities.
Australia just flew its own 'vomit comet'. It's a big deal for zero-gravity space research
Last Saturday, a two-seater SIAI-Marchetti S.211 jet took off from Essendon Fields Airport in Melbourne with an expert aerobatic pilot at the controls and a case full of scientific experiments in the passenger seat.
Pilot Steve Gale took the jet on Australia's first commercial "parabolic flight", in which the plane flies along the path of a freely falling object, creating a short period of weightlessness for everyone and everything inside.
Parabolic flights are often a test run for the zero-gravity conditions of space. This one was operated by Australian space company Beings Systems, which plans to run regular commercial flights in coming years.
As Australia's space program begins to take off, flights like these will be in high demand.
What was on the plane?
The experiments aboard the flight were small packages developed by space science students at RMIT University.
