Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 28, 2022
When asteroid 596 Scheila collided with an object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter in December 2010, a fresh layer of material was exposed on the asteroid surface . An international research team observed the spectrum from the asteroid approximately ten years later, to see how space weathering affects the surface over a genuine timescale. Within the uncertainty of the observations,

Hefei, China (SPX) Oct 28, 2022
Building up the lunar settlement is the ultimate aim of lunar exploitation since human's first step on the moon. Yet, limited fuel and oxygen supplies restrict human survival on the moon. Combining photovoltaic and electrocatalysis, the artificial production of hydrocarbon fuels along with oxygen using carbon dioxide and water as the feedstocks has been demonstrably feasible on the earth and kno

The launch of a polar-orbiting weather satellite and reentry technology demonstration will be delayed more than a week because of a battery problem with the upper stage of their rocket, NASA announced Oct.

University Park PA (SPX) Oct 28, 2022
A recently released set of topography maps provides new evidence for an ancient northern ocean on Mars. The maps offer the strongest case yet that the planet once experienced sea-level rise consistent with an extended warm and wet climate, not the harsh, frozen landscape that exists today. "What immediately comes to mind as one the most significant points here is that the existence of an o

Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 28, 2022
Since 2018, when the NASA InSight Mission deployed the SEIS seismometer on the surface of Mars, seismologists and geophysicists at ETH Zurich have been listening to the seismic pings of more than 1,300 marsquakes. Again and again, the researchers registered smaller and larger Mars quakes. A detailed analysis of the quakes' location and spectral character brought a surprise. With epicentres

The first chief of space operations Gen. John 'Jay' Raymond retires Nov. 2 after 38 years of military service

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NorthStar Earth and Space, a company planning a constellation of satellites to collect space situational awareness data, will launch its first satellites in mid-2023 with Virgin Orbit.

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Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Oct 28, 2022
SatixFy Communications Ltd. has completed its previously-announced business combination with Endurance Acquisition Corp. ("Endurance") following the approval of the business combination by Endurance's stockholders on October 25, 2022 and satisfaction of customary closing conditions. In addition, on October 24, 2022, Endurance and SatixFy entered into a previously disclosed OTC Prepaid Forw

NASA has restored plans to include a lunar landing on its Artemis 4 mission to the moon later this decade, months after saying that the mission would instead be devoted to assembly of the lunar Gateway.

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