Bringing more power to Space Station
A new cargo mission stands ready to launch early Thursday and dock to the International Space Station two days later. Meanwhile, the Expedition 68 crew switched roles between space scientists and orbital plumbers on Wednesday promoting advanced knowledge and maintaining life support systems.
A rocket packed with about three tons of food, fuel, and supplies, is ready to launch from the Baik Spanish lagoon used to better understand wet-to-dry transition of Mars
In the ongoing search for signs of life on Mars, a new study proposes focusing on "time-resolved analogs" - dynamic and similar Earth environments where changes can be analyzed over many years.
Alberto Fairen, visiting scientist of astronomy at Cornell University, led an investigation in the extremely salty Tirez lagoon in central Spain, which had experienced alternating dry and wet period Galileo signal component tested for Internet of Things use
One of Europe's Galileo satellites has been reconfigured to emit a new signal component optimised to serve low-end receiver devices and Internet of Things applications.
Sentinel-4 set to join next weather satellite
Copernicus Sentinel-4, which is set to play a key role in monitoring air quality over Europe, is ready to be fitted to its host, the first Meteosat Third Generation Sounder weather satellite.
Copernicus Sentinel-4 is a state-of-the-art ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared spectrometer instrument that has been developed to deliver hourly high-resolution measurements of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulphur dioxide and formaldehyde, as well as aerosols.
NanoAvionics expands production capacity for constellation transformation
Lithuania-based NanoAvionics said it has doubled its small satellite production space to meet the needs of constellation operators.
More lunar missions means more space junk around the Moon—two astronomers are building a catalog to track the trash
Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity's starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch of the Apollo program and the emergence of the space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union, people have been leaving trash around the moon, too.
Today, experts estimate that there are a few dozen pieces of space junk like spent rocket bodies, defunct satellites and mission-related debris orbiting in cislunar space—the space between Earth and the moon and the area around the moon. While this isn't yet a large amount of junk, astronomers have very little information about where these pieces of space debris are, let alone what they are and how they got there.
Sound test of Hera asteroid mission antenna
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Three-minute cinematic video trailer presenting ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission Military agency praised for leading the way on laser communications
By requiring suppliers of laser terminals to comply with a common set of standards, the U.S.
Boeing and Millennium cite benefits of partnership
“There’s a handful of programs that we won that we would not have been able to win by ourselves and Boeing wouldn’t have been able to win by themselves,” said Millennium CEO Jason Kim.
