Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. Future space construction will need to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronauts, StarCrete offers one possible solution. The scientists behind the invention used simulated Martian soil mixed with potato starch and a pinch of salt to create the material that is twice as strong a

Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 16, 2023
More than 5 billion miles from Earth and 17 years into a mission that included the first close-up exploration of Pluto and the first encounter with a planetary building block in the Kuiper Belt, NASA's New Horizons continues to shed light on the mysterious planets and smaller bodies of the outer solar system. Launched in January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft zoomed past Pluto and its m

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2023
NASA scientists have strong evidence that Jupiter's moon Europa has an internal ocean under its icy outer shell - an enormous body of salty water swirling around the moon's rocky interior. New computer modeling suggests the water may actually be pushing the ice shell along, possibly speeding up and slowing down the rotation of the moon's icy shell over time. Scientists have known that Euro

Houston (AFP) March 15, 2023
NASA and the private aerospace company Axiom Space unveiled a prototype on Wednesday of the next-generation spacesuit that astronauts will wear on the next walk on the Moon. The suit revealed at an event at the Johnson Space Center in Houston features greater flexibility and thermal protection than those worn by the Apollo astronauts who first stepped foot on the lunar surface more than 50 y

Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2023
Today's 2-sol plan wraps up our remaining drill campaign and workspace liens at Tapo Caparo. Our weekend plan ran successfully though we had a known issue which caused several of our remote sensing activities planned for the weekend to not execute. Today's plan was therefore jam packed with recovering any remaining remote sensing observations of our area and some contact science.

Menlo Park CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
LeoLabs the world's leading commercial provider of Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services and low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping, has announced Argentina as the site for its next space radar. The Argentina Space Radar (AGSR) represents a critical addition to LeoLabs growing global constellation of S-band, phased-array sensors strategically distributed across the Northern and Southern Hemispheres,

Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 14, 2023
The European Space Agency (ESA) acting on behalf of the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) and in the name of the European Union represented by the European Commission (COM) has awarded technology multinational GMV a contract for the development of the Galileo Second Generation System Test Bed (G2STB). The G2STB will provide ESA with a key system verification and validat

NASA and Axiom Space unveiled a prototype of the spacesuits that astronauts will wear on Artemis missions to the moon.

Northrop Grumman and Japanese heavy-industry manufacturer IHI Corporation have signed a memorandum of understanding March 15 to develop “small, highly maneuverable satellites and other solutions” that will help bolster Japan’s space domain awareness capabilities, particularly for geosynchronous orbit.

OQ Technology of Luxembourg, which raised $13 million in September to build out a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) constellation, ordered three additional satellites from Kongsberg NanoAvionics.