Wallops Island VA (SPX) Jun 19, 2023
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a Fortune 500 technology, engineering and science solutions and service leader, announced its Dynetics team has successfully completed a large-scale test for its MACH-TB program. The Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program is meant to increase the speed of testing for all commercially available hypersonic systems. The program also called for t

Paris (AFP) June 27, 2023
France has for the first time tested a hypersonic glide vehicle, a warhead that defies interception thanks to its unpredictable trajectory, a source with knowledge of the test said Tuesday. The speed of HGVs can exceed Mach 5, or 6,000 kilometres per hour (3,730 mph). The technology is being developed or deployed by a small number of countries that includes China, Russia and the United State

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2023
Advanced Space, an industry frontrunner in the creation of cutting-edge space technology, is set to make significant strides in deep space and planetary exploration through its collaboration with the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL). The partnership centers around NASA's forthcoming Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission, s

Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 27, 2023
A joint research team led by Prof. DU Aimin from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has found extremely weak magnetic fields during the Zhurong rover's first 1-km traverse on Mars. This indicates no detectable magnetization anomalies below Zhurong's landing site. The researchers utilized two fluxgate magnetometers aboard the Zhurong rover to

Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2023
We started planning today with the great news that our drive was successful! This put us in a perfect position for our split touch-and-go plan - lots to see, and no need to worry that we might be on unsteady footing, like we were on Friday. Our two nearby targets are bedrock blocks: the nodular bedrock 'Lousoi,' which we'll be investigating up close (the 'touching' in the touch-and-go) wit

Trieste, Italy (SPX) Jun 28, 2023
Isaac Newton formulated his theory of gravity as an action at a distance: a planet instantly feels the influence of another celestial body, no matter the distance between them. This characteristic motivated Einstein to develop the famous theory of general relativity, where gravity becomes a local deformation of spacetime. The principle of locality states that an object is directly influenced onl

Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2023
This cloud of orange and red, part of the Sh2-284 nebula, is shown here in spectacular detail using data from the VLT Survey Telescope, hosted by the European Southern Observatory (ESO). This nebula is teeming with young stars, as gas and dust within it clumps together to form new suns. If you take a look at the cloud as a whole, you might be able to make out the face of a cat, smiling down from

WASHINGTON — As Sierra Space continues to prepare for the first flight of its Dream Chaser vehicle, it is outlining long-term ambitions for both that vehicle and space station modules.

SES Space & Defense announced June 28 it won a five-year contract worth up to $134 million to provide X-band satellite communications services to DoD.

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