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Save the date: ESA Open Day 2023 in the Netherlands
Save the date: this year’s annual ESA Open Day in the Netherlands will take place on Sunday 8 October, at the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk. Registration to attend will be opened later this summer; keep an eye on this webpage and social media for further details.
Register now: ESA Open Day for people with a disability
Registration is now open for this year’s annual ESA Open Day in the Netherlands for people with a disability, which will take place on Saturday 7 October, at the Agency’s ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk.
SpaceX launches 22 additional Starlink satellites
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with another payload of Starlink satellites into space from Florida late Sunday.
The rocket launched at 10:41 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, sending the 22 satellites into low-Earth orbit where they will join Starlink's constellation of thousands of orbitals that provide high-speed, low-latency Int Xenesis to send optical terminal to ISS platform
Xenesis is preparing to install an optical communications hub to increase data downlink capacity for customers of Bartolomeo, Airbus’ external research platform on the International Space Station.
Russia to launch Luna-25 on Friday, first moon mission in 50 years
After a long hiatus of nearly fifty years, Russia is gearing up to return to the Moon with its Luna-25 lunar lander, setting the stage for a new era in lunar exploration.
The Russian space agency announced Monday that the Luna-25 lander, powered by a Soyuz rocket, is set for an August 11 launch from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur Oblast at 2:10 a.m. Moscow time, The mission mark TROPICS cubesat constellation ready for hurricane season
A quartet of cubesats launched in May to monitor the development of tropical storm systems is working just in time to support monitoring of the Atlantic hurricane season.
Benchmark unveils driver assistance features for satellites
Benchmark Space Systems intends to offer satellite operators the type of driver assistance popular in automobiles.
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Frontgrade acquires Aethercomm
Frontgrade Technologies, a Veritas Capital, announced the acquisition June 8 of Carlsbad, California-based Aethercomm.
Spacecraft, landers and rovers could be recycled for parts on the moon
Additive manufacturing is slowly becoming more and more useful as the technology improves. One of the places it continues its development is in the realm of space exploration. It has long been mooted as an integral part of any in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) efforts and is especially important for ensuring early explorers on the moon have the right tools and materials they need to survive.
The European Space Agency is supporting that research effort, as their Technology Development Element fund supported work by an Austrian company called Incus to develop a 3D printing solution that could reprint metal parts on the moon.
The moon undoubtedly has plenty of metallic ore ready to be mined by either robots or explorers. However, making metal from that ore is expensive in energy and time, both of which are limited in any early lunar exploration scenario.
