How to use space to conserve history
Space can help to identify historic landscapes and conserve cultural buildings. Find out how by joining a free ESA digital workshop introduced by UNESCO’s chief cultural heritage manager alongside ESA's director general.
Pentagon chief Austin stands behind Air Force amid investigation of Space Command basing decision
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has issued a statement in support of the U.S. Air Force’s handling of the basing decision for U.S. Space Command, his spokesman said.
Austin’s statement follows an announcement Feb.
To defend the high frontier, Space Force wants digitally minded troops
If fighter pilots are the rock stars of the Air Force, it could be said that software coders and app developers are the fighter jocks of the Space Force.
“Software touches everything we do in the Space Force,” said 1st Lt.
Big ideas in small packages: The seeds and worms making their way to the ISS
On Feb. 20, 2021, Northrop Grumman will launch its Cygnus cargo spacecraft aboard an Antares rocket to deliver several tons of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station for its 15th resupply mission (CRS-15). Included in these bulky supplies will be a handful of items that weigh no more than a few grams—a sampling of seeds, some microscopic proteins, and a few small worms. Yet it is these tiny organisms that may yield the biggest impact to this mission, affecting the future of space travel while delivering life altering benefits to those of us still on Earth.
Three experiments, sponsored by NASA's Biological and Physical Sciences Division, focus on the diversity of space biology and physical sciences:
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red Planet
New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plummeted, parachuted, and rocketed toward the surface of Mars. A microphone on the rover also has provided the first audio recording of sounds from Mars.
From the moment of parachute inflation, the c Toast-shaped ThinSats attract educational and government customers
SAN FRANCISCO – ThinSats are starting to catching on.
The toast-shaped miniature satellites designed primarily as teaching tools have attracted Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) funding from NASA and the U.S. Space Force.
Still, their most popular application is education.
NASA releases first video of Perseverance rover landing on Mars
NASA postpones second SLS Green Run test
WASHINGTON — Just days after NASA said it was ready to perform a second static-fire test of the Space Launch System core stage, the agency announced Feb. 22 that the test would be delayed because of a valve problem.
NASA releases first audio from Mars, video of landing
China begins assembly of Long March 5B heavy-lift to launch core space station capsule
The Long March 5B heavy-lift carrier rocket tasked with launching the core capsule of China's Space station arrived at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Monday, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The rocket will now be assembled and then undergo ground tests with the capsule at the coastal launch complex, the agency said in a brief statement, without elaborating. 
