Thinking outside the box: Aerospace Corp.’s thin DiskSats
The Aerospace Corp., an early adopter of the cubesat standard, is proposing a new shape for small satellites: a thin, round plate.
Collins Aerospace to provide life support for privately run LEO outpost
Collins Aerospace said Aug. 23 it had been awarded a $2.6 million contract by an undisclosed customer to provide life support systems for a planned “privately owned and operated low Earth orbit outpost.
Britain charts a new course for satellite navigation
When it comes to satellite navigation, the British government has struggled to find its way over the last five years.
Planet Aqua: Solutions from Space for Clean Water
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Water is life, on Earth and in space. Dutch ESA astronaut André Kuipers recounts his experience living in space for 204 days, and his time looking back on the blue face of ‘Planet Aqua’, comparing notes with divers about what is going on beneath the waves. He goes on to explore how space technology is being used for water management, from orbital tracking of water quality and pollution to spacecraft-grade recycling systems deployed down on the ground, as well as ambitious efforts to identify marine plastic litter using satellites. Produced for SIWI World Water Week with the
NASA faces new criticism, possible congressional hearing over spacesuit delays
NASA is facing new criticism over a recent agency watchdog report that disclosed spacesuit development is so far behind schedule that a return to the moon would be delayed beyond a 2024 target.
Coupled with the high cost, estimated to hit $1 billion eventually, the development issues are serious enough to prompt a congressional hearing, U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., told UPI.
"I almost UCF experimental space dirt used by NASA, private companies to advance space exploration
An ingenious idea born out of a research lab at the University of Central Florida has led to a growing operation that is having a direct impact on space exploration.
Chances are that some of the equipment landing on the moon and the methods that will be used to grow food or build shelter, will have been tested first on experimental soil developed right at UCF.
UCF's Exolith Lab has p Interstellar comets like Borisov may not be all that rare
In 2019, astronomers spotted something incredible in our backyard: a rogue comet from another star system. Named Borisov, the icy snowball traveled 110,000 miles per hour and marked the first and only interstellar comet ever detected by humans.
But what if these interstellar visitors-comets, meteors, asteroids and other debris from beyond our solar system-are more common than we think? Gilmour Space signs first European partnership agreement with Exolaunch
Gilmour Space Technologies, a premier Australian rocket company pioneering new and innovative hybrid propulsion technologies for launching small satellites, and Exolaunch, a Berlin-based leader in rideshare launch and deployment services for small satellites, has announced a series of agreements for small satellite launch, deployment and in-space transportation services.
Under the agreemen Martian snow is dusty, could potentially melt, new study shows
Over the last two decades, scientists have found ice in many locations on Mars. Most Martian ice has been observed from orbital satellites like NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. But determining the grain size and dust content of the ice from that far above the surface is challenging. And those aspects of the ice are crucial in helping scientists determine how old the ice is and how it was depo Solar System's fastest-orbiting asteroid discovered
The Sun has a new neighbor that was hiding in plain twilight. An asteroid that orbits the Sun in just 113 days-the shortest known orbital period for an asteroid and second shortest for any object in our Solar System after Mercury-was discovered by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard in evening twilight images taken by Brown University's Ian Dell'Antonio and Shenming Fu.
The newfound asteroid, cal 
