New York (AFP) May 4, 2021
If a bottle of Petrus 2000 that Christie's is selling tastes out of this world it might be because it aged for 14 months aboard the International Space Station. Christie's hopes the bottle, now up for grabs in a private sale, will fetch $1 million, which would make it the most expensive wine ever sold. The bottle is one of a batch of 12 that European startup Space Cargo Unlimited sent in

Huntsville AL (SPX) May 05, 2021
Inside humanity's orbiting outpost is a buzz of activity as explorers, pilots, doctors, and scientists from around the world conduct experiments, maintain the facility, and develop new technologies. Recently a group of seven astronauts and cosmonauts completed the largest long-duration crew mission in the space station's history, and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and the astronauts who arrive

Sterling Heights MIw (SPX) May 05, 2021
The Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA) has announced it has received the first in a series of investments that will enable Michigan to take a leadership role in developing 5G Space-Enabled Communications for Advanced Mobility, or SECAM, for commercial and government users. With MAMA as the lead of the public-private collaboration, the SECAM Research and Development Project

Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 05, 2021
The technology multinational GMV is playing a key role in the Galileo Second Generation (shortened to G2G). GMV has been selected to lead the consortium that will supply a Radio Frequency Constellation Simulator covering both the 1 st and 2 nd Galileo Generation. Galileo is Europe's global, civil, satellite-based navigation and positioning system. Galileo First Generation (shortened to G1G), run

Netanya, Israel (SPX) May 05, 2021
Orbit Communications Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of maritime and airborne satcom terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems announced the delivery of an OceanTRx 4 Mil satellite communications system to the Israeli Navy to be installed on the Saar 6-class corvette "We are proud that the Israeli Navy has chosen the OceanT

Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 05, 2021
A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by areas of increased oxygen atom density occurring in an atmospheric wave channel. The speculative explanation offered by the researchers gained support from a new study. Observations made by University of Helsinki researchers increased the validity of a speculative mechanism according to which a type

Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2021
In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip. Their approach to designing the tiny light beam on a chip could also be used to create a variety of other nano flashlights with different beam characteristics for different applications. Think of a wide spot

Washington DC (UPI) May 5, 2021
Washington-based spaceflight company Blue Origin opened up an auction Wednesday for a seat on its first crewed flight to the edge of space in July. The New Shepard suborbital space tourism rocket is expected to be launched July 20 from the company's spaceport near Van Horn, Texas, about 120 miles southeast of El Paso. Blue Origin, which is owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos, said the a

Washington DC (Sputnik) May 04, 2021
Mixing human ingenuity with machine efficiency, power, and speed can create superhuman capabilities in the coming decade, and the US must embrace this change in technological era or fall behind global adversaries, Dr. Joel B. Mozer, the Chief Scientist of the US Space Force, said on Wednesday. He was speaking at the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Inspire event. "In the last c

Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 05, 2021
Nine weeks of darkness and temperatures down to minus 50 degrees Celsius. Under these harsh conditions of Antarctica, NASA and the German Aerospace Center have begun a joint series of experiments on vegetable cultivation techniques for use on the Moon and Mars. Until early 2022, NASA guest scientist Jess Bunchek will research how future astronauts could grow lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers