Copernical Team
Before geoengineering, some fundamental chemistry
It's a tempting thought: With climate change so difficult to manage and nations unwilling to take decisive action, what if we could mitigate its effects by setting up a kind of chemical umbrella - a layer of sulfuric acid in the upper atmosphere that could reflect the sun's radiation and cool the Earth?
According to a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a collaborati China launches new satellite for Earth observation
China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday.
The satellite, Gaofen-3 02, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.
The satellite will operate in a solar synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 km and will be networked with the orbiting G Lockheed Martin conducts missile warning system's Critical Design Review
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force conducted the system level Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 space program. This marks another significant step toward the first NGG satellite launch in 2025.
NGG is the Space Force's new, advanced space-based missile warning system that incorporates improved wa AFRL collaborates with Magdalena Ridge Observatory to further space exploration
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) astronomers are one-step closer to having their own high-powered window to space and the universe, after receiving congressional funding for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI).
The university will receive $6.2 million in congressional funds to complete the first phase of the anticipated $30 million five-year project to New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total count
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude of distant stars. How did scientists discover such a huge number of planets, seemingly all at once? The answer lies with a new deep neural network called ExoMiner.
Deep neural networks are mach Mom and daughter bound for space after winning Virgin Galactic prize
A health coach from Antigua and Barbuda has won two tickets worth almost $1 million to be among Virgin Galactic's first space tourists - and plans to take the trip of a lifetime with her teenage daughter.
Keisha Schahaff, 44, said she wanted to cross the final frontier with her 17-year-old, a science student living in Britain who dreams of one day working for NASA.
Virgin Galactic foun OHB Luxspace inks contract with Exotrail for ExoMGTM electric propulsion system onboard Triton-X Heavy platform.
Exotrail signed a contract with Luxembourg-based satellite manufacturer OHB Luxspace for a co- engineering phase aiming the further integration of ExoMGTM - cluster2, a configuration of Exotrail's high thrust and flexible electric propulsion product family, into the Triton-X Heavy platform. This co-engineering phase comes as part of the development of a next generation of multi-mission microsate Astronomers discover ancient brown dwarf with lithium deposits intact
Caribbean mom wins two tickets to space in Virgin Galactic raffle
A health coach from the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has won two tickets worth almost $1 million to be among Virgin Galactic's first space tourists, the company said Wednesday.
Keisha Schahaff, 44, said she wanted to take the flight into Earth's orbit with her 17-year-old daughter, a science student living in Britain who dreams of one day working for NASA.
Virgin Galactic founder Richard Branson surprised Schahaff with the news at her home in Antigua and Barbuda in early November.
"I just thought I was doing a zoom interview," she told AFP.
"When I saw Richard Branson walking in I just started screaming! I couldn't believe it.
Russia launches new docking module to ISS
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Roscosmos space agency said.
A live feed from Roscosmos showed the carrier rocket taking off against a dark evening sky from the Russia-leased spaceport at the scheduled time of 1306 GMT.
Prichal—which means "pier" in Russian—is the second permanent addition to the Russian segment of the ISS this year, after the lond-awaited arrival of the Nauka lab module.
The module's journey to the ISS will take two days and is scheduled for automated docking at the nadir (Earth-facing) port of the Nauka module on Friday November 26, Roscosmos said.
According to Roscosmos, the five-tonne docking module can accomodate up to five spacecraft and will also deliver various cargo to the ISS, including food rations, repair tool and hygiene supplies.
The docking of Nauka in July had complications after its thrusters unexpectedly fired, causing the stations to briefly tilt out of orbit.
Last week, Russia faced an international backlash after Moscow destroyed a satellite creating a cloud of space debris that forced the ISS crew to take shelter.