Copernical Team
From NASA JPL's Mailroom to Mars and Beyond
Don't tell Bill Allen he can't take risks.
Allen was just 17 years old when he first set foot on the grounds of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to join the mailroom in the summer of 1981. Voyager had recently encountered Saturn, and the Lab was crawling with members of the media.
"It was like walking into a football stadium in the middle of the touchdown. It was electric," he says. Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun's fusion
A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny particles pointing to the presence of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen) from our sun's core. These little-known particles reveal the last missing detail of the fusion cycle powering our sun and other stars.
In results published Nov. 26 in the journal Natu Kleos Opens U.S. Engineering Office in Denver Colorado
Kleos Space S.A. will establish its principal US engineering presence in Denver, Colorado. Kleos has engaged with Denver Economic Development and Opportunity and selected Denver, Colorado as an ideal location to grow its U.S. engineering presence and to further draw on the region's engineering and aerospace support services. Colorado is creating the foundation to become "Aerospace Alley" and bui Aerojet Rocketdyne powers ULA launch Of NRO Spysat
Aerojet Rocketdyne powered the recent successful launch of a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket yesterday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The rocket launched a classified national security payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Aerojet Rocketdyne supplies the boost engines, upper-stage engines and the composite overwrapped pressure vess DHL moves from Global to Galactic Forwarding
Logistics provider DHL and New Space Company D-Orbit jointly tackle terrestrial challenges and leverage galactic opportunities Bonn, December 15, 2020: DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, normally moves goods that stay in the Earth's atmosphere. Now they have partnered with D-Orbit, a specialized company covering the entire lifecycle of a space First Space Test Fundamentals Course Begins In January
The U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School Convenes The First-Ever Space Test Fundamentals Course Jan. 4, 2021. The Selection Board Results Were Announced Dec. 10.
"This Important Milestone Would Not Have Been Possible Without The Vision Of U.S. Space Force Leaders. The Value Of Agile, Disciplined Test And Evaluation Spans All Domains, Which Is Why The Air Force Test Pilot School Has Developed T Arianespace to launch next OneWeb batch from Vostochny Cosmodrome
Flight ST29, the first commercial mission from Vostochny Cosmodrome performed by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate, will put 36 of OneWeb's satellites into a near-polar orbit at an altitude of 450 kilometers. After separation, the satellites will raise themselves to their operational orbit.
The first six OneWeb satellites were successfully orbited by Arianespace on Soyuz Flight VS21 fr NASA awards prizes to six startup companies in Entrepreneur's Challenge
NASA's Science Mission Directorate has awarded prize funding of $100,000 each to six entrepreneurial startup companies under its pilot Entrepreneur's Challenge program for concepts ranging from machine learning to enable exploration and other technologies to new ways to build instruments to study the universe.
NASA partnered with Starburst, the global aero LSTM Copernicus - Land Surface Temperature Monitoring mission
LSTM is a next generation ESA mission within the Copernicus program to complement Sentinel observation capabilities with high spatio-temporal resolution TIR (Thermal Infrared) observations over land and coastal regions in support of agriculture management services,and possibly a range of additional applications and services. The primary objective is to enable monitoring the evapotranspiration (ET) rate at European field scale by capturing the variability of Land Surface Temperature (LST) (and hence derived ET) allowing more robust estimates of field-scale water productivity.
Vega - rocket
Vega (Vettore Europeo di Generazione Avanzata - European Advanced Generation Carrier) is an expendable launch system developed for Arianespace jointly by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA). Italy is the leading contributor to the Vega program of ESA; other participants include France, Belgium, Spain, The Netherlands, Switzerland and Sweden. 1) 2) 3) 4)
The program began in 1998, it is managed jointly by an IPT (Integrated Project Team) composed of staff from ESA, ASI and CNES. The industrial consortium for the construction of the launcher is lead by the prime contractor ELV S.p.A. of Italy.