Flight passengers will soon be able to connect to their families and colleagues on Earth via low-orbit telecommunications satellites.

Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the planet, another team found it's actually the result of normal geological processes. During fieldwork at the Archean Maniitsoq structure in Greenland, an international team of scientists led by the University of Waterloo's Chris Yakymchuk found the features of this region are inconsistent

Burlington VT (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base in northern Greenland, a team of scientists began drilling down through the Greenland ice sheet. Piece by piece, they extracted an ice core 4 inches across and nearly a mile long. At the very end, they pulled up something else - 12 feet of frozen soil. The ice told a story of Earth's climate history. The frozen soil was examined, set aside and th

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
Conservation scientist Trond Larsen and his team trekked through a remote forest in Liberia, recording the plants, animals, and insects that they saw. They noted whether the forest was intact or degraded. Far above their heads, NASA's Earth-observing satellites collected data about the terrain as the satellites continued their well-travelled orbits over Africa. The data collected by the te

London UK (AFNS) Mar 17, 2021
Air Force Research Laboratory exchange officer to the United Kingdom Capt. Jacob Singleton, plays an important role in promoting international cooperation in military research, development and acquisition among the United Kingdom (UK), United States and other North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries. Through the Department of Defense Engineer and Scientist Exchange program, Singleton h

London, UK (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
Following the news that Aerojet Rocketdyne's shareholders have voted to approve the Lockheed Martin acquisition; Anthony Endresen, Aerospace and Defense Associate Analyst at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on what this deal will mean for Lockheed Martin: "If Lockheed Martin's acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne is successful, the company will be well-p

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2021
Relativity Space has been awarded its first orbital launch contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), facilitated by the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU). This contract was awarded as a Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Launch Enterprise follow-up effort to the DoD Space Test Program (STP) Rapid Agile Launch Initiative (RALI) to identify capable commercial solutions for low-cost

Washington DC (AFNS) Mar 17, 2021
As the Space Development Agency builds out the National Defense Space Architecture, it looks to a biannual "warfighter council" to provide guidance about what is actually important to those who will use the systems, the agency's director said today. "We want to make sure that we address our customers," Derek Tournear said. "The customers, in this case, are the combatant commanders."

Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 18, 2021
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is emitted during plant photosynthesis. SIF results from vegetation chlorophyll giving off red and infrared light wavelengths when excited by solar radiation. Measuring SIF is important because it is closely related to the terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP), which calculates the total amount of carbon dioxide fixed through photosynthesis in