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Planet Labs Enhances Agricultural Data with Daily Global PlanetScope Insights
In a significant advancement for agricultural monitoring, Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has announced enhancements to its Crop Biomass Planetary Variable by incorporating daily global PlanetScope data. This enhancement aims to provide agronomists and farmers with cloud-free, analysis-ready data for a comprehensive view of agricultural fields. By merging radar and optical signals, this tool facilita NASA Artemis Mission Progresses with SpaceX Starship Test Flight
As part of NASA's Artemis campaign to return humans to the Moon for the benefit of all, the agency is working with SpaceX to develop the company's Starship human landing system (HLS), which will land astronauts near the Moon's South Pole during the Artemis III and Artemis IV missions. On March 14, SpaceX launched the third integrated flight test of its Super Heavy booster and Starship upper stag Intelsat and Cloudcast Digital Launch Advanced Land Mobility Services in India
Intelsat in collaboration with Cloudcast Digital Limited (CDL), a forefront provider of satellite communication solutions, has expanded its service offering in India. Utilizing Intelsat's innovative FlexMove solution, the partnership aims to enhance land mobile services across remote areas of India, managed under the technological guidance of Planetcast Media Services Limited.
Planetcast, NASA Collaborates with Industry to Advance Space Communications
The Communications Services Project (CSP) is leading NASA's efforts to usher in a new era of space communications. Through strategic partnerships with the commercial sector, CSP is focused on delivering commercial space relay communications services for NASA missions operating near Earth. With an ambitious target to integrate these services into the Near Space Network by 2030, CSP has allocated Terran Orbital Debuts Advanced SmallSat GEO Solution for Satellite Communications
Terran Orbital Corporation has made a significant move into the geosynchronous orbit (GEO) small satellite market with its unveiling of the SmallSat GEO solution, designed for satellites weighing over 500kg. This cutting-edge solution will be showcased at the upcoming SATELLITE 2024 trade show from March 18-21 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C., featuring an immersive From Beyond Beyond, Voyager 1's unexpected message sparks hope and intrigue
Since November 2023, NASA's Voyager 1 has been emitting a consistent radio signal back to Earth, albeit one devoid of decipherable data. This enigmatic signal has been traced back to an anomaly within the spacecraft's flight data subsystem (FDS), a key onboard computer tasked with the compilation and transmission of vital scientific and engineering data.
On March 3, a deviation in the FDS' Earth from Space: Vienna, Austria
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The historic centre of Vienna, Austria’s capital city, is featured in this image captured on 23 June 2023. SpaceX comes close to completing test flight of mega rocket but loses spacecraft near end
SpaceX came close to completing an hourlong test flight of its mega rocket on its third try Thursday, but the spacecraft was lost as it descended back to Earth.
The company said it lost contact with Starship as it neared its goal, a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. The first-stage booster also ended up in pieces, breaking apart much earlier in the flight over the Gulf of Mexico after launching from the southern tip of Texas near the Mexican border.
"The ship has been lost. So no splashdown today," said SpaceX's Dan Huot. "But again, it's incredible to see how much further we got this time around.
Supporting rapid disaster response through space
ESA has launched a new partnership with industry through a project called SMART-CONNECT. The project aims to mitigate the challenges presented when traditional communication channels are disrupted during times of crisis, through facilitating the efficient and timely exchange of secure information between first responders and disaster control centres.
SpaceX mega rocket makes successful test flight but lost in descent
Starship, the world's most powerful rocket, flew further and faster than ever before during its third test launch Thursday, although it was eventually lost as it re-entered the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, SpaceX said.
Lift-off from the company's Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas came at 8:25 am local time (1325 GMT) and was carried live on a webcast watched by millions on social media platform X.
