Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2023
Estonia's next satellite will fly aboard Europe's Vega VV23 launcher later this week. While largely designed and built by undergraduate students, the shoebox-sized ESTCube-2 has ambitious goals in mind, including surveys of Estonian vegetation and the first successful in-orbit demonstration of 'plasma brake' technology. Deployment of a charged microtether will slow the CubeSat's orbit, proving t

Santa Monica CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2023
Outpost Technologies Corporation ("Outpost"), a sustainable space company that is spearheading a new wave of development in Earth Return and Reusable Satellites, announced that it has been awarded a Phase 2 Ignite Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract from NASA to continue development of the company's "Cargo Ferry" in order to deliver cargo back to Earth from the International Space

San Jose CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has entered into a securities purchase agreement with certain institutional investors for the purchase and sale of 2,000,000 shares of common stock (or common stock equivalents in lieu thereof) at a purchase price of $2.00 per share pursuant to a registered direct offering priced at-the-market under Nasdaq rules, resulting in total gross proceeds of approximately $4

Santa Rosa CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) introduces the new Phased Array Antenna Control and Calibration solution, a breakthrough over-the-air (OTA) calibration and characterization solution that enables satellite designers developing active electronically scanned arrays for satellite communications applications to rapidly test their designs during early validation. Modern satellite networ

Evanston IL (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
When scientists viewed the James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) first images of the universe's earliest galaxies, they were shocked. The young galaxies appeared too bright, too massive and too mature to have formed so soon after the Big Bang. It would be like an infant growing into an adult within just a couple years. The startling discovery even caused some physicists to question the stand

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2023
Earth planning date: Wednesday, October 2, 2023: HiRISE images of Gale crater show that Curiosity is driving through a section of layered rocks on Mt. Sharp, and the layers consist of alternating bands of light and gray/dark rocks. What causes the color variation of these rocks that makes this terrain look banded from orbit? It may relate to differences in the composition or chemistry of t

Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
Agriculture in Syria started with a bang 12,800 years ago as a fragmented comet slammed into the Earth's atmosphere. The explosion and subsequent environmental changes forced hunter-gatherers in the prehistoric settlement of Abu Hureyra to adopt agricultural practices to boost their chances for survival. That's the assertion made by an international group of scientists in one of four relat

Lafayette CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2023
Orbit Fab, the leading provider of on-orbit refueling services, has named industry veteran Kevin Smith as the company's Chief Engineer, who will lead the Systems, Electrical, Fluids, and Mechanical engineering teams and internal development, testing and overall readiness of RAFTI and GRIP in-space fueling systems. Fresh off his most recent stint as Senior Propulsion Engineer at Astrobotic,

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2023
A new center led by CU Boulder will undertake research to make the region of space between Earth and the moon a little safer-potentially helping satellites navigate through this tumultuous and sometimes hazardous environment. This summer, NASA announced that it had selected four Space Weather Centers of Excellence, including the Space Weather Operational Readiness Development (SWORD) cente

Cedar Park TX (SPX) Oct 05, 2023
Firefly Aerospace, an end-to-end space transportation company, has completed the development and assembly of its Blue Ghost lander structure and fluid systems, a critical milestone for Firefly's first lunar mission slated to land on the Moon in 2024 as part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. This mission is one of three task orders Firefly has won under NASA CLPS, acc