Leading positioning, navigation and timing experts from companies and research institutions across Europe met last week at ESA’s NAVISP Industry Days, a two-day workshop dedicated to discussing trends and opportunities in this field.

Seoul (AFP) Nov 22, 2023
North Korea said Wednesday it had succeeded in putting a military spy satellite in orbit after two previous failures, as the United States led its allies in condemning the launch as a "brazen violation" of UN sanctions. A rocket carrying the satellite blasted off Tuesday night from North Phyongan province and "accurately put the reconnaissance satellite 'Malligyong-1' on its orbit", state-ru

Washington (AFP) Nov 21, 2023
The White House on Tuesday strongly condemned North Korea over its space launch, calling it a "brazen violation" of UN sanctions that could destabilize the region. The launch "raises tensions, and risks destabilizing the security situation in the region and beyond," National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson said in a statement. North Korean state media reported early Wednes

ESA has reached a significant milestone in its commitment towards a deeper understanding of Earth's dynamic processes and addressing pressing environmental challenges with the selection of two new candidates – Cairt and Wivern – to progress to the next development phase as part of the process of realising the Agency’s eleventh Earth Explorer satellite mission.

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2023
The Space and Defense Innovation (SDI) team has officially announced the launch of its Ignite Competition, a pivotal event designed to bridge the gap between groundbreaking technology and the federal sector's needs. This demo competition presents an unprecedented opportunity for tech companies to directly demonstrate their innovative solutions to key federal sector experts, furthering the U.S.'s

Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Nov 21, 2023
Our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a much larger formation, the local Supercluster structure, which contains several massive galaxy clusters and thousands of individual galaxies. Due to its pancake-like shape, which measures almost a billion light years across, it is also referred to as the Supergalactic Plane. Most galaxies in the universe fall into one of two categories: firstly, ellipt

Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 21, 2023
Blazars belong to the family of active galactic nuclei called quasars. What differentiates them from quasars is that the flares ejected out of these active galactic nuclei are pointed toward the Earth. These flares contain high-energy cosmic rays which are released from the core of these galaxies as jets spanning many light years. Such cosmic rays can interact with photons to produce subatomic p

Boca Raton FL (SPX) Nov 20, 2023
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) mars the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). CAPSTONE, designed, built, and integrated by Terran Orbital and owned by Advanced Space, has demonstrated significant achievements during its mission. CAPSTONE accomplished its primary objective within the first six months in NRHO, successfully testing

Beijing (XNA) Nov 21, 2023
A series of planned crewed lunar missions worldwide have inspired a new wave of research in growing plants on the moon to sustain life. A new study by Chinese agricultural scientists found that bacteria on Earth soil could offer a solution. Published in the journal Communications Biology in early November, the study showed that three species of bacteria could increase the amount of phospho