Washington DC (UPI) Feb 10, 2023
A crew of Chinese astronauts on a six-month mission aboard the country's newly completed space station ventured outside the orbiter for the first time Friday for what became a successful spacewalk. Chinese astronauts Fei Junlong and Zhang Lu donned the puffy white space suits and exited the station to conduct the 7-hour walk, while the third astronaut, Deng Qingming, stayed behind to mo

Los Altos CA (SPX) Feb 13, 2023
Antaris, creator of the most advanced software platform for space, has announced that the world's first satellite fully conceived, designed and manufactured using the company's end-to-end cloud platform has successfully reached orbit. JANUS-1 rode on the Indian Space Research Organization's (ISRO) SSLV-D2 rocket, which was launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre of India under a comme

Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2023
ESA celebrates the International Day of Women and Girls in Science? this 11 February, and highlights the story of the first all-female Systems Team in ESA's Concurrent Design Facility, the place where ideas for new space missions, systems and structures take definite shape. Meet the team behind the Mars Transit Habitat study that will be the backbone for sustainable roundtrips to Mars.

Southampton UK (SPX) Feb 13, 2023
AccelerComm, the 5G IP specialists, has partnered with UK-based technology development firm TTP to jointly develop a 5G LEO Regenerative base station designed for deployment on low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites. The project combines expertise and IP from the two companies, along with additional technology from partners, to offer a dedicated 5G regenerative gNodeB solution optimized for use in a N

Paris (ESA) Feb 13, 2023
Right in the middle of this image, nestled amongst a smattering of distant stars and even more distant galaxies, lies the newly discovered dwarf galaxy known as Donatiello II. If you cannot quite distinguish the clump of faint stars that is all we can see of Donatiello II in this image, then you are in good company. Donatiello II is one of three newly discovered galaxies that were so diffi

Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2023
The first signs of life emerged on Earth in the form of microbes about four billion years ago. While scientists are still determining exactly when and how these microbes appeared, it's clear that the emergence of life is intricately intertwined with the chemical and physical characteristics of early Earth. "It is reasonable to suspect that life could have started differently-or not at all-

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023
The team is taking a little time to work through the best strategy for drilling here, so today's plan just focused on collecting additional contact science and remote sensing data from around the future Dinira drill target. Fortunately, there's no shortage of interesting things to look at from our current position, so the science team had lots of fun deciding on what rocks to observe. We'r

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023
In Monday's two-sol plan we completed a short drive to another drill location as we continued our attempt to acquire a sample of the Marker Band for potential analysis by SAM and CheMin. With the post-drive images from Monday's plan received, the team focused early discussions on where in the workspace would be a suitable drill area, if any. Of the two flattish rock faces we were intereste

Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2023
A momentous accomplishment occurred last week when Perseverance completed the Three Forks Sample Depot on the floor of Jezero Crater, the only known sample depot in the universe. I had the opportunity to work Perseverance science operations the day the final sample drop was planned, and it was an unforgettable experience. The excitement when planning the final drop, from those that have be

San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2023
The first asteroid to be visited by NASA's Lucy mission now has a name. The International Astronomical Union has approved the name (152830) Dinkinesh for the tiny main belt asteroid that the Lucy spacecraft will encounter on November 1, 2023. "Dinkinesh", is the Ethiopian name for the human-ancestor fossil, also known as Lucy, which was found in that country and currently curated there. Dinkines