Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
Astra celebrates cumulative committed orders for more than 200 engines and two full programs of Astra Spacecraft Enginesalready delivered. "I'm thrilled that Astra has achieved both milestones: over 200 engines ordered and delivery of two full programs," said Chris Kemp, Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Astra, "Thank you to our customers for their confidence in our team and products, and cong

Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022
ARCA Space started the first sale for the AMi Exploration (AMiE) utility token, issued in the Avalanche blockchain. For this first sale ARCA Space made available 675,676 tokens from the total of 1 billion issued. The regular price of one token is $0,1, and for this first sale the price is $0,075. The AMiE Token could be purchased with the USDt native token in the Avalanche blockchain. The

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2022
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the "sulfate-bearing unit," a long-sought region of Mount Sharp enriched with salty minerals. Scientists hypothesize that billions of years ago, streams, and ponds left behind the minerals as the water dried up. Assuming the hypothesis is correct, these minerals offer tantalizing

Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 19, 2022
An enormous number of near-Earth asteroid (NEA) orbit around the Sun, and among them 2072 NEAs, which are recorded in the Minor Planet Center (MPC) database, belong to the class of potential hazardous near-Earth asteroids (PHAs). These PHAs frequently make close approaches to Earth's orbit, and therefore, the hazard caused by PHAs is still a very real and ever-present threat. Faced with potentia

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 19, 2021
NASA has approved resumption of routine spacewalks outside the International Space Station after a seven-month pause and after finishing an October flight readiness review. The review was the last step in an investigation into a "close call" on a spacewalk in March. Three spacewalks are planned, beginning sometime in mid-November, to work on installation of roll out solar arrays

Paris (ESA) Oct 19, 2022
The Ariane 6 launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana now hosts for the first time a fully assembled example of ESA's new heavy-lift rocket, following the addition of an upper composite to the core stage and four boosters already in place. The upper composite - consisting of two half-fairings and a payload mock-up with the structural adapter needed to join it to the core stage - made th

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Watch the replay of our Q&A with the media to learn about the outcomes of the 310th session of the ESA Council. Updates are provided on the ambitious package presented by ESA for the 22/23 November ESA Ministerial Meeting in Paris, but also on the further expansion of ESA memberships, the future of ExoMars, Space Transportation and the overall, delicate economic situation.

After months of effort, astronomers have succeeded in capturing the momentary shadow cast by the Didymos asteroid, from tens of million km away as it passed in front of far-distant stars – a feat of observation only made possible when both the trajectory of the asteroid and the precise location of the stars are known. Even in that case, to have a chance of success, several observers had to be placed in meticulously predicted locations across the path of the shadow, to glimpse the fleeting fading of the star within just a fraction of a second.

Astronomers looking into the early Universe have made a surprising discovery using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Webb’s spectroscopic capabilities, combined with its infrared sensitivity, have uncovered a cluster of massive galaxies in the process of formation around an extremely red quasar. The result will expand our understanding of how galaxies in the early Universe coalesced into the cosmic web we see today.

Image: Hubble follow-up of DART impact