Beijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022
China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said. The agency said in a news release on Sunday afternoon experts will pick 12 to 14 candidates for the new generation. Among them, seven to eight will be spacecraft pilots, three to four will be

Strathroy, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
Concert Technologies and C6 Launch signed a non exclusive launch services agreement. Under the agreement, C6 Launch will provide launch services for several of Concert's satellites to low Earth orbit from Alcantara Space Center in 2025 and 2026 with subsequent missions to maintain and expand Concert's constellation of high-resolution imaging systems. These missions will be significant milestones

Moline IL (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
Deere and Company (NYSE: DE) announced it has issued a satellite communications (SATCOM)-focused request for proposals to secure a cutting-edge solution that will further connect its fleet of intelligent machines. This will enhance the satellite connectivity that Deere is already delivering to its customers today, and is a critical step in the company's commitment to creating value for farmers a

New York NY (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has reached a three-year agreement with the Government of Albania to develop a Dedicated Satellite Constellation. This unique program derives from Satellogic's Constellation-as-a-Service model and will provide Albania with responsive satellite imagery capabilities across i

Carlsbad CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has reported the completion of the integration of the first ViaSat-3 satellite, marking the first time the satellite is in its flight configuration. he ViaSat-3 satellite has now entered the mechanical environmental testing process, simulating the vibration and acoustic environments that the satellite will experience during the launch and early transfer orbit pha

Boca Raton FL (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
AE Industrial Partners, LP ("AEI"), a leader in space investing and a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense and government services, space, power and utility services, and specialty industrial markets, announced that it has agreed to acquire a majority stake in York Space Systems , an independent provider of small satellites, satellite components and turnkey mission operations.

Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around other stars - laughing gas. Chemical compounds in a planet's atmosphere that could indicate life, called biosignatures, typically include gases found in abundance in Earth's atmosphere today. "There's been a lot of thought p

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2022
Over the weekend, Curiosity took compositional measurements of the "Canaima" bedrock target in order to determine if the target merits collecting drilled sample. Concurrently, the engineering team took preload measurements to determine the stability of the rock for drilling. This morning the science and engineering teams reviewed the information downlinked and were excited to approve moving forw

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2022
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos, on Monday 26 September 2022. This was the first planetary defense test in which an impact of a spacecraft attempted to modify the orbit of an asteroid. Two days after DART's impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and M

Cedar Park TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2022
Firefly Aerospace, a new space leader in launch, spacecraft, and in-space services, announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads, lifting off on October 1 at 12:01am PST from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. With the success of this mission, Firefly is now the first company to launch and reach orbit from US soil in only its s