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San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 06, 2022
On November 8, 2020, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew through an intense beam of electrons traveling from Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, to its auroral footprint on the gas giant. Southwest Research Institute scientists used data from Juno's payload to study the particle population traveling along the magnetic field line connecting Ganymede to Jupiter while, at the same time, remotely sensing the

Knoxville TN (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint European Torus - or JET - experiment in England has been called "a breakthrough" by some news outlets and caused quite a lot of excitement among physicists. But a common line rega

Beijing (XNA) Apr 01, 2022
China's Tianzhou 2 cargo spaceship fell back to Earth on Thursday afternoon with most of its body burnt up during the reentry process, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency said in a statement the robotic craft started to enter the atmosphere around 6:40 pm under the ground control and the extreme heat caused by air friction dismantled and destroyed most of the ship. A few

Denver CO (SPX) Apr 06, 2022
York Space Systems (York), a Denver-based aerospace company dedicated to complete space mission solutions, has announced another award from the Space Development Agency (SDA), a $382 million contract to York to deliver 42 satellites in support of SDA's Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL). York will produce these satellites, built on the LX-CLASS standard commercial platform, in the new facility for

Guildford UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2022
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has signed a 22m pound contract with Defence Equipment and Support on behalf of UK Space Command for a 150kg satellite based on SSTL's Carbonite+. Project TYCHE is the first satellite procurement for the MINERVA programme which is a key enabler in the development of the foundation for a UK Space-based Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) const

Burlington VT (SPX) Apr 06, 2022
Fueled by major Series A funding and a strong cadence of upcoming government and commercial space missions, Benchmark Space Systems has announced it is tripling production capacity and doubling manufacturing and technical staff to meet huge demand for its Starling and Halcyon propulsion systems. Benchmark is scaling up to build more than 150 systems over the next eighteen months to enable

Falls Church VA (SPX) Apr 07, 2022
Lynk Global, Inc. (Lynk), the world's leading satellite-direct-to-phone telecoms company, has announced the successful launch, deployment, and initial on-orbit check-out of Lynk Tower 1. The spacecraft is the company's sixth 'cell-tower-in-space' satellite and is now in position to become the world's first commercial cell-tower-in-space. Lynk Tower 1 is the first satellite covered by Lynk's appl

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Side-lit by the Sun, its heavily cratered surface mired in shadow, the south pole of the Moon represents a highly challenging lunar landing target. Italian ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori took to an advanced flight simulator to try out a mock polar touchdown as part of a project to design a ‘human-in-the-loop’ lunar landing system.