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 Virgin Galactic cleared to launch after US closes safety probe Washington (AFP) Sept 29, 2021  Virgin Galactic said Wednesday it had been cleared for spaceflight after the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) concluded a probe into a safety "mishap" related to its high-profile mission in July that featured company founder Richard Branson. ... more | |
 Space Force upskilling Guardians with process mapping and automation US Air Force Academy CO (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  The Space Force held its first Robotic Process Automation Workshop to explore how to effectively leverage bots to execute repetitive processes, as part of efforts to modernize the world-class fighti ... more | |
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Recreating "real food meals" as small cubes that taste like candy Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  According to "The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World," approximately 811 million people around the world were undernourished in 2020. Although proper nutrition is the cornerstone of g ... more | |
 DARPA'S Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept achieves successful flight Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  DARPA, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force, completed a free flight test of its Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) last week. The missile, built by Raytheon Technologies, was released ... more | |
 Going hyperspectral for CHIME Paris (ESA) Sep 28, 2021  With Covid restrictions a little more relaxed, scientists from Europe and the USA were finally able to team up for a long-awaited field experiment to ensure that a new Copernicus satellite called CH ... more | |
 NASA launches new mission to monitor Earth's landscapes Vandenberg SFB CA (SPX) Sep 27, 2021  Landsat 9, a NASA satellite built to monitor the Earth's land surface, successfully launched at 2:12 p.m. EDT Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. A joint mission with the U. ... more | |
 Did a cosmic impact destroy an ancient city in the Jordan Valley Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  In the Middle Bronze Age (about 3600 years ago or roughly 1650 BCE), the city of Tall el-Hammam was ascendant. Located on high ground in the southern Jordan Valley, northeast of the Dead Sea, the se ... more | |
 Microgravity on demand with Earth return through ESA's Boost! London, UK (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  A new round-trip commercial space transportation service from 2022, backed by ESA, will enable companies to manufacture in space very pure and more capable materials, discover new pharmaceutical dru ... more | |
 Nitrogen-fixing bacteria help clover plants grow in Mars-like soil Washington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2021  If astronauts are to set up a base and spend extended periods of time on Mars, they're going to need to be able to synthesize water and grow their own food. ... more | |
 Climate change and its environmental impacts on crop growth Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  The Earth is heating up. The effects of human-caused global climate change are becoming more and more apparent as we see more record-breaking heat waves, intense droughts, shifts in rainfall pattern ... more | |
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency funds Phase 4a of MagQuest Challenge Springfield VA (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) just launched the Demonstration Phase (Phase 4a) of its MagQuest Challenge to develop novel data collection approaches for the World Magnetic Model. ... more | |
 Microscopic metavehicles powered by nothing but light Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have succeeded in creating tiny vehicles powered by nothing but light. By layering an optical metasurface onto a microscopic particle, and ... more | |
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Lucy mission prepares for launch to Trojan asteroids Washington DC (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  NASA has tested the functions of Lucy, the agency's first spacecraft to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, filled it with fuel, and is preparing to pack it into a capsule for launch Saturday, Oct. 16 ... more | |
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Ariane 6 launch complex inaugurated at Europe's Spaceport Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 29, 2021  The new launch complex built for Europe's upcoming Ariane 6 rocket is inaugurated at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. With this, ESA celebrates another important milestone in the Ariane 6 ... more | |
 Global missile defense from space got more affordable Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  The Defense Department hopes, within the decade, to have a meshed network of low Earth orbit satellites - linked together and to warfighters - providing real-time global awareness of missile threats ... more | |
 China opens Shenzhou-12 return capsule at ceremony Beijing (XNA) Sep 29, 2021  China held a ceremony Monday to open the capsule of the Shenzhou-12 spacecraft which carried three astronauts back to Earth on Sept. 17. Space officials, including Hao Chun, director of the Ch ... more | |
 Bare Super-Earths offer clues to evolution of hot atmospheres Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  A group of astronomers from the Astrobiology Center, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, the University of Tokyo, and other institutes, discovered two rocky super-Earth exoplanets lackin ... more | |
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Soyuz docks to new Nauka module port at ISS Houston TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  The Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft that first launched and arrived to the International Space Station April 9 has now successfully relocated with its crew aboard from the station's Earth-facing Rassvet modu ... more | |
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Asteroid sample brought back to Earth gets a close-up look at Brown Providence RI (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off a cache of rock samples taken from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Asteroids like Ryugu are thought to represent the anc ... more | |
 Airbus backs Dereum Labs to collaborate on lunar resources extraction Mexico City, Mexico (SPX) Sep 29, 2021  Airbus has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Mexican Space Agency (AEM) and the Mexican start-up Dereum Labs to collaborate on the technologies needed for lunar resources extraction. Thi ... more | |
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Isotropic Systems secures funding to develop multi-link antenna through to product launch in 2022 London, UK (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  Isotropic Systems, a leading developer of transformational broadband terminal technologies, announces that it has raised over $37 million in an equity financing round, which fully funds the developm ... more | |
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Blue Origin plans second crewed space launch from Texas Washington DC (UPI) Sep 27, 2021  Blue Origin plans to launch people into space for the second time from Texas on Oct. 12, carrying two businessmen and two others to be announced later. ... more | |
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University teams demonstrate 'cool' new technologies for the Moon, Mars Washington DC (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  Ten university teams designed and built systems intended to harvest water frozen below the surface of the Moon and Mars. The teams put their prototypes to the test during the 2021 Moon to Mars Ice a ... more | |
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Arkisys unveils first spacecraft element for The Port in Pasadena Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 28, 2021  Arkisys has unveiled its first generation orbital outpost spacecraft element, the Port Module Wedge, planned for its first use on its initial Space Outpost in low earth orbit, as well as subsequent ... more | |
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China unveils gravitational-wave research center in Guangdong Zhuhai, China (XNA) Sep 28, 2021  A gravitational-wave research center under the China National Space Administration (CNSA) was inaugurated on Sunday in the city of Zhuhai, in Guangdong province. According to the CNSA, the gra ... more | |
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