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Astroscale U.S. and Orbit Fab sign first on-orbit satellite fuel sale agreement Denver CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Orbit Fab, the Gas Stations in Space refueling service provider and Astroscale U.S. Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc. and market leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has announced a commercial agreement to refuel Astroscale's Life Extension In-Orbit (LEXI) Servicer in geostationary orbit (GEO); LEXI is the first satellite designed to be refueled. Under the terms of this initial agreement, Orbit Fab's GEO fuel shuttle will resupply Astroscale's fleet of LEXI Serv ... read more |
Mangata Networks announces funding for satellite edge computing network Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Mangata Networks has closed a $33 million Series A round led by US-based venture capital firm Playground Global to continue its mission to transform the way the world interacts with information. Thi ... more Paris (ESA) Jan 12, 2022 A contract signed with Arianespace secures the joint launch for two satellites that will further knowledge of our home planet. Scheduled to lift off on a new class of rocket, ESA's Vega-C, from Euro ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 by Tracy McMahan for MSFC News As teams continue to prepare NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for its debut flight with the launch of Artemis I, NASA and its partners across the country have ... more Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Airbus Crisa, an affiliate company of Airbus, has signed a contract for the development of the Power Management and Distribution (PMAD) system for the Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) with No ... more |
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Chang'E-5 Lander Makes First Onsite Detection of Water on Moon Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 A joint research team led by Profs. LIN Yangting and LIN Honglei from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) observed water signals in reflectance spectr ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 On December 6th 2021, scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released the largest-ever detailed census of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, with the complete release of data from its A ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 NASA's newest X-ray eyes are open and ready for discovery! Having spent just over a month in space, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is working and already zeroing in on some of the hot ... more London, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 Arqit Quantum Inc. has contracted with Australia's SmartsatCRC under an agreement between the UK and Australian Governments to deliver the first phase of work to Australia relating to Arqit's Federa ... more Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 11, 2022 NASA swore in 10 new astronaut candidates Monday at Johnson Space Center in Houston - six men and four women - who someday may walk on the moon or Mars. The candidates were "sworn in this morning, ... more |
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Astronomers identify potential clue to reinonization of universe Iowa City IA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called "The Epoch of Reionization." During this time, the once hotter universe began to cool and matter clumped together, forming th ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 The discovery of a supermassive black hole in a relatively small galaxy could help astronomers unravel the mystery surrounding how the very biggest black holes grow. Researchers used NASA's ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but far larger than Hubble's celebrated Ultra De ... more Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 03, 2022 The exploitation and exploration of space opens the door to improvements of life on earth, new discoveries and new research opportunities. However, space flight also provides a unique range of chall ... more Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have greeted the new year with a successful 110-kilonewton test fire of the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia. The 75-secon ... more |
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NASA's newest astronaut class begins training in Houston Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 11, 2022 NASA swore in 10 new astronaut candidates Monday at Johnson Space Center in Houston - six men and four women - who someday may walk on the moon or Mars. The candidates were "sworn in this morning, kicking off their two-year training," NASA said on Twitter, noting it was the 23rd astronaut candidate class since 1959. The 10 candidates will now learn engineering systems of spacecraft such ... more |
Gilmour Space fires up for 2022 with Australia's largest rocket engine test Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have greeted the new year with a successful 110-kilonewton test fire of the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia. The 75-second test was a major milestone for Gilmour Space, which is developing Australian Made rockets that will, over the next five years, be capable of launching 300- to 4,000-kilogram satellites and payloads ... more |
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NASA's InSight enters safe mode during regional Mars dust storm Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2022 NASA's InSight lander is stable and sending health data from Mars to Earth after going into safe mode Friday, Jan. 7, following a large, regional dust storm that reduced the sunlight reaching its solar panels. In safe mode, a spacecraft suspends all but its essential functions. The mission's team reestablished contact with InSight Jan. 10, finding that its power was holding steady and, whi ... more |
Shouzhou XIII crew finishes cargo spacecraft, space station docking test Beijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2022 The Shenzhou XIII astronauts in China's space station core module have completed the manual rendezvous and docking experiment with the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Saturday. At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module's node cabin and mov ... more |
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Advertising plays key role in satellite TV success, study shows Notre Dame IN (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 The pay television market in the United States was dominated by a handful of cable operators until the early 1990s with the entry of satellite TV, which has grown consistently ever since. A new study from the University of Notre Dame documents the role of advertising to help explain satellite operators' continued success. "Commercial Success through Commercials? Advertising and Pay T ... more |
Mangata Networks announces funding for satellite edge computing network Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 Mangata Networks has closed a $33 million Series A round led by US-based venture capital firm Playground Global to continue its mission to transform the way the world interacts with information. This closing manifests the truly global nature of the organization with other major investors including Temasek which is headquartered in Singapore, ktsat from South Korea, Scottish Enterprise in the UK, ... more |
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Arianespace to launch PLATiNO 1 and 2 on Vega and Vega C Paris, France (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 Arianespace has been awarded a launch contract by SITAEL, with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as the final customer, to orbit PLATiNO 1 and 2 satellites, between 2022 and 2024 on Vega and Vega C. PLATiNO 1 and 2 are Earth observation small satellites operating on Sun-synchronous orbits. PLATiNO 1 will embark a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), operating in the X band, while PLATiNO 2 will ca ... more |
Ocean Physics Explain Cyclones on Jupiter San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 Hurtling around Jupiter and its 79 moons is the Juno spacecraft, a NASA-funded satellite that sends images from the largest planet in our solar system back to researchers on Earth. These photographs have given oceanographers the raw materials for a new study published in Nature Physics that describes the rich turbulence at Jupiter's poles and the physical forces that drive the large cyclones. ... more |
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Microbes produce oxygen in the dark Odense, Denmark (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms go about their daily lives in the water columns, and now researchers have discovered that some of them produce oxygen in an unexpected way. Oxygen is vital for life on Earth, and is mainly produced by plants, algae and cyanobacteria via photosynthesis. A few microbes ar ... more |
Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellites Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, will finalize the launch of the first generation of Galileo satellites and will increase the constellation resilience. These will be the 13th to 16th Galileo missions by Arianespace, which has orbi ... more |
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NASA prepares SLS for first crewed Artemis missions Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 by Tracy McMahan for MSFC News As teams continue to prepare NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for its debut flight with the launch of Artemis I, NASA and its partners across the country have made great progress building the rocket for Artemis II, the first crewed Artemis mission. The team is also manufacturing and testing major parts for Artemis missions III, IV and V. "The Space La ... more |
Asteroid with a refreshed surface Sagamihara City, Japan (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 How did our Solar System form and evolve? Various models for the creation of our system of planets have been proposed, but the planets themselves provide unfortunately little information as their interiors have melted and erased evidence of the early stages of formation. However, situated between Mars and Jupiter, are the asteroids of the asteroid belt whose smaller size means they are thought t ... more |
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How the Earth's tilt creates short, cold January days Champaign IL (The Conversation) Jan 11, 2022 As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis - picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole. During the 24 hours that it takes for the Earth to rotate once around its axis, every point on its surface faces toward the Sun for part of the time and away from it for part of the time. This is what causes daily changes in sunlight and temperature. There ... more |
NASA enters the Solar atmosphere for the first time Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere - the corona - and sampled particles and magnetic fields there. The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching ... more |
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Hubble sees cosmic clues in a galactic duo Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2022 This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a neighboring galaxy, this is just a circumstance of perspective. NGC 105's elongated neighbor is actually far more distant. Such visual associations are the result of ... more |
Astronomers identify potential clue to reinonization of universe Iowa City IA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called "The Epoch of Reionization." During this time, the once hotter universe began to cool and matter clumped together, forming the first stars and galaxies. As these stars and galaxies emerged, their energy heated the surrounding environment, reionizing some of the remaining hydrogen in the universe. The universe's reioni ... more |
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