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January 19, 2022
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Private investment in space infrastructure hit record $14.5B in 2021



Washington DC (UPI) Jan 18, 2021
Private investment in space infrastructure companies hit a record-breaking $14.5 billion last year, according to a report Tuesday by New York City-based firm Space Capital. The new report from the venture capital company shows space infrastructure investment in 2021 was more than 50% greater than the prior record set in 2020. The report, which is also available in an interactive format on the company's website, shows a record-setting fourth quarter of $4.3 billion to help push investment ... read more

SPACEMART
Liberty Strategic Capital to invest $150 Million in Satellogic and CF Acquisition Corp V
New York NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
Satellogic, a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, currently 70 centimeters, and CF Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald, a ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Manufacturing revenues for Earth observation to grow to $76.1 billion by 2030
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 13, 2022
Euroconsult, the leading space consulting and market intelligence firm, has released its eagerly awaited ''Earth Observation Satellite Systems Market'' report, providing a sweeping review analysis o ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches 2,000th Starlink satellite from Florida
Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 19, 2022
SpaceX successfully launched 49 Starlink satellites from Florida on Tuesday evening, bringing the total number of Starlinks launched to over 2,000. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Complex ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab readies first 2022 Electron Launch, BlackSky adds another mission to manifest
Long Beach CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. has announced the launch window for its first Electron mission in 2022, a dedicated mission for BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) through global launch services provider Spaceflight Inc. ... more
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Steady driving towards ExoMars launch
Paris (ESA) Jan 18, 2022
The first simulation of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover driving off its landing platform closed out an incredible year of preparations as the mission now marches with confidence towards a Septem ... more
THE STANS
Kazakhstan's President Fires Special Envoy To Baikonur Space Port
Almaty, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Jan 19, 2022
Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has fired his special envoy to the Russia-leased Baikonur space port, his press office said on Monday. "A decree of the head of state has relieved ... more
EXO WORLDS
New study sheds light on origins of life on Earth
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
Addressing one of the most profoundly unanswered questions in biology, a Rutgers-led team has discovered the structures of proteins that may be responsible for the origins of life in the primordial ... more
EXO WORLDS
New spheres of knowledge on the origin of life
Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2022
The shape of a cell affects its physical and chemical properties. Different cell types have developed different shapes to enable effective functioning. But what shape were the very first cells, as l ... more
ROBO SPACE
Carnegie Mellon-led team to develop robotics to service satellites and build structures
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
There are 6,500 satellites in orbit, but only about half of them are functional. Once a satellite breaks down or runs out of fuel, it is essentially useless. Repairs, maintenance and upgrades are ne ... more
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New AI navigation prevents crashes
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
What do you call a broken satellite? Today, it's a multimillion-dollar piece of dangerous space junk. But a new collision-avoidance system developed by students at the University of Cincinnati is ge ... more
TECH SPACE
Access to the 'SpaceDataHighway'
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 18, 2022
The 'Columbus Ka-Band Terminal' (ColKa) has commenced service. "The volume of scientific data generated by the experiments on the International Space Station (ISS) is continuously increasing. ColKa ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
Copper released into the environment from fungicides, brake pads, antifouling paints on boats and other sources may be contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion, according to a new ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Arase uncovers Geospace coupling between plasma waves and charged particles
Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers from Japan show that high-frequency plasma waves in the Geospace can generate low-frequency plasma waves through wave-particle intera ... more
ENERGY TECH
Common household cleaner can boost effort to harvest fusion energy on Earth
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 13, 2022
Scientists have found that adding a common household cleaning agent - the mineral boron contained in such cleaners as Borax - can vastly improve the ability of some fusion energy devices to contain ... more
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Paris (ESA) Jan 18, 2022
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are connecting straight to Europe at light speed, thanks to the European Data Relay System. An upgrade to the communications system is delivering broadband internet speeds similar to those enjoyed by families on Earth. It means that experiments on board the International Space Station can be monitored from Europe in close to real ti ... more
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Virgin Orbit mission success brings UK satellite launch one step closer
London, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
Satellite launch from Spaceport Cornwall is a step closer following Virgin Orbit's successful 'Above the Clouds' mission in the US. The UK Space Agency welcomes the news that Virgin Orbit successfully completed its third mission from California on Thursday 13 January, launching several satellites into orbit from beneath the wing of a 747. The UK Space Agency and Cornwall Council are ... more
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Assessing Perseverance's Seventh Sample Collection
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2022
On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed Issole went smoothly. However, during the transfer of the bit that contains the sample into the rover's bit carousel (which stores bits and passes tubes to the tube processing hardware inside the r ... more
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China conducts its first rocket launch of 2022
Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2022
China launched a Long March 2D carrier rocket on Monday morning, kicking off the country's space program for 2022. The rocket blasted off at 10:35 am at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi province and soon placed the Shiyan 13 experimental satellite in its preset orbit, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp said in a statement. This was China's first ... more
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GalaxySpace to establish space-based network
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
GalaxySpace will launch six satellites to verify broadband internet technologies GalaxySpace, a private satellite maker based in Beijing, plans to deploy six satellites into low-Earth orbits before the end of March to establish a space-based internet network, the company said on Tuesday. The six communication satellites were recently transported to the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Si ... more
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New AI navigation prevents crashes
Cincinnati OH (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
What do you call a broken satellite? Today, it's a multimillion-dollar piece of dangerous space junk. But a new collision-avoidance system developed by students at the University of Cincinnati is getting engineers closer to developing robots that can fix broken satellites or spacecraft in orbit. UC College of Engineering and Applied Science doctoral students Daegyun Choi and Anirudh Chhabr ... more
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SETI's plan for a sky-monitoring telescope on the moon
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
The SETI Institute teamed up with Louisiana State University (LSU) and Mississippi State University (MSU) to help students design the science program for AstronetX PBC's first lunar-based camera (L-CAM 1). The scientific program planning is funded by a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation grant to AstronetX. Additional funding for student participation is provided by the National Science Foundation ... more
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Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as electrons, protons, and heavier ions whiz around thus forming the invisible, torus-shaped radiation belts. With their high velocities reaching almost the speed of light, the particles can ionize other mo ... more
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Increase in marine heat waves threatens coastal habitats
Gloucester Point VA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
Heat waves-like the one that blistered the Pacific Northwest last June-also occur underwater. A new study in Frontiers in Marine Science paints a worrisome picture of recent and projected trends in marine heat waves within the nation's largest estuary, with dire implications for the marine life and coastal economy of the Chesapeake Bay and other similarly impacted shallow-water ecosystems. ... more
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Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
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Under a moon spell: Shark attacks related to lunar phases
Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022
New research from LSU and the University of Florida suggests that more shark attacks occur during fuller phases of the moon. While the exact cause remains unclear, the researchers found that more shark attacks than average occur during periods of higher lunar illumination and fewer attacks than average occur during periods of lower illumination. Many different types of animals show behaviors tha ... more
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Copper-based chemicals may be contributing to ozone depletion
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
Copper released into the environment from fungicides, brake pads, antifouling paints on boats and other sources may be contributing significantly to stratospheric ozone depletion, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley. In a paper appearing this week in the journal Nature Communications, UC Berkeley geochemists show that copper in soil and seawater acts as a c ... more
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Team of astronomers finds widest separation of brown dwarf pair to date
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University undergraduate student Emma Softich, has discovered a rare pair of brown dwarfs that has the widest separation of any brown dwarf binary system found to date. Brown dwarfs are celestial objects that are smaller than a normal star and without sufficient mass to sustain nuclear fusion, but that are hot enough to radiate energy. Many brown ... more
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There are 40 billion billions of Black Holes in the Universe!
Trieste, Italy (SPX) Jan 19, 2022
With a new computational approach, SISSA researchers have been able to make the fascinating calculation. Moreover, according to their work, around 1% of the overall ordinary (baryonic) matter is locked up in stellar mass black holes. Their results have just been published in the prestigious 'The Astrophysical Journal'. How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the ... more
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