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March 11, 2022
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Slingshot Aerospace raises $25M in Series A-1 Funding Round



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building world-class space simulation and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability, has announced that it has raised $25 million in Series A-1 funds. The new money is in addition to the $9.6 million Series A funds raised in October 2020, bringing the total raised for the A and A-1 rounds to $34.6 million to date. The oversubscribed A-1 round was co-led by Draper Associates, the global venture capital firm of prominent Silicon Valley venture capita ... read more

EXO WORLDS
Imagining an Earthly neighbor
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
These are exciting times for exoplanet research, moving from demography towards detailed characterization. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successfully launched in December 2021, is projected ... more
SPACEMART
Sidus Space completes LizzieSat Preliminary Design Review
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce the successful complet ... more
SPACEMART
AST SpaceMobile announces launch deal with SpaceX
Midland TX (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has announced it has signed a mult ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Satellogic to launch five satellites on SpaceX Transporter-4 Mission
New York NY (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection, reports it has shipped five satellites to be launched in early Q2 from Cape Canaveral. The launch will ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
Esri releases updated land-cover map with new sets of global data
Redlands CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Governments and businesses across the world are pledging to adopt more sustainable and equitable practices. Many are also working to limit activities that contribute to climate change. To support th ... more
MARSDAILY
Sol 3411: Bonanza
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2022
After significant churn in Monday's planning, today turned out to be a single sol's worth of untargeted science. That left GEO with only a ChemCam AEGIS activity, where ChemCam automatically identif ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA opens sample taken from the Moon 50 years on
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2022
The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago. ... more
IRON AND ICE
Backbone of Hera asteroid mission
Paris (ESA) Mar 11, 2022
In a Swiss cleanroom, this historic object has been taking shape. Made of carbon fibre reinforced polymer, this is the central core of ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence. NASA's ... more
EXO WORLDS
The start of the birth of planets in a binary star system observed
Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail. Bringing together three decades of study, an int ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit
Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
With the help of special telescopes, researchers have observed a cosmic particle accelerator as never before. Observations made with the gamma ray observatory H.E.S.S. in Namibia show for the first ... more
IRON AND ICE
Giant impact crater in Greenland occurred a few million years after dinosaurs went extinct
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteori ... more
SPACEWAR
USSF, USC sign MOU establishing university partnership program
Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
The U.S. Space Force (USSF) formally announced the University of Southern California (USC) as its newest University Partnership Program member at a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signing event Fe ... more

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ROCKET SCIENCE
Virgin Orbit to launch first Welsh satellite from UK Spaceport Summer 2022
Cardiff UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
Leading launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge has announced an agreement to launch the first satellite developed in Wales in summer ... more
SPACEMART
Fleet Space Technologies teams up with Seven Sisters Consortium
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
Fleet Space Technologies is standing with some of Australia and the world's leading space and non-space organisations in a bid to further exploration of the Moon, Mars and the Earth. The Seven ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Detecting ultralight dark matter using quantum technology
Tel-Aviv, Israel (SPX) Mar 08, 2022
A new study led by Tel Aviv University researchers demonstrates unprecedented sensitivity to an exciting dark matter candidate. As part of the new NASDUCK ("Noble and Alkali Spin Detectors for Ultra ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
ElevationSpace raises $2.7M in seed-funding
Sendai, Japan (SPX) Mar 09, 2022
ElevationSpace Inc. (Headquartered: Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Co-Founder and CEO: Ryohei Kobayashi), a space startup company that originated at Tohoku University in Japan and develops a spac ... more
SPACEMART
Sidus Space teams with Aitech Systems to support LizzieSat constellation
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 07, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce a strategic partnershi ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE


SpaceX launches 48 Starlink satellites amid Ukraine crisis

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TIME AND SPACE
Massive bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole
Madison WI (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy. Since then, astronomers have debated their origin. Now, a study inclu ... more
MOON DAILY
Team chosen to make first oxygen on the Moon
Paris (ESA) Mar 10, 2022
Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of the Moon. The winning consortium, led by ... more
MARSDAILY
Moving right along - slowly but surely during Sols 3409-3410
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2022
We are continuing to slowly move through this very challenging terrain - over the weekend we made it about 4 meters before the drive stopped when the rover sensed more difficulty. The attached image ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Mathematical discovery could shed light on secrets of the Universe
Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
How can Einstein's theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as black holes and the birth of the universe. Now, a ne ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Researchers unravel inner workings of galaxy clusters with 196 lasers
Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
Galaxies rarely live alone. Instead, dozens to thousands are drawn together by gravity, forming vast clusters that are the largest objects in the universe. "Galaxy clusters are one of the most ... more
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2022
The NASA-funded experiment will test two technologies that could eventually enable quantum computers to communicate with each other no matter where they are located. A tiny experiment launching to the International Space Station later this year could set the stage for a future global quantum network. Called the Space Entanglement and Annealing QUantum Experiment (or SEAQUE), the milk-carton-size ... more
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Virgin Orbit to launch first Welsh satellite from UK Spaceport Summer 2022
Cardiff UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2022
Leading launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge has announced an agreement to launch the first satellite developed in Wales in summer 2022. In a historic moment for UK space, the satellite will be launched as part of a broader joint UK-US mission to open the country's first domestic space port in summer 2022 out of Spaceport ... more
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Moon and Mars superoxides for oxygen farming
Paris (ESA) Mar 07, 2022
The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidising material could be sufficiently reactive that they would produce chemical burns on astronauts' unprotected skin or lungs. Taking inspiration from a pioneering search for Martian life, a Greek team is developing a device to detect these 'reactive oxygen species' - as well as harvest sufficie ... more
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China launches seven new satellites
Xichang (XNA) Mar 08, 2022
China has successfully sent seven satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday. Six satellites produced by Beijing-based GalaxySpace and a commercial remote sensing satellite were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:01 p.m. (Beijing Time) and have entered their planned orbit. The satellites will verify the n ... more
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Sidus Space completes LizzieSat Preliminary Design Review
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce the successful completion of the LizzieSat (LS) Preliminary Design Review (PDR). A PDR ensures the design and basic system architecture are complete and that there is technical confidence the capability need can be s ... more
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Imagining an Earthly neighbor
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These are exciting times for exoplanet research, moving from demography towards detailed characterization. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successfully launched in December 2021, is projected to detect the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets transiting in front of M dwarfs - stars that are fainter than the Sun - orbiting within the 'habitable zone'. The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), ... more
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NASA begins assembly of Europa Clipper
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022
When it's fully assembled, NASA's Europa Clipper will be as large as an SUV with solar arrays long enough to span a basketball court - all the better to help power the spacecraft during its journey to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. And just about every detail of the spacecraft will have been hand-crafted. The assembly effort is already underway in clean rooms at the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab ... more
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Increasing frequency of El Nino events expected by 2040
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Galileo 2nd generation satellites ready to navigate into the future
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Houston TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2022
People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one of the last unopened, Apollo-era lunar samples to learn more about the Moon and prepare for a return to its surface. The sample is being opened at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston by the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES), which sa ... more
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Cosmic particle accelerator at its limit
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How can Einstein's theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as black holes and the birth of the universe. Now, a new article in Nature Communications, written by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and MIT, USA, presents results that cast new light on important challenges in understanding q ... more
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