|
|
|
  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2023 The newly released book "Fundamentals of Space Missions: Problems with Solutions" (ISBN 9798985668742) provides a comprehensive guide for students, instructors, and professionals alike in the field of space systems and missions. Written by Professor Mike Gruntman, a renowned astronautics expert who has taught the subject at the University of Southern California for the past 25 years to over 2,000 students, this book offers a unique blend of theory and practicality. With over 160 homework and ... read more |
 |
 
SwRI models explain canyons on Pluto moonSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 In 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects instead of the ... more  
Researchers focus AI on finding exoplanetsAthens, Georgia (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 New research from the University of Georgia reveals that artificial intelligence can be used to find planets outside of our solar system. The recent study demonstrated that machine learning can be u ... more  
GEODNET offers centimeter precision and GNSS corrections for OEMS and Ag SectorToulouse, France (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 At the FIRA international agricultural robotics forum, GEODNET announces initial availability of a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), Centimeter Precision, GNSS Corrections Service for Original Equipment Ma ... more  
AI supercharges battle of web search titansParis (AFP) Feb 7, 2023 A new generation of AI chatbots has unleashed a titanic battle between Microsoft and Google for the eyeballs of billions of web users, and the dollars they bring. ... more |
|
|
| Previous Issues | Feb 06 | Feb 05 | Feb 03 | Feb 02 | Feb 01 |
|
|
|
|
 
Momentus Vigoride-5 Status Update #2San Jose CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS), a U.S. commercial space company reports that its Vigoride-5 Orbital Service Vehicle launched on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission on January 3 continues to be in good he ... more 
Solving a machine-learning mysteryBoston MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Large language models like OpenAI's GPT-3 are massive neural networks that can generate human-like text, from poetry to programming code. Trained using troves of internet data, these machine-learnin ... more  
Momentus to fly FOSSA systems PocketPodSan Jose (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has entered into an agreement to fly a PocketPod for FOSSA Systems ("FOSSA"), a Spanish company that offers global low-power Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and in ... more  
NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel releases 2022 Annual ReportWashington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 The Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP), an advisory committee that reports to NASA and Congress, issued its 2022 annual report Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, examining the agency's safety performance, a ... more |
|
 
Enchanting Encanto Calls: Sols 3732-3734Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2023 Today we made a three-sol plan for the weekend including contact science, lot of imaging, and a long drive back toward the previously attempted marker band drill target, Encanto. After additional ex ... more 
Searching for a Drill Site Near Encanto: Sols 3735-3736Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 06, 2023 Curiosity successfully followed her tracks and is back near the Encanto drill site! With a beautiful workspace in view, the science and operations team had a busy day of planning on the "Marker band ... more  
Asteroid impact in slow motionJena, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 Asteroid impacts are catastrophic events that create huge craters and sometimes melt parts of Earth's bedrock." Nevertheless, craters are often difficult to detect on Earth, because erosion, weather ... more  
How to reverse unknown quantum processesVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum realm does not play by the same rules. Physicists from the ... more |
|
|
|
|
|
 
Distortion-free structured lightBellingham WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 An exciting prospect in modern optics is to exploit patterns of light - how the light looks in its many degrees of freedom - often referred to as "structured light." Each distinct pattern could form ... more 
In search of the invisible galaxyTrieste, Italy (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, that hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been describe ... more 
Understanding laser accelerated electron radiation through terahertz emissionsChangchun, China (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 The terahertz (THz) gap, a frequency band lying between the microwave and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum where conventional technologies are inefficient in generating and detecting ... more 
Automating the math for decision-making under uncertaintyBoston MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 One reason deep learning exploded over the last decade was the availability of programming languages that could automate the math - college-level calculus - that is needed to train each new model. N ... more 
High-speed, high-precision positioning of stages with unknown vibration characteristicsToyohashi, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 A research team led by Professor Kaiji Sato (Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology) revealed a method for designing with ease ... more |
|
  SpaceX launches Hispasat's Amazonas Nexus communication satellite  |
|
 Paris (ESA) Feb 03, 2023 
As humankind's technology becomes more advanced, and the possibilities for human space travel are realised, it is important to think about what types of conditions we may encounter on the surfaces of other worlds and prepare for them.
In the coming decades, ESA is planning not only to go to the Moon and Mars, but possibly beyond. When we land on the surface of other planets, it is importan ... more |
|
 Natick MA (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 
The in-space propulsion firm Busek Co. Inc. (Busek) announced the successful on-orbit commissioning of its BHT-350 Hall effect thrusters on a duo of launches. The thrusters were sent aloft on OneWeb's 15th and 16th missions, which utilized separate SpaceX Falcon-9s to deliver 80 spacecraft into low Earth orbit (LEO). The Busek thrusters are utilized for orbit-raising, station-keeping, collision ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2023 
NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover took an image on December 18th, 2022, during its 650th day of mission that captured the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity near the base of Jezero Crater's river delta, approximately 1,115 feet (340 meters) away from the rover. The image was captured using the left camera of Mastcam-Z with an RGB color filter and the middle of its seven zoom settings, at a focal length of 6 ... more |
|
 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2023 
China's Deep Space Exploration Lab (DSEL) said Monday that it is inviting top global talents to apply for the 2023 Overseas Outstanding Young Talents Program, to promote the development of deep-space exploration.
According to the DSEL, the program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, aims to attract outstanding young scholars from overseas, who have made achievement ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Almaty, Kazakhstan (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
OneWeb, a company specializing in low Earth orbit satellite communications, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kazakhstan National Railways Company "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" to investigate providing high-speed, low-latency broadband satellite connectivity to railway stations and rolling stock throughout Kazakhstan.
This collaboration aims to enhance the connectivity and ... more |
|
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 
NASA's Atmospheric Waves Experiment (AWE) has successfully completed its critical space environment tests. Planned for launch to the International Space Station, AWE will study gravity waves in Earth's atmosphere to gain a deeper knowledge of the connections caused by climate systems throughout our atmosphere and between the atmosphere and space.
From its unique vantage point on the Intern ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Athens, Georgia (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
New research from the University of Georgia reveals that artificial intelligence can be used to find planets outside of our solar system. The recent study demonstrated that machine learning can be used to find exoplanets, information that could reshape how scientists detect and identify new planets very far from Earth.
"One of the novel things about this is analyzing environments where pla ... more |
|
 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
In 2015, when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft encountered the Pluto-Charon system, the Southwest Research Institute-led science team discovered interesting, geologically active objects instead of the inert icy orbs previously envisioned. An SwRI scientist has revisited the data to explore the source of cryovolcanic flows and an obvious belt of fractures on Pluto's large moon Charon. These new mod ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 
Underwater structures that can change their shapes dynamically, the way fish do, push through water much more efficiently than conventional rigid hulls. But constructing deformable devices that can change the curve of their body shapes while maintaining a smooth profile is a long and difficult process. MIT's RoboTuna, for example, was composed of about 3,000 different parts and took about two ye ... more |
|
 Toulouse, France (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
At the FIRA international agricultural robotics forum, GEODNET announces initial availability of a Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), Centimeter Precision, GNSS Corrections Service for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) and Systems Integrators.
GEODNET is compatible with thousands of fielded GNSS receivers from all major brands, on-vehicle automated steering and spraying kits, as well as the ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 07, 2023 
Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity's starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch of the Apollo program and the emergence of the space race between the U.S. and Soviet Union, people have been leaving trash around the Moon, too.
Today, experts es ... more |
|
 Paris (ESA) Feb 07, 2023 
A previously unknown 100-200-metre asteroid - roughly the size of Rome's Colosseum - has been detected by an international team of European astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Their project used data from the calibration of the Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), in which the team serendipitously detected an interloping asteroid. The object is likely the smallest observed ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Kleos Space has reached the milestone of daily product delivery collected from a strategically critical area of interest to its early adopter customers. RF data is collected by the Vigilance Mission (KSF1) satellites and is then processed through Kleos systems to generate intelligence products.
The Vigilance Mission RF data collection satellites are in a sun synchronous low Earth orbit ena ... more |
|
 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2023 
Solar flares and other types of space weather can wreak havoc with spaceflight and with telecommunications and other types of satellites orbiting the Earth. But, to date, scientists' ability to research ways to overcome that challenge has been severely limited. That's because experiments they conduct in laboratories here on Earth are affected by gravity in ways that are so different from conditi ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Feb 08, 2023 
A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, that hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been described by a team from SISSA in a recently published study reported in The Astrophysical Journal.
An extremely remote celestial body in a still young Universe, one sixth the size of the present one. A ... more |
|
 Warwick UK (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Protons have puzzled scientists for decades. Smaller than wavelengths of light, they are invisible, so cannot be measured using conventional methods. In a worldwide first, scientists from across the globe have used a high-energy neutrino beam to tackle this tiny - yet simultaneously huge - challenge.
Unable to see the subatomic particles, researchers, including those from the University of ... more |
|
|
|
|
| Buy Advertising | About Us | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2020 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
