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  Washington (AFP) March 23, 2023 The world's first 3D-printed rocket launched successfully on Wednesday, marking a step forward for the California company behind the innovative spacecraft, though it failed to reach orbit. Billed as less costly to produce and fly, the unmanned Terran 1 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 11:25 pm (0325 GMT Thursday) but suffered an "anomaly" during second-stage separation as it streamed towards low Earth orbit, according to a livestream broadcast by aerospace startup Relativity Space. ... read more |
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Webb Telescope spots swirling, gritty clouds on remote planet in spectrum dataBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 Researchers observing with NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have pinpointed silicate cloud features in a distant planet's atmosphere. The atmosphere is constantly rising, mixing, and moving during ... more  
First results from ESO telescopes on the aftermath of DART's asteroid impactMunich, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), two teams of astronomers have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft and the asteroid Dimor ... more 
Virgin Orbit to bring small staff back to work on ThursdayWashington DC (UPI) Mar 22, 2021 Virgin Orbit, Richard Branson's satellite launcher service, is expected to return a small staff work on Thursday after suspending operations last week and putting its employees on unpaid furlough. ... more 
Surprisingly simple explanation for the alien comet 'Oumuamua's weird orbitBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed 'Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public alike. It was the first known visitor from outside our solar system, it had no bright coma or dust ta ... more |
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NRO awards contracts to BlackSky and Planet Labs for hyperspectral capabilitiesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has awarded contracts to BlackSky Technology and Planet Labs Federal for the exploration of commercial hyperspectral image capabilities under the Strategic C ... more  
NASA seeks student solutions for managing Moon landing dust cloudHuman Lander Challenge Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 As NASA and industry partners develop new human landing systems to transport astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon's surface and back as part of Artemis, the agen ... more  
Waves and a Rock: Sols 3778-3779Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2023 Monday's planned drive positioned Curiosity with a new workspace to investigate. We have left the Marker Band, with Natalie's blog nicely summarizing our campaign there. As a physicist and spectrosc ... more 
Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists sharpen their sightsRiverside CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they've ever been to finding an analog of Earth's "twin." If t ... more |
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Searching for life with space dustTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 Following enormous collisions, such as asteroid impacts, some amount of material from an impacted world may be ejected into space. This material can travel vast distances and for extremely long peri ... more 
Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket fails to reach orbitLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 Relativity Space's 3D-printed rocket, Terran 1, failed to reach orbit after an anomaly occurred during its second-stage separation. The rocket had been launched successfully on its third attempt and ... more 
China launches carrier rocket for satellite installationBeijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2023 China launched a Kuaizhou 1A carrier rocket on Wednesday afternoon at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the country's northwestern desert, placing four meteorological satellites in orbit, accor ... more  
A common thread linking subatomic color glass condensate and massive black holesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2023 Physicists have discovered a remarkable correspondence between dense states of gluons-the gluelike carriers of the strong nuclear force within atomic nuclei-and enormous black holes in the cosmos. T ... more |
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