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January 24, 2024
SPACE TRAVEL
Sierra Space unveils full-scale prototype of expandable space station structure



Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
Sierra Space has completed an important test of its full-scale, expandable space station structure. The company, known for its innovative approach to space technology, alongside its exclusive softgoods technology partner ILC Dover, has been at the forefront of developing the LIFE (Large Integrated Flexible Environment) habitat. This structure, notable for its expandable "softgoods" design, has recently undergone rigorous testing, yielding impressive results that surpass NASA's stringent safety requireme ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
Equatorial Launch Australia unveils advanced horizontal integration facility
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) has unveiled the completed designs for its Horizontal Integration Facility (HIF) buildings at the Arnhem Space Centre (ASC). These state-of-the-art facilities are t ... more
MOON DAILY
China sets sights on Lunar South Pole with Chang'e 7 Mission
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
China has unveiled detailed plans for the Chang'e 7 mission, aimed at probing the moon's south pole, particularly focusing on water ice. This revelation, detailed in a paper in the National Science ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA unveils progress in Moon to Mars Strategy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
NASA has released the outcomes of its 2023 Moon to Mars Architecture Concept Review. This significant step reflects the agency's ongoing commitment to advancing humanity's exploration of the solar s ... more
SPACEMART
Booz Allen Ventures Invests in Albedo's groundbreaking VLEO satellite technology
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) has announced a strategic investment through its venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, LLC, in Albedo. This investment marks a significant step in the deployment ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE


CAS Space achieves new milestone with Kinetica 1 Y3 launch deploying 5 satellites

SPACE TRAVEL
ISS set to receive enhanced HPE Supercomputer
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is poised to take a significant step forward in the realm of space computing by launching an updated version of the HPE Spaceborne Computer-2 to the International Sp ... more
VSAT NEWS
Anritsu and Skylo Partner to Enhance Non-Terrestrial Network Device Testing
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
Skylo Technologies, a leader in non-terrestrial network (NTN) services, has announced a collaboration with Anritsu Corporation. This partnership marks a strategic initiative to enable Original Equip ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
GMV led consortium advances public health analytics with EO4HEALTH Project
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
GMV, in collaboration with institutions including Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise, GMATICS, Brockmann Consult, and a host of eminent scien ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Satellite data sheds light on Guangdong's climate extremes in recent study
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
A recent study, published in the journal Satellite Navigation on January 1st, 2024, has brought new understanding to the patterns of extreme climate events in Guangdong, China, through the use of ad ... more
TECH SPACE
Renesas Electronics plays role in Japan's lunar landing mission
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
Renesas Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723), a leader in advanced semiconductor solutions, reports that the company's radiation-hardened (rad-hard) integrated circuits (ICs) were integral to the Smar ... more

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TECH SPACE


Redwire joins forces with Blue Origin on Blue Ring Space Mobility Platform

SPACEMART
UK Space Agency Boosts Agri-tech Start-Up at Space Park Leicester
Leicester UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
In a notable advancement for the agri-tech sector, the UK Space Agency has recently endorsed Messium, an agri-tech start-up, by accepting it onto its exclusive Geo Accelerator program. This move hig ... more
GPS NEWS
Study reveals non-isotropic nature of tropospheric delays in GNSS
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
Researchers from Shandong University of Science and Technology have published a study that sheds new light on the intricate nature of tropospheric delays impacting Global Navigation Satellite System ... more
MARSDAILY
Sols 4076-4077: Driving Into Springtime
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2024
Earth planning date: Monday, January 22, 2024: Here in Toronto (along with much of Canada and the United States), we've spent the last few weeks bathed in an icy blast of arctic air, which has been ... more
EXO WORLDS
Shallow soda lakes show promise as cradles of life on Earth
Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
Charles Darwin proposed that life could have emerged in a "warm little pond" with the right cocktail of chemicals and energy. A study from the University of Washington, published this month in Commu ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Deep underground laboratory will be a first for Africa
Stellenbosch, South Africa (SPX) Jan 24, 2024
Africa's first deep underground science laboratory may become a reality in the next five to ten years with the establishment of the Paarl Africa Underground Laboratory (PAUL) in the Du Toits Kloof m ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION


CNSA announces full operation of Gaofen 5 01A, boosting environmental and climate monitoring

SPACE TRAVEL
Salad in space? New study says it's not a healthy choice
Newark DE (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
Lettuce and other leafy green vegetables are part of a healthy, balanced diet - even for astronauts on a mission. It's been more than three years since the National Aeronautics and Space Administrat ... more
SPACEMART
Small solar sails could be the next 'giant leap' for interplanetary space exploration
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
Nearly 70 years after the launch of the first satellite, we still have more questions than answers about space. But a team of Berkeley researchers is on a mission to change this with a proposal to b ... more
MOON DAILY
Aqualunar Challenge Launches: UK-Canada Initiative for Lunar Water Purification
London, UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
The realm of space exploration is on the verge of a significant advancement with the introduction of the Aqualunar Challenge, a collaborative GBP1.2 million initiative between the UK and Canada, aim ... more
MOON DAILY
China hopes Chang'e 6 can return samples from Lunar Far Side
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
China is poised to take another significant step in lunar exploration with its upcoming Chang'e 6 mission, scheduled for later this year. This ambitious endeavor by the China National Space Administ ... more
MOON DAILY
Japan says 'possibility' Moon lander power can be restored
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 22, 2024
Japan switched off its Moon lander almost three hours after a historic touchdown to allow for a possible recovery of the craft when the sun hits its solar panels, the space agency said Monday. ... more
MARSDAILY
A Fractured Filled Plan: Sols 4073-4075
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2024
Earth planning date: Friday, January 19, 2024: This 3 sol weekend plan, like many of our recent plans (for example: here and here), focuses heavily on the fractures and cracks in this area. We are i ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Ax-3 Crew Joins Expedition 70 in Space Station for Dual Operations and Research
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2024
The International Space Station (ISS), a cornerstone of global space research and cooperation, is currently bustling with activity as it houses eleven astronauts and cosmonauts from across the globe ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Ohio research project selected for International Space Station
Athens OH (SPX) Jan 21, 2024
Aresearch project designed by a group of Ohio University students will soon be traveling to the International Space Station (ISS). During the fall semester, Ohio students from across the University ... more
MARSDAILY
Buried water ice at the Martian equator
Paris (ESA) Jan 19, 2024
Windswept piles of dust, or layers of ice? ESA's Mars Express has revisited one of Mars's most mysterious features to clarify its composition. Its findings suggest layers of water ice stretching sev ... more
MARSDAILY
Ingenious Flying Robot Phones Home From Mars
Washington (AFP) Jan 21, 2024
NASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end. ... more
IRON AND ICE
From Asteroid Bennu to Earth: NASA Reveals New Findings in OSIRIS-REx Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2024
The astromaterials curation team at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston has at last completed the intricate process of disassembling the OSIRIS-REx sampler head, revealing the remaining sample of ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
China's LandSpace achieves new feat with Zhuque-3's Vertical Recovery Test
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2024
In a significant advancement for China's burgeoning space sector, the Zhuque-3 reusable rocket has successfully completed its first vertical return technology test at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Ce ... more
MOON DAILY
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' lands but power running low
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 20, 2024
Japan on Saturday became only the fifth nation to achieve a soft lunar landing, but its "Moon Sniper" spacecraft was running out of power due to a solar battery problem. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
ESA's Marcus Wandtembarks on historic Muninn Mission aboard ISS
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 22, 2024
In a significant milestone for European space exploration, ESA project astronaut Marcus Wandt, along with colleagues Michael Lopez-Alegria, Walter Villadei, and Alper Gezeravci, embarked on the Axio ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
European crew arrives at ISS on private mission
Washington (AFP) Jan 20, 2024
An all-European crew including Turkey's first astronaut arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday on a voyage chartered by Axiom Space. ... more
SPACEMART
Eutelsat OneWeb and Paratus South Africa join forces to enhance satellite connectivity in South Africa
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2024
Eutelsat Group (Euronext Paris, London: ETL), a key player in the satellite communications industry, has announced a significant development in its partnership with Paratus South Africa, a leading s ... more
VSAT NEWS
Lynk and Telikom initiate Sat2Phone services in Papua New Guinea
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2024
Lynk Global, Inc. (Lynk), a leader in satellite-direct-to-standard-phone (sat2phone) telecommunications, in a landmark collaboration with Telikom Limited (Telikom), has announced the launch of initi ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA Science, Astrobotic Peregrine Mission One Concludes
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2024
The first flight of NASA's commercial lunar delivery service carrying agency science and technology, as well as other customer payloads intended for the Moon, has come to an end. After 10 days and 1 ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Lightest black hole or heaviest neutron star? MeerKAT uncovers a mysterious object in Milky Way
Manchester UK (SPX) Jan 19, 2024
An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black ... more
MOON DAILY
Moon rocks with unique dust found
Munster, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2024
Our Earth's Moon is almost completely covered in dust. Unlike on Earth, this dust is not smoothed by wind and weather, but is sharp-edged and also electrostatically charged. This dust has been studi ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
NASA's Roman to Search for Signs of Dark Matter Clumps
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2024
Some of the finest, smallest details in the universe - the gaps between elongated groups of stars - may soon help astronomers reveal dark matter in greater detail than ever before. After NASA's Nanc ... more
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