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SES and MDA Announce First Satellite Life Extension Agreement Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 29, 2017 SES and MDA, a global communications and information company, has announced an agreement for an initial satellite life extension mission using an on-orbit refuelling vehicle being built by SSL, a US based subsidiary of MDA and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems. SES will be the first commercial customer to benefit from the satellite refuelling service, and will be able to activate the service whenever required with minimal disruption to spacecraft operation. The agr ... read more |
Stanford engineers design a robotic gripper for cleaning up space debris Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2017 Right now, about 500,000 pieces of human-made debris are whizzing around space, orbiting our planet at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour. This debris poses a threat to satellites, space vehicles an ... more Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 29, 2017 Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam found that hidden dimensions - as predicted by string theory - could influence gravitational waves. In a recently publi ... more Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Arianespace has successfully launched the Hellas Sat 3-Inmarsat S EAN "condosat" - composed of two payloads for operators Hellas Sat and Inmarsat; as well as the GSAT-17 satellite for India's space ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 29, 2017 Airbus Safran Launchers, which will be known as ArianeGroup on July 1, 2017, has begun construction of the combustion chamber of the first flight model of the VINCI engine at its Ottobrun site near ... more |
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LISA Gravitational-Wave Observatory Selected as ESA L3 Mission Hannover, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 In a meeting on 20 June 2017 ESA's Science Programme Committee selected the space-based gravitational-wave detector "Laser Interferometer Space Antenna" (LISA) for ESA's third large (L3) mission in ... more Paris, France (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 According to Euroconsult's latest report, High Throughput Satellites: Vertical Market Analysis and Forecasts, the total committed investment from the 30 satellite operators in HTS systems has reache ... more Paris (AFP) June 22, 2017 The European Space Agency signed a contract with a German-British consortium Thursday to build eight more satellites for its Galileo satnav system, an alternative to America's GPS, the agency said Thursday. ... more Denver CO (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 In a specialized cleanroom designed to streamline satellite production, Lockheed Martin is in full production building GPS III - the world's most powerful GPS satellites. The company's second GPS II ... more Chandler AZ (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 PacSci EMC has successfully launched its own on-orbit technology demonstrator satellite, PACSCISAT. The company will conduct payload tests to prove the performance of several of its commercial space ... more Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Today, OneWeb Satellites inaugurates its assembly line in Toulouse, the beating heart of Airbus' manufacturing expertise, to begin end-to-end validation, testing, and integration of its first satell ... more |
Second launch doubles number of Iridium NEXT satellites in orbit to 20 Melbourne FL (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Harris Corporation has delivered an advanced digital weather satellite instrument to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute that will help forecasters safeguard people in the region from typhoons an ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 26, 2017 ESA and 16 satellite industry leaders have signed a joint statement on their collaboration over 'Satellite for 5G' at the Paris Air and Space Show. ESA and the European space industry are join ... more Ames, IA (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory discovered that they could functionalize magnetic materials through a thoroughly unlikely method, by adding amounts of the virtually no ... more Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 SES has signed a multi-year agreement with leading Indonesian satellite communications provider Primacom (PT Primacom Interbuana). Primacom will use SES Networks' Maritime+ service to deliver the hi ... more |
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2017 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Lisbon agreed with Portuguese authorities on creation of alliance to advance space research, the Indian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. India, Portugal sing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the field of space, according to the statement. "During the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to ... more Russia's Roscosmos May Provide Indian Astronauts With Training in Future Return to the blue NASA Selects Army Surgeon for Astronaut Training |
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2017 The first launch of the new modification of the Proton-M carrier rocket will be conducted in 2019, the press service of Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation said Tuesday. The Proton-M is the largest carrier rocket in Russia's fleet of space launch vehicles. The rocket has lifted dozens of Russian and foreign satellites into orbit since it was first commissioned into service in 2001. ... more 80th consecutive success for Ariane 5 with launch of Hellas Sat, Inmarsat and ISRO SES and MDA Announce First Satellite Life Extension Agreement ArianeGroup starts production of VINCI engine combustion chamber |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2017 NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, is examining rocks at the edge of Endeavour Crater for signs that they may have been either transported by a flood or eroded in place by wind. Those scenarios are among the possible explanations rover-team scientists are considering for features seen just outside the crater rim's crest above "Perseverance Valley," which is carved into the inner slope ... more Laser-targeting AI Yields More Mars Science Opportunity Straightens Wheel, Resumes Driving No One Under 20 Has Experienced a Day Without NASA at Mars |
Beijing (XNA) Jun 27, 2017 China has set the window to launch its Long March-5 Y2 carrier rocket between July 2 and 5, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense. Carrying Shijian-18 communication satellite, the rocket was vertically transferred to the launch area at Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Monday. Shijian-18 will test ... more With a Strong Partner Like Russia, Nothing Would Stop China's New Space Station China's cargo spacecraft completes second docking with space lab China to launch four more probes before 2021 |
Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 27, 2017 SES has been able to draw on its global satellite fleet of over 50 geostationary satellites to rapidly restore customers capacity following a significant anomaly affecting the AMC-9 satellite on Saturday 17 June 2017. SES immediately engaged with customers and was able to quickly offer a restoration capacity plan to transfer services to alternative satellites and minimise disruption. By la ... more OneWeb inaugurates production line Assembly, Integration, and Test of OneWeb satellites HTS Capacity Lease Revenues to Reach More Than $6 Billion by 2025 Second launch doubles number of Iridium NEXT satellites in orbit to 20 |
Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2017 Right now, about 500,000 pieces of human-made debris are whizzing around space, orbiting our planet at speeds up to 17,500 miles per hour. This debris poses a threat to satellites, space vehicles and astronauts aboard those vehicles. What makes tidying up especially challenging is that the debris exists in space. Suction cups don't work in a vacuum. Traditional sticky substances, like tape ... more Equipping form with function Making ferromagnets stronger by adding non-magnetic elements Seeing the forest through the trees with a new LiDAR system |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2017 Wherever you find people, you also find bacteria and other microorganisms. The International Space Station is no exception. That generally is not a problem. For one thing, the space station is kept cleaner than many environments on Earth. Routine cleaning activities are included on astronaut task schedules. Cargo sent to the station, and the vehicles that carry it, undergo a rigorous clean ... more Could a Dedicated Mission to Enceladus Detect Microbial Life There New branch in family tree of exoplanets discovered NASA discovers 10 new Earth-size exoplanets |
Atlanta GA (SPX) Jun 27, 2017 More than 30 years after Voyager 2 sped past Uranus, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers are using the spacecraft's data to learn more about the icy planet. Their new study suggests that Uranus' magnetosphere, the region defined by the planet's magnetic field and the material trapped inside it, gets flipped on and off like a light switch every day as it rotates along with the planet. It' ... more The curious case of the warped Kuiper Belt NASA Completes Study of Future 'Ice Giant' Mission Concepts King of the Gods: Jupiter Dated to Be Oldest Planet in the Solar System |
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Paris (AFP) June 26, 2017 Ocean levels rose 50 percent faster in 2014 than in 1993, with meltwater from the Greenland ice sheet now supplying 25 percent of total sea level increase compared with just five percent 20 years earlier, researchers reported Monday. The findings add to growing concern among scientists that the global watermark is climbing more rapidly than forecast only a few years ago, with potentially dev ... more Small scale, big improvements Seagull carried out an autonomous end-to-end unmanned Mine Counter Measure mission Could this strategy bring high-speed communications to the deep sea? |
Paris (AFP) June 22, 2017 The European Space Agency signed a contract with a German-British consortium Thursday to build eight more satellites for its Galileo satnav system, an alternative to America's GPS, the agency said Thursday. The deal was signed at the International Paris Air Show with German company OHB as the prime contractor, and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd in charge of navigation systems. The ESA s ... more India's Answer to GPS Runs Into Serious Technical Failures Second Lockheed Martin GPS-3 satellite assembled as full production begins Lockheed Martin nears completion of GPS III satellite |
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Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 16, 2017 Russia's Lavochkin Research and Production Association is ready to work with China on designing lunar exploration missions, including orbital and return ones, Sergei Lemeshevsky, the Russian company's director general, told Sputnik on Thursday. Xu Yansong, the head of the International Cooperation Department of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), said on Wednesday that China an ... more New NELIOTA project detects flashes from lunar impacts Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar Explorers Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon |
The Hague (AFP) June 26, 2017 Dutch scientists on Monday celebrated the rare discovery of meteorite in The Netherlands, which at 4.5-billion years old may hold clues to the birth of our solar system. "Meteorites are very special because we do not have rocks of this age on earth," said geologist Leo Kriegsman from the Naturalis biodiversity centre in Leiden in a YouTube video marking the occasion. The fist-sized meteo ... more Impact Threat from Asteroid Apophis Cannot Be Ruled Out Queen's University scientist warns of asteroid danger Are NEOs Coming to Earth? |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 Dating back to the first century, scientists, philosophers and reporters have noted the occasional occurrence of "bright nights," when an unexplained glow in the night sky lets observers see distant mountains, read a newspaper or check their watch. A new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, uses satellite data to prese ... more Comb and Copter system maps atmospheric gases Harris Corporation Delivers Advanced Weather Satellite Instrument to South Korea Satellite data to map endangered monkey populations on Earth |
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2017 New analysis of plasma clouds ejected by the sun suggest solar eruptions behave like a sneeze. Until now, astronomers looked at cloud-like structures of coronal mass ejections as single entities. The latest research - detailed in the journal Scientific Reports - suggest CMEs are more like a sneeze or dust cloud, a collection of millions of individual plasma parcels, each acting indepe ... more Eclipse Expectations Excite Escapades for Enlightenment Rare US total solar eclipse excites Americans coast-to-coast NASA Prepares for Aug. 21 Total Solar Eclipse with Live Coverage, Safety Information |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jun 27, 2017 A global hunt for the universe's missing matter is underway, and this autumn everyone is invited to join in. On and around October 31, 2017, events around the world will celebrate the hunt for the universe's unseen "dark matter." Dark Matter Day events will engage the public in discussions about dark matter, and about the many experiments that seek to solve its mysteries. Universitie ... more 'Pompom' Stars May Solve Quasar Puzzle Hubble captures massive dead disk galaxy that challenges theories of galaxy evolution Astronomers see mysterious nitrogen area in a butterfly-shaped star formation disk |
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Jun 28, 2017 For the first time ever, astronomers at The University of New Mexico say they've been able to observe and measure the orbital motion between two supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of light years from Earth - a discovery more than a decade in the making. UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy graduate student Karishma Bansal is the first-author on the paper, 'Constraining the Or ... more Quantum thermometer or optical refrigerator Shining light on low-energy electrons No Universe without Big Bang |
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