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Sanctions against Russia could provide opportunities for India's space sector![]() New Delhi (IANS) Mar 14, 2022 Industry experts say US and European economic sanctions against Russia for military action against Ukraine could create economic opportunities for the Indian space sector, rather than burden it with economic costs. He also felt that to seize the opportunity, India should accelerate its satellite launching capabilities, and announce Productivity Concessions (PLI) schemes for the aerospace sector. "All countries that are feeling the pinch due to the absence of Russian rockets for launching sat ... read more |
Scientists develop a new model of a fundamental process of Earth's global dynamicsLisbon, Portugal (SPX) Mar 13, 2022 The tectonic plates that form the Earth's surface are like puzzle pieces that are in constant, very slow motion - on average, they move only up to around 10 centimeters a year. But these puzzle piec ... more
China's BeiDou enters new phase of stable services, rapid developmentBeijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2022 China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has entered a new phase of sustained stable services and rapid development, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office on Friday. Measu ... more
Chief designer details China's future lunar missionsBeijing (XNA) Mar 14, 2022 China will carry on its moon research in the future with Chang'e-6, Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 missions by 2030, chief designer of the country's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren said. The Chan ... more
Sanctions could cause space station to crash: RoscosmosMoscow (AFP) March 12, 2022 Western sanctions against Russia could cause the International Space Station to crash, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos warned Saturday, calling for the punitive measures to be lifted. ... more |
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In-orbit construction of China's space station going smoothlyBeijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2022 Construction work on the core module of China's Tiangong space station is proceeding steadily, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said on Friday. The Shenzhou-13 mission astronauts currently ... more
China plans more planetary endeavors: scientistBeijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2022 After the Tianwen-1 mission, China will have a number of Tianwen series of planetary endeavors to explore the universe, according to a Chinese scientist. Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China ... more
China planning global system for precision meteorological monitoringBeijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2022 China is planning the construction of a new global system for gathering high-precision meteorological data based on the interpretation of signals beamed down from satellites, according to the second ... more
Wildfire Workshop Accelerates NASA Firefighting SolutionsEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 13, 2022 In a changing climate, wildfires are becoming more widespread and devastating, threatening more people and land than ever before. In response, NASA is stepping up to the plate to determine what we c ... more |
Icesat-2 data shows Arctic sea ice thinning in just three yearsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Over the past two decades, the Arctic has lost about one-third of its winter sea ice volume, largely due to a decline in sea ice that persists over several years, called multiyear ice, according to ... more
"Seafloor fertilizer factory" helped breathe life into EarthLeeds UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertilizer factory on the Earth's seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago. The f ... more
Arecibo Observatory reopens visitor center after telescope collapseWashington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2021 The famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, once home to the world's most powerful radio telescope, has reopened to visitors more than a year after the giant facility collapsed. ... more
Slingshot Aerospace raises $25M in Series A-1 Funding RoundLos 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 ... more |
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Imagining an Earthly neighborZurich, 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
Sidus Space completes LizzieSat Preliminary Design ReviewCape 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
Sol 3411: BonanzaPasadena 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
NASA opens sample taken from the Moon 50 years onWashington (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
Backbone of Hera asteroid missionParis (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 |
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Space Station to host 'self-healing' quantum communications tech demo 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 |
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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A River Runs Through It: Onward to the Delta Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022
The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry en route to the site of it's next science campaign. It's been a trip down memory lane since leaving Seitah on Sol 340 (Feb 2, 2022) and retracing our tracks back to the Octavia E. Butler landing site.
Familiar views and rocks greet us like old friends as ... more |
Chief designer details China's future lunar missions Beijing (XNA) Mar 14, 2022
China will carry on its moon research in the future with Chang'e-6, Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 missions by 2030, chief designer of the country's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren said.
The Chang'e-6 is scheduled to bring back to Earth lunar samples with a mass of up to 2 kilograms; the Chang'e-7 will be tasked with landing on the lunar south pole and detecting local natural resources; and t ... 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 |
NeoPhotonics offers ultra-narrow linewidth laser for LEO satellites San Jose CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2022
NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-speed communications networks, has announced its new Radiation Tolerant version of its industry leading Nano ultra-pure light tunable laser which has been designed for use in low earth orbit satellite co ... more |
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"Seafloor fertilizer factory" helped breathe life into Earth Leeds UK (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
Scientists reveal a new part of the recipe for complex life on planets, and it involves the onset of a microbial fertilizer factory on the Earth's seafloor roughly 2.6 billion years ago.
The first major rise in oxygen levels on the Earth took place roughly 2.4 to 2.2 billion years ago during the early stage of the Great Oxidation Event.
Scientists are still unsure why and how the Gre ... more |
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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Long look at Hawaiian corals suggests reasons for optimism amid warming seas, ocean acidification Corvallis OR (SPX) Mar 11, 2022
The longest experimental study on corals to date, a 22-month project that replicated current and future ocean conditions, suggests Hawaiian corals can remain resilient as climate change makes seawater warmer and more acidic.
Led by Oregon State University postdoctoral researcher Rowan McLachlan, the study is important because understanding the factors behind coral health is crucial to effo ... more |
China's BeiDou enters new phase of stable services, rapid development Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2022
China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has entered a new phase of sustained stable services and rapid development, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office on Friday.
Measured by the global continuous monitoring and evaluation system, the BDS-3 system shows an advanced performance index in providing global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services, with more out ... more |
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NASA Studies 'New' 50-Year-Old Lunar Sample to Prep for Return to Moon 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 |
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 DART spacecraft is currently on its way to the Didymos asteroid pair in deep space, to test the kinetic impact technique of asteroid deflection on the smaller of the two bodies on 26 September this y ... more |
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Scientists develop a new model of a fundamental process of Earth's global dynamics Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Mar 13, 2022
The tectonic plates that form the Earth's surface are like puzzle pieces that are in constant, very slow motion - on average, they move only up to around 10 centimeters a year. But these puzzle pieces don't quite fit together: there are zones on one plate that end up plunging under another - the so-called subduction zones, central to the dynamics of the planet. This movement is slow, but it can ... more |
NASA sounding rocket to study the origin of slow solar winds White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Mar 07, 2022
The Sun's atmosphere, or corona, is beaming with activity. Solar flares and coronal mass injections send high-energy particles out into space and the corona constantly releases particles known as the solar wind.
Just as winds on Earth vary, the solar winds departing the Sun travel at different velocities - from a mere 700,000 mph, called slow solar winds, to the fast winds travelling up to ... more |
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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 time the course of an acceleration process in a stellar process called a nova, which comprises powerful eruptions on the surface of a white dwarf.
A nova creates a shock wave that tears through ... more |
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 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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