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Design proposal could double space solar cell efficiency![]() Pennsylvania PA (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 When it comes to supplying energy for space exploration and settlements, commonly available solar cells made of silicon or gallium arsenide are still too heavy to be feasibly transported by rocket. To address this challenge, a wide variety of lightweight alternatives are being explored, including solar cells made of a thin layer of molybdenum selenide, which fall into the broader category of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (2D TMDC) solar cells. Publishing June 6 in the inaugural issue of the journal ... read more |
Frying Food in Space: A New Frontier in Astronaut Culinary ExperienceParis (ESA) Jun 02, 2023 The dietary regimen of astronauts is a crucial aspect of space missions that impacts overall health and morale. The European Space Agency (ESA) has been funding research on cooking techniques in microgravity conditions, with a recent focus on frying food ... more
Life in a hologramBoston MA (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 The MIT physicist is searching for answers to one of the biggest questions in modern physics: How can our universe abide by two incompatible rulebooks? The first - the Standard Model of Physics - is ... more
SpaceDaily.com set to scrap all Network AdvertisingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 Digital advertising is changing course and SpaceDaily.com, with its 25 high-tech websites including SpaceWar.com, SolarDaily.com, GPSDaily.com, and RoboDaily.com, is onboard with this change. Simon ... more
US, not China, keen on moon raceBeijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2023 By Yang Yuguang | China Daily Global | Updated: 2023-06-06 00:00 The moon is the only natural satellite of Earth. It is also the nearest celestial body to our planet, and selenology, or the study o ... more |
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SpaceX Dragon cargo ship arrives at International Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Jun 6, 2023 The SpaceX Dragon cargo spaceship successfully docked with the International Space Station early Tuesday morning after taking off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida the day before. ... more
MDA and Thoth team up for greater space domain awareness above CanadaBrampton, Canada (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 In a new development aimed at boosting Canada's space domain awareness (SDA) capability, MDA Ltd., a global leader in space industry technology and services, has announced its partnership with Thoth ... more |
Engineers test VIPER's very nimble gimbalMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 As VIPER, NASA's next Moon rover, wheels about atop Mons Mouton - a large flat-topped mountain on the Moon's South Pole - one small but mighty piece of hardware will be critical for the team of rove ... more
'Hot Jupiters' may not be orbiting aloneBloomington IN (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 Research led by an Indiana University astronomer challenges longstanding beliefs about the isolation of "hot Jupiters" and proposes a new mechanism for understanding the exoplanets' evolution. ... more
Xona Space Systems certifies Spirent's LEO SatNav constellation simulatorSalt Lake City UT (SPX) May 31, 2023 Spirent, the leading global provider of test and assurance solutions, is pleased to announce SimXona, an industry-first Xona satellite constellation simulator, has been fully certified by Xona Space ... more
ESA launches major recruitment drive for 2023Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2023 In an unprecedented move, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it will be hiring over 200 new colleagues to join its teams in 2023. This large-scale recruitment drive aims to support E ... more |
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UCF College of Medicine joins partnership to study health impacts of space travelOrlando FL (SPX) Jun 01, 2023 As space travel becomes more accessible, the University of Central Florida College of Medicine is helping to answer questions about how time spent in space affects the body. The College of Med ... more
Next-Gen relay ground stations to transform Pacific's Missile-Warning SystemBoulder CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced a major step towards upgrading the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center's (NIWC Pacific) ground station relay in Asia. After a successful preliminary desi ... more |
China releases 5-meter-resolution broadband multi-spectral satellite datasetBeijing, China (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 The world's first 5-meter-resolution Broadband Multi-spectral Satellite Dataset (JLS-5M) was officially opened to global users for sharing during the 6th Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations (AO ... more
A novel statistical approach for big data astronomyHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 The digital age has been a tremendous boon to the fields of both statistics and astronomy. However, according to Dr. Max Bonamente, a professor of physics and astro ... more
Webb Telescope reveals early universe crackled with bursts of star formationBaltimore MD (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is already providing new insights into this question. One of the la ... more
Webb Telescope detects universe's most distant complex organic moleculesChampaign IL (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 Researchers have detected complex organic molecules in a galaxy more than 12 billion light-years away from Earth - the most distant galaxy in which these molecules are now known to exist. Thanks to ... more |
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Apogeo Space contracts Momentus to orbit 9 satellites for IoT constellationSan Jose CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 Momentus Inc., a public company trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker MNTS, is set to deliver nine satellites into orbit for Apogeo Space's Internet of Things (IoT) constellation. The move represen ... more
VLBA reveals complexity of 'average' space explosions in NovaeCharlotteville VA (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 While studying classical novae using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a graduate researcher uncovered evidence the objects may have been erroneously typeca ... more |
Detectors could improve views of gamma-ray eventsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars - all while being ... more
Galaxies go on a deep dive and leave fiery tail behindHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 A group of galaxies is plunging into the Coma galaxy cluster and leaving behind an enormous tail of superheated gas. Astronomers have confirmed this is the longest known tail behind a galaxy group a ... more
How activity in outer space will affect regional inequalities in the futureOxford UK (SPX) Jun 07, 2023 Science fiction has always been a tool for processing life on Earth. Norwegian sci-fi expert Karl Kristian Swane Bambini has said that the space-bound genre is well placed to "interrogate and reimag ... more
Tianzhou 5 reconnects with Tiangong space stationBeijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2023 The Tianzhou 5 cargo spacecraft re-docked with the Tiangong space station early on Tuesday morning, according to the China Manned Space Agency. In a brief news release, the agency said the rob ... more |
Slippery Science: Sols 3851-3852Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2023 There's a special sort of hopeful-nervousness I feel on a weekend with a challenging drive. It's how I felt this last weekend, waiting for our rover to try and execute the 11 meter drive that was su ... more
Successful Launch and Deployment of Dragon into Orbit by SpaceXKennedy Space Center FL (UPI) Jun 06, 2023 After some delays over the weekend, SpaceX has successfully launched its Crew Resupply Mission 28 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The initial launch was postponed due to unfavorable weathe ... more
LeoStella builds and delivers its 20th satelliteTukwila WA (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 LeoStella, the U.S.-based satellite manufacturer, has successfully delivered its twentieth satellite since its inception in 2019. This accomplishment signals a key milestone in the firm's growth tra ... more
Dying stars' cocoons could be new source of gravitational wavesEvanston IL (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 So far, astrophysicists have only detected gravitational waves from binary systems - the mergers of either two black holes, two neutron stars or one of each. Although astrophysicists theoretically s ... more |
Scientific experimental samples brought back to Earth, delivered to scientistsBeijing (SPX) Jun 06, 2023 In a recent development from China's ambitious space program, the Shenzhou-15 manned spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth with a collection of experimental samples originating from the Tian ... more
Shenzhou XV crew lands in Inner MongoliaBeijing (XNA) Jun 02, 2023 Completing a six-month mission that included the successful completion of the Tiangong space station, the Shenzhou XV mission crew returned to Earth early Sunday morning. The crew's reentry ca ... more
Webb peers behind barsParis (ESA) Jun 02, 2023 A delicate tracery of dust and bright star clusters threads across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. The bright tendrils of gas and stars belong to the barred spiral galax ... more
Mysterious dashes revealed in Milky Way's centerEvanston IL (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 An international team of astrophysicists has discovered something wholly new, hidden in the center of the Milky Way galaxy. In the early 1980s, Northwestern University's Farhad Yusef-Zadeh dis ... more |
Weigh a quasar's galaxy with precisionLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 A team of researchers from EPFL have found a way to use the phenomenon of strong gravitational lensing to determine with precision - about 3 times more precise than any other technique - the mass of ... more
Dream Chaser comes to lifeLouisville CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 In an important milestone for space travel technology, Sierra Space announced the successful power-up of its revolutionary Dream Chaser spaceplane. The test conducted by the company signifies the ac ... more
Sidus Space Secures Additional NASA Subcontracts for Artemis ProgramCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 Sidus Space (NASDAQ: SIDU), a key player in the aerospace industry, recently announced that it had been granted additional hardware manufacturing subcontracts. ... more
NASA marks significant milestone with successful SLS engine testLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jun 04, 2023 NASA has recently made critical progress in the testing of its RS-25 engine, an integral component for upcoming Artemis missions to the Moon. On June 1st, the space agency successfully carried out t ... more |
Asia's largest rocket engine test bench achieves dual 700-ton testing capacityBeijing, China (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 In a significant milestone for Asian space exploration, the Tongchuan Test Center at the 165th Institute of the Sixth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has successfully execute ... more
Mars Express by the numbersParis (SPX) Jun 02, 2023 Exactly two decades ago, on 2 June 2003, ESA's Mars Express orbiter launched and began its journey to the Red Planet - Europe's first ever mission to Mars. The spacecraft aimed to enter orbit around ... more
20 years of Mars Express: Mars as never seen beforeParis (ESA) Jun 02, 2023 A new mosaic of Mars marks 20 years since the launch of ESA's Mars Express, and reveals the planet's colour and composition in spectacular detail. The mosaic was created using data from Mars Express ... more
Catastrophic failure assessment of sealed cabin for ultra large manned spacecraftBeijing, China (SPX) Jun 01, 2023 Hypervelocity impacts of Micrometeoroid and Orbital Debris (M/OD) seriously threaten the safety of manned spacecraft and astronauts in orbit. At present, M/OD above 10 cm, which can be monitored and ... more |
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