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Satellite swarms for science 'grow up' at NASA Ames![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Teamwork makes the dream work, and at NASA that doesn't apply only to humans. Researchers at NASA's Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley are developing satellite swarms, which are groups of spacecraft working together as a unit, without being managed individually by mission controllers. A swarm's ability to perform autonomously will make new types of science and exploration possible, particularly as they venture farther into deep space. Ames' work on swarm technologies has been unde ... read more |
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![]() Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 New design for a foldable phased-array transmitter can help make satellites lightweight, smaller, and cost-efficient to launch, report scientists at Tokyo Tech. The transmitter is made of stacked la ... more ![]() ![]() Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 The Venus atmosphere may be used as a natural laboratory to understand the evolution of Earth-like planets, according to a study led by the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA) Venus ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 15, 2023 Keeping a launcher in flight connected with the ground is one of the toughest jobs an antenna can have. Having to contend with high temperatures, vibration and atmospheric slipstream is hard enough, ... more ![]() ![]() San Antonio, TX (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 The search for extraterrestrial life in our solar system just got more exciting. A team of scientists including Southwest Research Institute's Dr. Christopher Glein has discovered new evidence that ... more |
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![]() ![]() BepiColombo braces for third Mercury flyby ![]() ![]() Mountain View CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Muon Space, a climate satellite company revolutionizing the way Earth is monitored from space, is pleased to announce the successful deployment of the company's first satellite, MuSat-1. The ESPA-cl ... more ![]() ![]() Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 ICEYE, the global leader in persistent monitoring with radar imaging satellites and an expert in natural catastrophe solutions, has successfully expanded its constellation with four new synthetic ap ... more |
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![]() Los Gatos CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Comtech (NASDAQ: CMTL) and E-Space, the company bridging Earth and space to enable hyper-scaled deployments of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions and services, has announced a teaming agreement to c ... more ![]() ![]() Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 In a study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, researchers at the University of Toronto reveal a theoretical breakthrough that may explain both the nature of invisible d ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 There is a huge difference between looking at a photo of the Grand Canyon and seeing it in person. If you want to look at another planet's landscape, seeing it in person is not an option. That's why ... more ![]() ![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Each winter, the Geminid meteors light up the sky as they race past Earth, producing one of the most intense meteor showers in the night sky. Now, NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission is providing new ... more |
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![]() ![]() A Geologist in a Rock Shop: Sols 3859-3860 ![]() ![]() Dallas TX (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Dr. Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki, a theoretical astrophysicist at The University of Texas at Dallas, has spent his career seeking answers to some of the universe's greatest mysteries, including why the e ... more ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have detected multiple rock-forming elements in the atmosphere of a Jupiter- ... more |
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![]() Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 Nearly five thousand kilometers above the Sun's surface lies a century-old question for solar physicists - how are temperatures in the star's upper atmosphere, or corona, hundreds of times hotter th ... more ![]() ![]() Hobart, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company founded in 2004 by Richard Branson, promotes its flights as offering: A Brand New Perspective: Deepen your connection to Earth and to humanity with t ... more ![]() ![]() Forres UK (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 Arianespace and Orbex, a UK-based provider of small satellite launch services, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study possible future cooperation to answer its customers' requireme ... more ![]() ![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 In the early universe, the gas between stars and galaxies was opaque - energetic starlight could not penetrate it. But 1 billion years after the big bang, the gas had become completely transparent. ... more |
![]() ![]() Tech advance helps control descent of rocket debris ![]() ![]() Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 15, 2023 An international team including a University of Washington scientist has found that the water on one of Saturn's moons harbors phosphates, a key building block of life. The team led by the Freie Uni ... more ![]() ![]() Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 Sodium chloride, better known as table salt, isn't exactly the type of mineral that captures the imagination of scientists. However, a smattering of tiny salt crystals discovered in a sample from an ... more |
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![]() Bergen, Norway (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 In a study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from the University of Naples "Federico II", the University of Wroclaw, and the University of Bergen examined a quantum-gravity model ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 12, 2023 On Earth our varied and abundant species of plants produce all the life-giving oxygen we need to breathe, but when we venture outside of our world such as on the International Space Station or the M ... more ![]() ![]() Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 A satellite created with the help of Terran Orbital Corporation's (NYSE: LLAP) Italian subsidiary, Tyvak International, successfully launched Monday, carrying Pope Francis's iconic "Statis Orbis" co ... more ![]() ![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 The laser communications system for NASA's Artemis II mission arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for integration with the Orion spacecraft, which will carry astronauts around the Moon ... more |
![]() Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Jun 14, 2023 Kongsberg NanoAvionics recently announced a significant accomplishment in the field of space technology as SpaceX's Transporter-8 mission successfully placed six of its satellites into orbit. Among ... more ![]() ![]() Columbus OH (SPX) Jun 13, 2023 An international team of astronomers is the first to apply an old technique to discover a new type of planet that orbits two stars - what is known as a circumbinary planet. As an added bonus, resear ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2023 After completing a major software update in April, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took a last look at "Marker Band Valley" before leaving it behind, capturing a "postcard" of the scene. The postc ... more ![]() ![]() Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 On June 12, the Transporter-8 rideshare mission successfully launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The mission featured the integration of 32 customer satellites, facilitated by E ... more |
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![]() Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) reports its spacecraft for Varda Space Industries ("Varda"), a leading in-space manufacturing and hypersonic re-entry logistics company, is successfully operating ... more ![]() ![]() Space Coast FL (SPX) Jun 12, 2023 A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 53 Starlink spacecraft lifted off in a southeast trajectory from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS), Florida, at 3:10 a.m. EDT ... more ![]() ![]() Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 At the 2023 Keystone Space Conference last week, Westinghouse Electric Company and Astrobotic announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding to explore collaboration on space technology prog ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2023 Over the past few weeks, ESA's astronaut candidates have taken a deep dive-both figuratively and literally-into their basic training, including their first SCUBA diving experience in the Neutral Buo ... more |
![]() Washington DC (UPI) Jun 09, 2023 A British Columbia man said he is trying to determine whether an object that splashed down in his backyard pool was a meteorite. Justin Broad said he was outside his home in Delta earlier this ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2023 NASA's Perseverance rover is currently investigating rock outcrops alongside the rim of Mars' Belva Crater. Some 2,300 miles (3,700 kilometers) away, NASA's Curiosity rover recently drilled a sample ... more ![]() ![]() Austin TX (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 A team of astronomers has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory to discover some of the longest tails of gas yet observe ... more ![]() ![]() Hefei, China (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 Recently, a research team led by Prof. GOU Yanyu from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) found that the solar outburst structure underg ... more |
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![]() Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2023 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most powerful telescope ever launched into space, will soon get a new "sidekick"-a small but nimble satellite that borrows its name from a multicolored ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2023 Euclid is ESA's mission to shed light on dark matter and dark energy, but teams at the Agency's mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, are also in the dark. A series of problems have befallen ... more ![]() ![]() Los 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 ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jun 08, 2023 To celebrate the 20th birthday of ESA's Mars Express on 2 June, and after months of work from engineers and scientists to make it possible, ESA aired the first-ever Mars livestream. For an hour, it ... more |
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