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LeoStella and Hera Systems Establish Strategic Alliance Tukwila WA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Focused on revolutionizing satellite manufacturing and diversifying customers' choices for multi-satellite solicitations, smallsat experts LeoStella and Hera Systems have announced a strategic manufacturing alliance. This collaboration will mitigate supply chain risks, increase the reliability of production and delivery schedules, and maintain competitive pricing for small satellite constellations. LeoStella, a small satellite manufacturing company transforming constellation construction, and Hera ... read more |
Umbra selected by AFWERX for SBIR Phase II Contract Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Umbra, a leader in advanced space radar technology, announced it has been selected by AFWERX for a SBIR Phase II contract in the amount of $1.25 million focused on Space-Based Moving Target Indicati ... more Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has delivered a miniaturized high-energy laser source to the U.S. government. The laser is ruggedized for field use and miniaturizing it allows for rapid pla ... more El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Picogrid has been awarded a $950,000,000 ceiling Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for the maturation, demonstration and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains, leve ... more Washington (AFP) Aug 30, 2023 Astronomy enthusiasts are in for a treat Wednesday night: a rare "super blue Moon" that won't be seen again for more than a decade. ... more |
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Indian rover confirms sulphur on Moon's south pole Wallops Flight Facility VA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 What if microgravity holds the key to preventing the overheating of advanced electronics? That's one idea behind an International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory-sponsored investigation that ... more |
Momentus to provide hosted payload services for FOSSA Systems San Jose CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has signed a contract with FOSSA Systems ("FOSSA"), a Spanish company that offers global low-power Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and in-space services to provide ... more Changchun City, China (XNA) Aug 30, 2023 Galactic Energy, a private rocket maker in Beijing, carried out on Friday the eighth flight mission of its CERES 1 rocket to deploy a remote-sensing satellite into orbit. The CERES 1 Y8 rocket ... more Edawards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2023 Wind affects all aircraft, particularly during takeoff and landing. It's especially critical for new types of transportation. A new NASA flight campaign studying wind aims to gather information to e ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 25, 2023 Confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization, July 2023 was the hottest month on record, with high-impact weather continuing through August. These records are based on air temperatures, but me ... more |
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PILOTing through the magnetosphere: Using mission design to advance science Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Very detailed information is now available from ultraviolet, optical, and submillimeter observations of the stellar, dust, and cold gas content of galaxies, and yet there is a dearth of understandin ... more |
Dead stars cast long shadows: WVU astronomer hunts for the glowing ghosts of supernovas Morgantown WV (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 A West Virginia University astronomer is searching the Milky Way for debris left behind by supernovas, the violent explosions that occur when massive stars die. After a supernova explosion, ma ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2023 Earth planning date: Monday, August 28, 2023: Curiosity successfully navigated the numerous resistant, dark boulders (once included in the Gediz Vallis ridge deposit and the focus of our recent inve ... more Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Swirls are enigmatic albedo (light reflection) patterns on the lunar surface associated with local magnetic anomalies. The processes involved in their formation have been examined and debated since ... more Burlington VT (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Tapped to help U.S. defense agencies deploy safer propellant alternatives to hydrazine, Benchmark Space Systems has announced a two-year, $2.81 million AFRL SPRINT (Space Propulsion Research and Inn ... more |
Is a Mach 4 Passenger Jet Possible? NASA, Industry Explore Idea Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 Old production machinery has to be replaced due to changed requirements. However, high weight and limited space in plants often make it very difficult to assemble and disassemble big machines or to ... more |
After Moon landing, India eyes the Sun New Delhi (AFP) Aug 28, 2023 Days after becoming the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's largely unexplored south pole, India's space agency said on Monday it will launch a satellite to survey the Sun. ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 New Horizons is healthy, in active operations mode and speeding across the Kuiper Belt. Just as it did while hibernating from June 2022 through February 2023, the spacecraft is collecting round-the- ... more Tokyo (AFP) Aug 28, 2023 Japan's space agency on Monday postponed for the third time the launch of its "Moon Sniper" lunar mission due to strong winds just half an hour before launch. ... more London, UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2023 Researchers from Queen Mary University of London have made a discovery that could change our understanding of the universe. In their study published in Science Advances, they reveal, for the first t ... more |
Producing superior graphene aerogel in space Wallops Flight Facility VA (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 Graphene aerogel is a remarkable lightweight material that is both thermally insulating and electrically conductive. This makes it appealing for use in a wide variety of applications-from improved e ... more Dalian, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Today, space missions mainly rely on the transportation of basic needs from the Earth, which is extremely challenging and logistically impossible when we aim to develop stations or habitats on extra ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 When astronauts set off for a trip around the Moon in 2024 with NASA's Artemis II mission, they will go primed with knowledge of lunar landmarks gathered by one of the Agency's premiere robotic miss ... more San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 The Space Telescope Science Institute recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a large project to use the Hubble and James Webb telescopes to remotely study Io, the most volcanically active bod ... more |
Newly discovered planet has longest orbit yet detected by the TESS mission Boston MA (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Of the more than 5,000 planets known to exist beyond our solar system, most orbit their stars at surprisingly close range. More than 80 percent of confirmed exoplanets have orbits shorter than 50 da ... more Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 30, 2023 Chromium hydride (CrH), a molecule that's relatively rare and particularly sensitive to temperature, is useful as a "thermometer for stars," according to astronomer Laura Flagg, because it's abundan ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 30, 2023 The graceful winding arms of the grand-design spiral galaxy M51 stretch across this image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope. Unlike the menagerie of weird and wonderful spiral galaxie ... more London, UK (SPX) Aug 29, 2023 Electric propulsion, with a specific focus on Hall effect thrusters, has long been recognized as a foundational technology for space missions. Recognizing its potential, the UK Space Agency has rece ... more |
Accretion disks: How big are they really? Washington DC (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 Using the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, astronomers have detected for the first time evidence of the presence of an accretion d ... more Washington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2023 The first data maps from a NASA pollution-monitoring instrument were released Thursday. NASA's TEMPO device creates visual representations of pollution and air quality over North America from 22,000 miles above the equator. ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 Using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune's atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it. This is the first time a dark spot ... more New Delhi (AFP) Aug 26, 2023 India's budget Moon landing is a model for other countries aspiring to develop their own space programmes, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday while praising the scientists behind the successful mission. ... more |
India and the global race to the Moon Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 India made history as the first country to land near the south pole of the Moon with its Chandrayaan-3 lander on Aug. 23, 2023. This also makes it the first country to land on the Moon since China i ... more Space Coast FL (SPX) Aug 26, 2023 Four astronauts from four different countries and agencies soared into orbit early Friday morning from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft named Endurance ... more Bremen, Germany (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 Hera is complete. ESA's asteroid mission for planetary defence was built and prepared in two halves, but now, through a painstaking operation, they have been mated together to make a single spacecra ... more Solna, Sweden (SPX) Aug 25, 2023 A new study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden has examined how T cells of the immune system are affected by weightlessness. The results, which are published in the journal Scienc ... more |
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