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Building Local Climate Action Plans With Satellite Data
As the climate crisis intensifies, the urgency to tackle its impacts becomes paramount. Climate change, largely caused by human activities, poses severe consequences that affect metropolitan areas that are first in line not only to contribute to the broader challenge but also to ensure the livability and resilience of urban environments in the face of…
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AROBS Engineering to Provide Software Solutions for Europe’s Space Rider Project
AROBS Engineering, part of AROBS Group, is the prime industrial partner and consortium leader for the technical specifications, architecture, code development, and testing systems validation for SpaceRider, Europe’s first reusable space transportation system. Such activities will be carried out under the Space Rider Program funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). Space Rider aims to…
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ISRO and Indian Navy Jointly Conduct Harbor Trials for Gaganyaan Recovery Operations
In a significant step forward for India’s ambitious Gaganyaan mission, recovery trial operations have officially advanced to the second phase. The commencement of harbor trials took place on July 20, 2023, at the esteemed Naval Dockyard in Visakhapatnam. Notably, the trials were conducted in collaboration between the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian…
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Lockheed’s Orion capsule: Pioneering deep space exploration with NASA
The Orion for Artemis 1 was the first to launch atop NASA’s Space Launch System. It flew a month-long mission in a distant retrograde orbit around the Moon. Image: NASA Join our Discord Server: Join the community with forums and chatrooms about space! Transition to Artemis: A New Era of Lunar Exploration With the cancellation…
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Falcon 9 evades thunderstorms, launches 22 Starlink satellites
Update: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 successfully lifted off the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Update: SpaceX has shifted the launch time to a new T-0 at 8:50 p.m. EDT (0050 UTC on July 25). SpaceX has two more launch opportunities beyond that, if needed, at 9:40 p.m.…
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Space Force releases NSSL phase three second draft
The United States Space Force (USSF) recently released a second draft of a request for proposals (RFP) for the forthcoming phase three of the national security space launch (NSSL) program. Phase three will cover launch orders over a five-year period starting in October 2024 — the start of fiscal year (FY) 2025 — and has…
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Weather scrubs Falcon 9 launch of Starlink internet satellites
Update: Stormy weather forced SpaceX to scrub tonight’s launch of the Falcon 9 before the completion of propellant load. The next launch opportunity is tomorrow at 7:09 p.m. EDT (2309 UTC). Update: SpaceX is looking at the end of its launch window today and adjusted the T-0 to 10:56 p.m. EDT (0256 UTC). Update: SpaceX…
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Amazon is getting ready to launch a lot of broadband satellites
Within a few years, Amazon hopes to be building and launching up to 80 satellites per month to populate the company’s Kuiper constellation, a $10 billion network that is similar to fleets already operated by SpaceX and OneWeb providing Internet connectivity around the world. In the next six months, Amazon plans to begin production of…
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New legged robots designed to explore planets as a team
While rovers have made incredible discoveries, their wheels can hold them back, and erratic terrain can mean damage. There is no replacing something like Perseverance, but sometimes rovers could use a leg up, and they could get that from a small swarm of four-legged robots. They look like giant metal insects, but the trio of…
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A promising Internet satellite is rendered useless by power supply issues
Astranis, a company seeking to provide Internet connectivity from geostationary space, said in May that its “Arcturus” satellite was successfully deployed following a launch on a Falcon Heavy rocket. After taking control of the satellite, Astranis then began to send commands and update the flight software before raising Arcturus’ orbit and slotting it into a…