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California startup Varda has celebrated the deployment of its first satellite, a test run of a fascinating space-based pharmaceuticals factory that moonlights as a hypersonic test rig during its Mach 25 re-entry to keep costs down.Continue ReadingCateg… Continue reading World’s first space factory, now in orbit, is also a hypersonic test bed
Much of the reporting around climate change focuses on carbon dioxide. It’s public enemy number one when it comes to gases that warm the atmosphere, as a primary byproduct of …read more Continue reading Methane-Tracking Satellites Hunt For Nasty Greenhouse Gas Emissions
South Korea’s KARI ( Korea Aerospace Research Institute ) successfully put a commercial satellite into orbit Thursday, achieving another milestone in their domestic space program. The Nuri rocket (aka KLSV-2) …read more Continue reading South Korea Successfully Sends Satellites to Orbit
As its Aeolus wind monitoring mission comes to an end, ESA is testing new procedures for deorbiting the decommissioned 1360-kg (3,000 lb) spacecraft to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere, advancing international space safety standards.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading ESA uses defunct satellite to practice safer reentry procedures
After ESA’s Jupiter-bound space probe Juice (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer) launched on April 14th of this year, it initially looked as if it had squeezed out a refreshingly uneventful deployment, …read more Continue reading ESA Juice’s RIME Antenna Breaks Free After Some Jiggling and Percussive Action
Two hurricane-monitoring NASA CubeSats have launched into space atop a Rocket Lab Electron booster from the Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 1:00 pm NZST, on May 8, (9:00 pm EDT, on May 7).Continue ReadingCategory: Space,… Continue reading NASA’s TROPICS hurricane satellites reach orbit on second launch
Meteor showers are among the most beautiful astronomical phenomena we can experience, but they can be fickle. Now a Japanese company is planning to put on artificial shooting star shows on demand with the Sky Canvas project. And there might be some sci… Continue reading Sky Canvas satellites shoot for on demand “artificial meteor showers”
If you look up at the night sky in a dark enough place, with enough patience you’re almost sure to see a satellite cross the sky. It’s pretty cool to …read more Continue reading See Satellites in Broad Daylight with This Sky-Mapping Dish Antenna
Quantum cybersecurity firm QuSecure has collaborated with Accenture to develop a multi-orbit quantum-resilient satellite communications capability.
The post QuSecure and Accenture Test Multi-Orbit Communications Link Using Post-Quantum Cryptography ap… Continue reading QuSecure and Accenture Test Multi-Orbit Communications Link Using Post-Quantum Cryptography
When sending satellites into space, the idea is to place them into as stable an orbit as possible in order to maximize both the time the satellite is useful and …read more Continue reading One Method For Removing Future Space Junk