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Designing a drone that can search for life on other planets

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 28, 2023

More than 600 miles north of the Arctic Circle is a small island called Devon, home to the Haughton impact crater. Haughton is a cold, dry and windy Arctic desert that is nearly always light in the summer and always dark in the winter. Its average temperature over the year is 1 degree Fahrenheit (minus 17 degrees Celsius).

Surprising newfound ocean bacteria could aid search for alien life

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 27, 2023

In the deep waters of Earth’s oceans, scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria flourishing in the plumes from submarine hot springs. 

The early universe was crammed with stars 10,000 times the size of our sun, new study suggests

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 25, 2023

The first stars in the cosmos may have topped out at over 10,000 times the mass of the sun, roughly 1,000 times bigger than the biggest stars alive today, a new study has found. 

Space industry deals with launch shortage

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 24, 2023

WASHINGTON — Even as the space industry complains of a shortage of launch capacity, SpaceX said it has room to increase an already surging pace of launches.

NASA weighing continuing VERITAS versus future Discovery mission

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 23, 2023

WASHINGTON — Budget pressures in NASA’s planetary science program could force the agency to choose between continuing a mission to Venus that has already been delayed or requesting proposals for a future mission.

SpaceX launches final two satellites in SES C-band clearing plan

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 22, 2023

TAMPA, Fla. — SpaceX launched the last two satellites March 17 that SES needs to claim C-band spectrum clearing proceeds worth nearly $4 billion in total.

Mars Sample Return cost growth threatens other science missions

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 21, 2023

NASA, in its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal, requested $949.3 million for Mars Sample Return (MSR), the program that will send missions to Mars to take samples collected by the Perseverance rover and return them to Earth. MSR is a joint effort with the European Space Agency, with NASA leading work on a lander and ESA an orbiter.

Planetary defense: Protecting Earth from space-based threats

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 20, 2023

Earth’s gravity attracts more than a hundred tons (more than 90 metric tons) of small objects and dust from space daily, according to NASA. Most of this material burns up in the atmosphere without any effect on the planet; larger chunks may produce a bright streak of light that’s visible in the night sky or a small meteorite for a rock hunter to find.

How often does the International Space Station have to dodge space debris?

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 19, 2023

The International Space Station (ISS) has been in orbit since 1998 and space debris has forced evasive maneuvers dozens of times. According to a December 2022 NASA report (opens in new tab), the ISS has course-corrected itself 32 times to avoid satellites and trackable space debris since 1999.

Radio telescope on moon’s far side will peer into universe’s ‘Dark Ages’

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 18, 2023

The moon instrument, called the Lunar Surface Electromagnetics Experiment-Night (LuSEE-Night), is a pathfinder being developed by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories, the Space Science Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, and NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Momentus preparing for Vigoride thruster test as it ships next vehicle

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 16, 2023

In a March 7 earnings call, John Rood, chief executive of Momentus, said the company’s Vigoride-5 tug, launched in January, was in good condition as it went through a “deliberate commissioning process” in orbit. The tug carries a single smallsat for Singapore-based Qosmosys as well as a hosted payload from Caltech to test technologies for space-based solar power.

Crew-5 mission ends with Florida splashdown

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 15, 2023

WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft splashed down off the Florida coast March 11, returning four people from the International Space Station after more than five months in space.

NASA planning to spend up to $1 billion on space station deorbit module

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 14, 2023

NASA released additional details March 13 about its fiscal year 2024 budget proposal. An outline of the proposal, published by the White House March 9, requested $27.2 billion for the agency, a 7.1% increase from 2023 that roughly keeps pace with inflation.

How many satellites can we safely fit in Earth orbit?

news-hubBy newseditor2021March 12, 2023

Just 10 years ago, a mere thousand or so operational satellites may have orbited our planet, but there will be tens or even hundreds of thousands a decade  from now. 

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