Sheffield, UK, 16th May 2024: Phlux Technology, a manufacturer of avalanche photodiode (APD) infrared sensors, Airbus Defence and Space, and The University of Sheffield have embarked on a 500,000 Euro project to build more efficient free space optical communications (FSOC) satellite terminals. Funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), the projects medium-term goal is to achieve reliable 2.5 Gbps communications … Read More → "European Space Agency funds Phlux Technology, Airbus Defence and...
Col. Rich Kniseley, who heads up the Space Force’s Commercial Space Office, said right now he is “targeting mainly space domain awareness” for the first CASR contracts.
(CNN) — India is one of the world’s top spacefaring nations. It is the first Asian country to reach Mars orbit, and the fourth on the planet to take a
NEW DELHI: Space X on Wednesday launched 23 internet satellites into space from Kennedy Space Center, marking its 47th orbital mission. The Falcon 9‘s first stage returned to Earth around
World No Tobacco Day will be celebrated on May 31 and Mijas Town Hall is helping to remind people of the serious health problems caused by the consumption of tobacco and tobacco products. In collaboration with the Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC), Mijas will join the network of towns and cities with smoke-free spaces. These […]
It’s a matter of moving beyond that image of gardens with tidy, tilled rows into growing spaces that work for today’s reality.
Astronomers have recently captured in space a rare and difficult to observe cosmic phenomenon: what appears in a new telescope image as a ghostly hand reaching across the universe towards a defenseless galaxy, CNN reports. The Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the “Víctor M. Blanco” telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, has […]
The Gum Nebula is an emission nebula almost 1400 light-years away. It's home to an object known as "God's Hand" among the faithful. The rest of us call it CG 4.
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch Space. For those who haven’t heard, the first crewed launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule has been pushed back yet again to no earlier than May 25. From NASA: “The additional time allows teams to further assess a small helium leak in the Boeing Starliner spacecraft’s service module traced to […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Ryugu's parent body appears to have had a fair amount of water present, too.
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JEFFERSON County, OHIO (WTRF) -- One local park is home to one of the most unique trees in the world. When Apollo 14 took off in 1971, the command module pilot, Stuart Roosa, took a small canister with five different species of tree seeds in it for a trip around the moon. The experiment []