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- Week in images: 17-21 June 2024 ESA · 21 Jun 2024 Week in images: 17-21 June 2024
- Earth from Space: Adam’s Bridge ESA · 21 Jun 2024 This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image shows Adam’s Bridge, a chain of shoals linking India and Sri Lanka.
- Italy’s Council of Ministers Approve Framework Law on Space European Spaceflight · 21 Jun 2024 Italy’s Council of Ministers, led by Minister of Business and “Made in Italy” Adolfo Urso, has approved the country’s first comprehensive framework law on space and the space economy. According to a 20 June Ministry of B...
- Ariane 6 launches: splashdown for Nyx Bikini ESA · 21 Jun 2024 Nyx Bikini artist impression
- Tabletop Exercise Illuminates Gaps in Responding to Theoretical Asteroid Threats SpacePolicyOnline.com · 21 Jun 2024 NASA and other U.S. and international agencies participated in a tabletop exercise in April to work through how they might effectively respond to a potential asteroid threat. This fifth planetary
- SpaceX launches latest SES broadcast satellite SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 SpaceX successfully launched Astra 1P for Luxembourg fleet operator SES June 20 toward geostationary orbit, where it is eventually due to replace four older broadcast satellites over Europe.
- Honeywell sees space opportunity with $1.9 billion CAES acquisition SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 U.S. manufacturing giant Honeywell plans to buy defense electronics maker CAES for $1.9 billion to enhance its military hardware for space and other domains.
- 55 Years Ago: One Month Until the Moon Landing NASA · 20 Jun 2024 With the dress rehearsal completed during Apollo 10 in May 1969, only a few weeks remained until Apollo 11, the actual Moon landing mission to meet President Kennedy’s goal set in 1961. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil A. Armst...
- Marshall Research Scientist Enables Large-Scale Open Science NASA · 20 Jun 2024 By Jessica Barnett Most people use tools at work, whether it’s a hammer, a pencil, or a computer. Very few seek a doctorate degree in creating new tools for the job. Using that degree to make it easier for people around...
- NASA Releases Updated Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Plan NASA · 20 Jun 2024 NASA joined more than 20 federal agencies in releasing its updated Climate Adaptation Plan Thursday, helping expand the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts to make federal operations increasingly resilient to the impac...
- NASA, Partners Conduct Fifth Asteroid Impact Exercise, Release Summary NASA · 20 Jun 2024 For the benefit of all, NASA released a summary Thursday of the fifth biennial Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise. NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, in partnership with FEMA (Federal Emergency Ma...
- House Intelligence chair blasts White House over Russia’s space nuke threat SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 Rep. Mike Turner warns of a 'Cuban missile crisis in space'
- NASA’s Hubble Celebrates 21st Anniversary with “Rose” of Galaxies NASA · 20 Jun 2024 To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble’s eye at an especially photogenic pair of in...
- SpaceX unveils backpack-sized ‘Starlink Mini’ satellite internet antenna for $599 CNBC · 20 Jun 2024 SpaceX is rolling out a compact version of its Starlink antennas called “Mini,” which the company is advertising as a mobile option for its satellite internet customers.
- NASA Invites Media to ‘NASA in the Park’ June 22 NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Media are invited to attend a celebration of space and the Rocket City during NASA in the Park on Saturday, June 22, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT at Big Spring Park East in Huntsville, Alabama. NASA and partners will pack the p...
- Augmented Reality Speeds Spacecraft Construction at NASA Goddard NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Technicians armed with advanced measuring equipment, augmented reality headsets, and QR codes virtually checked the fit of some Roman Space Telescope structures before building or moving them through facilities at NASA’s...
- Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists. Atmospheric scientists get a little more excited with every rock core NASA’s Perseve...
- Why Scientists Are Intrigued by Air in NASA’s Mars Sample Tubes Jet Propulsion Laboratory · 20 Jun 2024 Tucked away with each rock and soil sample collected by the agency’s Perseverance rover is a potential boon for atmospheric scientists.
- NASA CubeSats Loaded for Launch NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Eight CubeSats that are part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative have been integrated into Firefly Aerospace’s deployment hardware and are ready to be encapsulated into the payload fairing of Firefly’s Alpha rocket. The...
- Giant Batteries Deliver Renewable Energy When It’s Needed NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Solar power is abundant – when the Sun is shining. Wind power is steady – when the wind is blowing. However, creating a steady electricity supply from intermittent power sources is a challenge. NASA was focused on this p...
- Rocket Lab successfully launches its 50th Electron rocket Spaceflight Now · 20 Jun 2024 Rocket Lab's Electron rocket made history by reaching its 50th launch faster than any other commercially developed orbital launch vehicle. Liftoff from New Zealand took place at 6:13 a.m. NZST on Friday, June 21 (2:13 p....
- Ursa Space partners with Japan’s NEC to deliver SAR data insights SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 Ursa Space Systems, based in Ithaca, New York, operates a platform that ingests data from a vast network of satellite data partners
- Summer solstice 2024 ESA · 20 Jun 2024 Summer officially begins in the Northern Hemisphere today 20 June, marking the longest day of the year. The summer solstice, which is when the Sun reaches the most northerly point in the sky, is set to occur tonight at 2...
- Webb snaps first image of aligned jets from newborn stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to image directly has been captured by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam). In this stunning image of the Serpens Nebul...
- A Bright New Abrasion NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Last week, Perseverance arrived at the long-awaited site of Bright Angel, named for being a light-toned rock that stands out in orbital data.
- NASA Engineer Honored as Girl Scouts ‘Woman of Distinction’ NASA · 20 Jun 2024 You’d think a NASA aerospace engineer who spends her days inside a giant dome researching how to make plane engines quieter and spacecraft systems more efficient would have a pretty booked schedule. Still, advocacy and m...
- NASA’s Chandra Peers Into Densest and Weirdest Stars NASA · 20 Jun 2024 The supernova remnant 3C 58 contains a spinning neutron star, known as PSR J0205+6449, at its center. Astronomers studied this neutron star and others like it to probe the nature of matter inside these very dense objects...
- Next Generation NASA Technologies Tested in Flight NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Teams of NASA researchers put their next-generation technologies to the microgravity test in a series of parabolic flights that aim to advance innovations supporting the agency’s space exploration goals.
- Studying the Sun NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Science in Space: June 2024 The Sun wields a huge influence on Earth. Its gravity holds our planet in its orbit, and solar energy drives the seasons, ocean currents, weather, climate, radiation belts, and auroras on Eart...
- Starlab Space adds Palantir as strategic partner on commercial space station effort SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 Commercial space station developer Starlab Space has added Palantir Technologies as a strategic partner, seeking to use its artificial intelligence capabilities to support station operations.
- Michelle Parker, Boeing Space Mission Systems – Leading Women in Space SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 In this, the first episode of the SpaceNews Leading Women in Space series, correspondent Debra Werner speaks with Candace Givens, Sector VP Mission Assurance, Northrop Grumman.
- Stephanie Duchesne: Leading with Integrity and Openness for CLDP NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Of all the lessons learned throughout her NASA career, the importance of relationship and personal integrity is one that has been repeatedly reinforced for Stephanie Duchesne, a Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Pro...
- First of Its Kind Detection Made in Striking New Webb Image NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Alignment of bipolar jets confirms star formation theories For the first time, a phenomenon astronomers have long hoped to directly image has been captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIR...
- Hypersonic vehicles for Europe’s fast future into space ESA · 20 Jun 2024 When hypersonic aeronautics and space exploration meet, European engineers dream of a future fast-track return-ticket to space.
- ESA Asked to Mediate Avio’s Split from Arianespace European Spaceflight · 20 Jun 2024 The European Space Agency has been asked to mediate the ongoing negotiations to transfer the operational responsibility of Vega C from Arianespace to its manufacturer, Avio. In November 2023, at the Space Summit in Sevil...
- NASA Preserves Its Past at Kennedy While Building Future of Space NASA · 20 Jun 2024 Current and former employees of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida gathered recently to celebrate the installation of a Florida Historical Marker cast in bronze at the location of the spaceport’s old headquarters bui...
- Isar Aerospace Extends Series C Funding Round to €220M European Spaceflight · 20 Jun 2024 German rocket builder Isar Aerospace has announced that it has extended its Series C funding round by more than €65 million, bringing its total funding to over €400 million. Isar was founded in 2018 and is developing its...
- Isar Aerospace raises $70 million SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 European small launch vehicle developer Isar Aerospace has raised more than 65 million euros ($70 million) in an extension of an earlier round that includes participation from a new NATO-backed fund.
- Too young to be so cool: lessons from three neutron stars ESA · 20 Jun 2024 ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra spacecraft have detected three young neutron stars that are unusually cold for their age. By comparing their properties to different neutron star models, scientists conclude that the o...
- ExoTerra raises $8 million to boost propulsion system production SpaceNews · 20 Jun 2024 ExoTerra Resources raised $8 million to expand production of microsatellite propulsion systems.