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Space Daily
April 23, 2018
On Wednesday, EarthNow - a startup that hopes to provide satellite imagery and live video in real time using a constellation of satellites orbiting the Earth - announced its decision to become a commercial business. Investors include AirBus, the SoftBank Group, Bill Gates and Greg Wyler. Although the initialÃâà...
Big Island Now
April 23, 2018
On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), its newest telescope to search for planets beyond the Solar System, and astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy and Maunakea telescopes will be a part of the adventure.
Business Insider Nordic
April 23, 2018
By 2020, ICEYE hopes to have a constellation of 18 satellites scan the entire surface of earth, in order to provide real-time imagery and data on what's happening on the ... Today, for Earth Day, Business Insider Nordic has accessed some of the first images from around the world to come out of ICEYE's first satellite, the X1.
Sky News
April 23, 2018
Scotland's first satellite, built by Clyde Space, was launched just four years ago. Since then Alba Orbital and Spire Global have joined the space race, between them putting around 100 satellites in orbit. Spire makes one satellite a week in its dust-free 'clean room' in a city-centre business centre, but it hasÃâà...
Defense One
April 22, 2018
More diversely positioning assets in space could change the calculus of a potential attack because “if taking out a satellite isn't easy for them because it's distributed, or because there are backups that are operated on satellites that belong to other countries,” Wilson said. “So if you pick a fight with me, youÃâà...
Space.com
April 22, 2018
The federally operated Proton launch, handled by the rocket's manufacturer Khrunichev, carried the second of four Blagovest satellites designed for internet, television and radio services. Russia's ministry of defense said April 19 that the satellite is being controlled from the country's Titov Main Test andÃâà...
Aviation Week
April 21, 2018
COLORADO SPRINGS—The U.S. Air Force's plan to trim the timeline for the next generation of missile warning Space-based Infrared System (Sbirs) satellites may open up a huge opportunity for industry that has been more than two years in the .
KTUU.com
April 21, 2018
He says "The JPSS satellite has several sensors on it that can distinguish ice and water and mixtures of the two. And that can tell forecasters a lot about what's going on on the surface of the river-how much open water, how much ice and hydrologists can look at that and determine where essential floodingÃâà...
Philly.com
April 21, 2018
Clarke introduced the dish-ban bill to regulate the placement of unsightly satellite dishes around the city, but immediately faced opposition from satellite companies and landlords. His bill forbade property owners from placing satellites on a building's street-front side and required the removal of satellites notÃâà...
CU Boulder Today
April 21, 2018
At 6:51 p.m. on April 18, a rocket carrying NASA's latest space satellite, called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. CU Boulder Assistant Professor Zach Berta-Thompson was on the ground for the launch. He called theÃâà...
Mashable
April 21, 2018
These detailed views of our fragile home planet contrast sharply with the state of satellite technology on the first Earth Day, in 1970. NOAA also released an animation of grainy, black and white images showing weather conditions then, back when weather satellites were just beginning to be of use toÃâà...
SpaceNews
April 20, 2018
To be located at 110 degrees east, the satellite has an estimated mass of 3,520 kilograms and is designed for a minimum 15-year service life. BSAT operates a fleet of three satellites, and has launched its entire fleet with European launch provider Arianespace. The BSAT-4b satellite will be Arianespace'sÃâà...
Spaceflight Now
April 20, 2018
The Russian Defense Ministry officially named the satellite Kosmos 2526, the next number in the Russian government's naming scheme for military spacecraft. But the Blagovest program reportedly also has a civilian mission, and some details about the satellites have been revealed by the Russian military,Ãâà...
Space.com
April 19, 2018
The agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched today (April 18) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, rising off the pad atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:51 p.m. EDT (2251 GMT) and deploying into Earth orbit 49 minutes later. TESS will hunt for alien worlds around starsÃâà...
TechCrunch
April 19, 2018
As you can probably imagine, launching satellites is a complicated business. To get into the game, companies must often go to the biggest players, like NASA. It puts the opportunity for small companies to participate in the benefits of satellite usage completely out of reach. Until recently. Mini orÃâà...
Space.com
April 19, 2018
The British Earth-imaging company Earth-i has released its first full-color video of Earth from space taken by its commercial satellite VividX2, which ... the same location multiple times per day with agile satellites that can be pointed to image specific areas of interest and acquire high-frame-rate imagery.
Phys.Org
April 4, 2018
This junk takes the form of defunct satellites, uncontrolled spacecraft, the upper stages of spent rockets, and various discarded items (like payload covers). Over time, this debris is slowed down by Earth's upper atmosphere and then succumbs to Earth's gravitational pull. Where larger objects are concerned,Ãâà...
BGR
April 4, 2018
Countless satellites are orbiting the Earth at this very moment. Some of them are working fine, some are long dead, and others are somewhere in between. India's GSAT 6A falls into that last category, which is incredibly unfortunate when you consider that it was only just launched a week ago. The IndianÃâà...
Phys.Org
April 4, 2018
The cost of sending a satellite into space can be up to $60,000 a kilogram. Leo Aerospace is confident it can lower that cost to launch microsatellites, which can weigh 1 to 50 kilograms. The rockoon, a hybrid of a rocket and high-altitude balloon, is less expensive to deploy than a traditional rocket sinceÃâà...
Sky News
April 4, 2018
The satellite, called RemoveDEBRIS, will be deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) and carries a net to capture space litter and a harpoon that is able to spear and haul in bigger objects. On Monday, a Space X 9 rocket carrying the box-like craft took off from the Kennedy Space Centre at CapeÃâà...
Spaceflight Now
April 3, 2018
China has launched its 10th space mission of the year, deploying three civilian-operated Earth observation satellites with cameras to help monitor natural disasters, survey natural resources and assist in infrastructure planning. The Earth-imaging satellites lifted off on top of a Long March 4C rocket at 0322Ãâà...
Space.com
April 3, 2018
GSAT-6A initially launched as planned on a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle rocket Thursday (March 29) from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, near the Bay of Bengal on India's southeast coast. At first, the satellite behaved normally, but then ISRO lost contact with GSAT-6A at anÃâà...
The Conversation US
April 3, 2018
Scientists and policymakers need satellite data to understand and address climate change. Yet data from more than half of unclassified Earth-observing satellites is restricted in some way, rather than shared openly. When governments restrict who can access data, or limit how people can use or redistributeÃâà...
BBC News
April 2, 2018
... in the multi-billion dollar space market. In 2014 it successfully placed a space vessel in orbit around Mars, making it the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt. It also launched 104 satellites of varying sizes in one go in February, overtaking the previous record of 37 satellites launched by RussiaÃâà...
The Japan Times
April 1, 2018
A team of Japanese research institutes wants to hunt down the stem cells of human cancers by employing an ultra-precise observation sensor technology used in the Hitomi astronomy satellite. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the University of Tokyo's Kavli Institute for the Physics andÃâà...
Waco Tribune-Herald
April 1, 2018
SpaceX has received official permission from the U.S. government to launch a fleet of satellites designed to beam high-speed Internet signals down to Earth ... Under Musk's plan, SpaceX's satellite fleet would orbit much closer to Earth than traditional communications satellites that stay in geostationary orbitÃâà...
CBS Los Angeles
April 1, 2018
(CBS News/AP) — Tiangong 1, China's defunct and reportedly out-of-control space station, is about to re-enter Earth's atmosphere and on Saturday the European Space Agencyreleased new tracking information on the falling spacecraft. ESA officials are now targeting 7:25 p.m. EDT (2325 GMT) Sunday asÃâà...
WRAL.com
April 1, 2018
This prediction comes from Aerospace Corporation, a consultant to each of the federal agencies with satellites on orbit including the United States Military, NASA, NOAA and the National Reconnaissance Office. Because we know when it might enter, we also know where it might enter. As station losesÃâà...
Economic Times
April 1, 2018
In a setback for its space programme, India on Sunday said it lost contact with its communication satellite GSAT-6A, which was launched on board the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) on March 29. "After the successful long-duration firings, the communication from the satellite was lostÃâà...
Business Standard
April 1, 2018
Efforts are underway to establish the link with the satellite. GSAT-6A, similar to GSAT-6 is a high power S-band communication satellite configured around I-2K bus. This is the second mission failure for Isro in six months, with the previous one being the PSLV-C39. The mission life of spacecraft was plannedÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
April 1, 2018
... 104 satellites into orbit from a single rocket, surpassing Russia which launched 39 satellites in one mission in June 2014. But the Indian space programme has also been blighted by failures, most recently in August last year when a mission to launch a backup navigation satellite suffered a major technicalÃâà...
CBS News
April 1, 2018
Debris from satellites, space launches and the International Space Station enters the atmosphere every few months, but only one person is known to have been hit by any of it: American woman Lottie Williams, who was struck but not injured by a falling piece of a U.S. Delta II rocket while exercising in anÃâà...
Live Science
March 31, 2018
Earlier today (March 30), at 10:13 a.m. EDT (1413 GMT), SpaceX lofted the fifth set of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The launch was successful, according to Iridium. "All 10 new satellites have successfully communicated with the Iridium Satellite Network OperationÃâà...
The Register
March 27, 2018
From the department of "you only just realised this?" come reports that the UK government has been somewhat taken aback that the EU plans to exclude Britain from the Galileo satellite programme due to Brexit. Galileo is a European satellite constellation which, when complete in 2020, will be anÃâà...
SpaceFlight Insider
March 27, 2018
The planet hunting satellite was launched in March 2009 atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. The planned mission duration was 3.5 years but the spacecraft has exceeded all expectations and continues to function. Kepler uses three reactionÃâà...
TechTarget
March 27, 2018
The Iridium Next satellites have helped the company embrace the IoT explosion, changing its business model objective from cell phone connectivity to satellite IoT.
Via Satellite
March 27, 2018
The first two of four satellites are already in-orbit for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) R mission, launched by United Launch Alliance's (ULA) Atlas 5 in November 2016 and March 2018. The bill funds the full amount requested ($518.5 million) for the remaining two satellites,Ãâà...
Pacific Standard
March 27, 2018
Meanwhile, others have raised concerns around privacy, as well as the potential for cluttering space with too many satellites. "To be sure, the trend, and it's not just from Planet but from other satellite-based imaging companies, is moving toward imaging the whole Earth's surface every day," says LauraÃâà...
CNBC
March 27, 2018
Boeing HorizonX Ventures invests outside the U.S. for the first time, contributing to the most recent funding round of Australian start-up Myriota. Myriota is developing small low-cost, low-power transmitters that connect directly to satellites in orbit. The start-up brought in $15 million as it develops itsÃâà...
Space.com
March 27, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO – The European Space Agency is no longer proceeding full speed ahead with its campaign to send a 1,600-kilogram satellite into low Earth orbit to grab its defunct Earth observing Envisat and bring it back into the atmosphere around 2023. Instead, the agency has revised its e.DeorbitÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
March 26, 2018
A Chinese space station that Beijing reportedly lost control of is expected to hit the Earth on or around April 1. Tiangong-1, a satellite the size of a school bus that China launched in 2011, is not expected to survive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere but scientists have warned debris could hit a couple ofÃâà...
swissinfo.ch
March 25, 2018
As well as maps, the researchers believe their breakthrough could be used for a variety of other foldable objects, ranging from tents to solar wings of space probes and satellites that need to unfurl to draw in solar energy. The findings of the research project have been published in the Scienceexternal linkÃâà...
ABC Online
March 25, 2018
The technology is called a Satellite Based Augmentation System. It uses data from existing global satellites, along with infrastructure on the ground, to improve its accuracy. "We're taking data from that network in real time, computing some corrections which we're then broadcasting via a communicationsÃâà...
Anchorage Daily News
March 25, 2018
A crowd of "geosynchronous" satellites are parked above the equator 22,240 miles above us, in the perfect place to stay in sync with Earth's 24-hour rotation. Satellites used to monitor space weather orbit 186,000 miles above our heads. Earth's natural satellite, the moon, is about 240,000 miles away.
Newsweek
March 24, 2018
That's because humans are so scattered across Earth's surface that there's plenty of room for a satellite to crash with no ill effects. But the only reason there's any chance of parts of Tiangong-1 reaching the surface is because of its large size. Hundreds of satellites fall out of orbit each year and areÃâà...
Defense Systems
March 24, 2018
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is seeking information on new technologies it can use to manage the sharing of missions across large constellations of inexpensive low-earth orbit satellites for the Defense Department. The distributed approach to networked satellites would provide "bothÃâà...
Gizmodo
March 24, 2018
My apologies to anyone who doesn't happen to live in the Northeastern United States. I don't want you to feel bad for us. But I do want you to recognize the fact that we've been walloped with four enormous snowstorms in three weeks. Adding insult to injury, the most recent one occurred the day after springÃâà...
Space.com
March 24, 2018
For the first time, the European Space Agency (ESA) has tested a novel air-breathing electric thruster that could allow near-Earth orbiting satellites to stay in space almost ... Instead of carrying its own propellant, a satellite using ESA's new system would skim air molecules from the top of Earth's atmosphere.
Salon
March 24, 2018
Other early satellites — such as Sputnik 1, the first satellite to leave Earth in 1957, and Explorer 1, the first US satellite — have long since re-entered the atmosphere and ... By the early 1950s, the second world war's rocket technology had developed to the point where the first satellite launch was imminent.
38 North
March 23, 2018
A 38 North exclusive with analysis by Joseph S. Bermudez Jr.; panorama by Nathan J. Hunt. In May 2015, during field guidance visit from Kim Jong Un, North Korea unveiled a new General Satellite Control Building[1] in Pyongyang, replacing the old General Satellite Control and Command Centre andÃâà...
