WASHINGTON — The European Space Agency signed a debris-removal contract with Swiss startup ClearSpace tasking the company with deorbiting a substantial piece of a Vega rocket left in orbit in 2013. The mission, dubbed ClearSpace-1, is slated to launch in 2025 to capture and deorbit a 100-kilogram Vespa payload adapter an Arianespace Vega left in
As meteorologists, there are a “bag of questions” that we always receive from people in our public and professional lives. Some of these questions include: What channel are you on (only 8% or so of meteorologists are on TV)? What is the weather going to be tomorrow? Do you believe in climate change (science isn’t
The contracts are the latest awarded under a project called Defense Experimentation Using the Commercial Space Internet LOS ANGELES — The Air Force announced Dec. 6 it awarded L3Harris and Northrop Grumman $17.9 million and $9.9 million contracts, respectively, to integrate commercial space internet services on military aircraft. The contracts are the latest awarded under
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin With over 2 decades of Hubble observations, including in ultraviolet light, astronomers have newly… [+] revealed some striking features, including streaks (in blue) emerging from the lower-left lobe. These streaks are created when the star’s light rays poke through the dust clumps scattered along the bubble’s
President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said the Starlink brightness problem caught the company by surprise LOS ANGELES — One of the Starlink satellites in the next batch of 60 that SpaceX plans to launch in late December will be treated with a special coating designed to make the spacecraft less reflective and less likely to
Uni roe served atop rice in a simple and delicious dish. Sea urchin roe sushi, known as ‘uni’ is a … [+] delicacy served in sushi restaurants. It is bright orange or yellow-orange in color and has a soft, melt-in-your-mouth texture. Urchinomics Kelp forests are in danger of disappearing with purple sea urchins gobbling up
The Falcon 9 upper stage engine performed a 20.1 second burn after the six-hour coast LOS ANGELES — The upper stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 mission to the International Space Station Dec. 5 successfully performed a six-hour coast and a deorbit burn, a test that had been requested by the U.S. Air Force to
Spooky Action’s TeleLift “flying cell phone tower” drone flying on its tether during testing in … [+] Minnesota, USA. Spooky Action What did you do on your last long, boring summer? Minnesota-based engineer and entrepreneur Rahul Tiwari got bored – and two years later has a company called Spooky Action with the goal of providing
(Reuters) – Bristol-Myers Squibb Co on Saturday said that an experimental cancer therapy it acquired as part of its $74 billion deal for Celgene Corp produced positive results in a clinical trial. FILE PHOTO: Logo of global biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb is pictured on the blouse of an employee in Le Passage, near Agen, France
Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett: “It is time for us to move forward with the Space Force.” LOS ANGELES — A bipartisan deal struck between congressional leaders and the White House would allow the Defense Department to establish a U.S. Space Force as a separate military branch. The compromise language in the National Defense Authorization
Sunlight streaming through a forest of giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, off Catalina Island, … [+] California, USA. (Photo by: David Fleetham/VW PICS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Universal Images Group via Getty Images Scuba divers along the California coast have been watching the kelp forests steadily disappear for years, and everyone is pointing fingers at
(Reuters) – Nearly half of lymphoma patients treated with Gilead Sciences Inc’s Yescarta were alive at least three years after a one-time infusion of the CAR-T cell therapy, according to data presented on Saturday. FILE PHOTO: A Gilead Sciences, Inc. logo is seen outside the company headquarters in Foster City, California, U.S. May 1, 2018.
Ron Lopez, president of Astroscale U.S.: ‘The Air Force is talking about safety, congestion and how that affects resilience’ LOS ANGELES — Astroscale, a Japanese company that recently stood up an American subsidiary, sees the U.S. military as a potential customer for the company’s debris removal and other in-orbit services. Astroscale is preparing to demonstrate
NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch harvest a crop of Mizuna mustard greens grown for … [+] the Veg-04B investigation, part of a phased research project to address the need for fresh food production in space. Credit: NASA If you’re an astronaut living on the International Space Station, you get regular shipments of freeze-dried
WASHINGTON — SpaceX will conduct an in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon spacecraft in early January as the launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on an uncrewed test flight slips another day, NASA announced Dec. 6. In one statement, NASA said the in-flight abort test for Crew Dragon is currently scheduled for no earlier than
Takahashi’s daughter reported that he was re-reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time on … [+] the evening of his death. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Geochemist Taro Takahashi, who helped discover the ocean’s vital role as a carbon sink, died on December 3, 2019 at the age of 89. Takahashi was born in Japan in
WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab successfully launched several smallsats Dec. 6 on an Electron mission also designed to test technologies to make the rocket’s first stage reusable. The Electron lifted off from the company’s launch site on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula at 3:18 a.m. Eastern after more than a week of delays caused by ground equipment
There is a large suite of scientific evidence that supports the picture of the expanding Universe… [+] and the Big Bang. But in a Universe with dark energy, objects lying at the greatest cosmic distances will actually appear larger than the same-sized objects that are closer. Here’s the counterintuitive science behind it. NASA / GSFC
The U.S. Air Force just held its inaugural “Space Pitch Day” in which small businesses were given a chance to win contracts on the spot. No red tape. Officials said this will become an annual thing. Live pitch events are one of several avenues the Air Force is pursuing to attract U.S.-owned startups and commercial
Antimatter sounds like science fiction, but it’s definitely science fact. But scientists are … [+] puzzled why we see none of it in the cosmos. Getty The answer to that question is an interesting one, which depends on how one understands the statistical analysis of complex experiments. The experimental result could be the early signs of
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