WASHINGTON — Two astronauts are set to begin a series of spacewalks this week to repair an instrument outside the International Space Station that was never designed to be serviced in orbit. At a pair of Nov. 12 press conferences, officials said that NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano are
While scientists nearly universally believe the theory of the Big Bang is true, there remain details … [+] to be worked out. A new paper might help out. Getty Humanity has long been fascinated by the question of how the universe began, with many ideas proposed over the millennia. Over the last century, researchers have developed
WASHINGTON — Megaconstellation startup OneWeb and its largest investor Softbank asked the New York Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit from Intelsat, arguing that Intelsat failed to finalize rights it claimed it had to resell OneWeb satellite capacity. OneWeb and Softbank told the court Nov. 11 that a 90-day negotiation window with Intelsat in late
I am constantly scanning the sky. It’s just what I do. On my commute home from the University of Georgia yesterday, I saw something that always excites me. I quickly grabbed my phone, rolled down the window, and snapped the picture below. It is a Sundog. Sundogs have special meaning to me because I think
In October, we asked SpaceNews readers to vote on the finalists for this year’s SpaceNews Awards for Excellence and Innovation. More than 40,000 votes were cast by the time the poll closed Nov. 1. The Readers’ Choice Award winners named below will be honored at our 3rd annual awards luncheon Dec. 10 in Washington along
The full suite of what’s present today in the Universe owes its origins to the hot Big Bang. More… [+] fundamentally, the Universe we have today can only come about because of the properties of spacetime and the laws of physics. Although the Universe is expanding, the total amount of Universe we can observe is
WASHINGTON — A NASA space telescope recently completed a major review and is making good progress, project officials say, despite uncertainty about its funding. NASA announced Nov. 1 that the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) passed its preliminary design review (PDR), a major milestone in the development of the space-based observatory. That overall PDR came
A LiDAR image of a swamp near Manoa, in Rondônia State, Brazil; one of Pachama’s reforestation … [+] projects in South America. LiDAR images feed into machine learning technology to help estimate carbon sequestration forests Pachama When Argentinian entrepreneur Diego Saez Gil found himself between ventures in 2017, he went to the Madre de Dios
WASHINGTON — SpaceX completed its second launch of 60 Starlink satellites Nov. 11, making its own system the largest commercial telecommunications satellite constellation in orbit. SpaceX launched the satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:56 a.m. Eastern, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The satellites separated just over one hour later into a
The launch took place this morning in Florida. SpaceX SpaceX has launched its first batch of 60 operational satellites in its Starlink mega constellation, as it prepares to blanket Earth in thousands of satellites and beam internet around the globe. Today, Monday, November 11 at 9.56 A.M. Eastern Time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin On May 9, 2016, the prior transit of Mercury occurred, and was photographed many times on a… [+] practically continuous basis by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Transits of Mercury are rare, occurring approximately during only 4% of all inferior conjunctions (when it passes between Earth and
Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of … [+] NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters. NASA/Joel Kowsky If NASA can transcend today’s fractious and uncertain political climate, there’s no reason that
WASHINGTON — The Russian company that markets launch vehicles commercially says it doesn’t expect the new Soyuz-5 medium-lift rocket to be available until the mid-2020s, despite leveraging existing designs and facilities. In an interview during the International Astronautical Congress Oct. 24, Evgeny Solodovnikov, sales director of GK Launch Services, says the Soyuz-5 rocket, whose design
It’s more than passing strange that in an age of so much scientific and medical progress so many people remain in the dark about the science of their own private parts. That this can be a cause of embarrassment is one of the least of the harmful consequences of such ignorance. As Dr. Jen Gunter
DoD wants to increase awareness of the threats the nation faces in space but classification is a problem. RESTON, Va. — The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency said it’s not a matter of if, but when anti-satellite weapons developed by China and Russia take aim at U.S. spacecraft. “These capabilities exist now,” Army Lt.
The 2006 Mercury transit across the Sun observed in great detail with the three telescope … [+] instruments on board the Hinode (Solar-B) satellite. Hinode JAXA/NASA/PPARC On Monday morning at 7:34 a.m. ET the planet Mercury will begin to cross the sun’s disk. This is not going to be the easiest astronomical event of 2019
SAN FRANCISCO – Fiber Optic Manufacturing in Space (FOMS) Inc. presented the results Nov. 7 of its successful campaign to produce optical fiber on the International Space Station. FOMS “successfully completed the calibration of the manufacturing hardware and demonstrated the first optical fiber manufacturing on orbit,” FOMS Principal Investigator Dmitry Starodubov announced at the 6th Workshop
null Getty Our Sun is about five billion years old. It’s a difficult span of time to wrap our heads around, but the Sun is not particularly old for a star. We know of stars well more than twice that age. We also know that the Sun formed from the remnants of older, long-dead stars.
WASHINGTON — A NASA astronaut flying to the International Space Station next spring could be the only American on the station for an extended period because of uncertainty in the status of commercial crew vehicles. NASA announced Oct. 30 that Chris Cassidy will fly to the station next April on a Soyuz spacecraft with Russian
A new calculator developed by a team from The Cleveland Clinic can help calculate the risk of … [+] different cardiovascular outcomes when you opt for bariatric surgery versus non-surgical care under different circumstances. Photographer: Ron Antonelli/Bloomberg © 2014 Bloomberg Finance LP It’s not clear when you can say, “there’s an app for that,” because