Space News
Isotropic Systems gains Boeing as investor, partner on satellite user terminals
Space News - 17 Jan 2019 23:20
In an interview, Isotropic founder and CEO John Finney said Boeing and Isotropic agreed to several "strategic elements" that go beyond the cash investment. SpaceNews.com
Aireon paying back Iridium with help from $200M loan
Space News - 17 Jan 2019 01:52
Aireon said it signed the credit facility Dec. 21, and that it used the new funds to pay satellite operator Iridium $35 million before the end of 2018 for hosting its sensor payloads on the Iridium Next constellation. Sp...
Total lunar eclipse meets supermoon Sunday night
Phys.org - 17 Jan 2019 23:19
Here comes a total lunar eclipse and supermoon, all wrapped into one.
Astronomers Aren't Pleased About a Russian Plan to Put Billboards in Space
Universe Today - 17 Jan 2019 22:00
It was bound to happen. While the rest of us look up at the night sky, and wonder at what we’re seeing, ponder how it all fits together, and strain ourselves trying to understand how our origins are intertwined with al...
The Moment We First Saw Ultima Thule Up Close
Scientific American - 17 Jan 2019 22:00
What it was like to be with the science team as the New Horizons probe reported back from the most distant object ever visited by a spacecraft --
Air Force wants satellite weather data
Space News - 17 Jan 2019 21:23
The U.S. Air Force has obligated about $7 million of its $20 million budget for commercial satellite weather data. SpaceNews.com
NASA's Cassini Data Show Saturn's Rings Relatively New
PTTU - 17 Jan 2019 21:01
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:
Scientists find increase in asteroid impacts on ancient Earth by studying the Moon
Phys.org - 17 Jan 2019 21:00
An international team of scientists is challenging our understanding of a part of Earth's history by looking at the Moon, the most complete and accessible chronicle of the asteroid collisions that carved our solar system...
Saturn hasn't always had rings
Phys.org - 17 Jan 2019 21:00
One of the last acts of NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn's hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gra...
European Space Agency leaders expect a challenging year ahead
Space News - 17 Jan 2019 18:11
Amid difficulties for the European launch industry, and with Brexit looming on the horizon, European Space Agency executives face a challenging year ahead. SpaceNews.com
Relativity to build launch site at Cape Canaveral
Space News - 17 Jan 2019 18:04
Relativity, the startup developing a small launch vehicle using additive manufacturing technologies, announced Jan. 17 it has won approval from the U.S. Air Force to build a launch site at Cape Canaveral. SpaceNews.com
ExoMars software passes ESA Mars Yard driving test
ESA - 17 Jan 2019 15:17
Navigation software destined for the ExoMars 2020 mission to the Red Planet has passed a rover-based driving test at ESA's 'Mars Yard'.
Japan Launches Meteor-Spawning Minisatellite, 6 Other Spacecraft to Orbit
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2019 15:05Watch Ultima Thule Spin Like a Propeller in This Awesome New Horizons Flyby Video
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2019 14:25In Photos: China's Chang'e 4 Moon Rover Toys Celebrate Mission to Lunar Far Side
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2019 14:25Fresh Rainfall on Saturn's Huge Moon Titan Spotted in NASA Photo
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2019 14:21'Star Trek: Discovery' Returns for Season 2 Tonight! Here's Everything You Need to Know
SPACE.com - 17 Jan 2019 14:19White House resubmits NOAA, Ex-Im Bank nominations
Space News - 17 Jan 2019 14:10
The White House has once again nominated Barry Myers to be administrator of NOAA, as well as four people to serve on the board of the Export-Import Bank. SpaceNews.com
CTA Prototype Telescope, the Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope, Inaugurated at Whipple Observatory in Arizona
PTTU - 17 Jan 2019 13:30
Cherenkov Telescope Array: Media: pSCT Photo 1 pSCT Photo 2 SCT Rendering CTA-South Rendering pSCT Live Webcam Credit: Amy Oliver, Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian AMADO,...
What is Space19+?
ESA - 17 Jan 2019 13:20
ESA Web TV talks with DG Jan Wörner to learn more about 'Space19+', ESA's next Ministerial Council, and its benefits for citizens
China's moon cotton experiment ends in freezing lunar night
Phys.org - 17 Jan 2019 13:19
A cotton seedling that sprouted on the moon has been left to die as China's historic lunar lander continues a freezing night-time nap that will last as long as two earth weeks, scientists said.
New paper indicates potential for primitive life on icy Barnard b super-earth planet if geothermal activity exists
Phys.org - 17 Jan 2019 13:10
Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard's Star, making it the second nearest star system to the Earth. Although likely cold (-170 degrees centigrade), it could still have the ...