Space News
Charged Power Suits For Electric Vehicles And Spacecraft
SpaceRef - 8 Mar 2022 06:06
Like the charged power suit worn by Black Panther of Marvel Comics, UCF researchers have advanced NASA technologies to develop a power suit for an electric car that is as strong as steel, lighter than aluminum and helps ...
NASA Seeks Ideas for Handling Waste on Future Human Missions to Mars
SpaceRef - 8 Mar 2022 06:03
With a horizon goal to send humans to Mars, NASA continues to develop technologies needed to send humans farther into the solar system than ever before....
Russia's Ukraine invasion and space impacts: Live updates
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 05:09
The Russia-Ukraine war has already stretched into space, with satellites providing internet and intel and longstanding international relations in outer space shifting rapidly.
NASA gearing up for rollout of Artemis 1 mission next week
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 01:16
Platforms are retracting around the huge SLS rocket at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
There's a Big Rock Stuck Inside one of Perseverance's Wheels
Universe Today - 8 Mar 2022 23:57
It looks like the Perseverance rover has an unwanted passenger, a rock stuck inside one of its wheels. The image of the stone was selected as the “Image of the Week” for Week 54 (Feb. 20 – 26, 2022) for the Perseve...
U.S. general: Starlink in Ukraine showing what megaconstellations can do
Space News - 8 Mar 2022 23:36
U.S. Space Command has been impressed by SpaceX's ability to provide internet access in war-torn parts of Ukraine, the head of the command told lawmakers March 8. The post U.S. general: Starlink in Ukraine showing what m...
Ukrainian flag will launch on SpaceX rocket with Polaris Dawn crew this year
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 23:09
The all-private Polaris Dawn crewed mission joined other space entities worldwide in supporting Ukraine.
Germany's Space Agency Cancels all its Projects With Russia. They Even Turned off an Instrument on a Russian Space Telescope
Universe Today - 8 Mar 2022 22:32
Germany is flexing its muscles. The German government recently announced a massive increase in military spending to counter Russian military action in Europe. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) has cancelled its bilateral...
Meet the project manager working to develop the rocket that will bring Mars samples to Earth
Phys.org - 8 Mar 2022 21:49
Right now, some 182 million miles (293 million kilometers) separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But groundbreaking flight hardware developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsvill...
NASA Space Station Update 8 March, 2022 - Eye Research
SpaceRef - 8 Mar 2022 21:12
A full day of eye research and treadmill maintenance kept the Expedition 66 crew members busy on Tuesday....
NASA's NICER telescope sees hot spots merge on a magnetar
Phys.org - 8 Mar 2022 20:41
For the first time, NASA's Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has observed the merging of multimillion-degree X-ray spots on the surface of a magnetar, a supermagnetized stellar core no larger than a city...
Nuclear fusion is one step closer with new AI breakthrough
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 20:29
The green energy revolution promised by nuclear fusion is now a step closer, thanks to the first successful use of a cutting-edge artificial intelligence system to shape the superheated hydrogen plasmas inside a fusion r...
First photos from the Moon under the hammer in Denmark
Phys.org - 8 Mar 2022 19:57
The first NASA photographs taken on the Moon, including the first shot of an "Earthrise" and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, will be auctioned off in Copenhagen on Wednesday.
Save a massive £300 on the HTC Vive Cosmos Elite
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 19:24
Now's a great time to bag a huge saving on an elite-level VR headset.
Astronomers inspect interstellar medium of the galaxy SPT0346-52
Phys.org - 8 Mar 2022 19:20
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of astronomers observed an interstellar medium in a distant star-forming galaxy SPT0346-52. The collected data could be essential in im...
Data from Mars rover Zhurong shows evidence of wind, and possibly water, erosion
Phys.org - 8 Mar 2022 19:20
A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in China and one each from Canada and Germany, has found data from the Chinese Mars rover Zhurong over its first 60 sols, showing evidence of wind erosion and p...
Massive bubbles at center of Milky Way caused by supermassive black hole
Phys.org - 8 Mar 2022 19:20
In 2020, the X-ray telescope eRosita took images of two enormous bubbles extending far above and below the center of our galaxy.
China's Yutu 2 rover beams back stunning image after 3 years on moon's far side
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 19:00
China's Yutu 2 rover has returned a view of its path over three years of travel across the harsh environment of the moon's far side.
International Women's Day 2022: China's 1st woman on space station sends message from orbit
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 18:28
The first woman on China's space station celebrated International Women's Day from orbit on March 8.
Op-ed | Russian Invasion of Ukraine Reinforces the Urgency of Fixing U.S. Satellite Vulnerability by 2027
Space News - 8 Mar 2022 18:15
Russia's invasion of Ukraine could portend dark things to come for Taiwan. But while it's widely understood that a clear and credible capability to thwart Chinese invasion is critical to maintaining peace in the Taiwan S...
Rocket Lab will build Neutron, a next-generation reusable booster, in Virginia
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 18:00
Rocket Lab will build its next-generation Neutron launcher in Virginia, at a site adjacent to the company's coastal U.S. launch pad.
CERN pauses future research collaboration with Russia at Ukrainian scientists' request
SPACE.com - 8 Mar 2022 17:27
CERN will not enter new cooperations with Russian scientific institutions following a request of Ukraine's scientists to halt partnerships with Russian science institutions.