Space Tech Expo Europe 2021 was an extremely successful three-day event and has now established itself as the prominent supply-chain meeting place for the space industry and will welcome more exhibiting companies than any other space event globally in...
This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space – and the very first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid. Its target? The Dimorphos asteroid, which on the night of...
Our James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new image of the famous Pillars of Creation—first imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995—that reveals new details about the region.
The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations but are...
Astroscale Limited, the UK and European subsidiary of Astroscale Holdings Inc., the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability, has opened its new Zeus satellite manufacturing and operations facilities at the Harwell Science & Innovation Campus in...
Like a car’s crumple zone, the experimental SHIELD lander is designed to absorb a hard impact.
NASA has successfully touched down on Mars nine times, relying on cutting-edge parachutes, massive airbags, and jetpacks to set spacecraft safely on the surface....
Kongsberg NanoAvionics (“NanoAvionics”) has announced a multi-million investment plan to support and accelerate its goal of becoming the prime supplier for small satellite constellations, globally.
As a result of the recent acquisition by Kongsberg and part of its growth plan,...
Bright Ascension Ltd., an industry-leading space software technology provider, recently launched its Partner Programme as a key strategic initiative to support its ongoing product expansion stage and is already seeing substantial interest.
The Partner Programme is designed to offer collaboration...
Precious Payload Inc. announces Exos Aerospace Systems & Technologies as a Preferred Partner to facilitate booking commercially available suborbital capacities and help bridge the gap between payload developers and the increased demand for suborbital slots.
Exos Aerospace is entering the market...
We are pleased to announce that SkyLabs and the University of Maribor have reached another important milestone in space operations by a successful update of the software onboard the TRISAT-R nanosatellite flying in the Middle Earth Orbit (MEO).
The nanosatellite...
The rover has arrived at a special region believed to have formed as Mars’ climate was drying.
After journeying this summer through a narrow, sand-lined pass, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently arrived in the “sulfate-bearing unit,” a long-sought region of...
The twin solid rocket boosters (SRBs) for the inaugural flight of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Vulcan Centaur rocket have arrived at the Cape Canaveral launch site.
The Graphite Epoxy Motor (GEM) 63XL boosters arrived Oct. 16 at the Florida...
The kinetic impact of NASA’s DART spacecraft with the Dimorphos asteroid around its larger Didymos parent body has succeeded in shifting its orbit, meaning humankind’s first planetary defence test has been successful.
Original article from ESA
Observations are continuing of the...
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the Mars Express orbiter has been in operation since January 2004.
It not only has an eye for the Red Planet, but...
Astra propulsion systems to be used in Astroscale’s space sustainability spacecraft platform
Astra Space, Inc. today announced that it has reached an agreement with Astroscale Holdings Inc, the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits,...
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is configuring an Atlas V 401 rocket atop Space Launch Complex (SLC)-3 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to carry the next polar-orbiting weather satellite into space for NOAA and NASA and perform an...
Original article from ESA blogs
A minuscule special ingredient blended with satellite materials could lead to significant mass savings for future missions.
An ESA project with Adamant Composites in Greece tested how the addition of graphene – microscopic flakes of carbon...
Northrop Grumman Australia has recently integrated a Dynamic Satellite Simulator and Spacecraft Command and Control (C2) system into its state-of-the-art systems integration, advanced mission visualization and demonstration facility, Parallax Labs.
This complex integration demonstrates the high level of technical readiness...
Astra Space, Inc. announced that it has reached an agreement with Maxar Technologies to supply Astra Spacecraft Engines™.
The propulsion systems will be used in Maxar’s proliferated low Earth orbit (LEO) spacecrafts, which support a wide variety of global coverage...