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2024-08-13 10:16 AM

Washington: On Monday, Earth experienced a powerful solar storm that might bring the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to areas further south than usual, according to a US agency. The storm reached a level-four geomagnetic intensity on a five-point scale, starting from 1500 GMT, as reported by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). …

A 15-year-old rocket hasn’t really aged in space

2024-08-05 12:17 AM

There’s an awful lot of junk floating around in space, with recent estimates suggesting there could be more than 25,000 objects in orbit around the Earth right now. We don’t often get to see this junk up close to find out how a lifetime in space affects man-made objects, until now. Zepbound, the weight loss …

IISc’s MSG Method Boosts Recombinant Proteins; Edinburgh Unravels Sun’s Magnetic Mystery; SIAT’s Perovskite Detectors Enable Low-Dose X-rays

2024-06-15 12:19 AM

Solving a 400-year-old solar mystery AN international team of researchers led by Geoffrey Vasil of Edinburgh University is getting closer to solving a 400-year-old solar mystery that even Galileo Galilei had tried to understand. Since first observing the sun’s magnetic activity, astronomers have struggled to pinpoint where the process originates. Now, after running a series …

Japan unveils world’s first wooden satellite

2024-06-01 04:04 PM

• Japanese researchers have built the world’s first wooden satellite named LignoSat. • Each side of the experimental satellite developed by scientists at Kyoto University and logging company Sumitomo Forestry measures just 10 centimetres (four inches). • With development beginning in April 2020, LignoSat is crafted from magnolia wood, selected for its strength and workability …

NASA, European Space Agency Unite to Land Rover on Mars

2024-05-20 04:19 PM

NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) announced that they have signed an agreement to expand NASA’s work on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, an ESA-led mission launching in 2028 that will search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. With this memorandum of understanding, the NASA Launch Services Program will procure a U.S. …

Bidding Goodbye to CloudSat

2024-04-30 07:21 PM

NASA officially has ended the CloudSat mission, an Earth Observation satellite that has provided invaluable data for eighteen years. Launched on April 28, 2006, aboard a Delta II rocket, CloudSat has been instrumental in humanity’s understanding of Earth’s atmosphere and precipitation patterns. Initially planned for a 22-month mission, the CloudSat was tasked to provide the …

Satellite Internet Boom Could Disrupt Earth’s Magnetic Field, Warns Physicist

2024-04-20 10:19 PM

There are currently nearly 10,000 active satellites. Plasma physicist Sierra Solter warns that the growing number of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere could disrupt the planet’s magnetic field, according to The Guardian. Ms Solter, who has been studying the issue for over a year, is concerned about the dust and ash created by burning …

NASA’s shoebox-sized ‘BurstCube’ satellite set to study short gamma-ray bursts

2024-03-25 10:41 AM

NASA’s compact satellite BurstCube has embarked on its journey to the International Space Station, laboratory for scientific research. The spacecraft hitched a ride aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission. It was launched at 4:55 pm EDT on Thursday (Mar 21) from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, US. BurstCube is a NASA …

NASA’s BurstCube launches to study universe’s most powerful explosions

2024-03-24 01:55 AM

ASA has launched its BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe’s most powerful explosions, to the International Space Station. It’s already on its way to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off on Thursday, March 21. After arriving at the station, BurstCube will be unpacked and …

NanoAvionics selects Neuraspace for Sustainability in Space

2024-03-20 06:49 AM

Neuraspace announced that Kongsberg NanoAvionics has selected Neuraspace’s space traffic management (STM) solution, based on artificial intelligence for its own end-to-end small satellite mission services. Satellite manufacturer and mission integrator NanoAvionics will make Neuraspace’s STM system for collision analysis, manoeuvre planning, and improving space sustainability part of its LEOP (launch and early orbit phase) and …