Smart Satellites to Repair and Refuel Stranded Satellites in Space
Aerospace engineers are developing technology to repair and refuel broken satellites in space. When satellites break, which is surprisingly often, there isn’t much you can…
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NASA’s Briefcase-Size Mars Cube One Satellite Honored
Aviation Week & Space Technology is bestowing a prestigious Laureate award on NASA’s pair of briefcase-size Mars Cube One spacecraft. Known as MarCO, they’re the…
Satellite Image Captures Bushfires Raging in Australia
The Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission captured the multiple bushfires burning across Australia’s east coast. Around 150 fires are still burning in New South Wales and Queensland,…
These Tiny Satellites Will Pave the Way to Building a Moon Base
The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today…
Carbon Monoxide From Brazil Fires Mapped by NASA Satellite
New data from NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument, aboard the Aqua satellite, shows the movement high in the atmosphere of carbon monoxide associated with…
NASA’s ICON Ready To Explore The Ionosphere
Early in the morning of November 7, 2018, NASA launches the Ionospheric Connection Explorer, or ICON, a spacecraft that will explore the dynamic region where…
Engineers Develop a New Propulsion System for Nanosatellites
The scientists of the Inter-University Department of Space Research of Samara University presented a prototype of a propulsion system for the maneuvering nanosatellite SamSat-M. The…
Planetary Defense Has Unexpected Support From a New Satellite
NASA’s efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite sensor designed to detect lightning. New research published in the…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Successfully Launched
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launched on the first-of-its-kind mission to find worlds beyond our solar system, including some that could support life. TESS,…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Science Data Pipeline
A Science Pipeline to New Planet Discoveries NASA’s ongoing search for life in the universe produces a lot of data. The agency’s new planet-hunting mission,…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Ready to Search the Sky for New Worlds
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing…
Scientists Successfully Complete World-First Firing of Air-Breathing Electric Thruster
In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere for…
NOAA’s GOES-S Satellite is Ready for Today’s Launch, Watch It Live
Today is launch day for NOAA’s newest weather satellite, the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S). A two-hour launch window will open at 5:02 p.m. EST…
A Look Back at America’s First Satellite, Explorer 1
The year 1958 held much promise for the United States space program. Both the US and the Soviet Union were preparing to orbit a satellite…
Micius Satellite Enables Intercontinental Quantum Communications
Private and secure communications are fundamental human needs. In particular, with the exponential growth of Internet use and e-commerce, it is of paramount importance to…
Miniature Satellites GomX-4B and GomX-4A Will Be Propelled By Butane
ESA’s next miniature satellite will be its first able to change orbit. Thanks to a compact thruster resembling a butane cigarette lighter, the cereal box-sized…
Parker Solar Probe Will Fly Directly Through the Sun’s Atmosphere
Next Summer NASA will launch the Parker Solar Probe, a spacecraft that will get closer to the Sun than any other in human history. Parker…
Nanosatellites Provide New Opportunities for Space Science
Miniaturized satellites, known as nanosatellites or CubeSats, are small platforms that enable the next generation of scientists and engineers to complete all phases of a…