A gigantic, fiery eruption around 40 times wider than Earth recently exploded from the sun’s hidden far side. The eruption hurled a massive cloud of plasma into space that later smashed into Mercury, scouring the planet’s rocky surface and potentially triggering “X-ray auroras” on the unprotected world. The eruption was likely triggered by a powerful solar flare, […]
On March 12, 2015, NASA launched four satellites on a mission to study a weird phenomenon in Earth’s magnetic field called magnetic reconnection. When Earth gets bombarded with plasma from the sun, our planet’s magnetic field lines can break apart and reconnect. This releases huge bursts of energy in Earth’s magnetic environment and can funnel
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The four astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-7 mission returned to Earth early Tuesday morning (March 12), with their homecoming broadcast live. Crew-7’s Dragon capsule, Endurance, splashed down at 5:50 a.m. EDT (0950 UTC) off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The recovery crew arrived at the capsule around three minutes later, with thermal cameras tracking the recovery
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Stratolaunch, a company that aims to launch hypersonic vehicles from the world’s largest airplane, aced its first rocket-powered flight on Saturday (March 9) with a historic test over the Pacific Ocean. The massive Stratolaunch carrier plane “Roc” launched its expendable prototype vehicle Talon-A1 (T-A1) during a test flight that took off from the Mojave Air
South African NewSpace company, Simera Sense, providing end-to-end optical payloads for the small satellite Earth observation industry, has raised EUR13.5 million in a recent growth investment round. The funding was led by NewSpace Capital and Knife Capital. Simera Sense offers off-the-shelf high-resolution cameras ready for use by clients across the global small satellite industry. This
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SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida on Sunday (March 10). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. It made a vertical landing
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On March 10, 1977, astronomers discovered rings around Uranus! Astronomers had long suspected that Uranus has rings, but the actual discovery happened by accident. A team of three astronomers was using NASA’s Kuiper Airborne Observatory to observe the atmosphere of Uranus. They did this during a stellar occultation, which means that a background star was
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The Pentagon’s UFO office is developing sensor kits to help it collect data in real time on unidentified objects in the sky or in space. That’s according to Tim Phillips, the acting head of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO, a U.S. Department of Defense office aimed at studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), a
Pentagon UFO Office Developing ‘Gremlin’ Sensors To Help Identify Anomalies in Orbit. Read More »
On February 7, 2024, Space in Africa hosted its fifth webinar series titled “Enhancing Infrastructure, Transportation, and Connectivity in Africa with GNSS.” The webinar provided a platform for participants to gain insights from experts representing key stakeholders leading SBAS implementation in Africa. These experts included representatives from the SatNav-Africa Joint Programme Office, the Agency for
A NASA scientific balloon mission just set a new agency record, spending 57 days floating in the skies above the South Pole. The mission, called the Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory (GUSTO), launched a gargantuan scientific balloon from McMurdo Station in Antarctica on Dec. 31. The balloon stayed aloft for a total of 57 days,
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