Archive for the 'Space' Category
Cornell Postdoc Detects Possible Exoplanet Radio Emission
December 18th, 2020Via: Cornell University: By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, an international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Boötes – that could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. The team, led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of […]
Space X Starship SN8 12.5km Test Flight
December 8th, 2020Space launch livestreamer NASASpaceflight indicated that SpaceX is only planning to go live within minutes of a possible launch. However, SpaceX has not announced a launch time, only an eight hour window. Update: Next Attempt — Via: NASASpaceflight:
Aevum Unveils Ravn X Autonomous Launch Vehicle For Lightweight Satellites
December 6th, 2020Via: The Aviationist: Aevum, a small company based in in Huntsville, Alabama, rolled out its Ravn X Autonomous Launch Vehicle from their hangar at Cecil airport in Jacksonville, Florida, during a live streaming on Dec. 3, 2020. The aircraft, with tail number N567RX, has been defined by Aevum as “the world’s largest Unmanned Aircraft System […]
Analyzing Video Footage Of Collapse of Massive Arecibo Telescope
December 5th, 2020Via: Scott Manley: — More background: Research Credit: butter
Starlink Teardown
November 25th, 2020This is a full teardown of a Starlink groundstation antenna. SpaceX definitely doesn’t want people messing around with the business end of that thing, as you’ll see. My assumption all along has been that the rural broadband aspect of Starlink is a limited hangout. Looking at the size of the PCB and the phased array, […]
Arecibo Telescope Will Be Dismantled
November 19th, 2020Via: Science Magazine: The Arecibo telescope’s long and productive life has come to an end. The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today it will decommission the iconic radio telescope in Puerto Rico following two cable breaks in recent months that have brought the structure to near collapse. The 57-year-old observatory, a survivor of numerous hurricanes […]
SpaceX, L3Harris Technologies Get Pentagon Contracts to Track Missiles from Outer Space
October 6th, 2020Via: Nextgov: The Pentagon’s Space Development Agency—which will become part of the U.S. Space Force in 2022—selected SpaceX and L3Harris Technologies to produce satellites and sensors that can track and target advanced missile threats from outer space. Award notices published to the federal procurement site beta.sam.gov Friday afternoon indicate that SpaceX could receive more than […]
SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Could Make U.S. Army Navigation Hard to Jam
September 29th, 2020Via: MIT Technology Review: SpaceX has already launched more than 700 Starlink satellites, with thousands more due to come online in the years ahead. Their prime mission is to provide high-speed internet virtually worldwide, extending it to many remote locations that have lacked reliable service to date. Now, research funded by the US Army has […]
SpaceX Launch and Landing Sounds from Vehicle
September 14th, 2020Via: SpaceX:
Phosphine Detected In The Atmosphere of Venus
September 14th, 2020Via: Reuters: Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbor, a tantalizing sign of potential life beyond Earth. The researchers did not discover actual life forms, but noted that on Earth phosphine is produced by bacteria thriving […]
