Satellite Missions/Shuttles

Mars had dry and wet eras and dried up for good 3 billion years agoCredit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 8, 2021-While attention has been focused on the Perseverance rover that landed on…

Credit: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/CNES/CNRS/LANL/IRAP/IAS/LPGN The Perseverance rover has just landed on Mars. Meanwhile, its precursor Curiosity continues to explore the base of Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons), a mountain several…

SwSP-100 now available through the $6 billion Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contractCredit: SwRI SAN ANTONIO -- April 6, 2021 -- NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute's 100 kg-class small satellite (SmallSat) platform to…

Rising seas and inland-surging seawater are leaving behind the debris of dying forests. Now, 35 years of satellite images capture the changes from space.Credit: Photo by Emily Bernhardt, Duke University DURHAM, N.C. -- Emily Ury…

Credit: Ian Willis Using satellite data to 'see in the dark', researchers have shown for the first time that lakes on the Greenland Ice Sheet drain during winter, a finding with implications for the speed at which the world's…

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/University College London/W. Dunn et al; Optical: W.M. Keck Observatory Astronomers have detected X-rays from Uranus for the first time, using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result may help…

In terms of space exploration, Mars is all the rage these days. This has left our closest neighbor, Venus -- previously the most attractive planet to study because of its proximity and similar atmosphere to Earth -- in the lurch. A new…

Credit: Andreas Möller Scientists reported new research results today suggesting that artificial objects in orbit around the Earth are brightening night skies on our planet significantly more than previously understood. The…

NICT's optical ground station successfully received downlink light from DLR's small satellite-mounted optical terminal (OSIRISv1)Credit: NICT -Successful experiment to receive downlink light at NICT optical ground station from DLR…

Credit: Andrew Jones/LASP More than 150 years ago, the Sun blasted Earth with a massive cloud of hot charged particles. This plasma blob generated a magnetic storm on Earth that caused sparks to leap out of telegraph equipment and…

The Earth's gravity field as the basis for an International Height Reference System Maps generally indicate elevation in meters above sea level. But sea level is not the same everywhere. A group of experts headed by the Technical…

Jovian jet streams above the cloud tops measured using the aftermath of comet collision SAN ANTONIO -- March 18, 2021 -- Working with a team led by French astronomers, Southwest Research Institute scientists helped identify incredibly…

The Adelis-SAMSON project from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology involves three autonomous nanosatellites that will fly in formation and monitor Earth from s The "Adelis-SAMSON" project, an autonomous group of three nanosatellites…

Berkeley Lab physicists play key role in studies that solve a cosmological mysteryCredit: NASA Researchers have channeled the universe's earliest light - a relic of the universe's formation known as the cosmic microwave background…

A new study tracks the life cycle of the spectacular ultraviolet storms in the big planet's aurora, generated by charged particles from its volcanic moon, IoCredit: @University of Liège The storms, which consist of brightenings…

Credit: NASA NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has chosen three companies to participate in a new partnership to test and evaluate satellite servicing technologies. Altius Space Machines of Broomfield,…

Credit: Pavel Odinev (Skoltech) Researchers from Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have analyzed several dozen options to pick the best one in terms of performance and costs for the 'last mile' of a future…

Photon origins tracked to Cygnus OB2 star-forming regionCredit: TeV: Binita Hona (HAWC Collaboration), IR: Hora et. al, Spitzer's Growing Legacy, ASP Conference Series, 2010, P. Ogle, ed. LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 11, 2021--A…

Credit: Rafael Luis Méndez Peña/Sciworthy.com A researcher at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is the lead author of a study with proposals for "technosignatures" -evidence for the use of technology or industrial…

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXO/JPL/T. Connor; Optical: Gemini/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA; Infrared: W.M. Keck Observatory; Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Astronomers have discovered evidence for an extraordinarily long jet of particles coming from a…