Satellite Missions/Shuttles

Estimation and prediction for hypersonic flight vehicles In the final few minutes of a spacecraft landing it is moving at hypersonic speeds through many layers of atmosphere. Knowing the air density outside of the vehicle can have a…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by…

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded the Cologne-based geophysicist Professor Dr Joachim Saur with the ERC Advanced Grant. Saur will receive a total of 2.1 million euros in funding. The ERC Advanced Grant is considered the most…

ITHACA, N.Y. - Cornell University astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs. The models will be spectral templates for…

UCI, NASA scientists assess ice sheet with potential to raise global sea levels nearly 5 feetCredit: NASA Irvine, Calif., March 23, 2020 - East Antarctica's Denman Glacier has retreated 5 kilometers, nearly 3 miles, in the past 22 years,…

Credit: Afsaneh Rabiei, NC State University North Carolina State University researchers have demonstrated that composite metal foams (CMFs) can pass so-called "simulated pool fire testing" with flying colors, moving the material closer to…

Credit: Image courtesy of Opher, et. al The heliosphere is a vast region, extending more than twice as far as Pluto. It casts a magnetic "force field" around all the planets, deflecting charged particles that would otherwise muscle into…

UCI, NASA JPL project tracking Earth-sensing satellite turnover yields striking resultsCredit: Linette Boisvert / NASA Irvine, Calif., March 18, 2020 - During the exceptionally warm Arctic summer of 2019, Greenland lost 600 billion tons…

Credit: NASA / Georgia Tech / Guberman / Brumfield It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming study says that the Vulcan…

Credit: Ivan Pierre Aguirre/UTEP Communications A mechanical engineering professor from The University of Texas at El Paso will lend his expertise to early-stage space exploration technology research through a $550,000 grant from NASA to…

Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Burchett and O. Elek (UC Santa Cruz) The behavior of one of nature's humblest creatures is helping astronomers probe the largest structures in the universe. The single-cell organism, known as slime mold…

Credit: NASA On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (USA). On board: 250 test tubes from the University of Zurich containing adult human stem cells. These…

Avionics for critical systems support first Mission Extension Vehicle, satellite dockingCredit: SpaceLogistics/Northrop Grumman SAN ANTONIO -- March 9, 2020 -- Using critical docking avionics provided by Southwest Research Institute, the…

Credit: INQNET Caltech and JPL have been successful partners in space exploration since the mid-1930s. In their tradition of intermixing in unique ways fundamental science, technology and engineering they develop a collaborative…

Credit: Lancaster University Dr Jorryt Matthee has been awarded a 25,000 € MERAC Prize by the European Astronomical Society for the Best Doctoral Thesis in the past three years. The award is by the FONDATION MERAC (Mobilising European…

Nutritious and safe crops would be a dietary supplement to assist long-distance space missionsCredit: NASA (free to use and distribute) Astronauts in space live on processed, pre-packaged space rations such as fruits, nuts, chocolate,…

Credit: Image courtesy of Hyungsuk Kimm, University of Illinois. URBANA, Ill. - University of Illinois scientists, with help from members of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop…

Light blade system test successfully downs 90% of incendiary balloons infiltrating Israel's border from GazaCredit: Ben-Gurion U. BEER-SHEVA, Israel...March 5, 2020 - A Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researcher has developed a…

Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky/L. Calçada Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better understand the effect these constellations could have on astronomical…

Project to help researchers understand aging on Earth, protect astronautsCredit: Johns Hopkins Medicine Launching no earlier than March 6 at 11:50 PM EST, the Johns Hopkins University will send heart muscle tissues, contained in a…