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24.01.2022 China has revealed that it is working on a new rocket that could send astronauts to land on the moon. The new launch vehicle was unveiled at the 2020 China Space Conference in Fuzhou, east China on Sept. 18. The new launcher is designed to send a 27.6 ton (25 metric ton) spacecraft into trans-lunar injection. Mass at liftoff will be about 4.85 million lbs. (2,200 metric tons), nearly triple that of China's current largest rocket, the Long March 5. https://www.space.com/china-rocket-for-crewed-moon-missions

20.01.2022 Earlier this month scientists announced the surprising discovery of phosphine on Venus. This compound of phosphorus and hydrogen could be associated with life. While efforts to confirm the finding via observations from Earth or even fortuitously planned spacecraft flybys are underway, archived data from a decades-old NASA mission to Venus may have been hiding much sought-after verification in plain sightwith potentially more revelations to come. The apparent discovery of pho...sphine in the Venusian atmosphere has been both widely heralded and greeted with caution. To double-check the detection, scientists are eager for more data, either from large telescopes or entirely new interplanetary missions. If the presence of the gas can be confirmed, researchers would be forced to grapple with its originsincluding the possibility that it is being produced by some form of single-celled life floating in the planet’s clouds. If, indeed, phosphine is there, and it is a sign of life, then this would be a way of starting to piece together a biosphere, says Clara Sousa-Silva of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is a co-author of the paper that reported the discovery. https://www.scientificamerican.com//a-nasa-probe-may-have/ See more

20.01.2022 Two separate missions will send science payloads into orbit around Earth: the first will test how tablets cope with the environment inside the International Space Station (ISS) US National Laboratory, while the second mission scheduled for early 2021 will test how tablets cope outside the ISS. University of Adelaide’s Professor Volker Hessel, research director of the Centre for Sustainable Planetary and Space Resources and Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, explained, Our microgravity and space radiation investigations, evaluating pharmaceutical stability, are the first science payloads to be sent by the university to the ISS. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4544-adelaide-uni-l*|MMERGEEM|*

20.01.2022 New Episode - available now via all good #podcast apps or stream from spacetimewithstuartgary.com - A New Type of Supernovae #astronomy #space #science #spacetime #sciencenews

19.01.2022 The work is part of DMTC’s High Altitude Sensor Systems (HASS) Program and will be led by Professor Rob Sharp from the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre (AITC) at the Australian National University (ANU) and hosted at Mount Stromlo Observatory. The project is a collaboration involving DMTC, researchers from ANU and CSIRO and industrial partner Skykraft, a small business formed out of the UNSW Canberra Space team that is currently developing a space-based Air Traffic Management solution that will utilise a constellation of small satellites. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4545-dmtc-partners-*|MMERGEEM|*

18.01.2022 NASA is poised to make history next month. The OSIRIS-REx probe is scheduled to pull off NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling operation on Oct. 20, snagging precious dirt and gravel from a 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) space rock called Bennu. https://www.space.com/nasa-asteroid-bennu-sample-collection

15.01.2022 Arianespace and OneWeb on Sept. 21 announced a revised launch contract that covers OneWeb’s constellation deployment with three fewer launches than originally planned. Arianespace will conduct 16 Soyuz launches for OneWeb, each carrying 34-36 satellites, to complete OneWeb’s internet megaconstellation by the end of 2022. The revised contract canceled two Soyuz launches, and removed OneWeb as the customer for the inaugural Ariane 6 launch, an Arianespace spokesperson told Spa...ceNews. Arianespace conducted three Soyuz launches for OneWeb before the London-based megaconstellation company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in March, halting a launch campaign that called for an average of one Soyuz launch a month through the end of 2021. https://spacenews.com/arianespaces-revised-oneweb-contract/

14.01.2022 The fact that we are here at all is one of the greatest puzzles of physics. We are made from normal particles such as electrons, but every such particle also has an antimatter companion that is virtually identical to itself, but with the opposite charge. When matter and antimatter come into contact, they annihilate each other in a flash of light. Physics suggests that matter and antimatter were created in almost equal quantities in the Big Bang. So how come there’s almost only matter left today why didn’t the matter and antimatter annihilate each other to render the universe lifeless? Our new research has enabled scientists to build a new type of accelerator, based on particles called muons, that could help us find out. https://www.space.com/how-a-muon-accelerator-could-unravel-

13.01.2022 An international team led by the University of Western Australia and supported by colleagues from Curtin University was one of six finalists for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize for outstanding achievement in high-performance computing, recognising their role in supporting the development of the future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope. The group was shortlisted for the award commonly referred to as the ‘Nobel Prize of supercomputing’ for their work developing data pipelines for the future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope and testing them on the Summit supercomputer. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4637-wa-team-prepar

13.01.2022 SpaceX is over the moon after the successful completion of the company's first-ever crewed mission. The Demo-2 test flight to the International Space Station wrapped up on Sunday (Aug. 2), when a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. During a news conference Sunday after the historic landing, SpaceX president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell expressed her excitement, saying that the mis...sion's success bodes well for the future. https://www.space.com/spacex-demo-2-success-space-tourism.h See more

13.01.2022 The report shows that, through all NASA activities, the agency generated more than US$64.3 billion in total economic output during fiscal year 2019, supported more than 312,000 jobs nationwide, and generated an estimated US$7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes throughout the US. NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine explained, "In this new era of human spaceflight, NASA is contributing to economies locally and nationally, fueling growth in industries that will define the future, and supporting tens of thousands of new jobs in America." https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4548-nasa-sheds-lig*|MMERGEEM|*

12.01.2022 Warning: Spoilers for Season 2, Episode 4 of "The Mandalorian" below. What everyone needs right now is a little escapism. We're all feeling a little stressed and a little sad, especially since the Thanksgiving holiday will be a somewhat subdued affair and "The Mandalorian" is exactly what should be prescribed to beat any burgeoning case of the blues. The second season of the Disney Plus "Star Wars" series has established itself, found its feet and is providing us with some thoroughly entertaining, up-beat sci-fi, without having its primary character blubbering in Every Single Episode. https://www.space.com/star-wars-the-mandalorian-season-2-ep

09.01.2022 Update, Sept. 28: After SpaceX's scrub, United Launch Alliance also announced it would not be able to launch its Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral due to inclement weather. The next attempt has been set for 11:58 p.m. Tuesday. https://www.floridatoday.com//ula-delays-delta/3554082001/

08.01.2022 Astronomers have detected two stellar corpses whirling around each other, and they might be producing gravitational waves. White dwarf stars are what become of stars like our sun after they run out of fuel and turn into leftover hot cores. For many years, researchers have predicted that there should be binary, or two-object, systems made up of white dwarf stars. According to general relativity, two such masses orbiting each other should emit energy in the form of gravitation...al waves, which are ripples or disturbances in the fabric of spacetime. Now, this is not the discovery of gravitational waves, rather it is the discovery of this binary which may be a source for gravitational waves. But, not only will this study advance our understanding of these systems and gravitational wave sources, it will also be important in validating the efficiency of an instrument that will launch in 2034. https://www.space.com/white-dwarf-binary-gravitational-wave

07.01.2022 At 10:09am on 19 September 2020, Southern Launch ignited Australia’s first commercial space-capable rocket at the Koonibba Test Range north-west of Ceduna in South Australia. And in a second first for Australia, only an hour and and 40 minutes later at 11:49am a second space capable launch was safely completed. A recovery effort is currently underway to locate the DEWC-SP1 payloads and DART rocket stages.... At just 3.4 metres long and weighing 34 kilograms, the DART rocket is a fraction of the size of rockets launched by NASA and SpaceX. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4536-lift-off-for-a*|MMERGEEM|*

07.01.2022 L3Harris Technologies received a $119.1 million contract to upgrade and expand the network of U.S. military telescopes known as the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System that track objects in geostationary orbits. The contract, announced Sept. 21 by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center, funds upgrades to existing GEODSS sensors, and the design of new ground-based optical sensors in European and Pacific sites. https://spacenews.com/l3harris-gets-119-million-space-forc/

07.01.2022 The center of the Milky Way is a puzzle of invisible, interconnected blobs. There are swooping tendrils of energy visible only in radio wavelengths, hourglass-shaped scars of X-ray light and towering over it all the mysterious Fermi Bubbles. These twin orbs of gas, dust and cosmic rays emerge from the galactic center like two wings of an enormous moth, one on either side of the galaxy's central black hole. From tip to tip, the bubbles stretch about 50,000 light-years across (that's about half the diameter of the Milky Way itself), yet are visible only in high-energy gamma-ray light. https://www.space.com/fermi-bubbles-black-hole-shock-wave.h

07.01.2022 The findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, point to the existence of multiple ponds of hypersaline water across the Martian polar surface. Co-lead author Sebastian Lauro from Roma Tre University said the team borrowed a methodology commonly used in radar sounder investigations of subglacial lakes in Antarctica, Canada and Greenland, adapting the method to analyse old and new MARSIS data. The interpretation that best reconciles all the available evidence is tha...t the high intensity reflections (from Mars) are coming from extended pools of liquid water, he said. Roma Tre University, along with the Italian Space Agency and Italy’s National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), were involved in the initial 2018 study, which detected an area of strong reflectivity approximately 1.5 kilometres beneath the South Polar Layered Deposits, a thick polar cap formed by layers of ice and dust. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4554-usq-researcher*|MMERGEEM|*

06.01.2022 During the rapid prototyping phase, the company will deliver the preliminary design for the ESS space segment and a ground-based demonstration. The ESS program will seamlessly interoperate with, and eventually replace, the Space Force’s existing Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) system to provide enduring and secure satellite communications to strategic users. Cyrus Dhalla, vice president of communications systems at Northrop Grumman, said, Northrop Grumman looks forw...ard to building on more than 40 years of successfully delivering protected satellite communications solutions to our customers. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4538-northrop-grumm*|MMERGEEM|* See more

06.01.2022 These contracts draw on Thales Alenia Space’s 25 years of expertise as a prime contractor to study and develop upgrades for the EGNOS satellite navigation system and support the $127 million upgrade of the Thales Alenia Space EGNOS system announced in December 2019, which will expand the EGNOS SBAS coverage zone, see the installation of a new generation of reference stations, improved algorithms in the computation centre to boost performance and enhanced system security. Beno...it Broudy, head of the navigation business at Thales Alenia Space, said, Our successes on export markets, as in South Korea, validate our innovative approach that allows us to offer increasingly powerful and agile solutions to meet the evolving requirements of customers from around the world. These advances offer significant benefits for regional aviation in Australia and New Zealand along with broader industry benefits across many sectors including, mining and resources as well as agriculture and transport. The first contract concerns possible upgrades for EGNOS aeronautical services, designed to improve performances in order to increase landing safety under limited visibility conditions (from current CAT-I to CAT-II), over EGNOS’s European footprint. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4351-australia-new-

04.01.2022 Astronomers have spotted the exposed core of a massive alien world, an unprecedented find that could shed considerable light on planet formation, evolution and diversity. The planetary core, called TOI-849b, is unlike anything scientists have seen before, and it could hide a wealth of exciting information in its bizarre depths, researchers say. https://www.space.com/exposed-planetary-core-discovery-nasa

03.01.2022 The new mission, called the Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE), is an array of six CubeSats operating as one very large radio telescope. NASA has awarded US$62.6 million ($101.5 million) to design, build and launch SunRISE by no earlier than 1 July 2023. NASA chose SunRISE in August 2017 as one of two mission of opportunity proposals to conduct an 11-month mission concept study. In February 2019, the agency approved a continued formulation study of the missio...n for an additional year. SunRISE is led by Justin Kasper at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. Nicky Fox, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, said, We are so pleased to add a new mission to our fleet of spacecraft that help us better understand the sun, as well as how our star influences the space environment between planets. The mission design relies on six solar-powered CubeSats each about the size of a toaster oven to simultaneously observe radio images of low-frequency emissions from solar activity and share them via NASA’s Deep Space Network. The constellation of CubeSats would fly within six miles of each other, above Earth's atmosphere, which otherwise blocks the radio signals SunRISE will observe. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4274-nasa-selects-m

03.01.2022 With this major milestone complete, the Electron launch vehicle, launch team, and the LC-2 pad systems are now ready for Rocket Lab’s first launch from US soil. The mission is a dedicated launch for the US Space Force in partnership with the Department of Defense’s Space Test Program and the Space and Missile Systems Centre’s Small Launch and Targets Division. The wet dress rehearsal is a crucial final exercise conducted by the launch team to ensure all systems and procedures are working perfectly ahead of launch day. The Electron launch vehicle was rolled out to the pad, raised vertical and filled with high grade kerosene and liquid oxygen to verify fuelling procedures. https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4537-rocket-lab-pre*|MMERGEEM|*

02.01.2022 Space is about to go nuclear at least if private companies get their way. At the 23rd annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference (CST) in Washington, D.C., in January, a panel of nuclear technology experts and leaders in the commercial space industry spoke about developments of the technology that could propel future spacecraft faster and more efficiently than current systems can. Nuclear technology has powered spacecraft such as NASA's Mars rovers, the Cassini missi...on and the two Voyagers that are currently exploring the outer reaches of our solar system. But those fuel sources rely on the passive decay of radioactive plutonium, converting heat from that process into electricity to power the spacecraft. https://www.space.com/commercial-nuclear-power-for-faster-s See more

02.01.2022 Astronomers think they might be able to detect black holes falling into wormholes using ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves, but only if wormholes actually exist and such a scenario ever happened, a new study finds. According to Einstein, who first predicted the existence of gravitational waves in 1916, gravity results from the way in which mass warps space and time. When two or more objects move within a gravitational field, they produce gravitational waves that travel at the speed of light, stretching and squeezing space-time along the way. https://www.space.com/black-holes-fall-into-wormholes-gravi

02.01.2022 The next Soyuz launch is planned as soon as December 2020 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. Pursuant to an amended launch contract with OneWeb, the London-based communications company, Arianespace will perform 16 more Soyuz launches from three spaceports (Kourou, Baikonur and Vostochny) beginning in late 2020 and continuing through 2022. These launches will enable OneWeb to complete the deployment of its full global constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites by the end of 2022.... https://www.spaceconnectonline.com.au//4547-arianespace-an*|MMERGEEM|* See more