[ad_1] MDA reports it has received a contract worth CAD $ 190 million to support robotic operations on the International Space Station (ISS) from 2020 to 2024. MDA has provided Logistics and Sustaining Engineering (L&SE) services to the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and its international partners since the start of the ISS, which this year … Read more
[ad_1] -> Eta Aquariid meteor shower in 2015 from Chile’s Atacama Desert. Composite image by Yuri Beletsky. The famous Eta Aquariid meteor shower – one of the year’s major meteor showers – peaks every year in early May. In 2020, the peak centers around May 5. This shower is known to be richer as seen … Read more
[ad_1] Ice loss from Antarctica and Greenland account for roughly a half-inch of sea level rise between 2003 and 2019. Using the most advanced Earth-observing laser instrument POT has ever flown in space, scientists have made precise, detailed measurements of how the elevation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have changed over 16 years. … Read more
[ad_1] NASA chose SpaceX by Elon Musk and Blue Origin by Jeff Bezos to develop technology to bring humans to the Moon. The United States government space agency said the two companies, as well as veteran aerospace Dynetics, would develop their own systems in parallel, in preparation for humanity’s first return to the moon since … Read more
[ad_1] What was intended to be a two-week test flight of SpaceX’s new astronaut transport capsule will now be a mission planned to last more than a month to assist a short-capacity crew aboard the International Space Station. The launch of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, with two NASA astronauts, Douglas G. Hurley and Robert L. … Read more
[ad_1] Post-flight analysis of an impact crater on one of the solar wings deployed by the space shuttle Endevour in 1993 and recovered by the space shuttle Columbia in 2002. Credit: ESA During its 30 years in orbit around Earth, the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has witnessed the changing nature of space flight … Read more
[ad_1] A NEW estimate of how space rock should fall to Earth has been revealed each year, and it’s probably much more than you thought. A team of UK scientists focused on meteorites above 50g and think about 16,000kg annual rainfall on us. 2 Manchester scientist Romain Tartèse with a meteorite in AntarcticaCredit: University of … Read more
[ad_1] BIZARRE bright “streaks” will streak across the sky over Britain tonight in a rare light show that has astronomers insane. The dazzling specs are swarms of “Starlink” satellites built by SpaceX, a rocket company that wants to stream super-fast WiFi to people from orbit. We have all the information on how to detect them … Read more
[ad_1] After nine years, thirty-six expeditions, and a massive global pandemic, the United States is finally ready to launch its own astronauts into space once again. The launch of the Demo-2 mission, using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Block 5, has just been set for 4:32 pm (EDT) on May 27, and will end the longest period … Read more
[ad_1] A crew from the International Space Station has safely landed in Kazakhstan after more than 200 days in space. The Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronauts Andrew Morgan, Jessica Meir and the Russian space agency Roscosmos ’Oleg Skripochka landed on Friday near the city of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 11.16 am (0516 GMT). Its Soyuz landing … Read more