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Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands hotel is seen in this optical satellite image captured by South Korea’s SI Imaging Services (SIIS). Ukraine vice prime minister recently asked SIIS and seven other remote sensing companies to provide synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery of Ukraine and neighboring countries to assist Ukrainian military fighting against Russian forces. SIIS president

New study provides insight into how solar wind is generated and accelerated. (Courtesy: NASA/Johns Hopkin APL/Steve Gribben) A close analysis of data from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has revealed that electromagnetic “whistler waves” – so named because early radio operators mistook these eerie, descending sounds for a person whistling – are unexpectedly absent from certain

TAMPA, Fla. — OneWeb on March 2 ordered staff to leave Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan amid an impasse over the planned March 4 launch of its latest batch of satellites on a Soyuz rocket, an executive for the U.K.-based company said. Chris McLaughlin, OneWeb’s chief of government, regulatory affairs and engagement, told SpaceNews it

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, concerned about growing costs and slipping schedules, pressed NASA for more details about the management and overall strategy of the agency’s Artemis lunar exploration plan. At a March 1 hearing by the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee, members of both parties said they were impatiently waiting for long-promised plans from

Find out about plans for a zoomable “Google Earth” of the human body, the life of pioneering astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin and how you can make supercomputing greener Read it now: as a service to the community you can read the March 2022 issue for free As a service to the physics community, we’re offering you

TAMPA, Fla. — Lockheed Martin is looking to set up a satellite manufacturing base in the United Kingdom to expand its global space business, the U.S.-based aerospace and defense giant said March 1. The facility could potentially focus on building entire satellites, their parts or ground networks for government and commercial customers, according to Nik

WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab carried out its first Electron launch of the year Feb. 28, placing a Japanese radar imaging satellite into orbit at the same time the company released its financial results and selected Virginia for a rocket factory. The Electron rocket lifted off at 3:37 p.m. Eastern from Pad B at the company’s

It’s a wrap: graphene-wrapped emulsion droplets deposited onto electrodes for single-droplet thin-film electronic devices. (Courtesy: University of Sussex) The assembly of 2D nanosheets on the surface of emulsion nanodroplets leads to the stabilization of the emulsion and requires only a tiny amount of material – report physicists in the UK. Furthermore, the team has developed

TAMPA, Fla. — Mounting international sanctions amid Russia’s war on Ukraine have thrown plans to launch 36 OneWeb satellites this week into uncertainty. The latest batch of satellites for OneWeb’s broadband constellation is currently at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Russian-controlled launch site in Kazakhstan, where Europe’s Arianespace plans to launch them as soon as March

Scott Herman, CEO of Cognitive Space: ‘You don’t get a better opportunity than this to show how remote sensing can support media storytelling’ WASHINGTON – Images collected by commercial satellites have chronicled the buildup of Russian forces on Ukraine’s borders and the ongoing invasion, providing intelligence that previously was only available from government sources. The

Safety first: a study has shown how navigation apps can choose safer routes. (Courtesy: iStock/fermate”) With its combination of narrow roads and hills, Bristol in the UK isn’t the easiest place to drive, but after living here for 25 years I am pretty good at getting around. I have noticed that sometimes the driving routes

HELSINKI — China’s second Long March 8 rocket launched late Saturday carrying a domestic record 22 satellites for a range of commercial Chinese space companies. The Long March 8 lifted off from Wenchang Satellite Launch Center at 10:06 p.m. Eastern Feb. 26, with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) later confirming launch success.

WASHINGTON — Roscosmos announced Feb. 26 that it is halting cooperation with Europe on Soyuz launches from French Guiana and withdrawing its personnel from the launch site in response to European sanctions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “In response to EU sanctions against our enterprises, Roscosmos is suspending cooperation with European partners in organizing space

Shining a light on the coronavirus: A test based on changes in the fluorescence of nanodiamonds in a microfluidic channel could be used to indicate the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19. (Courtesy: Changhao Li, Paola Cappellaro, et. al) A quantum sensor based on nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond could be used to detect viruses

SAN FRANCISCO – Space-as-a-service startup Xplore has brought in $16.2 million to date including venture capital funding and contracts, the company announced Feb. 24. “Xplore’s funding is being used to support the aggressive growth of our team and enable us to meet our development milestones,” Lisa Rich, Xplore co-founder and chief operating officer, told SpaceNews by

SAN FRANCISCO – While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have important space policy ramifications for the United States, the impact is not likely to be as significant as shifts that have already occurred in the wake Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea. “What we’ve seen over the intervening eight years is a greater separation of Russia

NASA maintained that it was continuing to work with all international partners, including the Russian Space Agency, Roscosmos, for the “ongoing safe operations” of the International Space Station (Courtesy: NASA). Over 650 Russian scientists and science journalists have signed an open letter calling Russia’s war against Ukraine “unfair and senseless” and stating that there is