{"id":313041,"date":"2025-11-28T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313041\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T21:22:08","slug":"worlds-first-commercial-space-science-satellite-launched-successfully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/313041\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first commercial space science satellite launched successfully"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first private space science satellite set to study the impact of flares from stars has been launched into space and is now in orbit, the company behind it has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blue Skies Space, a space science data company headquartered in London, said its satellite was launched on a Space X Falcon 9 in California at 6.45pm on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company said the satellite, which is the size of a microwave and is called Mauve, is equipped with a microscope and will observe stellar flares and exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Blue Skies Space will share the data Mauve collects to research institutions which are part of its subscription service, including Boston and Columbia universities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cMauve will open a new window on stellar activity that has previously been largely hidden from view,\u201d said Professor Giovanna Tinetti, chief scientist at Blue Skies Space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBy observing stars in ultraviolet light, wavelengths that can\u2019t be studied from Earth, we\u2019ll gain a much deeper understanding of how stars behave and how their flares may impact the environment of orbiting exoplanets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTraditional ground-based telescopes just can\u2019t capture this information, so a satellite like Mauve is crucial for furthering our knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dr Marcell Tessenyi, chief executive of Blue Skies Space, added: \u201cOur vision is to make space science data as accessible as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first private space science satellite set to study the impact of flares from stars has been launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[139539,139541,49,48,139540,66,306,19727],"class_list":["post-313041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-blue-skies","tag-blue-skies-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mauve","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}