Mercury’s Weak Magnetic Field Periodically Traps Solar Wind
The planet Mercury is the first planet from the Sun but also one shrouded in mystery. This is…
Olympus Mons stands nearly three times the height of Everest, yet standing at its base you would not see a mountain at all, because its slopes rise so gently across roughly 600 kilometres that the summit sits well beyond the Martian horizon and the ground at your feet looks almost flat
If you approached Olympus Mons from the Martian plains, the first thing you met might not be a…
Roman Space Telescope on track for late August launch
WASHINGTON — NASA’s next flagship space telescope is set to launch in late August, nine months ahead of…
Rules of the road needed for orbital data center constellations
WASHINGTON — As companies develop plans for large constellations of orbital data center satellites, experts say now is…
UA-born satellite startup outgrows incubator, expands in Tucson | Local News
TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) – A startup that’s building a worldwide network of satellite ground stations is moving out…
Starlink V3 Captures View Of Starlink V3
Starlink V3 Captures View Of Starlink V3 | Aviation Week https://aviationweek.com/themes/custom/particle/dist/app-drupal/assets/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content Irene Klotz July…
A.14 Atmosphere Several Corrections – NASA Science
The Earth Science Division recently released A.14 Atmosphere, soliciting proposals for data analysis and modeling of NASA supported…
Students Take on Airborne Field Research with NASA
The gusty wind didn’t make it easy to hold tight to a balloon so large. The balloon, a…
The costs of AI, feeling crabby, double meteor shower: Catch up on the day’s stories
Facebook Tweet Email Link Threads 👋 Welcome to 5 Things PM! Sky-gazers are in for a real treat,…
Starship-Super Heavy Test Program Achieves Milestones With Flight 13
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The bright nitrogen ice plain forming the left lobe of Pluto’s heart has not a single impact crater anywhere on it, which tells planetary scientists the surface is being churned from below and completely replaced on a cycle short enough that parts of that ground are younger than our own species
The bright plain on the image-left side of Pluto’s heart is Sputnik Planitia, a basin roughly 1,000 kilometres…
K2 Space raises $500 million for commercial, defense satellite expansion
WASHINGTON — K2 Space has raised $500 million in new funding, more than doubling its valuation in seven…