The European Space Agency has selected EPFL spin-out ClearSpace to lead a space debris de-orbiting project that is planned for launch in 2025.
The ClearSpace-1 mission is being procured as a service contract with a start-up led commercial consortium, to help establish a new market for in-orbit servicing, as well as debris removal.
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“And in the coming years the number of satellites will increase by an order of magnitude, with multiple mega-constellations made up of hundreds or even thousands of satellites planned for low Earth orbit to deliver wide-coverage, low-latency telecommunications and monitoring services. The need is clear for a ‘tow truck’ to remove failed satellites from this highly trafficked region.
Not to change the topic here:
Intel: Pentagon worried Turkey 'spinning out' of NATO orbit
The Senate also recognized the Armenian genocide, a measure that overwhelmingly passed the House last month, after the White House finally decided not to block the move after instructing Republicans to stop it three times.
Know more: Read Metin Gurcan’s latest on a potential off-ramp for US-Turkey tensions — if Ankara opts not to purchase missiles for the Russian S-400 air defense system.
The Milky Way may have two supermassive black holes | Astronomy.com
Do supermassive black holes have friends? The nature of galaxy formation suggests that the answer is yes, and in fact, pairs of supermassive black holes should be common in the universe.
I am an astrophysicist and am interested in a wide range of theoretical problems in astrophysics, from the formation of the very first galaxies to the gravitational interactions of black holes, stars and even planets. Black holes are intriguing systems, and supermassive black holes and the dense stellar environments that surround them represent one of the most extreme places in our universe.
News | Celebrating 10 Years of the WISE Spacecraft
WISE was placed in hibernation in February 2011 after completing its primary astrophysics mission, but in late 2013, the spacecraft was reactivated, renamed NEOWISE and assigned a second mission dedicated to identifying and characterizing the population of near-Earth objects while also providing information about the size and composition of more distant asteroids and comets.
Over the last decade, data from WISE and NEOWISE have been cited in more than 3,000 peer-reviewed publications and been used to study distant galaxies, cool stars, exploding white dwarfs, outgassing comets, near-Earth asteroids and everything in between.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Satellite with California Roots Is Now in Orbit
About 2,500 miles away, Lynn Cominsky, a professor and program director for Sonoma State’s Education and Public Outreach Group, had a VIP seat in the space center bleachers 6 miles from the launch pad — as close as the public can get. It took 30 seconds for the rumble of the nine-engine rocket to reach her.
“You can feel the air moving,” she said in a telephone interview. “It sort of washes over you.”
“Everyone was screaming and yelling. It was very exciting,” said Cominsky, a 33-year Sonoma State faculty member who has an even longer relationship with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Satellite built by Israeli students successfully put into orbit by ISRO - The Hindu
Three Israeil students, who were part of the teamthat built a satelite launched by ISRO, along with their teachers and president of the charitable organisation ICA in Israel.
As Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C48) took off at 3.25 p.m. on Wednesday, three Israeli students waited with bated breadth at ISRO's launch facility at Srikarikota.
Duchifat 3, a small remote sensing satellite weighing 2.3 kilogram, built by students from Sha'ar HaNegev High School and few other schools in collaboration with Herzliya Space Center (HSC) in Israel, was part of the nine commercial satellites launched by ISRO on Wednesday along with its own earth observation satellite.
Air Force seeking commercial technologies for cislunar space operations - SpaceNews.com
WASHINGTON — The Air Force Small Business Innovation Research program has released a new list of topics for companies to submit proposals. On the wish list for the next round of SBIR bids are technologies for operations far beyond geosynchronous Earth orbit, near the moon’s orbit.
Cislunar operations is one of three space-focused areas in the SBIR pre-solicitation notice released Dec. 10 by the Air Force technology accelerator known as AFWERX. Proposals are due Feb. 12. The full list includes 19 topics.
Spacecraft spots asteroid debris responsible for spectacular meteor shower | Science | AAAS
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA— As asteroids go, Phaethon is a weird one. The enigmatic space rock, about 5 kilometers wide, is one of only a handful known to eject dust from its surface. Now, cameras aboard the Sun-grazing Parker Solar Probe have imaged a 20-million-kilometer-long trail of dust shed by Phaethon.
Previous attempts to image debris from Phaethon (named for the son of Helios, the Sun god in Greek mythology)—even using the sensitive Hubble Space Telescope —were unsuccessful. The asteroid's trajectory takes it within the orbit of Mercury, and scientists have hypothesized that the Sun's extreme heat causes the rock's surface to fracture and release dust . But the amount of dust that Parker Solar Probe spotted is less than what's expected for the Geminid meteor shower.
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