One giant leap for South Africa into space science with Nyameko Royi
South Africa took an important step forward this year in space science when the Cape Peninsula University of Technology launched three nanosatellites.
Currently, the satellites are in the air and we are stabilising them, and that is kind of the exciting part. If you have one satellite, it is quite easy because you have one target.
ISRO to start 2022 space romance with RISAT launch on Valentine's Day : The Tribune India
The Indian space agency will begin this year's romance with space missions on the Valentine's Day, on February 14, by having one more eye in the sky, with the radar imaging satellite RISAT-1A or EOS-4.
According to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C52 (PSLV-C51) carrying 1,710 kg EOS-04 is scheduled to lift off at 5.59 a.m. on February 14.
NASA picks Lockheed Martin to build rocket to carry Mars samples back to Earth | Space
The agency announced on Monday (Feb. 7) that it has selected the aerospace company Lockheed Martin to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small rocket that will launch pristine Red Planet samples back toward Earth a decade or so from now.
"Committing to the Mars Ascent Vehicle represents an early and concrete step to hammer out the details of this ambitious project not just to land on Mars , but to take off from it," Thomas Zurbuchen, the associate administrator for science at NASA Headquarters, said in a statement .
Mars rover Perseverance sets distance record on the Red Planet | Space
The Perseverance rover's self-driving function is working just great on Mars, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The mission, not quite at one Earth year on Mars, has topped a new distance record for Red Planet rovers. On Friday (Feb. 4) Perseverance made the longest drive completed in a single Martian day, or sol, traveling 806.3 feet (245.76 meters), the rover's Twitter feed reported.
Rogue black hole spotted on its own for the first time | Space
Astronomers may have for the first time detected and measured the mass of an isolated stellar-mass black hole, a new study finds.
Stars big enough to create black holes are estimated to make up about one out of a thousand stars, suggesting that in the Milky Way , "there should be about 100 million stellar-mass black holes," study lead author Kailash Sahu, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in
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NSF Appoints NJIT's Wenda Cao to Its Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has appointed Wenda Cao, physics professor and director of the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) of NJIT's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (CSTR) , to its Astronomy and Astrophysics Advisory Committee (AAAC).
The AAAC is comprised of 13 distinguished astronomers from U.S. universities tasked with advising the NSF, NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy on emerging issues within the fields of astronomy and astrophysics.
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