Space and time: Final countdown for U of A students building Ex-Alta 2 satellite | CBC News
Ex-Alta 2, a cube-shaped satellite weighing less than three kilograms, will carry a camera — called IRIS — that will take images of current active wildfires and affected areas after the fires are out.
The satellite and most of its equipment have been designed and built by the U of A's AlbertaSat team.
China's Mars orbiter has mapped the entire Red Planet | Space
China's first successful interplanetary mission has completed mapping the Red Planet more than a year after its arrival.
The Tianwen 1 orbiter used its medium-resolution camera to image the surface of Mars ; the spacecraft also completed science objectives assigned to the six other scientific payloads on board.
Astronomy on Tap | www.caltech.edu
How do scientists study the atmospheres of planets that orbit around other stars, light-years away from us? How do we transmit data back from the dozens of interplanetary NASA missions around the Solar System?
NASA rolls Artemis 1 moon mission off the launch pad (photos) | Space
The Artemis 1 stack — a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket topped by an Orion crew capsule — departed Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 4:12 a.m. EDT (0812 GMT) on Saturday (July 2).
The duo made it to KSC's cavernous Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) by around 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT), completing the 4-mile (6.4 kilometers) trek atop NASA's enormous crawler-transporter 2 vehicle in a little over 10 hours, agency officials said in a blog post (opens in new tab) .
NASA's flying SOFIA observatory on last New Zealand trip | Space
After eight years of science work, jet-turned-telescope SOFIA is preparing to take its final flight. But before its end of service on Sept. 30, the flying observatory is taking one last trip abroad.
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a joint project between NASA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and consists of a modified Boeing 747 aircraft with a special door built into its side that opens mid-flight to reveal observational instruments.
NTU Singapore successfully launches its 10th | EurekAlert!
Chinese astronaut Jing Haipeng interacts with Sino-Swiss students - CGTN
Jing Haipeng (R, commander), and Chen Dong(L), at a send-off ceremony on China's Shenzhou-11 mission, October 17, 2016. /CFP
Chinese astronaut Jing Haipeng held an online exchange with university students from China and Switzerland on Thursday, as part of a Sino-Swiss space science meeting aiming to boost cooperation.
Interview: James Poskett on Reframing the History of Science
Top: Commonly known as the “Waldseemüller map,” the document is the first known map to use the name “America.” It was published in 1507 by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller. Visual: Library of Congress
T hink of a famous scientist from the past. What name did you come up with? Very likely, someone from Europe or the United States. That's hardly surprising, because science is often taught in Western classrooms as though it's a European-American endeavor.
South Korea′s new space program reaches for the stars | Asia | An in-depth look at news from ...
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Seoul has announced significant financial support for South Korea's aerospace sector after the launch of the nation's first domestically developed rocket and the successful deployment of satellites.
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