NASA’s James Webb Telescope detects life-supporting gases like dimethyl sulfide on K2-18b, hinting at the possibility of alien life.
Witness the rare 7-planet alignment tonight!
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized AST SpaceMobile to conduct space-based activities in the country. This announcement was made by the company. For its initial five commercial BlueBird satellites, this license permits the use of V, S, and UHF frequencies for gateway, feeder link, telemetry, tracking, and control purposes.
On Friday, NASA announced that it is creating a new lunar time zone for the Moon. NASA was instructed by a policy statement released by the White House in April to develop the new standard by 2026. According to the space agency's confirmation, more than five months later (government time, y'all), it would collaborate with “U.S. government stakeholders, partners, and international standards organizations” to create a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC).
Astronomy data as a service (DaaS) will be made available by the corporation to academic institutions and researchers worldwide.
With the launch of the SuperView-3 (01) satellite early on Monday, China carried out the next phase of building a commercial constellation of remote sensing satellites.
A U.S. Space Force weather monitoring satellite was launched on April 11 by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. At 7:25 a.m. Pacific Time, the vehicle took off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Resilience of NASA The latest rock core sample taken on March 11 by the Mars rover underwent extended exposure to water in the planet's distant past, potentially as a part of an ancient Martian shoreline, according to newly conducted analysis of the sample. A sample of the Martian atmosphere, regolith, and several rock cores comprised the rover's twenty-fourth sample, which allowed for this discovery.
NASA conducted a test drive of the small autonomous rovers that will soon travel to the moon and map the lunar surface collectively. The rovers are a component of the Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration, which aims to demonstrate how a collection of robotic spacecraft can cooperate without direct human supervision. In order to replicate the rough terrain they will encounter on the moon, NASA took the suitcase-sized rovers for a test drive across Mars Yard at the organization's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
Recently, the Orion spacecraft that was part of the Artemis I mission in 2022 made a second round trip when it returned to Ohio for testing. The spacecraft had previously gone around the Moon and back.