A ‘primordial’ black hole may zoom through our solar system every decade
If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, then at least one may fly through the solar system per decade, generating tiny gravitational…
There Could be a Way to Fix Spacecraft at L2, Like Webb and Gaia
Billions of dollars of observatory spacecraft orbit around Earth or in the same orbit as our planet. When something wears out or goes wrong, it would be good to be…
ESA tests Neuraspace traffic management services
PARIS – The European Space Agency plans to test space traffic management services offered by Portuguese startup Neuraspace. Under a contract announced Sept. 16, ESA’s Space Debris Office will integrate…
ImageSat International (ISI) Announces $54.5 Million Contract to Provide Space-Based Analytics Services
ImageSat International (ISI) has been awarded a $54.5 million agreement to provide space-based intelligence analytics services for an International Defense Customer, for a period of three years. The service will…
Apex unveils larger satellite bus
Satellite manufacturer Apex formally rolled out a larger satellite bus that the company says is geared for more demanding missions from government customers. The post Apex unveils larger satellite bus…
Can a Greenhouse with a Robotic Arm Feed the Next Lunar Astronauts?
Continuous human habitation of the Moon is the state aim of many major space-faring nations in the coming decades. Reaching that aim requires many tasks, but one of the most…
Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Two of the Biggest Mysteries in Cosmology
Of all the mysteries facing astronomers and cosmologists today, the “Hubble Tension” remains persistent! This term refers to the apparent inconsistency of the Universe’s expansion (aka. the Hubble Constant) when…
Studying Stars from the Lunar Surface with MoonLITE, Courtesy of NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services
Optical interferometry has been a long-proven science method that involves using several separate telescopes to act as one big telescope, thus achieving more accurate data as opposed to each telescope…
NGSO revenue to overtake geostationary market by 2028
Constellations in non-geostationary orbit are set to overtake geostationary satellites in revenue by 2028, according to Novaspace research published Sept. 15. The post NGSO revenue to overtake geostationary market by…
Could we turn the sun into a gigantic telescope?
Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space.