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Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Interview: Hunting Gravitational Waves, An Interview With Professor Catia Grimani
Like all waves, gravitational ones transport energy, producing perturbations. We can visualize them by imagining a rope which we hold at one end and is tightly fixed on the other one; when we give a vertical impulse to it, we produce a perturbation -- a "wave" -- that propagates forward to the other end.
Read More »Bahrain’s NSSA Issues Request For Tender For 3U CubeSat – MoU With Roscosmos Approved
Bahrain's National Space Science Agency (NSSA) issued a Request for Tenders on 18 February 2020 for a 3U CubeSat, a basic ground station, and the satellite's launch. The closing date for the submission of tenders is 25 March 2020.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op-Ed: How To Optimise Your Headspace On A Mission To Mars
Imagine being confined to a metal cell with a couple of other people and few amenities for months or even years. Maybe after that, you’ll be moved to a new compound, but you still have no privacy and extremely limited communication with your family and anyone else in the outside world.
Read More »NASA Awards Launch Services Contract For The Psyche Mission To SpaceX
NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s Psyche mission. The Psyche mission currently is targeted to launch in July 2022 on a Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex 39A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The total cost for NASA to launch Psyche and …
Read More »UAE’s MBRSC To Host Fifth Annual Emirates Mars Mission Science Workshop
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) is hosting the fifth edition of the Annual Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Science Workshop between 15-17 March 2020 across three cities in the UAE.
Read More »AAC Clyde Space Selected To Deliver Batteries For Intuitive Machines’ Lunar Lander Mission
AAC Clyde Space has been selected to supply batteries to the Nova-C lunar lander mission led by the U.S. company Intuitive Machines.
Read More »Canadian Space Agency Releases Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program Opportunity
The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has issued an industrial capacity-building contribution announcement of opportunity (AO) for the Lunar Exploration Accelerator Program (LEAP), as reported by Space Q.
Read More »#SpaceWatchGL Op-Ed: Humanity’s Virtual Presence In Space In The Quantum Age
Since the launch of the first satellite, Sputnik I, on 4 October 1957 our presence in space has been described, defined, and politically and technologically driven by metaphors.
Read More »SANSA And NASA Sign Deep Space Communications Study Agreement
The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently signed an agreement to partner in a study to conduct technical and environmental research on the potential to establish a ground station in South Africa.
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