Ten Satellogic Earth-imaging satellites successfully launched
On Friday, November 6th at 03:18 UTC, a Long March 6 took off from LC-16 at the Taiyun Satellite Launch Centre in Shanxi Province in China, carrying ten Argentinian satellites
GPS III Space Vehicle 04 Mission
On November 5 at 23:24 UTC, SpaceX launched the GPS III Space Vehicle 04 onboard a Falcon 9 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Rocket Lab successfully launches satellites for Planet and Canon
On October 28th at 21:21 UTC, Rocket Lab launched an Electron for the “In Focus” mission from Launch Complex 1 on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand.
Iconic Parkes Radio Telescope Given Indigenous Name
And to give you one final bit of cheer, we are pleased to share that iconic Parkes Observatory in Australia has gone on a telescope naming spree.
Radiation Does a Bright Number on Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Everyone take a deep breath and look at the beauty of Europa. It glows. No, literally, it glows.
Second Cable Fails at NSF’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico
In our next story, once again radio-related, we have bad news from Arecibo National Observatory. This massive dish, built in Puerto Rico, had another support cable fail.
Craters on Bennu’s Boulders Indicate Asteroid’s Age
Oh, hey look! A Bennu story. Unless you have been living under a rock – and frankly the way this year has gone, who could blame you? – you know that OSIRIS-REx snagged a sample of Bennu’s surface last month.
Maunakea Telescopes Confirm Radio Discovery of Brown Dwarf
In a new radio survey, the LOFAR radio array was used to search for objects too cold and faint to be found in existing infrared surveys.
Clay Subsoil at Earth’s Driest Place May Signal Life on Mars
Not everything this week is brought to you courtesy of radio telescopes. Space science can involve fieldwork, too. High in the Atacama Desert in Chile, scientists continue to study the extremely arid region as an analog of Mars.
NASA Missions Help Pinpoint the Source of a Unique X-Ray, Radio Burst
Today’s science is largely radioed in from observatories around the world and starts with what appears to be the first identification of an object emitting a fast radio burst (FRB).
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