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Planet Labs and Google Cloud join forces in data analysis agreement
Satellite operator Planet Labs is beefing up its existing partnership with Google Cloud. Under a new agreement, Planet customers can use Google Cloud to store and process data, and access Google’s other products such as its data analytics warehouse BigQuery. The two companies’ collaboration stretches back to 2017, when Google sold its satellite imaging business, […]
Scientists Locate Likely Origin For the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
The asteroid credited with the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago is likely to have originated from the outer half of the solar system’s main asteroid belt, according to new research by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Space.com repor…
Saturn’s Insides Are Sloshing Around
A new paper suggests Saturn’s core is more like a fluid than a solid, and makes up more of the planet’s interior than we thought. From a report: With its massive rings stretching out 175,000 miles in diameter, Saturn is a one-of-a-kind planet in the so…
Aurora Propulsion Technologies will be sending up space junk removal tech on Rocket Lab’s Electron later this year
Aurora Propulsion Technologies, a Finnish company that develops thrusters and de-orbiting modules for small satellites, will be sending its technology to space for the first time. The company has signed on with Rocket Lab to send its inaugural AuroraSat-1 cubesat into low Earth orbit aboard an Electron rocket rideshare mission in the fourth quarter of […]
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin goes toe-to-toe with NASA in federal court over award to SpaceX
Blue Origin, the space company helmed by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is taking NASA to court. The company filed a complaint with a federal claims court on Monday over the agency’s decision to award a lunar lander contract solely to rival company SpaceX. The complaint, which Blue Origin successfully petitioned to have sealed, says NASA’s evaluation […]
火星探査車「パーサヴィアランス」が採取したサンプルが“空っぽ”だったことの意味
米航空宇宙局（NASA）の火星探査車「パーサヴィアランス」が火星の岩石を掘削し、サンプルの採取を試みた。ところが、その中身が“空っぽ”だったことが明らかになった。この「失踪事件」からNASAのチームは、どこで狂いが生じたのか推測する上で役立ついくつかのヒントを掴んでいる。さらにこの問題が、火星の地質に関する重要な手がかりをもたらすかもしれない。
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Why Perseverance’s first Mars drilling test came up empty
Sampling might offer tantalizing clues about the past of the red planet.
Boeing Starliner Launch Delayed Again
Boeing’s Starliner astronaut capsule won’t be launching to the International Space Station until it’s gone through “deeper-level troubleshooting” to fix an issue with stuck propulsion system valves, according to a press release from the company. That t…
Black Hole ‘Burps’ May Help Determine Their Size
According to a new study published in the journal Science, feeding supermassive black holes emit a noticeable flickering light that is directly related to their mass. “The researchers describe the flickering as the black hole equivalent of a burp,” rep…