13 May 2019
New study suggests Moon is still tectonically active
... scarps; a displacement of the land caused by a shortening, or contraction, of the crust. These faults are part of a vast, global network revealed in high resolution images collected by the LRO and have been estimated to be less than 50 million years...
July 2014
Beware the situation: how JSpOC tracks space debris
... Base, California, actively tracks all objects of ‘softball size’ (10cm) or larger in orbit, using the US Space Surveillance Network (SSN) as our primary detection suite of sensors. The SSN is comprised of ground radar and optical systems and...
18 October 2016
Australian Defence space capability gets a boost as it gets ready to launch its Buccaneer CubeSats
... predict the orbits of space objects, Buccaneer will perform calibration experiments for Australia’s Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) from Low Earth Orbit. “Satellites and space debris move around erratically due to space weather...
28 April 2017
Cassini's first dive between Saturn and its rings
... with mission control, is in the process of beaming back science and engineering data, via NASA's Deep Space Network Goldstone Complex in California's Mojave Desert. During this final chapter, Cassini will make a total of 22 dives between...
06 January 2021
India lays out its space plans for the next 10 years
... to meet the future requirements including that of human space flight. The ISRO Telemetry Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC) was India's nerve centre for the country’s first interplanetary mission, the Mars Orbiter Mission...
13 January 2021
Portugal envision building a spaceport on the Azores islands
... its Santa Maria Island in the Azores archipelago is used to host one of ESA’s ESTRACK (ESA's Tracking Stations Network) antennas. However its space agency is relatively new and was only established 18 months ago. During this...
