The China Academy of Space Technology has announced plans to launch the world’s first X-ray pulsar navigation satellite (XPNAV-1) in November, Xinhua reported. The move brings autonomous spacecraft navigation and a more precise deep-space GPS one step closer to reality.
Rocket: Chang Zheng 3B/YZ1; Payload: Beidou-3M15, Beidou-3M16 [Beidou-39, Beidou-40]; Date: 15 October 2018, 0423 UTC; Launch site: Xichang Satellite Launch…
The cause of Chandra’s safe mode on 10 October has now been understood and the Operations team has successfully returned…
Luxembourg-based Kleos Space S.A. announced the signature of a second Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space, as both…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in United States has chosen Thales to develop and build an operational ground…
At approximately 1355 UTC on 10 October 2018, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory entered safe mode, where the telescope’s instruments are…
NASA continues to work toward resuming science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode due…