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#Space Science | Applications

#CAPSTONE | Blazing path for Gateway, lunar space station | NASA

#Starliner | Spacecraft | Boeing

#Commercial Crew Program | NASA

#Galactic Quintet | Five galaxies cluster | Sparkling clusters of young stars | Sweeping tails of gas | Huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, smashes through the cluster | Webb Telescope

#Cosmic Cliffs | Image revealing for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth | WebbTelescope

#Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 | As it appeared 4.6 billion years ago | Webb Telescope

#Steamy Atmosphere | Captured the distinct signature of water, along with evidence for clouds and haze, in the atmosphere surrounding WASP-96 b | Webb Telescope

#Southern Ring Nebula | Dimmer star in Nebula seen cloaked in dust | Webb Telescope

#Galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 | Galaxy objects are blue and lack spikes | Galaxies contain stars, but very little dust | Their stars are older – there is less gas and dust available to condense to form new stars | It also means their stars are aging | Webb Telescope

#MIRI | Mid Infrared Instrument | MIRI captures mid infrared light, which highlights where the dust is | Dust is a major ingredient for star | Researchers to add much more precise calculations of dust quantities in stars and galaxies to their models | Beginning to more clearly understand how galaxies at any distance form and change over time | ESA | NASA | The MIRI European Consortium | JPL | University of Arizona

#NIRCam | Near Infrared Camera | Deep field, is a composite made from images at different wavelengths, totaling 12.5 hours | Researchers will continue to use Webb to take longer exposures | Webb Telescope

#ESA | Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission

#SpaceX | T Mobile | Starlink satellites | Providing mobile users with network access in parts of the United States

#AST SpaceMobile | Building a global cellular broadband network in space

#Vodafone | Developing space based mobile network to connect directly with standard mobile phones | Devices to switch between space and ground based networks automatically

#ICEYE | Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

#General Atomics | Air to Air Laser Communication System | Crosslinks from aircraft to other platforms such as unmanned aircraft, maritime vessels, and space systems

#ESA | Solar Orbiter | Solar snake | Tube of cool plasma suspended by magnetic fields in the hotter surrounding plasma of the Sun atmosphere | Plasma gas is hot and electrically charged being susceptible to magnetic fields | All gas in Sun atmosphere is a plasma temperature exceeding a million degrees centigrade | Mullard Space Science Laboratory (UCL), UK | Extreme Ultraviolet Imager onboard Solar Orbiter | Snake plasma travelling ca170 km/s | Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) | Understanding solar activity and space weather

#Artemis | NASA | ESA | Uncrewed test flight | Crewed flight beyond the Moon | Landing the first female astronaut and first astronaut of colour on the Moon | Spending a week performing scientific studies on the lunar surface

#SWOT | Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission | Providing high definition data on the salt and fresh water on Earth surface | Measuring the height of water in Earth freshwater bodies and the ocean | Providing insights into how the ocean influences climate change | how a warming world affects lakes, rivers, and reservoirs | how communities can better prepare for disasters, like floods | Tracking Earth water budget | where the water is today | where it is coming from | where it is going to be tomorrow | Helping to understand oceans role in climate change | ObservIng the entire length of nearly all rivers wider than 330 feet (100 meters) | Viewing rivers in 3D for the first time | Data of over a million lakes larger than 15 acres (62500 square meters) | Providing information about global ocean atmosphere heat exchange | NASA | CNES | CSA | UK Space Agency | ESA

#Airbus | Space exploration | Electronic components | Telecommunications relay platforms | Scientific satellites | Crewed spacecraft

#ArianeGroup | Safran | Ariane launcher

#SpaceX | Starship human landing system

#C2ES | Extreme Heat Study

#National Wheather Service | HeatIndex

#Thermo Fisher Scientific | Global Climate Studies

#Engineering Toolbox | Wet Bulb Temperature

#Sciencing | Air Temperature Space

#Sciencing | Air Humanity Space

#Space Energy Initiative| Space Power Station

#NASA | Satellite Earth Observation

#Intelsat | ESA | HummingSat | SWISSto12 | Geostationary orbit 36 000 kilometres above Earth | Small and lightweight | Designed for rideshare missions on launchers carrying one or more larger spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbit | Additive manufactured radio frequency equipment | Faster satellite build cycles in the future

#EUmetsat | Defining the system requirements | Developing the ground systems | Procuring the launch services | Operating the satellites | Making the data available to users

#MTG system | Providing critical data for weather forecasting

#NATO | Innovation Fund | Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) | Dual use emerging technologies of priority to NATO | Artificial intelligence | Quantum enabled technologies | Autonomy | Biotechnology |Novel materials | Energy | Propulsion | Space

#Intel | Neuromorphic computing | Biological neural computation | New algorithmic approaches | Emulating human brain interactions | Spiking neural networks (SNNs) | Simulating natural learning | Dynamically remapping neural networks | Making decisions in response to learned patterns over time | Powering autonomous AI solutions | Supporting energy efficiency and continuous learning | Sensing | Robotics | Healthcare | Large scale AI applications

#Moon to Mars Program Office at NASA | Preparing to carry out missions to the Moon | Preparing to land the first humans on Mars

#UPM Plywood | WISA Woodsat | Kitsat 1U CubeSat | Selfies stick by Huld | Atomic oxygen sensor by Captain Corrosion, Tartu University | Color test cards by Tikkurila | Atomic Layer Deposition by Picosun | Fastener for the screws by Henkel

#ReOrbit | Autonomous & internetworking satellites manufacturing | Flght software | Satellite platform | Simulation software | SatCom satellites | Software defined satellite architecture | Mission simulator

#NASA | Artemis Accords | Outer Space Treaty | Creating safe and transparent environment which facilitates exploration, science, and commercial activities for all of humanity to enjoy

#Gateway | Multi purpose outpost orbiting the Moon | Provides essential support for long term human return to the lunar surface | Serves as a staging points for deep space exploration | Develop and test the technology and science needed for a human trip to Mars | Command and control systems for the lunar outpost | Robotic interfaces provided by the Canadian Space Agency to host payloads | ESA to provide lunar communications system to enable high data rate communications between lunar surface and Gateway | ESA provided refueling module

#Northrop Grumman | Developing Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) for Gateway | Attaching and testing integrated HALO with Power and Propulsion Element (PPE)

#Maxar Technologies | Solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem destined for PPE

#Busek Co | Solar electric propulsion (SEP) subsystem | Thrusters

#Blue Origin | Developing a crewed lunar lander | NASA Artemis program | Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) | $7 billion project | Blue Origin-led team: Lockheed Martin | Boeing | Draper | Astrobotic | Honeybee Robotics | Leidos | Dynetics

#Dynetics | Crewed lunar lander

#Leidos | Crewed lunar lander

#Honeybee Robotics | Crewed lunar lander |Mars Lander Return System | Lunar Power Grid for Artemis | Pneumatic sampler for Martian Moon Mission by JAXA | Motion control in space | Solar array drive and power transfer technologies

#Astrobotic | Crewed lunar lander

#Draper | Crewed lunar lander

#Boeing | Crewed lunar lander

#NASA Space Science | OSIRIS-REx | Collected sample from asteroid | Returned sample to Earth to drop off material from asteroid Bennu | Released capsule holding pieces of Bennu over Earth atmosphere | Research whether asteroids colliding with Earth billions of years ago brought water and other key ingredients for life | Mission to help scientists investigate how planets formed and how life began, as well as improve understanding of asteroids that could impact Earth | 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu | Evidence of high-carbon content and water in sample | Specialized gloveboxes and tools to keep asteroid material pristine | Electron microscope | Infrared measurements | X-ray diffraction | Chemical element analysis | X-ray computed tomography | 3D computer model | New Frontiers Program