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May 06, 2021
ROCKET SCIENCE
Touchdown! SpaceX successfully lands Starship rocket
Washington (AFP) May 5, 2021

SpaceX managed to land its prototype Starship rocket at its Texas base without blowing it up on Wednesday, the first time it has succeeded in doing so in five attempts. ... more


SPACE TRAVEL
Blue Origin will fly first crew to space in July
Washington (AFP) May 5, 2021

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin will send its first crew to space on July 20 and is offering one of the seats to the winner of an online auction, the company said Wednesday. ... more

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
Space startup Quasar takes off with CSIRO Tech
Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 05, 2021

New Australian space startup Quasar Satellite Technologies is set to revolutionise space communication, allowing ground stations to talk to hundreds of satellites at once using technology developed ... more

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MOON DAILY
Researchers create new lunar map to help guide future exploration missions
Fayetteville AK (SPX) May 05, 2021

A new map including rover paths of the Schrodinger basin, a geologically important area of the moon, could guide future exploration missions.The map was created by a team of interns at the Lunar and ... more

SPACE TRAVEL
Start of a new series of tests for plant cultivation on the Moon and Mars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 05, 2021

Nine weeks of darkness and temperatures down to minus 50 degrees Celsius. Under these harsh conditions of Antarctica, NASA and the German Aerospace Center have begun a joint series of experiments on ... more


TECH SPACE
US must embrace human augmentation or fall behind competitors
Washington DC (Sputnik) May 04, 2021

Mixing human ingenuity with machine efficiency, power, and speed can create superhuman capabilities in the coming decade, and the US must embrace this change in technological era or fall behind glob ... more

SPACE TRAVEL
Blue Origin opens online auction for seat on 1st crewed flight
Washington DC (UPI) May 5, 2021

Washington-based spaceflight company Blue Origin opened up an auction Wednesday for a seat on its first crewed flight to the edge of space in July. ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Nano flashlight enables new applications of light
Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2021

In work that could someday turn cell phones into sensors capable of detecting viruses and other minuscule objects, MIT researchers have built a powerful nanoscale flashlight on a chip. Their a ... more

SOLAR SCIENCE
Confirmation of an auroral phenomenon discovered by Finns
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 05, 2021

A new auroral phenomenon discovered by Finnish researchers a year ago is probably caused by areas of increased oxygen atom density occurring in an atmospheric wave channel. The speculative explanati ... more

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
OCS delivers military satellite comms package to Israeli Navy
Netanya, Israel (SPX) May 05, 2021

Orbit Communications Systems Ltd., a leading global provider of maritime and airborne satcom terminals, tracking ground station solutions, and mission-critical airborne audio management systems anno ... more

TECH SPACE
GMV supplies a Galileo 2nd gen radio frequency constellation simulator
Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 05, 2021

The technology multinational GMV is playing a key role in the Galileo Second Generation (shortened to G2G). GMV has been selected to lead the consortium that will supply a Radio Frequency Constellat ... more

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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
MAMA focuses on 5G space-enabled communications for advanced mobility
Sterling Heights MIw (SPX) May 05, 2021

The Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association (MAMA) has announced it has received the first in a series of investments that will enable Michigan to take a leadership role in developing 5G Space- ... more

EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA Marshall team on Earth enables science success in orbit
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 05, 2021

Inside humanity's orbiting outpost is a buzz of activity as explorers, pilots, doctors, and scientists from around the world conduct experiments, maintain the facility, and develop new technologies. ... more


SPACE TRAVEL
Space aged: wine matured aboard ISS expected to sell for $1mn
New York (AFP) May 4, 2021

If a bottle of Petrus 2000 that Christie's is selling tastes out of this world it might be because it aged for 14 months aboard the International Space Station. ... more

EXO WORLDS
UBCO researcher uses geology to help astronomers find habitable planets
Kelowna, Canada (SPX) May 05, 2021

Astronomers have identified more than 4,000, and counting, confirmed exoplanets - planets orbiting stars other than the sun - but only a fraction have the potential to sustain life. Now, new r ... more

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TIME AND SPACE
Machine learning accelerates cosmological simulations
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 05, 2021

A universe evolves over billions upon billions of years, but researchers have developed a way to create a complex simulated universe in less than a day. The technique, published in this week's Proce ... more

SPACEMART
Spacecraft magnetic valve used to fill drinks
Paris (ESA) May 04, 2021

A precision magnetic valve originally designed to help steer a lander down to a comet has found a surprise terrestrial use through ESA's Technology Transfer and Patent Office: adding flavours to bev ... more


NANO TECH
Nanostructured device stops light in its tracks
Boston MA (SPX) May 04, 2021

Understanding how light waves oscillate in time as they interact with materials is essential to understanding light-driven energy transfer in materials, such as solar cells or plants. Due to the fan ... more

VENUSIAN HEAT
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Discovers Natural Radio Emission in Venus' Atmosphere
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2021

During a brief swing by Venus, NASA's Parker Solar Probe detected a natural radio signal that revealed the spacecraft had flown through the planet's upper atmosphere. This was the first direct measu ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
In a First, Scientists Map Particle-Laden Rivers in the Sky
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2021

Last summer, "Godzilla" came for the Caribbean and the U.S. Gulf Coast. This particular monster wasn't of the sci-fi variety, but a massive dust storm kicked up by winds from the Sahara Desert and c ... more

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
uGMRT reveals for the first time the patchy environment of a rare cosmic explosion
Mumbai, India (SPX) May 04, 2021

Scientists from the National Centre for radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) Pune used the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) to determine that ... more

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EXO WORLDS
Hubble Watches How a Giant Planet Grows
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 04, 2021

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is giving astronomers a rare look at a Jupiter-sized, still-forming planet that is feeding off material surrounding a young star. "We just don't know very much ab ... more

TIME AND SPACE
Small galaxies likely played important role in evolution of the Universe
Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 04, 2021

A new study led by University of Minnesota astrophysicists shows that high-energy light from small galaxies may have played a key role in the early evolution of the Universe. The research gives insi ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Are there anti-stars around us
Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2021

What if some of the antimatter that was thought to have disappeared was hiding around us in the form of anti-stars? Researchers from the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology are us ... more

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Exoplanet-hunter TESS telescope spots bright gamma-ray burst
Dallas TX (SPX) May 01, 2021

NASA has a long tradition of unexpected discoveries, and the space program's TESS mission is no different. SMU astrophysicist and her team have discovered a particularly bright gamma-ray burst using ... more


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