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  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said in a statement on Thursday that the launch of the joint Russian-European ExoMars-2020 astrobiology mission, aimed at searching for evidence of life on Mars, had been postponed after the recent failure of tests of the parachutes needed for the landing. "The launch of the ExoMars-2020 mission is planned to take place during the 'astronomic window' from July 26-August 13, 2020, with landing on Mars scheduled for March 2021," Roscosmos said. Meanwhi ... read more |
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Robotic toolkit added to NASA's Mars 2020 RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2019 The bit carousel - a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet - has been incorporated into NAS ... more  
Bolton says Russia 'stole' US hypersonic technologyWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019 The senior White House official made the highly contentious claims while commenting on the recent explosion at a military facility in Russia's Arkhangelsk region involving the testing of an unspecif ... more  
Virgin Galactic unveils new Mission Control for space tourismWashington (AFP) Aug 15, 2019 Space tourism moved a step closer to reality Thursday as Virgin Galactic unveiled its new Mission Control at a spaceport in New Mexico and the schedule for final test flights before taking paying customers into the final frontier. ... more  
Radiation up to '16 times' the norm near Russia blast siteMoscow (AFP) Aug 13, 2019 Radiation levels were up to 16 times the norm in a nearby town after an explosion at a Russian missile testing site, the national weather service said Tuesday. ... more |
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Finding a cosmic fog within shattered intergalactic pancakesNew Haven CT (SPX) Aug 14, 2019 To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe - and the extraordinary things that happen to it - a Yale-led team of astronomers took a deep dive into the cosmic fog. They learned intriguing ... more  
How Many Earth-like Planets Are Around Sun-like StarsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are similar to Earth in size and in distance from their host star occur around stars similar to our Sun. Knowing th ... more  
ALMA dives into Black Hole's 'Sphere of Influence'Socorro NM (SPX) Aug 08, 2019 What happens inside a black hole stays inside a black hole, but what happens inside a black hole's "sphere of influence" - the innermost region of a galaxy where a black hole's gravity is the domina ... more 
Timeline suggests 'giant planet migration' was earlier than predictedWashington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 New research suggests the the reorganization of the solar system's planets, the so-called "giant planet migration," occurred earlier than previously thought. ... more 
Stellar Evolution in Real Time Detected in the Old Star T Ursae MajorisBoston MA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 An international team of astronomers succeeded in detecting signs of aging in the red supergiant star T UMi. The star in the Little Bear constellation is currently going through its last nuclear "hi ... more |
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A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing ringsLos Angeles CA (The Conversation) Aug 15, 2019 Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with ... more  |
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India orders Russian equipment for first manned space missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2019 India has ordered Russia's space equipment as it is preparing to send its first manned mission to orbit, according to Sergey Pozdnyakov, general director and chief designer of Research and Developme ... more 
Secret Russia weapon project: gamechanger or PR stunt?Paris (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 A deadly explosion at a Russian testing site has focused attention on President Vladimir Putin's bid to build a nuclear-powered missile that the Kremlin hopes would give Moscow the edge in a new arms race. ... more  
We use satellites to measure water scarcityBinghamton NY (SPX) Aug 14, 2019 Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources, such as wells, springs and surface water. About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Afri ... more 
US detect explosion of old European Ariane 4 rocket in spaceMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019 The Ariane-4 is a European disposable medium-class carrier rocket, which was used from 1988 to 2003. The rocket design was developed by the French National Centre for Space Research (CNES), produced ... more  
Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's CoreBern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 New interior models of Jupiter based on data gathered by NASA's Juno mission suggested that the giant gas planet might not have a small compact core but rather a diluted, "fuzzy" one. Now, an intern ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2019 
Xplore and Celestis will host Celestis Memorial Spaceflight payloads on Xplore's planned missions to the Moon, and beyond, starting in 2021. This event marks Celestis' first Voyager Mission, called "the Enterprise Flight."
"Celestis is a pioneer of the commercial space age and a proven provider of uniquely compelling celebrations of lives well-lived with space-based memorial services for c ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 
A deadly explosion at a Russian testing site has focused attention on President Vladimir Putin's bid to build a nuclear-powered missile that the Kremlin hopes would give Moscow the edge in a new arms race.
Western experts have linked the blast at the Nyonoksa test site on August 8, which caused a sharp spike in local radiation levels, to the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile f ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2019 
The bit carousel - a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet - has been incorporated into NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
"The bit carousel is at the heart of the sampling and caching subsystem," said Keith Rosette, Mars 2020 sample handling delivery manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019 
A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up.
Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 
ThinKom Solutions reveals its new innovative solution for efficient and effective land-based gateways designed to accommodate current and next generation low-Earth-orbit (LEO) and medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite constellations.
The new gateway concept, which ThinKom describes as an "array of arrays," will provide a superior alternative to the large "antenna farms" of parabolic dishes cu ... more |
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 Centennial CO (SPX) Aug 13, 2019 
SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) is pleased to announce it has been granted a Canadian patent for an advanced RF processing Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. SEAKR's Canadian patent CA 2,953,837 "Integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC with Analog Digital Converter (ADC), Digital Analog Converter (DAC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)" marks the firm's 4th patent received globall ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Aug 14, 2019  New research from astronomers at the University of Washington uses the intriguing TRAPPIST-1 planetary system as a kind of laboratory to model not the planets themselves, but how the coming James Webb Space Telescope might detect and study their atmospheres, on the path toward looking for life beyond Earth.
The study, led by Jacob Lustig-Yaeger, a UW doctoral student in astronomy, finds th ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Aug 09, 2019  The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter's clouds in this new image taken on 27 June 2019 [1]. It features the planet's trademark Great Red Spot and a more intense colour palette in the clouds swirling in the planet's turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years.
Among the most striking features in the image are the rich colours of the cloud ... more |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Aug 14, 2019 
Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources, such as wells, springs and surface water.
About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, in more than 30 African countries, fewer than 20% of the people have access to safe drinking water.
Climate change is likely to worsen the situation by making water less available i ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 
Lockheed Martin presented the 2nd Space Operations Squadron with a GPS Block III model satellite to celebrate the successful on-orbit testing of the new GPS III satellite at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, July 29.
Staff Sgt. Joseph Wood, 2nd SOPS mission chief, said the model is a physical representation of the modernization underway.
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 New Delhi, India (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 
The final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully carried out August 14, 2019 at 02:21 am IST. During this maneuver, the spacecraft's liquid engine was fired for about 1203 seconds. With this, Chandrayaan-2 entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory. Earlier, the spacecraft's orbit was progressively increased five times during July 23 to August 06, 2019.
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Aug 13, 2019 
The existing astronomical observatories on Maunakea returned to operations this weekend, and it didn't take long for a significant result to be achieved, not only for science, but for assuring the safety of the Earth.
Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made on August 11 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have ruled out any potential future impact threat to the Ea ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2019 
Invisible to the human eye, molecular interactions between gases and liquids underpin much of our lives, including the absorption of oxygen molecules into our lungs, many industrial processes and the conversion of organic compounds within our atmosphere. But difficulties in measuring gas-liquid collisions have so far prevented the fundamental exploration of these processes.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts and spacecraft.
"This is the first time that our heliophysics program has funded this kind of technology demonstration," said Peg Luce, deputy director of the Helioph ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019  Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2019 
NASA has selected two proposals for concept studies that could help us better understand the fundamental nature of space and how it changes in response to planetary atmospheres, radiation from the Sun, and interstellar particles. The proposals will advance NASA's heliophysics program and could lead to better protection for both technology and humans as we travel farther from home.
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