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  Houston TX (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 NASA has selected Axiom Space of Houston to provide at least one habitable commercial module to be attached to the International Space Station as the agency continues to open the station for commercial use. "NASA has once again recognized the hard work, talent, and experience of Houstonians as we expand the International Space Station and promote commercial opportunities in space," said Sen. John Cornyn of Texas. "I'm proud Axiom will continue to build upon Texas' legacy of leading the nation in h ... read more |
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QinetiQ to play key role in maximising European capabilities in operational earth observationLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 QinetiQ's space business has confirmed it has secured a major new contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to extend Europe's capabilities in operational Earth Observation. The new euro 75m co ... more  
New mission will take 1st peek at Sun's polesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun's north and south poles. Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, wil ... more  
China to launch more space science satellitesBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic ... more  
SpaceX pushes back Starlink launch to WednesdayWashington DC (UPI) Jan 27, 2020 Weather concerns have prompted SpaceX to push back a launch attempt of Starlink satellites by another day. The company now is targeting 9:06 a.m. Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. ... more |
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Quantum physics: On the way to quantum networksMunich, Germany (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 Physicists at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, together with colleagues at Saarland University, have successfully demonstrated the transport of an entangled state between an atom and ... more  
Nano-thin flexible touchscreens could be printed like newspaperMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 Researchers have developed an ultra-thin and ultra-flexible electronic material that could be printed and rolled out like newspaper, for the touchscreens of the future. The touch-responsive te ... more  
Nuclear waste turned into 'near-infinite powerful' batteries to potentially boost spacecraft mightBristol UK (SPX) Jan 26, 2020 British university researchers have turned their attention to deserted nuclear power plants and the tonnes of waste they still house despite long ago having closed down. What they have stumbled upon ... more 
Bartolomeo starts its journey to the International Space StationBremen, Germany (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 The Bartolomeo research platform, developed by Airbus for the International Space Station (ISS), has been delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The move marks a further step towards ... more 
Ghostly particles detected in condensates of light and matterSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 Bose-condensed quantum fluids are not forever. Such states include superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). There is a beautiful purity in such exotic states, in which every par ... more |
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Physicists trap light in nanoresonators for record timeSt Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 An international team of researchers from ITMO University, the Australian National University, and Korea University have experimentally trapped an electromagnetic wave in a gallium arsenide nanoreso ... more  |
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TV provider shifting satellite to high orbit over explosion fearsWashington (AFP) Jan 24, 2020 US authorities said Friday they had granted permission to a TV provider to urgently lift a four-ton (3,600-kilogram) satellite to a so-called "graveyard orbit" over fears a battery fault may soon cause it to explode. ... more  
How Earth climate models help scientists picture life on unimaginable worldsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2020 In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a ... more  
First commercial Moon delivery assignments to will advance ArtemisHouston TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2020 NASA has finalized the first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations, ranging from chemistry to communications, to be delivered to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Sch ... more 
Astronauts complete Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer repairs during spacewalkWashington DC (UPI) Jan 26, 2020 NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano completed repairs on the International Space Station's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on Saturday during the third spacew ... more  
U.S. Strategic Command starts Global Lightning 2020Washington DC (UPI) Jan 23, 2020 U.S. Strategic Command announced Thursday that it has started Exercise Global Lightning 2020. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 24, 2020 
Spacewalk season continues on the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan are getting ready to step outside the Quest airlock for their fourth and final time together on Saturday. But before they do, we look back at an action-packed fortnight of science and operations on the world's only orbital outpost.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 23, 2020 
Firefly Aerospace said Thursday that it is investigating a problem with a first-stage booster rocket that caused a fire during a test near Austin, Texas, on Wednesday.
"There were no injuries and no significant damage to the facility," said Eric Salwan, Firefly's director of commercial business development. "We won't know about the rocket until an investigation."
The company, bas ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are common around stars beyond the solar system.
Life comes in various forms, from cell-phone-toting organisms like humans to the ubiquitous micro-organisms that inhabit almost every square inch of ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020 
China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational waves, solar eruption activities, astronomy and the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere.
Four new missions include the Gravitation ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
The European Commission is partnering with the European Investment Bank Group, announcing EUR 200 million of investments into the EU space sector, supporting ground-breaking innovation in the industry. During the European Space Policy Conference in Brussels, EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle is signing an agreement with Andre-Hubert Roussel, CEO of ArianeGroup, confirming a EUR 100 million loa ... more |
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 Kaliningrad, Russia (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
A researcher from Baltic Federal University together with his colleagues developed a composite material that can change its temperature and parameters under the influence of magnetic and electrical fields. Smart materials are safe for human health, and with these properties can be used to manufacture implants (or surface coating for them) that would work as sensors. The article was published in ... more |
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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Botanists have long held a fascination for heterotrophic plants, not only because they contradict the notion that autotrophy (photosynthesis) is synonymous with plants, but also because such plants are typically rare and ephemeral. However, it is still a matter of debate as to how these plants obtain nutrition.
A research team consisting of Kobe University's Associate Professor SUETSUGU Ke ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 27, 2020 
Contrary to the expectations of many environmental scientists, a new model has predicted a likely boom in tropical phytoplankton abundance as the century progresses.
Phytoplankton anchor the aquatic food web. Most scientists assumed this community of photosynthesizing bacteria and plant-like diatoms would struggle in the tropics as the oceans become increasingly stratified, with heavier ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 24, 2020 
As well as providing global navigation services, Europe's Galileo satellite constellation is contributing to saving more than 2000 lives annually by relaying SOS messages to first responders. And from now on the satellites will reply to these messages, assuring people in danger that help is on the way.
This ESA-design 'return link' system, unique to Galileo, was declared operational this w ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2020 
NASA has finalized the first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations, ranging from chemistry to communications, to be delivered to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program. Scheduled to fly next year, the payloads will launch aboard the first two lander deliveries of the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative. These deliveries will help pave the way fo ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere.
To perform the pass, the spacecraft left its 0.75-mile (1.2 ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2020 
FAO will bolster the scale and scope of its geospatial monitoring toolkit thanks to collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) that will expand the capacity of FAO's accessible platforms for forestry and land-use assessments.
A three-year agreement signed last week will enhance the access of FAO member states and other users to JAXA data sets and more "ground-truthing ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2020 
A new spacecraft is journeying to the Sun to snap the first pictures of the Sun's north and south poles.
Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, will have its first opportunity to launch from Cape Canaveral on Feb. 7, 2020, at 11:15 p.m. EST. Launching on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, the spacecraft will use Venus's and Earth's gravity ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
An international team of astronomers from the University of California San Diego, the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), and the University of Cambridge have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars known - a "primitive star" scientists call J0815+4729.
This new finding, which was made using W. M. Keck Observatory ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 24, 2020 
Bose-condensed quantum fluids are not forever.
Such states include superfluids and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs).
There is a beautiful purity in such exotic states, in which every particle is in the same quantum state, allowing quantum effects to be seen at a macroscopic level visible on a simple microscope.
In reality though, not all particles stay in the condensate even at ... more |
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