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  Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation and the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, have successfully completed the first docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) to the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) spacecraft in order to provide life-extension services. This historic accomplishment marks the first time two commercial satellites have docked in orbit and the first time that mission extension services will be offered to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit. MEV-1, launched Oct. 9, 2019, re ... read more |
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PLD Space successfully achieved a full rocket engine test for MIURA 1 missionElche, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 In May 2019 PLD Space suffered a catastrophic engine failure, which provoked material damage, including the loss of the first flight version of the TEPREL-B liquid rocket engine, developed by PLD Sp ... more  
Mission Control to Develop Lunar Surface Autonomous Science Payload for CSAOttawa, Canada (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Mission Control Space Services Inc. (Mission Control) is pleased to announce a contract awarded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for the development of a novel payload to advance lunar scientific ... more 
Digging into the far side of the moon: Chang'E-4 probes 40 meters into lunar surfaceBeijing, China (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 A little over a year after landing, China's spacecraft Chang'E-4 is continuing to unveil secrets from the far side of the Moon. The latest study, published on Feb.26 in Science Advances, reveals wha ... more  
Virgin Galactic opens up prebooking booking optionSpaceport America NM (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Virgin Galactic reports that in preparation for the re-opening of spaceflight sales, it is introducing the One Small Step initiative. The company formally closed its doors to new ticket sales after ... more |
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Earth has new, but temporary, natural moonWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 There is a new, but temporary, natural moon orbiting Earth, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. ... more  
Turbulent times revealed on Asteroid 4 VestaPerth, Australia (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Planetary scientists at Curtin University have shed some light on the tumultuous early days of the largely preserved protoplanet Asteroid 4 Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System. ... more  
NASA Goddard Team Selected to Design Concept for Probe of Mysterious Venus AtmosphereGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 A proposed mission called DAVINCI+ could one day fly the first U.S. spacecraft since 1978 to study the atmosphere of Venus. On Feb. 13, NASA announced that DAVINCI+, named after the visionary Renais ... more  
Why is NASA Sending Dragonfly to TitanGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it's merely a moon tethered by gravity to its cosmic ruler, Saturn, Titan has ... more  
Examining Ice Giants With NASA's Webb TelescopeBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Far-flung Uranus and Neptune - the ice giants of our solar system - are as mysterious as they are distant. Soon after its launch in 2021, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will change that by unlock ... more |
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NSW Government establishes a home for space industry initiativesSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The NSW Government has announced its partnership with the SmartSat CRC (Cooperative Research Centre) to establish a NSW node of the CRC, to be based in the National Space Industry Hub. The nod ... more  |
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Ultraviolet instrument delivered for ESA's Jupiter missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupite ... more 
NASA asks Commercial Moon Delivery Partners to fly rover to search for water iceMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile r ... more 
NASA CubeSats play big role in lunar explorationWashington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 They might be small, but they're also mighty. Very small and innovative spacecraft called CubeSats are poised to play a role in NASA's Artemis program, which will return humans to the Moon by 2024. ... more  
Trembling Mars gives up more seismic secretsParis (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 Mars is a constantly tremoring "living" body, researchers said Monday as they unveiled measurements of seismic activity on the red planet showing similar tremble rates to Earth or the Moon. ... more 
Gemini South telescope captures exquisite planetary nebulaHilo HI (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relativ ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 
Katherine Johnson, a ground-breaking black NASA mathematician whose life was portrayed in the movie "Hidden Figures," died on Monday aged 101, the space agency said.
Johnson's calculations helped put the first man on the Moon in 1969, but she was little known until the Oscar-nominated 2016 movie that told the stories of three black women who worked at NASA.
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 Elkton MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation, along with NASA and Lockheed Martin, successfully completed its third and final qualification test of the Attitude Control Motor (ACM) for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS).
"The qualification test is a critical step toward Artemis II, Orion's first flight with astronauts," said Pat Nolan, vice president, missile products, Northrop Grumman. "Co ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 
After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will ke ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
The maiden flight of the Long March-5B rocket carrying a trial version of China's new-generation manned spaceship is expected to take place in April, indicating the imminent start of construction of China's space station.
The rocket, the prototype core capsule of the space station and the experimental manned spaceship are undergoing tests at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Europlanet has launched a 10 million Euro project, the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), to provide open access to the world's largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis facilities, as well as a global network of small telescopes, data services, and community support activities. Europlanet 2024 RI aims to widen participation in planetary science and provides the infrastr ... more |
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 Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Northrop Grumman Corporation and the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, SpaceLogistics LLC, have successfully completed the first docking of the Mission Extension Vehicle-1 (MEV-1) to the Intelsat 901 (IS-901) spacecraft in order to provide life-extension services. This historic accomplishment marks the first time two commercial satellites have docked in orbit and the first time that mission ext ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 
A signal originally detected by the Kepler spacecraft has been validated as an exoplanet using the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF), an astronomical spectrograph built by a Penn State team and recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas.
The HPF provides the highest precision measurements to date of infrared signals from nearby low-mass stars, an ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, JUICE will spend at least three years making detailed observations in the Jovian system before going ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2020 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin with a $12.3 million contract for phase one of the the Manta Ray program.
The contract funds research, development and demonstration of an extra-large underwater drone.
According to DARPA, the purpose of the Manta Ray program is to create a new class of long duration, long range, payload-capable undersea dr ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 27, 2020 
Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have recently passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and timing services.
The four satellites include the 47th, 48th, 52nd and 53rd satellites of the BDS family, according to China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office.
All of them, operating in medium Earth orbit, we ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile robot that will look for water ice at one of the Moon's poles.
During its mission, VIPER will roam several miles and use its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample vario ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Planetary scientists at Curtin University have shed some light on the tumultuous early days of the largely preserved protoplanet Asteroid 4 Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our Solar System.
Research lead Professor Fred Jourdan, from Curtin University's school of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said Vesta is of tremendous interest to scientists trying to understand more about what plane ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. This radiation balance is a key factor in determining our climate: if Earth absorbs more heat than it emits, it warms up; if it emits more than it ... more |
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of subatomic particles produced by the collisions. But as one might expect, these grand-scale experiments don't come cheap.
In a paper recently accepted by Physical Review Letters, an international te ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Quantum physics describes the inner world of individual atoms, a world very different from our everyday experience. One of the many strange yet fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics is the role of the observer - measuring the state of a quantum system causes it to change. Despite the importance of the measurement process within the theory, it still holds unanswered questions: Does a quantum s ... more |
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