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World View Stratollite fleet to provide high resolution imagery and data analytics in the Americas![]() Broomfield CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 World View, the stratospheric data and information services company, has announced their plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer. After a series of successful test and development flights to sharpen vehicle flight and navigation capabilities, World View is in final preparations to offer customers high resolution imagery and associated analytics products from an integrated network of vehicles operating in the ... read more |
SpaceLogistics selected by DARPA as Commercial Partner for Robotic Servicing MissionDulles VA (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 SpaceLogistics has been selected by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) as its commercial partner for the agency's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) progra ... more
Bartolomeo external platform to expand commercial usage of the ISSKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Its days on Earth are numbered - the external platform Bartolomeo is currently waiting for its launch to the International Space Station (ISS) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida inside a SpaceX Drag ... more
OSIRIS-REx Swoops Over Sample Site NightingaleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 NASA's first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Securi ... more
Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps Highest-Resolution Panorama YetPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 05, 2020 NASA's Curiosity rover has captured its highest-resolution panorama yet of the Martian surface. Composed of more than 1,000 images taken during the 2019 Thanksgiving holiday and carefully assembled ... more |
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Virginia Middle School names NASA's next Mars rover PerseveranceWashington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 The name was announced Thursday by Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate, during a celebration at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia. Zurbuchen ... more
Moreux Crater on Mars offers evidence of dunes and glacial processesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 The images shown here, which were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter, reveal the impressive Moreux Crater on Mars. Glaciers have left their mark ... more
Organic molecules discovered by Curiosity Rover consistent with early life on MarsPullman WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Organic compounds called thiophenes are found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles, the mushroom beloved by epicureans and wild pigs. Thiophenes were also recently d ... more
Is life a game of chance?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 To help answer one of the great existential questions - how did life begin? - a new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy look ... more
A puzzle piece from stellar chemistry could change our measurements of cosmic expansionHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Astronomers led by Maria Bergemann (Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy) have performed chemical measurements on stars that could markedly change the way cosmologists measure the Hubble constant and ... more |
![]() ALMA spots metamorphosing aged star
Beijing to beef up support for Beidou-related industryBeijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2020 The Beijing municipal government has released a three-year plan to promote the innovation and development of industries related to the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. Beijing will foster b ... more |
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The impact of satellite constellations on astronomical observationsMunich, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better understand the effect these constellations could have on astronomical ob ... more
Satellites, field cameras, and farmers team upUrbana IL (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 University of Illinois scientists, with help from members of the Illinois Corn Growers Association, have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time. The research, ... more
Space video company Sen awards multimillion-euro contract to NanoAvionicsLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Sen, a British space company establishing video streaming media to provide real-time and timely Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video of Earth, has contracted NanoAvionics to build the first five nano-s ... more
Robot uses artificial intelligence and imaging to draw bloodNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs ... more
1st SOPS provides upgrade to GSSAPSchriever AFB CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 The 1st Space Operations Squadron completed a trial period in December for the Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program ground system and conducted an operational acceptance Feb. 12. ... more |
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Hydrogen Could Make a Green Energy Future Closer than We Think Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020
Hydrogen has been used as a fuel for things like city buses for a while now, but the problem has been that it's simply too expensive to use a main source of energy. This will likely change. Hydrogen technologies could provide 20 percent of the world's CO2 abatement needs by 2050.
NASA a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/space-applications-of-hydrogen-and-fuel-cells"> font color="#0000FF" ... more |
US trying to catch up with Russia, China in hypersonics Washington (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2020
The United States finds itself behind both Russia and China after the two countries transitioned from hypersonic technologies to working weapon systems, something the Pentagon has yet to accomplish, two officials in charge of the US Department of Defence program told reporters.
"In past decades we have been world leaders in hypersonic technology, but we have consistently made the decision ... more |
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Organic molecules discovered by Curiosity Rover consistent with early life on Mars Pullman WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2020
Organic compounds called thiophenes are found on Earth in coal, crude oil and oddly enough, in white truffles, the mushroom beloved by epicureans and wild pigs.
Thiophenes were also recently discovered on Mars, and Washington State University astrobiologist Dirk Schulze-Makuch thinks their presence would be consistent with the presence of early life on Mars.
Schulze-Makuch and Jacob ... more |
China's Yuanwang-5 sails to Pacific Ocean for space monitoring mission Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 |
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The impact of satellite constellations on astronomical observations Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2020
Astronomers have recently raised concerns about the impact of satellite mega-constellations on scientific research. To better understand the effect these constellations could have on astronomical observations, ESO commissioned a scientific study of their impact, focusing on observations with ESO telescopes in the visible and infrared but also considering other observatories. The study, which con ... more |
Hope for a new permanent magnet that's cheap and sustainable Leeds UK (SPX) Mar 04, 2020
Scientists have made a breakthrough in the search for a new, sustainable permanent magnet.
Most permanent magnets are made from alloys of rare earth metals - but the mining and processing of these materials produces toxic by-products, leading to ecological challenges around rare-earth mines and refineries. At the same time, demand for permanent magnets is increasing as they are a common co ... more |
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Is life a game of chance? Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020
To help answer one of the great existential questions - how did life begin? - a new study combines biological and cosmological models. Professor Tomonori Totani from the Department of Astronomy looked at how life's building blocks could spontaneously form in the universe - a process known as abiogenesis.
If there's one thing in the universe that is certain, it's that life exists. It must h ... more |
Ultraviolet instrument delivered for ESA's Jupiter mission 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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Coral reefs in Turks and Caicos Islands resist global bleaching event Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2020
A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching event that harmed coral reefs around the world. Even corals that experienced bleaching quickly recovered, the researchers found. Some corals appeared healthier in 2017 th ... more |
Beijing to beef up support for Beidou-related industry Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2020
The Beijing municipal government has released a three-year plan to promote the innovation and development of industries related to the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System.
Beijing will foster breakthroughs in key and core technologies, and create a sound ecology for Beidou-related industries via cultivating competitive enterprises, according to the plan.
The total output value of the ... more |
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Join the Artemis Generation Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020
We're celebrating our 20th year of continuous presence aboard the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit this year, and we're on the verge of sending the first women and next men to the Moon as part of our Artemis lunar exploration program so we can prepare for human missions to Mars.
It's an incredible time in human spaceflight! Often the dream to be an astronaut is the spark that ... more |
OSIRIS-REx Swoops Over Sample Site Nightingale Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2020
Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 05, 2020
NASA's first asteroid-sampling spacecraft just got its best look yet at asteroid Bennu. Yesterday, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft executed a very low pass over sample site Nightingale, taking observations from an altitude of 820 feet (250 m), which is the closest that OSIRIS-REx has f ... more |
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World View Stratollite fleet to provide high resolution imagery and data analytics in the Americas Broomfield CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2020
World View, the stratospheric data and information services company, has announced their plans to build and deploy a fleet of Stratollites, known as World View Orbits, over North and Central America starting this summer.
After a series of successful test and development flights to sharpen vehicle flight and navigation capabilities, World View is in final preparations to offer customers hig ... more |
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun 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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ALMA spots metamorphosing aged star Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2020
An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has captured the very moment when an old star first starts to alter its environment. The star has ejected high-speed bipolar gas jets which are now colliding with the surrounding material; the age of the observed jet is estimated to be less than 60 years. These features help scientists understand h ... more |
NASA's OSIRIS-REx students catch unexpected glimpse of newly discovered black hole Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2020
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) onboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft detected a newly flaring black hole in the constellation Columba while making observations off the limb of asteroid ... more |
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