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  Houston TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Axiom Space announced it is planning history's first fully private human spaceflight to the International Space Station. Axiom has signed a contract with SpaceX for a Crew Dragon flight which will transport a commander professionally trained by Axiom alongside three private astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The mission, set to launch as soon as the second half of 2021, will allow the crew to live aboard the ISS and experience at least eight days of microgravity and views of Earth t ... read more |
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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 
Xplore selects Orbit Fab's RAFTI design standard for deep space missionsSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 Xplore Inc have announced that they are integrating the Orbit Fab RAFTI into the Xcraft, Xplore's highly-capable, multi-mission ESPA-class spacecraft. The RAFTI, which stands for Rapidly Attachable ... more 
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  
SpaceX announces partnership to send tourists to ISSWashington (AFP) March 5, 2020 SpaceX on Thursday announced a partnership to send three tourists to the International Space Station (ISS), the first private trip in more than a decade. ... more |
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ALMA spots metamorphosing aged starTokyo, 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 e ... more  
Blast off: space minnow Indonesia eyes celestial successLumajang, Indonesia (AFP) March 5, 2020 Workers snap the miniature rocket's wings into place as Indonesia's little-known space agency readies its latest launch on barren scrubland in East Java. ... more 
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  
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  
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 |
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 Space video company Sen awards multimillion-euro contract to NanoAvionics  
World View Stratollite fleet to provide high resolution imagery and data analytics in the AmericasBroomfield 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 ... more  |
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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  
Space Force holds inaugural ISR-focused conferencePeterson AFB CO (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 U.S. Space Force held its first Senior Intelligence Officer Conference here in February. Originally planned as a MAJCOM-level conference, the recent establishment of USSF changed the focus of the ev ... more |
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 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 |
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 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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 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 |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 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 |
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 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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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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 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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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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 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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