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  Pasadena CA (SOX) Mar 09, 2020 Caltech and JPL have been successful partners in space exploration since the mid-1930s. In their tradition of intermixing in unique ways fundamental science, technology and engineering they develop a collaborative multi-disciplinary cross-agency research program to advance and accelerate scalable hybrid quantum networking and communications technologies. To support the increasing data bandwidth requirement of deep space exploration, NASA tasked JPL with implementing the Deep Space Optical Communic ... read more |
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Axiom Space plans first-ever fully private human spaceflight mission to International Space StationHouston 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 t ... 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 
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  
In-space Robotic Servicing Program moves forward with new commercial partnerWashington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 DARPA has established a new partnership with U.S. industry to jointly develop and deploy advanced robotic capabilities in space. The agency has signed an Other Transactions for Prototypes agreement ... more |
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An astronaut's guide to applying to be an astronautHouston TX (SPX) Mar 06, 2020 About every four years, NASA accepts applications for a new class of astronauts. We in the astronaut office are thrilled and excited it is that time again! As someone who just went through this proc ... more 
NASA update on Starliner flight test reviewWashington DC (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 The joint NASA and Boeing Independent Review Team formed following the anomalies during the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test as a part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program has completed its ... more  
First official names given to features on asteroid BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Asteroid Bennu's most prominent boulder, a rock chunk jutting out 71 ft (21.7 m) from the asteroid's southern hemisphere, finally has a name. The boulder - which is so large that it was initially de ... more 
Fire from the skySanta Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Before the Taqba Dam impounded the Euphrates River in northern Syria in the 1970s, an archaeological site named Abu Hureyra bore witness to the moment ancient nomadic people first settled down and s ... more  
Radar and ice could help detect an elusive subatomic particleColumbus OH (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 One of the greatest mysteries in astrophysics these days is a tiny subatomic particle called a neutrino, so small that it passes through matter - the atmosphere, our bodies, the very Earth - without ... more |
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 Dimming Betelgeuse likely isn't cold, just dusty, new study shows 
Where there's one, there's one hundred moreTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Although it may have a difficult designation to remember, PSO J030947.49+271757.31, its importance is unique. It is the most distant blazar observed to date. The light we see from it began its journ ... more  |
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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  
Kleos Data to Target Environmental Challenges in BrazilLuxembourg (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Kleos Space told SpaceDaily.com that the Brazilian Government agency Agencia Nacional do Petroleo, Gas Natural e Biocombustiveis - ANP is to evaluate Kleos data at no cost for three months commencin ... 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 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 |
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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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