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  Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020 SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said Tuesday the company is "gunning" for a May launch of astronauts from Florida, while NASA said only that it hopes for a launch sometime in the second quarter. SpaceX is poised to be the first private company to fly NASA astronauts. The company's successful in-flight test in January showed that the capsule could carry people to safety in an emergency. "We're gunning for May. We have work to do, NASA has work to do," Shotwell said at the Satellite 2020 conf ... read more |
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ESA and European Commission preorder four more Ariane 6 launchesEvry, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 Arianespace told SpaceDaily that it has received a preorder from the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission (DG Grow), for four launches using the Ariane 6 rocket. Planned ... more  
Astronomers pinpoint rare binary brown dwarfBirmingham UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Astronomers working on 'first light' results from a newly commissioned telescope in Chile made a chance discovery that led to the identification of a rare eclipsing binary brown dwarf system. ... more 
Orbital tilt measurements in youngest planetary star system everCambridge MA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have, for the first time, measured the orbital tilt of an exoplanet younger than 45 million years. While observing DS Tuc Ab - a r ... more 
NASA's SLS moon rocket is 30 percent over budget, report saysWashington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020 NASA's effort to build the Space Launch System rocket to transport people to the moon by 2024 is at least 30 percent over budget and two years behind schedule, an Inspector General's report said Tue ... more |
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Lockheed Martin to develop Prototype Protected Tactical Satellite Communications payloadDenver CO (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 The U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base awarded Lockheed Martin a $240 million contract to develop a prototype payload for its new Protected Tacti ... more  
Arrows of misfortune as US Missile Defence needs upgradingMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 10, 2020 In late 2019, the Boeing Company was offered a modification contract worth more than a quarter of a billion dollars to upgrade the US Ground-based Midcourse Defence (GMD) interceptor system, which i ... more  
Spaceflight readies 28 payloads for inaugural rideshare launch on Arianespace's VegaSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Spaceflight has told SpaceDaily that it is providing mission management and rideshare integration services for four organizations on Arianespace's first dedicated rideshare mission on its Vega launc ... more  
China launches new BeiDou navigation satelliteXichang, China (XNA) Mar 11, 2020 China launched a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 7:55 p.m. Monday (Beijing Time), only ... more  
Small robots practice scouting skills for future Moon missionsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 11, 2020 The newest edition of NASA's small, foldable robots recently practiced their scouting skills and successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Souther ... more |
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Burned area trends in the Amazon similar to previous yearsParis (ESA) Mar 09, 2020 Thousands of fires broke out in the Amazon last year - sparking an international media frenzy. A detailed analysis, using data from the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative, indicates t ... more  |
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Using molecules to draw on quantum materialsQuebec City, Canada (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 Over millennia, civilizations progressed through the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages. Now the time has come for quantum materials to change the way we live, thanks in part to research conducted at the ... more  
A new model of visionBoston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2020 When we open our eyes, we immediately see our surroundings in great detail. How the brain is able to form these richly detailed representations of the world so quickly is one of the biggest unsolved ... more  
Orbion and Xplore partner to accelerate deep space explorationHoughton MI (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Orbion Space Technology told SpaceDaily that it has formed a partnership with Xplore Inc to provide "Space As A Service". Orbion will deliver its plasma propulsion system to Xplore for upcoming missions. ... more 
Cosmos: Possible WorldsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2020 Cosmos the popular TV series is back with a new season, Cosmos: Possible Worlds. This season the emphasis is on storytelling and exploration of possible worlds outside earth. Humans thro ... more  
Turbulent convection at the heart of stellar activityGottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 In their interiors, stars are structured in a layered, onion-like fashion. In those with solar-like temperatures, the core is followed by the radiation zone. There, the heat from within is led outwa ... more |
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 Washington 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 initial investigation. The team was tasked with reviewing three primary anomalies experienced during the mission: two software coding errors and unanticipated loss of space-to-ground communication ca ... more |
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 Evry, France (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Arianespace told SpaceDaily that it has received a preorder from the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission (DG Grow), for four launches using the Ariane 6 rocket. Planned to start in January 2022, these launches will orbit eight satellites from Batch 3 to support the final deployment of the Galileo constellation and the replacement of certain satellites.
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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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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
As the aerospace workforce ages, technology advances and space operations become more contested it is imperative to continually train engineers and managers to refresh and advance their knowledge base in order to keep the U.S. competitive. This challenge is further complicated by the fact that over the past few years roughly 40% of U.S. skilled tradesman have retired.
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
Billions of lightyears away, gigantic clouds of hydrogen gas produce a special kind of radiation, a type of ultraviolet light known as Lyman-alpha emissions. The enormous clouds emitting the light are Lyman-alpha blobs (LABs). LABs are several times larger than our Milky Way galaxy, yet were only discovered 20 years ago. An extremely powerful energy source is necessary to produce this radiation ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
A new kind of astronomical observation helped reveal the possible evolutionary history of a baby Neptune-like exoplanet.
To study a very young planet called DS Tuc Ab a Harvard and Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics-led team that included six Carnegie astronomers - Johanna Teske, Sharon Wang, Stephen Shectman, Paul Butler, Jeff Crane, and Ian Thompson - developed a new observational model ... 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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 New York NY (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
A study published Tuesday in Scientific Reports shows that stony corals, which provide food and shelter for almost a quarter of all ocean species, are preparing for a major extinction event.
The research team - which includes scientists from The Graduate Center, CUNY; Baruch College; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of Haifa; University of Leeds; and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Mar 11, 2020 
China launched a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 7:55 p.m. Monday (Beijing Time), only one step away from completing the whole global system.
The satellite, the 54th of the BeiDou family, was sent into a geostationary orbit as planned by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study released in Nature Geoscience.
The paper, titled Distinct oxygen isotope compositions of the Earth and Moon, may challenge the current understanding of the formation of the Moon.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
This summer, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will undertake NASA's first-ever attempt to touch the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample of it, and safely back away. But since arriving at asteroid Bennu over a year ago, the mission team has been tackling an unexpected challenge: how to accomplish this feat at an asteroid whose surface is blanketed in building-sized boulders.
Using these hazar ... more |
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Second attempt - the German-Russian International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) experiment, which is installed on the International Space Station (ISS), will be put into operation on 10 March 2020. Originally planned for July 2019, the start of the experiment was postponed due to a technical malfunction.
This joint project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos a ... 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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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
An international research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are. To do so, they combined a general first-principles description of the unknown behavior of neutron star matter with multi-messenger observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817.
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 Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization cooling of muons. Regarded as a major step in being able to create the world's most powerful particle accelerator, this new muon accelerator is expected to provide a better understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter.
This breakthrough has been carried ou ... more |
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