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  Washington DC (AFPN) Mar 22, 2020 The Department of Defense successfully tested a hypersonic glide body in a flight experiment conducted from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, March 19 at approximately 10:30 p.m. local time (HST). The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the launch of a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), which flew at hypersonic speed to a designated impact point. Concurrently, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) monitored and gathered tracking data from the flight experiment that will i ... read more |
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OneWeb launches 34 communications satellites from KazakhstanWashington DC (UPI) Mar 21, 2020 A Soyuz rocket carried 34 satellites toward orbit from Kazakhstan on time at 1:06 p.m. EDT Saturday in the third such launch for OneWeb spacecraft made in Florida. ... more  
New Spinoff publication shares how NASA innovations benefit life on EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2020 As NASA pushes the frontiers of science and human exploration, the agency also advances technology to modernize life on Earth, including drones, self-driving cars and other innovations. NASA's ... more 
NASA leadership assessing mission impacts of coronavirusWashington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all mission ... more  
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover takes a new selfie before record climbPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2020 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed, cresting the "Greenheugh Pediment," a broad sheet of rock that sits atop a hill. And before doing that, ... more |
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Land-cover maps of Europe from the CloudParis (ESA) Mar 23, 2020 Earth's land is covered by a range of different types of vegetation, from forest and marsh to crops and bodies of water, as well as the artificial surfaces that are an increasingly common feature of ... more  
Crowdsourced virtual supercomputer revs up virus researchWashington (AFP) March 22, 2020 Gamers, bitcoin "miners" and companies large and small have teamed up for an unprecedented data-crunching effort that aims to harness idle computing power to accelerate research for a coronavirus treatment. ... more  
New satellite-based algorithm pinpoints crop water useUrbana IL (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 The growing threat of drought and rising water demand have made accurate forecasts of crop water use critical for farmland water management and sustainability. But limitations in existing mode ... more 
COVID-19: nitrogen dioxide over ChinaParis (ESA) Mar 23, 2020 Recent data have shown a decline of air pollution over northern Italy coinciding with its nationwide lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19). This new map shows the variation of ... more 
India Planning Launch of 10 Earth Observation Satellites by March 2021New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 23, 2020 In 2019, India launched four earth observation satellites, from a target of six. For the next financial year, the plan is to add a further eight. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) ... more |
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The Strange Orbits of 'Tatooine' Planetary DisksCharlottesville VA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have found striking orbital geometries in protoplanetary disks around binary stars. While disks orbiting the most compact ... more  |
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NASA, SpaceX plan return to human spaceflight from U.S. soil in mid-MayOrlando FL (UPI) Mar 20, 2020 NASA and SpaceX officially announced the nation's return to human spaceflight from U.S. soil is planned for mid-May. The announcement late Wednesday was expected, as the first flight with astr ... more  
Killer asteroid hunt in jeopardy, new study claimsWashington DC (Sputnik) Mar 19, 2020 SpaceX, the largest commercial satellite constellation operator in the world, has ambitious plans of installing 12,000 satellites in low-orbit over a span of several years, as part of its Starlink p ... more 
NASA suspends work on Moon rocket due to virusWashington (AFP) March 20, 2020 NASA said it has suspended work on building and testing the rocket and capsule for its Artemis manned mission to the Moon due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the community. ... more 
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Gets Its Sample Handling SystemPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 20, 2020 With the launch period for NASA's Mars Perseverance rover opening in a little less than four months, the six-wheeler is reaching significant pre-launch milestones almost daily at the Kennedy Space C ... more  
BU astrophysicist and collaborators reveal a new model of our heliosphereBoston MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 The heliosphere is a vast region, extending more than twice as far as Pluto. It casts a magnetic "force field" around all the planets, deflecting charged particles that would otherwise muscle into t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
To protect the health and safety of the NASA workforce as the nation responds to coronavirus (COVID-19), agency leadership recently completed the first assessment of work underway across all missions, projects, and programs. The goal was to identify tasks that can be done remotely by employees at home, mission-essential work that must be performed on-site, and on-site work that will be paused. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX will send astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in May, NASA said, announcing the first crewed launch from the United States to the platform since 2011.
The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it looks to cut costs.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2020 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed, cresting the "Greenheugh Pediment," a broad sheet of rock that sits atop a hill. And before doing that, the rover took a selfie, capturing the scene just below Greenheugh.
In front of the rover is a hole it drilled while sampling a bedrock target called "Hutton." The entire selfie is a 360-degree ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 
The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday.
The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later.
Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure.
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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 
For its fourth mission of the year - and the second flight in 2020 with the Soyuz medium-lift launcher - Arianespace will perform the third launch for the OneWeb constellation, orbiting 34 satellites.
This 51st Soyuz mission conducted by Arianespace and its Starsem affiliate will be operated from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. It will pave the way for the constellation's deployment phase - for w ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 
Solar System exploration benefits primarily from the ability of robotic spacecraft to visit planetary bodies, carrying cameras and experiments. In addition, much research is carried out in laboratories on Earth, and during field studies on volcanoes or in arid and cold polar regions.
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Institute of Planetary Researc ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 
The search for life on planets beyond our solar system has long been the purview of science fiction, but a UC Santa Barbara team supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation is now building the technology to do just that.
Over the last three decades astronomers have discovered more than 4,000 planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets. All but a few of these have been detected indir ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured patches, one of which clearly stands out: the Great Red Spot. This is an Earth-sized anticyclone that has been observed for over 350 years, but has suddenly decreased in size in recent years.
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
Tapping into 35 years of satellite imagery, researchers at Oregon State University have dramatically enlarged the database regarding how climate change is affecting kelps, near-shore seaweeds that provide food and shelter for fish and protect coastlines from wave damage.
And the Landsat pictures paved the way to some surprising findings: A summer of warm water isn't automatically bad news ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2020 
In October 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) developed an Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System - equivalent to the US Global Positioning System (GPS). The operational name of the Indian geo-navigation network is NavIC.
On Thursday, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi launched its latest mobile device series - the Redmi Note 9 - in India, priced between $175 - $215 appr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 
The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The last Soviet interplanetary automatic station was Luna-24, launched in 1976. Russia in its history has not yet sent a spacecraft to the moon.
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 19, 2020 
SpaceX, the largest commercial satellite constellation operator in the world, has ambitious plans of installing 12,000 satellites in low-orbit over a span of several years, as part of its Starlink project to provide low-cost broadband internet service.
A well-known astronomer and satellite tracker has voiced concerns that efforts to scan the skies for potentially dangerous near-Earth aster ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
The growing threat of drought and rising water demand have made accurate forecasts of crop water use critical for farmland water management and sustainability.
But limitations in existing models and satellite data pose challenges for precise estimates of evapotranspiration - a combination of evaporation from soil and transpiration from plants. The process is complex and difficult to model, ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 
After nearly two decades, the Sun has set for NASA's SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE), a mission that continued and advanced the agency's 40-year record of measuring solar irradiance and studying its influence on Earth's climate.
The SORCE team turned off the spacecraft on February 25, 2020, concluding 17 years of measuring the amount, spectrum and fluctuations of solar energ ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 19, 2020 
A new camera design, using arrayed telescopes, could capture images of celestial objects simultaneously and with great detail, a study released on Wednesday said.
The camera would potentially allow hypertelescopes, small units arranged in multi-field patterns, instead of standard telescopes with a single and massive mirrored lens, to obtain of planets, pulsars, and distant galaxies outside ... more |
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 Cambridge MA (SPX) Mar 20, 2020 
One of the biggest ideas in physics is the possibility that all known forces, particles, and interactions can be connected in one framework. String theory is arguably the best-known proposal for a "theory of everything" that would tie together our understanding of the physical universe.
Despite having many different versions of string theory circulating throughout the physics community for ... more |
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