|
|
|
  Washington DC (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency's Gateway in lunar orbit. The award is a significant step forward for NASA's Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024 and build a sustainable human lunar presence. At the Moon, NASA and its partners will gain the experience necessary to mount a historic human missi ... read more |
 |
Astronaut urine to build moon basesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 The modules that the major space agencies plan to erect on the Moon could incorporate an element contributed by the human colonizers themselves: the urea in their pee. European researchers have foun ... more 
Last stop before launch: Orion passes tests and returns to Kennedy Space CenterParis (ESA) Mar 27, 2020 The Orion spacecraft that will fly on the Artemis 1 mission around the Moon has returned to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA, after finishing space environment tests. The spacecraft, incl ... more  
Hackers take on Raw Galileo challengeLondon (ESA) Mar 27, 2020 Hackers came together online at the Raw Galileo 24-hour hackathon over the weekend to develop innovative solutions that leverage Galileo raw measurements for use on Android-based mobile devices. Org ... more 
Final Steps Underway To Operationalize Ultra-Secure, Jam-Resistant GPS M-Code SignalColorado Springs CO (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 The final steps to fully-enable the ultra-secure, jam-resistant Military Code (M-Code) signal on the Global Positioning System (GPS) are now underway. As part of the U.S. military's effort to ... more |
|
|
| Previous Issues | Mar 26 | Mar 25 | Mar 24 | Mar 23 | Mar 21 |
|
|
|
|
|
 
Command team expresses gratitude, encourages Airmen to remain poisedAl Udeid Air Base, Qatar (AFNS) Mar 27, 2020 "Thank you for your service. What you're doing here means so much to me as your commander, to our nation back home, and our coalition." This was the resounding sentiment expressed to Air Force ... more  
AEHF-6 Satellite Actively Communicating With U.S. Space ForceSchriever AFB CO (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 The first national security launch for the U.S. Space Force and the final satellite to build out the protected communications constellation is now connected. The sixth Lockheed Martin-built Ad ... more  
PIPES researchers demonstrate optical interconnects to improve performance of digital microelectronicsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2020 Under DARPA's Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES) program, researchers from Intel and Ayar Labs have demonstrated early progress towards improving chip connectivity with photons ... more  
Paired with super telescopes, model Earths guide hunt for lifeIthaca NY (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 Cornell University astronomers have created five models representing key points from our planet's evolution, like chemical snapshots through Earth's own geologic epochs. The models will be spe ... more  
Astronomers use slime mould to map the universe's largest structuresBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 The single-cell organism known as slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) builds complex web-like filamentary networks in search of food, always finding near-optimal pathways to connect different locati ... more |
|
 Over 10 million names now aboard Perseverance rover bound for Mars  
AEHF-6 launch marks 500th flight of Aerojet Rocketdyne's Rl10 engineCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 The successful March 26 launch of the U.S. Space Force's sixth and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rock ... more  |
|
|
|
Welcome Home, Orion: spacecraft ready for final Artemis I launch preparationsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 NASA's Orion spacecraft for Artemis I returned to the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 25 after engineers put it through the rigors of environmental testing at NASA's Plum Brook Sta ... more  
Holographic cosmological model and thermodynamics on the horizon of the universeKanazawa, Japan (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 The expansion of the Universe has occupied the minds of astronomers and astrophysicists for decades. Among the cosmological models that have been suggested over the years, Lambda cold dark matter (L ... more 
Researchers look for dark matter close to homeAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 Eighty-five percent of the universe is composed of dark matter, but we don't know what, exactly, it is. A new study from the University of Michigan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berk ... more 
New technique looks for dark matter traces in dark placesBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 So far, the only direct evidence we have for the existence of dark matter is through gravity-based effects on the matter we can see. And these gravitational effects are so pronounced that we know it ... more  
Scientists classify neurons by measuring their jiggle during a heartbeatWashington DC (UPI) Mar 11, 2020 When the heart beats, it causes the human brain to jiggle. According to a new study, the phenomenon has helped scientists classify different types of neurons. ... more |
|
|
 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2020 
The construction of the Russian National Space Centre on the territory of the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center in Moscow is set to be finished in 2023, according to the Roscosmos space corporation.
"We plan to finish the construction of the National Space Center in 2023," the corporation said in the materials published on its website.
Previously, the construction ... more |
|
 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 26, 2020  SpaceX and Boeing are in a race to develop the next manned capsule to take US astronauts to the International Space Station. At the moment, NASA and other Western space agencies depend on Russian Soyuz rockets to take crews to the station.
A SpaceX test of parachute systems for its new Crew Dragon manned capsule was aborted Tuesday, with a helicopter dropping the test article from an unknown height, CNBC has reported , citing a company statement. ... more |
|
|
 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 |
|
 Beijing (XNA) Mar 25, 2020 
A trial version of China's new-generation manned spaceship is being tested at the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's island province of Hainan, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The experimental spacecraft is scheduled to launch with no crew in mid to late April on the maiden flight of the Long March-5B carrier rocket, a variant of the Long March-5, ... more |
|
|
 Caracas (AFP) March 26, 2020 
Venezuela's first communications satellite, launched in 2008, is out of service due to a systems failure, the country's government said Wednesday.
"Due to a failure, the Simon Bolivar satellite is no longer working for communication," said the science and technology minister in a statement, without giving further details.
On Monday, the US-based news site Space News reported that VeneSat ... more |
|
 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory are reinventing the mirror, at least for microwaves, potentially replacing the familiar 3-D dishes and microwave horns we see on rooftops and cell towers with flat panels that are compact, versatile, and better adapted for modern communication technologies.
"Our new reflectors offer lightweight, low-profile alternatives to conventional antennas ... more |
|
|
 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 
The first papers of the Planetary Science Journal are now available online. This new open access online journal, from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and its Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), showcases significant developments, discoveries, and theories about planets, moons, small bodies, and the interactions among them - not only in our own solar system but also in planetary system ... more |
|
 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.
The ... more |
|
|
 Sydney (AFP) March 26, 2020 
Australia's Great Barrier Reef has suffered "very widespread" damage after rising sea temperatures caused the third mass coral bleaching events in five years, authorities said Thursday.
The planet's largest coral reef system is worth an estimated $4 billion a year in tourism revenue for the Australian economy, but is at risk of losing its coveted world heritage status because warmer oceans b ... more |
|
 London (ESA) Mar 27, 2020 
Hackers came together online at the Raw Galileo 24-hour hackathon over the weekend to develop innovative solutions that leverage Galileo raw measurements for use on Android-based mobile devices. Organized by the University of Nottingham and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) as a part of the FLAMINGO project, the hackathon challenged the participants to develop solutions addressing two key challenge ... more |
|
|
 Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 25, 2020 
Future Artemis lunar landers could use next-generation thrusters, the small rocket engines used to make alterations in a spacecraft's flight path or altitude, to enter lunar orbit and descend to the surface. Before the engines make the trip to the Moon, helping deliver new science instruments and technology demonstrations, they're being tested here on Earth.
NASA and Frontier Aerospace of ... more |
|
 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 |
|
|
 Paris (AFP) March 22, 2020 
Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.
Images by the US space agency NASA are clear, in February the concentration of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) fell dramatically in Wuhan, China, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic, passing from an indicator that was red/orange to blue.
NO2 is mainly produced ... more |
|
 Beijing (XNA) Mar 25, 2020 
Scientists from from the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that they have built the country's first and one of the world's largest solar telescope, to better observe and forecast solar activity.
The Chinese Large Solar Telescope (CLST), with a 1.8-meter aperture, was developed by the academy's Institute of Optics and Electronics. It caught the first batch of high-resolution ima ... more |
|
|
 New York NY (SPX) Mar 25, 2020 
Almost 35 years ago, scientists made the then-radical proposal that colossal hydrogen bombs called novae go through a very long-term life cycle after erupting, fading to obscurity for hundreds of thousands of years and then building back up to become full-fledged novae once more. A new study is the first to fully model the work and incorporate all of the feedback factors now known to control the ... more |
|
 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 
They are billions of times larger than our Sun: how is it possible that, as recently observed, supermassive black holes were already present when the Universe, now 14 billion years old, was "just" 800 million years old? For astrophysicists, the formation of these cosmic monsters in such a short time is a real scientific headache, which raises important questions on the current knowledge of the d ... more |
|
|
| Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2020 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
