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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA's newly named rover - Perseverance - received a significant boost following the completion of important testing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Activities to measure mass properties of the Cruise Stage vehicle were performed on the spin table inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Successful testing also was performed on NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be attached to Perseverance. The functional test (50 RPM spin) was executed on t ... read more |
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NASA Selects Mission to Study Causes of Giant Solar Particle StormsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms - known as solar particle storms - into planetary space. Not only will such information improve ... more  
'Space Fence' radar operational, tracks objects as small as 10 cmsWashington DC (UPI) Mar 30, 2020 A radar system known as Space Fence, which can track material in space as small as 10 centimeters, is fully operational, the U.S. Space Force announced. ... more  
Two Galileo Satellites to Be Launched in December From Kourou on Russia's Soyuz - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 31, 2020 Two Galileo navigation satellites will be launched into space in December from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana on a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle, instead of the Ariane 6 carrier rocket, a s ... more  
Could Satellites Help Head Off a Locust Invasion?Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 A single desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria) can consume its body weight in vegetation in one day. That may not sound like much for one 2.5-gram locust, but when 40 million of them gather-consider ... more |
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Electron-Eating Neon Causes Star to CollapseKashiwa, Japan (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 An international team of researchers has found that neon inside a certain massive star can eat so many electrons in the core, a process called electron capture, which causes the star to collapse int ... more 
SMC prepares GPS Next Generation OCX for OperationsLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 On March 26, the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) program instructed Raytheon to replace the computer hardware in OCX prior ... more  
Chances for Coronavirus to Get to ISS 'Slim to None' - NASA SpecialistWashington (Sputnik) Mar 31, 2020 Chances for the novel coronavirus to get into the International Space Station (ISS) are next to zero due to the enhanced security measures undertaken by the space agencies, NASA nurse Raksana Batsma ... more  
OneWeb files for bankruptcy over financial squeezeMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2020 UK company OneWeb, which was planning to create a constellation of satellites to provide global internet access, announced that it has filed for bankruptcy in New York after failing to obtain financ ... more  
NASA awards Artemis contract for Gateway Logistics ServicesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 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' ... more |
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Construction of Russian National Space Center to be finished in Moscow in 2023Moscow (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 Roscosmo ... more  |
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Last stop before launch: Orion passes tests and returns to Kennedy Space CenterParis (ESA) Mar 30, 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  
ALMA resolves gas impacted by young jets from supermassive black holeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 27, 2020 Astronomers obtained the first resolved image of disturbed gaseous clouds in a galaxy 11 billion light-years away by using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The team found tha ... more  
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  
Raytheon, Aerojet announce $1B deal for Standard Missile projectsWashington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2020 Raytheon Missile Systems announced Thursday that it has made a $1 billion, five-year strategic deal to buy propulsion systems from Aerojet Rocketdyne for Standard Missile projects. ... more |
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 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.
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 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 |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
The Mars 2020 mission involving NASA's newly named rover - Perseverance - received a significant boost following the completion of important testing at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Activities to measure mass properties of the Cruise Stage vehicle were performed on the spin table inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility. Successful testing also was performed on NASA' ... more |
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 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 |
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 Darmstadt, Germany (ESA) Mar 25, 2020 
In response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, ESA has decided to further reduce on-site personnel at its mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.
The new adjustments require temporarily stopping instrument operation and data gathering on four Solar System science missions, which are part of the wider fleet of 21 spacecraft currently flown by the Agency from the European Space Op ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 30, 2020 
A radar system known as Space Fence, which can track material in space as small as 10 centimeters, is fully operational, the U.S. Space Force announced.
Using enhanced S-band radar, the Space Fence improves on previous capabilities of the Space Surveillance Network in tracking objects such as commercial and military satellites, depleted rocket boosters and space debris in low, medium, a ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will search for planets outside our solar system toward the center of our Milky Way galaxy, where most stars are. Studying the properties of exoplanet worlds will help us understand what planetary systems throughout the galaxy are like and how planets form and evolve.
Combining WFIRST's findings with results from NASA's Kepler and Transi ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 26, 2020 
The distribution and abundance of hundreds of marine species, including mammals, plankton, fish, plants and seabirds, has changed significantly during the past century in response to rising ocean temperatures, a new survey shows.
For the study, published this week in the journal Current Biology, scientists mined some 540 records of changes in species abundance.
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
On March 26, the U.S. Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's GPS Next Generation Operational Control System (OCX) program instructed Raytheon to replace the computer hardware in OCX prior to system delivery due to sale of IBM's computer product line to a Chinese company.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States approved the IBM x86 product line sale to a foreign o ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 30, 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 found that it could be used as a plasticizer in the concrete of the structures.
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Chinese counterpart plan to build moon bases in the coming decades, as p ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
Nearly a millennium and a half ago, red light streaked the night sky over Japan. Witnesses compared it to the tail of a pheasant - it appeared as a fan of beautiful red feathers stretched across the sky. Since the event, scientists have studied the witness accounts written in the year 620 A.D. and speculated about what the cosmic phenomenon could have actually been. Now, researchers from The Gra ... more |
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 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.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms - known as solar particle storms - into planetary space. Not only will such information improve understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimately can help protect astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars by providing better information on how the Sun's radiation affects the space ... more |
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 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 |
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 Kanazawa, 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 (LCDM) models are the simplest models that can provide elegant explanations of the properties of the Universe, e.g., the accelerated expansion of the late Universe and structural formations.
Howev ... more |
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