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  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Boeing has decided to fly a second uncrewed flight test as a part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Although no new launch date has been set, NASA has accepted the proposal to fly the mission again and will work side-by-side with Boeing to resume flight tests to the International Space Station on the company's CST-100 Starliner system. The agency's Commercial Crew Program is a unique approach to human spaceflight in which NASA provides a set of mission and safety requirements and private companie ... read more |
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Mysteries of Uranus' oddities explained by Japanese astronomersTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers be ... more  
Humans are not the first to repurpose CRISPRCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural sys ... more  
Data from NASA's Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the ... more  
OneWeb goes bankruptBethesda MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 The OneWeb satellite system was a planned initial 650-satelliteconstellation that was in the process of being built out with 74 satellites already in orbit. The goal was to provide global satellite ... more |
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US Space Force pens $1B in contracts for unjammable modemsWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2020 The US Space Force (USSF) has awarded two $500 million contracts to develop and produce satellite communications modems secure from enemy jamming. On Monday, the USSF's Space and Missile Syste ... more  
Study challenges common view of oxygen scarcity on Earth 2 billion years agoTallin, Estonia (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Shungite, a unique carbon-rich sedimentary rock from Russia that deposited 2 billion years ago, holds clues about oxygen concentrations on Earth's surface at that time. Led by Professor Kurt Konhaus ... more 
In Earth's largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinctionBerkeley CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Peri od 252 million years ago - one of the great turnovers of life on Earth - appears to have played out differently and at different times on land and ... more  
Lucy had an ape-like brainLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to al ... more 
Most of Earth's carbon was hidden in the core during its formative yearsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Carbon is an essential building block for all living things on Earth and plays a vital role in many of the geologic processes that shape life on the planet, including climate change and ocean acidif ... more |
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AAC Clyde Space wins 8 MSEK order for commercial satelliteEdinburgh UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 AAC Clyde Space has won an 8 MSEK (642 000 pounds) order for a 6U satellite from Orbital Micro Systems (OMS), to be launched as part of the UK Space Launch Programme. The satellite will be included ... more  |
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Choosing rocks on Mars to bring to EarthParis (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 If you could bring something back from Mars to Earth, what would you choose? This question is becoming reality, as ESA opens a call for scientists to join a NASA team working to determine which mart ... more 
NewSpace Philosophies: Who, How, What?Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 The world is enthusiastically watching the development of the space industry. Alpha launches from Firefly Aerospace and Orion are in the works, as well as Crew Dragon lift-offs with space tourists. ... more  
Does relativity lie at the source of quantum exoticism?Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 Since its beginnings, quantum mechanics hasn't ceased to amaze us with its peculiarity, so difficult to understand. Why does one particle seem to pass through two slits simultaneously? Why instead o ... more 
Oita Partners with Virgin Orbit to establish first horizontal spaceport in AsiaLong Beach CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Virgin Orbit, the California-based small satellite launch company, has announced a new partnership with Oita Prefecture to bring horizontal launch to Japan. With the support of regional partners ANA ... more  
NASA unveils more Moon to Mars mission plansWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024. ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
Boeing has decided to fly a second uncrewed flight test as a part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Although no new launch date has been set, NASA has accepted the proposal to fly the mission again and will work side-by-side with Boeing to resume flight tests to the International Space Station on the company's CST-100 Starliner system.
The agency's Commercial Crew Program is a unique appr ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 01, 2020 
Joint teams from NASA and SpaceX continue making progress on the first flight test with astronauts to the International Space Station by completing a series of mission simulations from launch to landing. The mission, known as Demo-2, is a close mirror of the company's uncrewed flight test to station in March 2019, but this time with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Crew Dra ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how they might find life on Mars. These bacteria were discovered living in tiny cracks inside volcanic rocks after researchers persisted over a decade of trial and error to find a new way to examine the rocks.
Researchers estimate that the rock cracks are home to a community of bact ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Apr 06, 2020 
China will launch the first two communications satellites for its space-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) project in mid to late April, with one satellite named after its birthplace Wuhan, according to the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC).
The rocket to send the satellites, Kuaizhou-1A, was developed by the Wuhan-based Sanjiang Group under the CASIC. Despite its proxim ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The OneWeb satellite system was a planned initial 650-satelliteconstellation that was in the process of being built out with 74 satellites already in orbit. The goal was to provide global satellite Internet broadband services. Initial services were scheduled to start in 2021. OneWeb was headquartered in London, England, with offices in the US, UAE and Singapore.
OneWeb suddenly declared ba ... 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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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural systems in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, among other areas.
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that we are not the first to find a way to exploit the benefits of the ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Plymouth UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
The UK's plankton population - microscopic algae and animals which support the entire marine food web - has undergone sweeping changes in the past six decades, according to new research published in Global Change Biology.
Involving leading marine scientists from across the UK, led by the University of Plymouth, the research for the first time combines the findings of UK offshore surveys su ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
L3Harris Technologies has reached a major milestone in the U.S. Air Force's Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) project - passing the preliminary design review that defines the spacecraft's path to delivery and allows the program to move to the next phase of development.
NTS-3 is an experimental program examining ways to improve the resiliency of the military's positioning, navigatio ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 
NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024.
NASA'S ambitious Artemis programme aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024 has just been expanded even further, aiming to maintain a human presence on the Moon and, potentially, M ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2020 
The simulation tests are currently in full swing, as the astrophysicist community is looking forward to the so-called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission - the first kinetic impact deflection probe to be carried out on a near-Earth asteroid.
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have moved further in their efforts to simulate how they mi ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
A dataset of large-scale aerial images produced by Intelinair, a spinout from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aims to give farmers visibility into the conditions of their fields. The dataset, called Agriculture-Vision, will enable agricultural pattern analysis of aerial images, providing farmers with actionable insights into the performance of their crops to improve decision-maki ... more |
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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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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively large satellite galaxy visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is thought to have brought at least six of its own satellite galaxies with it when it first approached the Milky Way, bas ... more |
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
Since its beginnings, quantum mechanics hasn't ceased to amaze us with its peculiarity, so difficult to understand. Why does one particle seem to pass through two slits simultaneously? Why instead of specific predictions can we only talk about evolution of probabilities? According to theorists from universities in Warsaw and Oxford, the most important features of the quantum world may result fro ... more |
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