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No press, no family: Space crew set for launch during pandemic![]() Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2020 A three-man space crew finished preparations on Wednesday for a mission to the International Space Station, which is going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic. Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy will blast off from Kazakhstan for a six-month mission at 08:05 GMT Thursday. But with journalists and relatives unable to travel to Baikonur due to restrictions related to COVID-19, the traditional farewell press conference broadcast by Ros ... read more |
Journey to a metallic world called PsycheTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of part ... more
Sellafield research uncovers microbial life in fuel pondsManchester UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 Two new research papers from The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Sellafield Limited and the National Nuclear Laboratory show that microbes can actively colonise some of the most ... more
Trump issues Executive Order supporting Space Resources utlizationWashington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 President Donald J. Trump has signed an Executive Order on Encouraging International Support for the Recovery and Use of Space Resources. This order addresses U.S. policy regarding the recovery and ... more
Dragon returns to Earth with science payloads from ISSHouston TX (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:50 p.m. (11:50 a.m. PDT), approximately 300 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company's 20th ... more |
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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
Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group prepares to launch their first satellite "Golden Bauhinia"Hong Kong (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Hong Kong Aerospace Technology Group (HKATG) announced it aims to launch the "Golden Bauhinia No.1" low-orbit high frequency satellite in June from China. The planned launch marks an important miles ... more
China to launch last satellite for BeiDou navigation system in MayXichang (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 China is expected to launch the last satellite for its BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System in May from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The new satel ... more
First-ever photo proof of powerful jet emerging from colliding galaxiesClemson SC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 A team of Clemson University College of Science researchers, in collaboration with international colleagues, has reported the first definitive detection of a relativistic jet emerging from two colli ... more
CMSgt Towberman sworn in as the first Senior Enlisted Advisor for the US Space ForceArlington VA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Chief Master Sgt. Roger A. Towberman became the first Senior Enlisted Advisor of the U.S. Space Force Friday as Gen. Jay Raymond, USSF Chief of Space Operations, administered the Oath of Enlistment ... more |
![]() Innovative space startup advances US ability to gather intelligence in Cislunar Space
Study shows six decades of change in plankton communitiesPlymouth 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 ... more |
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China launches new remote sensing satellitesXichang (XNA) Apr 06, 2020 China successfully sent a group of new remote sensing satellites into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Tuesday. Belonging to the Yaogan-3 ... more
Hanley Wood and Meyers Research announce acquisition of satellite imagery company Bird.ICosta Mesa CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Hanley Wood | Meyers Research, the housing industry's foremost advisors and provider of rich data, has announced it acquired Bird.i, a Scotland-based company that combines the latest satellite image ... more
Visual inspection in nuclear environmentsChesham UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Resolve Optics reports on how its non-browning lenses are helping a specialist camera manufacturer to supply a turnkey solution for monitoring remote operations in high radiation environments. ... more
Entanglement by identity, or interaction without ever touchingWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 What is interaction and when does it occur? Intuition suggests that the necessary condition for the interaction of independently created particles is their direct touch or contact through physical f ... more
AI finds 2D materials in the blink of an eyeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, demonstrated a novel artificial intelligence system that can find and label 2D materials in microscope images i ... more |
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No press, no family: Space crew set for launch during pandemic Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 8, 2020
A three-man space crew finished preparations on Wednesday for a mission to the International Space Station, which is going ahead despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of Russia's Roscosmos space agency and NASA's Chris Cassidy will blast off from Kazakhstan for a six-month mission at 08:05 GMT Thursday.
But with journalists and relatives unable to travel t ... more |
Dragon returns to Earth with science payloads from ISS Houston TX (SPX) Apr 08, 2020
SpaceX's Dragon cargo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:50 p.m. (11:50 a.m. PDT), approximately 300 miles southwest of Long Beach, California, marking the end of the company's 20th contracted cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The spacecraft returned more than 4,000 pounds of valuable scientific experiments and other cargo.
Some of the scie ... more |
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Choosing rocks on Mars to bring to Earth Paris (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 martian samples should be collected and stored by the Perseverance rover set to launch this Summer.
Perseverance is a standalone mission seeking signs of habitable conditions on our neighbour planet ... more |
Parachutes guide China's rocket debris safely to earth Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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OneWeb goes bankrupt 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 |
AI finds 2D materials in the blink of an eye Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 06, 2020
Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, a part of The University of Tokyo, demonstrated a novel artificial intelligence system that can find and label 2D materials in microscope images in the blink of an eye. This work can help shorten the time required for 2D material-based electronics to be ready for consumer devices.
Two-dimensional materials offer an exciting new platform f ... more |
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NASA selects early-stage technology concepts for new, continued study Washington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020
Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program, which invests in early-stage technology ideas from NASA, industry and academic researchers across the country, has selected 23 potentially revolutionary concepts with a total award value of $7 milli ... more |
Mysteries of Uranus' oddities explained by Japanese astronomers 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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GeoSpectrum Technologies launches game changing LF active VDS deployable by USVs Nova Scotia, Canada (SPX) Apr 06, 2020
GeoSpectrum Technologies announces the debut of a new and compact version of its Towed Reelable Active Passive Sonar (TRAPS) suitable for Unmanned Surface Vessels (USVs). Named TRAPS-USV, this lighter-weight variant is designed to fit on almost any size vessel, including patrol boats and USVs, while retaining full active sonar acoustic capabilities and providing ground breaking low frequency act ... more |
China to launch last satellite for BeiDou navigation system in May Xichang (XNA) Apr 07, 2020
China is expected to launch the last satellite for its BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System in May from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The new satellite is the 55th satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System. It arrived at the launch site in Xichang on April 4, where it will be tested, assembled and fueled before the launch.
The BD ... more |
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NASA unveils more Moon to Mars mission plans 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 |
Journey to a metallic world called Psyche Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 08, 2020
The Arizona State University-led NASA Psyche mission, which is planned to launch in 2022, will travel to an asteroid named Psyche, orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. This asteroid is of particular interest in that it is rich in metal and may be the exposed nickel-iron core of an early planet, one of the building blocks of the sun's planetary system.
While we'll have to wait until t ... more |
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New aerial image dataset to help provide farmers with actionable insights 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 |
NASA Selects Mission to Study Causes of Giant Solar Particle Storms 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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Are gamma-ray bursts powered by a star's collapsing magnetic fields? Bath UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020
When a massive star in a distant galaxy collapses, forming a black hole, two giant jets of light-emitting plasma shoot from its core. These extremely bright gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the universe, and when a jet points towards Earth, the afterglow can be detected from ground and space-borne telescopes.
Material does not simply catapult from an exploding st ... more |
Entanglement by identity, or interaction without ever touching Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 06, 2020
What is interaction and when does it occur? Intuition suggests that the necessary condition for the interaction of independently created particles is their direct touch or contact through physical force carriers. In quantum mechanics, the result of the interaction is entanglement - the appearance of non-classical correlations in the system. It seems that quantum theory allows entanglement of ind ... more |
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