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  Tehran (AFP) April 22, 2020 Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they had successfully launched the country's first military satellite on Wednesday, at a time of renewed tensions with US forces in the Gulf. The United States charges Iran's satellite programme is a cover for its development of missiles. The Islamic republic has previously insisted its aerospace activities comply with its international obligations. Tensions between the arch foes escalated last week with the US accusing Iran of harassing its ships in the Gul ... read more |
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Nanocardboard flyers could serve as martian atmospheric probesPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mar ... more  
Solar gravity lens concept receives $2m NASA grant for technology maturationEl Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 The Solar Gravity Lens (SGL) concept to send a fleet of optical telescopes to image habitable planets far beyond our solar system received a $2 million grant by NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts ( ... more  
SwRI awarded $12.8M to develop space weather instrumentSan Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a $12,862,664 contract to develop a magnetometer for a satellite mission dedicated t ... more  
Rotating galaxies galore in the infant universeby Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 New results from an ambitious sky survey program, called ALPINE, reveal that rotating disk-shaped galaxies may have existed in large numbers earlier in the universe t ... more |
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Space Station science payload operations continue amid pandemicHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 The International Space Station Payload Operations Integration Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is the heartbeat of space station science research operations. As ... more  
Robots may become heroes in war on coronavirusSan Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2020 Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus. ... more  
US Norway to partner on hypersonic missile propulsion systemsWashington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2020 A joint U.S.-Norwegian effort to produce solid fuel propulsion systems for hypersonic missiles was announced by the U.S. Defense Department on Monday. The Tactical High-speed Offensive Ramjet ... more  
US wants to mine resources in space, but is it legal?Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 21, 2020 As the world tries to cope with the challenges of 2020, discussions around the use of mined resources from outer space continue to ratchet up. On April 6, the US White House released an execut ... more  
Russian Foreign Ministry Reveals How US Helped Push Moscow to Create Hypersonic WeaponsMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2020 After the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty last August, Moscow has expressed concern that Washington may allow the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) to l ... more |
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 SpaceX plans Wednesday Starlink satellite launch from Florida 
3D models of mountain lakes with a portable sonar and airborne laserMadrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 20, 2020 The information of the territory provided by the laser technology from an airplane can be combined with data collected in mountain lakes with an inflatable boat and a small echo sounder to obtain th ... more  |
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How NASA is Helping the World Breathe More EasilyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 Look around. Can you see the air? No? Luckily, many of NASA's Earth-observing satellites can see what the human eye can't - including potentially harmful pollutants lingering in the air we breathe. ... more 
Ball Aerospace moves into full production of the Space Force's Weather System Follow-on satelliteBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Ball Aerospace conducted a critical design review (CDR) of the Weather System Follow-on (WSF) satellite mission, which it is building for the U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC). ... more  
Stirling Convertor sets 14-year continuous operation milestoneCleveland OH (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Stirling convertors can teach us a lesson in the value of perseverance. On March 9, a free-piston Stirling power convertor accomplished 14 years of maintenance-free operation in the Stirling Researc ... more  
Hubble probes alien comet's chemical makeupBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov is providing a glimpse of another star system's planetary building blocks, using new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Borisov is the first known c ... more  
Exoplanet apparently disappears in latest Hubble observationsBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Now you see it, now you don't. What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight. Though this happens in science fiction, such as Superman's home pl ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
In 1970, the United States Clean Air Act underwent major revisions to reduce pollution and protect air quality, President Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, and NASA scientists were cracking open the door on a new era of studying our home planet from space.
The first black-and-white satellite images of Earth were just ten years old: a swirling mass of white clouds over back ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Governments throughout the world use rockets to launch satellites and people into orbit. This currently requires a lot of high-energy fuel, which is 95% of total rocket mass. Because the launch cost of a rocket can reach 10 billion yen, launching a 1-gram payload is said to be the same as buying 1 gram of gold. Minimizing the total cost of launching rockets would maximize the scientific payloads ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mars Helicopter will carry no instruments and collect no data - NASA describes merely flying it all as "high-risk, high-reward" research.
With the risks of extraterrestrial flight in mind, Penn Eng ... more |
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 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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 Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 21, 2020 
As the world tries to cope with the challenges of 2020, discussions around the use of mined resources from outer space continue to ratchet up.
On April 6, the US White House released an executive order that Americans
should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2020 
Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station (ISS) have started printing inorganic components of rat bone tissue as part of an experiment devised by Russian company 3D-bioprinting Solutions, managing partner Yusef Khesuani said on Saturday.
"The experiment began in orbit as planned at 11:45 Moscow time on April 11," Khesuani said.
Prior to this, experiments on the printing o ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thousands of miles deep, above a rocky mantle.
While water-rich exoplanets are common, their composition is very different from Earth, so there are many unknowns in terms of these planets' structure, ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
New Horizons is healthy and performing perfectly as it flies deeper and deeper into the Kuiper Belt! Recently we conducted an engineering review of the spacecraft to "trend" how it was working compared to when it was launched. The result was amazing: Every system and science instrument aboard New Horizons is working as well as it did when we lifted off, more than 14 years and almost 5 billion mi ... more |
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 Linkoping, Sweden (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
It has been estimated that in 2040 a quarter of the world's children will live in regions where clean and drinkable water is lacking. The desalination of seawater and the purification of wastewater are two possible methods to alleviate this, and researchers at Linkoping University have developed a cheap and eco-friendly steam generator to desalinate and purify water using sunlight. The results h ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 22, 2020 
Due to the unavailability of a reliable model to predict the electron density of the ionosphere, navigation errors remain, creating technological hurdles. A new model developed by Indian researchers has potential applications in calculating these Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning errors.
In a major development that could have a wider impact, ranging from accurate aiming ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 17, 2020 
Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient processes on the Moon - and to refine and practice techniques for future sample return missions.
With one sample already being analysed, preparations are now being made to open the second later this year. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving in an unusual direction. Now called 2I/Borisov, this runaway point of light turned out to be the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from some unknown place beyond our Sun's influence. Astronomers everywhere rushed to take a look with some of the most powerf ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a $12,862,664 contract to develop a magnetometer for a satellite mission dedicated to tracking space weather. The magnetometer is part of the satellite's solar wind instrument suite, which measures the characteristics of the solar wind plasma that interact with the Earth's geomagneti ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded the Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Magnetometer contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) based in San Antonio, Texas.
This is a cost-plus, fixed-fee contract with a total value of $12,862,664. The period of performance is 75 months.
SwRI will design, analyze, develop, fabric ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), planned for launch in the mid-2020s, will create enormous cosmic panoramas. Using them, astronomers will explore everything from our solar system to the edge of the observable universe, including planets throughout our galaxy and the nature of dark energy.
Though it's often compared to the Hubble Space Telescope, which turns 30 years ol ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020
New results from an ambitious sky survey program, called ALPINE, reveal that rotating disk-shaped galaxies may have existed in large numbers earlier in the universe than previously thought.
The ALPINE program, formally named "ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times," uses data obtained from 70 hours of sky observations with the ALMA observatory ( ... more |
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