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  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 28, 2020 A six-month commercial Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is planned for 2022-2023, according to files obtained by Sputnik. According to the documents, the launch of a Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft with a Russian cosmonaut as crew commander and two unknown crew members is planned for October 2022, while a return to Earth is planned for April 2023. No details are provided on the two passengers. Earlier this month, it was reported that two space tourists would will fly to the ISS i ... read more |
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Northrop says it's on schedule with next-generation OmegA rocketOrlando FL (UPI) Apr 28, 2020 Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. is on schedule for testing of its next-generation rocket, the OmegA, despite the challenges of operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, a company executive s ... more  
NASA CubeSat Will Shine a Laser Light on the Moon's Darkest CratersPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2020 As astronauts explore the Moon during the Artemis program, they may need to make use of the resources that already exist on the lunar surface. Take water, for instance: Because it's a heavy and ther ... more  
GPS celebrates 25th year of operationPeterson AFB CO (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 The Global Positioning System, better known as GPS, marks its 25th year of operation Apr. 27, 2020. On this date in 1995, the system reached full operational capability, meaning the system met ... more  
China builds Asia's largest steerable radio telescope for Mars missionBeijing (XNA) Apr 28, 2020 China is constructing the largest steerable radio telescope in Asia with a 70-meter-diameter antenna to receive data from its first Mars exploration mission which is expected to be launched this yea ... more |
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Quantum entanglement offers unprecedented precision for GPS, imaging and beyondTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 Your phone's GPS, the WiFi in your house and communications on aircraft are all powered by radio-frequency waves, or RF waves, which carry information from a transmitter at one point to a sensor at ... more 
Galileo Green Lane, easing pressure at the EU's internal bordersPrague, Czechia (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 The European GNSS Agency (GSA) is working together with the European Commission (EC) on an app to facilitate the movement of goods and freight within the EU in support of the COVID-19 pandemic respo ... more  
CYSEC SA wins contract to protect ship tracking communications from cyber threatsLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 CYSEC SA, a cybersecurity company from Switzerland has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop a solution mitigating the cyber risks related to ship tracking using sate ... more  
Russian enthusiast claims he intercepted Iranian's satellite signalMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2020 The radio amateur also claimed that "with some effort", it might be possible to translate the signals emitted by the satellite "into concrete parameters". Mere days after Iran announced the la ... more  
Iran receives signals from Noor satellite: commanderTehran (XNA) Apr 26, 2020 Several stations across Iran have received signals from the Noor 1 (Light 1) satellite that was launched into space on Wednesday, Tasnim news agency reported on Friday, quoting commander of the Isla ... more |
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Sensors woven into a shirt can monitor vital signsBoston MA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as tempe ... more  |
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A new way to cool down electronic devices, recover waste heatNew York NY (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 Using electronic devices for too long can cause them to overheat, which might slow them down, damage their components or even make them explode or catch fire. Now, researchers reporting in ACS' Nano ... more  
A cheap organic steam generator to purify waterLinkoping, 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 ... more  
New design could make fiber communications more energy efficientResearch Triangle Park NC (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 Researchers say a new discovery on a U.S. Army project for optoelectronic devices could help make optical fiber communications more energy efficient. The University of Pennsylvania, Peking Uni ... more 
NASA Test Directors eagerly await Artemis launchKennedy Space Center FL (SPXR) Apr 28, 2020 Before NASA's mighty Space Launch System (SLS) rocket can blast off from the agency's Kennedy Space Center to send the Orion spacecraft into lunar orbit, teams across the country conduct extensive t ... more  
NASA's Swift mission tallied water from interstellar Comet BorisovGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 For the first time, NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory tracked water loss from an interstellar comet as it approached and rounded the Sun. The object, 2I/Borisov, traveled through the solar syste ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 28, 2020 
A six-month commercial Soyuz flight to the International Space Station (ISS) is planned for 2022-2023, according to files obtained by Sputnik.
According to the documents, the launch of a Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft with a Russian cosmonaut as crew commander and two unknown crew members is planned for October 2022, while a return to Earth is planned for April 2023. No details are provided on the ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Apr 28, 2020 
Defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. is on schedule for testing of its next-generation rocket, the OmegA, despite the challenges of operating during the COVID-19 pandemic, a company executive said.
Northrop's OmegA program is the company's entry in a four-way competition with SpaceX, Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance to provide new launch services for military satellites.
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
New research indicates river delta deposits within Mars' Jezero crater - the destination of NASA' Perseverance rover on the Red Planet - formed over time scales that promoted habitability and enhanced preservation of evidence.
Undulating streaks of land visible from space reveal rivers once coursed across the Martian surface - but for how long did the water flow? Enough time to record evid ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 28, 2020 
China is constructing the largest steerable radio telescope in Asia with a 70-meter-diameter antenna to receive data from its first Mars exploration mission which is expected to be launched this year.
China aims to complete orbiting, landing and roving on the red planet in one mission, which has been named Tianwen-1.
The telescope, with an antenna the size of nine basketball courts, ... more |
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 Santa Clara CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 
Momentus has entered a launch service agreement with Swarm Technologies, making this the first constellation customer for Momentus.
The agreement includes a first launch onboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission in December 2020, with additional launches to be scheduled over the 2021-2022 time frame. Swarm's constellation of uniquely small satellites enables it to offer worldwide conne ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
MIT researchers have developed a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, and heart rate.
The sensor-embedded garments, which are machine washable, can be customized to fit close to the body of the person wearing them. The researchers envision tha ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Apr 23, 2020 
Yale technology is giving astronomers a closer look at the atmosphere of a distant planet where it's so hot the air contains vaporized metals.
The planet, MASCARA-2 b, is 140 parsecs from Earth - or roughly 2.68 quadrillion miles. It's a gas giant, like Jupiter. However, its orbit is 100 times closer to its star than Jupiter's orbit is to our Sun.
The atmosphere of MASCARA-2 b reache ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
JUICE, the JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission, has reached its next milestone: On its Earthly journey via different Airbus sites in Europe the spacecraft has arrived at Airbus' satellite integration centre in Friedrichshafen (Germany) for final integration. Until the end of 2020 it will be kitted out with its final components including harness, power electronics, onboard computer, communication ... 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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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 
The Global Positioning System, better known as GPS, marks its 25th year of operation Apr. 27, 2020.
On this date in 1995, the system reached full operational capability, meaning the system met all performance requirements. U.S. Air Force Space Command formally announced the milestone three months later.
"This is a major milestone," Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., former Air Force Vice Ch ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 28, 2020 
As astronauts explore the Moon during the Artemis program, they may need to make use of the resources that already exist on the lunar surface. Take water, for instance: Because it's a heavy and therefore expensive resource to launch from Earth, our future explorers might have to seek out ice to mine. Once excavated, it can be melted and purified for drinking and used for rocket fuel. But how muc ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2020 
A new study has identified the first known permanent population of asteroids originating from outside our solar system. The objects are believed to have been captured from other stars billions of years ago, and have been orbiting our Sun in disguise ever since. The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The first interstellar visitor, the astero ... more |
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 Paris (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 
The French Space Agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, CNES) has recently signed a contract with Airbus Defence and Space for the development and manufacture of the thermal infrared instrument for the TRISHNA satellite.
TRISHNA (Thermal infraRed Imaging Satellite for High resolution Natural resource Assessment) will be the latest satellite in the joint Franco-Indian satellite fleet d ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 
When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand. When our sun expels plasma in the form of solar wind, the wind also cools as it expands through space - but not nearly as much as the laws of physics would predict.
In a study published April ... 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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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 
Those looking forward to a day when science's Grand Unifying Theory of Everything could be worn on a t-shirt may have to wait a little longer as astrophysicists continue to find hints that one of the cosmological constants is not so constant after all.
In a paper published in prestigious journal Science Advances, scientists from UNSW Sydney reported that four new measurements of light emit ... more |
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