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  Beijing (AFP) May 05, 2020 China on Tuesday successfully launched a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, state media said, in a major test of the country's ambitions to operate a permanent space station and send astronauts to the Moon. The Long March 5B rocket took off from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island of Hainan and eight minutes later an unmanned prototype spaceship successfully separated and entered its planned orbit, according to the Xinhua news agency. ... read more |
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Exoplanets: How we'll search for signs of lifeTempe AZ (SPX) May 05, 2020 Whether there is life elsewhere in the universe is a question people have pondered for millennia; and within the last few decades, great strides have been made in our search for signs of life outsid ... more  
Department of the Air Force commissioned RAND Space Launch Market Report releasedLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Apr 30, 2020 Last summer, the Department of the Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise requested a RAND Corp. study of the heavy lift launch market. The RAND study confirms the heav ... more  
Pursuing the future of lunar habitationWest Lafayette IN (SPX) May 05, 2020 Shirley Dyke doesn't see the moon as a crater-filled sphere. She expects lunar dwellings to begin emerging in a decade, helping reach out to further space habitation. And she wants her researc ... more  
NASA Scientist Flies Technology on a Dozen High-Profile MissionsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 05, 2020 Scientists and engineers can spend their entire careers developing technologies and maybe, if they're lucky, fly them on a handful of missions. NASA scientist and innovator Nikolaos Paschalidis must ... more |
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Last Supermoon of 2020 will wash out asteroid showersWashington DC (UPI) May 04, 2020 The last supermoon of 2020, May's so-called "Flower Moon," will be visible in the night skies this week, and its brightness will likely obscure the yearly Eta Aquarids meteor showers, according to NASA. ... more  
Northrop Grumman to rapidly develop net-centric gatewaySan Diego CA (SPX) May 04, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation is rapidly working on developing and fielding a gatewayONE prototype, an open system enabling translation and communication across platforms, in support of the Advanced ... more 
Lockheed Martin's new contract with DARPA can disrupt the future of spaceSunnyvale CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 DARPA has awarded Lockheed Martin a $5.8 million contract for the first phase of satellite integration on the Blackjack program. Lockheed Martin will define and manage interfaces between Black ... more 
L3Harris Technologies awarded third LRIP order on US Army's HMS Manpack IDIQ contractRochester NY (SPX) Apr 30, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has received a third low-rate initial production (LRIP) order valued at $95 million by the U.S. Army under the HMS (Handheld, Manpack and Small Form-Fit) IDIQ contract to bring ... more  
Russia ditches Putin mosaic in army churchMoscow (AFP) May 1, 2020 A mosaic featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin will no longer be displayed in a grand military church being built outside Moscow after the leader objected, a cleric said on Friday. ... more |
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Scientists build biobot with a real rat spinal cordWashington DC (UPI) Apr 29, 2020 Scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a biohybrid robot featuring an actual rat spinal cord and a tissue-engineered muscle system. ... more  |
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ESA's Tenerife telescope resumes watching the skyParis (ESA) May 01, 2020 Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ESA has resumed its watch on the skies around our planet. The Agency's Optical Ground Station observatory, 2 400 m above the shores of Tenerife, tracks orbital space debr ... more  
Telemedicine on the frontline in SpainParis (ESA) May 01, 2020 Space technology is in action in Barcelona, Spain, as emergency responders employ two ESA-supplied telemedicine devices to triage and treat urgent patients. Offering ultrasound, laryngoscopy a ... more 
NASA develops COVID-19 prototype ventilator in 37 daysPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 24, 2020 A new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers and tailored to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients passed a critical test Tuesday at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New ... more  
How catastrophic outburst floods may have carved Greenland's 'grand canyon'Amherst MD (SPX) May 01, 2020 For years, geologists have debated how and when a network of canyons under the Greenland Ice Sheet formed, especially one that is so deep and long it's called 'Greenland's Grand Canyon.' Its shape s ... more 
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket engines orderedHuntsville AL (SPX) May 04, 2020 NASA has awarded a contract to Aerojet Rocketdyne of Sacramento, California, to manufacture 18 additional Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engines to support Artemis missions to the Moon. ... more |
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 Columbia IL (SPX) Apr 30, 2020 
NanoAvionics has been selected to build a 12U nanosatellite bus for an in-orbit demonstration of NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3). This a result of a contract between NASA Ames Research Center and AST for a 12U bus to carry NASA's payload into low Earth orbit (LEO) including an approximately 800 square foot (74 square meter) composite boom and solar sail system.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2020 
On April 17, NASA and SpaceX announced that the upcoming flight test of the new Crew Dragon spacecraft with our astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley is now scheduled for lift off no earlier than 4:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 27. The launch of the Demo-2 mission will take place from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Have no doubt about it: I am looking forward to the launch. It will b ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2020 
When it launches this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will have the most advanced pair of "eyes" ever sent to the Red Planet's surface: Its Mastcam-Z instrument packs a next-gen zoom capability that will help the mission make 3D imagery more easily. Rover operators, who carefully plan out each driving route and each movement of a rover's robotic arm, view these stereo images through 3D goggles ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 05, 2020  China on Tuesday successfully launched a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, state media said, in a major test of the country's ambitions to operate a permanent space station and send astronauts to the Moon. The Long March 5B rocket took off from the Wenchang launch site in the southern island of Hainan and eight minutes later an unmanned prototype spaceship ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 05, 2020 
During these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 lockdown, trying to work poses huge challenges for us all. For those that can, remote working is now pretty much the norm, but this is obviously not possible for everybody. One might assume that like many industries, the construction and testing of satellites has been put on hold, but engineers and scientists are finding ways of continuing to prep ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 01, 2020 
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ESA has resumed its watch on the skies around our planet. The Agency's Optical Ground Station observatory, 2 400 m above the shores of Tenerife, tracks orbital space debris and near-Earth asteroids.
The Optical Ground Station (OGS) is located high on the slopes of the volcanic island, to take advantage of Tenerife's clear weather conditions. It was originally bu ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 01, 2020 
The weather forecast for the giant, super-hot, Jupiter-size planet WASP-79b is steamy humidity, scattered clouds, iron rain and yellow skies.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope teamed up with the Magellan Consortium's Magellan II Telescope in Chile to analyze the atmosphere of this planet, which orbits a star that is hotter and brighter than our Sun, and is located at a distance of 780 light-ye ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2020 
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces that geologists call "chaos terrain." Three newly reprocessed images, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s, reveal details in diverse surface features on Europa.
Although the data captured by Galileo is more than two decades old, scienti ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) May 04, 2020 
CU Boulder researchers have developed a method that could enable scientists to accurately forecast ocean acidity up to five years in advance. This would enable fisheries and communities that depend on seafood negatively affected by ocean acidification to adapt to changing conditions in real time, improving economic and food security in the next few decades.
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) May 01, 2020 
NASA has selected three U.S. companies to design and develop human landing systems (HLS) for the agency's Artemis program, one of which will land the first woman and next man on the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is on track for sustainable human exploration of the Moon for the first time in history.
The human landing system awards under the Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partn ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 01, 2020 
A reasonably small 4-8 m asteroid recently flew by Earth, passing close to satellites orbiting in the geostationary ring at a distance of about 42 735 km from Earth's centre and only about 1200 km from the nearest satellite.
After the initial discovery, observers around the world rapidly set their eyes on the 'new' space rock, determining it would safely pass our planet in one of the close ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 05, 2020 
Russia will launch its first Arktika-M satellite for monitoring the Arctic climate and environment at the end of the year, General Director of the Lavochkin aerospace company Vladimir Kolmykov said.
"As of now, the number one Arktika-M spacecraft has been developed and is undergoing radio-electronic testing ... the launch is planned for the end of 2020", Kolmykov said, adding that the seco ... more |
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 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2020 
The extent to which solar activity (and thus the number of sunspots and the solar brightness) varies can be reconstructed using various methods - at least for a certain period of time.
Since 1610, for example, there have been reliable records of sunspots covering the Sun; the distribution of radioactive varieties of carbon and beryllium in tree rings and ice cores allows us to draw conclus ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 05, 2020 
Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, we know dark matter must make up about 85 percent of the total mass of the universe, but we don't yet know what it's made of.
Several large experiments that hunt for dark matter have searched for signs of dark matter particles knocking into atomic nuclei via a pro ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 
Atoms and molecules behave very differently at extreme temperatures and pressures. Although such extreme matter doesn't exist naturally on the earth, it exists in abundance in the universe, especially in the deep interiors of planets and stars.
Understanding how atoms react under high-pressure conditions - a field known as high-energy-density physics (HEDP) - gives scientists valuable insi ... more |
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