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  Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 07, 2020 The approaching sixth launch of the X-37B robot spaceplane is being advertised with more detail than we have known for years. US authorities have revealed a list of some of the experiments to be carried on the flight, and have even released photographs of the spacecraft being encapsulated in its payload fairing. Such pre-launch photos have been conspicuously absent from recent launches of the mysterious vehicle, prompting this analyst to suggest that something carried on or with the spacecraft was ... read more |
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China's space test hits snag with capsule 'anomaly'Beijing (AFP) May 06, 2020 A cargo capsule that was part of a key test in China's space programme experienced an "anomaly" Wednesday during its return trip, the space authority said. The cargo capsule was launched Tuesd ... more 
Long March-5B rocket enables China to construct space stationWenchang (XNA) May 07, 2020 Construction of China's space station moves a step closer with the successful maiden flight of its new large carrier rocket, the Long March-5B, on Tuesday. The Long March-5B was specially deve ... more  
Russia to launch first satellite for monitoring Arctic climate this yearMoscow (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. ... more  
21 SW enlisted keep critical USSF asset training churning during worldwide pandemicBeale AFB CA (AFNS) May 05, 2020 One of the 21st Space Wing Operations Group's smallest geographically separated units has been the lynchpin keeping the Air Force's Upgraded Early Warning Radar system operational. Twenty-Firs ... more |
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Digipen student project heading to space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocketRedmond WA (SPX) May 07, 2020 In the near future, a box weighing just one pound and measuring 128 cubic inches will be launched 100 kilometers into the sky on-board Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle. Minutes later, it will ... more 
Launch Complex 39B prepared to support Artemis IKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 07, 2020 A legacy of the Apollo Program and shuttle era, Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is the site of NASA's return to the Moon and is now ready for Artemis I-an uncrewed mission a ... more  
Spider eyes in spaceParis (ESA) May 07, 2020 Not everyone can fly to the International Space Station, but astronauts are working hard to bring the experience to Earth - including through a virtual reality (VR) film project known as ISS Experie ... more 
Ready, set, go for COVID-conscious astronaut trainingParis (ESA) May 07, 2020 After nearly two months of confinement, it is not only school students who are progressively returning to class. ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer also returned to training at ESA's European Astronaut C ... more  
Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocksIrvine CA (SPX) May 05, 2020 In Northern Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the very rocks they colonize. Through work in th ... more |
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Age of NGC 6652 globular cluster specifiedKazan, Russia (SPX) May 06, 2020 Senior Research Associate Margarita Sharina (Special Astrophysical Observatory) and Associate Professor Vladislav Shimansky (Kazan Federal University) studied the globular cluster NGC 6652.4.05957 a ... more  |
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Coldest material in the cosmos could help scientists find dark matter particlesWashington DC (UPI) May 01, 2020 Researchers suggest the coldest material in the universe could reveal the presence of dark matter particles. ... more 
Looking for dark matter with the universe's coldest materialMadrid, Spain (SPX) May 04, 2020 Scientists have been able to observe the universe and determine that about 80% of the its mass appears to be "dark matter," which exerts a gravitational pull but does not interact with light, and th ... more  
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Missiles and Defense Partner on Next Generation InterceptorFalls Church VA (SPX) May 05, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation and Raytheon Missiles and Defense, a business of Raytheon Technologies, are partnering to pursue a U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) contract for the Next Generation Int ... more 
China says launch of key new space rocket 'successful'Beijing (AFP) May 5, 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. ... more 
NASA to demonstrate first-of-its-kind in-space manufacturing technique for telescope mirrorsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 06, 2020 Large telescopes that could be used for detecting and analyzing Earth-like planets in orbit around other stars or for peering back in time to observe the very early universe may not necessarily have ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 06, 2020 
Airbus and Xenesis have signed a contract for a payload slot on the International Space Station (ISS) Bartolomeo platform for the demonstration of their Xen-Hub optical communication space terminal.
The Xen-Hub is a greater than 10 gigabyte per second optical communications terminal. The terminal was enabled with a technology transfer from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is designed ... more |
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 Redmond WA (SPX) May 07, 2020 
In the near future, a box weighing just one pound and measuring 128 cubic inches will be launched 100 kilometers into the sky on-board Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle. Minutes later, it will return to the ground. What's special about this box is that it and its contents are being designed, programmed, and built by a group of third-year students in the Bachelor of Science in Computer Engi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2020 
Billions of years ago, the Martian surface could have supported microbial life as we know it. But did such life ever actually exist there? NASA and its Mars 2020 mission hope to find out with the Perseverance rover, which launches to the Red Planet this summer.
Scientists have sought answers to astrobiological questions on Earth, studying regions similar enough to Mars to understand what t ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 06, 2020  A cargo capsule that was part of a key test in China's space programme experienced an "anomaly" Wednesday during its return trip, the space authority said.
The cargo capsule was launched Tuesday aboard a new type of carrier rocket along with a prototype spacecraft, and the latter is expected to return to Earth on Friday.
The launch is a major test of China's ambitions to operate a pe ... 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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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) May 06, 2020 
Air Force Research Laboratory researchers Drs. Robert Bedford, Luke Bissell, Chandriker Dass and Michael Slocum are finding practical applications for the curious phenomena that occur in quantum materials. Until the late 1990s, the properties - or even the existence - of such materials seemed little more than theoretical. But, what is a quantum material?
Once upon a time, the science of ph ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 05, 2020 
By studying how the tiniest organisms in the Atacama Desert of Chile, one of the driest places on Earth, extract water from rocks, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Irvine, and U.C. Riverside revealed how, against all odds, life can exist in extreme environments.
A report of the findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show ... 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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 New York NY (SPX) May 05, 2020 
A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years ago has been proliferating and spreading at an alarming pace, forming thick, malodorous green swirls and filaments that are visible even from space. This unusual organism is Noctiluca scintillans--a millimeter-size planktonic organism with an extraordinary capacity to survive, thrive and force out diatoms, the photosynt ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 30, 2020 
As European governments plan their phased recoveries from the lockdown states triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the positioning delivered through satellite navigation is becoming more important than ever before. Location is a key requirement when attempting to monitor and map the spread of a disease and satnav is one of the main tools supporting this.
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 West 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 research to help bridge that gap.
Dyke, head of Purdue University's RETH (Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats) Institute, says her research focuses on enabling the future.
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 Washington 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.
The Flower Moon, named after blooming May flowers, reaches its closest point to Earth's orbit at 6:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, but will be best viewed Wednesday evening when it rises at 7:10 p ... 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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 Munich, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2020 
A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar System than any other found to date and forms part of a triple system that can be seen with the naked eye.
The team found evidence for the invisible object by tracking its two companion stars using ... more |
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