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  Washington (AFP) May 14, 2020 Global satellite operator Intelsat filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, citing disruption from to its business from the virus pandemic, in a move aimed at restructuring its operations. The filing in US bankruptcy court in Virginia listed more than $16 billion in debt. The company said in a statement it was "managing the economic slowdown impacting several of its end markets caused by the COVID-19 global health crisis." It said bankruptcy protection would help it restructure its balan ... read more |
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Bankrupt OneWeb seeks DoD financing to keep assets from Chinese purchaseWashington DC (UPI) May 14, 2020 Bankrupt satellite company OneWeb could get Defense Department funding, a Space Force official said while warning China to stay away from the company's assets. Startup companies specializing i ... more  
Rocket Crafters concludes tests of 3D-printed hybrid engineOrlando FL (UPI) May 14, 2020 A Florida rocket development company, Rocket Crafters, said Wednesday it concluded a new round of test-firings of its hybrid rocket engine, and plans a test flight with a small rocket in New Mexico ... more  
Innovators around the world help NASA improve a moon digging robotKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 15, 2020 With its Artemis program, NASA will quickly and sustainably return to the lunar surface. To prepare for sustainable operations on the Moon, NASA is advancing technologies needed to explore and work ... more  
New Orbital Transports Small Satellite Catalog provides complete support for mission successChicago IL (SPX) May 14, 2020 Orbital Transports, Inc. announced that it has debuted the Small Satellite Catalog on its website. By bringing the entire small satellite supply chain online, Orbital Transports is able to offer har ... more |
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope fully stowedGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2020 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch next year. Webb is NASA's larg ... more 
Momentus and Alba Orbital sign contract for up to 10 PocketQubesSanta Clara CA (SPX) May 15, 2020 Momentus and Alba Orbital have signed a contract for three Alba Albapods to ride on plaza deck of the Falcon 9 vehicle, which will launch in December 2020 from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral ... more 
RUAG Space offers new electronics for constellationsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 14, 2020 For constellations of hundreds or thousands of small satellites, products in high volumes, lower cost, on-time and on-quality delivery are needed. RUAG Space, a leading supplier to the space industr ... more  
New BeiDou satellite starts operation in networkBeijing (XNA) May 14, 2020 The 45th satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has started operation in the network after completing in-orbit tests, according to the Satellite Navigation System Management Offic ... more  
China's tracking ship Yuanwang-5 back from rocket monitoring missionNanjingm China (XNA) May 14, 2020 Space-tracking ship Yuanwang-5 returned to its port Tuesday, after finishing the latest monitoring mission in the Pacific Ocean for the Long March-5B rocket launch. The ship has operated 81 da ... more |
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Transporting energy through a single molecular nanowireGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) May 11, 2020 Photosynthetic systems in nature transport energy very efficiently towards a reaction centre, where it is converted into a useful form for the organism. Scientists have been using this as inspiratio ... more  |
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NIST scientists create new recipe for single-atom transistorsWashington DC (SPX) May 12, 2020 Once unimaginable, transistors consisting only of several-atom clusters or even single atoms promise to become the building blocks of a new generation of computers with unparalleled memory and proce ... more  
Satellite hacking challenge shifts to fully virtual eventWashington DC (AFNS) May 14, 2020 The Department of the Air Force and Defense Digital Service (DDS) planned satellite hacking challenge, the Space Security Challenge 2020: Hack-A-Sat, is pivoting to an entirely virtual event. This d ... more  
New, rapid mechanism for atmospheric particle formationPittsburgh PA (SPX) May 14, 2020 Carnegie Mellon University researchers working with an international team of scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that allows atmospheric particles to very rapidly form under ce ... more  
The horst and graben landscape of Ascuris PlanumBerlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2020 These images show a landscape deformed by strong tectonic activity in the area north of Labeatis Fossae in the Tempe Terra region of Mars. They were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HR ... more  
Why clouds form near black holesWashington DC (SPX) May 15, 2020 Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word "cloud" no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the greater universe are clumpy areas of greater ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 14, 2020 
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos confirmed the signing of a contract with NASA for the flight of an astronaut onboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) and back, but did not disclose the contract's worth.
"[Today], a contract was signed for the transportation of one American astronaut to the ISS on the Russian manned spacecraft Soyuz MS in the fall ... more |
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 St. Louis, MS (SPX) May 15, 2020 
NASA resumed Green Run testing activities this week on the first flight stage of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, with the return of limited crews to perform work at the agency's Stennis Space Center in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
"This is an important step toward resuming the critical work to support NASA's Artemis program that will land the first woman and the next man on the south ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2020 
These images show a landscape deformed by strong tectonic activity in the area north of Labeatis Fossae in the Tempe Terra region of Mars. They were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft.
Here, the results of the enormous forces that once affected ... more |
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 Nanjingm China (XNA) May 14, 2020 
Space-tracking ship Yuanwang-5 returned to its port Tuesday, after finishing the latest monitoring mission in the Pacific Ocean for the Long March-5B rocket launch.
The ship has operated 81 days at sea, sailing over 20,000 nautical miles. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, no port calls were made during the voyage, and more than 80 percent of crew members did not disembark for over 100 days, sa ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 14, 2020 
Global satellite operator Intelsat filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday, citing disruption from to its business from the virus pandemic, in a move aimed at restructuring its operations.
The filing in US bankruptcy court in Virginia listed more than $16 billion in debt.
The company said in a statement it was "managing the economic slowdown impacting several of its end markets cause ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) May 14, 2020 
A Florida rocket development company, Rocket Crafters, said Wednesday it concluded a new round of test-firings of its hybrid rocket engine, and plans a test flight with a small rocket in New Mexico later this year.
"We're excited about the data we've seen and to fly a rocket soon," said Rob Fabian, the company president. "The engine performance for the tests were on track with models."
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 15, 2020 
Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope have determined that the Earth-like planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system are not significantly misaligned with the rotation of the star. This is an important result for understanding the evolution of planetary systems around very low-mass stars in general, and in particular the history of the TRAPPIST-1 planets including the ones near the habitable zone.
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 14, 2020 
When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world in the distant solar system has a hazy atmosphere. Now, new data helps explain how Pluto's haze is formed from the faint light of the Sun 3.7 billion miles away as it moves through an unusual orbit.
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA's teles ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) May 14, 2020 
The team included researchers from CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the University of Melbourne.
Corals with increased heat tolerance have the potential to reduce the impact of reef bleaching from marine heat waves, which are becoming more common under climate change.
"Coral reefs are in decline worldwide," CSIRO Synthe ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 14, 2020 
The 45th satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has started operation in the network after completing in-orbit tests, according to the Satellite Navigation System Management Office.
The satellite will provide services in place of the 3rd BeiDou satellite, a geostationary earth orbit satellite of the BDS-2 system. The replacement will help reinforce the BDS-2 system and s ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 15, 2020 
With its Artemis program, NASA will quickly and sustainably return to the lunar surface. To prepare for sustainable operations on the Moon, NASA is advancing technologies needed to explore and work on the lunar surface. This includes developing capabilities to "live off the land," which requires being able to dig up resources in the lunar soil, or regolith.
Supporting these efforts, resear ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 12, 2020 
In February and July of 2019, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu. The readings it took with various instruments at those times have given researchers insight into the physical and chemical properties of the 1-kilometer-wide asteroid. These findings could help explain the history of Ryugu and other asteroids, as well as the solar system at la ... more |
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 Pittsburgh PA (SPX) May 14, 2020 
Carnegie Mellon University researchers working with an international team of scientists have discovered a previously unknown mechanism that allows atmospheric particles to very rapidly form under certain conditions. The research, which was published in the journal Nature, could aid efforts to model climate change and reduce particle pollution in cities.
"The only real uncertainties in our ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2020 
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been successfully folded and stowed into the same configuration it will have when loaded onto an Ariane 5 rocket for launch next year.
Webb is NASA's largest and most complex space science telescope ever built. Too big for any rocket available in its fully expanded form, the entire observatory was designed to fold in on itself to achieve a much smaller ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 15, 2020 
Once you leave the majestic skies of Earth, the word "cloud" no longer means a white fluffy-looking structure that produces rain. Instead, clouds in the greater universe are clumpy areas of greater density than their surroundings.
Space telescopes have observed these cosmic clouds in the vicinity of supermassive black holes, those mysterious dense objects from which no light can escape, wi ... more |
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