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  Washington DC (UPI) May 24, 2020 Weather has become a major concern for the planned launch of two American astronauts Wednesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the first crewed mission from U.S. soil in nine years. The projected liftoff has a 60 percent of violating weather constraints because of a thick cloud cover and the likelihood that their SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket would fly through rain, Air Force meteorologists at nearly Patrick Air Force Base said Sunday. "On launch day, remnant moisture" from a tropical w ... read more |
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China space program targets July launch for Mars missionBeijing (AFP) May 25, 2020 China is targeting a July launch for its ambitious plans for a Mars mission which will include landing a remote-controlled robot on the surface of the red planet, the company in charge of the project has said. ... more  
Media incorrectly connects UH research to parallel universe theoryHonolulu, HI (SPX) May 25, 2020 Media outlets from around the world used research out of the University of Hawai?i at Manoa to promote a theory about parallel universes. The Media incorrectly connects UH research to parallel unive ... more 
Trump to attend SpaceX launch; As NASA says go for May 27 launchWashington (AFP) May 23, 2020 US President Donald Trump will attend the May 27 launch of two astronauts aboard a SpaceX mission - the first crewed space flight from US soil in nine years, the White House said Saturday. ... more  
China's low-orbit broadband communication satellite bears fruitful resultsBeijing (XNA) May 25, 2020 China's first technology experiment satellite for low-orbit broadband communication has completed more than 180 communication tests and generated fruitful results, according to its developer Friday. ... more |
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NASA, SpaceX review clears historic mission for launch next weekWashington DC (UPI) May 22, 2020 NASA and SpaceX cleared next week's historic SpaceX Crew Dragon launch to the International Space Station after a flight readiness review Friday. ... more  
Harnessing space to save lives at seaPrague, Czech Republic (SPX) May 25, 2020 The migration crisis in recent years has thrown into focus the fact that current technological solutions are simply not capable of saving the lives of all those who get lost at sea. A number of sear ... more  
OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection Set for October 20thTucson AZ (SPX) May 25, 2020 After more than a decade of work and much anticipation, the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission will swipe a sample from the asteroid Bennu's rocky surface on Oct. 20 from the Nightingale s ... more 
Out-of-the-box spoofing mitigation with Galileo's OS-NMA servicePrague, Czech Republic (SPX) May 25, 2020 Over the past two decades, satellite-based positioning has become an indispensable, every-day technology that we constantly rely on - often even without being aware of it. With the relentless expans ... more  
A primordial world of minerals litters Atacama desertParis (ESA) May 25, 2020 The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over part of Chile's Atacama Desert, which is bound on the west by the Pacific and on the east by the Andes. The Atacama is considered one of the driest pl ... more |
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 ALMA Spots Twinkling Heart of Milky Way  
When lives depend on lines of communication, satellite deliversGermantown MD (SPX) May 22, 2020 When a natural disaster strikes - no matter where in the world - lives depend on lines of communication. Yet while hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and wildfires incite an urgent need for communication ... more  |
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Tracking the tinderbox: Stanford scientists map wildfire fuel moisture across western USStanford CA (SPX) May 22, 2020 As California and the American West head into fire season amid the coronavirus pandemic, scientists are harnessing artificial intelligence and new satellite data to help predict blazes across the re ... more  
ESA's oldest Earth-observer images Delhi airportParis (ESA) May 22, 2020 Plentiful parked airliners at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, usually the busiest airport in India until the COVID-19 pandemic, as seen by ESA's oldest operational Earth observatio ... more  
Engineers develop low-cost, high-accuracy GPS-like system for flexible medical robotsSan Diego CA (SPX) May 19, 2020 Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed an affordable, easy to use system to track the location of flexible surgical robots inside the human body. The system performs as ... more  
Researchers develop material capable of being invisible or reflective in IR spectrumSt. Petersburg, Russia (SPX) May 21, 2020 Modern optical devices require constant tuning of their light interaction settings. For that purpose, there exist various mechanical apparatuses that shift lenses, rotate reflectors, and move emitte ... more 
The flame of discovery grows as Saffire sets new fires in spaceCleveland OH (SPX) May 21, 2020 NASA ignited another set of space fire experiments last week when Saffire IV lit a number of longer, stronger flames inside Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo spacecraft. Saffire, NASA's Spacecraft Fir ... more |
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 Arlington VA (AFNS) May 22, 2020 
Marking a milestone in America's renewed ambitions for space, Department of the Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett and Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond, on Thursday spoke with NASA astronaut Bob Behnken whose mission will lift into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time in nine years.
The conversation with Behnken, an Air Force colonel, came six days before the scheduled May 2 ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 20, 2020 Two NASA astronauts arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, one week before they blast off aboard a SpaceX vessel - the first crewed space flight to leave from US soil in nine years.
US astronauts have been flying to the International Space Station (ISS) on Russian Soyuz rockets since the shuttle program ended in 2011 - a dependence they are keen to break.
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 22, 2020 
Progress continues to speed along as NASA's Perseverance rover readies for its launch this summer. On May 11, the rover team at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida received the tubes tasked with holding the first samples collected at Mars for eventual return to Earth.
A week later, the Atlas V launch vehicle that will hurl Perseverance to the Red Planet arrived at the launch site. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 25, 2020 
China is targeting a July launch for its ambitious plans for a Mars mission which will include landing a remote-controlled robot on the surface of the red planet, the company in charge of the project has said.
Beijing has invested billions of dollars in its space programme in an effort to catch up with its rival the United States and affirm its status as a major world power.
The Mars mis ... more |
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 Harwell UK (SPX) May 25, 2020 
The Harwell Space Cluster, Europe's most concentrated group of space organisations, located at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, has released its 10-year growth strategy. Already recognised internationally as the UK Space Gateway, the strategy supports the cluster's ambition to become the most compelling global gateway to the space sector, making it an even more powerful engine of growth, i ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 21, 2020 
For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through. Lab tests or even detailed computer simulations to determine their exact properties, such as toughness, can take hours, days, or more for each variation. Now, a new artificial intelligence-based approach developed at MIT could reduce that to a matter of milliseconds, maki ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) May 22, 2020 
What if we could take a picture of an Earth-like planet around another star that was sharp enough to see continents, oceans, and clouds?
Right now, it's impossible. From our vantage point, exoplanets - planets orbiting other stars - look like fireflies next to spotlights. In the few images we've managed to take of them, the exoplanets are mere dots. Even as the next generation of space tel ... more |
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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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 Boston MA (SPX) May 21, 2020  The motion of the ocean is often thought of in horizontal terms, for instance in the powerful currents that sweep around the planet, or the waves that ride in and out along a coastline. But there is also plenty of vertical motion, particularly in the open seas, where water from the deep can rise up, bringing nutrients to the upper ocean, while surface waters sink ... more |
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 Prague, Czech Republic (SPX) May 25, 2020 
Over the past two decades, satellite-based positioning has become an indispensable, every-day technology that we constantly rely on - often even without being aware of it. With the relentless expansion of applications and use cases, driven largely by falling cost of ownership and improvements in positioning accuracy, there will soon be one GNSS receiver in operation for every person on the plane ... more |
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 Chennai (IANS) May 21, 2020 
The Indian space agency has got the patent for its method of manufacturing highland lunar soil simulant or simply lunar/moon soil.
As a part of its Moon landing mission Chandrayaan-2, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had to prepare an artificial moon surface so that the Vikram lander and Pragyaan rover could be tested.
On May 18, the Indian Patent Office granted patent t ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 21, 2020 
NASA's first asteroid sample return mission is officially prepared for its long-awaited touchdown on asteroid Bennu's surface. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security - Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has targeted Oct. 20 for its first sample collection attempt.
"The OSIRIS-REx mission has been demonstrating the very essence of exploration by perse ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 22, 2020 
Plentiful parked airliners at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi, usually the busiest airport in India until the COVID-19 pandemic, as seen by ESA's oldest operational Earth observation mission, Proba-1.
The cubic-metre-sized satellite has been in orbit for more than 18 years. It left Earth from India: Proba-1 was launched from the country's Satish Dhawan Space Centre by Pola ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 25, 2020 
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found quasi-periodic flickers in millimeter-waves from the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius (Sgr) A*. The team interpreted these blinks to be due to the rotation of radio spots circling the supermassive black hole with an orbit radius smaller than that of Mercury. This is an interesting clue to investigate space-time w ... more |
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 Honolulu, HI (SPX) May 25, 2020 
Media outlets from around the world used research out of the University of Hawai?i at Manoa to promote a theory about parallel universes. The Media incorrectly connects UH research to parallel universe theorys caught the attention of many but the problem is that the UH research and NASA, the sponsor of that research, had nothing to do with the theory.
That did not stop the Daily Star, an U ... more |
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