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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 27, 2020 The first human spaceflight to launch from American soil in nearly a decade is set to take place this week. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will lift off aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crewed flight will then dock with the International Space Station for at least one month before returning back to Earth. The historic Demo-2 mission marks the beginning of a new era for the U.S. space enterprise. As part o ... read more |
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Airbus wins ESA contract to construct third European Service Module for NASA's Orion spacecraftBremen, Germany (SPX) May 27, 2020 The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Airbus for the construction of the third European Service Module (ESM) for Orion, the American crewed spacecraft. The contract is worth aro ... more  
The detective aboard NASA's Perseverance RoverPasadena CA (JPL) May 27, 2020 Mars is a long way from 221B Baker Street, but one of fiction's best-known detectives will be represented on the Red Planet after NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. SHERLOC, an ... more 
No SpaceX T-shirts for tourists at Cape CanaveralMerritt Island, United States (AFP) May 27, 2020 NASA begged tourists to watch the SpaceX launch online, but space fans are still showing up in Florida. It would have been pretty good news for Brenda Mulberry - if she'd had some SpaceX T-shirts to sell them. ... more 
America gets ready to again see astronauts head into space from U.S. soilWashington DC (UPI) May 26, 2020 NASA and SpaceX plan to provide more than 24 hours of live coverage for the return of human spaceflight from the United States, with programming starting at noon Wednesday. ... more |
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New infrared telescope to help find Universe's "hidden treasures" in real timeCanberra, Australia (SPX) May 27, 2020 A new infrared telescope, to be designed and built by astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU), will monitor the entire southern sky in search of new cosmic events as they take place. ... more 
Astrophysicists capture new class of transient objectsEvanston IL (SPX) May 27, 2020 Move aside, AT2018COW. There is a new astronomical transient in the universe, and it is faster, heavier and brighter at radio wavelengths than its mysterious predecessors. After astronomers vi ... more 
Two More Rare, Explosive Events Captured as 'Cow' mystery strikes backMaunakea HI (SPX) May 27, 2020 The 'Cow' is not alone; with the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, astronomers have discovered two more like it - the 'Koala' and a similar mysterious bright object called CSS161 ... more  
USSPACECOM releases first formal order to execute multinational space operationsPeterson AFB CO (SPX) May 26, 2020 Gen. John W. "Jay" Raymond, U.S. Space Command commander and U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, signed the first USSPACECOM operations order under Operation OLYMPIC DEFENDER. OOD is a ... more  
USS Portland's high-powered laser disables drone in weapon's first at-sea testPearl Harbor (USN) May 22, 2020 Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a Solid State Laser - Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) M ... more |
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UK nears final stage of Skynet satellite contract competitionLondon, UK (Sputnik) May 26, 2020 Britain's Ministry of Defense will soon launch the final stage of a competition to manage ground station capabilities for Skynet, a military communications satellite network which provides strategic ... more  |
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Snow mass estimates now more reliableParis (ESA) May 22, 2020 Estimating the amount of seasonal snow is important for understanding the water cycle and Earth's climate system, but establishing a clear and coherent picture of change has proven difficult. New re ... more  
Herding wild buffalo and cattle from spaceMelbourne, Australia (SPX) May 27, 2020 Coinciding with National Reconciliation Week this week, the $4 million, 3.5 year project aims to turn the destructive pests into economic, environmental and cultural opportunities for Indigenous com ... more 
Weather iffy for SpaceX astronaut launchWashington (AFP) May 25, 2020 Aside from a threat of bad weather, NASA and SpaceX confirmed Monday that everything is all-systems-go for their upcoming rocket launch with two American astronauts. ... more 
First test of Virgin Orbit rocket fails to accomplish goalLos Angeles (AFP) May 25, 2020 The first test launch of a rocket that is released from a jumbo jet at 35,000 feet and then propels itself into orbit to deploy a satellite failed on Monday, the Virgin Orbit company said. ... more
America gets ready to again see astronauts head into space from U.S. soilOrlando FL (UPI) May 26, 2020 NASA and SpaceX plan to provide more than 24 hours of live coverage for the return of human spaceflight from the United States, with programming starting at noon Wednesday. Astronauts Bob Behn ... more |
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 Merritt Island, United States (AFP) May 27, 2020 
NASA begged tourists to watch the SpaceX launch online, but space fans are still showing up in Florida. It would have been pretty good news for Brenda Mulberry - if she'd had some SpaceX T-shirts to sell them.
"We can't sell SpaceX because they're a private company," said Mulberry, the owner of Space Shirts.
Her store is located on the main road in Merritt Island, the Florida peninsula ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 27, 2020 
The first human spaceflight to launch from American soil in nearly a decade is set to take place this week. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will lift off aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crewed flight will then dock with the International Space Station for at least one month before returning back to Eart ... more |
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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.
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 London, UK (SPX) May 26, 2020 
Four UK-based companies have announced a plan to their complementary skills and expertise to enhance further the country's space industry capabilities to deliver prosperity and security.
Athena is the UK's new national team in space, formed by Serco, Inmarsat, CGI UK and Lockheed Martin UK. The four companies are world leaders in providing technology and services across defence, space, com ... 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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 Nijmegen, The Netherlands (SPX) May 27, 2020 
Interest in space exploration is increasing again. In the past decade, there has been renewed thinking about missions to the moon, perhaps even to Mars. As inevitable fellow travellers on the bodies of astronauts, spaceships, or equipment, terrestrial microorganisms will undoubtedly come into contact with extraterrestrial environments. Researchers from the Radboudumc describe in an article in As ... 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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 New Orleans LA (SPX) May 25, 2020 
Given the present-day rate of global sea-level rise, remaining marshes in the Mississippi Delta are likely to drown, according to a new Tulane University study.
A key finding of the study, published in Science Advances, is that coastal marshes experience tipping points, where a small increase in the rate of sea-level rise leads to widespread submergence.
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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 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 sample site.
The mission team successfully completed a first rehearsal last month, and on Tuesday, NASA approved a second rehearsal date of Aug. 11 and the Touch-and-Go, or TAG, sample collection ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 26, 2020 
As part of ESA's continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released.
The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA's 11th Earth Explorer mission.
Our planet works as ... 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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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 26, 2020 
Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy - described as a "cosmic ring of fire" - as it existed 11 billion years ago. The galaxy, which has roughly the mass of the Milky Way, is circular with a hole in the middle, rather like a titanic doughnut. Its discovery, announced in the journal Nature Astronomy, is set to shake up theories about the earliest formation of galactic ... 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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