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  Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) May 28, 2020 After a day of suspense, SpaceX's landmark launch to the International Space Station - the first crewed mission to blast off from US soil in almost a decade - was scrubbed Wednesday due to fears of a lightning strike. With NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley strapped into the Crew Dragon capsule, the launch pad platform retracted and rocket fueling underway, SpaceX made the call to abort. "Unfortunately, we are not going to launch today," launch director Mike Taylor said, with about 17 ... read more |
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Elon and Gwynne, the pair who made SpaceXWashington (AFP) May 25, 2020 Space Exploration Technologies Corp. - commonly known as SpaceX - is slated to send two astronauts into space on Wednesday. Despite not yet being 20 years old, the company has already developed a creation myth: on September 28, 2008, its first rocket Falcon 1 launched for the fourth time. ... more  
NASA awards $3M to develop Lunar LASVEGASSan Antonio TX (SPX) May 28, 2020 NASA has awarded Southwest Research Institute $3 million to develop a lunar version of its Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Volatiles and Evolved Gas (LASVEGAS) instrument. This spectrometer can pr ... more 
SpaceX astronaut launch: here's the rocket science it must get rightBirmingham UK (The Conversation) May 28, 2020 Two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, will make history by travelling to the International Space Station in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon ... more  
Yale finds a much earlier birth date for tectonic platesNew Haven CT (SPX) May 28, 2020 Yale geophysicists reported that Earth's ever-shifting, underground network of tectonic plates was firmly in place more than 4 billion years ago - at least a billion years earlier than scientists ge ... more |
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AFRL marks 10 years of ramjet development since X-51A test missionWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) May 27, 2020 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate celebrates the tenth anniversary of the X-51A's longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powered hypersonic flight, May 26, 2020. ... more  
UK commits new funding to combat space debrisLondon, UK (SPX) May 27, 2020 New government funding for innovative solutions to tackle the growing problem of potentially hazardous space debris, has been announced by the UK Space Agency. There are an estimated 900,000 p ... more  
US Space Force to train space professionals in Space Warfighting DisciplinesPeterson AFB CO (SPX) May 27, 2020 Without highly trained space professionals, the U.S. Space Force cannot effectively utilize space systems to increase joint force lethality, cannot ensure the safety of the American public, nor can ... more 
Crew Dragon DEMO-2 mission ready for new era for human spaceflightLos 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 Drago ... more  
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 |
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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  |
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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  
MAVEN maps electric currents around Mars that are fundamental to atmospheric lossGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2020 Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere. "These cu ... more  
Indian firm launching 5G satellite constellations to provide high-speed internet amid delayed trialsNew Delhi (Sputnik) May 27, 2020 Government-sanctioned 5G trials in India, which were scheduled for this year, have reportedly been postponed by a year because of the coronavirus situation. As of now, India seems to have missed its ... more  
Astronomers create cloud atlas for hot, Jupiter-like exoplanetsBerkeley CA (SPX) May 27, 2020 Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars - so-called hot Jupiters - boast the most ext ... more  
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 |
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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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 Birmingham UK (The Conversation) May 28, 2020 
Two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, will make history by travelling to the International Space Station in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule. But the launch, which was due to take place on May 27, has been aborted due to bad weather, and will instead take place on May 30 at 3:22 pm EDT.
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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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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 27, 2020 
Giant planets in our solar system and circling other stars have exotic clouds unlike anything on Earth, and the gas giants orbiting close to their stars - so-called hot Jupiters - boast the most extreme.
A team of astronomers from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom have now come up with a model that predicts which of the many types of proposed clouds, from sapphire to smoggy ... 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.
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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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 San Antonio TX (SPX) May 28, 2020 
NASA has awarded Southwest Research Institute $3 million to develop a lunar version of its Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Volatiles and Evolved Gas (LASVEGAS) instrument. This spectrometer can precisely measure the volatile compounds present in planetary atmospheres and surfaces - critical information for space science and exploration.
"LASVEGAS is about half the size of a paper towel r ... more |
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 Paruis, France (SPX) May 28, 2020 
What is the origin of the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu, and of their spinning-top shape? An international research team led by Patrick Michel, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire Lagrange and Ronald-Louis Ballouz from the University of Arizona, proposes an answer to this question in an article published in Nature Communications on May 27, 2020.
Numerical simulations of large asteroid disrupt ... 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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 Santa Cruz CA (The Conversation) May 28, 2020 
In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark matter and dark energy. But when cosmologists counted up everything they could see or measure at the time, they came up short. By a lot.
The sum of all the ordinary matter that cosmologists measur ... more |
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