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  Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2020 With the construction of a new research observatory, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is taking the next step in determining the nature and trajectory of objects in low-Earth orbit as quickly, precisely and reliably as possible. This is fundamental for the future of spaceflight as it is the only way to prevent collisions between objects such as space debris and active satellites. One of the research and development objectives of the DLR Institute of Tec ... read more |
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Fresh Antimatter Study Will Help Search for Dark MatterGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) May 29, 2020 The ALICE collaboration has presented new results on the production rates of antideuterons based on data collected at the highest collision energy delivered so far at the Large Hadron Collider. ... more  
SpaceX, NASA delay milestone mission over lightning fearsKennedy 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. ... more  
Nanosatellite with global mission tested for spaceParis (ESA) May 29, 2020 ESA's largest antenna test facility remains operational despite the COVID-19 pandemic, performing pre-flight testing for the latest satellite in a constellation to serve the internet of things. ... 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 |
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ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest starGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) May 29, 2020 The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the Un ... more 
Mergers between galaxies trigger activity in their coreGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) May 29, 2020 Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) play a major role in galaxy evolution. Astronomers from the University of Groningen and Netherlands Institute for Space Research have now used a record-sized sample of ... more 
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  
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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 Cosmic bursts unveil Universe's missing matter  
Under pressure, black holes feastNew Haven CT (SPX) May 28, 2020 A new, Yale-led study shows that some supermassive black holes actually thrive under pressure. It has been known for some time that when distant galaxies --and the supermassive black holes wit ... more  |
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Cignal TV selects Hughes JUPITER for satellite internet service in PhilippinesGermantown, MD (SPX) May 28, 2020 Hughes Network Systems has announced that Cignal TV Inc., the Philippines premier direct-to-home (DTH) satellite provider, has selected the Hughes JUPITER System to enable satellite broadband servic ... more  
The asteroids Ryugu and Bennu were formed by the destruction of a large asteroidParuis, 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-L ... more 
Half the matter in the universe was missing - we found it hiding in the cosmosSanta 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 ma ... more 
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 |
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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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 Greenbelt 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 currents play a fundamental role in the atmospheric loss that transformed Mars from a world that could have supported life into an inhospitable desert," said experimental physicist Robin Ramstad of the ... 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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 Garching, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2020 
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded, massive and young star cluster Westerlund 2. The research found that the material encircling stars near the cluster's centre is mysteriously devoid of the large, dense clouds of dust that would be expected to become planets in a few million years.
Their absence is caused by the cluster's most massive ... 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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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) May 26, 2020  The world's deep oceans are warming at a slower rate than the surface, but it's still not good news for deep-sea creatures according to an international study.
The research, led by University of Queensland PhD student Isaac Brito-Morales, looked at how ocean life was responding to climate change.
"We used a metric known as climate velocity whic ... 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.
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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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