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  Paris, France (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 In its latest research titled "China Space Industry Report," Euroconsult provides in depth analysis of how commercialization is driving both growth and technology advances in the Chinese space sector, with oversubscribed IPOs and a wave of private investment. China Satcom is now the world's highest valued pure satellite operator with a market cap of US$11 billion as of May 2020, while China Satcom parent company China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) reported record revenues of ... read more |
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Momentus and OrbAstro announce service agreement for 3U in-orbit demonstrationSanta Clara CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 Momentus and OrbAstro have signed a launch contract to fly a 3U to SSO onboard the SpaceX Dedicated rideshare mission in 2021. Smallsat flocking is relevant to existing and emerging markets in ... more  
ESA moves ahead on low-cost reusable rocket engineParis (ESA) Jun 05, 2020 ESA's Prometheus is the precursor of ultra-low-cost rocket propulsion that is flexible enough to fit a fleet of new launch vehicles for any mission and will be potentially reusable. At the Spa ... more 
Rhea Space Activity wins USAF Prime Contract to Hypersonic Vehicle Detection and TrackingWashington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 The rapidly growing 'New Space' startup company Rhea Space Activity (RSA), headquartered in Washington D.C., with operations in Colorado Springs, has been tapped by the United States Air Force (USAF ... more  
NASA ocean ecosystem mission preparing to make wavesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, has successfully passed its design reviews and moved into its construction and testing phase, preparing to advance the fields of gl ... more |
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Active particles with light-switchable propulsion direction and reversible interactionsWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Jun 04, 2020 Researchers from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, ETH in Zurich and the University of Cambridge have synthesized and analysed active microparticles self-propelling in a fluid and ... more  
Israel says 'successfully' tested ballistic missilesJerusalem (AFP) June 2, 2020 Israel on Tuesday said it has successfully tested two ballistic missiles in the Mediterranean, amid tensions with Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah. ... more  
China sends two satellites into planned orbitJiuquan (XNA) Jun 03, 2020 China sent two satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northwest of the country at 4:53 p.m. Sunday (Beijing Time). The satellites, which were carried by a Long M ... more  
Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System now has ground-to-ground capabilityWashington DC (UPI) Jun 01, 2020 A ground-to-ground test of the Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System rocket, normally launched from the air, was a success, BAE Systems announced on Monday. ... more  
Steaming cauldron followed the dinosaurs' demiseHouston TX (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 A new study reveals the Chicxulub impact crater may have harbored a vast and long-lived hydrothermal system after the catastrophic impact event linked to the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ... more |
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Reflecting sunlight to cool the planet will cause other global changesBoston MA (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 How can the world combat the continued rise in global temperatures? How about shading the Earth from a portion of the sun's heat by injecting the stratosphere with reflective aerosols? After all, vo ... more  |
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Observations of robotic swarm behavior can help workers safely navigate disaster sitesBeijing, China (SPX) May 27, 2020 Using biologically inspired robotic swarms consisting of large groups of robots that have been programmed to operate cooperatively, much like individuals in an ant or bee colony, scientists from the ... more  
OSIRIS-REx swoops over sample site OspreyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2020 This view of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on May 26. A total of 347 PolyCam images were stitched together and corrected to pro ... more  
NASA announces challenge seeking innovative ideas to advance missionsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 04, 2020 NASA has opened a pilot Entrepreneurs Challenge to invite fresh ideas and new participants in supporting development of new instruments and technologies to advance the agency's science exploration g ... more  
Large simulation finds new origin of supermassive black holesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 Computer simulations conducted by astrophysicists at Tohoku University in Japan, have revealed a new theory for the origin of supermassive black holes. In this theory, the precursors of supermassive ... more  
Mirror image of Earth and SunGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 The star Kepler-160 is probably orbited by a planet less than twice the size of the Earth with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface temperatures conducive to life. The newly di ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) June 3, 2020 
Consumer Electronics Show organizers said Wednesday that they are going ahead with plans to bring together people from around the world at a massive annual gathering in Las Vegas.
The Consumer Technology Association trade group decision to hold a gadget extravaganza known to attract tens of thousands of people bucks a trend of live conferences being cancelled due to the deadly coronavirus pa ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Jun 04, 2020 
At a time when so many feel isolated, the world came together with hopeful energy on Saturday to watch as two American astronauts were launched into orbit from U.S. soil for the first time in nearly a decade-and for the first time ever onboard a commercially owned spacecraft.
The successful SpaceX Demo-2 launch and docking, which carried NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken from ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
Scientists from the SETI Institute and Purdue University have found that the only way to produce Deimos's unusually tilted orbit is for Mars to have had a ring billions of years ago. While some of the more massive planets in our solar system have giant rings and numerous big moons, Mars only has two small, misshapen moons, Phobos and Deimos. Although these moons are small, their peculiar orbits ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
In its latest research titled "China Space Industry Report," Euroconsult provides in depth analysis of how commercialization is driving both growth and technology advances in the Chinese space sector, with oversubscribed IPOs and a wave of private investment.
China Satcom is now the world's highest valued pure satellite operator with a market cap of US$11 billion as of May 2020, while Chin ... more |
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 Santa Clara CA (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
Momentus and OrbAstro have signed a launch contract to fly a 3U to SSO onboard the SpaceX Dedicated rideshare mission in 2021.
Smallsat flocking is relevant to existing and emerging markets in newspace. OrbAstro believes there is much needed room for improvement in constellation-level efficiency, so the new company is developing the onboard hardware and software to close the gap. The compa ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
By combining data from telescopes with supercomputer simulations and virtual reality (VR), a new visualization allows you to experience 500 years of cosmic evolution around the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.
This visualization, called "Galactic Center VR", is the latest in a series from astrophysicists, and is based on data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
The star Kepler-160 is probably orbited by a planet less than twice the size of the Earth with a star-planet distance that could permit planetary surface temperatures conducive to life. The newly discovered exoplanet, which was found by a team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen (Germany), is more than just another potentially habitable worl ... 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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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
Urbanization could cause 26 percent more rain to fall over Jeddah city than over the surrounding desert during storms. The coastal city of Jeddah, located on the Red Sea, has a population of around 4 million and is the commercial center of Saudi Arabia. Its main weather threat is winter storms that bring heavy rains, strong winds and flash flooding.
In 2009, a severe storm in the city clai ... more |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Jun 03, 2020 
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron performed the first station keeping maneuver on a GPS III satellite to Satellite Vehicle Number 75 at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14.
The maneuver set a new standard for how GPS maneuvers should be conducted for the squadron that provides precision, navigation and timing signals to billions of users around the world.
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jun 04, 2020 
Xplore Inc., a commercial space company providing Space as a Service has announced that space industry leader Dylan Taylor plans to reserve payload space on Xplore's first mission beyond Earth orbit. The payload will be hosted onboard the XcraftTM, Xplore's highly capable, multi-mission spacecraft designed to perform frequent, low-cost missions in the inner solar system.
The diverse payloa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2020 
This view of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on May 26. A total of 347 PolyCam images were stitched together and corrected to produce the mosaic, which shows the site at 0.2 inches (5 mm) per pixel at full size.
The spacecraft took these images during an 820-foot (250-meter) reconnaissance pass over the site, which is the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
NASA's Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, has successfully passed its design reviews and moved into its construction and testing phase, preparing to advance the fields of global ocean and atmospheric science when it launches in 2023.
After passing its last critical design review in February 2020 - a rigorous evaluation by NASA science and engineering experts to ens ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
While the world has been dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, researchers at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have been hard at work studying the solar corona, the outermost atmosphere of the Sun which expands into interplanetary space. This stream of charged particles radiating from the surface of the Sun is called the solar wind and expands to fill the entire solar syst ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
A Monash-University-led collaboration has, for the first time, observed the full, 12-day process of material spiralling into a distant neutron star, triggering an X-ray outburst thousands of times brighter than our Sun.
The research, led by PhD candidate Adelle Goodwin from the Monash School of Physics and Astronomy will be featured at the American Astronomical Society meeting this week be ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Jun 02, 2020 
Determined to find a needle in a cosmic haystack, a pair of astronomers time traveled through archives of old data from W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauankea in Hawaii and old X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to unlock a mystery surrounding a bright, lensed, heavily obscured quasar.
This celestial object, which is an active galaxy emitting enormous amounts of energy due to a b ... more |
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