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  Dubai (AFP) June 9, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to study the Red Planet's atmosphere, is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said Tuesday. The unmanned probe Al-Amal - Hope in Arabic - is to blast off from a Japanese space centre on July 15, with preparations now in their final stages. The project is the next giant step for the United Arab Emirates, whose colossal skyscrapers and mega-projects have put it on the world map. ... read more |
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OSIRIS-REx finds heat, cold fracturing rocks on Asteroid BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Close-up observations of asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contain the first evidence of thermal fracturing of rocks on an airless body, a Nature Communications paper by Planetary Scien ... more  
York Space Systems and LatConnect 60 to deploy a small satellite constellationDenver CO (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 York Space Systems has been chosen as a strategic partner and subcontractor by LatConnect 60, who is currently developing a small satellite constellation that will provide greater access and control ... more  
Virginia Tech research provides new explanation for neutrino anomalies in AntarcticaBlacksburg VA (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 A new research paper co-authored by a Virginia Tech assistant professor of physics provides a new explanation for two recent strange events that occurred in Antarctica - high-energy neutrinos appear ... more  
From space, Russian cosmonauts fight chess grandmaster to a drawMoscow (AFP) June 9, 2020 Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station played chess against an Earth-bound grandmaster on Tuesday, in a celebration of the first such game half a century ago. ... more |
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Tower extension test a success for Webb TelescopeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 To test the James Webb Space Telescope's readiness for its journey in space, technicians successfully commanded it to deploy and extend a critical part of the observatory known as the Deployable Tow ... more  
Upgraded B61-12 nuclear weapon compatible with F-15EWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2020 A refurbished version of the United States' primary thermonuclear gravity bomb is compatible with the F-15E, according to Sandia National Laboratories. ... more  
Digital lift-off: Roscosmos and Zyfra to jointly develop digital technologies for Russia's space industryHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Russia's state corporation responsible for space flights and cosmonautic programs, Roscosmos, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalization leader Zyfra ... more  
SkyNet de Colombia and SES Networks ramp up connectivity services in COVID-19 hit ColombiaLuxembourg (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Local residents, businesses, government entities and the San Rafael de Leticia Hospital in the Colombian Amazonas are experiencing efficient, reliable and high-performing Internet connectivity as Co ... more  
Thailand team wins UN access to ESA's hypergravity centrifugeParis (ESA) Jun 10, 2020 ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs have selected a team from Mahidol University, Thailand to carry out research using ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge. ... more |
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 NASA's OSIRIS-REx discovers sunlight can crack rocks on Asteroid Bennu  
Mysterious interstellar visitor was probably a 'dark hydrogen iceberg,' not aliensChicago IL (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 The aliens came on Oct. 19, 2017. That was the day telescopes picked up a strange object with an odd, elongated shape that moved like a comet-but had no apparent tail. The object, which baffled astr ... more  |
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Three new views of Mars' moon PhobosPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2020 Three new views of the Martian moon Phobos have been captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter. Taken this past winter and this spring, they capture the moon as it drifts into and out of Mars' shadow. ... more  
First global map of rockfalls on the MoonZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, snow-covered block with a volume of more than 1500 cubic meters suddenly detached from the sum ... more  
Saturn's Moon Titan drifting away faster than previously thoughtPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2020 Just as our own Moon floats away from Earth a tiny bit more each year, other moons are doing the same with their host planets. As a moon orbits, its gravity pulls on the planet, causing a temporary ... more 
NASA to announce selection of company to fly VIPER rover to MoonWashington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 NASA will announce the commercial provider selected to deliver NASA's new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon durin ... more 
Ancient asteroids helped synthesize life's molecular building blocks, study findsWashington DC (UPI) Jun 08, 2020 Before life began, Earth needed amino acids, the building blocks for proteins. New research suggests ancient asteroid impacts in Earth's primordial oceans could have produced the molecules needed to kick-start life. ... more |
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 Towson MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2020 
In late May, the USA team of the ARISS International working group became an incorporated non-profit entity in the state of Maryland, officially becoming ARISS-USA. This move allows ARISS-USA to work as an independent organization, soliciting grants and donations.
They will continue promoting amateur radio and STEAM-science, technology, engineering, arts, and math within educational organi ... more |
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 Washington 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) to develop a telescopic mirror that can be built and deployed in Earth's orbit, thus eliminating the need to launch detection equipment from the Earth's surface, potentially saving millions in taxpa ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) June 9, 2020  The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to study the Red Planet's atmosphere, is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said Tuesday.
The unmanned probe Al-Amal - Hope in Arabic - is to blast off from a Japanese space centre on July 15, with preparations now in their final stages.
The project is the next giant ste ... 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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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 09, 2020 
Earlier this month, the Indian government allowed the participation of private sector firms in the space industry, which includes satellites, launches, and space-based services. Currently, foreign direct investment (FDI) up to 100 percent is allowed in satellite-establishment and operation with certain conditions.
Global satellite makers and communication service providers have reached out ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
Russia's state corporation responsible for space flights and cosmonautic programs, Roscosmos, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalization leader Zyfra to collaborate on implementing the Russian space industry's digital transformation strategy, which runs up to 2025, and its adoption of digital technologies.
The document was signed by the Dire ... 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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 Khartoum (AFP) June 9, 2020 
Sudan on Tuesday said it would hold "daily meetings" with Egypt and Ethiopia to ease tensions over a mega-dam being built on the Nile after a war or words between Cairo and Addis Ababa.
"It was agreed to continue daily meetings, except on Friday and Sunday, to reach consensus on the remaining points," Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said.
He spoke in Khartoum after a five-hour ... more |
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 Xi'an, China (XNA) Jun 10, 2020 
The Xi'an Satellite Control Center's tests have shown links among the satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) are stable to ensure that the constellation can be completed as scheduled.
The tests showed that the inter-satellite links meet the demands of the construction of the global system, said Yuan Yong, a senior engineer from the control center.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2020 
NASA has finalized the contract for the initial crew module of the agency's Gateway lunar orbiting outpost. Orbital Science Corporation of Dulles, Virginia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Space, has been awarded $187 million to design the habitation and logistics outpost (HALO) for the Gateway, which is part of NASA's Artemis program and will help the agency build a sustainable pr ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 08, 2020 
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, or STEREO-A spacecraft, captured these images of comet ATLAS as it swooped by the Sun from May 25 - June 1. During the observations and outside STEREO's field of view, ESA/NASA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft crossed one of the comet's two tails.
In the animated image, ATLAS emerges from the top of the frame and approaches the Sun - off camera to ... more |
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 Bellevue WA (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
EagleView has achieved a key milestone when it processed its 100 millionth image so far this year. During 2019, EagleView processed 45,341,999 images. EagleView has more than doubled that figure in just the first six months of 2020.
"This represents a 95% increase in the number of images processed year-to-date compared to 2019," said Jay Martin, COO of EagleView.
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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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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
High-resolution observations of a young star forming system clearly unveil a pair of proto-stars at their earliest stages of evolution deeply embedded within the source IRAS 16293-2422 in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.
The team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics used the ALMA interferometer not only to pin down the source configuration, but also to measure the gas ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 
Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars - spinning black holes that produce beams of plasma. The team has found that the shape of these so-called astrophysical jets changes from parabolic to conical at some distance from the black hole, reminiscent of the iconic flared jeans of the '70s.
By effectively measuring these "cosmic pants," the re ... more |
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