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  Daytona Beach FL (The Conversation) Jun 15, 2020 On May 30, 2020, millions of Americans watched the inaugural SpaceX Crew Dragon launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission marked two significant events: First, the return of launch to orbit capability for human spaceflight from the United States. Secondly, it successfully demonstrated private sector capability to build and operate a launch vehicle for human spaceflight. While SpaceX may be the first private space company to accomplish this, it is not alone. Boeing's S ... read more |
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Rocket Lab launches Boston University's magnetosphere experimentWashington DC (UPI) Jun 13, 2020 A rocket launched five small satellites into orbit from New Zealand early Saturday morning, including a Boston University experiment to measure solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere. ... more  
SpaceX launches 58 Starlink, 3 SkySat satellites from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Jun 13, 2020 SpaceX has expanded the company's historic Starlink constellation by launching 58 more satellites from Florida on Saturday morning. The payload lifted off on time aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 5 ... more 
Arianespace Vega mission to perform Small Spacecraft Mission Service Proof of Concept flightKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 12, 2020 With this mission, designated Flight VV16, Arianespace underscores its comprehensive range of innovative and competitive services to address the nano- and micro-satellite market sub-segment, serving ... more  
Loft Orbital awards launch contract to Exolaunch to deliver YAM-3 microsatellite into orbit on Falcon 9Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Exolaunch, the leading rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, has announced a Launch Services Agreement with Loft Orbital, a San Francisco-based company, to deliver Loft Orbital's YAM m ... more |
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US Senate Panel Approves More Funds for Missile Defence in 2021 NDAA ActWashington DC (Sputnik) Jun 12, 2020 The US Senate Armed Services Committee approved additional funding for missile defence, including for hypersonic weapons, in the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2021, a ... more  
Looking up to the stars can reveal what's deep belowBaltimore MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Using a new technique originally designed to explore the cosmos, scientists have unveiled structures deep inside the Earth, paving the way towards a new map revealing what Earth's interior looks lik ... more  
Neuroscientists discover neural circuits that control hibernation-like behaviors in miceBoston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 The dream of suspended animation has long captivated the human imagination, reflected in countless works of mythology and fiction, from King Arthur and Sleeping Beauty to Captain America and Han Sol ... more  
Space synergies for food securityPrague, Czech Republic (SPX) Jun 15, 2020 GNSS and Earth observation experts came together at a webinar organised by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) on 26 May to discuss how combining Galileo and EGNOS navigation and positioning tools with t ... more  
ESAIL maritime satellite ready for launchParis (ESA) Jun 15, 2020 The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships worldwide - developed under an ESA Partnership Project - has completed its accommodation on Vega's new dispenser for small satellites and is ready for lau ... more |
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New Horizons conducts the first interstellar parallax experimentLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we'd see from Earth. More than four billion miles f ... more  |
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NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon's South Pole in late 2023. The water-seeking mobi ... more 
High School Students Build Lockers for Trip to the International Space StationHouston TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Pulling that final zipper closed on a stuffed suitcase or getting the tailgate of a packed car shut is a true feeling of victory at the start of any road trip. Sending supplies to the International ... more  
Scientists carry out first space-based measurement of neutron lifetimeDurham UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from space for the first time - a discovery that could teach us more about the early universe. Knowing the lifetime of neutrons is key ... more  
NASA's Mars Rover Drivers Need Your HelpPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2020 You may be able to help NASA's Curiosity rover drivers better navigate Mars. Using the online tool AI4Mars to label terrain features in pictures downloaded from the Red Planet, you can train an arti ... more  
MESSENGER Shows How a Spacecraft Could End Neutron Lifetime StalemateLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Neutrons aren't a model of resilience when it comes to living a single life. Strip one from an atom's nucleus and it will quickly disintegrate into an electron and a proton. But scientists can't det ... more |
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 Daytona Beach FL (The Conversation) Jun 15, 2020 
On May 30, 2020, millions of Americans watched the inaugural SpaceX Crew Dragon launch NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This mission marked two significant events: First, the return of launch to orbit capability for human spaceflight from the United States. Secondly, it successfully demonstrated private sector capability to build and operate a launch vehicle for human spacefli ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 13, 2020 
A rocket launched five small satellites into orbit from New Zealand early Saturday morning, including a Boston University experiment to measure solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere.
California-based Rocket Labs, which owns the New Zealand launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, lofted the satellites aboard a company Electron rocket at 1:12 a.m. EDT. The launch was delayed slightly by a ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 11, 2020 
The developers of new communications satellite constellations - connecting virtually every part of the Earth - are engaged in a multibillion-dollar battle to develop dominance in space and the immense revenue that could bring, industry experts say.
Elon Musk's Starlink is part of a new wave of ventures by several companies to cover the globe with faster, better internet by using constellat ... more |
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 Reading UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 
Space weather forecasters need to predict the speed of solar eruptions, as much as their size, to protect satellites and the health of astronauts, scientists have found.
Scientists at the University of Reading found that by calculating the speed of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) when they hit Earth, forecasters could provide more useful early warnings. This would help operators of critical ... more |
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 Chicago 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 astronomers and led some to claim it could be a spacecraft sent by intelligent life, was named 'Oumuamua, which means "messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian. But a new theory proposed by Univers ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Jun 15, 2020 
The ESAIL microsatellite for tracking ships worldwide - developed under an ESA Partnership Project - has completed its accommodation on Vega's new dispenser for small satellites and is ready for launch.
The Vega launch campaign at Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, resumed three weeks ago, following an interruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
ESAIL is due to be deli ... 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.
He said that the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 
NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon's South Pole in late 2023.
The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot will help pave the way for astronaut missions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024 and will bring NASA a step closer to developing a sustainable, long-term presence on the Moon as par ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 
Citizen science pioneers recently made two contributions to a better knowledge of outer space. Backyard astronomers of the SETI Institute and Unistellar network conducted in April citizen science observations, and their discoveries will improve our understanding of asteroids and exoplanets. Thanks to their work, we know precisely the location of the main-belt asteroid 2000 UD52 and have confirme ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 15, 2020 
China plans to send a meteorological weather satellite into a dawn-dusk orbit, its developer said Thursday.
The satellite was designed and built by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology, affiliated with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It will be the world's first polar-orbiting weather satellite in a dawn-dusk orbit.
According to the academy, the sate ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 
Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy contours of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home.
This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble that is generated by the Sun's magnetic field and envelops all the planets. The borders of this cosmic bubble are not fixed. In response to the Sun's gasps and sighs, they shrink and stretch over the years.
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 
For the first time, a spacecraft has sent back pictures of the sky from so far away that some stars appear to be in different positions than we'd see from Earth.
More than four billion miles from home and speeding toward interstellar space, NASA's New Horizons has traveled so far that it now has a unique view of the nearest stars. "It's fair to say that New Horizons is looking at an alien ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2020 
Like most galaxies, the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. Called Sagittarius A*, the object has captured astronomers' curiosity for decades. And now there is an effort to image it directly.
Catching a good photo of the celestial beast will require a better understanding of what's going on around it, which has proved challenging due to the vastly different scales invo ... more |
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