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  Beijing (XNA) Jun 16, 2020 The launch mission for the final satellite in the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been postponed due to technical issues, according to the mission command. The command said in a statement on Tuesday morning that "technical problems on products" of the Long March 3B carrier rocket were spotted during pre-launch checks, leading to postponement. The new date for the launch has yet to be decided, it said, without elaborating. The mission was sched ... read more |
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China's IoT satellites complete phase-1 in-orbit testsWuhan, China (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 Two satellites for China's space-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) project have completed phase-1 tests in orbit, sources with the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation said. The satel ... more  
KBR wins $570M NASA contract for human spaceflight operations at MarshallHouston TX (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 KBR has been awarded a $570.3 million contract by NASA to develop and execute spaceflight operations at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. With this award, KBR has earned a sizeabl ... more  
Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycleSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 How's the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientists show ... more  
Research sheds new light on intelligent life existing across the galaxyNottingham UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 One of the biggest and longest-standing questions in the history of human thought is whether there are other intelligent life forms within our Universe. Obtaining good estimates of the number of pos ... more |
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NASA's Cold Atom Lab Takes One Giant Leap for Quantum SciencePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2020 This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. The achievement garnered a No ... 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  
New Method to Study Barred Spiral GalaxiesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Analysis of gas motion in 20 nearby spiral galaxies has revealed a clear difference between those with bars and those without bars. This suggests that already available data on gas motion can be use ... 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  
NASA's IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar SpaceGreenbelt 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 magne ... more |
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Lab makes 4D printing more practicalHouston TX (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shapeshifting materials. Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan B ... more  |
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Spontaneous formation of nanoscale hollow structures could boost battery storageAtlanta GA (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 An unexpected property of nanometer-scale antimony crystals - the spontaneous formation of hollow structures - could help give the next generation of lithium ion batteries higher energy density with ... more  
Parking in a pandemicParis (ESA) Jun 10, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has brought the tourism and travel industry to a near-standstill, with nationwide lockdowns significantly impacting the aviation and maritime industry worldwide. Satellite i ... more  
Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chipBoston MA (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 MIT engineers have designed a "brain-on-a-chip," smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors - silicon-based components tha ... more  
Northrop Grumman rocket boosters arrive at KSC for Artemis I missionPromontory UT (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 Northrop Grumman reports that the segments for the two rocket boosters that will be used to help launch NASA's first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket for the Artemis I mission have arrived at Kenned ... more 
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red PlanetParis (ESA) Jun 16, 2020 ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars' atmosphere - the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth. On Earth, glowing oxyg ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
KBR has been awarded a $570.3 million contract by NASA to develop and execute spaceflight operations at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. With this award, KBR has earned a sizeable footprint at Marshall providing highly technical, mission-focused, high-impact services. The cost-plus-award-fee contract has one base year followed by seven years of options and includes an indefin ... more |
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 Kourou, 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 both institutional and commercial needs. The creation of such a new service using the company's light-lift Vega led to the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) project.
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 St. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
How's the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientists shows that Martian dust storms, like the one that eventually shut down the Opportunity rover, drive the cycle of chlorine from surface to atmosphere and may shed light on the potential for finding life on ... 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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 Dulles VA (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
Northrop Grumman has been selected by Intelsat to build two C-band satellites that will operate in the upper portion of the C-band spectrum, a range of wireless radio frequencies that is used for critical telecommunications and data connectivity around the world.
This award supports the Federal Communication Commission's order to make the lower portion of the C-band spectrum available to m ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
Soft robots and biomedical implants that reconfigure themselves upon demand are closer to reality with a new way to print shapeshifting materials.
Rafael Verduzco and graduate student Morgan Barnes of Rice's Brown School of Engineering developed a method to print objects that can be manipulated to take on alternate forms when exposed to changes in temperature, electric current or stress. ... more |
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 Nottingham UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
One of the biggest and longest-standing questions in the history of human thought is whether there are other intelligent life forms within our Universe. Obtaining good estimates of the number of possible extraterrestrial civilizations has however been very challenging.
A new study led by the University of Nottingham and published in The Astrophysical Journal has taken a new approach to thi ... 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.
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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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 Paris (ESA) Jun 16, 2020 
The Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission, known as SEOSAT-Ingenio, is currently at the premises of Airbus in Madrid, Spain and is ready to be packed and shipped to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana - following the mission's latest successful tests and final technical review. This is another significant milestone in preparing the Earth observation satellite's ride into orbit on a Vega r ... 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.
Now, for the first time ... more |
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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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