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  Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Satellite manufacturer and global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, Rocket Lab, has announced its next Electron mission is scheduled to launch just three weeks after its most recent mission in a demonstration of the company's rapid launch capability. The mission, 'Pics Or It Didn't Happen,' is scheduled to launch from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 Pad A on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula no earlier than 3 July, 2020 UTC- just days after the successful launch of Rocket Lab's most recent missi ... read more |
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Future space travelers may follow cosmic lighthousesHouston TX (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 For centuries, lighthouses helped sailors navigate safely into harbor. Their lights swept across the water, cutting through fog and darkness, guiding mariners around dangerous obstacles and keeping ... more  
Airbus wins next study contract for Martian Sample Fetch RoverStevenage UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Airbus Defence and Space has won the next phase of the study contract (Advanced B2) from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the advanced Sample Fetch Rover which will be used to collect samples fro ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx produces Nightingale mosaicTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3. A total of 345 PolyCam images were stitched together to produce the ... more  
Spaceflight Inc prepares for launch of a Canon Electronics satellite aboard a Rocket Lab ElectronSeattle WA (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Spaceflight Inc., reports it is managing the launch of Canon Electronics' CE-SAT-IB imaging satellite on Rocket Lab's Electron. The mission will lift off from Rocket Lab's Launch Complex 1 at the so ... more |
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FSSCat Phi-sat-1 ready for launchParis (ESA) Jun 17, 2020 The first artificial intelligence to be carried onboard a European Earth observation mission will be launched this week from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The pioneering artificial in ... more  
Targeting the radiation hardened power electronics market for mission critical applicationsEl Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 June 2020 - Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) Corporation and VPT, Inc., A HEICO company announce the establishment of EPC Space LLC, a joint venture focused on designing and manufacturing radiation ... more 
Momentus and EnduroSat Announce Two Service AgreementsSanta Clara CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Momentus and EnduroSat have announced two separate service agreements. The 6U and 1U CubeSats will launch February 2021 on the second Vigoride demo mission onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Th ... more 
PICASSO, ESA's CubeSat to sift secrets from sunriseParis (ESA) Jun 16, 2020 There is always a sunrise and sunset happening somewhere on our planet. Soon ESA's newest CubeSat - flying aboard Europe's Vega launcher this Friday - will be keeping watch. The miniature PICASSO mi ... more 
Using sunlight to save satellites from a fate of 'space junk'West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 No satellite stays the same once launched into space. How much it changes can go unnoticed - until something bad happens. Carolin Frueh is among only a handful of researchers who have persiste ... more |
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 Satellite launch center Wenchang eyes boosting homestay, catering sectors  
SEOSAT-Ingenio ready for shipment to KourouParis (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 Fren ... more  |
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Simba CubeSat to swivel from Earth to Sun to help track climate changeParis (ESA) Jun 16, 2020 Due to launch aboard Friday's Vega rocket, ESA's Simba CubeSat is a tiny mission with a big ambition: to measure one of the fundamental drivers of climate change in a new way. The 30-cm long nanosat ... more  
ESA's storm hunter ASIM turns twoParis (ESA) Jun 16, 2020 The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor or ASIM, mounted outside the European laboratory of the International Space Station, enters its second year of science operations. Launched in April 2 ... more 
Amyloid formation in the International Space StationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Amyloids, abnormal fibrillar aggregates of proteins, are associated with various disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Therefore, an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms of amyloid formation is ... more  
As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimatesVancouver, Canada (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like (G-type) stars. It also has to orbit in the habitable zones of its star - the range of distances from a ... more  
Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn's Moon TitanTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetar ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 15, 2020 
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Friday selected Commercial Crew Program Manager Kathy Lueders to be the agency's next associate administrator of the Human Exploration and Operations (HEO) Mission Directorate. Since 2014, Lueders has directed NASA's efforts to send astronauts to space on private spacecraft, which culminated in the successful launch of Demo-2 from the Kennedy Space Center in Fl ... 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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 Stevenage UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
Airbus Defence and Space has won the next phase of the study contract (Advanced B2) from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the advanced Sample Fetch Rover which will be used to collect samples from the surface of Mars.
Mars Sample Return is a joint NASA and ESA campaign to return samples from the Red Planet. NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission Perseverance will collect Martian soils and rock ... more |
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 Wenchang, China (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
Homestay and catering industries related to aerospace are expected to be developed in Wenchang township, the location of China's fourth satellite launch center in tropical Hainan province, according to a local official.
"I believe the two new industries will further contribute to our economy and employment, even though we have just put forward the idea and are still studied specific measur ... more |
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 Stevenage UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The UK's space industry leader Airbus, has teamed with KBR, Leidos UK, Northrop Grumman and QinetiQ to bring new thinking to future space solutions and to launch the Open Innovation - Space initiative. The aim of Open Innovation - Space is to further increase SME involvement in UK future satellite communications services and space activities creating high value jobs and growth across the UK.
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
June 2020 - Efficient Power Conversion (EPC) Corporation and VPT, Inc., A HEICO company announce the establishment of EPC Space LLC, a joint venture focused on designing and manufacturing radiation hardened (Rad Hard) GaN-on-silicon transistors and ICs packaged, tested, and qualified for satellite and high-reliability applications.
EPC Space will provide advanced, high-reliability, power c ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2020 
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune's strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary science cliffhanger. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Neptune, and it left a lot of unanswered questions. The views were as stunning as they were puzzling, revealing massive, dark plumes of icy material spraying out from Triton's surface. But how? Images showed t ... 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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 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.
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
NASA is inviting additional teams to compete in the Cube Quest Challenge. You can still participate in the in-space phase of the challenge and be eligible to win part of a $4.5 million prize purse.
The Cube Quest Challenge, NASA's first in-space competition, incentivizes teams to design, build and deliver small satellites capable of advanced operations near and beyond the Moon. To compete, ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3. A total of 345 PolyCam images were stitched together to produce the mosaic, which shows the site at 0.2 inches (4 mm) per pixel at full size.
These images were captured when the spacecraft performed an 820-foot (250-meter) reconnaissance pass over site Nighting ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 17, 2020 
China's first polar-observing satellite has started its Arctic observation mission after orbiting Earth for nine months, sources in its operations team said Tuesday.
The mission will test the observation capabilities of the satellite, which is expected to achieve full coverage of the Arctic in seven days, said the operations team leader, Chen Zhuoqi, who is also an associate professor at t ... 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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 New York NY (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
When Jocelyn Bell first observed the emissions of a pulsar in 1967, the rhythmic pulses of radio waves so confounded astronomers that they considered whether the light could be signals sent by an alien civilization.
The stars act like stellar lighthouses, shooting beams of radio waves from their magnetic poles. For more than a half-century, the cause of those beams has confounded scientist ... more |
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 Pasadena 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 Nobel Prize and changed physics.
A new study in the journal Nature builds on that legacy. In July 2018, NASA's Cold Atom Lab became the first facility to produce that fifth state of matter, called ... more |
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