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June 21, 2020
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Final Frontier Design awarded multiple NASA lunar xEMU Space Suit contracts



New York NY (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
Final Frontier Design (FFD) is pleased to announce the award of multiple contracts for components of NASA's next generation xEMU Lunar space suit. The xEMU Lunar space suit will be used in the Artemis mission, the first US planetary space mission since Apollo. The development awards include the Lunar xEMU space suit boot, hip, and waist joints, and will culminate with hardware deliveries to NASA in 2020. Lower body motion for walking and thermal insulation in the extremely cold regions ... read more

SPACEMART
NanoAvionics to build first 2 satellite buses for Omnispace Constellation
Midland TX (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
Mission integrator NanoAvionics was contracted by Thales Alenia Space to build the initial two satellite buses for Omnispace's satellite-based Internet of Things (IoT) infrastructure. NanoAvionics' ... more
SPACEMART
SES selects 2 US companies to build 4 satellites as part of Accelerated C-Band Clearing Plan
Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, announces it has selected two U.S. satellite manufacturers, Northrop Grumman and the Boeing Company, to deliver four new satellites as part ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Space Mission Launches that will Carry Experiment Aimed at Solving Antibiotic Resistance
Ramat Gan, Israel (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
Israel's Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer will make history on June 18 as one of the world's first hospitals to launch a bio-medical experiment in space. To help solve the worsening global problem ... more
SPACEWAR
Department of Defense Releases Defense Space Strategy
Arlington VA (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
The US Secretary for Defense has released the Defense Space Strategy, which identifies how Department of Defense will advance spacepower to be able to compete, deter, and win in a complex security e ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA Prepares to Complete Artemis SLS Rocket Structural Testing
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push the design for the rocket's liquid oxygen tank to its limi ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Spacecrafts get a boost in 'aerogravity assisted' interactions
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2020
In a recent paper published in EPJ Special Topics, Jhonathan O. Murcia Pineros, a post-doctoral researcher at Space Electronics Division, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Camp ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Launch postponement for Flight VV16 due to weather conditions at the Spaceport
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 19, 2020
Unfavorable high-altitude wind conditions over the Guiana Space Center has led to a decision that the final preparation phase for Arianespace's Flight VV16 with Vega could not be initiated as planne ... more
TIME AND SPACE
This supernova in a lab mimics the cosmic blast's splendid aftermath
Atlanta, GA (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen lightyears across glows in shades of emerald and auburn. The Crab Nebula was born of a supernova, the ... more
ROBO SPACE
Researchers discover unique material design for brain-like computations
Adelphi MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2020
Over the past few decades, computers have seen dramatic progress in processing power; however, even the most advanced computers are relatively rudimentary in comparison with the complexities and cap ... more
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SPACEWAR
US Space Militarization Plans May Jeopardize Fragile Cooperation With Russia - Roscosmos
Washington DC (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2020
Washington's space militarization plans may jeopardize the already fragile cooperation with Russia, the deputy head of Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said on Thursday, still confirming th ... more
AEROSPACE
Space tourists might rise above Earth with hydrogen balloons
Washington DC (UPI) Jun 19, 2020
The newest entry into a growing field of space tourism firms says it will use giant hydrogen balloons launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida - rather than rockets - to give passengers a view of the stars from the stratosphere. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
China launches new Earth observation satellite
Jiuquan (XNA) Jun 18, 2020
China launched a new Earth observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 3:19 pm Wednesday (Beijing Time). The satellite Gaofen-9 03, sent into orbit by ... more
TECTONICS
Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth's surface with 3D images
Dallas TX (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
Geoscientists at The University of Texas at Dallas recently used massive amounts of earthquake data and supercomputers to generate high-resolution, 3D images of the dynamic geological processes taki ... more
ENERGY TECH
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to Earth
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars must cope with a constant problem - transient heat bursts that can halt fusion reactions and dam ... more


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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Excess Events Seen in Dark Matter Experiment
Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
Scientists from the international XENON collaboration, an international experimental group including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), University of T ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Pause button for light particles
Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jun 17, 2020
How do you stop something that is faster than anything else, intangible and always in motion by nature? A team led by physicists Dr. Thorsten Peters and Professor Thomas Halfmann is doing the seemin ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Superlens squeezes light into nanospace
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 17, 2020
Russian and Danish researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet. This physical phenomenon enables nanoscale focusing of light and, theoretically, allows engineers ... more
MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS
DARPA pit boss contractors SEAKR and SSCI team with DARPA for Blackjack early risk reduction orbital flights
Woburn MA (SPX) Jun 17, 2020
DARPA Blackjack program prime contractors SEAKR Engineering and Scientific Systems Company, Inc. (SSCI) are preparing to use a series of small satellite demonstrations in an effort to verify and val ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA Reveals What Could Be Source of 'Elevated Benzene Level' on ISS
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2020
The International Space Station is currently manned by Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner, as well as American astronauts Christopher Cassidy, Douglas Hurley, and Robert Behnken. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Australian professor wants local town to become hub for commercial space travel
Rockhampton, Australia (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
For decades space exploration was the domain of state-owned companies or institutes. This has changed since Elon Musk's firm SpaceX introduced reusable roc ... more
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NASA Reveals What Could Be Source of 'Elevated Benzene Level' on ISS
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2020
The International Space Station is currently manned by Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner, as well as American astronauts Christopher Cassidy, Douglas Hurley, and Robert Behnken. An increased level of toxic benzene inside the International Space Station (ISS) could be caused by the air filters installed in one of the American modules on board the space outpost, according ... more
+ Amyloid formation in the International Space Station
+ Future space travelers may follow cosmic lighthouses
+ More Hands Make Light Work: Crew Dragon Duo Increases Science Tempo on Space Station
+ KBR wins $570M NASA contract for human spaceflight operations at Marshall
+ First space tourists will face big risks, as private companies gear up for paid suborbital flights
+ Kathy Lueders Selected to Lead NASA's Human Spaceflight Office
+ High School Students Build Lockers for Trip to the International Space Station
Launch postponement for Flight VV16 due to weather conditions at the Spaceport
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 19, 2020
Unfavorable high-altitude wind conditions over the Guiana Space Center has led to a decision that the final preparation phase for Arianespace's Flight VV16 with Vega could not be initiated as planned today. Therefore, tomorrow's scheduled liftoff from French Guiana has been postponed. Depending on suitable weather conditions, the soonest possible launch date for this Small Spacecraft ... more
+ NASA Prepares to Complete Artemis SLS Rocket Structural Testing
+ Australian professor wants local town to become hub for commercial space travel
+ Spacecrafts get a boost in 'aerogravity assisted' interactions
+ Researchers design a system to reduce the noise of space rockets in the launch phase
+ SpaceX wants to build offshore spaceports for hypersonic flights around Earth
+ New US-UK agreement boosts UK's Spaceport plans
+ Northrop Grumman rocket boosters arrive at KSC for Artemis I mission


The Launch Is Approaching for NASA's Next Mars Rover, Perseverance
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2020
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rover's astrobiology mission will seek signs of past microscopic life on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero Crater landing site, and demonstrate key technologies to help prepare for future robotic and human exploration. And the rover will do all that while collecting the first samples of Martian r ... more
+ NASA's new Mars mission will take at least a decade to confirm life
+ Martian rover motors ahead
+ Airbus wins next study contract for Martian Sample Fetch Rover
+ Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycle
+ ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red Planet
+ NASA's Mars Rover Drivers Need Your Help
+ First Arab mission to Mars designed to inspire youth
Satellite launch center Wenchang eyes boosting homestay, catering sectors
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
+ Private investment fuels China commercial space sector growth
+ More details of China's space station unveiled
+ China space program targets July launch for Mars mission
+ More details of China's space station unveiled
+ China's tracking ship Yuanwang-5 back from rocket monitoring mission
+ China's Kuaizhou rocket industrial park partially operational
+ China's experimental new-generation manned spaceship works normally in orbit
SES selects 2 US companies to build 4 satellites as part of Accelerated C-Band Clearing Plan
Luxembourg (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, announces it has selected two U.S. satellite manufacturers, Northrop Grumman and the Boeing Company, to deliver four new satellites as part of the company's accelerated C-band clearing plan to meet the Federal Communications Commission's objectives to roll-out 5G services. Northrop Grumman will deliver two flight-proven GeoStar-3 sa ... more
+ GomSpace enters agreement tp cancel spin-out project Aerial and Maritime
+ NanoAvionics to build first 2 satellite buses for Omnispace Constellation
+ UK space industry consortium calls for greater SME engagement for future satcom services
+ Northrop Grumman to build 2 C-band satellites for Intelsat
+ Maxar to Build Four 1300-class Geostationary Communications Satellites for Intelsat
+ SpaceX launches 58 Starlink, 3 SkySat satellites from Florida
+ SpaceX, Amazon, OneWeb seek communications dominance in space
Reducing the risk of space debris collision
by Staff Writers
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 As humanity expands its horizons beyond the Earth and begins to consider space missions with extended duration, sustainability necessitates the launch of more space vehicles, increasing the risk of collision with existing space debris. One method of clearing this debris involves a tug vehicle dragging it to a safe region. In a new paper published in EPJ Sp ... more
+ Northrop Grumman Continues Support for US Air Force Infrared Countermeasures Systems
+ UK space sector gets a boost with the installation of a giant new satellite test chamber
+ Targeting the radiation hardened power electronics market for mission critical applications
+ Using sunlight to save satellites from a fate of 'space junk'
+ Fish armor both tough and flexible
+ Graphene smart textiles developed for heat adaptive clothing
+ Quantum rings in the hold of laser light


New study to search universe for signs of technological civilizations
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian and the University of Rochester are collaborating on a project to search the universe for signs of life via technosignatures, after receiving the first NASA non-radio technosignatures grant ever awarded, and the first SETI-specific NASA grant in over three decades. Researchers believe that although life appears in many for ... more
+ Are Planets with Oceans Common in the Galaxy? It's Likely, NASA Scientists Find
+ As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
+ Research sheds new light on intelligent life existing across the galaxy
+ Astronomers discover how long-lived Peter Pan discs evolve
+ Plant pathogens can adapt to a variety of climates, hosts
+ Presence of airborne dust could signify increased habitability of distant planets
+ Mysterious interstellar visitor was probably a 'dark hydrogen iceberg,' not aliens
Proposed NASA Mission Would Visit Neptune's Curious Moon Triton
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
+ SOFIA finds clues hidden in Pluto's haze
+ New evidence of watery plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa
+ Telescopes and spacecraft join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
+ Newly reprocessed images of Europa show 'chaos terrain' in crisp detail
+ Mysteries of Uranus' oddities explained by Japanese astronomers
+ Jupiter probe JUICE: Final integration in full swing
+ The birth of a "Snowman" at the edge of the Solar System


Egypt calls on UN to intervene after impasse in Nile dam talks
Cairo (AFP) June 20, 2020
Egypt appealed on Friday for the United Nations Security Council to intervene in a deepening dispute with Ethiopia over its gigantic Nile dam that Cairo fears would cut its vital water share. The move comes as tensions run high after multiple rounds of talks over the years between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan failed to produce a deal over the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaiss ... more
+ Blennies show scientists how fish leave water, adapt to land
+ Humans a more immediate threat to rivers than climate change
+ Scientists find unique underwater rivers along Australia's continental shelves
+ Taking a landslide's temperature to avert catastrophe
+ Sudan wants PMs to solve Nile dam deadlock
+ Flushed toilets produce clouds of virus-containing particles, simulations show
+ Surprising growth rates discovered in world's deepest photosynthetic corals
UK looking at alternatives to UK GPS plans
London, UK (Sputnik) Jun 21, 2020
In 2018 the then Prime Minister Theresa May pulled the UK out of the EU's Galileo project, slamming the European Commission's decision "to bar the UK from being fully involved in developing all aspects of Galileo," and stating it was unacceptable for London to be shut out from security discussions. UK ministers are reportedly looking to revise plans for an independent satellite navigation ... more
+ Beidou satellite launch postponed over technical issues
+ China's BeiDou navigation enables smarter agricultural production
+ GPS III SV-08 core mate complete, space vehicle named for NASA Trailblazer
+ China tests inter-satellite links of BeiDou navigation system
+ Penultimate BeiDou satellite starts operation in network
+ First GPS 3 maneuver performed by 2nd Space Operations Squadron
+ Out-of-the-box spoofing mitigation with Galileo's OS-NMA service


Final Frontier Design awarded multiple NASA lunar xEMU Space Suit contracts
New York NY (SPX) Jun 22, 2020
Final Frontier Design (FFD) is pleased to announce the award of multiple contracts for components of NASA's next generation xEMU Lunar space suit. The xEMU Lunar space suit will be used in the Artemis mission, the first US planetary space mission since Apollo. The development awards include the Lunar xEMU space suit boot, hip, and waist joints, and will culminate with hardware delive ... more
+ NASA invites competitors to shoot for the moon and beyond
+ NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the Moon
+ NASA awards Northrop Grumman Artemis contract for Gateway Crew Cabin
+ First global map of rockfalls on the Moon
+ NASA to announce selection of company to fly VIPER rover to Moon
+ Xplore to host Space for Humanity Payload on its first lunar mission
+ New study provides maps, ice favorability index to companies looking to mine the moon
Protecting Earth from asteroid impact with a tethered diversion
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 19, 2020
Our planet exists within the vicinity of thousands of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), some of which - ?Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs)? - ?carry the risk of impacting Earth causing major damage to infrastructure and loss of life. Methods to mitigate such a collision are highly desirable. A new paper published in EPJ Special Topics, authored by Flaviane Venditti, Planetary Radar Departmen ... more
+ SOHO spots its 4,000th Comet
+ NASA's OSIRIS-REx produces Nightingale mosaic
+ First Citizen Science Successes for Backyard Astronomy
+ NASA's OSIRIS-REx discovers sunlight can crack rocks on Asteroid Bennu
+ OSIRIS-REx finds heat, cold fracturing rocks on Asteroid Bennu
+ Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 Vesta
+ STEREO watches Comet ATLAS as Solar Orbiter crosses its tail


China launches new Earth observation satellite
Jiuquan (XNA) Jun 18, 2020
China launched a new Earth observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 3:19 pm Wednesday (Beijing Time). The satellite Gaofen-9 03, sent into orbit by a Long March-2D carrier rocket, is an optical remote-sensing satellite with a resolution up to the sub-meter level. The satellite will be mainly used for land survey, city planning, land right c ... more
+ Successful integration of ATLID completes the European set of instruments for EarthCARE satellite
+ SEOSAT-Ingenio ready for shipment to Kourou
+ China's polar-observing satellite starts Arctic mission
+ Half the earth relatively intact from global human influence
+ China plans to launch meteorological satellite to dawn-dusk orbit
+ Looking up to the stars can reveal what's deep below
+ Scientists present new method for remote sensing of atmospheric dynamics
KU Leuven researchers shed new light on solar flares
Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Jun 19, 2020
Plasma astrophysicists at KU Leuven have created the first self-consistent simulation of the physical processes that occur during a solar flare. The researchers used Flemish supercomputers and a new combination of physical models. Solar flares are explosions on the surface of the Sun that release an enormous amount of energy, equivalent to a trillion 'Little Boy' atomic bombs exploding at ... more
+ Parker Solar Probe teams up with space observatories for 4th solar encounter
+ XPLORE wins study for NOAA solar observatory at Lagrange point LI
+ NASA's IBEX Charts 11 Years of Change at Boundary to Interstellar Space
+ A method has been developed to study the 'traces' of coronal mass ejections at the Sun.
+ Warwick researchers create 'sun clock' using 200 years of sunspot observations
+ Measuring speed of solar storms arriving at Earth can help predict severity
+ Astronomers unveil the magnetic field of the solar corona


Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
A team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are short, intense flashes of radio waves that are thought to be the product of small, distant, extremely dense objects, though exactly what those objects might b ... more
+ Our Deepest View of the X-ray Sky
+ A Cosmic Baby Is Discovered, and It's Brilliant
+ XMM-Newton spies youngest baby pulsar ever discovered
+ Hubble Provides Holistic View of Stars Gone Haywire
+ X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest Days
+ Excess Events Seen in Dark Matter Experiment
+ New Organic Molecule Discovered in Interstellar Cloud
This supernova in a lab mimics the cosmic blast's splendid aftermath
Atlanta, GA (SPX) Jun 18, 2020
Nestled in the constellation Taurus, a spectacle of swirling cosmic gases measuring half a dozen lightyears across glows in shades of emerald and auburn. The Crab Nebula was born of a supernova, the explosion of a giant star, and now, a lab machine the size of a double door replicates how the immense blasts paint the astronomical swirls into existence. "It's six feet tall and looks like a ... more
+ New research hints at the presence of unconventional galaxies containing 2 black holes
+ Australian scientists reveal a lost 8 billion light years of universe evolution
+ Physicists develop a new theory for Bose-Einstein condensates
+ Is teleportation possible? Yes, in the quantum world
+ Exploring mass dependence in electron-hole clusters
+ Quasar jets are particle accelerators thousands of light-years long
+ Innovative model provides insight into the black hole at the center of our galaxy
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