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  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 |
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NanoAvionics to build first 2 satellite buses for Omnispace ConstellationMidland 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 
SES selects 2 US companies to build 4 satellites as part of Accelerated C-Band Clearing PlanLuxembourg (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 Mission Launches that will Carry Experiment Aimed at Solving Antibiotic ResistanceRamat 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  
Department of Defense Releases Defense Space StrategyArlington 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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US Space Militarization Plans May Jeopardize Fragile Cooperation With Russia - RoscosmosWashington 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  
Space tourists might rise above Earth with hydrogen balloonsWashington 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  
China launches new Earth observation satelliteJiuquan (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  
Geoscientists create deeper look at processes below Earth's surface with 3D imagesDallas 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  
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to EarthPlainsboro 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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Excess Events Seen in Dark Matter ExperimentKashiwa, 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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Pause button for light particlesDarmstadt, 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 
Superlens squeezes light into nanospaceMoscow, 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  
DARPA pit boss contractors SEAKR and SSCI team with DARPA for Blackjack early risk reduction orbital flightsWoburn 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  
NASA Reveals What Could Be Source of 'Elevated Benzene Level' on ISSMoscow (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  
Australian professor wants local town to become hub for commercial space travelRockhampton, 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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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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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 |
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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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