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  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 23, 2020 Virgin Galactic announced Monday an agreement with NASA allowing it to develop a private astronaut readiness program for trips to the International Space Station. NASA said it hopes the agreement will encourage more commercial participation in low Earth orbit. Under the agreement, Virgin Galactic will develop the program similar to one it has to prepare space tourists for its own flights. The company said it could buy seats on flights to the space station, were private citizens could tra ... read more |
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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  
Scientists provide new explanation for the far side of the Moon's strange asymmetryTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 The Earth-Moon system's history remains mysterious. Scientists believe the two formed when a Mars-sized body collided with the proto-Earth. Earth ended up being the larger daughter of this collision ... more  
Protecting Earth from asteroid impact with a tethered diversionWashington 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 ... more |
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Australian scientists reveal a lost 8 billion light years of universe evolutionMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 Last year, the Advanced LIGO-VIRGO gravitational-wave detector network recorded data from 35 merging black holes and neutron stars. A great result - but what did they miss? According to Dr Rory Smit ... more  
KU Leuven researchers shed new light on solar flaresLeuven, 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 ... more  
Hubble Provides Holistic View of Stars Gone Haywireby Agency Writers Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 As nuclear fusion engines, most stars live placid lives for hundreds of millions to billions of years. But near the end of their lives they can turn into crazy whirl ... more 
Our Deepest View of the X-ray SkyGarching, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2020 Over the course of 182 days, the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG has completed its first full sweep of the sky. This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than one million objects ... more 
X-rays From a Newborn Star Hint at Our Sun's Earliest DaysBoston MA (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 By detecting an X-ray flare from a very young star using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, researchers have reset the timeline for when stars like the Sun start blasting high-energy radiation into s ... more |
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NASA moving forward to enable a low-earth orbit economyWashington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 One year ago, NASA announced the agency is opening the space station for business, enabling commercial and marketing opportunities on the station, and the agency has moved forward toward its ultimat ... more  |
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WA space project to drive industry growthPerth, Australia (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 The Morrison and McGowan Governments are investing in new space technologies in Western Australia, to help a range of industries across the nation to grow and create new jobs. Fugro Australia ... more 
GomSpace enters agreement tp cancel spin-out project Aerial and MaritimeAalborg, Denmark (SPX) Jun 22, 2020 GomSpace (GS) and Aerial and Maritime (A and M) have agreed on a settlement and release of any potential claims and commitments of each party in connection with the original agreement from 2016. ... more  
Evidence supports 'hot start' scenario and early ocean formation on PlutoSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's ... more  
Breakthrough listen releases list of "exotica"San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Breakthrough Listen, the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the Universe, has released an innovative catalog of "Exotica" - a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomer ... more 
NASA scientist simulates sunsets on other worldsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset is a rich azure that fades into royal blue with hints of turquoise. This blue- ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 17, 2020 
NASA's new microbe-hunting Mars rover, scheduled for launch July 20, is the most sophisticated rover yet, but it will take at least a decade to determine whether samples the machine collects exhibit signs of life, agency officials said Wednesday.
The Perseverance rover is expected to land on the Red Planet in February. It is designed to drill samples of rock and drop them for a future m ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
One year ago, NASA announced the agency is opening the space station for business, enabling commercial and marketing opportunities on the station, and the agency has moved forward toward its ultimate goal in low-Earth orbit to partner with industry to achieve a strong ecosystem in which NASA is one of many customers purchasing services and capabilities at lower cost. Providing expanded opportuni ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2020 
For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, changed all that.
Among the most intriguing of these distant worlds is a class of exoplanets called hot Jupiters. Similar in size to Jupiter, the ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's orbit far from the sun in the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
This "hot start" scenario, presented in a paper published June 22 in Nature Geoscience, contrasts with the traditional view ... more |
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 Fall River MA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
L3Harris Technologies has announced a new man-portable Iver4 580 unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV). The new Iver4 580 is the second vehicle in the Iver4 family of next-generation UUVs to address a wide variety of customer missions, including survey; multi-domain intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; anti-submarine warfare; seabed warfare and mine warfare.
Built with Iver4 advanced t ... 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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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
NASA has approved the Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites (TRACERS) mission to proceed to Phase B, which marks the transition from concept study to preliminary flight design. The satellites, led by the University of Iowa (UI) and managed by Southwest Research Institute, are set to launch in late 2023.
In addition to providing mission management and scienc ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2020 
Over the course of 182 days, the eROSITA X-ray telescope onboard SRG has completed its first full sweep of the sky. This new map of the hot, energetic universe contains more than one million objects, roughly doubling the number of known X-ray sources discovered over the 60-year history of X-ray astronomy.
Most of the new sources are active galactic nuclei at cosmological distances, marking ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jun 21, 2020 
"Beam me up" is one of the most famous catchphrases from the Star Trek series. It is the command issued when a character wishes to teleport from a remote location back to the Starship Enterprise.
While human teleportation exists only in science fiction, teleportation is possible in the subatomic world of quantum mechanics--albeit not in the way typically depicted on TV. In the quantum worl ... more |
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