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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system. A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy terrains found on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Both are thought to host vast subsurface oceans of salty water under a thick ice crust. But while that makes the ... read more |
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Gilmour Space achieves 45-second milestone in latest hybrid rocket engine test fireGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Australia's leading rocket company has reached another milestone in its mission to launch small satellites to space by 2022. Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Austr ... more  
Search for benzene on Space Station to resume in JulyMoscow (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 The search for a source of toxic benzene in the atmosphere of the International Space Station will resume at the end of July after the delivery of the new US air quality monitor on board the Russian ... more 
Thales Alenia Space will provide two key pressurized elements for Axiom commercial space stationTurin, Italy (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Thales Alenia Space, Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %) announced the signature of an ATP (Authorization To Proceed) with Axiom Space of Houston, Texas to initiate the developme ... more  
India ends monopoly of ISRO with new entity to facilitate private playersNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 16 May announced certain structural reforms which included the opening up of space technology to private players. Sitharaman had said, "future projects ... more |
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FFI selects GomSpace to build military communication satelliteAalborg, Danmark (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 GomSpace has signed a contract to develop and deliver a nanosatellite to the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI). The satellite will demonstrate military tactical communications on ... more  
Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers 600th boost motor and divert and attitude control system for THAADHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne has delivered the 600th Boost Motor and the 600th Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS) for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system, one of the nation's ... more 
NASA renames Washington HQ for 'Hidden Figures' trailblazerWashington (AFP) June 24, 2020 NASA said Wednesday that it will rename its Washington headquarters after its first black female engineer, Mary Jackson, whose story was told in the hit film "Hidden Figures." ... more  
China's tracking ship wraps up satellite launch monitoringBeijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean o ... more  
Ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa "could be habitable"Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition they have calculated that this water, believed to be ... more |
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Young Planets Bite the DustHilo HI (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 These orange swirls of dust are snapshots from the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of dusty debris disks around young stars - published this week by an international group of astronomer ... more  |
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'Infant' planet discovered by UH astronomers, Maunakea telescopeHonolulu HI (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Astronomers study stars and planets much younger than the Sun to learn about past events that shaped the Solar System and Earth. Most of these stars are far enough away to make observations challeng ... more 
Beneath the surface of exoplanet water worldsLemont IL (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Out beyond our solar system, visible only as the smallest dot in space with even the most powerful telescopes, other worlds exist. Many of these worlds, astronomers have discovered, may be much larg ... more  
Strainoptronics: A new way to control photonsWashington DC (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Researchers discovered a new way to engineer optoelectronic devices by stretching a two-dimensional material on top of a silicon photonic platform. Using this method, coined strainoptronics by a tea ... more 
Space Station stitchParis (ESA) Jun 24, 2020 This panorama of the International Space Station is a wider view of what ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano was capturing on camera during the first of a series of historic spacewalks that took place in N ... more  
Hera and its asteroid targetParis (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence seen approaching the Dimorphos asteroid moonlet, which is destined to become the subject of an audacious deflection experiment. The newly-named Dimorph ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 
The search for a source of toxic benzene in the atmosphere of the International Space Station will resume at the end of July after the delivery of the new US air quality monitor on board the Russian cargo spacecraft Progress, a source in the rocket and space industry said.
"Since there is only one such device at the station and it is impossible to repair it in orbit, it was decided to send ... more |
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 Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
Australia's leading rocket company has reached another milestone in its mission to launch small satellites to space by 2022.
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Australia, have completed the first in a series of major technology demonstrations this year: a successful 45-second 'hot fire' of their upper-stage hybrid rocket engine.
"This was our longest and mo ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2020 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) of interplanetary space to get to Mars. But for the team working on the first experimental flight test on another planet, engineering the final 5 inches (13 centimeters) of the journey has been among the most challenging of all. To safely navigate those 5 inches - the dista ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 
Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang S ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2020 
Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on 16 May announced certain structural reforms which included the opening up of space technology to private players. Sitharaman had said, "future projects for planetary exploration, outer space travel, etc shall also be open for the private sector".
India's federal cabinet on Wednesday decided to set up a new entity named the Indian National Space ... more |
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 Krakow, Poland (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 
Ultracold atoms trapped in appropriately prepared optical traps can arrange themselves in surprisingly complex, hitherto unobserved structures, according to scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow. In line with their most recent predictions, matter in optical lattices should form tensile and inhomogeneous quantum rings in a controlled manner. ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 
China's domestically developed Beidou Navigation Satellite System has been widely used in many public sectors and business fields at home and abroad, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
By the end of 2019, more than 100 million Beidou-based navigation chips, modules and other products had been sold.
The system had by then been applied to nearly 6.6 million taxis, buse ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 
ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence seen approaching the Dimorphos asteroid moonlet, which is destined to become the subject of an audacious deflection experiment.
The newly-named Dimorphos - at 160 m across, about the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid - orbits around the main 780 m mountain-sized Didymos near-Earth asteroid. Next year NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will l ... more |
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 (UPI) Jun 24, 2019 
Efforts to improve the precision with which climate models simulate cloud processes have yielded more realistic models. New research suggests these efforts have also introduced greater uncertainty, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances.
When the latest generation of climate models started producing results last year, researchers noticed that several mo ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) June 21, 2020 
Skywatchers along a narrow band from west Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, India and the Far East witnessed a dramatic "ring of fire" solar eclipse Sunday.
So-called annular eclipses occur when the Moon - passing between Earth and the Sun - is not quite close enough to our planet to completely obscure sunlight, leaving a thin ring of the solar disc visible.
They happen every year or tw ... more |
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 Swindon UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
Scientists working on an international experiment, part-funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), have discovered a massive object in space that may change our understanding of the largest stars in the Universe.
When the biggest stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars with less mass die, they explode in a supernova and ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 
European and Russian specialists recently worked together to catch signals from an astrophysical observatory mission, now mapping X-ray sources in our galaxy and beyond, discovering previously unknown supermassive black holes.
In a joint technology demonstration conducted in April and May, ESA, Roscosmos, and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN) in coop ... more |
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