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  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 25, 2020 Some Internet users will test SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service soon, as the company prepares another launch in Florida on Friday to boost the number of communications satellites in orbit to almost 600. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 57 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 4:18 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The flight also will carry two small Earth observation satellites for Seattle-based BlackSky Global. An outlook for isolated stor ... read more |
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NASA takes first step to allow computers to decide what to tell us in search for life on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 26, 2020 NASA has stepped closer to allowing remote onboard computers to direct the search for life on other planets. Scientists from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre have announced first results from ne ... more  
Scientists develop new tool to design better fusion devicesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 One way that scientists seek to bring to Earth the fusion process that powers the sun and stars is trapping hot, charged plasma gas within a twisting magnetic coil device shaped like a breakfast cru ... more  
The rocket fired by ScrumFalls Church VA (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 In May 2019, the OmegATM first stage fired in Northrop Grumman's northern Utah test area, fulfilling a 2016 commitment made by the company to test a stage of its OmegA rocket by spring 2019. As soon ... more 
Virgin Galactic's Unity completes final test before adding rocket powerWashington DC (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 According to a Thursday statement by Virgin Galactic, the space company's second gliding test of its Unity spacecraft appears to have been a success. Now, the air-deployed spaceplane will move on to ... more |
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Super-Earths discovered orbiting nearby red dwarfGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 The nearest exoplanets to us provide the best opportunities for detailed study, including searching for evidence of life outside the Solar System. In research led by the University of Gottingen, the ... more  
Motions in the Sun reveal inner workings of sunspot cycleKatlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 The Sun's magnetic activity follows an eleven-year cycle. Over the course of a solar cycle, the Sun's magnetic activity comes and goes. During solar maximum, large sunspots and active regions appear ... more  
Rogue's gallery of dusty star systems reveals exoplanet nurseriesBerkeley CA (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Astronomers this month released the largest collection of sharp, detailed images of debris disks around young stars, showcasing the great variety of shapes and sizes of stellar systems during their ... more 
Discovering an exoplanet the size of NeptuneMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii, thanks in part to the work of Jonathan Gagne, a former iREx Banting postdoctoral researcher who is now a sc ... 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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Stronger materials vital for lunar plansBeijing (XNA) Jun 26, 2020 As the Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky once said, Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot stay in a cradle forever. With sporadic political interest in space development and r ... more  |
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NOAA funds ASTRA study to define future weather satellite constellationLouisville CO (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded Atmospheric and Space Technology Research Associates (ASTRA), LLC a six-month contract to design a constellation of low Earth orbit (LEO) ... more  
How molecules are rotating determines what happens when they collide with surfacesSwansea UK (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 What happens when a molecule collides with a surface? Researchers at Swansea University have shown that the orientation of the molecule as it moves - whether it is spinning like a helicopter blade o ... more 
Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itselfUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Laser light traveling through ornately microfabricated glass has been shown to interact with itself to form self-sustaining wave patterns called solitons. The intricate design fabricated in the glas ... 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 
Russia plans to take first tourist on space walk in 2023Moscow (AFP) June 25, 2020 Russia's Energia space corporation said Thursday it will take the first tourist on a space walk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 26, 2020 
Roscosmos and Space Adventures have been cooperating in space tourism since 2001, when the first space tourist, Dennis Tito, went into orbit. Since then, a total of seven people have been in space under the space tourism programme.
The first-ever contract for a tourist walk in outer space has been signed, the Russian space corporation Energia said. The venture is set for 2023.
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
span class="BDL">Video: a href="https://youtu.be/sSEh_oKLCAw">Water Gushes From SLS Rocket Propellant Tank As Engineers Break It On Purpose /a> /span>
On June 24, 2020, engineers completed the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's structural testing campaign for the Artemis lunar missions by testing the liquid oxygen structural test article to find its point of failure.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Muddy rains produced by giant impacts into a primordial glaciated Mars may have played a crucial role in the emplacement of kilometers-thick mudstones on Mars, according to a new paper by a team led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez.
These mudstones comprise the solar system's oldest known sedimentary rocks, according a paper published in Nature Scientific Re ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 25, 2020 
Some Internet users will test SpaceX's Starlink satellite broadband service soon, as the company prepares another launch in Florida on Friday to boost the number of communications satellites in orbit to almost 600.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 57 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 4:18 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The flight also will carry ... 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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 London, Canada (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
Western University astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own - an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. Until then, however, the mere possibility of the find sparks excitement over our biggest questions about the universe.
"Our own solar system contains hundreds of moons. If moons are prolific arou ... more |
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 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 an ocean under the surface ice shell, could have been formed by breakdown of water-containing minerals due to either tidal forces or radioactive decay. This work, which is not yet peer-reviewed, is pr ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Two new genera and four new species of giant, single-celled xenophyophores (protozoans belonging to a group called the foraminifera) were discovered in the deep Pacific Ocean during a joint project between scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, UK (NOC), the University of Hawai'i, and the University of Geneva. 'Moana' has inspired the name Moanammina for one of the new genera, while the ... more |
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 Chandler AZ (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the release of a major software update for its BlueSky GNSS Firewall product, providing a higher level of resiliency against GPS vulnerabilities for systems dependent on GPS signal reception.
Microchip's BlueSky GNSS Firewall Software Release 2.0 performs real-time analysis to detect jamming and spoofing for protecting reception of the GPS signal and ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 26, 2020 
Everyone poops.
Including astronauts, who have since the early space era found ways to do their business in near-zero gravity - from the Apollo missions when waste management was, in NASA's words, "a plastic bag which was taped to the buttocks to capture feces," to the more advanced toilets of the International Space Station that use fan-driven suction systems.
Now the US space agency i ... more |
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 Montevideo, Uruguay (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
The International Astronomical Union has just approved an official name for a tiny asteroid satellite set to become the first-ever target of an asteroid deflection mission. The satellite is the smaller of two bodies in the near-Earth asteroid system Didymos, and will now be distinguished from its primary object by the name Dimorphos.
In July 2021, just over a year from now, NASA will launc ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 26, 2020 
Heading to the lake this summer? While harmful algal blooms can cause health problems for lake visitors, satellite data can provide early detection of harmful algae, resulting in socioeconomic benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from one harmful algal bloom event, a new study finds. A Resources for the Future (RFF) and NASA VALUABLES Consortium study published in GeoHealth examines t ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
As of June 2020, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory - SDO - has now been watching the Sun non-stop for over a full decade. From its orbit in space around Earth, SDO has gathered 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun, amassing 20 million gigabytes of data over the past 10 years.
This information has enabled countless new discoveries about the workings of our closest star and how it i ... 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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