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  Rochester UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2020 Recent NASA missions to asteroids have gathered important data about the early evolution of our Solar System, planet formation, and how life may have originated on Earth. These missions also provide crucial information to deflect asteroids that could hit Earth. Missions like the OSIRIS-REx mission to Asteroid Bennu and the Hyabusa II mission to Ryugu, are often conducted by robotic explorers that send images back to Earth showing complex asteroid surfaces with cracked, perched boulders and rubble ... read more |
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Pocket-sized German satellite maker shoots for starsFrankfurt Am Main (AFP) July 15, 2020 Holding its own against aerospace giants like pan-European Airbus Space or French-Italian Thales Alenia, German minnow OHB has carved out a space as a national champion in satellite building. ... more  
Israel Frets Over Security Risks From US Rule Change Allowing High-Resolution Satellite PhotosTel Aviv (Sputnik) Jul 13, 2020 The Israeli government is trying to stop commercial satellite photography companies from disseminating high-resolution images of the country over fears Hezbollah or Hamas could use them to more accu ... more  
Satellite images show Europe facing droughtsWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Last months have been ones of the driest in the history of rainfall measurements in Europe. Recent storms, even the ones that caused local flooding, have not affected much deeper soil layers which c ... more  
Proba-V passes the torchParis (ESA) Jul 13, 2020 ESA's cubic-metre-sized Proba-V minisatellite, seen left, has ended its seven-year global mission to monitor the daily growth of all Earth's vegetation, a task being taken up by Copernicus Sentinel- ... more |
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Who's ready to serve the lunar missionsParis (ESA) Jul 15, 2020 ESA has long-established plans to create a commercial lunar satellite network and now seeks expressions of interest from companies prepared to build and operate it. Efforts to explore the Moon ... more  
Northrop Grumman Short Range Air Defense System to counter aerial threatsHuntsville FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation's Forward Area Air Defense Command and Control (FAAD C2) system has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) as the interim command and control system for f ... more  
In India-China crisis, an India-US bonanza in viewWashington (AFP) July 11, 2020 A border clash has plunged ties between India and China to their lowest point in decades. But one beneficiary looks clear - the US-India relationship. ... more  
First comprehensive documentation of glacial retreat in the alpsNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 A research team from Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) conducted the first study of area and elevation changes for all Alpine glaciers over a period of 14 years. This involved ... more  
Keeping a Steady Eye on Sea Level Change From SpacePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2020 Over the course of nearly three decades, an uninterrupted series of satellites has circled our planet, diligently measuring sea levels. The continuous record of ocean height that they've built has h ... more |
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 AFRL collaborates in break-through solar power development 
NASA Increases Investment in US Small Businesses to Mature Lunar Capabilities for ArtemisWashington DC (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 NASA has selected four U.S. small businesses to mature a range of technologies for sustainable exploration of the Moon under the Artemis program. Through Artemis, the first woman and next man will l ... more  |
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The Euclid space telescope is coming togetherParis (ESA) Jul 13, 2020 ESA's Euclid mission has reached another milestone on its journey towards launch. Its two instruments are now built and fully tested. These have been delivered to Airbus Defence and Space in Toulous ... more 
Astronomers spot most distant fleeting flash afterglow from SGRBWashington DC (UPI) Jul 14, 2020 Astronomers said Tuesday they saw the most distant afterglow ever from a short gamma-ray burst 10 billion light years away. ... more 
How does Earth sustain its magnetic field?Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 How did the chemical makeup of our planet's core shape its geologic history and habitability? Life as we know it could not exist without Earth's magnetic field and its ability to deflect dange ... more  
Curtin study could rewrite Earth's historyPerth, Australia (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Curtin University-led research has found new evidence to suggest that the Earth's first continents were not formed by subduction in a modern-like plate tectonics environment as previously thought, a ... more 
Breakthrough machine learning approach quickly produces higher-resolution climate dataGolden CO (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a novel machine learning approach to quickly enhance the resolution of wind velocity ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
When NASA astronaut Serena M. Aunon-Chancellor tested the operation of a sextant aboard the International Space Station, she quickly realized that using the centuries-old navigation instrument while traveling more than 17,000 miles per hour in microgravity would require some adjustments.
Early explorers on Earth used the instrument to navigate at sea by the stars, but their ships weren't m ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 13, 2020 
The launch of the Russian Soyuz carrier rocket with the Falcon Eye-2 satellite from the Kourou Space Centre is planned for October, the German Aerospace Centre has confirmed.
The launch was initially scheduled for 6 March but was postponed due to a malfunction on the Fregat-M upper stage. Later, the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana was temporarily closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) July 15, 2020  The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday it would delay the launch of its "Hope" Mars probe for a second time, again due to bad weather.
The probe was originally due to be launched from Japan on Wednesday but had been postponed until Friday for the same reason.
"After extensive meetings, the @UAESpaceAgency and @MBRSpaceCentre, through discussions with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, anno ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Jul 13, 2020 
The debut mission of Kuaizhou 11, the newest in China's carrier rocket fleet, failed on Friday, according to its maker.
The rocket blasted off at 12:17 pm at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China's Gobi Desert to send two small satellites to two different orbits. During its flight, some abnormalities emerged and resulted in failure, China Aerospace Science and Industry ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
L3Harris Technologies launched the latest in a demonstration series of end-to-end small satellites as part of a U.S. Air Force constellation the company is responsible for developing.
As the prime contractor for the firm fixed-price development space mission, L3Harris is designing, developing, building, testing and deploying the satellites. The company will task, command and control the sa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2020 
The Deep Space Network is NASA's interplanetary switchboard that enables constant communications with our robotic spacecraft. In March, one of the network's largest antennas - Deep Space Station 43 (DSS-43) in Canberra, Australia - began undergoing much-needed upgrades.
Forty-eight years old and 70 meters (230 feet) wide, the dish recently received a new X-band frequency cone. Inside the c ... more |
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 Princeton UK (SPX) Jul 15, 2020 
Why don't planets collide more often? How do planetary systems - like our solar system or multi-planet systems around other stars - organize themselves? Of all of the possible ways planets could orbit, how many configurations will remain stable over the billions of years of a star's life cycle?
Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities - all the configurations that would lead to ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 09, 2020 
The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place - filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.
Two new studies by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may help to solve one of the biggest mysteries about these far away worlds: why so many of them don't circle the sun the way they ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2020 
Over the course of nearly three decades, an uninterrupted series of satellites has circled our planet, diligently measuring sea levels. The continuous record of ocean height that they've built has helped researchers reveal the inner workings of weather phenomena like El Nino and to forecast how much the ocean could encroach on coastlines around the world. Now, engineers and scientists are prepar ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (AFNS) Jul 13, 2020 
On June 26, the United States Space Force's Space and Missile Systems Center awarded three separate Rapid Prototyping agreements to Collins Aerospace, Raytheon Intelligence and Space and Technology Advancement Group, Inc. for a total of $41.1 million.
The firm-fixed price agreements are for the development of a basic working prototype of the Joint Modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
The Moon formed a little later than previously assumed. When a Mars-sized protoplanet was destroyed in a collision with the young Earth, a new body was created from the debris ejected during this catastrophe - the Moon. Planetary geophysicists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), led by Maxime Maurice, together with researchers at the University of Mun ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 09, 2020 
A comet visiting from the most distant parts of our solar system is putting on a spectacular nighttime display. Named Comet C/2020 F3 NEOWISE, the comet made its once-in-our-lifetimes close approach to the Sun on July 3, 2020, and will cross outside Earth's orbit on its way back to the outer parts of the solar system by mid-August.
The comet cruised just inside Mercury's orbit on July 3. T ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
How did the chemical makeup of our planet's core shape its geologic history and habitability?
Life as we know it could not exist without Earth's magnetic field and its ability to deflect dangerous ionizing particles from the solar wind and more far-flung cosmic rays. It is continuously generated by the motion of liquid iron in Earth's outer core, a phenomenon called the geodynamo.
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2020 
NASA has awarded the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor-2 (TSIS-2) Spacecraft contract to General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems Group of San Diego, California.
This is a hybrid firm-fixed price, time and materials contract in the amount of approximately $32.9 million. The base contract is for spacecraft development in the amount of about $29.2 million The contract also contains O ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 13, 2020 
A collection of intriguing images based on data from ESA's Herschel and Planck space telescopes show the influence of magnetic fields on the clouds of gas and dust where stars are forming.
The images are part of a study by astronomer Juan D. Soler of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, who used data gathered during Planck's all-sky observations and Herschel's 'Go ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 
Scientists at Harvard University and the Black Hole Initiative (BHI) have developed a new method to find black holes in the outer solar system, and along with it, determine once-and-for-all the true nature of the hypothesized Planet Nine. The paper, accepted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters, highlights the ability of the future Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) mission to observe accret ... more |
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