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  Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 Spaceflight Inc has announced that it will be flying its next generation orbital transfer vehicle, Sherpa-FX, on a fully dedicated rideshare mission with SpaceX. The mission, called SXRS-3 by Spaceflight, is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 no earlier than December 2020. Spaceflight has contracted 16 spacecraft for this mission from organizations including iQPS, Loft Orbital, HawkEye 360, NASA's Small Spacecraft Technology program, Astrocast, and the University of South Florida Institute of Appli ... read more |
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Southern Launch prepares for lift off In South AustraliaCanberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 The development of small satellite technologies (SmallSats) has ushered in an era of dynamic and responsive space systems. Hundreds, and soon thousands, of these small platforms will be launched int ... more  
NASA touts Russia ties as Rogozin dismisses Artemis as politicalMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 16, 2020 As multiple nations have unveiled ambitious plans to take humanity back to the Moon, earlier this month the Trump administration unveiled its so-called 'Artemis Accords' principles for Moon explorat ... more 
Astronauts conclude third spacewalk on historic SpaceX missionWashington DC (UPI) Jul 16, 2020 NASA's latest spacewalk at the International Space Station concluded on Thursday with two astronauts replacing more aging batteries. ... more  
Emirates Mars Mission delayed a second time by weatherWashington DC (UPI) Jul 15, 2020 Weather at the launch site in Japan has delayed Thursday's historic launch of a United Arab Emirates space mission to Mars. It was the second such delay in a week. ... more |
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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  
Tianwen 1 probe to soon blast off for MarsBeijing (XNA) Jul 16, 2020 Tianwen 1, a Chinese Mars probe, has been transported to Hainan province, where it is set to be launched atop a Long March 5 carrier rocket in the coming days, according to the China Academy of Spac ... 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  
Programmable balloons pave the way for new shape-morphing devicesBoston MA (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Balloon shaping isn't just for kids anymore. A team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has designed materials that can control and mold ... more |
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Liverpool researchers build robot scientist that has already discovered a new catalystLiverpool UK (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Researchers at the University of Liverpool have built an intelligent mobile robot scientist that can work 24-7, carrying out experiments by itself. The robot scientist, the first of its kind, ... more  |
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Portable system boosts laser precision, at room temperatureBoston MA (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum "light squeezer" that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15 percent. It is the first system of its kind to work at room temperature, making ... more  
Testing for success with OmegAChandler AZ (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Space radiation scorches circuits, eats electronics and tortures terabytes. It is the single greatest threat to systems that operate in or travel through space. But does a rocket that will operate i ... more 
Duckweed is an incredible, radiation-fighting astronaut foodBoulder CO (The Conversation) Jul 16, 2020 Current industrialized food systems were optimized for a single goal - growing the maximum amount of food for the least amount of money. But when room and supplies are limited - like during space tr ... more  
China's Chang'e 4 probe resumes work for 20th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Jul 16, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have resumed work for the 20th lunar day on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 5:48 am Wednesday (Beijing Time), and the rover awoke at ... more 
Emirates Mars Mission to launch with ASU instrumentTempe AZ (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, is expected to lift off in July (exact launch date depends on weather conditions) on an H-IIA rocket fro ... 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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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 
Spaceflight Inc has announced that it will be flying its next generation orbital transfer vehicle, Sherpa-FX, on a fully dedicated rideshare mission with SpaceX.
The mission, called SXRS-3 by Spaceflight, is scheduled to launch on a Falcon 9 no earlier than December 2020. Spaceflight has contracted 16 spacecraft for this mission from organizations including iQPS, Loft Orbital, HawkEye 360, ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 16, 2020 
Tianwen 1, a Chinese Mars probe, has been transported to Hainan province, where it is set to be launched atop a Long March 5 carrier rocket in the coming days, according to the China Academy of Space Technology.
The academy said in a statement on Tuesday that the spacecraft is now undergoing prelaunch preparations at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang before setting out on China' ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 
Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field camera mounted on the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope, is used for the observations to search for target candidates for New Horizons' next observations.
Astronomers from Japan are participating in the observation team together wit ... 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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 Tokyo (Sputnik) Jul 16, 2020 
The re-entry capsule of Japan's Hayabusa2 asteroid explorer containing samples from asteroid Ryugu will land in Australia on 6 December, as follows from a joint statement of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the Australian Space Agency (ASA) published on Tuesday.
"The statement acknowledges that the capsule of 'Hayabusa2' containing the asteroid samples will land in South A ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 16, 2020  The European Space Agency and NASA's joint Solar Orbitor mission on Thursday unveiled the closest ever pictures of the sun - and they revealed something unexpected, researchers said.
The pictures, taken during ESA/NASA's Solar Orbitor mission to study earth's closest star, the Sun, are now publicly available, NASA said in a statement Thursday.
The images are the first returned f ... 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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