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  Dubai (AFP) July 20, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars blasted off from Japan on Monday on a mission to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. The unmanned probe named Al-Amal - Arabic for Hope - took off after several weather delays, marking the next step in the United Arab Emirates' ambitious space programme. Here are some facts and figures about the oil-rich nation's project, which draws inspiration from the Middle East's golden age of cultural and scientific achievements. - Outsize plans - ... read more |
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UAE celebrates launch of first Arab interplanetary missionDubai (AFP) July 19, 2020 The United Arab Emirates celebrated in the early hours of Monday morning the launch of its "Hope" probe to Mars, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation. ... more 
First Arab space mission to Mars launches from JapanTokyo (AFP) July 20, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed "Hope", blasted off from Japan on Monday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet. ... more  
Two US astronauts to come home on SpaceX ship on August 2Washington (AFP) July 17, 2020 The two US astronauts who reached the International Space Station (ISS) on board the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade will leave for Earth on August 1, NASA's chief said Friday. ... more  
Solar power investigation to launch on lunar landerCleveland OH (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 When Artemis astronauts go back to the Moon, they will need access to electric power to live and work on the surface. Solar power will be one of the options to sustain human life and science for tho ... more |
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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  
In a first, astronomers watch a black hole's corona disappear, then reappearBoston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has myster ... more  
NASA's Next Laser Communications Demo Installed, Integrated on SpacecraftGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 On July 16, 2020, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) payload was installed and integrated on the U.S. Department of Defense Space Test Program Satellite 6 (STPSat-6) in preparation ... more 
Shock-dissipating fractal cubes could forge high-tech armorLos Alamos NM (SPX) Jul 13, 2020 Tiny, 3D printed cubes of plastic, with intricate fractal voids built into them, have proven to be effective at dissipating shockwaves, potentially leading to new types of lightweight armor and stru ... more  
Airbus expands its SpaceDataHighway with second satelliteParis, France (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 The EDRS-C satellite, the second node of Airbus' SpaceDataHighway constellation, completed its commissioning tests on 15th July 2020 and is now ready to start operational services. Following its suc ... more |
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 Syncing a NASA laser with an ESA radar for a new look at sea ice  
New insight into the origin of water on the earthSapporo, Japan (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 Scientists have found the interstellar organic matter could produce an abundant supply of water by heating, suggesting that organic matter could be the source of terrestrial water. There remai ... more  |
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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  
NASA scientist over the Moon with homegrown radish researchPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2020 While others have perfected sourdough starter or whipped up chocolate chip cookies during the pandemic, NASA scientist Max Coleman has been toiling in his kitchen over containers of baby radishes - ... 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  
A population of asteroids of interstellar origin inhabits the Solar SystemSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 A study conducted by scientists at Sao Paulo State University's Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin clas ... more 
Objects in the nightParis (ESA) Jul 17, 2020 Skygazers across the Northern Hemisphere are being treated to stunning views of comet NEOWISE as it streaks past Earth. Amateur astrophotographer Javier Manteca got a bonus: the International Space ... more |
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 Boulder 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 travel - you need to optimize for a different set of goals to meet the needs of the people you are trying to feed.
NASA and the Translational Research Institute for Space Health asked my lab to fi ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
Teams at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, moved the Artemis I launch vehicle stage adapter for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket onto the agency's Pegasus barge July 17.
The adapter is the cone shaped piece that connects the rocket's core stage and interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS). Pegasus will transport the flight hardware to NASA's Kennedy Space ... more |
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 Tempe 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 from Tanegashima, Japan, and arrive at Mars in February 2021, where it will spend two years orbiting the red planet gathering crucial science data.
The mission is being carried out by the Mohammed ... 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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 Paris, France (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 
The EDRS-C satellite, the second node of Airbus' SpaceDataHighway constellation, completed its commissioning tests on 15th July 2020 and is now ready to start operational services. Following its successful launch in August 2019 and manoeuvring to its geostationary orbital slot at 31 degrees east, in-orbit testing has been executed and laser communication links have been established to the Copern ... more |
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 Chantilly VA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration and mission management services, and Millennium Space Systems has announced preparations are underway for the experimental DRAG RACER orbital debris mission payload to be delivered to New Zealand and integrated aboard a Rocket Lab Electron ahead of the planned launch this fall.
Millennium has completed space qualification of its ... 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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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
Scientists have found the interstellar organic matter could produce an abundant supply of water by heating, suggesting that organic matter could be the source of terrestrial water.
There remains a number of mysteries on our planet including the elusive origin of water on the earth. Active studies suggested that terrestrial water had been delivered by icy comets or meteorites containing hyd ... more |
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 Phoenix AZ (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
Honeywell is introducing the HGuide n380, a new inertial navigation system that communicates position, orientation and velocity of an object - such as an autonomous vehicle or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) - even when global navigation satellite signals are unavailable. Smaller, lighter and lower-priced than previous Honeywell inertial navigation systems, the HGuide n380 is built using Honeywell ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 20, 2020 
The involvement of foreign countries in the ambitious Russian lunar mission is not limited to testing equipment. A lunar mass spectrometer manufactured jointly with Switzerland will be installed on board the Luna-25 to study probes of lunar soil.
The launch readiness of equipment installed on Luna-25, the first lunar lander mission from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in the c ... 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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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
Astronomers studying galaxy evolution have long struggled to understand what causes star formation to shut down in massive galaxies. Although many theories have been proposed to explain this process, known as "quenching," there is still no consensus on a satisfactory model.
Now, an international team led by Sandra Faber, professor emerita of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, has ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
It seems the universe has an odd sense of humor. While a crown-encrusted virus has run roughshod over the world, another entirely different corona about 100 million light years from Earth has mysteriously disappeared.
For the first time, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have watched as a supermassive black hole's own corona, the ultrabright, billion-degree ring of high-energy particles tha ... more |
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