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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 two DRAG RACER small satellites that will embark on a first-of-its-kind Low Earth Orbit (LEO) mission to help ... read more |
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Subaru Telescope and New Horizons explore the outer Solar SystemTokyo, 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 ... more 
World leading experts to spearhead $20m of space sector by SmartSat CRCCanberra, Australia (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 In a $20m investment, nine professorial Chairs have been established by SmartSat and its partner universities in artificial intelligence, optical communications and cybersecurity for the development ... more  
Honeywell expands navigation options for precise data in areas without GPSPhoenix 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 vehicl ... 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 |
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Emirates launches first Mars probe with help from UC BerkeleyBerkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the Arab world - thanks, in part, to scien ... more  
Space station motors make a robotic prosthetic leg more comfortable, extend battery lifeAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 A new robotic prosthetic leg prototype offers a more natural gait while also being quieter and more energy efficient than other designs. The key is the use of new small and powerful motors, or ... more  
All systems are go for AstroGramsAustin TX (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 AstroGrams reports that its maiden payload has been sent to Firefly Aerospace Inc. (Headquartered in Austin, TX, USA) (Firefly.com) ready for loading onto their rocket. As currently scheduled, the l ... 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 
Place for space testingNoordwijk, Netherlands (ESA) Jul 17, 2020 ESA's Compact Antenna Test Range at its ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This anechoic chamber is used to test space antennas of 1 m across or less, or else entire small satelli ... more |
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Boeing awarded $1.2B deal for 8 F-15EX fighter jetsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 14, 2020 The U.S. Air Force has awarded Boeing a $1.2 billion contract - with a ceiling of nearly $23 billion - to build the first lot of eight F-15EX fighter jets. ... more  |
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A Walk Through the Rainbow with PACEGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 Why are there so many songs about rainbows? For NASA's upcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, the colors of the rainbow - or, if you prefer, the visible wavelengths of ... more  
Aerojet Rocketdyne completes its propulsion for NASA's Artemis II missionEl Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed all of its propulsion hardware for the first crewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. The engines and motors, which Aeroje ... more  
Scientists discover volcanoes on Venus are still activeCollege Park MD (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 A new study identified 37 recently active volcanic structures on Venus. The study provides some of the best evidence yet that Venus is still a geologically active planet. A research paper on the wor ... more  
Astrophysicists unveil biggest-ever 3D map of UniverseGeneva (AFP) July 20, 2020 Astrophysicists on Monday published the largest-ever 3D map of the Universe, the result of an analysis of more than four million galaxies and ultra-bright, energy-packed quasars. ... more 
Filling in 11B years of the Universe's expansion historyWashington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 Filling in the most-significant gaps in our understanding of the universe's history, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released Sunday a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map ... 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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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the Arab world - thanks, in part, to science collaboration, training and instrument components provided by the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL).
The Emirates Mars Mission's Hope probe is scheduled to ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 20, 2020 
Britain's Ministry of Defense finalized a contract for a new Skynet military satellite in a $628.5 million deal with Airbus Defense and Space.
The contract, signed on Sunday, calls for launch and ground support of the latest Skynet 6A telecommunications satellite, which is regarded as an improvement of military communications capability - and is an update to the current Skynet 5 system ... 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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 Marseille, France (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Many exoplanets known today are 'super-Earths,' with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and 'mini-Neptunes,' with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, were long thought to be gas planets, made up of hydrogen and helium.
Now, scientists at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Universite/CNES)[1] have examined a new possibility, namely that the low ... 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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 Sao 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 classified as Centaurs, outer Solar System objects that revolve around the Sun in the region between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune.
An article on the study titled "An interstellar origin for hig ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
Why are there so many songs about rainbows? For NASA's upcoming Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission, or PACE, the colors of the rainbow - or, if you prefer, the visible wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum - are the key to unlocking a wealth of new data on skies and seas around the world.
PACE's high-resolution instruments will see ocean and atmosphere features in unpa ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Filling in the most-significant gaps in our understanding of the universe's history, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released Sunday a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever created.
The survey, of which Carnegie is an integral member, has been one of the most successful and influential in the history of astronomy. It operates out of both Apache ... more |
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