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  Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 A Long March-5 rocket blasted off Thursday at the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's Hainan Province, carrying the country's Mars probe, Tianwen-1. It is the first time that the Long March-5 carrier rocket, currently China's largest launch vehicle, is put into practical use after a series of trial launches. It is also the first time the Long March-5 exceeded the second cosmic velocity, the fastest China's carrier rockets have gone to date, said Li Dong, the rocket's chief desig ... read more |
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China Mars mission faces many obstaclesBeijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 A Mars landing mission must overcome a wide variety of difficulties and obstacles before it can fly through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet's surface, experts said. The mission m ... more  
Study reveals composition of gel-like lunar substanceBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 The unusual dark greenish and glistening "gel-like" substance in a crater on the far side of the moon has attracted widespread interest following its discovery by the Chang'e-4 rover in July 2019. ... more  
Hubble sees summertime on SaturnBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. This new Satur ... more  
Myanmar joins band of Asian nations launching satellitesMeiktila, Myanmar (AFP) July 24, 2020 Myanmar is preparing to launch its first-ever satellite, joining an unlikely coalition of nascent space nations aiming to protect millions from environmental disasters. ... more |
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Researchers confirm age of universe at 13.8 billion yearsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 15, 2020 Studying the oldest available light in the sky, astronomers at a Chilean observatory on Wednesday said they confirmed the universe is about 13.8 billion years old. ... more 
How galaxies die and the quenching of star formationSanta 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 ... more 
Separating gamma-ray bursts: Students make critical breakthroughCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 By applying a machine-learning algorithm, scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, have developed a method to classify all gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), rapid highly energetic ex ... more  
U.S. Space Force unveils official logo, sets motto as 'Semper Supra'Washington DC (UPI) Jul 22, 2020 The 7-month-old U.S. Space Force revealed its official logo and motto, "Semper Supra," or "Always Above," in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday. ... more  
China marching to Mars for humanity's better shared futureBeijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiti ... more |
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First ever image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star captured by ESO telescopeMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exo ... more  |
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The Venus 'ring of fire'Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Years ago, planetary researchers discovered unusual circular structures on the surface of Venus when observing high-resolution images from NASA's Magellan mission. Such structures are known as coron ... more 
The Heartbeat of InnovationWashington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 New innovative products breed new innovative production processes. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at Northrop Grumman. Designing, developing and manufacturing unique aircraft is in the company' ... 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  
Leveraging microgravity to improve medical diagnosticsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 What if a single drop of blood were all that is needed to provide reliable medical diagnostics in any setting on-or even off-Earth? This week, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who ... more 
Scientists find 'ring of fire' on surface of VenusWashington DC (UPI) Jul 21, 2020 Scientists have discovered a "ring of fire" on the surface of Venus - a belt of active mantle plumes. ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 
New innovative products breed new innovative production processes. Nowhere is that more prevalent than at Northrop Grumman. Designing, developing and manufacturing unique aircraft is in the company's DNA. Therefore, it was only natural for Northrop Grumman to apply its innovative manufacturing genes to its new intermediate/heavy-class rocket, OmegATM.
Northrop Grumman is developing OmegA t ... 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 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Eyeing a launch in 2023, DARPA's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program will focus the remainder of this year on completing the elements of the robotic payload. The objective of RSGS is to create an operational dexterous robotic capability to repair satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit (GEO), extending satellite life spans, enhancing resilience, and improving reliabili ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable 'Goldilocks zone' in a distant solar system.
The planet, the size and mass of Saturn with an orbit of thirty-five days, is among hundreds of 'lost' worlds that University of Warwick astronomers are pioneering a new method to track down and characterise in the hope of finding cooler planets ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Jul 23, 2020 
Like students all over the world currently awaiting exam grades, the Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite has also been put through a series of strenuous tests leaving the eyes of the teams involved in this international mission set firmly on its final results. Happily, Sentinel-6 has passed with flying colours and engineers can now prepare it for shipment to the US for liftoff on a ... more |
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 Urumqi, China (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been adopted in more than 10,000 unmanned farm tractors and spraying drones in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, according to the regional agriculture and husbandry machinery administration.
Xinjiang has been promoting tractors, harvesters and other agricultural machinery equipped with BDS in recent years, and techniques su ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 16, 2020 
China's domestically-developed marine observation satellites will be used to study the distribution of coral reefs in the South China Sea, and facilitate protection and restoration of coral reefs.
State broadcaster CCTV reported that the National Satellite Ocean Application Service will cooperate with a coral reef research center in Guangxi University to monitor coral reefs in the South Ch ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
A joint NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) team has awarded Southwest Research Institute a contract to develop the Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) for a satellite mission dedicated to tracking space weather.
SWiPS will measure the properties of solar wind ions originating from the Sun, including the very fast ions associated with coronal mass ejections that in ... 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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