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  Paris, France (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 In the 6th edition of its latest research titled "Prospects for the Small Satellite Market", Euroconsult forecasts that two mega-constellations will account for half of the smallsats to be launched between 2020 and 2029, yet only account for one fifth of the total smallsat market value due to economies of scale, mass manufacturing and batch launches. The report also addresses the impact of COVID-19 on the small satellite industry and provides updated analysis of the ongoing uncertainties related t ... read more |
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An origin story for a family of oddball meteoritesBoston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either com ... more  
Garmin says outage continues but user data 'not affected'Washington (AFP) July 25, 2020 Garmin Ltd said Saturday that client data from the company's smartwatch and GPS services - offline since Thursday - has not been compromised, despite fears of a ransomware attack. ... more  
Spaceflight Inc chooses Tethers Unlimited's Terminator Tape to deorbit of Orbit Transfer VehicleBothell WA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is pleased to announce that Spaceflight Inc. has selected TUI's NanoSat Terminator Tape Deorbit System for end-of life disposal of its new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehi ... more  
DARPA awards contracts for new X-Plane program based on active flow controlWashington DC (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 DARPA has selected three performers to work on the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program, which aims to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control ( ... more |
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Battelle Energy Alliance seeks industry partners to design nuclear power system for MoonWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 The prospective reactor must be able to generate an uninterrupted electricity output of at least 10 kilowatts. The US Department of Energy has recently put out a request to the private sector ... more 
Cubesats get close: proximity operation with interesting implicationsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 With some technical panache, one of The Aerospace Corporation's CubeSats maneuvered itself within 22 meters of its sibling CubeSat and snapped a series of photos while orbiting at 17,000 miles per h ... more  
China launches new Earth-observation remote-sensing satelliteBeijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2020 China launched an Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Saturday, according to authorities in charge of the program. ... more  
Sea-level charting satellite passes with flying coloursParis (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 te ... more  
Mapping the Oaxaca earthquake from spaceParis (ESA) Jul 24, 2020 On the morning of 23 June 2020, a strong earthquake struck the southern state of Oaxaca, Mexico. The 7.4- magnitude earthquake prompted evacuations in the region, triggered a tsunami warning and dam ... more |
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Aerojet Rocketdyne achieves another milestone on DARPA Opfires ProgramHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a second series of propulsion system tests in support of the Operational Fires (OpFires) program, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ef ... more  |
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BeiDou adopted in unmanned farm machines in XinjiangUrumqi, 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 r ... more 
China's fastest rocket carries deep space dreamBeijing (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 ... more  
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 |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 24, 2020 
Roscosmos space corporation previously said that a Progress cargo craft would lift off for the International Space Station on 23 July, while a Proton rocket with communication satellites would head for orbit on 30 July.
Sputnik is live from the International Space Station as the Russian Progress-MS-15 resupply cargo spacecraft, which blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan h ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a second series of propulsion system tests in support of the Operational Fires (OpFires) program, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to develop a ground-launched hypersonic missile for tactical use.
"We're pleased to be a part of developing this vital defense technology, applying our decades of experience in hypersonic a ... more |
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 Beijing (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 must have a heavy-lift carrier rocket such as China's Long March 5 or the United States' Atlas V that is powerful enough to transport a large, heavy probe to the Earth-Mars transfer trajectory, accordi ... 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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 Meiktila, 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.
The future "super constellation" of micro-satellites from nine Asian countries will track typhoons, seismic activity and water flows, as well as provide data on land use, the growth of crops and disease outbreaks.
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 Bothell WA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 
Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is pleased to announce that Spaceflight Inc. has selected TUI's NanoSat Terminator Tape Deorbit System for end-of life disposal of its new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehicle. As part of an upcoming mission, Spaceflight will test the deorbit process with the Terminator Tape.
When the orbit transfer vehicle's mission is completed, a timer release system will deplo ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2020 
On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar system, the moon Ganymede. The infrared imagery collected by the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument provides the first infrared mapping of the massive moon's northern frontier.
The only moon in the sola ... 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 27, 2020 
Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russian manned spaceflight programs.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocket. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 
Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early in their history or remained as piles of unmelted rubble.
But a family of meteorites has befuddled researchers since its discovery in the 1960s. The diverse fragments, found ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 27, 2020 
China launched an Earth-observation remote-sensing satellite at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in North China's Shanxi province on Saturday, according to authorities in charge of the program.
A joint statement from the China National Space Administration and the Ministry of Natural Resources said the Ziyuan 3-03 lifted off at 11:13 am atop a Long March 4B carrier rocket to a sun-synch ... 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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