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  Washington (AFP) July 27, 2020 NASA on Monday gave its latest Mars rover Perseverance the all clear to launch later this week on a mission to seek out signs of ancient microbial life. "The launch readiness review is complete, and we are indeed go for launch," administrator Jim Bridenstine said. "We are in extraordinary times right now with the coronavirus pandemic, and yet we have in fact persevered and we have protected this mission because it is so important." The launch will take place at 7:50 am (1150 GMT) on Thursday ... read more |
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Northrop Grumman Provides Navigation System for NASA's Perseverance Mars Rover MissionWoodland Hills CA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Northrop Grumman Corporation will once again be the provider of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to support an expedition to Mars when NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Perseverance Mars Rover laun ... more 
After intense testing, Mars helicopter Ingenuity ready to flyWashington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 After years of design tweaks and dozens of flight tests, engineers are confident the Ingenuity helicopter is ready to make history with the first flight by a powered aircraft on another planet. ... more 
Mars 2020 mission to be guided by USGS astrogeology mapsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars next year, it will be equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Not only are th ... more 
ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian atmosphereParis (ESA) Jul 28, 2020 ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted new gas signatures at Mars. These unlock new secrets about the martian atmosphere, and will enable a more accurate determination of whether there is metha ... more |
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New approach refines the Hubble's constant and age of universeEugene OR (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble's constant, a research team led by a University of Oregon astronomer estimates the age of the universe at 12.6 billio ... more  
Texas firm develops adaptable satellites with fast software upgradesWashington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 The U.S. Air Force and a private technology company in Texas started to develop new satellites this summer that are capable of quick software changes in orbit to respond to threats and to carry out new tasks. ... more  
Sateliot and Danish Gatehouse to offer global 5G via its LEO Nano-satellitesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 Sateliot, the first satellite telecommunications operator to provide continuous global connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) universe under a 5G architecture, has sealed an agreement with the ... more  
Garmin says systems back online after cyber attackSan Francisco (AFP) July 27, 2020 Computer networks of the smartwatch and electronics firm Garmin were coming back online Monday, the company said, after an outage widely believed to have been due to a ransomware attack. ... more  
Russia to create several space robotsMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 28, 2020 Russia will manufacture several space robots designed for operating on the surface of the International Space Station, but only one will be sent to space, Evgeny Dudorov, the CEO of Moscow-based And ... more |
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Vertical farms ready for take-offNorwich UK (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Vertical farms with their soil-free, computer-controlled environments may sound like sci-fi. But there is a growing environmental and economic case for them, according to new research laying out rad ... more  |
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A new path for electron optics in solid-state systemsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 Electrons can interfere in the same manner as water, acoustical or light waves do. When exploited in solid-state materials, such effects promise novel functionality for electronic devices, in which ... 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  
As if space wasn't dangerous enoughAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's sur ... more  
A growing stellar system directly fed by the mother cloudMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 For the first time, astronomers have observed a conveyor belt from the outskirts of a star-forming dense cloud directly depositing material near a pair of young forming stars. Scientists at the Germ ... more 
The ultimate RAVE: final data release publishedPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 How do the stars in our Milky Way move? For more than a decade RAVE, one of the first and largest systematic spectroscopic surveys, studied the motion of Milky Way stars. The RAVE collaboration now ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
History was made May 30 when NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft lifted off on the company's Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked with the space station ... 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.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 
After years of design tweaks and dozens of flight tests, engineers are confident the Ingenuity helicopter is ready to make history with the first flight by a powered aircraft on another planet.
The mission is scheduled to launch from Florida on Thursday. If all goes as planned, the Mars helicopter will lift off from the Martian surface next April. But even if Ingenuity never makes it of ... 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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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
Sateliot, the first satellite telecommunications operator to provide continuous global connectivity to the Internet of Things (IoT) universe under a 5G architecture, has sealed an agreement with the Danish Gatehouse Group to develop the world's first NB-IoT network, which will enable it to offer global 5G connectivity once its LEO nanosatellite constellation is deployed.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020  The U.S. Air Force and a private technology company in Texas started to develop new satellites this summer that are capable of quick software changes in orbit to respond to threats and to carry out new tasks.
Austin-based Hypergiant, which works on several kinds of artificial intelligence, has a formal but classified agreement to develop technology for the Air Force, with a potential $1 ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next year.
Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world's foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we expect to see NASA's Mars ... 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.
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 Khartoum (AFP) July 27, 2020 
The African Union is to hold a three-way meeting on Ethiopia's controversial Nile dam project on August 3 with Sudan and Egypt, the Sudanese irrigation minister said Monday.
The talks between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan held under the AU's South African presidency will cover "outstanding issues", Yasser Abbas told reporters, without elaborating.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) h ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) July 27, 2020 
Computer networks of the smartwatch and electronics firm Garmin were coming back online Monday, the company said, after an outage widely believed to have been due to a ransomware attack.
The company acknowledged it was the victim of a "cyber attack that encrypted some of our systems," without offering details.
The comments suggest a ransomware attack which would have required a payment t ... 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 28, 2020 
China's surveying and mapping capabilities will be further boosted with one more high-resolution mapping satellite launched on Saturday.
The Ziyuan III 03 satellite was sent into orbit by a Long March-4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province. It will provide data for the country's land resources investigation, natural disaster prevention, agricult ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, an international team of researchers has presented a new, detailed look inside the "central engine" of a large solar flare accompanied by a powerful eruption first captured on Sept. 10, 2017 by the Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA) - a solar radio telescope facility operated by New Jersey Institute of Technology's (NJIT) Center for Solar-Terrestrial Resea ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
For the first time, astronomers have observed a conveyor belt from the outskirts of a star-forming dense cloud directly depositing material near a pair of young forming stars. Scientists at the German Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) and the French Institut de Radioastonomie Millimetrique (IRAM) found that gas motions in the conveyor belt, dubbed a 'streamer', mainly obey ... more |
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 Eugene OR (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble's constant, a research team led by a University of Oregon astronomer estimates the age of the universe at 12.6 billion years.
Approaches to date the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe, rely on mathematics and computational modeling, using distance estimates of the oldest stars, the behavior of galaxies ... more |
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