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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 Perseverance rover finally take off from Florida. For many nations and their people, space is becoming ... read more |
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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  
US Eyes Communications Channel With Russia on Space Activities, Assistant Secretary Ford SaysWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 The United States and Russia could benefit from having a communications channel for addressing concerns over space activity, US Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation Dr ... more  
Room with a view: Virgin Galactic gives peek at spacecraft cabinWashington (AFP) July 28, 2020 The Virgin Galactic spaceship that will someday carry very moneyed tourists boasts windows and cameras galore for easy selfies with planet Earth. ... more  
NASA Announces Astronauts to Fly on SpaceX Crew-2 Mission to Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commerc ... more |
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UK scientists help NASA answer the question, 'was there life on Mars?'London, UK (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 Backed by the UK Space Agency, researchers at Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum will help the NASA Perseverance rover select Martian rock and soil samples to be brought back fro ... 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  
Atomtronic device could probe boundary between quantum, everyday worldsLos Alamos NM (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 A new device that relies on flowing clouds of ultracold atoms promises potential tests of the intersection between the weirdness of the quantum world and the familiarity of the macroscopic world we ... 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 
Praising Space Force, Trump Says He's Thwarted Russian, Chinese Plans to 'Dominate' the CosmosWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 The Trump administration established Space Force as an independent branch of the military in December 2019, with the force consisting of about 10,000 personnel and 77 satellites. It is formally task ... more |
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ESA's Thomas Pesquet to be first European to ride a Dragon to Space StationParis (ESA) Jul 29, 2020 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has officially been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching in spring 2021 from Cape Canaveral, USA, to the International ... more  |
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China's newly-launched satellite to boost surveying, mapping capabilitiesBeijing (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 Lo ... more  
New technique enables mineral ID of precious Antarctic micrometeoritesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions - is really hard to analyze without some sample loss. But a new technique should make ... more  
New studies reveal inside of central energy release region in solar eruptionBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 Prof. LIN Jun from the Yunnan Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Prof. CHEN Bin from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, conducted the radio observation of the magn ... more 
Unprecedented look into the 'central engine' powering a solar flareNewark 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 eruptio ... more 
Studying radioactive aluminum in solar systems unlocks formation secretsAustin TX (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 An international team of astronomers including Stella Offner of The University of Texas at Austin has proposed a new method for the formation of aluminum-26 in star systems that are forming planets. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) July 28, 2020 
The Virgin Galactic spaceship that will someday carry very moneyed tourists boasts windows and cameras galore for easy selfies with planet Earth.
The company, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson, provided a virtual tour Tuesday of the inside of the ship that will transport people willing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a brief taste of being at the edge of space.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission. JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astron ... more |
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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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 Paris (ESA) Jul 29, 2020 
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has officially been assigned to the second operational flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft, launching in spring 2021 from Cape Canaveral, USA, to the International Space Station. Thomas' second mission to the International Space Station will be called Alpha.
"I am thrilled to be the first European to fly on the new generation of US crewed spacecraft," say ... more |
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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.
The only moon in the sola ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) July 28, 2020 
Egypt's president said Tuesday that talks over Ethiopia's Nile dam would "drag on", but voiced hope for a negotiated settlement to the dispute.
"We are negotiating and these negotiations will be a long battle," President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said.
But, he added, "we will succeed, God willing."
Sisi's comments, in a speech broadcast on state TV, came amid heightened tensions between E ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions - is really hard to analyze without some sample loss. But a new technique should make it easier, cheaper and faster to characterize them while preserving more of the sample. The findings were published on the peer reviewed journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science on May 21.
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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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