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  Cape Canaveral (AFP) July 31, 2020 NASA's latest Mars rover Perseverance launched Thursday on an astrobiology mission to look for signs of ancient microbial life on the Red Planet - and to fly a helicopter-drone on another world for the first time. Previous trips to Mars have discovered it was far warmer and wetter three billion years ago than it is today, creating the conditions necessary for carbon-based life. Perseverance's goal is to go a step further, and discover whether "habitable" translated to "habited." "There woul ... read more |
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State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 ReportKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 The 2020 State of the Space Industrial Base Workshop held in May brought together more than 120 space leaders from across the federal government, industry, and academia to assess the current health ... more  
Last BeiDou satellite starts operation in networkBeijing (XNA) Jul 30, 2020 The 55th and last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has commenced operation in the network after completing in-orbit tests and network access evaluations, according to a stat ... more  
Russia says committed to demilitarization of space amid US claims about anti-satellite weapons testMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 On Thursday, the US's recently created Space Force accused Russia of testing an anti-satellite weapon from one of its orbiting satellites. Russia is committed to the full demilitarization of s ... more  
New Space satellite pinpoints industrial methane emissionsParis (ESA) Jul 30, 2020 Methane may not be as abundant in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but with a global warming potential many times greater than carbon dioxide, monitoring and controlling industrial emissions of thi ... more |
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South Korea given green light for solid-propellant rocketsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 South Korea has been permitted to develop solid-fuel space rockets after missile guidelines were revised with the United States. Kim Hyun-chong, South Korea's deputy national security adviser ... more 
Mystery Russian projectile raises fears of arms race in spaceWashington (AFP) July 25, 2020 The United States this week accused Russia of having tested an anti-satellite weapon in space, a charge Moscow has denied, saying the device was a "special instrument" for inspecting orbiting Russian equipment. ... more  
"Giant atoms" enable quantum processing and communication in oneBoston MA (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 MIT researchers have introduced a quantum computing architecture thatcan perform low-error quantum computations while also rapidly sharing quantum information between processors. The work represents ... more  
Scientists open new window into the nanoworldBoulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell. The t ... more  
Molecularly thin interface between polymers makes for efficient CO2 capture membraneFukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Climate breakdown caused by the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere is a major existential problem faced by humanity right now. The most acceptable solution would be complete termi ... more |
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Explore how space supports daily life around the worldParis (ESA) Jul 30, 2020 Did you know that ESA works with businesses, non-profit organisations and policy-makers to improve life on Earth? We have launched a new interactive tool that you can use to explore many of the proj ... more  |
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The stars that time forgotSydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 An international team of astronomers has discovered the remnant of an ancient collection of stars that was torn apart by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, more than two billion years ago. The ext ... more  
Cosmic tango between the very small and the very largeUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 While Einstein's theory of general relativity can explain a large array of fascinating astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, some aspects of the properties of the universe at the largest-scales ... more  
How stony-iron meteorites formMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Mun ... more  
Breakthrough method for predicting solar stormsLund, Sweden (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the ... more 
ESA Astronauts Maurer and Pesquet continue training at JSCHouston TX (ESA) Jul 30, 2020 ESA astronauts Matthias Maurer and Thomas Pesquet train for their upcoming missions to the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA. A refresher for Thomas an ... 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 (UPI) Jul 29, 2020 
South Korea has been permitted to develop solid-fuel space rockets after missile guidelines were revised with the United States.
Kim Hyun-chong, South Korea's deputy national security adviser to President Moon Jae-in, said at a press briefing Seoul is to adopt amendments to current missile standards starting Tuesday, Yonhap and local newspaper Maeil Business reported.
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
So, you want to try flying a helicopter on Mars. You work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and have proven time and again that when it comes to landing and operating robotic probes and rovers on the distant Red Planet you pretty much know what you're doing.
But it's never a sure thing when it comes to planetary exploration.
Even as smart as you are about design ... 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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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
The 2020 State of the Space Industrial Base Workshop held in May brought together more than 120 space leaders from across the federal government, industry, and academia to assess the current health of the space industry and to provide recommendations for strengthening that industrial base.
The State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 report was prepared by space leaders from the U.S. Space ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 
Thermosets, which include epoxies, polyurethanes, and rubber used for tires, are found in many products that have to be durable and heat-resistant, such as cars or electrical appliances. One drawback to these materials is that they typically cannot be easily recycled or broken down after use, because the chemical bonds holding them together are stronger than those found in other materials such a ... 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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 Sedgefield, South Africa (AFP) July 30, 2020 
It is just before sunrise and volunteers are hauling nets full of gleaming, wriggling carp out of Groenvlei Lake.
Here, on the picturesque coast of South Africa, environmentalists are hard at work trying to eradicate an invasive alien species.
The fish, introduced into Groenvlei in the 1800s, has proliferated so much that the lake's ecosystem is at threat.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 30, 2020 
The 55th and last satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has commenced operation in the network after completing in-orbit tests and network access evaluations, according to a statement from China's Satellite Navigation System Management Office Wednesday.
Launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on June 23, the satellite is a geostationary earth orbit satellite o ... 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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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, on a purely experimental basis.
"Pallasites are the optical ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 30, 2020 
Methane may not be as abundant in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide, but with a global warming potential many times greater than carbon dioxide, monitoring and controlling industrial emissions of this potent gas is imperative to helping combat climate change.
GHGSat is a New Space initiative that draws on Copernicus Sentinel-5P data for mapping methane hotspots - and its Claire satellite ha ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the release of enormous amounts of stored magnetic energy due to changes in the magnetic field of the sun's outer atmosphere - something that until now has eluded scientists' direct measurement. Researche ... 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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 University Park PA (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
While Einstein's theory of general relativity can explain a large array of fascinating astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, some aspects of the properties of the universe at the largest-scales remain a mystery. A new study using loop quantum cosmology - a theory that uses quantum mechanics to extend gravitational physics beyond Einstein's theory of general relativity - accounts for two majo ... more |
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