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  Washington (AFP) Aug 2, 2020 America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The successful mission, carried out jointly by SpaceX and NASA, demonstrated that the United States once again has the capacity to send its astronauts to space and bring them back. SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour's four main parachutes gently floated down to the water after the vessel landed off the coast of Pensacola at 2:48 pm (184 ... read more |
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Amazon to invest $10 bn in space-based internet systemWashington (AFP) July 31, 2020 Amazon says it will invest $10 billion for its planned space-based internet delivery system after winning US regulatory approval to deploy more than 3,000 low-orbit satellites. ... more 
Proton-M with two telecommunication satellites launches from BaikonurMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 03, 2020 The flight of the Russian Proton-M carrier rocket, initially scheduled to take place on 29 July (30 July local), was postponed one day for additional checks to components and assemblies, according t ... more 
Key Connection for Artemis I Arrives at KennedyKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 The second to last piece of hardware for the Artemis I test flight around the Moon has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) connects the c ... more  
Work Begins on Delta Faucet's Droplet Formation Space Station Experiment This WeekKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 On a cold winter day more than four years ago, representatives from the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory and NASA descended upon Indianapolis for a Destination Station outr ... more |
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Universe Is More Homogeneous Than ExpectedAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 New results from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) show that the universe is nearly 10 percent more homogeneous than the standard model of cosmology (Lambda-cold dark matter) predicts. The latest KiDS m ... more  
Astrophysicists Observe Long-Theorized Quantum PhenomenaBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 At the heart of every white dwarf star - the dense stellar object that remains after a star has burned away its fuel reserve of gases as it nears the end of its life cycle - lies a quantum conundrum ... more 
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, ... more 
Hisdesat And XTAR Complete Transaction For XTAR-EUR SatelliteMadrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Hisdesat and XTAR have announced that they have completed a transaction whereby Hisdesat purchased the communications satellite, XTAR-EUR. XTAR-EUR is positioned at 29 degrees east longitude and pro ... more  
China's self-developed BDS officially opens for global users with upgraded servicesBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 China declared the official commissioning of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) on Friday, marking the formal opening of the newly completed BDS-3 system for global users. The BDS sy ... more |
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 Xi unveils Beidou full-scale coverage  
At Aerospace: How Internships Went VirtualLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention". Given that employers nationwide have scrambled to adopt social-distancing practices that health officials say will help slow the spread of ... more  |
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Full global service of Beidou signals space tech independenceBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a cerem ... more 
Beidou also belongs to worldBeijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 China has been striving to foster international cooperation in space-based navigation and positioning as well as applications for its Beidou system, said the China Satellite Navigation Office. ... more  
NASA's Perseverance rover bound for Mars to seek ancient lifeCape 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. ... more 
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 |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
On a cold winter day more than four years ago, representatives from the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory and NASA descended upon Indianapolis for a Destination Station outreach event, hoping to convince a nontraditional partner that research and technology development onboard the ISS could improve their consumer products here on Earth.
Joining the NASA and ISS Nat ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
The second to last piece of hardware for the Artemis I test flight around the Moon has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) connects the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the upper stage, called the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
The cone-shaped connector also helps protect the RL10 engine housed in the ... more |
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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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention". Given that employers nationwide have scrambled to adopt social-distancing practices that health officials say will help slow the spread of COVID-19, necessity is also paving the way for innovation. As an industry leader in the space domain, The Aerospace Corporation is spearheading the resilient and agile adaptation of new workplace and ... 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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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century. More than 400 years later, astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe these famous subjects, pushing the observatory's instruments t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2020 
Drylands, collectively, cover nearly half Earth's land surface. They are the world's largest biome, supporting almost 40 percent of the global human population.
And yet, the effects of biocrusts on the biome's water cycle are poorly understood, researchers say.
New research suggests these living crusts - an amalgamation of mosses, lichens, cyanobacteria and other kinds of micros ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr ... 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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, breaking the previous record of the lowest oxygen abundance. The measured oxygen abundance suggests that most of the stars in this galaxy formed very recently.
To understand galaxy evolution, a ... 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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