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 Washington (AFP) Aug 3, 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 has the capacity once more to send its astronauts to space and bring them back. The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour splashed into the water off Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 pm (1848 GMT), trailed by its four main parachutes. It was t ... 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  
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 
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 |
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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  
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 
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 
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 
Chemists make tough plastics recyclableBoston 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 drawbac ... 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  |
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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  
Scientists Find Two Meteorites in Two WeeksPerth, Australia (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Curtin University researchers have discovered two meteorites in a two week period on the Nullarbor Plain - one freshly fallen and the other from November 2019. Both falls were captured by The ... more  
A European dream team for MarsParis (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 European scientists will help select rocks and soil from Mars in the search for life on our planetary neighbour. Five European researchers are part of NASA's Mars 2020 science team to select the mos ... more  
NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, Its Rings, and Two Intriguing MoonsBaltimore 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 cente ... more 
Surprising number of exoplanets could host lifeRiverside CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Our solar system has one habitable planet - Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter. This is the conclusion of ... 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) Aug 03, 2020 
With the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere approaching levels that humans may have never before experienced, the need to monitor sources of emissions is more urgent than ever - hence the Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission being one of Europe's new high-priority satellite missions. Taking the mission a significant step forward, ESA and OHB System AG have signed a contract t ... 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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