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  Washington DC (UPI) Aug 07, 2020 The U.S. military on Friday awarded two new defense contracts worth billions of dollars to space launch companies United Launch Alliance and SpaceX, which won a four-way competition, defeating Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman. The contract award means ULA and Elon Musk's SpaceX will launch about three dozen national security missions from 2022 to 2026 - at a price tag of about $1 billion per year. ULA said its contract represents about 60 percent of those missions. ULA, a launch provide ... read more |
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Russia wants to return to Venus, build reusable rocketMoscow (AFP) Aug 7, 2020 The head of Russia's space agency said Friday that Roscosmos wants to return to Venus and bring back soil samples and build spacecraft that will surpass Elon Musk's rockets. ... more  
OSIRIS-REx is one rehearsal away from touching Asteroid BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 NASA's first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu's surface. Next week, the OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a second rehearsal of its touchd ... more 
Fragments of asteroids may have jumped the "Jupiter Gap"Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Using some cosmic detective work, a team of researchers has found evidence that tiny pieces of asteroids from the inner solar system may have crossed a gap to the outer solar system, a feat once tho ... more  
NASA's MAVEN observes Martian night sky pulsing in ultraviolet lightGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Vast areas of the Martian night sky pulse in ultraviolet light, according to images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. The results are being used to illuminate complex circulation patterns in the Martian ... more |
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Momentus to Launch Dodona Nanosat for Lockheed USC La Jument ProgramSanta Clara CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Momentus and Lockheed Martin have announced a launch service agreement for a 3U satellite in Lockheed Martin and SERC (Space Engineering Research Center) University of Southern California's (USC) sm ... more  
Software upgrades for Beidou to continueBeijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 Designers of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will keep upgrading software on Beidou satellites to improve their capabilities and maintain technological advantages, according to a key figu ... more  
SES selects ULA to launch two C-Band satellites to accelerate C-Band clearingLuxembourg (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, has selected U.S.-based United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch two C-band satellites. This launch is part of the company's accelerated C-ban ... more 
Air Force navigation technology satellite passes critical design reviewKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 The Navigation Technology Satellite - 3 (NTS-3) spacecraft passed Critical Design Review (CDR) on June 25, a major milestone, allowing L3Harris, the prime contractor for the spacecraft, to proceed i ... more  
Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropicsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama have published dramatic maps showing the locations of lightning strikes across the tropics in Global Change Biology. Based ... more |
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China seeks payload ideas for mission to moon, asteroidBeijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the China National Space Administration. It is asking for primary, middle ... more  |
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Spin, spin, spin: researchers enhance electron spin longevitySendai, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 The electron is an elementary particle, a building block on which other systems evolve. With specific properties such as spin, or angular momentum, that can be manipulated to carry information, elec ... more 
Iron-rich meteorites show record of core crystallization in system's oldest planetesimalsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 New work led by Carnegie's Peng Ni and Anat Shahar uncovers new details about our Solar System's oldest planetary objects, which broke apart in long-ago collisions to form iron-rich meteorites. Thei ... more 
Lava tubes on Mars and the Moon are so wide they can host planetary basesBologna, Italy (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 The international journal Earth-Science Reviews published a paper offering an overview of the lava tubes (pyroducts) on Earth, eventually providing an estimate of the (greater) size of their lunar a ... more  
Shallow Lightning and Mushballs reveal ammonia to Juno scientistsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 New results from NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter suggest our solar system's largest planet is home to what's called "shallow lightning." An unexpected form of electrical discharge, shallow lightning ... more 
Ammonia sparks unexpected, exotic lightning on JupiterIthaca NY (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 NASA's Juno spacecraft - orbiting and closely observing the planet Jupiter - has unexpectedly discovered lightning in the planet's upper atmosphere, according to a multi-institutional study led by t ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
When the SpaceX Crew Dragon docked with the International Space Station during the Demo-2 mission, it was a historic day for NASA and our nation as we returned the launch of American astronauts on American rockets from American soil to the orbiting laboratory. As Crew Dragon approached the space station, one thing may have gone unnoticed - a narrow rubber seal that plays a critical role in safel ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Aug 7, 2020 
The head of Russia's space agency said Friday that Roscosmos wants to return to Venus and bring back soil samples and build spacecraft that will surpass Elon Musk's rockets.
Last week America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.
The mission was carried out jointly by NASA and ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Insights and technology gleaned from creating a carbon-measuring instrument for Earth climate studies is being leveraged to build another that would remotely profile, for the first time, water vapor up to nine miles above the Martian surface, along with wind speeds and minute particles suspended in the planet's atmosphere.
Scientists Jim Abshire and Scott Guzewich, both at NASA's Goddard S ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 
China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the China National Space Administration.
It is asking for primary, middle school and university students across the country to provide ideas for payloads that would fly aboard the Chang'e 7 probe to the moon, and on another spacecraft to the asteroid 2016HO3 and the comet ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Exolaunch, a Berlin-based rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, signed a launch agreement with Swarm Technologies, a Mountain View-based satellite company providing low-cost global connectivity for IoT devices, to launch 24 satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission. Under the contract, Exolaunch will provide launch, integration and deployment services to the Swarm satel ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.
Defunct rockets, satellites and spacecraft parts continue to orbit Earth after they are discarded.
The estimated 500,000 objects circling the globe range in size from a single screw to an entire rocke ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth's own brand of sunscreen - ozone - in our atmosphere. This method simulates how astronomers and astrobiology researchers will search for evidence of life beyond Earth by observing potential "biosignatures" on exoplanets (planets around other stars).
Hubble did not look at Earth di ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
NASA's Juno spacecraft - orbiting and closely observing the planet Jupiter - has unexpectedly discovered lightning in the planet's upper atmosphere, according to a multi-institutional study led by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which includes two Cornell University researchers.
The work was published Aug. 5 in the journal Nature.
Jupiter's gaseous atmosphere seems placid f ... more |
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 Boothbay ME (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Researchers have advanced a new way to see into the ocean's depths, establishing an approach to detect algae and measure key properties using light. A paper published in Applied Optics reports using a laser-based tool, lidar, to collect these measurements far deeper than has been typically possible using satellites.
"Traditional satellite remote sensing approaches can collect a wide range ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
The Navigation Technology Satellite - 3 (NTS-3) spacecraft passed Critical Design Review (CDR) on June 25, a major milestone, allowing L3Harris, the prime contractor for the spacecraft, to proceed into fabrication, demonstration, and test.
In partnership with the Space and Missile Systems Center, United States Space Force, and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the Air Force Resea ... 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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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Using some cosmic detective work, a team of researchers has found evidence that tiny pieces of asteroids from the inner solar system may have crossed a gap to the outer solar system, a feat once thought to be unlikely.
About 1 million years after the start of the solar system, it is thought that while Jupiter's core formed, it created a gap in the protoplanetary disk (the disk of dense gas ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 
China successfully launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:01 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time).
The satellite, Gaofen-9 04, was sent into orbit by a Long March-2D carrier rocket. It has a resolution up to the sub-meter level.
The satellite will be mainly used for land surveys, city planning, land right confirmation ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Scientists have developed a new prediction of the shape of the bubble surrounding our solar system using a model developed with data from NASA missions.
All the planets of our solar system are encased in a magnetic bubble, carved out in space by the Sun's constantly outflowing material, the solar wind. Outside this bubble is the interstellar medium - the ionized gas and magnetic field that ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 03, 2020 
Astronomers have discovered a tiny, young, metal-poor galaxy with the lowest oxygen abundance ever recorded.
To find the tiny galaxy, researchers used machine learning algorithms to parse data collected by a pair of telescopes in Hawaii, the Subaru Telescope and W. M. Keck Observatory.
Most galaxies in the modern universe are fairly large and mature, but models suggest there are ... more |
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 Amsterdam, 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 map was made with the OmegaCAM on ESO's VLT Survey Telescope at Cerro Paranal in Northern Chile. A group of astronomers led from institutes in the Netherlands, Scotland, England and Germany have descri ... more |
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