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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 12, 2020 NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave scientists extraordinary close-up views of the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By the time the mission ended in October 2018, the orbiter had dipped to less than 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the surface, revealing crisp details of the mysterious bright regions Ceres had become known for. Scientists had figured out that the bright areas were deposits made mostly of sodium carbonate - a compound of sodium, carbon, and o ... read more |
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SIA urges FCC to ensure spectrum continues to provide satellite broadband connectivityWashington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 On Aug 6th, SIA announced it had filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the matter of Modernizing and Exp ... more  
PredaSAR chooses SpaceX to launch its first synthetic aperture radar satelliteBoca Raton FL (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 PredaSAR Corporation, has announced that its first of 48 advanced commercial Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellites will launch on SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, ... more  
ESA and GomSpace sign contract for Juventas CubeSat in support of Hera missionLuxembourg (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 GomSpace Luxembourg SARL and the European Space Agency (ESA), has signed a contract to continue development and implementation of the Juventas CubeSat in support of the Hera mission. The contract va ... more 
Laser beams reflected between Earth and Moon boost scienceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 Dozens of times over the last decade NASA scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) away from Earth. They announced, ... more |
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Inside the ice giants of spaceTrieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 A new theoretical method paves the way to modelling the interior of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, thanks to computer simulations on the water contained within them. The tool, developed by ... more 
Huge ring-like structure on Ganymede's surface may have been caused by violent impactKobe, Japan (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft in order to inve ... more  
Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-EarthsBoston MA (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 Arguably some of the weirdest, most extreme planets among the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered to date are the hot super-Earths - rocky, flaming-hot worlds that zing so precariously close to th ... more 
NASA's planet hunter completes its primary missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 On July 4, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TE ... more  
Cluster's 20 years of studying Earth's magnetosphereParis (ESA) Aug 12, 2020 Despite a nominal lifetime of two years, ESA's Cluster is now entering its third decade in space. This unique four-spacecraft mission has been revealing the secrets of Earth's magnetic environment s ... more |
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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  |
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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  
Akatsuki reveals giant cloud disruption unnoticed for 35 years on VenusTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 In the cloudy heavens of Venus, an enormous atmospheric disruption, not yet seen elsewhere in the solar system, has been rapidly propagating at around 50 kilometers above the hidden surface, keeping ... more  
Air Force holds electronic warfare exercise with classified stealth droneWashington DC (UPI) Aug 07, 2020 The U.S. Air Force this week concluded a test of tactics involving use of its highly classified RQ-170 surveillance drone with other stealth aircraft. ... more  
Earth Observant wins Air Force contract to further developmentSan Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Earth Observant Inc. (EOI) received this award under the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program and is working with AFWERX, the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), and the Air Force R ... more  
Beidou's eye can help spot and stop rampant illegal miningBeijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 More than 100 officials in Gansu province were held accountable three years ago for illegal coal mining on the northern slope of the Qilian Mountains on the Gansu-Qinghai border. However, nobody has ... 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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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 
The U.S. Air Force selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) as one of two launch service providers under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 Launch Services Procurement (LSP).
Aerojet Rocketdyne will provide two RL10 rocket engines to power the upper stage of ULA's Vulcan Centaur launch vehicle, as well as the thrusters that control the stage while in flight and the composite overwrapp ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 
On Aug 6th, SIA announced it had filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding the matter of Modernizing and Expanding Access to the 70 GHz, 80 GHz and 90 GHz spectrum bands.
The SIA filing addresses the potential impact of changes in the rules on future users of these bands and focuses on ensuring that a ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 07, 2020 
Lasers on Earth are used to measure the position of space debris high above, providing crucial information on how to avoid in-space collisions. Until now, this technique has suffered from a fatal flaw.
For some time, lasers could only be used to measure the distance to space debris during the few twilight hours in which the 'laser ranging' station on Earth is in darkness, but debris object ... 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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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 
Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft in order to investigate the orientation and distribution of the ancient tectonic troughs found on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. They discovered that these troughs are concentrically distributed across almost the entire su ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Aug 12, 2020 
Despite a nominal lifetime of two years, ESA's Cluster is now entering its third decade in space. This unique four-spacecraft mission has been revealing the secrets of Earth's magnetic environment since 2000 and, with 20 years of observations under its belt, is still enabling new discoveries as it explores our planet's relationship with the Sun.
As the only planet known to host life, Earth ... 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 (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
A recently deployed DARPA CubeSat seeks to demonstrate technology that could improve imaging of distant objects in space and allow powerful space telescopes to fit into small satellites. DARPA's Deformable Mirror (DeMi) CubeSat deployed from the International Space Station July 13, beginning the technology demonstration of a miniature space telescope with a small deformable mirror called a micro ... 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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