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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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Astronomers discover most-distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever observedWashington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 Astronomers have discovered a Milky Way lookalike 12 billion light-years from Earth - the most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever observed - according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. ... more  
U.S. Army readies 'Capability Set '23' for communications modernizationWashington DC (UPI) Aug 05, 2020 The U.S. Army announced "Capability Set '23," a technical exchange meeting to consider its requirements for its networking modernization plan. ... more  
AFRL breaks ground on new directed energy facilityKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 The Air Force Research Laboratory broke ground Monday, on a new 10,000 sq. ft. facility addition, to study and advance Directed Energy capabilities for the U.S. Warfighter. Dr. Kelly Hammett, ... more  
Rocket sees curling waves above Alaskan skyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 The "surfer waves" in this image, forming high above the Alaskan sky, illuminate the invisible currents in the upper atmosphere. They were measured by trimethyl-aluminum gas released during a soundi ... more 
China launches new optical remote-sensing satelliteJiuquan, 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 ... more |
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 Researchers take the ultimate Earth selfie 
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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New study shows retreat of East Antarctic ice sheet during previous warm periodsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Questions about the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are a major source of uncertainty in estimates of how much sea level will rise as the Earth continues to warm. For decades, scientists t ... more  
Moonstruck 'aroma sculptor' builds scent from spaceMontegut-Lauragais, France (AFP) Aug 12, 2020 He may never have pulled on a spacesuit or flown in a shuttle but that has not stopped Frenchman Michael Moisseeff from reaching for the stars. ... more  
Artemis I rocket moves closer to hot fire testHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage for the Artemis I lunar mission has successfully completed its first four Green Run tests and is building on those tests for the next phase of checkou ... more 
Surrey academics develop a new method to determine the origin of stardust in meteoritesGuildford UK (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 Scientists have made a key discovery thanks to stardust found in meteorites, shedding light on the origin of crucial chemical elements. Meteorites are critical to understanding the beginning o ... more  
VLBA finds planet orbiting small, cool starCharlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Using the supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have discovered a Saturn-sized planet closely orbiting a small, c ... more |
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 Montegut-Lauragais, France (AFP) Aug 12, 2020 
He may never have pulled on a spacesuit or flown in a shuttle but that has not stopped Frenchman Michael Moisseeff from reaching for the stars.
After years of exploring and reconstructing the scents of planet Earth, the 66-year-old "aroma sculptor" set himself a new goal - capturing the smell of the moon.
Moisseeff, with his floral shirt and a head of white hair tied up at the back, s ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 
Fish and other marine life may have to flee thousands of kilometres to escape damaging heatwaves, according to research published Wednesday, highlighting the scale of disruption caused by these increasing surges in ocean temperatures.
Hot spells can cause dramatic changes to ocean ecosystems, devastating coral habitats, killing large numbers of seabirds and forcing species like fish, whales ... 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 (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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 Cincinnati OH (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 
University of Cincinnati physicists, as part of an international research team, are raising doubts about the existence of an exotic subatomic particle that failed to show up in twin experiments.
UC College of Arts and Sciences associate professor Alexandre Sousa and assistant professor Adam Aurisano took part in an experiment at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in search of steril ... more |
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