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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 A small but evolving dent in Earth's magnetic field can cause big headaches for satellites. Earth's magnetic field acts like a protective shield around the planet, repelling and trapping charged particles from the Sun. But over South America and the southern Atlantic Ocean, an unusually weak spot in the field - called the South Atlantic Anomaly, or SAA - allows these particles to dip closer to the surface than normal. Particle radiation in this region can knock out onboard computers and interfere ... read more |
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Skyrora's Skylark Micro rocket launches from IcelandEdinburgh UK (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 Skyrora has successfully launched its two-stage, four-metre tall sub-orbital rocket, Skylark Micro from the company's mobile launch complex set up within a few days at Langanes Peninsula, Iceland. T ... more 
SpaceX sets rocket booster reuse record in satellite launchWashington DC (UPI) Aug 18, 2019 SpaceX reused the same first-stage Falcon 9 rocket booster for the sixth time in a launch from Florida Tuesday morning, setting a record for the launch industry. ... more  
The Hayabusa2 Re-entry Capsule Approved to Land in AustraliaTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 On August 10, 2020, JAXA was informed that the Authorisation of Return of Overseas-Launched Space Object (AROLSO) for the re-entry capsule from Hayabusa2 was issued by the Australian Government. The ... more 
Under pressure, nontoxic salt-based propellant performs wellUrbana, IL (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 In smaller spacecraft such as CubeSat satellites, a salt-based monopropellant is showing promise. It can be used both in high-thrust chemical propulsion for fast time-sensitive maneuvers, and electr ... more |
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New UK space projects to boost global sustainable development receive cash boostLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 the UK Space Agency has announced 3.4 million pounds of new funding for 10 cutting-edge projects that back UK academics using space to tackle global development problems - from the spread of malaria ... more 
China set to launch two advanced marine satellites in 2021Beijing (XNA) Aug 19, 2020 China plans to launch two satellites in the coming months for marine research and observation, according to a project insider. Jiang Xingwei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineeri ... more 
Ball Aerospace completes airborne flights of small instruments to enable future Landsat missionsBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 In partnership with NASA, Ball Aerospace is demonstrating the operational Landsat program's next generation technology, having successfully completed the final airborne science flights of two compac ... more 
Meteorological satellites keep eye on cloudsBeijing (XNA) Aug 16, 2020 As many regions in China are experiencing or expecting heavy rainfall, residents in those places have often been checking weather forecasts and looking up at the sky to avoid being caught in a downp ... more  
Sun rises again at Concordia research stationParis (ESA) Aug 16, 2020 After four months of darkness, the Sun finally rises on 11 August at Concordia research station in Antarctica. The crew are understandably reverent. ESA-sponsored medical doctor Stijn Thoolen ... more |
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Webb Telescope is an international endeavorGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 The James Webb Space Telescope is an international endeavor with widespread global contributions and experts in more than a dozen countries dedicated to the build, launch, and future science of this ... more  |
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Return of the LIDARParis (ESA) Aug 07, 2020 In a peninsula far, far away, a laser shoots into the sky to study the Antarctic atmosphere at Concordia research station. The Light Detection and Ranging instrument, or LIDAR, is a remote sen ... more 
Vega launch now set for 1 SeptemberParis (ESA) Aug 18, 2020 A new launch date of 1 September 2020 has been announced by Arianespace for Vega flight VV16. Due to the persistence of exceptionally unfavourable winds at altitude over Europe's Spaceport, Ve ... more 
ZTF Finds Closest Known Asteroid to Fly By EarthSan Diego CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 On August 16, the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a robotic survey camera located at Palomar Observatory near San Diego, spotted an asteroid that had, just hours earlier, traveled only 1,830 miles ... more  
The Sun May Have Started Its Life with a Binary CompanionCambridge MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 A new theory published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If confirmed, the presen ... more  
Hundred cool worlds found near the sunMaunakea HI (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 How complete is our census of the Sun's closest neighbors? Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered ... 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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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working to install an adapter that will connect the Orion spacecraft to its rocket for the Artemis I mission around the Moon. This is one of the final major hardware operations for Orion inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building prior to integration with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2020 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received a checkout and recharge of its power system on Friday, Aug. 7, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars with the Perseverance rover. This marks the first time the helicopter has been powered up and its batteries have been charged in the space environment.
During the eight-hour operation, the performance of the rotorcraft's six lithium-ion ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
the UK Space Agency has announced 3.4 million pounds of new funding for 10 cutting-edge projects that back UK academics using space to tackle global development problems - from the spread of malaria to human trafficking and forced labour.
In 2018, there were an estimated 228 million cases and 405,000 deaths from malaria alone. Using satellite, air-borne and ground-based sensing technology, ... more |
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 San Antonio, TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 
NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute to take part in the $6 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract. SwRI will be listed in the NASA spacecraft catalog used by the U.S. government to easily contract for proven spacecraft.
The Rapid IV contracts serve as a fast and flexible means for the government to acquire spacecraft and related ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
How complete is our census of the Sun's closest neighbors? Astronomers and a team of data-sleuthing volunteers participating in Backyard Worlds: Planet 9, a citizen science project, have discovered roughly 100 cool worlds near the Sun - objects more massive than planets but lighter than stars, known as brown dwarfs.
With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawaii, the researc ... more |
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 Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
A new theory published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by scientists from Harvard University suggests that the Sun may once have had a binary companion of similar mass. If confirmed, the presence of an early stellar companion increases the likelihood that the Oort cloud was formed as observed and that Planet Nine was captured rather than formed within the solar system.
Dr. Avi Loeb, F ... more |
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 Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Aug 17, 2020 
The Malaysian coast guard shot dead a Vietnamese fisherman whose boat tried to ram a patrol vessel in the South China Sea, an official said Monday.
The incident took place inside Malaysian waters, where local fisherman have complained in the past about Vietnamese fishing boats that damage their nets.
Coast guard chief Mohamad Zubil Mat Som told AFP that two Vietnamese fishing boats had e ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 18, 2020 
Global acceptance and application of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System will gather momentum on the back of further integration with telecom technologies like 5G and the internet of things, company executives and experts said.
Their comments came after Beidou started offering full-scale global services on July 31. More importantly, navigation technologies are increasingly intertwin ... more |
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 Laurel, MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 
A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows that exhaust from a midsized lunar lander can quickly spread around the Moon and potentially contaminate scientifically vital ices at the lunar poles.
Computer simulations of water vapor emitted by a 2,650-pound (1,200-kilogram) lander - about a quarter of the dry mass of the Apol ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
Yesterday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed its final practice run of the sampling sequence, reaching an approximate altitude of 131 feet (40 meters) over sample site Nightingale before executing a back-away burn. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere.
The approximately four-hour "Matchpoint" rehearsal took th ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
In partnership with NASA, Ball Aerospace is demonstrating the operational Landsat program's next generation technology, having successfully completed the final airborne science flights of two compact, well-calibrated NASA Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) instruments - the Reduced Envelope Multispectral Imager - Airborne (REMI-AB) and the Compact Hyperspectral Prism Spectrometer - Airborne (CHPS-AB ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 
Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhohe Observatory (Austria), Jet Propulsion Laboratory of California Institute of Technology (USA), Helioresearch (USA) and Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) developed a method to study fast Coronal Mass Ejection ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
The James Webb Space Telescope is an international endeavor with widespread global contributions and experts in more than a dozen countries dedicated to the build, launch, and future science of this flagship NASA space observatory. The cooperation and collaboration on Webb is an incredible testament to what is possible with worldwide teamwork.
Thousands of scientists, engineers, and techni ... more |
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 Lancaster UK (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 
For the first time ever, scientists have witnessed the interaction of a new phase of matter known as "time crystals".
The discovery, published in Nature Materials, may lead to applications in quantum information processing because time crystals automatically remain intact - coherent - in varying conditions. Protecting coherence is the main difficulty hindering the development of powerful q ... more |
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