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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 components, equipment and services in support of NASA missions and/or other federal government agencies. The s ... read more |
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The most sensitive instrument in the search for life in space comes from BernBern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 The question of whether life exists beyond the Earth is one of humanity's most fundamental questions. Future NASA missions, for example, aim to examine the ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn, which may ... more  
Sustained planetwide storms may have filled lakes, rivers on ancient marsAustin TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys ... more  
Orion Window Panel Complete for Front-Row View on Artemis Moon MissionHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 As NASA's Orion spacecraft approaches the Moon on the Artemis III mission to put the first woman and next man on the lunar surface, the crew will get a glimpse through the spacecraft's windows. ... more  
Airbus to build BADR-8 satellite for ArabsatRiyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 Airbus has been contracted by Arabsat, one of the world's top satellite operators, to build BADR-8, their new generation telecommunications satellite. BADR-8 will replace and increase Arabsat's capa ... more |
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EOS Data Analytics facilitates satellite data to make Europe's mining industry saferMenlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 The European Commission has contracted with EOS Data Analytics, a satellite analytics company founded by Max Polyakov, to develop technologies for the monitoring and analysis of mining sites across ... more  
Artificial materials for more efficient electronicsGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 We are surrounded by electronic devices. Transistors are used to power telephones, computers, televisions, hi-fi systems and game consoles as well as cars, airplanes and the like. Today's silicon-ba ... 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  
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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US Space Force promotes first general officerWashington DC (AFNS) Aug 16, 2020 Maj. Gen. B. Chance Saltzman was the first U.S. Air Force general officer transferred and promoted to lieutenant general in the U.S. Space Force during a ceremony at the Pentagon Aug. 14. Duri ... more  |
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MBDA and Lockheed Martin submit proposal for Germany's Integrated Air And Missile Defense SystemSchrobenhausen, Germany (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 MBDA Deutschland and Lockheed Martin, the TLVS bidders consortium (TLVS JV), have submitted an updated proposal to the German Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Se ... more  
Mystery gas discovered near center of Milky WayCanberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 An international team of researchers have discovered a dense, cold gas that's been shot out from the centre of the Milky Way "like bullets". Exactly how the gas has been ejected is still a mys ... more 
Debris from Stellar Explosion Not Slowed After 400 YearsCambridge MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to record material blasting away from the site of an exploded star at speeds faster than 20 million miles per hour. This is about 25,000 times ... more 
Experiments replicate high densities in 'white dwarf' starsRochester NY (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 For the first time, researchers have found a way to describe conditions deep in the convection zone of "white dwarf" stars, which are home to some of the densest collections of matter in the Univers ... more 
Arecibo Observatory data help lead to discovery of cosmic 'heartbeat'Orlando FL (SPX) Aug 18, 2020 An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a "gamma-ray heartbeat" coming from a cosmic gas cloud. Th ... 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.
The spacecraft adapter c ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 
A new study from The University of Texas at Austin is helping scientists piece together the ancient climate of Mars by revealing how much rainfall and snowmelt filled its lake beds and river valleys 3.5 billion to 4 billion years ago.
The study, published in Geology, represents the first time that researchers have quantified the precipitation that must have been present across the planet, ... 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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 Luxembourg (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-band clearing plan to meet the Federal Communications Commission's objectives to roll out 5G services in the United States. ULA's Atlas V rocket will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida in 2022 and carry ... 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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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 
The question of whether life exists beyond the Earth is one of humanity's most fundamental questions. Future NASA missions, for example, aim to examine the ice moons of Jupiter and Saturn, which may potentially shelter life in the liquid oceans underneath the thick layer of ice, on the ground.
Proving traces of life beyond the Earth is extremely challenging, however. Highly sensitive instr ... 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 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 figure in this program.
Lin Baojun, a chief designer of Beidou's third-generation satellite, said at a news conference in Beijing on Monday that once a satellite is launched, it is virtually impossi ... 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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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2020 
The European Commission has contracted with EOS Data Analytics, a satellite analytics company founded by Max Polyakov, to develop technologies for the monitoring and analysis of mining sites across Europe. The three-year project, called Goldeneye, has a total budget of euro 8.3 million.
The project will develop solutions that improve safety, environmental impact, and profitability of mine ... 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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 Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 20, 2020 
Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to record material blasting away from the site of an exploded star at speeds faster than 20 million miles per hour. This is about 25,000 times faster than the speed of sound on Earth.
The Kepler supernova remnant is the debris from a detonated star that is located about 20,000 light years away from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy. In 160 ... 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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