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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 NASA's first mission to explore the Trojan asteroids is one step closer to launch. The Discovery Program's Lucy mission passed a critical milestone and is officially authorized to transition to its next phase. This major decision was made after a series of independent reviews of the status of the spacecraft, instruments, schedule and budget. The milestone, known as Key Decision Point-D (KDP-D), represents the official transition from the mission's development stage to delivery of components, testi ... read more |
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SpaceX launches satellite for Argentina into polar orbitOrlando FL (UPI) Aug 31, 2020 SpaceX launched a satellite for Argentina's space agency from Florida on Sunday evening that will monitor weather and agricultural conditions. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the SAOCOM 1B s ... more  
The Seventh Meeting of the Japan-U.S. Comprehensive Dialogue on Space: Joint StatementTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 Pursuant to the shared goal of continuing to advance bilateral space cooperation and to further strengthen the Japan-U.S. alliance as declared by the leaders of both nations, the Government of Japan ... more 
Student research team develops hybrid rocket engineUrbana IL (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team persevered. Working together across five time zones, they successfully designed a hybrid rocket engin ... more 
Boeing's Starliner makes progress ahead of flight test with astronautsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 NASA and Boeing continue to make progress toward the company's second uncrewed flight test of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft prior to flying astronauts to the International Space Station as part o ... more |
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Dark Matter not souce of extra radiation in galaxy centerIrvine CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evide ... more  
Israel releases spy satellite images of Syria's PalmyraJerusalem (AFP) Aug 25, 2020 Israel on Tuesday unveiled detailed images taken by a new reconnaissance satellite over the Roman ruins of Palmyra in neighbouring Syria, an Iranian ally regularly targeted by Israeli air strikes. ... more  
TWTS and 3D PrintingEl Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 Have you ever wondered how deep space missions are able to send images from the edge of the solar system back to Earth? These long-distance transmissions are made possible by a highly specialized ty ... more 
NASA selects proposals for new space environment missionsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 NASA has selected five proposals for concept studies of missions to help improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun and the constantly changing space environment with which it interacts around ... more  
Eglin AFB, Fla., opens center for PTSD, brain, pain condition treatmentWashington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2020 The U.S. Air Force's first Intrepid Spirit Center, a privately funded post-traumatic stress disorder treatment center, opened this week at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. ... more |
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A cloud-free IcelandParis (ESA) Aug 31, 2020 As we await the return of our Earth from Space programme next Friday, today the Copernicus Sentinel-3 mission shows us a rare, cloud-free view of Iceland captured on 14 August 2020. The large, ... more  |
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Mars-bound Tianwen 1 hits milestoneBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2020 China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had traveled 100 million kilometers as of Friday morning, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said in a statement that the spa ... more 
Improving weather forecasts with observations from the microwave instruments onboard China's FY-3D satelliteBeijing, China (SPX) Aug Washington DC (UPI) Aug 27, 2020, 2020 China's FengYun-3 (FY-3) satellite programme is an important part of the Earth observing system and provides observations for numerical weather prediction (NWP), reanalyses, and climate studies. ... more 
Meteorite strikes may create unexpected form of silicaWashington DC (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 When a meteorite hurtles through the atmosphere and crashes to Earth, how does its violent impact alter the minerals found at the landing site? What can the short-lived chemical phases created by th ... more 
Sleep duration, efficiency and structure change in spaceDarien IL (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 It's hard to get a good night's sleep in space. An evaluation of astronauts serving on the Mir space station found that they experienced shorter sleep durations, more wakefulness, and changes in the ... more  
New observations of black hole devouring a star reveal rapid disk formationSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study th ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 25, 2020 
Russian cosmonaut Ivan Wagner recently noted that the crew has everything it needs and can engage in physical training and Earth observation experiments.
As the current crew of the International Space Station has been forced to isolate themselves in the Russian segment of the orbital facility due to a suspected air leak in one of the US modules, Russian cosmonaut Ivan Wagner has shared de ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Aug 31, 2020 
SpaceX launched a satellite for Argentina's space agency from Florida on Sunday evening that will monitor weather and agricultural conditions.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with the SAOCOM 1B satellite at 7:18 p.m. EDT from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Clouds that had threatened a delay cleared right before launch time.
The Argentine mission was the first polar orbi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2020 
The Chinese Astronomical Society (CAS) has recently released the list of recommended Chinese names of 1,136 Mars craters on its website.
The data will be available for public use. Users can find the Chinese names at Glossary of Astronomical Terms operated by the National Astronomical Data Center.
Previously, the CAS had released the first batch of recommended Chinese names of 811 Mar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 8 million km away from Earth and is functioning normally, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration Thursday.
As of 11:20 pm Wednesday, the Mars probe has traveled 8.23 million km away from Earth. Starting from 10:20 pm Wednesday, multiple payloads on the Mars probe, including M ... more |
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 Chennai, India (SPX) Aug 24, 2020 
The government's decision to ban import of communication satellites throws up huge opportunity for private players, said K. Sivan, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and Secretary, Department of Space.
Speaking at the webinar on 'Unlocking India's Potential in Space Sector' on Thursday, Sivan said the decision throws up a huge opportunity for private players, ISRO and Ne ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 
NASA has selected five proposals for concept studies of missions to help improve understanding of the dynamics of the Sun and the constantly changing space environment with which it interacts around Earth. The information will improve understanding about the universe as well as offer key information to help protect astronauts, satellites, and communications signals - such as GPS - in space.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 
Imagine microscopic life-forms, such as bacteria, transported through space, and landing on another planet. The bacteria finding suitable conditions for its survival could then start multiplying again, sparking life at the other side of the universe.
This theory, called "panspermia", support the possibility that microbes may migrate between planets and distribute life in the universe. Long ... more |
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 Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Aug 24, 2020  The first of two Swedish-led Jupiter instruments has left the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to take its place on the European spacecraft JUICE. The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation instrument (RPWI) will measure electric and magnetic fields to identify and map the oceans beneath the frozen ice cover of the moon Ganymede.
In 2013, IRF was sel ... more |
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 Koror, Palau (AFP) Aug 28, 2020 
US Defense Secretary Mark Esper accused China of "destabilising" the Pacific region Friday on a whistle-stop trip to the tiny island nation of Palau.
The visit, which lasted barely three hours, comes as Washington attempts to counter Beijing's efforts to gain influence in the sparsely populated but strategically important Pacific island nations.
Esper said the United States and Palau sha ... 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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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2020 
Astronaut Doug "Wheels" Wheelock spent his NASA career expanding knowledge of living and working in space. His new mission is working to determine the best way to train astronauts to return to the surface of the Moon.
Wheelock is a veteran test pilot and retired U.S. Army colonel who has accumulated 178 days in space and was a guest speaker at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Cal ... more |
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 St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 31, 2020  A new study finds that Earth's water may have come from materials that were present in the inner solar system at the time the planet formed - instead of far-reaching comets or asteroids delivering such water. The findings published Aug. 28 in Science suggest that Earth may have always been wet.
Researchers from the Centre de Recherches Petrographiques et Geochimiques (CRPG, CNRS/Universite ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2020 
Designed to assist in land surveying, Gaofen 7 begins serving ministries
China's best optical Earth-observation satellite for civil use has finished its in-orbit tests and started formal operation on Thursday.
At a handover ceremony at the China National Space Administration on Thursday morning, designers of the Gaofen 7 announced that the satellite had begun serving its major users- ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 26, 2020 
An international team led by Professor Tian Hui from Peking University has recently measured the global magnetic field of the solar corona for the first time. The team used observations from the Coronal Multi-channel Polarimeter, an instrument designed by Dr. Steve Tomczyk at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA. Their results have been recently published in the magazines of Science ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 25, 2020 
Testing teams have successfully completed a critical milestone focused on demonstrating that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will respond to commands once in space.
Known as a "Ground Segment Test," this is the first time commands to power on and test Webb's scientific instruments have been sent to the fully-assembled observatory from its Mission Operations Center at the Space Telescope ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2020 
When a star passes too close to a supermassive black hole, tidal forces tear it apart, producing a bright flare of radiation as material from the star falls into the black hole. Astronomers study the light from these "tidal disruption events" (TDEs) for clues to the feeding behavior of the supermassive black holes lurking at the centers of galaxies.
New TDE observations led by astronomers ... more |
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