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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 08, 2020 After successfully demonstrating an anti-satellite missile last year, Narendra Modi's government has given the green light to the maiden test flight of a prototype of the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle. The state-owned Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed the prototype for the test a few years ago. India's state-funded DRDO has flight tested the Hypersonic Technology Demonstrator Vehicle (HSTDV) using the domestically-developed scramjet propulsion system, Indi ... read more |
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GMV announces the merger of its UK Company and NSLMadrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 08, 2020 GMV Innovating Solutions Limited, the UK aerospace company belonging to the Spanish technology multinational GMV, has signed a merger agreement with Nottingham Scientific Limited (NSL). GMV trades i ... more  
New gears can withstand impact, temps during lunar missionsHampton VA (SPX) Sep 08, 2020 Many exploration destinations in our solar system are frigid and require hardware that can withstand the extreme cold. During NASA's Artemis missions, temperatures at the Moon's South Pole will drop ... more  
Rainbow comet with a heart of spongeParis (ESA) Sep 08, 2020 A permeable heart with a hardened facade -the resting place of Rosetta's lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the 'rubber duck' shaped-body looping aroun ... more  
China launches new optical remote-sensing satelliteBeijing (XNA) Sep 08, 2020 China launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Monday. The Gaofen-11 02 satellite was launched by a Long March-4B ... more |
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Researchers develop molecule to store solar energyLinkoping, Sweden (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 Researchers at Linkoping University, Sweden, have developed a molecule that absorbs energy from sunlight and stores it in chemical bonds. A possible long-term use of the molecule is to capture solar ... more  
Nano particles for healthy tissueParis (ESA) Sep 07, 2020 "Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells f ... more 
With DUST-2 launch, NASA's sounding rocket program is back on the rangeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 NASA is preparing for the first launch of a sounding rocket since the coronavirus pandemic began in the United States. The DUST-2 mission, which is short for the Determining Unknown yet Significant ... more  
Nereidum Montes a mountain landscape formed by water, ice and windBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2020 images, acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), show part of the Nereidum Montes region. Wind, water, ice and tectonic forces have created a highly diverse landscape. The HRSC has been ... more  
New observations show planet-forming disc torn apart by its three central starsMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2020 A team of astronomers have identified the first direct evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings. This new research suggests exo ... more |
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 Primary mirror for NASA's Roman Space Telescope completed  
NASA funds eight new projects exploring connections between the environment and COVID-19Elizabeth Goldbaum for GSFC News Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2020 While scientists around the world are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth observing satellites continue to orbit and send back images that re ... more  |
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Dragonfly Aerospace emerges from SCS Aerospace GroupCape Town, South Africa (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 Dragonfly Aerospace picks up the flag in the latest chapter in the proud history of South African space engineering and space missions. This history starts with the national space program of t ... more  
Norwegian surveillance satellite to detect 'invisible' shipsMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 03, 2020 Norway is closely collaborating with the US to develop satellites for sea monitoring. Admittedly, the new satellites should be able to detect ships that are actively trying to avoid being spotted. ... more  
China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth after 2 daysBeijing (Sputnik) Sep 07, 2020 The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in the orbit, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday. The reusable spaceship was lau ... more 
AFRL's Satellite Assessment Center marks 30 years of operationKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 "Access to space is essential to U.S. prosperity and security - it is a national imperative," states the United States Space Force (USSF) recently released "Space Capstone Publication, Spacepower Do ... more 
NASA Readies Perseverance Mars Rover's Earthly TwinPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2020 As NASA's Mars rover Perseverance hurtles through space toward the Red Planet, the six-wheeler's twin is ready to roll here on Earth. A full-scale engineering version of the Mars 2020 Persever ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 02, 2020 
NASA is looking for leaders for one of the best jobs on Earth for human spaceflight - including missions to the Moon - the position of flight director in mission control at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Those chosen as NASA flight directors will lead human spaceflight missions to the International Space Station, as American astronauts once again are launching on American ro ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 
NASA is preparing for the first launch of a sounding rocket since the coronavirus pandemic began in the United States. The DUST-2 mission, which is short for the Determining Unknown yet Significant Traits-2, will carry a miniature laboratory into space, simulating how tiny grains of space dust - the raw materials of stars, planets and solar systems - form and grow. The launch window opens at the ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 
An observer standing on Mars would see the planet's moon Phobos cross the sky from west to east every five hours. Its orbit passes between the sun and any given point on Mars about once each Earth year. Each time it does so, it causes from one to seven solar eclipses within the space of three days. One place where this happens is the site of NASA's InSight lander, stationed in the Elysium Planit ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Sep 07, 2020 
The Chinese reusable experimental spaceship has successfully returned to Earth having spent two days in the orbit, Chinese news agency Xinhua reported on Sunday.
The reusable spaceship was launched this past Friday on a Long March 2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in the Gobi Desert.
While little has so far been known about the reusable capsule, Xinhua said t ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 08, 2020 
GMV Innovating Solutions Limited, the UK aerospace company belonging to the Spanish technology multinational GMV, has signed a merger agreement with Nottingham Scientific Limited (NSL). GMV trades in the aerospace, defense, ICT and intelligent-transportation-systems markets while NSL is UK leader in satellite navigation and critical applications. After the agreement GMV becomes sole shareholder ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2020 
What looks like an engine made its way to space and back last November. While the hardware of the Perwaves experiment will not end up in your car, results from this research could lead to more efficient and carbon-free fuel in the future.
Perwaves, or Percolating Reaction-Diffusion Waves, set metal powder on fire to study how it burns in a chamber. This is done in weightless conditions bec ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2020 
A team of astronomers have identified the first direct evidence that groups of stars can tear apart their planet-forming disc, leaving it warped and with tilted rings. This new research suggests exotic planets, not unlike Tatooine in Star Wars, may form in inclined rings in bent discs around multiple stars.
The results were made possible thanks to observations with the European Southern Ob ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2020 
When a satellite by the name of Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich launches this November, its primary focus will be to monitor sea level rise with extreme precision. But an instrument aboard the spacecraft will also provide atmospheric data that will improve weather forecasts, track hurricanes, and bolster climate models.
"Our fundamental goal with Sentinel-6 is to measure the oceans, but the mo ... 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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 Hampton VA (SPX) Sep 08, 2020 
Many exploration destinations in our solar system are frigid and require hardware that can withstand the extreme cold. During NASA's Artemis missions, temperatures at the Moon's South Pole will drop drastically during the lunar night. Farther into the solar system, on Jupiter's moon Europa, temperatures never rise above -260 degrees Fahrenheit (-162 degrees Celsius) at the equator.
One NAS ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 08, 2020 
A permeable heart with a hardened facade -the resting place of Rosetta's lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is revealing more about the interior of the 'rubber duck' shaped-body looping around the Sun.
A recent study suggests that the comet's interior is more porous than the material near the surface. The results confirm that solar radiation has significantly modified the comet's su ... more |
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 Gilbert AZ (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), the first instrument for NOAA's next polar-orbiting weather satellite, arrived at Northrop Grumman's spacecraft facility in Gilbert, Arizona, last week to be integrated with Joint Polar Satellite System 2 (JPSS-2).
The third satellite of the JPSS series, NOAA's JPSS-2 is preparing for launch in 2022 to continue the critical flow of wea ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 
A Southwest Research Institute proposal to study the Sun's poles - considered among the last unexplored regions of the solar system - is one of five science investigations selected as a possible future NASA mission.
Dr. Don Hassler, a program director at SwRI, is the principal investigator for Solaris. This proposed solar polar Medium-Class Explorers (MIDEX) mission is designed to revoluti ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's primary mirror, which will collect and focus light from cosmic objects near and far, has been completed. Using this mirror, Roman will capture stunning space vistas with a field of view 100 times greater than Hubble images.
"Achieving this milestone is very exciting," said Scott Smith, Roman telescope manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Sep 03, 2020 
Black holes can expel a thousand times more matter than they capture. The mechanism that governs both ejection and capture is the accretion disk, a vast mass of gas and dust spiraling around the black hole at extremely high speeds. The disk is hot and emits light as well as other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Part of the orbiting matter is pulled toward the center and disappears behind the ... more |
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