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  Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars. Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope to explore hundreds of times more broadly than any previous search for extraterrestrial life. The study, published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, observed the sky around the Vela constellation. But in t ... read more |
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NASA declines seat on Russia's Soyuz for US astronaut ISS flightMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 09, 2020 NASA changed its mind and decided not to buy a seat on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to deliver its astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) in the spring of 2021, according to Roscosmos' 2019 ... more  
Gilmour Space to launch Space Machines Company on first Eris rocketGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 Australian rocket company, Gilmour Space Technologies, has secured the first customer for its maiden Eris rocket launch in 2022. Space Machines Company has contracted to launch a 35-kilogram (kg) sp ... more  
NASA enlists commercial partners to fly payloads to MoonWashington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 NASA has issued another request to its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) partners to bid on flying a suite of payloads to the Moon. The request asks partners to fly 10 NASA science investi ... more  
ERC Space and Robotics Event 2020Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 In less than a week, nearly 30 teams from 14 countries will take part in the finale of the sixth edition of the ERC 2020, which is the prestigious Martian rover competition. What's the best way to g ... more |
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SETI Institute and GNU Radio join forcesMountain View CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 The SETI Institute and GNU Radio are officially joining forces to continue work already underway for signal processing at the SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) at the Hat Creek Radio Obse ... more  
Reporting from the starsWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 For the answers to the universal questions, Dan Milisavljevic looks to the sky. Quite literally. Milisavljevic, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University, is one of ... more  
Machine-learning nanosatellites to monitor global tradeGlasgow UK (SPX) Sep 08, 2020 Nanosatellites, built in Glasgow, will join a fleet of more than 100 objects in low Earth orbit that help to predict the movement of the world's resources, so that businesses and governments can mak ... more  
DARPA's SIGMA Program transitions to protect major US metropolitan regionsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 On a blustery winter day last December, a car carrying radioactive material approached one of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey's major transportation hubs. As the car got closer, an ala ... more  
D-Orbit launches its first ION Satellite CarrierMenlo Park CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 D-Orbit, a portfolio company of the vertically integrated Noosphere Ventures, founded by entrepreneur Max Polyakov, delivered its first ION Satellite Carrier and successfully tested the orbital tran ... more |
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 NASA Search and Rescue partners with Australian Space Research Center 
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  |
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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  
Sea Level Mission Will Also Act as a Precision Thermometer in SpacePasadena 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 spacecraf ... more  
Deep underground forces explain quakes on San Andreas FaultLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 Rock-melting forces occurring much deeper in the Earth than previously understood appear to drive tremors along a notorious segment of California's San Andreas Fault, according to new USC research t ... more 
NASA 'eyes' arrival of new NOAA weather satellite's 1st instrumentGilbert 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, l ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 09, 2020 
This structure is the frame and base for the European Service Module, part of NASA's Orion spacecraft that will return humans to the Moon.
Built in Turin, Italy, at Thales Alenia Space, this is the third such structure to roll out of production. However, this one is extra special, as it will fly the first woman and next man to land on the Moon and return on the Artemis III mission by 2024. ... 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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 Cape 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 the 1980s and plots a path through seven satellites and another six payloads built and launched with local and international customers along the way. Most recently, the team delivered a hyperspectral i ... 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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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 
A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars.
Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope to explore hundreds of times more broadly than any previous search for extraterrestrial life.
The study, published in P ... 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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