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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 10, 2020 When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid (101955) Bennu, mission scientists knew that their spacecraft was orbiting something special. Not only was the boulder-strewn asteroid shaped like a rough diamond, its surface was crackling with activity, shedding small pieces of rock into space. Now, after more than a year and a half up close with Bennu, they're starting to better understand these dynamic particle-ejection events. A collection of studies in a special edition of the Journal of ... read more |
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GITAI and Nanoracks demonstrate GITAI robot inside the Nanoracks Bishop AirlockTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 In 2021, space robotics start-up GITAI, in collaboration with Nanoracks, will conduct a technical demonstration of a GITAI robot executing versatile tasks inside the Nanoracks' Bishop Airlock Module ... more 
ESA's polar station marks three decades satellite trackingParis (ESA) Sep 10, 2020 North of Sweden and the Arctic Circle, ESA's Kiruna ground station is celebrating 30 years looking skyward, connecting us to many of our beloved and most pioneering space explorers. The statio ... more  
Exolaunch to Deliver SALSAT into Orbit for the Technische Universitat BerlinBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 The Technische Universitat Berlin, a leading German university specializing in space engineering, and Exolaunch, a rideshare launch and deployment solutions provider, announces a launch agreement fo ... more  
NASA Goddard's first virtual interns reflect on their summer experienceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 When many NASA employees transitioned to a mandatory work-from-home status in March 2020, because of COVID-19, the agency prepared to launch its first-ever fully virtual internship to ensure student ... more |
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New airship production commences in IsraelRosh Haayin, Israel (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 All over the world, aerial transportation plays an important role in many spheres of life, including tourism, transportation of passengers and cargo, and defense. This field is currently completely ... more  
RIT scientists contribute to the first discovery of an intermediate-mass black holeRochester NY (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration recently announced the discovery of GW190521, the most massive gravitational wave binary observed to date, and Rochester Institute of Te ... more  
AI used to show how hydrogen becomes a metal inside giant planetsCambridge UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 Dense metallic hydrogen - a phase of hydrogen which behaves like an electrical conductor - makes up the interior of giant planets, but it is difficult to study and poorly understood. By combining ar ... more  
Air Force Research Laboratory Tracks Sporadic EKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 Researchers at Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in New Mexico, have discovered a new way to track and characterize a phenomenon called "Sporadic E" naturally occurring in the upper atmosphere, w ... more  
The presence of resonating cavities above sunspots has been confirmedBrena Baja, Spain (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 Sunspots are darker regions which often appear on the Sun's surface. They are caused by strong concentrations of magnetic field, and can be as big as the Earth, or even much bigger. From the e ... more |
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Aerojet Rocketdyne selected to power nation's next generation strategic deterrentHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne will develop a large solid rocket motor and the post-boost propulsion system for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program as a key member of Northrop Grumman's nationwi ... more  |
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Expanding ESTEC's Test CentreNoordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 The ESTEC Test Centre is expanding. A new 350 sq. m cleanroom is being added to the Netherlands-based site, already Europe's largest facility for satellite testing. To begin with, 110 foundati ... more  
COMSAT expands hardware footprint with new Orbit Communications Systems agreementHerndon VA (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 COMSAT, the global satellite connectivity solutions provider and member of the Satcom Direct family, is further expanding its international terminal, hardware and service footprint following the sig ... more  
US Military set to deploy advanced Israeli drone system for US Special ForcesWashington DC (SPX) Sep 09, 2020 Following a joint R and D program led by the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR and D), in the Israel Ministry of Defense, with leading drone developer, XTEND, and the Combating Te ... more 
Telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systemsPerth, 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 s ... 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 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
When many NASA employees transitioned to a mandatory work-from-home status in March 2020, because of COVID-19, the agency prepared to launch its first-ever fully virtual internship to ensure students would still have a summer learning opportunity. Interns who successfully worked for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, shared their experiences.
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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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 Herndon VA (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
COMSAT, the global satellite connectivity solutions provider and member of the Satcom Direct family, is further expanding its international terminal, hardware and service footprint following the signing of a new distribution agreement with global provider of airborne and maritime satellite solutions, Orbit Communications Systems Inc. (Orbit).
The addition of Orbit's Multi-Purpose Terminals ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
In 2021, space robotics start-up GITAI, in collaboration with Nanoracks, will conduct a technical demonstration of a GITAI robot executing versatile tasks inside the Nanoracks' Bishop Airlock Module installed on Node 3 of the International Space Station (ISS).
In this technical demonstration, GITAI's space robot "S1" will be installed inside Bishop's pressurized volume to conduct two exper ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
Dense metallic hydrogen - a phase of hydrogen which behaves like an electrical conductor - makes up the interior of giant planets, but it is difficult to study and poorly understood. By combining artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics, researchers have found how hydrogen becomes a metal under the extreme pressure conditions of these planets.
The researchers, from the University of C ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
The hydrogen atom, with its single proton orbited by a single electron, is arguably the simplest material out there. Elemental hydrogen can nonetheless exhibit extremely complex behavior - at megabar pressures, for example, it undergoes a transition from being an insulating fluid to being a metallic conductive fluid.
While the transition is fascinating simply from the point of view of cond ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 09, 2020 
New analysis of ocean salinity data suggests Earth's water cycle has amplified significantly over the last half-century.
The global water cycle has a strong influence on the planet's climate system, and vice versa. As Earth's water cycle changes, so does the climate. To accurately model climate change and its effects on global weather patterns, scientists must understand changes to the ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 10, 2020 
Based on data from China's Chang'e-4 probe, Chinese scientists have determined the thickness of the regolith and revealed the fine subsurface structures and evolutionary history of the probe's landing site on the moon's far side.
The study revealed that the landing area of the probe, located within the largest and oldest impact basin on the moon, had experienced multiple impact events and ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
A new study published this month in JGR Planets posits that the major particle ejections off the near-Earth asteroid Bennu may be the consequence of impacts by small, sand-sized particles called meteoroids onto its surface as the object nears the Sun. The study's primary author is Southwest Research Institute scientist Dr. William Bottke, who used data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
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 Beijing (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 rocket at 1:57 p.m. (Beijing Time), according to the center. It was the 345th flight mission by a Long March carrier rocket.
Gaofen-11 02 has a resolution up to the sub-meter level. It will be ... more |
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 Brena Baja, Spain (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
Sunspots are darker regions which often appear on the Sun's surface. They are caused by strong concentrations of magnetic field, and can be as big as the Earth, or even much bigger.
From the end of the 1960's the presence of oscillations in the atmospheres of these spots has been known, and interpreted as evidence for magnetic waves. These waves have attracted the interest of the researche ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
The Milky Way is not alone in its neighborhood. It has captured smaller galaxies in its orbit, and the two largest are known as the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds, visible as twin dusty smears in the Southern Hemisphere.
As the Magellanic Clouds began circling the Milky Way billions of years ago, an enormous stream of gas known as the Magellanic Stream was ripped from them. The stream n ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration recently announced the discovery of GW190521, the most massive gravitational wave binary observed to date, and Rochester Institute of Technology scientists played an important role in identifying and analyzing the event.
They detected the signal with the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Obser ... more |
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