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  Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2020 NASA on Thursday announced it was in the market for Moon rocks, and wants to pay companies to scoop out the dirt, take a photo, and then have it ready for collection by a future mission. The contract doesn't actually involve getting to the Moon itself - a feat only achieved by the national space agencies of three countries - but instead envisages companies designing a robot that NASA or major private sector players can then launch. "NASA is buying lunar soil from a commercial provider! It's ti ... read more |
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New small satellites to rendezvous with binary asteroidsBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 CU Boulder and Lockheed Martin will lead a new space mission to capture the first-ever closeup look at a mysterious class of solar system objects: binary asteroids. These bodies are pairs of a ... more 
Space resources are the key to safe and sustainable Lunar explorationWashington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 As we at NASA are working aggressively to meet our near-term goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, our Artemis program also is focused on taking steps that will establish ... more  
Jupiter's moons could be warming each otherTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 Jupiter's moons are hot. Well, hotter than they should be, for being so far from the sun. In a process called tidal heating, gravitational tugs from Jupiter's moons and the planet itself stretch and ... more  
Carbon-rich exoplanets may be made of diamondsTempe AZ (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 As missions like NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, TESS and Kepler continue to provide insights into the properties of exoplanets (planets around other stars), scientists are increasingly able to piece ... more |
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L3Harris Technologies awarded international sonar system programSylmar CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to deliver two Low-Frequency Active Towed Sonar (LFATS) systems to a NATO member. The LFATS system is used on ships to detect, ... more  
Emissions pioneer GHGSat secures US$30m in Series B fundingMontreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully completed the first tranche of Series B funding, raising US$30m and more than doubling the total a ... more  
"Mighty Mice" in space could lead to new therapies for muscle and bone loss on EarthKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 Findings from the "Mighty Mice" investigation on the International Space Station (ISS) may help "save the day" both for earthbound patients with muscle and bone loss as well as astronauts on prolong ... more  
Chinese spacecraft launched mystery object into space before returning to EarthMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 11, 2020 The People's Republic successfully launched a reusable spacecraft into space atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert last Friday, with Chinese ... more 
Why is Asteroid Bennu ejecting particles into spacePasadena 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 li ... more |
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 GITAI and Nanoracks demonstrate GITAI robot inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock 
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  |
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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 
SwRI-led study indicates sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid BennuSan 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 met ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe reveals landing site impact history on moon's far sideBeijing (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 landi ... more 
How small particles could reshape Bennu and other asteroidsBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 In January 2019, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft was orbiting asteroid Bennu when the spacecraft's cameras caught something unexpected: Thousands of tiny bits of material, some just the size of marbles ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 11, 2020 
The People's Republic successfully launched a reusable spacecraft into space atop a Long March-2F carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert last Friday, with Chinese media reporting the experimental spacecraft's successful return to Earth on Sunday.
The mysterious Chinese reusable spacecraft which made a trip into space last week launched an unknown object ... 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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 Sylmar CA (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a multi-million-dollar contract to deliver two Low-Frequency Active Towed Sonar (LFATS) systems to a NATO member. The LFATS system is used on ships to detect, track and engage all types of submarines.
L3Harris specifically designed the system to perform at a lower operating frequency against modern diesel-electric submarine threats.
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
As we at NASA are working aggressively to meet our near-term goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, our Artemis program also is focused on taking steps that will establish a safe and sustainable lunar exploration architecture.
Moreover, leveraging commercial involvement as part of Artemis will enhance our ability to safely return to the Moon in a sustainable, inn ... 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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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
GHGSat, the global leader in high-resolution greenhouse gas monitoring from space, has successfully completed the first tranche of Series B funding, raising US$30m and more than doubling the total amount raised since GHGSat was founded to over US$55m. This latest funding has secured the growth trajectory of the company, enabling it to accelerate construction of its unique fleet of emissions dete ... 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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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 
One-hundred million light years away from Earth, an unusual supernova is exploding.
That exploding star - which is known as "supernova LSQ14fmg" - was the faraway object discovered by a 37-member international research team led by Florida State University Assistant Professor of Physics Eric Hsiao. Their research, which was published in the Astrophysical Journal, helped uncover the origins ... 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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