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  Denver CO (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 The University of Colorado Boulder and Lockheed Martin will soon 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 asteroids that orbit around each other in space, much like the Earth and Moon. In a project review on Sept. 3, NASA gave the official go-ahead to the Janus mission, named after the two-faced Roman god. The mission will study these asteroid couplets in never-before-seen detail. Know ... read more |
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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  
Fiery Blast After Astra Rocket Launch Fail in KodiakMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 14, 2020 Founded in 2016, Astra is an space launch service based in Alameda, California. The company's stated goal is to construct smaller and more effective rockets to place satellites into orbit. Ast ... more  
Giant particle accelerator in the skyPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 The Earth's magnetic field is trapping high energy particles. When the first satellites were launched into space, scientists led by James Van Allen unexpectedly discovered the high energy particle r ... more  
NASA and DLR study the transformation of the air transport systemBraunschweig, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 The integration of new types of aircraft into the air transport system requires it to change. Over the coming years, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the German Aerosp ... more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 22nd lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Sep 14, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 22nd lunar day on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 5:15 a.m. on Saturday (Beijing time), and the rover Yutu ... more 
Payloads on China's retired lunar probe still operatingBeijing (XNA) Sep 14, 2020 After more than 2,400 days on the near side of the moon, China's Chang'e-3 lunar mission continues to help scientists unravel the unknown about the Earth's companion in space. As of Sept. 1, t ... 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  
Update on Arecibo Observatory Facility After Telescope DamageWashington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2020 A detailed structural model of the current state of the entire telescope began Aug. 17 and is expected to be completed within the next two weeks. Today marks 30 days since the Arecibo Observat ... more 
Future Rocket Engines May Include Large-Scale 3D PrintingWashington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2020 As part of the Artemis program, NASA is returning astronauts to the Moon where we will prepare for human exploration of Mars. Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, experts from NASA, industry, and ... more |
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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  |
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Aerospace's CT Scanning Lab uses x-rays to solve the hardest problemsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2020 The typical satellite goes through careful planning, rigorous engineering and extensive testing before being launched to space. But even with those measures, sometimes the tiniest, unseen flaws - wh ... more  
'Floppy' atomic dynamics help turn heat into electricityDurham NC (SPX) Sep 07, 2020 Materials scientists at Duke University have uncovered an atomic mechanism that makes certain thermoelectric materials incredibly efficient near high-temperature phase transitions. The information w ... more  
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 
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  
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 |
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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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 Jiuquan (XNA) Sep 14, 2020 
Optical remote-sensing satellite Jilin-1 Gaofen 02C, which was launched aboard the Kuaizhou-1A carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 13:02 p.m. (Beijing time) on Saturday, failed to enter the preset orbit.
Abnormal performance was identified during the rocket's flight, said the launch center.
The cause of the failure is under investigation.
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 14, 2020 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled 137 million km, said sources with the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
As of 9 a.m. Friday, the probe was in stable condition at a distance of more than 15.3 million km away from Earth, according to a center statement.
The probe captured a photo of Earth and the moon in late July, and comp ... 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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 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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 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 11, 2020 
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is among numerous ships, aircraft and military personnel involved in Valiant Shield, a Pacific Ocean training exercise.
The 12-day exercise of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command begins on Tuesday in Guam and at the Mariana Islands Range Complex. Approximately 100 aircraft and about 11,000 personnel of the Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines will be involv ... 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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