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September 16, 2020
SOLAR SCIENCE
Solar Cycle 25 is here. NASA, NOAA scientists explain what that means



Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar cycle - and how the coming upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth, as well as astronauts in space. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group of experts co-sponsored by NASA and NOAA, announced that solar minimum occurred in December 2019, marking the ... read more

EXO WORLDS
Venus is one stop in our search for life
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Today, we are on the cusp of amazing discoveries that could tell us more about the possibility of life off the Earth. In fact, astrobiology, which includes the search for life elsewhere, is one of o ... more
MARSDAILY
Study shows difficulty in finding evidence of life on Mars
Ithica NY (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet's soils for signs of life, researchers must ponder a co ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
PLD Space closes new investment in tie-up with Arcano Partners
Elche, Spain (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Spanish reusable launch vehicle developer PLD Space has announced the closure of further financing through a tie-up with independent financial advisory and alternative asset management group Arcano ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
US to stop using Russian rocket engine RD-180 in Mid-2020s says ULA
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 16, 2020
US company United Launch Alliance (ULA) plans to end operation of the Atlas-5 launch vehicle with the Russian RD-180 engine in the mid-2020s, Julie Arnold, an ULA spokeswoman, told Sputnik. Th ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
Northrop Grumman and NASA donate Shuttle boosters to California Science Center
Promontory UT (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Northrop Grumman Corporation and NASA have donated a set of flight-worthy solid rocket boosters from the Space Shuttle Program to the California Science Center, located in Los Angeles, California, t ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China sends nine satellites into orbit by sea launch
Qingdao, China (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
China successfully sent nine satellites into planned orbit at the Yellow Sea Tuesday. The nine satellites, belonging to the Jilin-1 Gaofen 03-1 group, blasted off atop a Long March-11 carrier ... more
VENUSIAN HEAT
Phosphine on Venus a step toward understanding biomarker molecules
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
An international team of astronomers detected phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Venus. They studied the origin of phosphine, but no inorganic processes, including supply from volcanos and atmosph ... more
EXO WORLDS
How protoplanetary rings form in primordial gas clouds
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Four-hundred fifty light-years from Earth, a young star is glowing at the center of a system of concentric rings made from gas and dust, and it is producing planets, one for each gap in the ring. ... more
ROBO SPACE
Light processing improves robotic sensing, study finds
Aberdeen Providing Ground MD (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
A team of Army researchers uncovered how the human brain processes bright and contrasting light, which they say is a key to improving robotic sensing and enabling autonomous agents to team with huma ... more
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VSAT NEWS
Hughes pioneers self-healing capability to boost enterprise wide area network performance using AI
Germantown MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Hughes Network Systems has announced commercial availability of its artificial intelligence (AI) for IT operations (AIOps) solution for enterprise Wide Area Networks (WANs). Integrated into the comp ... more
TECH SPACE
Making waves in space
Paris (ESA) Sep 16, 2020
The International Space Station is an exciting place for experiments. This one in particular was making waves in space. Called Fluidics, the experiment studies fluid dynamics in microgravity and rec ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Ball Aerospace selected by NASA to study sustainable land imaging technologies
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to move forward with three studies to develop and demonstrate innovative Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) technologies for potential use on future missions of the L ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
The detection more than a decade ago by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of an excess of high-energy radiation in the center of the Milky Way convinced some physicists that they were seeing evide ... more
TECH SPACE
Announcing Homestead: satellite ground station coming soon to Chippewa County
Kinross MI (SPX) Sep 15, 2020
Oakman Aerospace, Inc. (OAI) and Chippewa County Economic Development Corporation (CCEDC) are pleased to announce a partnership to establish a ground station, referred to as the Homestead ground sta ... more


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SOLAR SCIENCE
Sunspot cycle is stabilizing, according to worldwide panel of experts
Sunspot, NM (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
a consortium of solar science experts declared consensus on the next solar cycle. The cycle, which indicates the intensity and timing of the Sun's activity, fluctuates every 11 years or so. The cycl ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL
NASA's Partnership Between Art and Science: A Collaboration to Cherish
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
NASA has long used art to represent everything from abstract astrophysical concepts to presentations of satellites in orbit that cannot be directly photographed in great detail. Since 2013, Ma ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Neutron stars contribute little, but something's making gold
Spotswood, Australia (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Neutron star collisions do not create the quantity of chemical elements previously assumed, a new analysis of galaxy evolution finds. The research also reveals that current models can't explain the ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
"Mighty Mice" in space could lead to new therapies for muscle and bone loss on Earth
Kennedy 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
SOLAR SCIENCE
How scientists around the world track the Solar Cycle
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Every morning, astronomer Steve Padilla takes a short walk from his home to the base of a tower that soars 150 feet above the ground. Tucked in the San Gabriel Mountains, about an hour's drive north ... more
IRON AND ICE
Industry starts work on Europe's Hera planetary defence mission
Paris (ESA) Sep 16, 2020
ESA awarded a 129.4 million euro contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing and testing of Hera, the Agency's first mission for planetary defence. This ambitious mission will be Europe's c ... more
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NASA's Partnership Between Art and Science: A Collaboration to Cherish
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
NASA has long used art to represent everything from abstract astrophysical concepts to presentations of satellites in orbit that cannot be directly photographed in great detail. Since 2013, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore has partnered with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, through the college's astro-animation course and internship opportunit ... more
+ ISS may need to evade US Military cubesat
+ Israeli tech start-ups take on the Emirates
+ NASA Goddard's first virtual interns reflect on their summer experience
+ Backbone of a spacecraft for missions to deep space
+ NASA declines seat on Russia's Soyuz for US astronaut ISS flight
+ Boeing's Starliner makes progress ahead of flight test with astronauts
+ NASA seeks next class of Flight Directors for human spaceflight missions
PLD Space closes new investment in tie-up with Arcano Partners
Elche, Spain (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Spanish reusable launch vehicle developer PLD Space has announced the closure of further financing through a tie-up with independent financial advisory and alternative asset management group Arcano Partners. The 7M euro venture will fund the buildout of the PLD Space aerospace project in a deal forming part of its Series B investment round. PLD Space, based out of Elche (Spain) and f ... more
+ China's launch of new satellite fails
+ Northrop Grumman and NASA donate Shuttle boosters to California Science Center
+ Fiery Blast After Astra Rocket Launch Fail in Kodiak
+ US to stop using Russian rocket engine RD-180 in Mid-2020s says ULA
+ Air Force destroys surrogate cruise missile in hypervelocity projectile test
+ Gilmour Space to launch Space Machines Company on first Eris rocket
+ India eyes hypersonic cruise missile with domestically-made scramjet engine


Study shows difficulty in finding evidence of life on Mars
Ithica NY (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
In a little more than a decade, samples of rover-scooped Martian soil will rocket to Earth. While scientists are eager to study the red planet's soils for signs of life, researchers must ponder a considerable new challenge: Acidic fluids - which once flowed on the Martian surface - may have destroyed biological evidence hidden within Mars' iron-rich clays, according to researchers at Cornell Uni ... more
+ China's Mars probe travels 137 mln km
+ ERC Space and Robotics Event 2020
+ The ERC 2020 shows how to adapt in a post-pandemic world
+ Surprise on Mars
+ NASA Readies Perseverance Mars Rover's Earthly Twin
+ Nereidum Montes a mountain landscape formed by water, ice and wind
+ China releases recommended Chinese names for Mars craters
Chinese spacecraft launched mystery object into space before returning to Earth
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
+ China sends nine satellites into orbit by sea launch
+ China's reusable spacecraft returns to Earth after 2 days
+ Mars-bound Tianwen 1 hits milestone
+ China's Mars probe over 8m km away from Earth
+ China seeks payload ideas for mission to moon, asteroid
+ China marching to Mars for humanity's better shared future
+ From the Moon to Mars: China's long march in space
Dragonfly Aerospace emerges from SCS Aerospace Group
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
+ COMSAT expands hardware footprint with new Orbit Communications Systems agreement
+ Wanted: your ideas for ESA's future space missions
+ GMV announces the merger of its UK Company and NSL
+ Satellogic launches 11th satellite to low-earth orbit
+ Kepler reports successful launch of third satellite
+ Gogo announces entry into agreement to sell its Commercial Aviation unit to Intelsat for $400M in Cash
+ Satellite constellations could hinder astronomical research, scientists warn
Giant particle accelerator in the sky
Potsdam, 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 radiation regions, which were later named after its discoverer Van Allen Radiation Belts. Visualized, these look like two donut-shaped regions encompassing our planet. Now, a new study led by res ... more
+ Making waves in space
+ Announcing Homestead: satellite ground station coming soon to Chippewa County
+ Earth's Van Allen radiation belts double as particle accelerator
+ L3Harris Technologies awarded international sonar system program
+ GITAI and Nanoracks demonstrate GITAI robot inside the Nanoracks Bishop Airlock
+ Northrop's 'life extension' spacecraft heads to the rescue
+ ESA's polar station marks three decades satellite tracking


Scientists find gas on Venus linked to life on Earth
Paris (AFP) Sept 14, 2020
The atmosphere of Venus contains a gas that on Earth can be attributed to living organisms, scientists said Monday, a discovery the head of NASA called "the most significant development yet" in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. Conditions on our planetary neighbour are often described as hellish with daytime temperatures hot enough to melt lead and an atmosphere comprised almost entirely o ... more
+ How protoplanetary rings form in primordial gas clouds
+ A warm Jupiter orbiting a cool star
+ Venus is one stop in our search for life
+ Carbon-rich exoplanets may be made of diamonds
+ AI used to show how hydrogen becomes a metal inside giant planets
+ Telescope finds no signs of alien technology in 10 million star systems
+ SETI Institute and GNU Radio join forces
Astronomers characterize Uranian moons using new imaging analysis
Washington DC (UPI) Sep 14, 2020
Using new image processing techniques, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy were able to characterize the physical properties of Uranus' five moons, according to a study published Monday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. Previously, astronomers have had to rely on long-distant space missions, space probes like Voyager 1 and 2, Cassini-Huygens and New Horizons, ... more
+ Jupiter's moons could be warming each other
+ Atomistic modelling probes the behavior of matter at the center of Jupiter
+ Technology ready to explore subsurface oceans on Ganymede
+ Large shift on Europa was last event to fracture its surface
+ The Sun May Have Started Its Life with a Binary Companion
+ Ganymede covered by giant crater
+ Huge ring-like structure on Ganymede's surface may have been caused by violent impact


Fate of nickel factory clouds New Caledonia's independence vote
Noumea (AFP) Sept 13, 2020
France's South Pacific territory of New Caledonia risks seeing the closure of a nickel factory that has long been the lifeblood of its economy, a threat that could weigh heavily on a looming independence vote. Advocates of remaining part of France worry that separatist parties could capitalise on a shutdown to press their case for taking back control of a strategic archipelago and its key in ... more
+ Without otters, Alaskan reefs more vulnerable to urchins
+ 'Dire' water shortages in S. Africa's Port Elizabeth
+ Fish exposed to noise pollution likely to die early: study
+ Transforming water management in the US West with NASA data
+ US forces ready for Valiant Shield exercise in Pacific Ocean
+ Ocean salinity study reveals amplification of Earth's water cycle
+ Water warning as climate risks intensify: report
Tech combo is a real game-changer for farming
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
+ Launch of Russia's Glonass-K satellite postponed until October
+ GPS 3 receives operational acceptance
+ Air Force navigation technology satellite passes critical design review
+ Software upgrades for Beidou to continue
+ Beidou's eye can help spot and stop rampant illegal mining
+ Full global service of Beidou signals space tech independence
+ Beidou also belongs to world


Space resources are the key to safe and sustainable Lunar exploration
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
+ China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 22nd lunar day
+ Payloads on China's retired lunar probe still operating
+ Gather Moon rocks for us, NASA urges private companies
+ China's Chang'e-4 probe reveals landing site impact history on moon's far side
+ NASA enlists commercial partners to fly payloads to Moon
+ New gears can withstand impact, temps during lunar missions
+ Has Earth's oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years
New small satellite mission to rendezvous with binary asteroids
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 a ... more
+ Industry starts work on Europe's Hera planetary defence mission
+ New small satellites to rendezvous with binary asteroids
+ SwRI-led study indicates sand-sized meteoroids are peppering asteroid Bennu
+ How small particles could reshape Bennu and other asteroids
+ OSIRIS-REx observes an asteroid in action
+ Why is Asteroid Bennu ejecting particles into space
+ Meteorites show transport of material in early solar system


Ball Aerospace selected by NASA to study sustainable land imaging technologies
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Ball Aerospace was selected by NASA to move forward with three studies to develop and demonstrate innovative Sustainable Land Imaging (SLI) technologies for potential use on future missions of the Landsat program, a series of Earth-observing satellite missions jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey that is entering its fifth decade of existence. The studies leverage previou ... more
+ NASA monitors carbon monoxide from California wildfires
+ Emissions pioneer GHGSat secures US$30m in Series B funding
+ China launches new optical remote-sensing satellite
+ Machine-learning nanosatellites to monitor global trade
+ Momentus awarded NASA TROPICS Pathfinder mission
+ ESA launches small Belgian satellite carrying VTT's remote sensing technology into space
+ NASA 'eyes' arrival of new NOAA weather satellite's 1st instrument
Solar Cycle 25 is here. NASA, NOAA scientists explain what that means
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2020
Solar Cycle 25 has begun. During a media event on Tuesday, experts from NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discussed their analysis and predictions about the new solar cycle - and how the coming upswing in space weather will impact our lives and technology on Earth, as well as astronauts in space. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group ... more
+ How scientists around the world track the Solar Cycle
+ Sunspot cycle is stabilizing, according to worldwide panel of experts
+ The presence of resonating cavities above sunspots has been confirmed
+ NASA awards SwRI contract to develop mission to image the Sun's poles
+ Solar storm forecasting gets boost with $5M grant
+ Europe's largest Solar Telescope GREGOR unveils magnetic details of the Sun
+ Finding magnetic eruptions in space, with an AI Assistant


FSU-led research team discovers unique supernova explosion
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
+ Revealing the secrets of high-energy cosmic particles
+ Hubble observations suggest a missing ingredient in dark matter theories
+ Neutron stars contribute little, but something's making gold
+ Holding up a mirror to a dark matter discrepancy
+ Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic center
+ Single photons from a silicon chip
+ Beyond the Brim, Sombrero galaxy's halo suggests turbulent past
Large Hadron Collider upgrade to be led by Manchester scientists
Manchester UK (SPX) Sep 14, 2020
Scientists, engineers and technicians from The University of Manchester, along with other UK research organisations, have embarked on a Pounds 26M project to help upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, on the French/Swiss border near Geneva. CERN's High Luminosity LHC project (HL-LHC), a large international collaboration, will upgrade the LHC by increasing the number of particle ... more
+ RIT scientists contribute to the first discovery of an intermediate-mass black hole
+ Brazilian researcher proposes universal mechanism for ejection of matter by black holes
+ An unexpected origin story for a lopsided black hole merger
+ LIGO, Virgo detectors record collision of massive black holes
+ UH Manoa researchers predict location of novel candidate for mysterious dark energy
+ Can black hole fire up cold heart of the Phoenix
+ Spinning black hole powers jet by magnetic flux
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