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  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 |
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Venus is one stop in our search for lifeWashington 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  
Study shows difficulty in finding evidence of life on MarsIthica 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  
PLD Space closes new investment in tie-up with Arcano PartnersElche, 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 
US to stop using Russian rocket engine RD-180 in Mid-2020s says ULAMoscow (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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Hughes pioneers self-healing capability to boost enterprise wide area network performance using AIGermantown 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  
Making waves in spaceParis (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  
Ball Aerospace selected by NASA to study sustainable land imaging technologiesBoulder 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  
Dark matter destruction ruled out in galactic centerKashiwa, 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 
Announcing Homestead: satellite ground station coming soon to Chippewa CountyKinross 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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 MOSAiC Arctic expedition reaches North Pole 
Sunspot cycle is stabilizing, according to worldwide panel of expertsSunspot, 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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NASA's Partnership Between Art and Science: A Collaboration to CherishGreenbelt 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 
Neutron stars contribute little, but something's making goldSpotswood, 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  
"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 
How scientists around the world track the Solar CycleGreenbelt 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  
Industry starts work on Europe's Hera planetary defence missionParis (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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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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