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  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones, NASA has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024. In the 18 months since NASA accepted a bold challenge to accelerate its exploration plans by more than four years and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade, the agency has continued to gain momentum toward sending humans to the Moon again for the ... read more |
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Aerospace Corporation dives into the futureLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 The Aerospace Corporation has plunged into the future of space and wants to take you along for the ride. In its most recent release, Pathfinder's Guide to the Space Enterprise, Aerospace dives into ... more 
Be a Space Traffic ControllerBethesda MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 In the not-too-distant future an international regulatory and enforcement agency may be looking for Space Traffic Controllers to fill hundreds of positions for well-trained professionals. It i ... more  
OSIRIS-REx finds possible pieces of Vesta on BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 In an interplanetary faux pas, it appears some pieces of asteroid Vesta ended up on asteroid Bennu, according to observations from NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The new result sheds light on the int ... more 
Ryugu's rocky past laid bareTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 The asteroid Ryugu may look like a solid piece of rock, but it's more accurate to liken it to an orbiting pile of rubble. Given the relative fragility of this collection of loosely bound boulders, r ... more |
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AFRL technology traveling to MarsKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 The Red Planet, Mars, will soon be receiving more visitors when NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover accompanied by its flight companion, a 4-pound Mars Helicopter named Ingenuity, touches down in Fe ... more  
Arianespace to resume OneWeb constellation deploymentEvry, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Arianespace and OneWeb will resume launch operations to continue the deployment of the OneWeb constellation. The next Soyuz launch is planned as soon as December 2020 from the Vostochny Cosmod ... more  
USSF and NOAA begin joint operations of infrared weather satelliteLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 The U.S. Space Force has declared Initial Operational Capability of the Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary (EWS-G1) spacecraft. EWS-G1, formerly known as GOES-13, was transferred ... more  
Hardware testing heats up at Marshall test labHuntsville AL (NASA) Sep 21, 2020 Every piece of hardware flown in space is first tested rigorously on the ground to ensure that it can perform in extreme environments. Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... more 
Mission set to collect sample from asteroidFuzhou (XNA) Sep 21, 2020 China intends to carry out a mission to collect a sample from the smallest and closest "quasi-satellite" to Earth around 2025, said a key figure in the country's deep-space exploration program. ... more |
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ESA brings space industry together onlineParis (ESA) Sep 21, 2020 Europe's space community came together through two days of virtual presentations and business-to-business meetings during ESA's online Industry Space Days on 16-17 September. A record 1900 par ... more  |
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China plans to launch Taiji-2 satellite before 2024: chief scientistBeijing (XNA) Sep 21, 2020 China plans to launch Taiji-2, a satellite to conduct in-orbit experiments on key technologies related to space-based gravitational wave detection, before 2024, Wu Yueliang, chief scientist of the T ... more 
NASA's 2021 Student Launch Competition OpensHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 It actually IS rocket science for the student participants in NASA's Student Launch competition - one of seven NASA Artemis Student Challenges. Every year, NASA challenges middle school, high ... more 
Planets take virtual shape on Earth with NASA knowledge and imageryHuntsville AL (SPX) Sep 15, 2020 In a time of quarantines and online learning, guided strolls along the surface of Mars are especially appealing. These tours are possible with Access Mars, a free virtual reality experience of the R ... more 
SwRI instruments on Rosetta help detect ultraviolet aurora at cometSan Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Data from Southwest Research Institute-led instruments aboard ESA's Rosetta spacecraft have helped reveal auroral emissions in the far ultraviolet around a comet for the first time. At Earth, ... more 
Comet Chury's ultraviolet auroraBern, Germany (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 In the aurora borealis on Earth, electrically charged particles of the solar wind move along the Earth's magnetic field. At high latitudes, these strike nitrogen and oxygen atoms and molecules in th ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 
In the not-too-distant future an international regulatory and enforcement agency may be looking for Space Traffic Controllers to fill hundreds of positions for well-trained professionals.
It is likely that these positions will be located in an international metropolis such as Washington, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Rome or Moscow. Applicants must pass a rigorous training program including ma ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 15, 2020  It actually IS rocket science for the student participants in NASA's Student Launch competition - one of seven NASA Artemis Student Challenges.
Every year, NASA challenges middle school, high school, college, and university students from around the United States to design, build, test, and then fly and land a high-powered amateur rocket to at least 3,500 feet above the ground. In order to ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 
The Red Planet, Mars, will soon be receiving more visitors when NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover accompanied by its flight companion, a 4-pound Mars Helicopter named Ingenuity, touches down in February 2021.
The Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Space Vehicles Directorate has three important technologies being using on Perseverance and Ingenuity, launched together on an Atlas V roc ... more |
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 Shanghai (XNA) Sep 18, 2020 
Spacecraft enthusiasts can catch a glimpse of a newly developed commercial Chinese rocket at the ongoing China International Industry Fair in Shanghai.
The medium-sized carrier rocket was developed by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology affiliated to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. It is 59 meters long, with a take-off thrust of about 500 tonnes and a tak ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 21, 2020 
Europe's space community came together through two days of virtual presentations and business-to-business meetings during ESA's online Industry Space Days on 16-17 September.
A record 1900 participants registered for the event. Companies, including hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises, from ESA Member States, Cooperating States and Associate States networked via an online platfor ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 15, 2020  In a time of quarantines and online learning, guided strolls along the surface of Mars are especially appealing. These tours are possible with Access Mars, a free virtual reality experience of the Red Planet, with interactive landmarks and narration by a NASA scientist, using the Planetary Data System (PDS).
PDS is a long-term archive of digital data products returned from NASA's planetary ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 17, 2020 
For the first time, an intact, giant exoplanet has been discovered orbiting close to a white dwarf star. This discovery shows that it is possible for Jupiter-sized planets to survive their star's demise and settle into close orbits around the remaining stellar ember, near the habitable zone. This foretells one possible future for our own Solar System when the Sun ages into a white dwarf.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 22, 2020 
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory met a significant milestone recently by delivering key elements of an ice-penetrating radar instrument for an ESA (European Space Agency) mission to explore Jupiter and its three large icy moons.
While following the laboratory's stringent COVID-19 Safe-at-Work precautions, JPL teams managed to build and ship the receiver, transmitter, and elect ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Sep 16, 2020 
Building upon more than two decades of research, a new web-based platform called OpenET will soon be putting NASA data in the hands of farmers, water managers and conservation groups to accelerate improvements and innovations in water management. OpenET uses publicly available data and open source models to provide satellite-based information on evapotranspiration (the "ET" in OpenET) in areas a ... 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 22, 2020 
Following a series of critical contract awards and hardware milestones, NASA has shared an update on its Artemis program, including the latest Phase 1 plans to land the first woman and the next man on the surface of the Moon in 2024.
In the 18 months since NASA accepted a bold challenge to accelerate its exploration plans by more than four years and establish sustainable exploration by the ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 21, 2020 
The asteroid Ryugu is a loose assemblage of fragments from a collision between two asteroids, according to new research published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Some asteroids are composed of large, solid pieces of rock, but Ryugu is more like a rubble pile than a rock. It is too small and fragile to have remained intact for very long - scientists estimate Ryugu formed between ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force has declared Initial Operational Capability of the Electro-optical Infrared Weather System Geostationary (EWS-G1) spacecraft. EWS-G1, formerly known as GOES-13, was transferred to the U.S. Air Force by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2019 under an agreement between the U.S. Air Force and NOAA for Interagency Cooperation on Collection of Space-Ba ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 
In a paper published in Nature Astronomy, researchers report the first ever clear images of nanojets - bright thin lights that travel perpendicular to the magnetic structures in the solar atmosphere, called the corona - in a process that reveals the existence of one of the potential coronal heating candidates: nanoflares.
In pursuit of understanding why the Sun's atmosphere is so much hott ... more |
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 Leuven, Belgium (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 
Astronomers present an explanation for the mesmerising shapes of planetary nebulae. The discovery is based on an extraordinary set of observations of stellar winds around ageing stars. Contrary to common consensus, the team found that stellar winds are not spherical but have a shape similar to that of planetary nebulae. The team concludes that interaction with an accompanying star or exoplanet s ... more |
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 Mumbai, India (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 
An international team of astrophysicists has found distinctive signatures of black hole event horizon, unmistakably separating them from neutron stars - objects, comparable to black holes in mass and size but confined within a hard surface. This is by far the strongest steady signature of stellar-mass black holes to date.
The team consisting of Mr. Srimanta Banerjee and Professor Sudip Bha ... more |
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