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  Kyiv, Ukraine (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 Over the past decade, the aerospace industry has evolved from a race by countries for kudos into an accelerator of economic and scientific development, where technology travels freely between different industries and generates capital. Space technologies are now widely used in security, navigation systems, information and communication technologies, environmental protection, agriculture, state monitoring and control, and other sectors. The increase in demand for space technology ... read more |
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Experience, charisma will steer NASA's choice for first woman on moonWashington DC (UPI) Sep 23, 2020 Experience, charisma - and previous exposure to radiation in space - will guide NASA's history-making decision to choose the first woman who walks on the moon, according to those familiar with space agency operations. ... more  
Could life exist deep underground on MarsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Techno ... more  
NASA chief warns Congress about Chinese space stationWashington (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 NASA chief Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers Wednesday it was crucial for the US to maintain a presence in Earth's orbit after the International Space Station is decommissioned so that China does not gain a strategic advantage. ... more  
Swedish Space Corporation to cease assisting Chinese companies operate satellitesMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 22, 2020 Beijing will soon lose the ability to access its weather and earth-monitoring satellites via ground station locations affiliated with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in Sweden, Chile and Austral ... more |
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Technology developed for Lunar landings makes self-driving cars safer on EarthWashington DC (NASA) Sep 21, 2020 NASA is advancing a laser-based technology designed to help spacecraft land on a proverbial dime for missions to the Moon and Mars. The technology will undergo testing on upcoming suborbital rocket ... more  
Lockheed Martin selected to integrate missile warning onto EGS via FORGEBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 17, 2020 As part of the U.S. Space Force's effort to build a more flexible, resilient and survivable missile early warning system, while also reducing long-term sustainment and operations costs, control of o ... more  
Japan proposes $51B defense budget, citing increased threatsWashington DC (UPI) Sep 22, 2020 Japan's defense budget for the next fiscal year seeks a record $51.6 billion and includes plans to build an electronic warfare unit as a check against China. Tokyo's military budget, which has ... more  
Let them eat rocksRiverside CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 UC Riverside is leading an effort that could help ensure food security and improve the worst effects of climate change - by studying rock-eating bacteria and fungi. These microbes break apart ... more  
SES advances digital transformation with cloud-first strategyLuxembourg (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 SES has announced plans to significantly advance its digital transformation across its enterprise, operations and development of new services for the cloud-scale era. As a cornerstone of the strateg ... more |
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 Sea ice triggered the Little Ice Age, finds a new study  
Emissions could add 15 inches to 2100 sea level riseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth ... more  |
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MethaneSAT completes critical design review, moves into production phaseSan Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 MethaneSAT has reached an important new milestone with completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase for both the mission's remote sensing instrument and the spacecraft platform "bus" that wi ... more  
Arctic sea ice minimum at second lowest on record in 2020Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 This year's Arctic sea ice cover shrank to the second-lowest extent since modern record keeping began in the late 1970s. An analysis of satellite data by NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Cent ... more  
Hyperbolic metamaterials exhibit 2T physicsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Metamaterials - nanoengineered structures designed for precise control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves - have enabled such innovations as invisibility cloaks and super-resolution microscop ... more  
New chronology of the Saturn SystemTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 A new chronology for the moons of Saturn has been developed by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Samuel W. Bell. "Most studies dating surfaces on the Moon or Mars rely o ... more  
Space ISAC releases statement on cybersecurity for space systemsColorado Springs CO (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 the Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) issued a statement in response to Space Policy Directive (SPD-5), released on Friday, September 4, 2020, by the Trump Administration, establi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
While advancing plans for unprecedented lunar exploration under the Artemis program, NASA also is building on a longstanding partnership with the Department of Defense with a new memorandum of understanding announced by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and U.S. Space Force (USSF) Chief of Space Operations Gen. John "Jay" Raymond.
The agreement, discussed during a Sept. 22 Mitchell Instit ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
Leading space systems company, Rocket Lab, has announced its next Electron launch will be a rideshare mission to low Earth orbit for Planet and Spaceflight Inc.'s customer Canon Electronics.
The mission - named 'In Focus' in a nod to the Earth-imaging satellites onboard - will lift-off in October from Rocket Lab's private orbital launch site, Launch Complex 1, in New Zealand.
The mis ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 
Recent science missions and results are bringing the search for life closer to home, and scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA) and the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) may have figured out how to determine whether life is - or was - lurking deep beneath the surface of Mars, the Moon, and other rocky objects in the universe.
While the search for life ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 
NASA chief Jim Bridenstine told lawmakers Wednesday it was crucial for the US to maintain a presence in Earth's orbit after the International Space Station is decommissioned so that China does not gain a strategic advantage.
The first parts of the ISS were launched in 1998 and it has been continuously lived in since 2000.
The station, which serves as a space science lab and is a partners ... more |
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 Kyiv, Ukraine (SPX) Sep 24, 2020  Over the past decade, the aerospace industry has evolved from a race by countries for kudos into an accelerator of economic and scientific development, where technology travels freely between different industries and generates capital.
Space technologies are now widely used in security, navigation systems, information and communication technologies, environmental protection, agriculture ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 
Metamaterials - nanoengineered structures designed for precise control and manipulation of electromagnetic waves - have enabled such innovations as invisibility cloaks and super-resolution microscopes. Using transformation optics, these novel devices operate by manipulating light propagation in "optical spacetime," which may be different from the actual physical spacetime.
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
University of Warwick astronomers have shown that water vapour can potentially be detected in the atmospheres of exoplanets by peering literally over the tops of their impenetrable clouds.
By applying the technique to models based upon known exoplanets with clouds the team has demonstrated in principle that high resolution spectroscopy can be used to examine the atmospheres of exoplanets t ... more |
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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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 
An international effort that brought together more than 60 ice, ocean and atmosphere scientists from three dozen international institutions has generated new estimates of how much of an impact Earth's melting ice sheets could have on global sea levels by 2100. If greenhouse gas emissions continue apace, Greenland and Antarctica's ice sheets could together contribute more than 15 inches (38 centi ... 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 (UPI) Sep 23, 2020 
NASA has released new details of its Artemis project to send astronauts to the surface of the moon by 2024, including the cost of its first phase - $28 billion.
In an update provided by the space agency Monday, the administrators said $16.2 billion of the total would be to produce the initial Human Landing System - the new-generation moon landers which would carry astronauts to the lunar s ... 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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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 
MethaneSAT has reached an important new milestone with completion of the Critical Design Review (CDR) phase for both the mission's remote sensing instrument and the spacecraft platform "bus" that will provide power and maneuvering, and transmit the vast stream of data from the high resolution sensors to ground stations. Completion of the CDR means that MethaneSAT is now entering the production s ... 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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 Jena, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
The matter between the stars in a galaxy - called the interstellar medium - consists not only of gas, but also of a great deal of dust. At some point in time, stars and planets originated in such an environment, because the dust particles can clump together and merge into celestial bodies.
Important chemical processes also take place on these particles, from which complex organic - possibl ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has joined a new NASA space mission to the far side of the Moon to investigate when the first stars began to form in the early universe.
The universe was dark and foggy during its "dark ages," just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. There were no light-producing structures yet like stars and galaxies, only large clouds of hydrogen gas. As the ... more |
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