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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 that were previously too difficult to characterise due to clouds that are too dense for sufficient light to pas ... read more |
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Sounds from around the Milky WayHuntsville AL (NASA) Sep 23, 2020 The center of our Milky Way galaxy is too distant for us to visit in person, but we can still explore it. Telescopes give us a chance to see what the Galactic Cent ... 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  
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  
Redcliffe Partners' Ukrainian Space Regulation ReviewKyiv, 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 differ ... more |
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Blue Origin postpones Texas launch of experiments for NASA, universitiesWashington DC (UPI) Sep 24, 2020 Blue Origin postponed the launch of the company's reusable New Shepard rocket Thursday in Texas, citing internal power supply issues for NASA and university experiments on board. ... more  
US probe to touch down on asteroid Bennu on October 20Washington (AFP) Sept 24, 2020 After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday. ... more  
Teams demonstrate swarm tactics in fourth major OFFSET Field ExperimentWashington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2020 Two Swarm Systems Integrators - Northrop Grumman Mission Systems and Raytheon BBN Technologies - are creating swarm systems architectures, advanced interfaces, and virtual and physical swarm testbed ... more  
China launches new satellite to monitor ocean environmentJiuquan (XNA) Sep 22, 2020 China on Monday sent a new ocean-monitoring satellite into orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. A Long March-4B rocket carrying the Haiyang-2C (HY-2C) satellite t ... more 
Evolution of radio-resistance is more complicated than previously thoughtWashington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 The toughest organisms on Earth, called extremophiles, can survive extreme conditions like extreme dryness (desiccation), extreme cold, space vacuum, acid, or even high-level radiation. So far, the ... more |
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 Warming temperatures are driving Arctic greening  
Our seas are capturing more carbon than expectedParis (ESA) Sep 23, 2020 Earth's oceans help to slow global warming by absorbing carbon from our atmosphere - but fully observing this crucial process in the upper ocean and lower atmosphere is difficult, as measurements ar ... more  |
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Remembrance of waves past: memory imprints motion on scattered wavesWashington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 Wave scattering appears practically everywhere in everyday life - from conversations across rooms, to ocean waves breaking on a shore, from colorful sunsets, to radar waves reflecting from aircraft. ... more 
Controlling ultrastrong light-matter coupling at room temperatureGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, together with colleagues in Russia and Poland, have managed to achieve ultrastrong coupling between light and matter at room temperature. T ... more 
Radio astronomers join moon mission to explore early universeCharlottesville 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 uni ... more  
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 |
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 23, 2020 
Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" Tuesday to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, said US space agency NASA, urging better management of objects in Earth's orbit.
Russian and US flight controllers worked together during a two-and-a-half-minute operation to adjust the station's orbit and move further away, avoiding collision.
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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.
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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.
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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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 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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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 
When we think about sponges, we tend to think of something soft and squishy. But researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) are using the glassy skeletons of marine sponges as inspiration for the next generation of stronger and taller buildings, longer bridges, and lighter spacecraft.
In a new paper published in Nature Materials, the rese ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
The toughest organisms on Earth, called extremophiles, can survive extreme conditions like extreme dryness (desiccation), extreme cold, space vacuum, acid, or even high-level radiation. So far, the toughest of all seems to be the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans - able to survive doses of radiation a thousand times greater than those fatal to humans.
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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 (AFP) Sept 24, 2020 
After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on October 20, touching down for a few seconds to collect rock and dust samples, the agency said Thursday.
Scientists hope the mission will help deepen our understanding of how planets formed and life began and provide insight on asteroids that could impact Earth.
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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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