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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 The U.S. Space Force will start to fly missions on reused SpaceX rockets next year to save millions of dollars, the service announced Friday. The Space Force will fly two GPS satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 first-stage booster. The lower cost that SpaceX charges for reused rockets will save taxpayers $52.7 million, a statement from the military branch said. SpaceX has reused boosters since March 2017, but the Space Force wanted to see the technology proven before flying costly satell ... read more |
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Back to Venus: Upstart company wants to beat NASA in search for lifeWashington (AFP) Sept 25, 2020 Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor? ... more  
SpaceX postpones Starlink launch as thick clouds persistWashington DC (UPI) Sep 28, 2020 SpaceX postponed a launch of 60 Starlink communications satellites Monday from Florida due to thick clouds above the launch pad. ... more  
Radiation levels on Moon 2.6 times greater than ISS: studyWashington (AFP) Sept 25, 2020 As the US prepares to return humans to the Moon this decade, one of the biggest dangers future astronauts will face is space radiation that can cause lasting health effects, from cataracts to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. ... more 
Powerful Delta Heavy rocket ready for another launch attempt from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 A powerful Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled for another attempt to launch a classified spy satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense from Florida just after midnight Saturday. ... more |
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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  
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  
Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universeLancaster UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Physicists from Lancaster University have established why objects moving through superfluid helium-3 lack a speed limit in a continuation of earlier Lancaster research. Helium-3 is a rare is ... more  
JPL meets unique challenge, delivers radar hardware for Jupiter MissionPasadena 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 exp ... more 
Observations give rare top-to-surface glimpse of VenusLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 22, 2020 Observations of Venus by NASA's Parker Solar Probe, JAXA's Akatsuki mission and astronomers around the world have given a rare cloud-top-to-surface glimpse of the Earth's neighbouring planet. The re ... 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  |
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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 
New approach to exotic quantum matterBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 While in a three-dimensional world, all particles must be either fermions or bosons, it is known that in fewer dimensions, the existence of particles with intermediate quantum statistics, known as a ... more  
Cosmonauts not ready to try Russia's virus vaccineMoscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2020 Russian cosmonauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said on Thursday it was too early to get a coronavirus vaccine touted by President Vladimir Putin. ... more 
Squeezed light makes Virgo's mirrors jitterHannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 Quantum mechanics does not only describe how the world works on its smallest scales, but also affects the motion of macroscopic objects. An international research team, including four scientists fro ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 25, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force will start to fly missions on reused SpaceX rockets next year to save millions of dollars, the service announced Friday.
The Space Force will fly two GPS satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 first-stage booster. The lower cost that SpaceX charges for reused rockets will save taxpayers $52.7 million, a statement from the military branch said.
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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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 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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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
Quantum mechanics does not only describe how the world works on its smallest scales, but also affects the motion of macroscopic objects. An international research team, including four scientists from the MPI for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institut/AEI) and Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, has shown how they can influence the motion of mirrors, each weighing more than 40 kg, i ... 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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 Berkeley UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 
Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts. But as scientists discovered in 1996, flares can also create seismic activity - sunquakes - releasing impulsive acoustic waves that penetrate deep into the sun's interior.
While the relationship betwee ... 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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