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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 NASA says astronauts on the International Space Station are closing in on the source of a small air leak that had been growing in size. Astronauts first became aware of a leak at the station more than a year ago, but haven't been able to find the specific source. Officials said the size of the leak has grown larger in recent months. Tenants of the space station began to check each module this week after being alerted by flight controllers. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmo ... read more |
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Russia to launch two new modules to Space Station in April, September 2021Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 Russia, for the first time in 11 years, plans to launch two new modules to the International Space Station (ISS) in April and September 2021, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik. ... more  
The topography of the Jezero crater landing site of NASA's Mars 2020 missionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 NASA's 2020 Mars mission has been en route to the Red Planet for two months now. The Perseverance rover on board the spacecraft is set to land in Jezero crater on 18 February 2021. There, the rover, ... more  
Search for New Worlds at Home with NASA's Planet Patrol ProjectGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the public to collaborate with profe ... more  
Venus Might Be Habitable Today, If Not for JupiterRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 Venus might not be a sweltering, waterless hellscape today, if Jupiter hadn't altered its orbit around the Sun, according to new UC Riverside research. Jupiter has a mass that is two-and-a-hal ... more |
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Robopilot unmanned air platform returns to flightWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Center for Rapid Innovation (CRI) and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated resumed flight testing of the ROBOpilot unmanned air platform and completed a successfu ... more  
US Army to leverage BlackSky's satellites for tactical GEOINT ProgramHerndon VA (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 BlackSky, a leading provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery, reports the next phase of expansion of its high-revisit commercial satellite constellation ... more  
First tests for landing the Martian Moons eXploration RoverBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Ph ... more  
US-Qatar Partnership aims to find buried water in Earth's desertsPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2020 Earth's driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica. ... more  
New research on how planetary forces shape the Earth's surfaceWellington NZ (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Have you ever wondered why the Earth's surface is separated into two distinct worlds - the oceans and large tracts of land? Why aren't land and water more mixed up, forming a landscape of lake ... more |
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Opterus awarded NASA contract to develop large retractable blanket solar arrayLoveland CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded Opterus Research and Development, Inc. a groundbreaking project that will pave the way for very large lunar surface solar arrays. ... more  |
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Russia reports 'non-standard' air leak on Space StationMoscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 Russia said Tuesday that astronauts had found an air leak in its section of the International Space Station, with a senior space official calling the air loss beyond expected levels. ... more 
ISS Crew continues troubleshooting as tests isolate small leakHouston TX (NASA) Sep 30, 2020 Late Monday night, the Expedition 63 crew was awakened by flight controllers to continue troubleshooting a small leak on the International Space Station that appeared to grow in size. Ground analysi ... 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  
NASA awards launch services contract for IMAP missionWashington DC (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission, which incl ... more 
Rocket Factory Augsburg signs agreement with Andoya Space for maiden flightAugsburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), a participation of space technology company OHB SE, will be establishing a launch site for a micro launcher together with Norwegian company Andoya Space. The two pa ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 
Russia said Tuesday that astronauts had found an air leak in its section of the International Space Station, with a senior space official calling the air loss beyond expected levels.
The crew on the ISS - Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner and NASA astronaut Christopher Cassidy - have been searching for the air leak since August, first checking the US segment.
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 Augsburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), a participation of space technology company OHB SE, will be establishing a launch site for a micro launcher together with Norwegian company Andoya Space. The two partners have now signed a letter of intent to this effect. The site is to provide launch services for small satellites from 2022.
"This partnership is of key importance as it will enable RFA and ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2020  When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, they brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. The plan was for scientists on Earth to aim lasers at them and calculate the time it took for the beams to return. This provided exceptionally precise measurements of the Moon's orbit and shape, including how it changed slightly based on Earth's gra ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2020 
The third batch of Chinese astronauts has been selected for the nation's coming space station mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Thursday morning.
The 18 new astronauts - 17 men and one woman - are in three groups: seven will become spacecraft pilots, another seven will turn into spaceflight engineers, and the last four will be mission payload specialists, the agency said in a ... 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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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 
The Chang'e-4 lunar lander touched down on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019, with a German instrument for measuring space radiation on board. Since then, the Lunar Lander Neutron and Dosimetry (LND) instrument has been measuring temporally resolved cosmic radiation for the first time. Earlier devices could only record the entire 'mission dose'.
In its current issue, the scientifi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the public to collaborate with professional astronomers as they sort through a stockpile of star-studded images collected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
"Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2020  A new study authored by Southwest Research In-stitute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Leiva and Buie utilized data obtained by the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON), a citizen science research net-work dedicated to observing the outer solar system. The study was published this month in The Astrophy ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2020 
Earth's driest ecosystems are a study in extremes: They can be blazingly hot stretches of sand like the Sahara Desert or shatteringly cold expanses of ice such as those in Greenland and Antarctica. These arid regions receive very little annual precipitation, and the effects of climate change in these ecosystems are poorly understood. A joint effort between NASA and the Qatar Foundation aims to a ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center's Lockheed Martin-built GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (GPS III SV04) satellite was encapsulated within a SpaceX payload fairing at Astrotech Space Operations Florida facility on Sept. 21 in preparation for its upcoming launch on Sept. 29 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The 15-minute launch window opens at 9:55 p.m. EDT.
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 Dubai (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 
The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it will launch an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024 as it seeks to expand its space sector.
The UAE - a collection of seven emirates better known for its skyscrapers, palm-shaped islands and opulent mega attractions - is a newcomer to the world of space exploration but quickly making its mark.
In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
On 15 September, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed with the German company OHB the 129.4-million euro contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing, and testing of the HERA mission. This mission, ESA's first ever planetary defense mission, will be Europe's contribution to an international asteroid deflection effort carried out jointly with NASA and due for lift-off in October 2024. ... more |
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 Wellington NZ (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Have you ever wondered why the Earth's surface is separated into two distinct worlds - the oceans and large tracts of land?
Why aren't land and water more mixed up, forming a landscape of lakes? And why is most of the land relatively low and close to sea level, making coastal regions vulnerable to rising seas?
Our new research uncovers the fundamental forces that control the Earth'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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
A University of Colorado Boulder astrophysicist is searching the light coming from a distant, and extremely powerful celestial object, for what may be the most elusive substance in the universe: dark matter.
In two recent studies, Jeremy Darling, a professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, has taken a deep look at PSR J1745-2900. This body is a magnetar, or a typ ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020  Fairy circles are one of nature's greatest enigmas and most visually stunning phenomena. An international research team led by the University of Gottingen has now, for the first time, collected detailed data to show that Alan Turing's model explains the striking vegetation patterns of the Australian fairy circles. In addition, the researchers showed that the grasses that make up these patterns a ... more |
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