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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 In the United States, NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace, and giants like Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Lockheed Martin, have avoided the massive layoffs of other technology-focused industries and emerged relatively unscathed from recent economic downturns. 2020 started on an exciting foot with 22 successful launches and $1.2 billion in investments. By springtime, however, progress began to falter as the world went into lockdown from Covid-19. ... read more |
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NASA science and cargo on route to ISS on Northrop Grumman Resupply MissionWashington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 A Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with nearly 8,000 pounds of scientific investigations, technology demonstrations, commercial products, ... more  
SpaceX aborts GPS satellite launch from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 02, 2020 SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the U.S. military's latest model of Global Positioning System satellite from Florida on Friday night 2 seconds before the planned liftoff, just as the engine ignition sequence was beginning. ... more 
Russian ISS module to be filled with confetti to find microscopic air leakMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 A small air leak was registered aboard the International Space Station late last year. By August of 2020, the leak became significantly larger, prompting the station's crew to isolate inside the Rus ... more 
ISS Crew instructed to resolve air leak issue before mission change in Mid-OctoberMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 The current expedition on the International Space Station (ISS) has been tasked with fixing the air leak in the Russian Zvezda module before the arrival of the next crew later in mid-October, accord ... more |
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Very Large Telescope finds 6 galaxies trapped in web of black holeWashington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 Using the Very Large Telescope, a powerful observatory in Chile, astronomers have identified six galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole when the universe was just 900 million years old. ... more  
LSU develops method to improve gravitational wave detector sensitivityBaton Rouge LA (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 Gravitational wave detectors have opened a new window to the universe by measuring the ripples in spacetime produced by colliding black holes and neutron stars, but they are ultimately limited by qu ... more  
Solar Orbiter releases first data to the publicParis (ESA) Oct 01, 2020 ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from the suite of in-situ instruments that meas ... more  
'Long Way Off': US Space Force Will Launch Humans Into Orbit 'At Some Point'Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 Despite its very futuristic-sounding name, service members of the US Space Force (USSF) perform their roles down here on planet Earth - at least for now, according to a senior officer at US Space Co ... more  
Do Directed Energy Weapons finally live up to their expectations?Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 23, 2020 Since the mid-1960s few weapons have held as much potential and have constantly failed to live up to that potential as Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). However, since the turn of this century even as ... more |
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 Japan's military seeks record $52 bn budget 
UK to launch new international space collaborationsLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 International space projects in robotics, disaster relief and space debris could be among the new pioneering collaborations backed by 5 million pounds of new Government funding. Through the Go ... more  |
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How intense and dangerous is cosmic radiation on the MoonBerlin, 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 Dosim ... more  
China sends two environmental monitoring satellites into spaceTaiyuan, China (XNA) Sep 29, 2020 China has successfully launched two environmental monitoring satellites from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province on Sunday. A Long March-4B rocket carrying the HJ-2 ... more  
NASA Technology to reveal crop health insights for agriculture industryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 A Georgia-based company called Cybercorps LLC plans to offer real-time agricultural data for farmers, resource managers, first responders, and other interested user groups with the help of a patente ... more 
Elon Musk to visit 2 SpaceX launch sites in Florida following tech scrubsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 After the second recent cancellation of a Falcon 9 rocket launch, Musk apparently wants to see for himself what is going wrong, as his goal is to increase the total number of launch missions to 48 i ... more 
Russian Cosmonauts to test new system extracting water from urine on ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 05, 2020 The urine-reclaming system helps decrease the amount of water that needs to be shipped to the ISS via cargo spacecraft. Russian cosmonauts on board of the International Space Station are getti ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
A camera closes in on a detailed model satellite, to simulate the extreme 'guidance navigation and control' (GNC) challenge of rendezvousing with an uncooperative target, such as a derelict satellite or distant asteroid.
This scene takes place in ESA's GNC Rendezvous, Approach and Landing Simulator, or GRALS, based at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, which is used to test vis ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 02, 2020 
SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the U.S. military's latest model of Global Positioning System satellite from Florida on Friday night 2 seconds before the planned liftoff, just as the engine ignition sequence was beginning.
The satellite was to carried aloft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:43 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station - the company's third GPS launc ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 05, 2020 
The path that ExoMars 2022 will follow to reach the Red Planet is set. The trajectory that will take the spacecraft from Earth to Mars in 264 days foresees a touchdown on the martian surface on 10 June 2023, at around 17:30 CEST (15:30 UTC).
The weather at Mars, the type of launcher and the laws of physics governing the planets determined a 12-day launch window starting on 20 September 202 ... 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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020  In the United States, NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace, and giants like Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Lockheed Martin, have avoided the massive layoffs of other technology-focused industries and emerged relatively unscathed from recent economic downturns. 2020 started on an exciting foot with 22 successful launches and $1.2 billion in investments. By springtime, however, progress began to falter as the world went into lockdown from Covid-19. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) has announced the release of a number of recommendations addressing the issue of space traffic management, with the goal of supporting a long-term sustainable and safe space environment for commercial satellites and spacecraft. The recommendations were included in a SIA White Paper titled "The Future of Space and Space Traffic Coordination and Management ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Astronomers using the GRAVITY instrument at the VLT telescopes in Chile have now obtained the first direct confirmation of an exoplanet discovered by radial velocity. As the planet "Beta Pictoris c" is in a close orbit around its parent star, this is the first time that the faint glint of the exoplanet next to the glare of the star has been directly observed. With these observations, astronomers ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
Because marine organisms observe changes in their environment using a combination of senses, they offer unique insights into the underwater world that are difficult to replicate using traditional engineering techniques.
DARPA's Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program aims to leverage this phenomenon to augment the Department of Defense's existing, hardware-based maritime monitorin ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder have laid out a roadmap for a decade of scientific research at the Moon.
Teams from the university will participate in four upcoming or proposed space missions that seek to use the Moon as a unique laboratory for peering back to the dawn of the cosmos - collecting unprecedented data on an epoch in the life of the universe before the first st ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
A study of comet motions indicates that the solar system has a second alignment plane. Analytical investigation of the orbits of long-period comets shows that the aphelia of the comets, the point where they are farthest from the Sun, tend to fall close to either the well-known ecliptic plane where the planets reside or a newly discovered "empty ecliptic." This has important implications for mode ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
Ubotica Technologies announced that its Artificial Intelligence technology has successfully enabled the first ever hardware-accelerated AI inference of Earth Observation images on an in-orbit satellite.
This historic event has been achieved onboard Pi-sat-1, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) demonstration cubesat that was launched on a Vega rocket on September ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 01, 2020 
ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from the suite of in-situ instruments that measure the conditions surrounding the spacecraft.
The instruments contributing data to the release are the Energetic Particle Detector (EPD), the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument, and the Ma ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 
Using the Very Large Telescope, a powerful observatory in Chile, astronomers have identified six galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole when the universe was just 900 million years old.
The discovery, described Thursday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, helps explain how supermassive black holes got so big so soon after the Big Bang.
"This research was ... more |
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