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  Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2020 NASA announced on Tuesday that eight countries have signed an international agreement called the Artemis Accords that outlines the principles of future exploration of the Moon and beyond. The treaty paves the way for its founding members - Australia, Canada, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, United Arab Emirates, Britain and the United States - to participate in NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to Earth's nearest neighbor by 2024. "Artemis will be the broadest and most diverse inter ... read more |
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Blue Origin launches, lands NASA moon landing sensor experimentWashington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2020 Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA moon landing experiment aboard the company's reusable New Shepard rocket Tuesday morning in Texas. ... more 
SpaceX rocket issue delays astronaut launchWashington DC (UPI) Oct 12, 2020 SpaceX and NASA have delayed the launch of the company's upcoming astronaut mission to the first half of November to investigate a problem with gas generators in a Falcon 9 rocket's engine. ... more  
Abort and attitude control motors to support six crewed Artemis missionsPromontory UT (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 Northrop Grumman will continue supporting NASA's Artemis missions by providing six additional abort motors and attitude control motors (ACM) for the Orion human spaceflight capsule's Launch Abort Sy ... more 
NASA advances plan to commercialize International Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Oct 12, 2020 The planned launch of a private commercial airlock to the International Space Station in November will accelerate NASA's plan to turn the station into a hub of private industry, space agency officials said. ... more |
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Germany's Exolaunch Signs Long-Term Launch Agreement with SpaceX for Multiple Rideshare MissionsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 Exolaunch, the leading rideshare launch and deployment services provider for the New Space industry, signed a long-term launch agreement with SpaceX to secure Falcon 9 capacity for launching small s ... more  
U.S. space mining policies may trigger regulatory 'race to the bottom,'Washington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2020 In a newly published policy paper, a pair of Canadian scientists warn that the United States is angling to establish itself as the de facto gatekeeper of the moon and other celestial bodies. ... more 
Homemade space food for Matthias MaurerParis (ESA) Oct 11, 2020 ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer plans to take a small slice of Saarland to the International Space Station. Later this month, chefs from his home region in south-western Germany will whip up a s ... more 
Artemis I: demonstrating the capabilities of NASA's United NetworksGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 On our journey forward to the Moon and on to Mars, NASA must test our technologies and capabilities to ensure astronaut safety. The Artemis I mission will be an uncrewed flight test of the Orion spa ... more  
NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Peer Beneath Mars' SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2020 After touching down on the Red Planet Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial li ... more |
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 Massive stars are factories for ingredients to life  
Signals from distant stars connect optical atomic clocks across Earth for the first timeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 Using radio telescopes observing distant stars, scientists have connected optical atomic clocks on different continents. The results were published in the scientific journal Nature Physics by an int ... more  |
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The black hole always chirps twice: New clues deciphering the shape of black holesMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 Black holes are one the most fascinating objects in the Universe. At their surface, known as the 'event horizon', gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them. Usually, black holes ... more 
New measurements of the solar spectrum verify Einstein's theory of General RelativityWashington DC (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 This work, which verifies one of the predictions of Einstein's General Relativity, is to be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The General Theory of Relativity, published by ... more  
Despite pandemic-related setbacks, the NewSpace industry has new players enter the fieldLos 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 layo ... more  
Vaporized metal in the air of an exoplanetBern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting its star in less than two days - a process that takes Earth a year to complete. WASP-121b is very close to its star - about 40 ... more  
Researchers chronicle the Spitzer Space Telescope's legacyOrlando FL (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 To understand the significance of the Spitzer Space Telescope on the understanding of our solar system, think of what the steam engine meant for the industrial revolution. A national team of s ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 11, 2020 
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer plans to take a small slice of Saarland to the International Space Station.
Later this month, chefs from his home region in south-western Germany will whip up a selection of spaceworthy dishes and put these out for public vote. The most popular will be added to Matthias' space menu for his future mission, but he will not taste the winning Saarland speciality u ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 13, 2020  Blue Origin successfully launched a NASA moon landing experiment aboard the company's reusable New Shepard rocket Tuesday morning in Texas.
Liftoff took place from the company's launch facilities about 150 miles east of El Paso.
The capsule separated from the rocket minutes into the flight and spent about three minutes at the height of an arc just over the Kármán line, the alti ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 09, 2020 
After touching down on the Red Planet Feb. 18, 2021, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover will scour Jezero Crater to help us understand its geologic history and search for signs of past microbial life. But the six-wheeled robot won't be looking just at the surface of Mars: The rover will peer deep below it with a ground-penetrating radar called RIMFAX.
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 
Southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center will carry out 10 space launches including the Chang'e 5 lunar probe by the end of March next year, a center official said on Monday.
The center will carry out launch missions twice a month on average, with a minimum interval of five days, said Zhang Xueyu, director of the launch center.
The country on Monday sent its new optical remo ... more |
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 McLean, VA (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
Iridium Communications reports that company data shows consumers are indeed heading far off the grid during the COVID-19 pandemic and bringing Iridium devices with them. For example, an analysis of the data shows that in the month of August, there was a 26% year-over-year increase in Iridium subscribers visiting the top 10 most visited national parks in the United States.
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 Kongsberg, Norway (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 
The equipment is to be integrated in Airbus Defence and Space's new mobile communication satellite, Thuraya 4-NGS. The agreement includes manufacturing and test of electronics from Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace, division Space and Surveillance in Horten, Norway.
The satellite will deliver higher capabilities and flexibility while increasing capacity and coverage across Europe, Africa, Ce ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 
WASP-121b is an exoplanet located 850 light years from Earth, orbiting its star in less than two days - a process that takes Earth a year to complete. WASP-121b is very close to its star - about 40 times closer than Earth to the Sun. This close proximity is also the main reason for its immensely high temperature of around 2,500 to 3,000 degrees Celsius. This makes it an ideal object of study to ... more |
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 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
The many millions of bodies populating the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune's orbit are yet to reveal many of their secrets. In the 1980s, the space probes Pioneer 1 and 2 as well as Voyager 1 and 2 crossed this region - but without cameras on board.
NASA's spacecraft New Horizons sent the first images from the outermost edge of the solar system to Earth: in the summer of 2015 of dwarf planet Pl ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 11, 2020 
Holding over 80% of Earth's surface freshwater, lakes support and sustain communities across the planet. A new study uses satellite data to underline the vulnerability of these inland water bodies to climate change and warns of serious future consequences for many freshwater species worldwide.
Rising lake water temperatures, a consequence of climate change, strongly influences the distribu ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) Oct 11, 2020 
Despite being affected by three typhoons and the COVID-19 epidemic, Song Jilin's 20 hectares of rice on the Qixing farm, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, embraced a bumper harvest this year.
There was a lack of hands during the spring plowing season because of the epidemic, but the unmanned rice transplanters equipped with China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) helped out ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 23rd lunar day on the far side of the moon.
The lander woke up at 11:56 a.m. Sunday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 6:57 p.m. Saturday, said sources with the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
A lunar day is equal to 14 days on Ea ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2020 
In a newly published policy paper, a pair of Canadian scientists warn that the United States is angling to establish itself as the de facto gatekeeper of the moon and other celestial bodies.
Earlier this year, NASA published a new set of rules for lunar mining and other space activities, dubbing the voluntary guidelines the "Artemis Accords."
Aaron Boley and Michael Byers, author ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 05, 2020 
Earlier this year, ESA launched a contest asking the general public to submit ideas on how Earth observation data can help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, one of the two winning ideas is being officially released to the public via the 'Rapid Action on COVID-19 with Earth Observation' dashboard - a joint initiative from ESA and the European Commission. This citizen-contribut ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
New research shows that sunspots and other active regions can change the overall solar emissions. The sunspots cause some emissions to dim and others to brighten; the timing of the changes also varies between different types of emissions. This knowledge will help astronomers characterize the conditions of stars, which has important implications for finding exoplanets around those stars.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 
Researchers from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have made observations of a new magnetar, called Swift J1818.0-1607, which challenges current knowledge about two types of extreme stars, known as magnetars and pulsars. The research, just published in The Astrophysical Journal, was done using the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), an X-ray instrument aboard the Internat ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 09, 2020 
Black holes are one the most fascinating objects in the Universe. At their surface, known as the 'event horizon', gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them. Usually, black holes are quiet, silent creatures that swallow anything getting too close to them; however, when two black holes collide and merge together, they produce one of the most catastrophic events in Universe: in ... more |
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