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  Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 14, 2020 A three-person crew reached the International Space Station on Wednesday, the Russian space agency said, after a journey of just over three hours that was the fastest ever for a manned craft to the orbital lab. Roscosmos confirmed the successful docking of the Soyuz spacecraft in a tweet. The journey "took a record short three hours and three minutes," Russian news wire RIA Novosti added. "Three hours and three minutes," tweeted Roscosmos chief Dmitriy Rogozin in celebration of the journey that ... read more |
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Asteroid sampling technology tested on Blue Origin's suborbital rocketSan Antonio AZ (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Two Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) experiments were aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard suborbital rocket Tuesday from Van Horn, Texas. The Box of Rocks Experiment II (BORE II) tested a new techno ... more  
Russia shuns US lunar program, as space cooperation under threatWashington (AFP) Oct 12, 2020 Russia is unlikely to participate in the Moon-orbiting station planned by the United States, a Russian official said Monday, marking the probable end of the type of close cooperation seen for two decades on the International Space Station (ISS). ... more  
Airbus to bring first Mars samples to EarthToulouse, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Mars Sample Return's Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) - the first ever spacecraft to bring samples back to Earth fro ... more 
NASA announces eight-nation space coalition under 'Artemis Accords'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. ... more |
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Firefighters battle to save Mt. Wilson Observatory from California wildfireLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 As the Bobcat Fire in California burned out of control across the San Gabriel Mountains in mid-September, the blaze nearly destroyed a crucial center of astronomy - the Mount Wilson Observatory. ... more  
Two US satellites fail to enter orbit due to abnormal situation: ReportsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2020 The launch was carried out by multinational company Arianespace. This year the company has conducted six launches, which saw the company orbit 128 satellites. Most of them were CubeSats deployed fro ... more  
DOD official outlines US military space strategyWashington DC (DOD) Oct 11, 2020 In June, the Defense Department released its Space Strategy document. That document lays out the department's four-pillar strategy for work that needs to be done in space within the next decade and ... more  
Natural fibres threaded into satellites for safer missionsParis (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 A natural fibre that once wrapped early Egyptian mummies and was worn by Roman aristocrats has found a space-age purpose. Threading fibres from the flax plant through satellite panel material can he ... more  
Cobham SATCOM and Kepler Communications achieve excellent results for maritime terminals over LEO networkCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 Cobham SATCOM, a market leading provider of radio and satellite communications solutions, and Kepler Communications, a pioneer of nanosatellite telecommunications solutions, have announced its compl ... more |
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Accion Systems to demonstrate its propulsion system in NanoAvionics US rideshare missionColumbia IL (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has signed a contract with US-company Accion Systems to host their propulsion system, TILE 3, on-board its new ri ... more  |
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China's Xichang launch center to carry out 10 missions by end of MarchBeijing (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 cent ... more  
AAC Clyde Space to acquire Hyperion TechnologiesUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 AAC Clyde Space ("AAC") has reached an agreement to acquire 100 % of the shares in Hyperion Technologies BV, in a shares and cash deal. The current owners of Hyperion Technologies will receive 7,755 ... more 
Satellogic announces global consortium of geospatial imageryBuenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 Satellogic, the first company to develop a scalable Earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, has announced the public launch ... more 
Arianespace offers new shared smallsat payload opportunities on its Vega launcherParis, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Arianespace has announced that new shared payload opportunities to low Earth orbit (LEO) have been opened with its Vega launcher's Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS). For the next launch ... more 
Lockheed Martin to Acquire i3 Hypersonics PortfolioHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Lockheed Martin has signed of a definitive agreement to acquire a portion of Integration Innovation Inc. (i3), a software and systems engineering company based in Huntsville, Alabama. The portfolio ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 
The structure that will fly the first woman and next man to land on the Moon and return on the Artemis III mission by 2024 arrived at the Airbus integration hall in Bremen, Germany, from its Thales Alenia Space manufacturing site in Turin, Italy.
The structure was transported in an oversized container that keeps the temperature and humidity levels constant, taking a week to travel the 1200 ... 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 14, 2020 
A rover trundles over rocky terrain, its four metal wheels clattering along until they encounter a seemingly insurmountable hazard: a steep slope. Down below is a potential trove of science targets. With a typical rover, the operators would need to find another target, but this is DuAxel, a robot built for situations exactly like this.
The rover is actually made of a pair of two-wheeled ro ... more |
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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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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Activity in space continues to increase. Several thousand satellites, spacecraft and other objects orbit Earth at altitudes of between 300 and 3000 kilometres. In addition to the inactive satellites and upper stages of rockets that are left behind here after missions, there are hundreds of thousands of smaller pieces of debris.
Satellites and other space infrastructure such as the Internat ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Scientists suspect that the planet Jupiter played an important role in the development of life on Earth, because its gravity often deflects potentially dangerous asteroids and comets on their orbits into the zone of rocky planets in a way that reduces the number of catastrophic collisions.
This circumstance therefore repeatedly raises the question whether such a combination of planets is r ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed elsewhere in the Solar System.
However, as atmospheric temperatures on our planet decrease at altitude, on Pluto they heat up at altitude as a result of solar radiation. So where does this ice come fr ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Scientists at Oregon State University have shown that viral infection is involved in coral bleaching - the breakdown of the symbiotic relationship between corals and the algae they rely on for energy.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the research is important because understanding the factors behind coral health is crucial to efforts to save the Earth's embattled reefs - between ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
NASA's Artemis programme aims to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. Commercial and international partners will collaborate to achieve a sustainable presence on the lunar surface as a steppingstone to the first human mission to Mars.
The UK will play a key role in this mission. Businesses across the UK will be involved in building the service module and habitation mo ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2020  NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission, launched on Sept. 8, 2016, is the first U.S. mission designed to retrieve a pristine sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth for further study. The mission's target is Bennu, a carbon-rich near-Earth asteroid that is potentially hazardous, representing an approximately 1 in 2,700 chance of impacting the Earth late in the 22nd century.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2020 
The launch was carried out by multinational company Arianespace. This year the company has conducted six launches, which saw the company orbit 128 satellites. Most of them were CubeSats deployed from Vega SSMS and Soyuz missions.
Two US satellites have failed to enter orbit due to an abnormal situation that occured during the launch of a Vega rocket, a source told Sputnik.
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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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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have measure how much dark matter there is around galaxies, and have found that it varies between 10 and 300 times the quantity of visible matter.
However, a few years ago, the discovery of a very diffuse object, named Dragonfly 44 ... more |
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 Muenster, Germany (SPX) Oct 08, 2020 
The surface of metals plays a key role in many technologically relevant areas, such as catalysis, sensor technology and battery research. For example, the large-scale production of many chemical compounds takes place on metal surfaces, whose atomic structure determines if and how molecules react with one another.
At the same time, the surface structure of a metal influences its electronic ... more |
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