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  Moscow (AFP) Oct 15, 2020 The oxygen supply system has failed in a module on the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) but the crew is in no danger, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Thursday. The oxygen supply system on the Zvezda module on the orbital lab failed late on Wednesday but a second system on the American segment is operating normally, a Roscosmos spokesperson told AFP. "Nothing threatens the security of the crew and the ISS," said the spokesperson, adding this repair work to fix the issu ... read more |
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AFRL satellite program preparing future workforceKirtland AFB NM (AFNS) Oct 08, 2020 After more than 20 years and 5,500 graduates, the Air Force Research Laboratory's University Nanosat Program is still providing college students around the country with a hands-on education in desig ... more  
Self-eating rocket whets appetite for developmentGlasgow UK (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 A 'self-eating' rocket engine which aims to put small payloads into orbit by burning its own structure as propellant has won financial support from the UK Government. The Defence and Security ... more  
NASA to Broadcast OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Collection ActivitiesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a sample ... more  
KSAT passed 20 000 contacts in September on KSATLITE, their Smallsat networkTromso, Norway (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 KSAT has delivered more than 20 000 passes on the KSATLITE network in September. This is all-time-high for LITE, doubling the number of supports per month since January this year, and the growth see ... more |
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Airbus selected for ESA's Moon lander studyBremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as one of the two primes for the definition phase of the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3 ). In this study (phase A/B1), Airbus will de ... more  
Russia announces successful test of hypersonic missileWashington DC (UPI) Oct 07, 2020 Russia announced the successful test-firing of its Zircon hypersonic missile on Wednesday, striking a target 300 miles away after traveling at over 6,100 mph. ... 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 
NASA Announces Partners to Advance 'Tipping Point' Technologies for the Moon, MarsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 NASA has selected 14 American companies, including several small businesses, as partners to develop a range of technologies that will help forge a path to sustainable Artemis operations on the Moon ... more 
NASA's Kate Rubins, 2 cosmonauts dock with ISSWashington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2020 The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft successfully launched early Wednesday from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station, with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey ... more |
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No social distancing at the beginning of lifeZagreb, Croatia (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Bacteria are a dominant form of life that inhabit every environment on Earth. This includes human bodies, where they outnumber our cells and genes and regulate our existence for good or bad. Bacteri ... more  |
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Space Flight Laboratory announces launch of two satellitesToronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of 52 distinct small satellites over 22 years, has announced the launch of the Kepler-4 and Kepler-5 CubeSats. These two satellites, benefit from the exten ... more  
China's self-developed BDS sees thriving applicationsHarbin (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. ... more  
Boeing to build unmanned aerial vehicles in AustraliaWashington DC (UPI) Oct 05, 2020 Boeing said on Monday it will design and develop military aircraft, including unmanned vehicles, in Australia - the first time it has done so outside the United States. ... more  
Global lake warming trend threatens freshwater speciesParis (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 t ... more 
New crew reaches ISS in record timeAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 14, 2020 A three-person crew successfully reached the International Space Station on Wednesday aboard a Russian rocket after the fastest ever journey from Earth of just over three hours. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2020 
The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft successfully launched early Wednesday from Kazakhstan to the International Space Station, with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov aboard.
The spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1:45 a.m. EDT for the two-orbit, three-hour flight to the ISS, where the crew of Expedition 64 were scheduled to ... more |
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 Paris, 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 opportunity - Vega Flight VV18, targeted for the first quarter of 2021 - five companies already have signed contracts for payload slots, thereby fully booking the capacity on this mission.
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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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 Seattle WA (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
Spaceflight Inc. reports it will execute two launches on two different continents in a matter of weeks; one aboard a Rocket Lab Electron and the other on NewSpace India Limited's (NSIL) PSLV. For both missions, Spaceflight arranged the launch and is providing mission management and rideshare integration services for its customers Canon Electronics, Kleos Space and Spire.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
Astroscale Holdings Inc. ("Astroscale"), the market-leader in securing long-term orbital sustainability, has closed its Series E round with additional funding of U.S. $51 million from a group of investors led by aSTART Co., Ltd. ("aSTART"). This latest round brings the total investment raised to U.S. $191 million and makes Astroscale the most funded on-orbit services and logistics company global ... 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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 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
The Gateway program is making progress toward establishing a sustainable lunar presence. Behind the scenes, women like Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram are working hard to make the Gateway a reality, while encouraging the next generation of explorers to pursue their passion and achieve success.
Meet Sharada Vitalpur, Communication and Tracking Systems Manager for Gateway
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:12 p.m. EDT.
Live coverage of the spacecraft's descent to the asteroid's surface for its "Touch-And-Go," or TAG, maneuver, which will be managed by Lo ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
Serco Europe, a leading provider of services to the space sector, has just launched a research incubator at its Italian Head Office near Rome.
The Red Lab is a research hub which aims to strengthen Serco's relationships with universities and research institutes and encourage cooperation in space research and innovation.
Through the Red Lab, Serco will provide research opportunities i ... 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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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
Some supermassive black holes launch powerful beams of material, or jets, away from them, while others do not. Astronomers may now have identified why.
Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's XMM-Newton, Germany's ROentgen SATellite (ROSAT), the NSF's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and other telescopes, researchers have studied more than 700 ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos' mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. (A mysterious entity called dark ... more |
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