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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2020 SpaceX has launched its 14th group of about 60 satellites from Florida on Sunday morning for the company's Starlink broadband network, which is approaching a full-scale public trial period. Liftoff was on schedule at 8:25 a.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The launch would boost the number of satellites in orbit to nearly 800. ... read more |
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Orion spacecraft ready to return humans to deep space, officials sayWashington DC (UPI) Oct 16, 2020 The anticipated return to deep space in 2024 for the first time in nearly 50 years brings a unique set of challenges that only one spacecraft on the planet currently can meet, officials with Lockheed Martin said at a global space event this week. ... more 
Air leak rate at Russia's ISS Zvezda module halves after crack sealed with tapeMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2020 The air leak rate in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station has halved after the crack in the intermediate compartment was sealed with tape, according to the crew's communicati ... more 
Twenty years of human presence on Space StationHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Join us for the most out-of-this-world work out as NASA celebrates 20 years of continuous human presence on the International Space Station. Lace up your running shoes and get outside, hop on the tr ... more  
Supergiant Star Betelgeuse Smaller, Closer Than First ThoughtCanberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 It may be another 100,000 years until the giant red star Betelgeuse dies in a fiery explosion, according to a new study by an international team of researchers. The study, led by Dr. Meridith Joyce ... more |
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RBC Signals to Host Swarm Antennas Supporting Global Connectivity ConstellationSeattle WA (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 RBC Signals, the leading provider of flexible and cost-effective space communication services, has announced the company has been engaged by Swarm Technologies, the California-based global satellite ... more  
Hughes India to provide high speed network to 5,000 Indian villagesNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 14, 2020 With over 600 million internet users, India ranks second in the world in terms of bandwidth consumption On 15 August 2020, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his national address from the iconic Red F ... more  
Western Australia to host space communications stationPerth, Australia (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 An optical communications station capable of receiving high-speed data transmissions from space is set to be built in Western Australia and will be installed by The University of Western Australia. ... more  
ESA's force-feedback rover controlled from a nation awayParis (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 A controller in Germany operated ESA's gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency's technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At ... more 
Microwave lenses harnessed for multi-beam formingParis (ESA) Oct 15, 2020 This highly compact beam forming network has been designed for multi-beam satellite payload antennas. Generating a total of 64 signal beams outputted from a single antenna, this novel design could c ... more |
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 A new decade of European exploration 
Startups eye rocket and satellite marketsBeijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 As China moves progressively toward its goal of becoming a major power in the global space arena that can rival the United States, space startups and local governments are also racing to tap into th ... more  |
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Astroscale Brings Total Capital Raised to U.S. $191 Million, Closing Series E Funding RoundTokyo, 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 inv ... more  
UMD astronomers find x-rays lingering years after landmark neutron star collisionCollege Park MD (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 It's been three years since the landmark detection of a neutron star merger from gravitational waves. And since that day, an international team of researchers led by University of Maryland astronome ... 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  
DARPA project strives for off-road unmanned vehicles that react like humansWashington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not ... more 
Thomas prepares for Time in spaceHouston TX (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet trains for the Time experiment at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, USA ahead of his Alpha mission to the International Space Station in 2021. This European ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2020 
The air leak rate in the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station has halved after the crack in the intermediate compartment was sealed with tape, according to the crew's communication with Earth, broadcast by NASA.
On Friday, cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin informed the Moscow-based Mission Control Centre that the pressure in the compartment had declined by 52 mm Hg to 681 mm ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 16, 2020 
All three engines developed to power Europe's future Ariane 6 rocket have completed extensive tests - the P120C solid rocket motor for the boosters, the Vulcain 2.1 engine for the core stage and the Vinci for the upper stage.
Ariane 6 in the four-booster version will stand 63m tall, will weigh 900 tonnes and have the liftoff power equivalent to 12 Airbus A380 engines roaring at takeoff. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 19, 2020 
NASA's InSight lander continues working to get its "mole" - a 16-inch-long (40-centimeter-long) pile driver and heat probe - deep below the surface of Mars. A camera on InSight's arm recently took images of the now partially filled-in "mole hole," showing only the device's science tether protruding from the ground.
Sensors embedded in the tether are designed to measure heat flowing from th ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 18, 2020  SpaceX has launched its 14th group of about 60 satellites from Florida on Sunday morning for the company's Starlink broadband network, which is approaching a full-scale public trial period. Liftoff was on schedule at 8:25 a.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The launch would boost the number of satellites in orbit to nearly 800. ... more |
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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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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 
The "SAINT-EX" Observatory, led by scientists from the National Centre of Competence in Research NCCR PlanetS of the University of Bern and the University of Geneva, has detected two exoplanets orbiting the star TOI-1266. The Mexico-based telescope thus demonstrates its high precision and takes an important step in the quest of finding potentially habitable worlds.
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft will soon be heading into orbit to monitor the height of the ocean for nearly the entire globe. Preparations are ramping up for the Nov. 10 launch of the world's latest sea level satellite. Since arriving in a giant cargo plane at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California last month, Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich has been undergoing final checks, including ... 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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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022.
The ice drilling mission is the Houston-based company's second Moon contract award under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
"Laying the foundation to return humans to the Moon is an incredi ... more |
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 Superpower Skill: Perseverance 
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2020
On October 20, Estelle Church will send the commands instructing NASA's mission to touch asteroid Bennu, becoming NASA's fir ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Finnish New Space leader ICEYE has announced access to ICEYE's Public Archive, containing nearly 18,000 images from ICEYE satellites. The ICEYE Public Archive includes radar imagery in various imaging modes taken with ICEYE's SAR satellite constellation between mid-2019 and now. The ICEYE Public Archive consists of preview images from around the world, which are released under CC BY-NC 4.0 licen ... 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.
An ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 
"Clusters form big families of stars that can stay together for large parts of their lifetime. Today, we know of roughly a few thousand star clusters in the Milky Way, but we only recognize them because of their prominent appearance as rich and tight groups of stars. Given enough time, stars tend to leave their cradle and find themselves surrounded by countless strangers, thereby becoming indist ... 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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