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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 20, 2020 The fissure in the Russian sector of the International Space Station (ISS) is between 2 and 4 centimetres (0.7 -1.5 inches) and was temporarily patched up with Kapton tape, a source from the space industry said. "The analysis of the photos suggests that the tear in the Zvezda Service Module is between two and four centimeters long. Cosmonaut [Sergey] Ryzhikov taped it with Kapton [a special tape]," the source said. Earlier in the day, one of the crew members, cosmonaut Ivan Vagner reported t ... read more |
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Ten things to know about BennuWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 NASA's first mission to return a sample from an ancient asteroid arrived at its target, the asteroid Bennu, on Dec. 3, 2018. This mission, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identificati ... more 
NASA's big plans to explore small bodiesPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2020 Asteroids have been orbiting the sun for thousands of millennia in deep space, standing as ancient storytellers, holding clues about the formation of the solar system. NASA's first mission to collec ... more  
DoD establishes hypersonics center at Naval Surface Warfare CenterWashington DC (UPI) Oct 15, 2020 The Pentagon established a Joint Hypersonics Transition Office Systems Engineering Field Activity at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Crane, Ind., on Thursday. ... more 
Draper signs agreement to provide software for Stratolaunch's hypersonic vehicleCambridge MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 Precision guidance and navigation is critical to success and safety in spaceflight. Today, as Stratolaunch builds its next generation vehicle for hypersonic flight test, it will be guided by flight ... more |
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Perseverance rover bringing 3D-printed metal parts to MarsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 If you want to see science fiction at work, visit a modern machine shop, where 3D printers create materials in just about any shape you can imagine. NASA is exploring the technique - known as additi ... 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  
Trouble in Orbit - 2021Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 We are all aware of the growing amount of junk floating around Earth in low orbits. Ultimately, the mass and distribution of junk and active satellites will exceed the capacity of space to safely co ... more  
Automated technology allows unparalleled space exploration from Moon, to asteroids, and beyondGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 When landing Apollo 11 in 1969, astronauts looked out the window for distinguishing features that they recognized from maps of the Moon and were able to steer the lander to avoid a disastrous touchd ... more  
Space company takes to the skies alongside the NHSLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 The UK Space Agency has today backed a healthcare drone start-up founded by NHS staff, to help in the response to COVID-19. The pandemic has seen the country pulling together, with organisatio ... more |
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 Angels, France's First Industrial Nanosatellite, Extends The Scope Of Space IoT  
Three tissue engineering projects for ISS experiments awardedKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced three flight projects that were selected as part of a joint solicitation focused on lev ... more  |
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Modelling extreme magnetic fields and temperature variation on distant starsLeeds UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 New research is helping to explain one of the big questions that has perplexed astrophysicists for the past 30 years - what causes the changing brightness of distant stars called magnetars. Ma ... more  
BepiColombo Slows Down at Venus En Route to MercuryBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 Approaching Venus from its day side, passing the planet, using its gravitational pull to slow down and continuing on its night side on course for Mercury: on Thursday 15 October 2020, at 05:58 CEST ... more 
Isar Aerospace prepares the launch of its rockets from space centre CSGMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 Isar Aerospace has signed an agreement with the French Space Agency CNES (Centre national d'etudes spatiales) to prepare the launch of its orbital launch vehicles from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (C ... more 
Final hot firing proves P120C booster for Ariane 6Paris (ESA) Oct 11, 2020 The qualification model of the P120C motor configured for Ariane 6, has been static fired on the test stand at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana in a final test to prove its readiness for flight. ... more 
Demonstrator masters flight sequences for reusable rocket stagesBucharest (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 A crucial part of rocket reusability is a smooth return and landing. ESA has helped Romania's National Institute for Aerospace Research, INCAS, to demonstrate vertical takeoff, short hovering and la ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 20, 2020 
The fissure in the Russian sector of the International Space Station (ISS) is between 2 and 4 centimetres (0.7 -1.5 inches) and was temporarily patched up with Kapton tape, a source from the space industry said.
"The analysis of the photos suggests that the tear in the Zvezda Service Module is between two and four centimeters long. Cosmonaut [Sergey] Ryzhikov taped it with Kapton [a specia ... more |
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 Gainesville FL (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
The University of Florida is helping to launch a new era in space research with a plant experiment aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that blasted off from the company's West Texas site Tuesday morning.
Rob Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul have been studying how plants respond to stressful environments for decades, placing their genetically engineered mustard plants on high-flying planes, on t ... more |
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 Rome, Italy (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
Mars robotic exploration is at the heart of the latest international space missions. Leonardo is involved in the study of cutting edge robotic systems which can contribute to the discovery of the Red Planet's secrets.
For the NASA "Mars Sample Return" campaign, in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA), Leonardo has been awarded a contract with Airbus for the advanced study pha ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 20, 2020 
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, a State-owned space conglomerate, has made many strides in its commercial space businesses, according to a company executive.
Fu Zhimin, chief technical officer at CASIC, said at the opening ceremony of the sixth China International Commercial Aerospace Forum, which opened in Hubei's provincial capital of Wuhan on Monday morning, that his company ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
The UK Space Agency has today backed a healthcare drone start-up founded by NHS staff, to help in the response to COVID-19.
The pandemic has seen the country pulling together, with organisations across the space sector stepping forward to help.
Apian, part of the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme, aims to establish a network of secure air corridors for electric drones to navigate v ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
We are all aware of the growing amount of junk floating around Earth in low orbits. Ultimately, the mass and distribution of junk and active satellites will exceed the capacity of space to safely contain the debris generated by the addition of more than 40,000 new satellites planned for deployment in the next few years. When we have reached this limit our ability to travel in space will be great ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 
Climate change and human activities, including heat emission, nitrogen (N) emission, and water management are altering the hydrothermal condition and N transport in the soil and river systems, thereby affecting the global nitrogen cycle and water environment.
"We need to assess the impacts of these human activities on global river temperature and riverine N transport," said Prof. Zhenghui ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
Kicking off the one-year countdown to the launch of NASA's Lucy mission, middle and high school students in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Lucy in Space contest starting today. Public health conditions permitting, first place winners will receive invitations to see the spacecraft launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Lucy's launch window is open from Octob ... 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.
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is an upcoming gigantic radio telescope facility which will be the largest of its kind anywhere in the world. The purpose of the facility is to receive radio waves from space and study the early universe, the development of our galaxy, cosmology, dark energy and to search for life beyond Earth.
In short, an important facilitator in our efforts to unveil the sec ... 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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