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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx,) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched an asteroid to collect dust and pebbles from the surface for delivery to Earth in 2023. This well-preserved, ancient asteroid, known as Bennu, is currently more than 200 million miles (321 million kilometers) from Earth. Bennu offers scientists a window into the early solar system as it was first taki ... read more |
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NASA Johnson builds labs to study new asteroid samples, cosmic mysteriesOSIRIS-REx at ARES Houston TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touches asteroid Bennu, it will capture NASA's first sample from an asteroid and provide rare specimens for research that scientists hop ... more  
Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies delivers advanced Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Design to NASASeattle WA (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) has delivered a design concept to NASA as part of a study on nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) flight demonstration. NTP technology provides unprecedented ... more  
Crew in no danger after ISS issues resolved: RussiaMoscow (AFP) Oct 20, 2020 The International Space Station is now working normally with no danger to its occupants after the crew managed to resolve a series of technical issues overnight, Russia's space agency said Tuesday. ... more 
Bishop Airlock Cycles pre-purchased by NASA and ESAWashington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 Nanoracks is pleased to announce that both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have pre-purchased Bishop Airlock Cycles for agency and third-party use. The Nanoracks Bishop Airlock, launching t ... more |
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State-owned space giant prepares for giant step in spaceBeijing (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 techni ... more  
SpaceX, Microsoft partner in global satellite Internet projectWashington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2020 Microsoft and SpaceX announced a partnership Tuesday that would marry the tech leader's Azure computing system with space company's Starlink satellite Internet service. Through Starlink, Space ... more  
Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identifiedKiel, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 Life on Earth has a long, but also an extremely turbulent history. On more than one occasion, the majority of all species became extinct and an already highly developed biodiversity shrank to a mini ... more  
Ottawa researchers find cheaper, faster way to measure the electric field of lightOttawa, Canada (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Researchers at uOttawa have created a new method to measure the temporal evolution of electric fields with optical frequencies. The new approach, which works in ambient air, facilitates the direct m ... more  
Space Force enlists first trainees to bootcampFort Meade MD (AFNS) Oct 21, 2020 The Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David D. "DT" Thompson will swear in the first four Space Force recruits here Oct. 20, placing them on a direct path to Basic Military Training and marking an ... more |
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 BepiColombo flies by Venus en route to Mercury 
Qamcom wins prestigious space projectStockholm, 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 ... more  |
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Studying the sun as a star to understand stellar flares and exoplanetsTokyo, 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 vari ... more 
Upgraded GMRT measures the mass of hydrogen in distant galaxiesMumbai, India (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 A team of astronomers from the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR) in Pune, and the Raman Research Institute (RRI), in Bengaluru, has used the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope ... more 
The Recipe for Powerful Quasar JetsHuntsville 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 Obs ... more 
NASA probe Osiris-Rex 'boops' asteroid Bennu in historic missionWashington (AFP) Oct 21, 2020 After a four-year journey, NASA's robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex briefly touched down on asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface on Tuesday to collect rock and dust samples in a precision operation 200 million miles (330 million kilometers) from Earth. ... more 
NSF and CASIS select five transport phenomena projects for flight to ISSKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced five awarded projects from a joint solicitation for research in the general field o ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 21, 2020 
The pressure in the Zvezda module of the International Space Station (ISS) keeps lowering, although the fissure was patched with Kapton tape, and even faster than before the fix, the crew told the ground control on Tuesday, as broadcast by NASA.
On Monday, cosmonaut Ivan Vagner said the leak was repaired temporarily. A source in the industry told Sputnik the fissure was about 1 inch long a ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2020 
Microsoft and SpaceX announced a partnership Tuesday that would marry the tech leader's Azure computing system with space company's Starlink satellite Internet service.
Through Starlink, SpaceX plans to use thousands of satellites that would provide high-speed Internet anywhere on Earth. Microsoft's Azure would connect those satellite to the cloud storage.
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 21, 2020 
The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft arrived to the International Space Station just three hours after launch on 14 October, with Roscosmos astronauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov and NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on board.
Aside from the human cargo, the Soyuz had space for some science, including one of ESA's longest-running experiments, Dosis-3D.
Dotted around the International Spa ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
On October 20, Estelle Church sent commands instructing NASA's mission to touch asteroid Bennu, becoming NASA's first mission to collect a sample of material from an asteroid's surface. Church has been planning this moment for the past five years, thinking about all the things that could end the Touch-And-Go (TAG) mission.
Church's job is to keep the spacecraft safe. She has to think and p ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 
When Hurricane Sally hit the Gulf Coast region of the United States, an AeroCube was laser-focused on the eye of the storm.
The Aerospace Corporation's Rogue Alpha/Beta CubeSats sent compelling imagery of the hurricane to Earth via laser communications, demonstrating how a small satellite can deliver large amounts of remote sensing data for weather and other research.
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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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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 
By analyzing the oxygen isotopes (varieties of an element that have some extra neutrons) of these refractory inclusions, the research team has determined that the differences in composition between the sun, planets and other solar system materials were inherited from the protosolar molecular cloud that existed even before the solar system. The results of their study have been recently published ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the formation and breakup of chemical bonds occurs in the realm of femtoseconds. A femtosecond equals 0.000000000000001 seconds, or 10 exp -15 seconds.
Now atomic physicists at Goethe University in Profe ... more |
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