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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2020 For the second day in a row, officials were forced to scrub SpaceX's Starlink-15 mission. The aerospace company's Falcon 9 rocket was originally scheduled to carry 60 more Starlink broadband satellites into space on Wednesday, but poor weather pushed the launch to Thursday. Twenty-four hours later, Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station remains quiet. This time, technical difficulties, not weather, are to blame for the delay. "Standing down from today's launch of St ... read more |
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Three-man US-Russian crew returns to Earth from ISSAlmaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 22, 2020 An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts touched down safely on the Kazakhstan steppe on Thursday, completing a 196-day mission that began with the first launch under lockdown conditions. ... more  
NASA images suggest OSIRIS-REx collection arm grabbed rocks from BennuWashington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2020 Images released Wednesday by NASA suggest the OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-And-Go sample collection event was a success. ... more  
NASA InSight's 'Mole' is out of sightPasadena 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 i ... more 
Leonardo at work on robotic arms for the NASA and ESA Mars Sample Return missionRome, 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 Re ... more |
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A billion tiny pendulums could detect the universe's missing massWashington 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 detec ... more  
Venus flyby on the way to MercuryBern, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 The space probe BepiColombo, which is on its way to Mercury, will fly past Venus on October 15, 2020 - one of the deceleration maneuvers to bring the probe into orbit in front of Mercury. BepiColomb ... more  
Scientists develop detector for investigating the sunMoscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Researchers from MIPT have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device is capable of picking up protons at kinetic energies between 10 and 100 megaelectronvolts, and electrons at 1 ... more  
The Milky Way galaxy has a clumpy haloAmes IA (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business. University of Iowa astronomers have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with mater ... more 
The puzzle of the strange galaxy made almost entirely of dark matterSanta 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 the ... more |
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 SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink broadband satellites  
Kleos Space's launch team arrive in India for final preparations before launchLuxembourg (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Kleos Space S.A, a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company, confirms that their team mission experts have arrived in Chennai, India in preparation for the launc ... more  |
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Mansat supports Picasso cubesat atmospheric science missionLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 A total of 53 small satellites ("cubesats") have been launched on an Arianespace Vega launch vehicle from French Guiana, including the PICASSO (PICosatellite for Atmospheric and Space Science Observ ... more  
World's greatest mass extinction triggered switch to warm-bloodednessBristol UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, and this is often taken as the reason for their great success. University of Bristol palaeontologist Professor Mike Benton, identifies in the journal ... more  
A new land surface model to monitor global river water environmentBeijing, 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, there ... 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 
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Successfully Touches AsteroidWashington 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 touche ... 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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 Bangkok, Thailand (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 
mu Space and Advanced Technology, Satellite and Space Technologies venture - led by an aerospace engineer James Yenbamroong - is in talks to raise up to $25 million in series B funding at a pre-money valuation of $75 million (2.3 billion Baht.) According to a document reviewed by people familiar with the company's fundraising activities, the new funding will raise the value of 'mu Space' more th ... more |
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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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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 
Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away - resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph - two astronomers now offer another unique cosmic perspective: Some exoplanets - planets from beyond our own solar system - have a direct line of sight to observe Earth's biological qualities from far, far away.
Lisa ... 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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 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.
"Aerospace is e ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 14, 2020  Researchers from MIPT have developed a prototype detector of solar particles. The device is capable of picking up protons at kinetic energies between 10 and 100 megaelectronvolts, and electrons at 1-10 MeV. This covers most of the high-energy particle flux coming from the sun. The new detector can improve radiation protection for astronauts and spaceships, as well as advancing our understanding ... 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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