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  Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2020 NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week - but so much that it was leaking. The team in charge of the probe is now working to quickly stow the remaining samples that would eventually be delivered back to Earth to provide key scientific insights. "A substantial fraction of the required collected mass is seen escaping," mission chief Dante Lauretta said in a phone briefing with journalists. ... read more |
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SpaceX scrubs Starlink satellite launch for second day in a rowWashington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2020 For the second day in a row, officials were forced to scrub SpaceX's Starlink-15 mission. ... 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  
China passes export law protecting national security, covering techBeijing (AFP) Oct 18, 2020 China has passed a new law restricting sensitive exports to protect national security, a move that adds to policy tools it could wield against the US as tensions - especially in technology - continue to rise. ... more |
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Intuitive Machines wins order to search for ice at Lunar south poleHouston 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 mis ... more 
NASA selects intuitive machines to land water-measuring payload on the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022 under the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload ... more  
Zeptoseconds: new world record in short time measurementFrankfurt, 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 forma ... more  
NTU Singapore scientists develop 'mini-brains' to help robots recognize pain and to self-repairSingapore (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way for robots to have the artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise pai ... more  
Optimum Technologies to providce Northrop Grumman with protected tactical satcom payload structuresLeesburg VA (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Optimum Technologies, LLC (OpTech) has been selected by Northrop Grumman to design and develop Protected Tactical Satcom Payload structures in support of an on-orbit demonstration for the U.S. Space ... more |
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China's H-6N bomber spotted armed with new hypersonic cruise missileMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 20, 2020 Video has emerged of a Xian H-6N, China's new ballistic missile-hauling bomber, carrying what Chinese military insiders said is a new type of hypersonic cruise missile. Over the weekend, foota ... more  |
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Germany on course for climate neutral flyingBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 The energy transition in air transport, with the goal of zero emissions, is possible by mid-century but requires a considerable increase in innovation. This is being emphasised by the German Aerospa ... more  
How a greenhouse catastrophe killed nearly all lifePotsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 Earth's history knows catastrophes which are unimaginable for humans. For example, around 66 million years ago an asteroid impact marked the end of the dinosaur era. Long before however, 252 million ... more  
NASA supercomputing study breaks ground for tree mapping, carbon researchGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Scientists from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and international collaborators demonstrated a new method for mapping the location and size of trees growing outside of for ... more  
US-European sea level satellite gears up for launchWashington 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 w ... more 
Shetland spaceport boosts UK's plans for launchLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 Hundreds of space jobs will be created in Scotland following the approval of plans for Lockheed Martin to transfer its satellite launch operations to Shetland Space Centre by the UK government. Shet ... more |
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 Kennedy 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 of transport phenomena.
The solicitation sought investigators interested in leveraging resources onboard the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory for research in the areas o ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 
Hundreds of space jobs will be created in Scotland following the approval of plans for Lockheed Martin to transfer its satellite launch operations to Shetland Space Centre by the UK government. Shetland Space Centre anticipates that by 2024, the spaceport site could support a total of 605 jobs in Scotland including 140 locally and 210 across the wider Shetland region. A further 150 jobs will als ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2020 
On Oct. 8, 2020, with COVID-19 safety protocols in place, team members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission waited for a reply from the Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation 2 (MEDLI2) suite onboard the spacecraft, which is currently en route to the Red Planet.
MEDLI2 is a collection of sensors that will measure aerothermal environments and thermal protection system mater ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2020 
China's manned space program has entered the mission preparation stage with the selection of a new group of 18 reserve astronauts. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the reserve astronauts, including one female, have been selected recently from 2,500 candidates. Among them are seven spacecraft pilots, seven space flight engineers and four payload experts.
Flight engineers a ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 
For anthropologists and other social scientists, the space race in the 1950s served as a period of cultural and technological transformation as well as an opportunity to advance the public good. Space exploration marked a distinct point in history - a time where humanity knew change was imminent and it could record societal impacts as they occurred. Recognizing the moment's anthropological signi ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Oct 20, 2020 
Microsoft on Tuesday said its Azure cloud computing service is taking to outer space, and will deliver datacenter power to remote spots on Earth in the process.
The US technology titan announced partnerships with satellite operators including SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, as part an "ecosystem" to serve networking needs in orbit as well as beam high-speed internet connections to modular data ... 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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 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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 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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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 23, 2020 
Preparations are well on track for the upcoming launch of SEOSAT-Ingenio - the Spanish high-resolution land imaging mission - scheduled to launch from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana next month.
SEOSAT-Ingenio arrived safely at the Guiana Space Centre on 25 September, where it was then transferred to the Payload Preparation Complex along with its co-passenger, the CNES French space age ... 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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 Austin TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 
No one has yet found the first stars. They're hypothesized to have formed about 100 million years after the Big Bang out of universal darkness from the primordial gases of hydrogen, helium, and trace light metals. These gases cooled, collapsed, and ignited into stars up to 1,000 times more massive than our sun. The bigger the star, the faster they burn out. The first stars probably only lived a ... 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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