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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 also be created through wider manufacturing and support services. Following a thorough process of due dilig ... read more |
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NASA works to head off losing too much Osiris-Rex asteroid dustWashington (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. ... more  
SpaceX launches cluster of Starlink satellitesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 25, 2020 SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket into space Saturday morning, carrying 60 Internet satellites into orbit to help establish connections to remote areas. The launch, which was originally sche ... more  
Designer of Failed Oxygen Supply System on Russian Side of ISS Rules Out Production DefectMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 23, 2020 Designer of Electron-BM, an oxygen supply system mounted on the International Space Station (ISS), Alexey Kochetkov on Thursday told Sputnik that the system failure was not caused by technical issue ... more  
Smile, wave: Some exoplanets may be able to see us, tooIthaca 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 o ... more |
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Microsoft cloud computing looks to the starsSan 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. ... more 
Projecting favorable perceptions of spaceChicago 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. Spa ... more 
SPAINSAT NG program completes Preliminary Design ReviewMadrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 The SPAINSAT NG programme, owned and operated by Hisdesat, has successfully passed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the payload and the full satellite, including PDR of Pacis 3 (PPP) elements. ... more 
1mu Space advanced on future technology and expects to complete fundraising at more than $100 million valuationBangkok, 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-mone ... more 
Kepler Communications awards service agreement to MomentusSanta Clara CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 Momentus Inc. and Kepler Communications Inc. have signed a launch service agreement to deploy two additional satellites for Kepler's GEN1 constellation in 2021. Momentus' rideshare service will incl ... more |
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 ESA and GomSpace Luxembourg sign contract for continued constellation management development 
Soyuz MS-17 delivers resupply of Dosis-3D pouchesParis (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 astrona ... more  |
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NASA prototype can diagnose multiple illnesses by analyzing breathWashington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2020 NASA researchers have created a prototype of a technology that can diagnose a variety of illnesses and abnormalities just by analyzing compounds in a person's breath. ... more  
China Focus: 18 reserve astronauts selected for China's manned space programWuhan, 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 astr ... more  
SEOSAT-Ingenio: fully loadedKourou, 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. ... more 
AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find 'new Earths'Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of starlight caused by viewing through the Earth's atmosphere, which should make it easier to study th ... more  
Sensors on Mars 2020 Spacecraft Answer Long-Distance Call From EarthPasadena 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 (MED ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 21, 2020  NASA's longstanding partnership with the Department of Energy (DOE) has enabled notable space exploration, from revealing more about the Moon to propelling the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft into interstellar space. NASA and DOE are expanding on more than 50 years of collaboration with a new memorandum of understanding announced Tuesday by NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and U.S. Secretary of Ene ... 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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 Kingston RI (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 
For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth's largest global biomes. Although marine sediment covers 70% of the Earth's surface, little was known about its global patterns of microbial diversity.
A team of researchers from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), the University of Hyogo, the University of ... 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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 Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
With less than a month to go before a SpaceX Falcon 9 takes Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich into orbit to chart sea-level rise, preparations are forging ahead at the launch site.
Since the satellite arrived at Vandenberg in California on 24 September, it has been transferred to the SpaceX Payload Processing Facility, unpacked and undergone a series of tests to make sure that nothing ... 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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 Daytona Beach, FL (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 
Embry-Riddle is partnering with NASA commercial payload provider Intuitive Machines to send a camera to space that will capture the first-ever selfie of a spacecraft touching down on the moon.
Ahead of the United States' crewed return to the moon in 2024, the Nova-C Lunar Lander will launch a science and technology payload to a valley in the Ocean of Storms. Just before it reaches the luna ... 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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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of 53 distinct microspace missions, is pleased to announce the successful measurement of atmospheric methane by the GHGSat-C1 greenhouse gas monitoring microsatellite that utilizes a NEMO platform developed by SFL. The methane emission from a source on the Earth's surface is the smallest ever detected by satellite, confirmed GHGSat Inc. of Montreal.
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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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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 
What do Albert Einstein, the Global Positioning System (GPS), and a pair of stars 200,000 trillion miles from Earth have in common?
The answer is an effect from Einstein's General Theory of Relativity called the "gravitational redshift," where light is shifted to redder colors because of gravity. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the phenomenon in two star ... more |
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