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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 EOS Data Analytics has announced the conclusion of an agreement with Dragonfly Aerospace for the delivery of two HR-250 high-performance multispectral imagers. A satellite equipped with the Dragonfly imagers will be launched into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) early in 2022. The side-by-side payloads will allow for the creation of wide swath images in 7 spectral bands at close to 1m resolution. Multispectral images are critical for tracking environmental changes. They allow the monitoring of selected areas ... read more |
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft goes for early stow of asteroid sampleTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is ready to perform an early stow on Tuesday, Oct. 27, of the large sample it collected last week from the surface of the asteroid Bennu to protect and return as much of th ... more  
SOFIA discovers water on sunlit surface of MoonWashington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed acr ... more 
Tiny moon shadows may harbor hidden stores of iceBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 Hidden pockets of water could be much more common on the surface of the moon than scientists once suspected, according to new research led by the University of Colorado Boulder. In some cases, these ... more 
Small water ice reservoirs dot the Lunar surfaceTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 Small shadowed cold traps scattered across the lunar polar regions could contain up to 20 percent of the frozen water on the Moon, making accessing water sources easier for lunar visitors. "Fu ... more |
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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 
NASA, Human Lunar Lander Companies Complete Key Artemis MilestoneWashington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 NASA's Human Landing System (HLS) Program recently checked off a key milestone in its progress toward landing the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. The HLS Program conducted Certif ... more  
TriSept inks US Army cubesat mission set to launch aboard a Rocket Lab ElectronChantilly VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration and mission management services, has announced it has signed a launch services contract with the U.S. Army's Space and Missile Defense C ... more  
International Charter for disasters 20 years onParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2020 This week marks the 20th anniversary of the International Charter Space and Major Disasters. Founded by ESA, France's CNES French Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, the Charter has been act ... more  
Satellite imagery and broadband set to grow four fold in Precision Ag Market by 2029Paris, France (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 For its latest research titled, "EO4AG - Earth Observation for Agriculture", Euroconsult has teamed up with TerraMetric, a US-based, global business development firm focused on geospatial and new sp ... more |
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 GHGSat reports smallest methane emission ever detected from space with microsatellite  
New website puts climate in your handsParis (ESA) Oct 22, 2020 Using interactive 3D globes, maps and hands-on storytelling, you can now explore ESA's global satellite observations collected over five decades to see key aspects of our climate and how it is evolv ... more  |
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Ramping up to launch sea-level charting satelliteVandenberg 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 ... more  
Satellites keep eye on crawfish for gourmetsWuhan (XNA) Oct 21, 2020 China's space programs have taken on a wide variety of duties, ranging from serving scientific endeavors, exploring extraterrestrial bodies, enabling better weather forecasts and guiding cars and sh ... more 
Satellite Data Meets Cellular DNA for Species of InterestGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 The roughly 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska is rich in oil and gas resources - and rich in native fish populations. NASA scientists are combining data from water samples contain ... 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  
ABL Space Systems performs integrated stage test of the RS1 launch vehicleEl Segundo CA (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 ABL Space Systems has completed integrated stage testing of the RS1 small satellite launch vehicle. Testing was performed on the RS1 second stage with the in-house designed E2 liquid rocket engine a ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) has confirmed, for the first time, water on the sunlit surface of the Moon. This discovery indicates that water may be distributed across the lunar surface, and not limited to cold, shadowed places.
SOFIA has detected water molecules (H2O) in Clavius Crater, one of the largest craters visible from Earth, located in the Moon's ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
A new study authored by Southwest Research Insti-tute planetary scientist Dr. Tracy Becker discusses several new views of the asteroid 16 Psyche, including the first ultraviolet observations. The study, which was published in The Planetary Science Journal and presented at the virtual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences, paints a clearer view of the aste ... 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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