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  New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 The search for Planet Nine - a hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system - may come down to pinpointing the faintest orbital trails in an incredibly dark corner of space. That's exactly what Yale astronomers Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin are attempting with a technique that scoops up scattered light from thousands of space telescope images and identifies orbital pathways for previously undetected objects. "You really can't see them without using this kind of method. If Planet Nine is ... read more |
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Defense Dept taps Texas A and M system to lead US consortium for hypersonic systemsCollege Station TX (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 The Department of Defense has named a state agency of The Texas A and M University System to lead a national consortium for modernizing hypersonic flight capabilities. The Texas A and M Engine ... more  
NASA to commercialize Near-Earth communications servicesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 NASA plans to rely primarily on industry-provided communications services for missions close to Earth by 2030. Rather than using government-owned relay satellites and ground stations, NASA's Space C ... more 
UB awarded $8.5 million to improve 'hybrid' space rocketsBuffalo NY (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 A University at Buffalo research team has been awarded $8.5 million to study hybrid rockets, a technology that could provide a safer and less expensive way to explore outer space compared to convent ... 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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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  
NorthStar building world's first satellite constellation to combat imminent threat of space collisionsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 NorthStar Earth and Space (NorthStar), a Canadian company with a first-in-space mission to deliver safe and sustainable operations for the rapidly accelerating New Space Economy, has contracted Thal ... more 
D-Orbit secures 15M euro financing from EIBFino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Despite the global challenges brought by the events of 2020, D-Orbit, an Italian systems and services provider for the space sector, is steadily moving forward with its roadmap. In September, ... more  
SpaceX launches public beta test of Starlink Internet serviceWashington DC (UPI) Oct 27, 2020 SpaceX has launched public beta testing of its Starlink communications satellite program that aims deliver high-speed Internet globally, particularly in underserved areas. ... more  
Intel powers first satellite with AI on boardSanta Clara CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 As ubiquitous as artificial intelligence has become in modern life - from boosting our understanding of the cosmos to surfacing entertaining videos on your phone - AI hasn't yet found its way into o ... more |
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ALMA shows volcanic impact on Io's atmosphereCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Io. Io is the m ... more  |
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NASA Funds Projects to Make Geosciences Data More AccessibleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 NASA has accumulated about 40 petabytes (PB) of Earth science data, which is about twice as much as all of the information stored by the Library of Congress. In the next five years, NASA's data will ... more  
Glimpse deep into Earth's crust finds heat source that may stabilize continentsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years, ... more 
China launches new remote-sensing satellitesXichang (XNA) Oct 28, 2020 China successfully sent a group of new remote-sensing satellites into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday. Belonging to the Yaogan-30 ... more  
EOS Data Analytics to launch satellite with Dragonfly Multispectral Imagers in 2022Los 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 Dragonfl ... more 
All solid motors for Vega-C complete qualification testsKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 28, 2020 Europe's new-generation Vega-C small launch vehicle developed by ESA will increase performance and extend current launch capabilities at Europe's Spaceport. The solid rocket motors built for V ... 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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 College Station TX (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
The Department of Defense has named a state agency of The Texas A and M University System to lead a national consortium for modernizing hypersonic flight capabilities.
The Texas A and M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) will manage a five-year, $20 million per-year DOD initiative involving many of the nation's top research universities. The universities will work cooperatively among th ... more |
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 Athens GA (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
Humankind's next giant step may be onto Mars. But before those missions can begin, scientists need to make scores of breakthrough advances, including learning how to grow crops on the red planet.
Practically speaking, astronauts cannot haul an endless supply of topsoil through space. So University of Georgia geologists are figuring out how best to use the materials already on the planet's ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 27, 2020 
SpaceX has launched public beta testing of its Starlink communications satellite program that aims deliver high-speed Internet globally, particularly in underserved areas.
The Elon Musk-founded aerospace manufacturer sent out emails to invite people who signed up on its Starlink website to hear updates about the program.
The initial Starlink service is called "Better Than Nothing ... more |
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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
Despite the global challenges brought by the events of 2020, D-Orbit, an Italian systems and services provider for the space sector, is steadily moving forward with its roadmap.
In September, D-Orbit secured 15 million euro financing from the European Investment Bank (EIB), marking the first time that the EIB has funded a space firm. The funds will advance the expansion of the company, who ... 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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 New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
The search for Planet Nine - a hypothesized ninth planet in our solar system - may come down to pinpointing the faintest orbital trails in an incredibly dark corner of space.
That's exactly what Yale astronomers Malena Rice and Gregory Laughlin are attempting with a technique that scoops up scattered light from thousands of space telescope images and identifies orbital pathways for previou ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 27, 2020  On a cold winter night in 2018, when a fireball streaked across the skies above Canada and the Midwest, a team of meteor hunters turned to weather radar to pinpoint its likely landing spot.
The fireball had come to rest on a frozen lake in Michigan. Researchers raced to find it and, amazingly, they were able to collect remnants of the meteorite before its contents were tainted by exposu ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
NASA has accumulated about 40 petabytes (PB) of Earth science data, which is about twice as much as all of the information stored by the Library of Congress. In the next five years, NASA's data will grow up to 250 PB - more than six times larger than what NASA has now.
The sheer amount of data provided by NASA gives scientists and the public the extensive Earth science information they nee ... 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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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
Our Milky Way galaxy is shaped like two fried eggs glued back-to-back. A central bulge of stars sits in the middle of a sprawling disk of stars. Though this is a common feature among myriad spiral galaxies, astronomers have spent decades puzzling out how and when the Milky Way's central bulge might have formed. Were the stars within the bulge born early in our galaxy's history, 10 to 12 billion ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 23, 2020  Not even the most precise atomic clocks are immune to the quantum phenomenon known as superposition, according to a new theory developed by a team of physicists from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and Santa Clara University.
Superposition describes the ability of an atom to simultaneously exist in multiple states. In a new study, published Friday in the journal Nature, scientis ... more |
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