|
|
|
  Paris (ESA) Oct 30, 2020 Vega-C and Ariane 6 are being developed by ESA to assure Europe's independent access to space. The maiden flight for Vega-C is planned to take place in June 2021, that for Ariane 6 for the second quarter of 2022. Solid progress is being made on both Vega-C and Ariane 6 development programmes. Since March, some technical events and the COVID-19 pandemic have both impacted the progress of activities. Uncertainty from COVID-19 still persists globally to date. ... read more |
 |
Rocket Lab launches 15th Mission - deploys sats Planet and CanonMahia, New Zealand (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has successfully launched its 15th Electron mission and deployed Earth-imaging satellites for Planet an ... more  
Asteroid Ryugu shaken by Hayabusa2's impactorKobe, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 Professor ARAKAWA Masahiko (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan) and members of the Hayabusa2 mission discovered more than 200 boulders ranging from 30cm to 6m in size, which either n ... more 
Ancient ice on Comet 67P 'fluffier than cappuccino froth'Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 After years of detective work, scientists working on the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission have now been able to locate where the Philae lander made its second and penultimate contact with ... more  
Geologists simulate soil conditions to help grow plants on MarsAthens 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. ... more |
|
|
| Previous Issues | Oct 29 | Oct 28 | Oct 27 | Oct 26 | Oct 25 |
|
|
|
|
|
 
NASA's Webb To Examine Objects in the Graveyard of the Solar SystemBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects dwells in a region called the Kuiper Belt. These often-pristine leftovers from our ... more  
Quantum gauntlet has to be thrown downBeijing (XNA) Oct 27, 2020 The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee listened to a report on quantum science and technology by Xue Qikun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a co ... more  
Data reveals evidence of molecular absorption in the atmosphere of a hot NeptuneAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare hot Neptune exoplanet, whose discovery by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was annou ... more  
Single Burst of Star Formation Created Milky Way's Central BulgeBaltimore 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 g ... more  
Start of the production of the Skylark ConstellationCannes, France (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 Thales Alenia Space, the Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), signed the first phase of a contract with NorthStar Earth and Space Inc., the Canadian space-based information servi ... more |
|
 ESA Masterclass full series: Leadership at Mission Control 
Budding space entrepreneurs wow industry expertsLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 The 'Dragons' Den' style event, organised by the UK Space Agency and hosted yesterday, gave an opportunity for some of the UK's best and brightest minds to pitch their ideas to seven expert judges, ... more  |
|
|
|
 
D-Orbit announces successful ORIGIN missionFino Mornasco Italy (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 D-Orbit, the in-orbit transportation company, announced the successful completion of the deployment phase of ORIGIN mission, the first of ION Satellite Carrier. ION, D-Orbit's satellite platform, su ... more  
Testing lunar 4G operationsParis (ESA) Oct 30, 2020 4G is coming to the Moon, to help support future international exploration efforts. To check the feasibility of this vision, the ESA-VSC High Power Radio Frequency Laboratory tested a prototype comp ... more 
Eclipses of Stars by Near-Earth Asteroids Might Help Save EarthGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 David Dunham, of the International Occultation Timing Association (composed mainly of dedicated amateur astronomers), and Marc Buie, Southwest Research Institute, coordinated the efforts of scores o ... more 
Sounding Rocket to See What Keeps Intergalactic Space SizzlingGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 NASA's next sounding rocket will measure light from some of the hottest stars, in hopes of finding out what's cooking the space between galaxies. The Dual-channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum ... more 
NASA Crowdsources with HeroX to Find Solutions for Unloading Lunar GoodsHouston TX (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 HeroX, the social network for innovation and the world's leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, has launched the crowdsourcing competition "NASA's Lunar Delivery Challenge" on behalf of the NA ... more |
|
|
|
 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
When Northrop Grumman launched its Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 2, 2020, it was loaded with a multitude of research and technology development investigations to be carried out onboard the orbiting laboratory.
Once Cygnus berthed with the space station three days later and its contents were unloaded by the astronauts onboard, it was time to start per ... more |
|
 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 
NASA's next sounding rocket will measure light from some of the hottest stars, in hopes of finding out what's cooking the space between galaxies.
The Dual-channel Extreme Ultraviolet Continuum Experiment, or DEUCE, is scheduled to launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico early on Nov. 2. This is DEUCE's second flight, during which it will observe the second of two stars on i ... more |
|
|
|
|
 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 |
|
 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 |
|
|
|
|
 London, UK (SPX) Oct 28, 2020 
The 'Dragons' Den' style event, organised by the UK Space Agency and hosted yesterday, gave an opportunity for some of the UK's best and brightest minds to pitch their ideas to seven expert judges, offering them support like mentoring and the chance to build industry connections that they can use to take their plans to the next level.
All the participating students are aged between 11 and ... more |
|
 Fino Mornasco Italy (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 
D-Orbit, the in-orbit transportation company, announced the successful completion of the deployment phase of ORIGIN mission, the first of ION Satellite Carrier. ION, D-Orbit's satellite platform, successfully released 12 SuperDove satellites for Earth-imaging company Planet, in the precise orbital slots requested by the client.
The vehicle has been operational since September 3rd, when it ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 
Since astronomers confirmed the presence of planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, humanity has wondered how many could harbor life. Now, we're one step closer to finding an answer. According to new research using data from NASA's retired planet-hunting mission, the Kepler space telescope, about half the stars similar in temperature to our Sun could have a rocky planet capable of su ... more |
|
 Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2020 
Beyond the orbit of Neptune, a diverse collection of thousands of dwarf planets and other relatively small objects dwells in a region called the Kuiper Belt. These often-pristine leftovers from our solar system's days of planet formation are called Kuiper Belt Objects, or Trans-Neptunian Objects. NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope will examine an assortment of these icy bodies in a serie ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Flint, United States (AFP) Oct 29, 2020 
Authorities say Flint's water meets federal safety guidelines, outperforming comparable cities. Residents remain unconvinced.
On a Tuesday morning this month, blocks and blocks of cars waited near a church in the eastern part of the Midewestern city to receive value packs of bottled water.
These giveaways still happen three days a week, some six years after residents began complaining th ... more |
|
 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 |
|
|
|
|
 Paris (ESA) Oct 28, 2020 
When humans return to the Moon they'll have formidable challenge lying in wait: lunar dust. The talcum-like lunar regolith is considered the biggest operational problem facing Moon colonists. Within a few days of dust exposure, Apollo spacesuits suffered obscured visors, clogged mechanisms and eroded suit layers. So an ESA team is looking into novel material options to serve as the basis of futu ... more |
|
 Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 
Marseille, France and Mountain View, CA: There are nearly one million catalogued asteroids, but we don't know much about many of them. Now Unistellar and its scientific partner, the SETI Institute, can count on a network of nearly 3,000 amateurs capable of observing thousands of asteroids and providing an estimate of their size and shape. With mobile stations located in Asia, North America and E ... more |
|
|
|
|
 Paris (ESA) Oct 28, 2020 
Teams at ESA's mission control centre are getting ready to ensure a new Sentinel Earth Observation mission safely arrives in its correct orbit, from where it will map, measure and monitor rising sea levels after its launch on 10 November.
The 1.5-tonne Copernicus Sentinel-6 'Michael Freilich' spacecraft will launch on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg, California, in the United Sta ... more |
|
 Paris (ESA) Oct 30, 2020 
The Sun has entered its 25th solar cycle and is about to wake up. For the last few years our star has been pretty sleepy, with few sunspots, bright flares or massive ejections of magnetised plasma emanating from its surface. This quiet period is known as the solar minimum, but things are starting to heat up again.
Experts on the Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel recently announced that the S ... more |
|
|
|
|
 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 |
|
 Hanover NH (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
A phenomenon of quantum mechanics known as superposition can impact timekeeping in high-precision clocks, according to a theoretical study from Dartmouth College, Saint Anselm College and Santa Clara University.
Research describing the effect shows that superposition--the ability of an atom to exist in more than one state at the same time--leads to a correction in atomic clocks known as "q ... more |
|
|
|
|
| Buy Advertising | About Us | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
| The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2020 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |
