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  Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 As it journeys into some of the darkest and coldest spots in the solar system, NASA's new water-hunting Moon rover, VIPER, will need some very robust headlights to light the way. In the extremes of light and dark found on the Moon, shadowed and lit areas are in such high contrast that any contours in the landscape are effectively invisible in the darkness. To navigate this world, VIPER's rover drivers will rely on a system of rover-mounted lights and cameras to steer clear of boulders, descend ste ... read more |
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A new mineral from the Moon could explain what happens in the Earth's mantleManchester UK (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 A team of European researchers discovered a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite which is helping to explain what happens to materials within the extreme pressures of the Earth's mantle. ... more  
NASA contacts Voyager 2 using upgraded Deep Space Network DishPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2020 The only radio antenna that can command the 43-year-old spacecraft has been offline since March as it gets new hardware, but work is on track to wrap up in February. On Oct. 29, mission operat ... more 
After 20 years, Glenn continues to support the ISSCleveland OH (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 On December 3 and 4, 2000, the crew of STS-97 unfurled the first permanent solar arrays on the International Space Station. The football field-sized collection of 32,800 reflective solar cells insta ... more 
China's Mars probe completes third orbital correctionBeijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2020 China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 conducted its third orbital correction Wednesday night, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The probe carried out the orbital correction a ... more |
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Barrett, Raymond highlight Space Force's achievements, path forwardArlington VA (AFNS) Oct 30, 2020 Department of the Air Force Secretary, Barbara M. Barrett, offered an upbeat assessment Oct. 28 of the Space Force's development while also describing in stark terms how the shifting security enviro ... more  
Lift-off for new generation of space scientistsLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 Apprentices in England will soon be able to boldly study what no students have studied before in the UK, thanks to a new Government-backed space engineering apprenticeship, the Science Minister anno ... more  
Space company NanoAvionics invests and expands in the UKBasingstoke UK (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, is expanding its space sector business in the United Kingdom by moving to a new, larger facility for satellite assembly ... more 
Kleos team complete final prep for Scouting Mission launch Nov 7Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 Kleos Space S.A. a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company confirms that its team of mission engineers have completed the final preparation of the Kleos' four S ... more 
Globalsat Group successfully tests Iridium Edge ProBoca Raton, FL (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 he Pan-American consortium Globalsat Group, with a multi-country presence throughout the Americas, has been taking part in the successful "beta" tests of the Iridium Edge Pro, the new ultra-compact ... more |
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ISS to preserve cooperation, Roscosmos Head says on 20th anniversary of crewed operationsMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 03, 2020 The International Space Station (ISS), which is celebrating 20 years of continuous crewed operations on Monday, will allow to maintain international space cooperation despite the current difficult p ... more  |
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Water on ancient MarsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 There's a long-standing question in planetary science about the origin of water on Earth, Mars and other large bodies such as the moon. One hypothesis says that it came from asteroids and comets pos ... more 
New remote sensing technique could bring key planetary mineral into focusProvidence RI (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 Planetary scientists from Brown University have developed a new remote sensing method for studying olivine, a mineral that could help scientists understand the early evolution of the Moon, Mars and ... more  
First scientific instrument installed on LucySan Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 03, 2020 Before the NASA Lucy mission can begin its long journey to the Trojan asteroids, the first scientific camera to be delivered to the spacecraft had to take a 1,500 mile journey across the continental ... more 
A subterranean ecosystem in the Chicxulub CraterHouston TX (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 A new study reveals that the Chicxulub impact crater and its hydrothermal system hosted a subterranean ecosystem that could provide a glimpse of Earth's primordial life. The Chicxulub impact c ... more  
Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 New work led by Carnegie's Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces that determined our Solar System's unusual ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 30, 2020 
The 20th anniversary Saturday of humans living aboard the International Space Station spotlights the global cooperation and scientific discoveries that benefit all people, according to astronauts and others involved in missions there.
NASA and space agencies around the world are using the milestone to underscore achievements in space since the end of deep-space crewed missions in the 19 ... more |
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 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 |
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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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 Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 
Kleos Space S.A. a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data-as-a-service (DaaS) company confirms that its team of mission engineers have completed the final preparation of the Kleos' four Scouting Mission satellites prior to launch on board the PSLV C49.
The Kleos team performed system checkout and mechanical inspection prior to battery charging and fuelling. The satellites were t ... more |
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 Columbia IL (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
NanoAvionics, a leading nanosatellite bus manufacturer and mission integrator, has revealed the remaining three payloads of its 'D-2/AtlaCom-1' rideshare mission hosted on board its M6P 6U nanosatellite bus. The additional payloads, a camera for hyperspectral remote sensing, a new high-gain X-band antenna and an upgraded X-Band downlink transmitter, are all part of an international collaboration ... more |
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 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 |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2020 
New work led by Carnegie's Matt Clement reveals the likely original locations of Saturn and Jupiter. These findings refine our understanding of the forces that determined our Solar System's unusual architecture, including the ejection of an additional planet between Saturn and Uranus, ensuring that only small, rocky planets, like Earth, formed inward of Jupiter.
In its youth, our Sun was s ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Oct 29, 2020 
Global temperatures boosted by climate change will still be higher than usual despite the cooling effect of a "moderate to strong" La Nina weather phenomenon, the UN said Thursday.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said La Nina "has developed and is expected to last into next year, affecting temperatures, precipitation and storm patterns in many parts of the world."
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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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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 
As it journeys into some of the darkest and coldest spots in the solar system, NASA's new water-hunting Moon rover, VIPER, will need some very robust headlights to light the way.
In the extremes of light and dark found on the Moon, shadowed and lit areas are in such high contrast that any contours in the landscape are effectively invisible in the darkness. To navigate this world, VIPER's r ... more |
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 Kobe, 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 newly appeared or moved as a result of the artificial impact crater created by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2's Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) on April 5th, 2019. Some boulders were disturbed even in are ... more |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 
Only the two Voyager spacecraft have ever been there, and it took than more than 30 years of supersonic travel. It lies well past the orbit of Pluto, through the rocky Kuiper belt, and on for four times that distance. This realm, marked only by an invisible magnetic boundary, is where Sun-dominated space ends: the closest reaches of interstellar space.
In this stellar no-man's land, partic ... more |
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 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 |
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