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  Washington DC (UPI) Nov 08, 2020 Four astronauts arrived in Florida on Sunday afternoon in anticipation of the first launch of four people in a space capsule at week's end. SpaceX's Dragon space capsule, named Resilience, is expected to lift off at 7:49 p.m. Saturday from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center. The mission is important as the first routine flight of the Dragon to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program, the agency's Administrator Jim Bridenstine said. That means E ... read more |
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UK takes significant step towards launch capabilityEdinburgh, UK (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 The UK Spaceport Alliance labels the 'Spaceport and spaceflight activities: regulations and guidance Regulatory Consultation' a successful step forward and a source for optimism for the formative UK ... more 
Long March 6 deploys 10 Argentine satellitesBeijing (XNA) Nov 09, 2020 China launched a Long March 6 carrier rocket to deploy 10 small satellites for an Argentine company on Friday. The rocket also carried three small Chinese satellites, according to China Aerosp ... more 
PSLV launches EOS-01 and nine customer satellites from SriharikotaNew Delhi (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, in its 51st flight (PSLV-C49), has launched EOS-01 along with nine international customer satellites from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre ( ... more 
China's commercial rocket CERES-1 completes maiden flightJiuquan (XNA) Nov 09, 2020 China's new carrier rocket CERES-1, designed for commercial use, made its maiden flight on Saturday, sending one satellite into planned orbit. The rocket blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite ... more |
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Stars and planets grow up together as siblingsMunich, Germany (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Astronomers have found compelling evidence that planets start to form while infant stars are still growing. The high-resolution image obtained with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array ( ... more  
RUDN University physicist developed software solution to measure the black holes stabilityMoscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Even if a black hole can be described with a mathematical model, it doesn't mean it exists in reality. Some theoretical models are unstable: though they can be used to run mathematical calculations, ... more  
Hubble launches large ultraviolet-light survey of nearby starsBaltimore MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 The universe would be a pretty boring place without stars. Without them, the universe would remain a diffuse plasma of mostly hydrogen and helium from the big bang. As the basic building block ... more 
Playing detective on a galactic scale: huge new dataset will solve multiple Milky Way mysteriesCanberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 How do stars destroy lithium? Was a drastic change in the shape of the Milky Way caused by the sudden arrival of millions of stellar stowaways? These are just a couple of the astronomical ques ... more  
Iran offers glimpse of rail-based multiple launch system for use at its 'underground missile cities'Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2020 The United States and its European allies have repeatedly sought to force Iran to slow or stop the continued modernisation of its missile forces. Tehran insists that its missile arsenal is fully leg ... more |
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Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich Prepared for LaunchKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 With a little over two weeks to go until its California launch, the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft is undergoing final preparations. Technicians and engineers have encapsulated the satellite ... more  |
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Satellites help to retrace travel routes of Bronze Age herders in ChinaWashington DC (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 To retrace the ancient migration routes taken by Bronze Age herders in northwestern China, researchers turned to space. Satellite images allowed researchers to map the distribution of archaeol ... more  
Recipe for a stormOldenburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 Strong storms often seem to leave behind random destruction: While the roof tiles of one house are blown away, the neighboring property may not be damaged at all. What causes these differences are w ... more  
Beating back the tidesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 It was a sight you don't normally see: a jellyfish lying dead in the middle of a parking lot partly submerged in water. But this was no ordinary parking lot. This particular section of asphalt in do ... more  
Chinese vision of 'community of shared future for mankind' included in UN outer space resolution againUnited Nations (XNA) Nov 09, 2020 The Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee) of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly adopted Friday a resolution about weapons in outer space, which contains the con ... more 
New black hole merger simulations could help power next-gen gravitational wave detectorsRochester NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 Rochester Institute of Technology scientists have developed new simulations of black holes with widely varying masses merging that could help power the next generation of gravitational wave detector ... more |
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 United Nations (XNA) Nov 09, 2020 
The Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee) of the 75th session of the UN General Assembly adopted Friday a resolution about weapons in outer space, which contains the concept of "a community of shared future for humankind" put forward by China.
A preambular paragraph of the resolution, titled "No First Placement of Weapons in Outer Space", reaffirmed that practi ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 
This past week Rocket Lab demonstrated an advanced capability of its Kick Stage acting as a space tug during the company's 15th launch, the 'In Focus' mission that launched satellites for Planet and Canon on October 28th UTC.
Shortly after deploying ten customer satellites to orbit, the Kick Stage's Curie engine reignited to maneuver the stage to a new inclination. While Rocket Lab has pre ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
Earth's most arid desert may hold a key to finding life on Mars. Diverse microbes discovered in the clay-rich, shallow soil layers in Chile's dry Atacama Desert suggest that similar deposits below the Martian surface may contain microorganisms, which could be easily found by future rover missions or landing craft.
Led by Cornell University and Spain's Centro de Astrobiologia, scientists no ... 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.
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 05, 2020 
Hungary celebrates its fifth anniversary in ESA after becoming ESA's 22nd and most recent Member State on 4 November 2015. Hungary was the first central European State to sign a Cooperation Agreement with ESA in 1991. But by the time this cooperation began, Hungary could already look back on an extended tradition in space activities. With its participation in the Interkosmos programme, Hungary s ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Nov 09, 2020 
Northwestern University researchers have developed a new computational approach to accelerate the design of materials exhibiting metal-insulator transitions (MIT), a rare class of electronic materials that have shown potential to jumpstart future design and delivery of faster microelectronics and quantum information systems - foundational technologies behind Internet of Things devices and large- ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 04, 2020  Among the most extreme planets discovered beyond the edges of our solar system are lava planets: fiery hot worlds that circle so close to their host star that some regions are likely oceans of molten lava. According to scientists from McGill University, York University, and the Indian Institute of Science Education, the atmosphere and weather cycle of at least one such exoplanet is even stranger ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
New Horizons is healthy and continuing to send data back from the flyby of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) Arrokoth back in late 2018 and early 2019, even as it speeds deeper into the Kuiper Belt and farther from the Earth and the Sun.
By next spring, New Horizons will be 50 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - only the fifth operating spacecraft to reach that distance. But as far as w ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
It was a sight you don't normally see: a jellyfish lying dead in the middle of a parking lot partly submerged in water. But this was no ordinary parking lot. This particular section of asphalt in downtown Annapolis, Maryland, is among a growing number of areas prone to frequent flooding in the seaside town. The jellyfish had slipped in from the Chesapeake Bay through an opening in the seawall. ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 
The fourth Lockheed Martin-built Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite is now headed to orbit under its own propulsion. Following a successful launch earlier this evening, GPS III Space Vehicle 04 (GPS III SV04) separated from its rocket and is now using onboard power to climb to its operational orbit, approximately 12,550 miles above the Earth.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
NASA is seeking new partners to help the agency tell the story of human exploration at the Moon with the Artemis program in ways that engage, excite, and inspire a worldwide audience. Through the end of this decade, NASA will explore more of the lunar surface than ever before and will establish a sustainable human presence with Artemis in preparation for future human missions to Mars.
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 Freiburg, Germany (SPX) Nov 04, 2020 
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann, geologist from the University of Freiburg's Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences, together with mineralogist Prof. Dr. Wolf Uwe Reimold from the University of Brasilia, Brazil, and Dr. Manfred Gottwald from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) published an atlas providing a comprehensive overview of all known impact craters on every continent.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2020 
Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds, also known as the polar vortex, supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that should persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported Friday.
The annual Antarctic ozone hole reached its peak size at about 9.6 million square miles (24.8 million square kilometers), roughly three times the area of the c ... more |
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 Taoyuan City, Taiwan (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 
The majority of the visible matter in the Universe consist of charged particles or plasmas which may develop the magnetic field reconnection (MR) at the places where the magnetic field direction exhibits abrupt change.
Through the MR the magnetic field energy may effectively be transferred into the kinetic and thermal energies of plasmas, resulting in many explosive plasma phenomena occurr ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 
A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The method grows from simulation of the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) Experiment, a unique laboratory device that aims to demonstrate the MRI proces ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
Even if a black hole can be described with a mathematical model, it doesn't mean it exists in reality. Some theoretical models are unstable: though they can be used to run mathematical calculations, from the point of view of physics they make no sense. A physicist from RUDN University developed an approach to finding such instability regions. The work was published in the Physics of the Dark Uni ... more |
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