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  Washington (AFP) Nov 16, 2020 Four astronauts were successfully launched on the SpaceX Crew Dragon "Resilience" to the International Space Station on Sunday, the first of what the US hopes will be many routine missions following a successful test flight in late spring. Three Americans - Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker - and Japan's Soichi Noguchi blasted off at 7:27 pm (0027 GMT Monday) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, thus ending almost a decade of international reliance on Russia for rides on its S ... read more |
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NASA Commercial Crew program kicks off spaceflight renaissanceLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 After a successful prelude with the Demo-2 mission in May, NASA and its ensemble of partners will officially raise the curtain on the Commercial Crew Program with the launch of Crew-1 this week. ... more  
Mars Is Getting a New Robotic MeteorologistPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2020 Mars is about to get a new stream of weather reports, once NASA's Perseverance rover touches down on Feb. 18, 2021. As it scours Jezero Crater for signs of ancient microbial life, Perseverance will ... more  
Ariel moves from blueprint to realityParis (ESA) Nov 16, 2020 ESA's exoplanet mission Ariel, scheduled for launch in 2029, has moved from study to implementation phase, following which an industrial contractor will be selected to build the spacecraft. Ar ... more 
Preparing for a human mission to MarsNew Rochelle, NY (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 Future human missions to Mars depend on field research in an environment similar to that of Mars. It will enable the evaluation of operational concepts and optimization of strategies. The goals and ... more |
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NIST designs a prototype fuel gauge for orbitWashington DC (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 Liquids aren't as well behaved in space as they are on Earth. Inside a spacecraft, microgravity allows liquids to freely slosh and float about. This behavior has made fuel quantity in satellit ... more 
Escape from Mars: how water fled the red planetTucson AZ (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 Mars once had oceans but is now bone-dry, leaving many to wonder how the water was lost. University of Arizona researchers have discovered a surprisingly large amount of water in the upper atmospher ... more 
NASA rover has less than 100 days until reaching the red planetWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 Briony Horgan grew up in Portland, Oregon, where, enjoying the mountains and volcanoes that surrounded the region, she developed a love of geology. A long-standing interest in space made Horgan real ... more  
Dark matter from the depths of the universeMainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 Cataclysmic astrophysical events such as black hole mergers could release energy in unexpected forms. Exotic low-mass fields (ELFs), for example, could propagate through space and cause feeble signa ... more  
Earth may have recaptured a 1960s-era rocket boosterPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 13, 2020 Earth has captured a tiny object from its orbit around the Sun and will keep it as a temporary satellite for a few months before it escapes back to a solar orbit. But the object is likely not an ast ... more |
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SSC UK to define ESA ground segment connectivity systems for SmallSatsLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 The UK subsidiary of SSC (Swedish Space Corporation), has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency ESA to develop a next generation concept for space to ground communications targeting t ... more  |
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Draper signs agreement to provide support for Stratolaunch's hypersonic vehicleBoston MA (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 Precision guidance and navigation is critical to success and safety in spaceflight. Today, as Stratolaunch builds its next generation vehicle for hypersonic flight test, it will be guided by flight ... more  
Weighing space dust with radarTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 It is thought that over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust falls to Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids a ... more 
NASA's Curiosity takes selfie with 'Mary Anning' on the Red PlanetPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 13, 2020 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has a new selfie. This latest is from a location named "Mary Anning," after a 19th-century English paleontologist whose discovery of marine-reptile fossils were ignored f ... more 
Climate Stabilization on Distant WorldsWashington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 A critical component of a habitable planet is its ability to stabilize its climate over long timescales. In a new study, scientists explore whether a world covered in water can keep its climate as s ... more 
The Personal Preference Kit: What Astronauts Take With Them To SpaceHouston TX (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 NASA recently asked the public what items they would take with them on a trip to the Moon, inviting more than 11,000 responses on social media, submitted using the hashtag #NASAMoonKit. Moon kit res ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 12, 2020 
Science regularly requires maintenance, and the European Physiology Module (EPM) on board the International Space Station needed the latest fix.
Located in the European Columbus laboratory, the refrigerator-sized EPM supports research into the effects of short- and long-duration spaceflight on the human body.
The EPM is a multi-user facility that includes equipment for neuroscientifi ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Precision guidance and navigation is critical to success and safety in spaceflight. Today, as Stratolaunch builds its next generation vehicle for hypersonic flight test, it will be guided by flight software developed by Draper.
"As with Draper's past contributions to the U.S. space program, Draper's engineers are proud to develop a key component of Stratolaunch's hypersonic vehicle- guidan ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 
Briony Horgan grew up in Portland, Oregon, where, enjoying the mountains and volcanoes that surrounded the region, she developed a love of geology. A long-standing interest in space made Horgan realize she wasn't confined to study rocks simply on Earth.
Horgan, now an associate professor of planetary science at Purdue, soon will have an opportunity to let her imagination dive into the geol ... 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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 Alicante, Spain (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 
Emxys, a space technology company, has raised 2 million euro in funding. The round was led by Mundi Ventures with participation from CDTI.
Financing from the round will be used to develop the ODALISS project, an innovative platform for small satellites with laser communications. Emxys (Embedded Instruments and Systems), a Spanish company based in Alicante, has closed a 2 million euro fundi ... more |
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 Chesham UK (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Resolve Optics has supplied video streaming specialists - Sen (Didcot, UK) with radiation hard lenses for their satellite-based Ultra-High Definition (UHD) video cameras.
Sen launched its first set of UHD video cameras into space in 2019 and successfully demonstrated the excellent performance of its video streaming platform. The next step in Sen's plan is to launch its own satellite conste ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 
A critical component of a habitable planet is its ability to stabilize its climate over long timescales. In a new study, scientists explore whether a world covered in water can keep its climate as stable as an Earth-like, continental world.
Over the span of millions of years, a planet's host star might gradually dim or brighten, or the planet's volcanic outgassing patterns might slowly shi ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
On Jupiter's icy moon Europa, powerful eruptions may spew into space, raising questions among hopeful astrobiologists on Earth: What would blast out from miles-high plumes? Could they contain signs of extraterrestrial life? And where in Europa would they originate? A new explanation now points to a source closer to the frozen surface than might be expected.
Rather than originating from dee ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
The two-thirds of Earth covered by water may jeopardize up to two-thirds of NASA's infrastructure built within mere feet of sea level. Some NASA centers and facilities are located in coastal real estate because the shoreline is a safer, less inhabited surrounding if something goes wrong. But now these launch pads, laboratories, airfields, and testing facilities are potentially at risk because of ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 10, 2020 
China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) has improved its timing service, according to a new study.
Researchers from the National Time Service Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences analyzed the time transfer performance of BDS-3 signals. Results showed that the time transfer performance of the BDS-3 is over 50 percent higher than that of the BDS-2.
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 11, 2020 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 24th lunar day on the far side of the moon.
The lander woke up at 3:12 am Tuesday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, woke up at 10:17 am Monday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
Landing on the moon on Jan 3, 2019, the Chang'e ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 
It is thought that over 1,000 kilograms of so-called interplanetary dust falls to Earth every day. This dust is essentially an untold number of small faint meteors, discarded remnants of asteroids and comets that pass by the Earth.
Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each with advantages and limitations. Astronomers have combined specific observations with b ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 10, 2020 
For the first time, scientists, using data from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are now able to detect nitrogen dioxide plumes from individual ships from space.
Maritime transport has a direct impact on air quality in many coastal cities. Commercial ships and vessels burn fuel for energy and emit several types of air pollution as a by-product, causing the degradation of air quality. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 
In 2018, a new aurora-like discovery struck the world. From 2015 to 2016, citizen scientists reported 30 instances of a purple ribbon in the sky, with a green picket fence structure underneath. Now named STEVE, or Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement, this phenomenon is still new to scientists, who are working to understand all its details. What they do know is that STEVE is not a normal ... more |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 12, 2020 
Cataclysmic astrophysical events such as black hole mergers could release energy in unexpected forms. Exotic low-mass fields (ELFs), for example, could propagate through space and cause feeble signals detectable with quantum sensor networks such as the atomic clocks of the GPS network or the magnetometers of the GNOME network.
These are the results of theoretical calculations undertaken by ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 
As scientists await the highly anticipated initial results of the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, collaborating scientists from DOE's Argonne National Laboratory continue to employ and maintain the unique system that maps the magnetic field in the experiment with unprecedented precision.
Argonne scientists upgraded the mea ... more |
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