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  Paris (AFP) Nov 17, 2020 The failure of a European rocket just minutes after lift-off was caused by a production mistake that led to a wiring mix-up and altered the trajectory, its operator said on Tuesday. The Vega, the lightest of Arianespace's three payload rockets, malfunctioned about eight minutes after launch from the space centre at Kourou, in French Guiana in South America, on Monday. It broke up in the atmosphere before falling into the Atlantic Ocean, destroying the two satellites it was carrying, including on ... read more |
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Astronauts board ISS from SpaceX's 'Resilience'Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2020 Four astronauts carried into orbit by a SpaceX Crew Dragon boarded the International Space Station on Tuesday, the first of what NASA hopes will be many routine missions ending US reliance on Russian rockets. ... more  
Rocket to lift Chang'e 5 moved to launch padBeijing (XNA) Nov 17, 2020 The rocket to lift Chang'e 5, the latest mission in China's lunar exploration program, was moved to its launch pad in the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Tuesday morning, accordin ... more  
Marines activate U.S. Space Command componentWashington DC (UPI) Nov 13, 2020 A Marine Corps component of the U.S. Space Command has been activated, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David H. Berger announced on Friday. ... more  
Life's building blocks can form in interstellar clouds without stellar fusionWashington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2020 New research suggests one of life's most important building blocks, a simple amino acid called glycine, can form inside interstellar clouds well before the emergence of stars and planets. ... more |
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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  
Shape-shifting mirror hunts for exoplanetsMuenster, Germany (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 This Muenster bendable space mirror can have its shape shifted to compensate for manufacturing or alignment errors within orbital telescopes or temperature-driven distortions. Very large space ... more 
EXPLORE to develop AI and visualization apps for space scienceLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 An international consortium has been awarded 2 million Euros by the European Commission to develop novel applications that use artificial intelligence (AI) and visual analytics to exploit the vast d ... more 
Unexplained brightness from colossal explosionMaunakea HI (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 Astronomers have discovered the brightest infrared light from a short gamma-ray burst ever seen, with a bizarre glow that is more luminous than previously thought was possible. Its half-second ... more |
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Birth of magnetar from colossal collision potentially spotted for first timeEvanston IL (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 Long ago and far across the universe, an enormous burst of gamma rays unleashed more energy in a half-second than the sun will produce over its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. After examining ... more  |
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Family tree of the Milky Way decipheredLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 Scientists have known for some time that galaxies can grow by the merging of smaller galaxies, but the ancestry of our own Milky Way galaxy has been a long-standing mystery. Now, an international te ... more 
Galaxies in the Perseus ClusterCharlottesville VA (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 For galaxies, as for people, living in a crowd is different from living alone. Recently, astronomers used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) to learn how a crowd ... more 
Russia declassifies Soviet documents about Moon Race with USMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2020 While the Soviet Union was the first to launch a man into space, it lost the race to the Moon with the US in 1969. Now, as Moscow and Washington are working together on several space-related project ... more  
China launches new mobile telecommunication satelliteBeijing (XNA) Nov 16, 2020 China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket on Thursday night to deploy a communications satellite into space, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space ... more 
ULA launches spy satellite from Florida after weather delaysWashington DC (UPI) Nov 13, 2020 A U.S. government spy satellite, NROL 101, was launched into orbit from Florida at sunset Friday after a week of weather delays. ... more |
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 Houston 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 responders submitted pictures and videos that either depicted a metaphoric view of what they would bring, or took a more technically accurate approach of following "Expert Mode" that followed actual Pers ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 17, 2020 
Four astronauts carried into orbit by a SpaceX Crew Dragon boarded the International Space Station on Tuesday, the first of what NASA hopes will be many routine missions ending US reliance on Russian rockets.
The "Resilience" spacecraft docked autonomously with the space station some 260 miles (400 kilometers) above the Midwestern US state of Ohio at 11:01pm on Monday (0401 GMT Tuesday), com ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 16, 2020 
China launched a Long March 3B carrier rocket on Thursday night to deploy a communications satellite into space, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 11:59 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and then transported the Tiantong 1-02 to a geosynchronous orbit.
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 Nottingham UK (SPX) Nov 05, 2020 
The University of Nottingham has cracked the conundrum of how to use inks to 3D-print novel electronic devices with useful properties, such as an ability to convert light into electricity.
The study shows that it is possible to jet inks, containing tiny flakes of 2D materials such as graphene, to build up and mesh together the different layers of these complex, customised structures.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2020 
New research suggests one of life's most important building blocks, a simple amino acid called glycine, can form inside interstellar clouds well before the emergence of stars and planets.
Scientists have previously detected glycine in the coma of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Stardust sampling missions have also turned up evidence of interplanetary glycine.
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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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 San Francisco, CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS and precise positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, today announced its precise positioning platform can improve the performance of existing single-frequency GNSS positioning, found on most production vehicles today, from the standard average of 3 meters to lane-level accuracy without changing existing hardware and antenna ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 17, 2020 
The rocket to lift Chang'e 5, the latest mission in China's lunar exploration program, was moved to its launch pad in the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province on Tuesday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.
The 57-meter Long March 5 heavy-lift carrier rocket, which weighs about 870 metric tons, was vertically placed on a mobile platform that moved about ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 
How did life arrive on Earth? To investigate this and to address fundamental questions about the evolution of celestial bodies in our Solar System, the Japanese-German space mission DESTINY+ (Demonstration and Experiment of Space Technology for INterplanetary voYage with Phaethon fLyby and dUst Science), will launch in 2024 on a journey to asteroid 3200 Phaethon.
The German DESTINY+ Dust A ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 
The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Airbus Defence and Space as prime contractor for the new Land Surface Temperature Monitoring (LSTM) mission. LSTM is part of Copernicus, the European Union's Earth observation programme for global monitoring.
It is one of the six new missions, expanding the capabilities of the current Copernicus space component. The contract is valued at euro ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2020 
JILA researchers have used a state-of-the-art atomic clock to narrow the search for elusive dark matter, an example of how continual improvements in clocks have value beyond timekeeping.
Older atomic clocks operating at microwave frequencies have hunted for dark matter before, but this is the first time a newer clock, operating at higher optical frequencies, and an ultra-stable oscillator ... more |
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