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  Boston MA (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 In early February, Kerri Cahoy packed up her family and caravanned with students from her lab, driving eight hours south of Boston to Wallops Island, Virginia. There, the group watched a backpack-sized spacecraft launch into space aboard an Antares rocket. Inside the small probe, named DeMi, was a deformable mirror payload that Cahoy and her students designed, along with a miniature telescope and laser test source. DeMi's mirror corrects the positioning of either the test laser or a star seen by t ... read more |
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Vega flight VV17 failure: Arianespace and ESA appoint an independent Inquiry CommissionParis (ESA) Nov 18, 2020 On Tuesday 17 November, Arianespace announced the loss of the Vega VV17 mission, carrying two payloads: SEOSAT-Ingenio for ESA and TARANIS for the French space agency, CNES. Initial investigations, ... more 
Will small rockets finally lift offParis (AFP) Nov 18, 2020 The boom in demand for placing small satellites into orbit has boosted interest in small rockets, but industry players do not think the niche will become a business segment of its own. ... more 
Omnispace Selects Exolaunch to Deliver Two Next-Generation SatellitesTysons VA (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 Omnispace, the company that is reinventing mobile communications by building a global hybrid network, today signed a launch agreement with Exolaunch, the rideshare launch and deployment services pro ... more  
MDA receives commercial contracts for on-orbit servicing technologiesBrampton, Canada (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 The OSAM-1 mission, formerly known as Restore-L, will demonstrate robotic servicing technologies in orbit, including satellite refueling, assembly and in-space manufacturing. The SPIDER payload's li ... more |
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ESA engineers assess Moon Village habitatParis (ESA) Nov 18, 2020 Renowned architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, originator of many of the world's tallest skyscrapers, has been working on an even more challenging design: a habitat for a future Moon Vill ... more 
Lunar mission set for launch this monthBeijing (XNA) Nov 18, 2020 Space endeavor to be one of country's most challenging with moon samples sought Chang'e 5, the next mission in China's lunar exploration program, will be launched from the Wen-chang Space Laun ... more 
The satellites of LunaParis (ESA) Nov 18, 2020 Since time immemorial, people have gazed in wonder at the Moon. Its gentle light suggests romance, its strong embrace powers the tides and it is even sometimes blamed for madness. The Moon was ... more 
Idea Revived for "Ultimately Large Telescope" on the MoonAustin TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 A group of astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin has found that a telescope idea shelved by NASA a decade ago can solve a problem that no other telescope can: It would be able to study ... more  
Ancient zircon minerals from Mars reveal the elusive internal structure of the red planetCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 The uranium-bearing mineral zircon is an abundant constituent of Earth's continental crust, providing information about the age and origin of the continents and large geological features such as mou ... more |
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Moon Mark and Lunar Outpost announce partnership for racers to land on the Moon in 2021Reno NV (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 Moon Mark, the entertainment and education company that will sponsor the first-ever race on the Moon in 2021, has announced it will partner with Golden, CO-based Lunar Outpost to secure the two race ... more  |
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Doubling down on space safetyKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 13, 2020 Recently, the Air Force Safety Center transferred the Space Safety Division to the United States Space Force as one of the first blended organizations in the Department. Already charged with support ... more  
Airbus wins ESA's LSTM temperature-check mission for Copernicus next generationMadrid, 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 Uni ... more  
Russia to launch first satellite to monitor Arctic climate in February 2021Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2020 Russia's Arktika-M, the first satellite to monitor the Arctic climate and environment, is going to be launched in February 2021, a source in the space and rocket industry told Sputnik. In Octo ... more  
Education key to developing lifelike intelligent robots, study arguesWashington DC (UPI) Nov 10, 2020 Artificial intelligence has rapidly advanced over the last few decades, but this intelligence remains largely relegated to smartphones and computers. ... more  
Applying particle physics methods to quantum computingBerkeley CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2020 Borrowing a page from high-energy physics and astronomy textbooks, a team of physicists and computer scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Flying silently through the void of space around a globe of blue and green is the most advanced science laboratory ever developed: the International Space Station. Inside humanity's orbiting outpost is a buzz of activity as explorers, pilots, doctors, and scientists from around the world conduct experiments, maintain the facility, and develop new technologies.
For the past 20 years, betwee ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
UK rocket company, Skyrora, has conducted a series of static test fires of its 3rd stage LEO engine, including a vacuum chamber test, designed to replicate space-like conditions to further advance its launch ambitions.
All tests, totalling 100 and conducted at the company's Engine Test Complex located in Fife, Scotland, were successful, and the results met Skyrora's test criteria. This mea ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 18, 2020 
China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe had traveled 300 million kilometers as of Tuesday morning, according to the China National Space Administration.
The administration said in a statement that the spacecraft had been in good condition. By Tuesday morning, the robotic probe had flown 116 days in an Earth-Mars transfer trajectory toward the red planet, around 63.8 million km away from the Earth, it ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
The UK Government has backed the development of new 'space hubs' across England as well as providing funding to support projects in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Each area, dubbed a 'space hub', will use Government funding to bring together local authorities, expertise and businesses to create a strategy for how their area can take maximum advantage of the commercial space race. Ha ... more |
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 Brampton, Canada (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
The OSAM-1 mission, formerly known as Restore-L, will demonstrate robotic servicing technologies in orbit, including satellite refueling, assembly and in-space manufacturing. The SPIDER payload's lightweight 16-foot (5-metre) robotic arm will assemble multiple antenna reflector elements to form a single, functional 9-foot (3-metre) communications Ka-band antenna.
MDA has announced that it ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
The NASA Astrobiology Program has awarded a five-year, $5 million grant to an interdisciplinary consortium led by the University of California, Santa Cruz, to trace the volatile elements that form the atmospheres of planets, establishing a scientific foundation for detecting the signatures of life on other worlds.
Natalie Batalha, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, w ... 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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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Our planet's coral reef ecosystems are in peril from multiple threats. Anthropogenic CO2 has sparked a rise in global average sea surface temperatures, pushing reef survival beyond its upper thermal limits. Coastal development from industry, aquaculture, and infrastructure generates sedimentation and increased turbidity in coastal waters, which raises particulate organic carbon (POC) levels. Add ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2020 
Renowned architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, originator of many of the world's tallest skyscrapers, has been working on an even more challenging design: a habitat for a future Moon Village. Their proposal has undergone rigorous examination by ESA experts at the Agency's mission-evaluating Concurrent Design Facility.
This review process flagged various issues but found no show- ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
A new study by Southwest Research Institute scientists describes how they have expanded the capabilities of the prototype spaceflight instrument Chemistry Organic and Dating Experiment (CODEX), designed for field-based dating of extraterrestrial materials.
CODEX now uses two different dating approaches based on rubidium-strontium and lead-lead geochronology methods. The instrument uses las ... more |
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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of 52 distinct microspace missions, has been awarded a contract by GHGSat of Montreal to build the next three microsatellites in its commercial greenhouse gas monitoring constellation.
"SFL congratulates GHGSat on its success in providing commercial greenhouse gas monitoring services from space," said SFL Director, Dr. Robert E. Zee. "This contrac ... 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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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
By studying the site of a spectacular stellar explosion seen in April 2020, a Chalmers-led team of scientists have used four European radio telescopes to confirm that astronomy's most exciting puzzle is about to be solved. Fast radio bursts, unpredictable millisecond-long radio signals seen at huge distances across the universe, are generated by extreme stars called magnetars - and are astonishi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Large objects, such as baseballs, vehicles, and planets, behave in accordance with the classical laws of mechanics formulated by Sir Isaac Newton. Small ones, such as atoms and subatomic particles, are governed by quantum mechanics, where an object can behave as both a wave and a particle.
The boundary between the classical and quantum realms has always been of great interest. Research rep ... more |
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