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  Kirkland WA (SPX) May 19, 2021 Recent years have validated the adventurous nature of species with an upward trend in volume, variety and velocity of information dedicated to our future in space. The question is, where does information end up and how can we use it to inspire everyday people? A newly launched Kickstarter campaign seeks to drive an increase in space exploration enthusiasm with their Planetary Atlas Collection of Earth's Moon, Mercury, and Mars by bringing beauty, romance, and passion to planetary mapping. ... read more |
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Everything you need to know for the May 26 Lunar EclipseWashington DC (SPX) May 21, 2021 The total lunar eclipse of May 26th - the first in more than two years - favors western North America, but much of the continent will see the partial phases, provided skies are clear. No one h ... more  
SpaceX's 22nd Commercial Resupply Mission to ISSHouston TX (SPX) May 21, 2021 The 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations launches to the International Space Station from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier t ... more  
NASA awards $500K in First Phase of $5M Watts on the Moon ChallengeHuntsville AL (SPX) May 21, 2021 NASA has awarded $500,000 to seven winning teams in Phase 1 of the agency's Watts on the Moon Challenge. The technology design competition challenged U.S. innovators, from garage tinkerers to university researchers and startup entrepreneurs ... more 
Moon mission delays could increase risks from solar stormsReading UK (SPX) May 21, 2021 Planned missions to return humans to the Moon need to hurry up to avoid hitting one of the busiest periods for extreme space weather, according to scientists conducting the most in-depth ever look a ... more |
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European Space Agency plans network of moon satellitesWashington DC (UPI) May 20, 2021 The European Space Agency plans to build a communications and navigation network of satellites around the moon to aid future missions, including NASA's planned Artemis astronaut crews. ... more  
NASA's S-MODE takes to the air and sea to study ocean eddiesGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2021 After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change is taking flight and taking to the seas in ... more  
Heavy metal vapors unexpectedly found in comets throughout our Solar SystemMunich, Germany (SPX) May 20, 2021 A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has shown that iron and nickel exist in the atmospheres of comets throughout our So ... more 
Nickel atoms detected in the cold gas around interstellar comet 2I/BorisovKrakow, Poland (SPX) May 20, 2021 Unbound nickel atoms and other heavy elements have been observed in very hot cosmic environments, including the atmospheres of ultra-hot exoplanets and evaporating comets that ventured too close to ... more  
A revolutionary method to drastically reduce stray light on space telescopesLiege, Belgium (SPX) May 20, 2021 A team of researchers at the Centre Spatial de Liege (CSL) of the University of Liege has just developed a method to identify the contributors and origins of stray light on space telescopes. This is ... more |
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Beidou has grown into world-class navigation systemBeijing (XNA) May 17, 2021 After decades of planning and construction, China possesses one of the world's major navigation satellite systems - the Beidou Navigation Satellite System. Beidou is currently the country's la ... more  
Cool test of Proba-V companionParis (ESA) May 20, 2021 A test version of ESA's Proba-V Companion CubeSat seen during preparation for 'thermal balance' testing in the Agency's Mechanical Systems Laboratory at its ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands ... more  
New NASA data sheds sunlight on climate modelsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2021 Have you ever worn a dark T-shirt on a sunny day and felt the fabric warm in the Sun's rays? Most of us know dark colors absorb sunlight and light colors reflect it - but did you know this doesn't w ... more 
Where on Earth is all the water?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 17, 2021 High-temperature and high-pressure experiments involving a diamond anvil and chemicals to simulate the core of the young Earth demonstrate for the first time that hydrogen can bond strongly with iro ... more  
China postpones launch of robotic cargo spacecraftBeijing (XNA) May 20, 2021 The launch of China's Tianzhou 2 robotic cargo spacecraft that was originally scheduled for early Thursday morning has been postponed due to technical issues, according to the China Manned Space Age ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 19, 2021 
An online bid for a seat aboard Blue Origin's first crewed spaceflight was going for $2.6 million on Wednesday afternoon as the company prepares to blast off this summer.
Would-be customers have until June 10 before the current phase ends, and the company will hold a live final round on June 12, with the proceeds going to the company's charitable foundation.
Jeff Bezos' space venture is ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 17, 2021 
California-based launch company Rocket Lab has blamed a possible engine problem for the loss Saturday of its Electron rocket and commercial satellite payload.
The rocket fell safely into the Pacific Ocean off the company's launch site in New Zealand due to an automatic shutdown triggered by safety systems, according to the company.
It was the 20th mission for Electron and the sec ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2021 
Solar panels against an alien landscape, ramps and rods pointing at the Martian horizon - China's first probe on the Red Planet has beamed back its first "selfies" after its history-making landing last week.
The Zhurong rover was carried into the Martian atmosphere in a lander on Saturday, in the first ever successful probe landing by any country on its first Mars mission.
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 Beijing (AFP) May 19, 2021 
China has postponed the planned launch Thursday of a rocket carrying supplies for its new space station due to technical reasons, state media said.
The China Manned Space Agency gave no details on what the reasons were, and said only that a new launch time would be "determined later," the Xinhua News Agency reported.
The blast-off was to have taken place just days after China landed a ro ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 20, 2021 
The UK's space sector has seen growth in jobs and income while investing more in research and development, leaving it well-placed to grow strongly as we recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, Science Minister Amanda Solloway announced today.
Findings from the latest 'Size and Health of the UK Space Industry' report, commissioned by the UK Space Agency and delivered by know.space, show the sec ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) May 19, 2021 
NASA is partnering with Aerojet Rocketdyne to advance 3D printing technologies, known as metal additive manufacturing, and its capabilities for liquid rocket engines in landers and on-orbit stages/spacecraft.
The Robotic Deposition Technology (RDT) team, led out of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is designing and manufacturing innovative and lightweight combusti ... more |
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 Santa Fe NM (SPX) May 21, 2021 
When scientists hunt for life, they often look for biosignatures, chemicals or phenomena that indicate the existence of present or past life. Yet it isn't necessarily the case that the signs of life on Earth are signs of life in other planetary environments. How do we find life in systems that do not resemble ours?
In groundbreaking new work, a team led by Santa Fe Institute Professor Chri ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) May 18, 2021 
While scientists have amassed considerable knowledge of the rocky planets in our solar system, like Earth and Mars, much less is known about the icy water-rich planets, Neptune and Uranus.
In a new study recently published in Nature Astronomy, a team of scientists re-created the temperature and pressure of the interiors of Neptune and Uranus in the lab, and in so doing have gained a greate ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 19, 2021 
After being delayed over a year due to the pandemic, a NASA field campaign to study the role of small-scale whirlpools and ocean currents in climate change is taking flight and taking to the seas in May 2021.
Using scientific instruments aboard a self-propelled ocean glider and several airplanes, this first deployment of the Sub-Mesoscale Ocean Dynamics Experiment (S-MODE) mission will dep ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 17, 2021 
After decades of planning and construction, China possesses one of the world's major navigation satellite systems - the Beidou Navigation Satellite System.
Beidou is currently the country's largest space-based system and one of four global navigation networks, along with the United States' GPS, Russia's GLONASS and the European Union's Galileo.
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 20, 2021  The European Space Agency plans to build a communications and navigation network of satellites around the moon to aid future missions, including NASA's planned Artemis astronaut crews.
The agency has initiated a study of potential designs for the network, named Moonlight, that would tap private companies for proposals. Those firms include the United Kingdom's Surrey Satellite Technology ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) May 20, 2021 
A new study by a Belgian team using data from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) has shown that iron and nickel exist in the atmospheres of comets throughout our Solar System, even those far from the Sun. A separate study by a Polish team, who also used ESO data, reported that nickel vapour is also present in the icy interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. This is the fi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 21, 2021 
China launched its latest oceanographic research satellite, HY-2D, on a Long March 4B carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert on Wednesday morning, the China National Space Administration said.
It said in a statement that the satellite will be tasked with working with its two predecessors-HY-2B and HY-2C-to form a space-based network monitoring the marine ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 21, 2021 
The total lunar eclipse of May 26th - the first in more than two years - favors western North America, but much of the continent will see the partial phases, provided skies are clear.
No one has seen a total lunar eclipse since January 20-21, 2019, but the drought is finally ending. Viewers in the western half of North America, western South America, East Asia, and Australia will see the M ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 20, 2021 
The International Space Station's largest scientific instrument celebrates a decade in orbit. Wednesday 19 May 2021 marks 10 years since the cosmic-ray-hunting Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS-02) was installed on the exterior of the Space Station.
AMS-02 is a sub-atomic particle detector that looks for dark matter, antimatter and measures cosmic rays. It took 16 countries and nearly 20 ye ... more |
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 Cambridge MA (SPX) May 18, 2021 
In 1983, astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA) released a cosmic map using 2,400 galaxies. Now, CfA scientists are aiming to map 30 million. In the largest quest yet to map the universe, an international team of researchers is using DESI, or the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, to survey the skies. Observations officially began today, May 17, at Kitt ... more |
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