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  Washington (AFP) May 27, 2021 Are aliens watching us? That's what Americans hope to find out when a report on the US government's secret files on UFOs goes to Congress next month after years of sightings and videos suggesting that highly advanced extraterrestrials are, indeed, out there. But the report from the Director of National Intelligence, pulled together with classified military files, could fall short of explaining scores of purported unidentified flying object incidents over decades. While not clearly rejecting ... read more |
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SpaceX launches 60 Starlink satellites from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) May 26, 2021 SpaceX launched 60 more Starlink broadband communications satellites from Florida on Wednesday afternoon. ... more  
Experiments validate the possibility of helium rain inside Jupiter and SaturnLivermore CA (SPX) May 27, 2021 Nearly 40 years ago, scientists first predicted the existence of helium rain inside planets composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter and Saturn. However, achieving the experimental ... more  
Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology chosen to design Lunar charging stationAltadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2021 Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology report that the companies have been selected to provide an innovative lunar charging solution for NASA. As electric vehicle charging stations are popping up a ... more 
Republic of Korea signs onto Artemis Accords for lunar explorationWashington DC (SPX) May 27, 2021 The Republic of Korea has become the 10th country to sign the Artemis Accords, which establish a practical set of principles to guide space exploration cooperation among nations participating in NAS ... more |
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Canada to send rover to Moon by 2026: ministerOttawa (AFP) May 26, 2021 Canada will land a robotic rover on the Moon within five years, its industry minister said Wednesday, announcing that Ottawa plans to "dream big" as it advances its competitive stake in the growing global space market. ... more  
Roscosmos Chief invites NASA Counterpart to Russia to discuss space cooperationMoscow (Sputnik) May 27, 2021 Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian state space agency Roscosmos, announced on Tuesday that he invited the newly appointed head of NASA, Bill Nelson, to visit Russia to discuss cooperation in space. ... more  
Virgin Galactic completes first human spaceflight from Spaceport America, New MexicoLas Cruces NM (SPX) May 22, 2021 Virgin Galactic has completed its third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight, which took place May 22nd, sees New Mexico become the third US stat ... more  
NASA software unlocks Martian rover productivityMoffett Field CA (SPX) May 27, 2021 Productivity pundits know lots of tricks to make the most of your day, so you can schedule enough time for important tasks while guarding against overload. Planning a day of work for a Martian rover ... more 
NASA rover to search for water, other resources on MoonWashington DC (SPX) May 27, 2021 As part of the Artemis program, NASA is planning to send its first mobile robot to the Moon in late 2023 in search of ice and other resources on and below the lunar surface. Data from the Volatiles ... more |
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Study reveals new details on what happened in the first microsecond of Big BangCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 27, 2021 About 14 billion years ago, our universe changed from being a lot hotter and denser to expanding radically - a process that scientists have named 'The Big Bang'. And even though we know that t ... more 
Similar states of activity identified in supermassive and stellar mass black holesSan Cristobal, Spain (SPX) May 27, 2021 The researchers Juan A. Fernandez-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Munoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), have written an article ... more  
Latest Hubble parameter estimation from LISA-Taiji gravitational wave observatory networkBeijing, China (SPX) May 27, 2021 The Hubble parameter is one of the central parameters in the modern cosmology. Their values inferred from the late-time observations are systematically higher than those from the early-time measurem ... more  
NASA tests system for aircraft positioning in supersonic flightEdwards AFB CA (SPX) May 20, 2021 NASA recently flight tested a visual navigation system designed to enhance precise aerial positioning between two aircraft in supersonic flight. The Airborne Location Integrating Geospatial Na ... more  
Planetary Atlas Collection: A Kickstarter Campaign that Promotes Space Exploration for EveryoneKirkland WA (SPX) May 19, 2021 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. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 27, 2021 
Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian state space agency Roscosmos, announced on Tuesday that he invited the newly appointed head of NASA, Bill Nelson, to visit Russia to discuss cooperation in space.
"The new head of NASA, Mr. Nelson, is a respected and honored person and specialist. I will be glad to meet him. We have already invited him to Russia and are ready to discuss openly and constr ... more |
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 Las Cruces NM (SPX) May 22, 2021 
Virgin Galactic has completed its third spaceflight and the first ever spaceflight from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight, which took place May 22nd, sees New Mexico become the third US state to launch humans into space.
VSS Unity achieved a speed of Mach 3 after being released from the mothership, VMS Eve, and reached space, at an altitude of 55.45 miles before gliding smoothly to ... more |
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 London, Canada (SPX) May 27, 2021 
With Elon Musk keen to settle on Mars, and NASA planning its own human missions, there's more to it than finding a safe place to land on the red planet. When it's no longer just robots, rovers and drones arriving, accessing the untapped abundance of ice that lies beneath the Martian surface will be key for astronauts too.
Expertly checking both boxes, planetary geologists at Western have n ... more |
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 Beijing (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 Agency.
The agency said in a brief statement shortly before the preplanned launch time that the new launch time will be determined in due course.
It didn't give more details.
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 Luxembourg (SPX) May 27, 2021 
Kleos Space has signed a contract with Innovative Solutions in Space B.V. (ISISPACE) to build and support its third satellite cluster of four satellites, the Polar Patrol Mission (KSF2), scheduled to launch at the end of 2021 onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Specialising in small-satellite solutions, the Netherlands-based ISISPACE has more than 15 years of experience in the design, manufacture, ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) May 27, 2021 
On Thursday, May 27, OneWeb will launch further 36 broadband internet satellites aboard a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia. OneWeb is building a communications network with a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites that will deliver internet access around the world.
As a key supplier to OneWeb Satellites, RUAG Space built the satellite dispenser, which funct ... more |
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 Kamuela HI (SPX) May 27, 2021 
Current and former astronomers from the University of Hawai?i Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have wrapped up a massive collaborative study that set out to determine if most solar systems in the universe are similar to our own. With the help of W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea in Hawai?i, the 30-year planetary census sought to find where giant planets tend to reside relative to their host stars. ... more |
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 Livermore CA (SPX) May 27, 2021 
Nearly 40 years ago, scientists first predicted the existence of helium rain inside planets composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, such as Jupiter and Saturn. However, achieving the experimental conditions necessary to validate this hypothesis hasn't been possible - until now.
In a paper published by Nature, scientists reveal experimental evidence to support this long-standing predicti ... more |
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 Apia, Samoa (AFP) May 26, 2021 
Defying election results and court rulings, Samoa's veteran leader Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi is determined to cling to power, convinced only divine intervention can end his 22-year rule of the Pacific island nation.
Malielegaoi is not accustomed to losing - until recently the 76-year-old's authority was virtually absolute in a devoutly Christian nation of 220,000 where respect for one's ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 21, 2021 
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) such as GPS, the European Galileo system, or indeed China's own BeiDou are a testament to the powerful global services that large superpowers can offer the world.
Such potent navigational software that can pinpoint a location down to several centimeters from space are invaluable for everyday life, and are embedded into our smartphones, cars and ev ... more |
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 Altadena CA (SPX) May 27, 2021 
Honeybee Robotics and mPower Technology report that the companies have been selected to provide an innovative lunar charging solution for NASA. As electric vehicle charging stations are popping up across the globe, the Moon may soon join in the trend. NASA has selected five commercial teams to develop designs for vertically deployable solar array systems for the lunar surface as part of the Vert ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) May 21, 2021 
Comets that circle the Sun in very elongated orbits spread their debris so thin along their orbit or eject it out of the solar system altogether that their meteor showers are hard to detect.
From a new meteor shower survey published in the journal Icarus, researchers now report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that pass close to Earth orbit and are known t ... more |
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 Grenoble, France (SPX) May 27, 2021 
Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, has announced that Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has contracted it to supply its large shortwave infrared (SWIR) detector, NGP (Next-Generation Panchromatic), for the CO2M mission, as part of Europe's Copernicus program. Copernicu ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) May 25, 2021 
As we approach month's end, there is not one, not two, but three celestial events happening with our Moon!
The Moon will be located on Earth's opposite side from the Sun and fully illuminated May 26, 2021, at 6:13 a.m. CDT. This Full Moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Flower Moon because this was the time of year when spring flowers appeared in abundance.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2021 
NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will see thousands of exploding stars called supernovae across vast stretches of time and space. Using these observations, astronomers aim to shine a light on several cosmic mysteries, providing a window onto the universe's distant past and hazy present.
Roman's supernova survey will help clear up clashing measurements of how fast the unive ... more |
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 San Cristobal, Spain (SPX) May 27, 2021 
The researchers Juan A. Fernandez-Ontiveros, of the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) in Rome and Teo Munoz-Darias, of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC), have written an article in which they describe the different states of activity of a large sample of supermassive black holes in the centres of galaxies.
They have classified them using the behaviour of their closest " ... more |
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