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  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2021 Cloudy days are rare in the thin, dry atmosphere of Mars. Clouds are typically found at the planet's equator in the coldest time of year, when Mars is the farthest from the Sun in its oval-shaped orbit. But one full Martian year ago - two Earth years - scientists noticed clouds forming over NASA's Curiosity rover earlier than expected. This year, they were ready to start documenting these "early" clouds from the moment they first appeared in late January. What resulted are images of wispy puffs fi ... read more |
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NASA administrator Bill Nelson supports $10B boost for moon landingWashington DC (UPI) May 28, 2021 NASA needs about a 40% boost - $10 billion - in its budget to foster competition that could aid future astronaut missions to the moon, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said. ... more  
Russian rocket launches UK telecom satellites after delayMoscow (AFP) May 28, 2021 A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying 36 UK telecommunication and internet satellites blasted off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia's Far East on Friday, the space agency said. ... more  
New NASA Student Challenge offers hands-on tech developmentWashington DC (SPX) May 28, 2021 NASA will initiate a new competition for the 2021-22 school year, providing student teams a chance to design, build, and launch experiments on suborbital rockets and high-altitude balloon flights. N ... more  
Reliable space weather forecastingNeustrelitz, Germany (SPX) May 31, 2021 The auroras are beautiful manifestations of the stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun. But the Sun's plasma eruptions are more than a natural spectacle in the polar regions; they can also i ... more |
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UK space sector targets positioning navigation and timing sub systemsLondon UK (SPX) May 31, 2021 6 UK businesses have won a share of over 2 million pounds in government funding to help shape options for the UK's satellite navigation and timing capability, to protect UK Critical National Infrast ... more  
Jupiter antenna that came in from the coldParis (ESA) May 31, 2021 An instrument destined for Jupiter orbit is checked after completing eight days of cryogenic radio-frequency testing at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands. The Sub-millimetre Wave ... more  
Scientists develop new molecular tool to detect alien lifeTempe AZ (SPX) May 31, 2021 While scientists know the discovery of alien life would be a game-changing, interstellar event for humanity, the search to date has been unsuccessful. But now, they have a new tool capable of identi ... more  
Hubble inspects a contorted spiral galaxyMunich, Germany (SPX) May 28, 2021 This striking image showcases the unusually contorted appearance of NGC 2276, an appearance caused by two different astrophysical interactions - one with the superheated gas pervading galaxy cluster ... more 
Dark matter particle explorer measures cosmic ray helium energy spectrumBeijing, China (SPX) May 31, 2021 Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) Collaboration directly observed a spectral softening of helium nuclei at about 34TeV for the first time. This work was based on measurements data of the helium ... more |
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UMass Amherst astronomer reveals never-before-seen detail of the center of our galaxyAmherst MA (SPX) May 28, 2021 New research by University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Daniel Wang reveals, with unprecedented clarity, details of violent phenomena in the center of our galaxy. The images, published recent ... more  
NASA rocket mission studying escaping radio wavesWallops Island, VA (SPX) May 27, 2021 A NASA rocket mission, launching May 26, 2021, will study radio waves that escape through the Earth's ionosphere impacting the environment surrounding GPS and geosynchronous satellites, such as thos ... more  
Scientists find new insights into the elusive continuous waves from spinning neutron starsMelbourne, Australia (SPX) May 28, 2021 Five years on from the first discovery of gravitational waves, an international team of scientists, including from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), are continu ... more  
Commercial UAV Expo Americas 2021Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 27, 2021 Commercial UAV Expo Americas is North America's leading trade show and conference focusing on the integration and operation of commercial UAS. ... more 
Competitor fears Musk's SpaceX could 'monopolise' spaceGeneva (AFP) May 27, 2021 The launching of thousands of satellites into low Earth orbit by tech billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX threatens the "de-facto monopolisation" of space, the head of competitor Arianespace Stephane Israel has warned. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 31, 2021 
NASA has selected Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to provide development and operations support for the avionics software suite that will guide the agency's next generation of human rated spacecraft on missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
The $49 million Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control (GN&C) and Avionics Technology Development and Analysis III contr ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) May 28, 2021 
NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) team fully stacked three hardware elements together May 24 to form the top of the rocket's core stage for the Artemis II mission. NASA and core stage prime contractor Boeing connected the forward skirt with the liquid oxygen tank and intertank flight hardware inside an assembly area at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2021 
Cloudy days are rare in the thin, dry atmosphere of Mars. Clouds are typically found at the planet's equator in the coldest time of year, when Mars is the farthest from the Sun in its oval-shaped orbit. But one full Martian year ago - two Earth years - scientists noticed clouds forming over NASA's Curiosity rover earlier than expected.
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 Beijing (AFP) May 29, 2021 
A Chinese cargo spacecraft carrying equipment and supplies successfully docked with the core module of the country's future space station on Sunday, state media said.
A Long March 7 rocket carrying the Tianzhou-2 cargo craft - loaded with essentials such as food, equipment and fuel - blasted off late Saturday from the Wenchang launch site on the tropical southern island of Hainan, the Xinh ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 26, 2021 
The European Space Agency wants to recruit the first astronaut with a significant physical disability as one way to broaden the pool of talent for space exploration.
The agency, which includes 22 European nations, has received hundreds of applications for its new Parastronaut Project and hopes to name one or a few astronauts from that pool by April 2022, said Guillaume Weerts, ESA's spa ... more |
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Imagine driving down a road which has more broken cars, bikes and vans lining the street than functioning vehicles. This is the scene our satellites face in Earth orbit. In fact, since the start of the space age there has been more debris, "space junk", in orbit than operational satellites.
b>So how do we clean up this mess? br> /b>
In 2002, a major step was taken to create some rules fo ... 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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 Paris (ESA) May 31, 2021 
An instrument destined for Jupiter orbit is checked after completing eight days of cryogenic radio-frequency testing at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands.
The Sub-millimetre Wave Instrument of ESA's Juice mission will survey the churning atmosphere of Jupiter and the scanty atmospheres of its Galilean moons.
Testing took place in ESA's custom-built Low-temperature Near- ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 28, 2021 
Populations in the Peruvian Amazon rely on freshwater fish for a significant portion of their diet. Unfortunately, many of these fish species have suffered significant declines over the last few decades as a result of climate change, land degradation, overfishing and pollution.
According to new research, ongoing freshwater biodiversity losses in the region are likely to result in signif ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) May 31, 2021 
6 UK businesses have won a share of over 2 million pounds in government funding to help shape options for the UK's satellite navigation and timing capability, to protect UK Critical National Infrastructure.
Leading UK space companies Airbus, CGI, Sirius Analysis, GMV NSL, Inmarsat, and QinetiQ will each receive a share of the funding to help develop system design and operation, signals and ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) May 27, 2021 
Lockheed Martin and General Motors Co. are teaming up to develop the next generation of lunar vehicles to transport astronauts on the surface of the Moon, fundamentally evolving and expanding humanity's deep-space exploration footprint.
NASA's Artemis program is sending humans back to the Moon where they will explore and conduct scientific experiments using a variety of rovers. NASA sought ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 28, 2021 
The rate at which plants and the land surface release moisture into the air has increased on a global scale between 2003 and 2019. These processes are collectively known as evapotranspiration, and a new NASA study has calculated its increase by using observations from gravity satellites.
By gauging the mass change of water between the oceans and the continents, the researchers determined t ... more |
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 Neustrelitz, Germany (SPX) May 31, 2021 
The auroras are beautiful manifestations of the stream of charged particles emitted by the Sun. But the Sun's plasma eruptions are more than a natural spectacle in the polar regions; they can also interfere with satellites. In extreme cases, space weather may even affect infrastructure on Earth.
The Institute for Solar-Terrestrial Physics at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum f ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 28, 2021 
In 29 new scientific papers, the Dark Energy Survey examines the largest-ever maps of galaxy distribution and shapes, extending more than 7 billion light-years across the Universe. The extraordinarily precise analysis, which includes data from the survey's first three years, contributes to the most powerful test of the current best model of the Universe, the standard cosmological model. However, ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 28, 2021 
What does quark-gluon plasma - the hot soup of elementary particles formed a few microseconds after the Big Bang - have in common with tap water? Scientists say it's the way it flows.
A new study, published in the journal SciPost Physics, has highlighted the surprising similarities between quark-gluon plasma, the first matter thought to have filled the early Universe, and water that comes ... more |
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