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  Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2022 The most powerful space telescope ever built completed a tricky two-week-long deployment phase Saturday, unfolding its final golden mirror panel, as it readies to study every phase of cosmic history. Engineering teams in the James Webb Space Telescope's control room cheered as confirmation came back that its final wing was deployed and latched into place. "I'm emotional about it - what an amazing milestone," Thomas Zurbuchen, a senior NASA engineer, said during the live video feed as stargazers ... read more |
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Assessing Perseverance's Seventh Sample CollectionPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2022 On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknam ... more  
Prestwick Spaceport Files Planning Application NoticePrestwick, Scotland (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 South Ayrshire Council has started the process of submitting a formal planning application for the Prestwick Spaceport development. The Proposal of Application Notice (POAN) is the first step in the ... more  
Voyager Space Completes Acquisition of Space MicroDenver CO (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration has announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Voyager will provide strategic o ... more  
Arianespace to launch PLATiNO 1 and 2 on Vega and Vega CParis, France (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 Arianespace has been awarded a launch contract by SITAEL, with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) as the final customer, to orbit PLATiNO 1 and 2 satellites, between 2022 and 2024 on Vega and Vega C. ... more |
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Russian rocket is in uncontrolled descent to EarthWashington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2021 A Russian rocket is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday in an uncontrolled descent. ... more  
Shouzhou XIII crew finishes cargo spacecraft, space station docking testBeijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2022 The Shenzhou XIII astronauts in China's space station core module have completed the manual rendezvous and docking experiment with the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) sa ... more  
Scalable, high-speed avionics for safety-critical space applicationsVienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 03, 2022 The exploitation and exploration of space opens the door to improvements of life on earth, new discoveries and new research opportunities. However, space flight also provides a unique range of chall ... more 
Sol 3349: Ridges, Big and SmallPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 07, 2022 Another successful drive on Mars resulted in a dusty bedrock workspace with nodules and small raised ridges in front of the rover. Curiosity also has a view towards larger scale, dark, resistant rid ... more 
Sending Life to the StarsSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 No longer solely in the realm of science fiction, the possibility of interstellar travel has appeared, tantalizingly, on the horizon. Although we may not see it in our lifetimes - at least not some ... more |
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No returning to climate of the past even with CO2 reductionPohang, South Korea (SPX) Jan 01, 2022 While the entire world focuses on achieving carbon neutrality - zero carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions - a new research shows climate change in some regions is inevitable even if the already increased ... more  
Bringing the Sun into the labDresden, Germany (SPX) Jan 04, 2022 Why the Sun's corona reaches temperatures of several million degrees Celsius is one of the great mysteries of solar physics. A "hot" trail to explain this effect leads to a region of the solar atmos ... more  
Microreactors could be deployed where energy shortages occurArlington TX (SPX) Jan 05, 2022 Researchers from The University of Texas at Arlington and Texas A and M University have received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct experiments and ... more 
Life could be thriving in the clouds of VenusMadison WI (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 by Eric Verbeten for WISC News Is there life on Venus? For more than a century, scientists have pondered this question. Now, there is renewed interest in Venus as a place that could support living ... more  
China plans missions to moon's south poleBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2022 China has approved the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program, including a basic model of a research station built on the moon over the coming decade, according to the China National Space Ad ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 03, 2022 
As the International Space Station enters its third decade of continuous human presence, the impact of microgravity research conducted there keeps growing. The months between Nov. 2020 and Nov. 2021 saw publication of more than 400 scientific papers based on studies aboard the orbiting lab.
Here are some highlights of recent results from groundbreaking space station science:
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 
Arianespace confirmed its strong performance in 2021, with 15 successful launches - five more than in 2020 - and 305 satellites sent into orbit using its three launchers, Ariane, Soyuz and Vega, from three different launch bases.
The company posted revenues exceeding 1.25 billion euros, an increase of 30% over 2020. It has a backlog of 36 launches, with 22 more satellites added in 2021. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2022 
On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed Issole went smoothly. However, during the transfer of the bit that contains the sample into the rover's bit carousel (which stores bits and passes tubes to the tube processing hardware inside the r ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 03, 2022 
From hosting a children's art gallery in space to answering questions about manned spaceflight, the three astronauts onboard China's Tiangong space station celebrated the New Year by cultivating science and inspiration in the country's youth.
On Saturday afternoon, astronauts Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu hosted a live video call and interacted with college students at venues in ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Jan 06, 2022 
Voyager Space Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in space exploration has announced it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in San Diego-based Space Micro. Voyager will provide strategic operations support to help advance Space Micro's technology throughput to civil, commercial, and defense customers.
Space Micro is an innovative, engineering-driven business focused on advancing ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 5, 2021 
A Russian rocket is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere Wednesday in an uncontrolled descent.
Much of the rocket is expected to burn up as it plunges through the atmosphere, so there likely will not be major damage when it hits.
According to Russia's state-run TASS news agency, the Angara-A5 heavy-lift rocket was launched Dec. 27 to test the Persei booster.
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 
Led by the University of Bern, an international research team has discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. The discovery was also made thanks to observations performed by the SAINT-EX observatory in Mexico. SAINT-EX is run by a consortium including the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR Pla ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 31, 2021 
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from deep in the Kuiper Belt - more than 5 billion miles away - even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and Sun.
As 2021 winds down, I want to recount what the New Horizons project has accomplished this year, and also look ahead to tell you about our plans for 2022.
During a busy and productive 2021, our sc ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Jan 07, 2022 
There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms go about their daily lives in the water columns, and now researchers have discovered that some of them produce oxygen in an unexpected way.
Oxygen is vital for life on Earth, and is mainly produced by plants, algae and cyanobacteria via photosynthesis. A few microbes ar ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 
Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, will finalize the launch of the first generation of Galileo satellites and will increase the constellation resilience.
These will be the 13th to 16th Galileo missions by Arianespace, which has orbi ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 05, 2022 
In the early morning of November 24, 2020, the Chang'E 5 lunar probe was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center and successfully executed a 23-day journey of lunar sample return (LSR) mission. In a review paper recently published in Space: Science and Technology, Dr. Zhong-Sheng Wang and his colleagues from the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, addresses three key orbit ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 3, 2022 
The Quandrantid meteor shower helped kick off the first workday of the new year on Monday, with the peak somewhat tough to see in North America - but the rest of the world got a good show.
The "Quads" as they are nicknamed, are slated to peak around 4 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Monday, according to Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown in the 2022 version of the Observer's Handbook of th ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 1, 2022 
Britain experienced its warmest New Year's Day on record after temperatures rose above 16 degress Celsius (60.8 Fahrenheit) for the first time on January 1, the country's Meteorological Office said.
The mercury climbed to 16.2C in St James's Park in central London, according to a provisional Met Office reading, easily beating out the previous record of 15.6C set in Cornwall in 1916.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere - the corona - and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2022 
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a neighboring galaxy, this is just a circumstance of perspective. NGC 105's elongated neighbor is actually far more distant. Such visual associations are the result of ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Jan 05, 2022 
Black holes really are giant fuzzballs, a new study says. The study attempts to put to rest the debate over Stephen Hawking's famous information paradox, the problem created by Hawking's conclusion that any data that enters a black hole can never leave. This conclusion accorded with the laws of thermodynamics, but opposed the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics.
"What we found from strin ... more |
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