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  San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Planet Labs reports the successful launch of its 4x Flock, consisting of 44 SuperDove satellites, into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company has established contact with all of the SuperDove satellites, many within two minutes of the final deployment, upholding Planet's record of successfully connecting with 100% of all Planet satellites launched. These 44 satellites will join Planet's existing fleet of roughly 200 satellites in orbit. Planet has now launched 127 satellites across eight l ... read more |
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A second successful launch for SpaceCloud into spaceStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 SpaceCloud once again headed into orbit as a part of D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier onboard SpaceX's Transporter-3 mission that was launched January 13th from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission a ... more  
Update on Africa's 1st Satellite constellation built by CPUTCape Town, South Africa (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 The Marine Domain Awareness Satellites (MDASat) have already started successfully transmitting data after they were launched aboard US aerospace company SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket yesterday. The missi ... more  
Virgin Orbit air drops rocket carrying 7 satellitesOrlando FL (UPI) Jan 14, 2022 Virgin Orbit kicked off an ambitious launch schedule for 2022 on Thursday by sending seven small satellites into space aboard a rocket launched from a jet high above the Pacific Ocean. The Lau ... more 
SpaceX launches 105 satellites from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Jan 13, 2022 SpaceX successfully launched 105 satellites from Florida on Thursday morning as part of its rideshare program, which it uses to release satellites for dozens of customers in a single mission. ... more |
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Swedish Security Police Warn of Space Wars With China, RussiaMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 13, 2022 Previously, the fictitious "Russian threat" mentioned by numerous agencies and security services, coupled with a media narrative of an "assertive" and "aggressive" Moscow has been cited as the reaso ... more 
Brown, Raymond warn of impacts to Air Force, Space Force if new budget is not approvedWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The Air Force's and Space Force's highest ranking officers issued grim warnings to Congress Jan. 12, telling a House subcommittee that failing to approve a new spending plan for the current fiscal y ... more 
HawkEye 360 awarded $15.5M contract with Air Force Research LaboratoryHerndon VA (SPX) Jan 12, 2022 HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, has announced it has been awarded a three year, $15.5 million Experimental Purpose A ... more  
Sol 3354: Tantalizingly Out of ReachPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2022 Today Curiosity is doing a little bit of everything: some contact science, some targeted science, and a little driving. When we started planning this morning, we had a beautiful view of the small le ... more  
Oxygen ions in Jupiter's innermost radiation beltsGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as ele ... more |
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Are astronomers seeing a signal from giant black holes?Green Bank WV (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 An international team of astronomers has discovered what could be the early sign of a background signal arising from supermassive black holes, observed through low-frequency gravitational waves. The ... more  
Webb Begins Its Months-Long Mirror AlignmentWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 Webb has begun the detailed process of fine-tuning its individual optics into one huge, precise telescope. Engineers first commanded actuators - 126 devices that will move and shape the primar ... more 
Vast bubble in interstellar space source of all nearby, young starsBoston MA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars - but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing in Nature, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics ... more 
Researchers Observe Massive CME on Distant, Sun-Like StarWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 EK Draconis illuminates an unimagined picture of how superflares may affect interplanetary space through coronal mass ejections Welcome to the New Year! While Earth celebrated 2022's arrival with d ... more  
North Pole solar eclipse excited auroras on the other side of the worldHefei, China(SPX) Jan 13, 2022 A solar eclipse over the Arctic created changes in auroras in both of Earth's hemispheres due to connections through the planet's magnetic field, according to a new study. The new work could help sc ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Jan 7, 2022 
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said Friday his trip into space had given him a new appreciation for Earth, and he now hopes to plunge into the ocean's forbidding Mariana Trench.
Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano spent 12 days on the International Space Station last month, where they documented life in space for one million YouTube subscribers.
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 Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have greeted the new year with a successful 110-kilonewton test fire of the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia.
The 75-second test was a major milestone for Gilmour Space, which is developing Australian Made rockets that will, over the next five years, be capable of launching 300- to 4,000-kilogram satellites and payloads ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 14, 2022 
The "bump" planned on Sol 3354 to move the rover closer to "The Prow" outcrop was successful, placing the front wheels very close to the base of the outcrop. From this new position, the arm can reach the top of the outcrop, so APXS will be placed on a couple of upper outcrop targets named "Angasima" and "Kamuda" on Sol 3355. Unfortunately, MAHLI had an issue reading data from their memory a coup ... more |
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 Beijing (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) said Saturday.
At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module's node cabin and mov ... more |
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 Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Jan 14, 2022  The Marine Domain Awareness Satellites (MDASat) have already started successfully transmitting data after they were launched aboard US aerospace company SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket yesterday. The mission carried a total of 105 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, PocketQubes and orbital transfer vehicles.
CPUT Vice-Chancellor Prof Chris Nhlapo congratulated engineers from the university ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
SpaceCloud once again headed into orbit as a part of D-Orbit's ION Satellite Carrier onboard SpaceX's Transporter-3 mission that was launched January 13th from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The mission aims to verify 17 apps, uploading of new ones, and support the on-orbit testing of a hyperspectral camera.
On this mission SpaceCloud hosts 17 evolved applications, and we are now having the abil ... more |
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Riverside CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2022
A UC Riverside astronomer and a group of eagle-eyed citizen scientists have discovered a giant gas planet hidden from view by typical stargazing tools.
The planet, TOI-2180 b, has the same diameter as Jupiter, but is nearly three times more massive. Researchers also believe it contains 105 times the mass of Earth in elements heavier than helium and hydrogen. Not ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as electrons, protons, and heavier ions whiz around thus forming the invisible, torus-shaped radiation belts. With their high velocities reaching almost the speed of light, the particles can ionize other mo ... more |
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 Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 11, 2022 
For the first time, the Amazon basin could be identified as dominant source region for water precipitating in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. From the rainforest, elevated water vapour travels more than 2000 km westwards, crosses the Andes, and turns southeast over the Pacific to form precipitation over the Atacama Desert. Dr Christoph Bohm from the University of Cologne's Institute of Geo ... 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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
Scientists have shown how the freezing of a 'slushy' ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon's crust.
The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale superieure de Lyon, have proposed a new model of crystallisation, where crystals remained suspended in liquid magma over hundreds of millions of years as the lunar 'slush' froze and solidified. ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jan 10, 2022 
On November 29, 2021, an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Starfire Optical Range (SOR)* telescope on Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, recorded an image of asteroid (22) Kalliope, and its natural satellite Linus. A confirming image was taken four nights later. What is unique about these observations is the small size of the telescope used, only 1.5 meters in diameter.
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planet Labs reports the successful launch of its 4x Flock, consisting of 44 SuperDove satellites, into orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The company has established contact with all of the SuperDove satellites, many within two minutes of the final deployment, upholding Planet's record of successfully connecting with 100% of all Planet satellites launched.
These 44 satellites will join Pla ... more |
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 Hefei, China(SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
A solar eclipse over the Arctic created changes in auroras in both of Earth's hemispheres due to connections through the planet's magnetic field, according to a new study. The new work could help scientists predict changes in the near-Earth environment that can interfere with satellite communication.
On 10 June 2021, the moon's shadow darkened much of the Earth's northern polar region, pro ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 12, 2022 
The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor, or ASIM for short, is a first-of-its-kind complement of instruments on the International Space Station. Dubbed the 'space storm hunter', ASIM measures electric events in Earth's upper atmosphere with cameras, photometers and X- and gamma-ray detectors.
Recently, ASIM unexpectedly detected a unique gamma-ray burst from outer space. This fortuitous ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
An international team of researchers, led by postgraduate student Alexis Andres, has found that the black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term. The team analysed 15 years' worth of data to come to this conclusion. The research was initiated by Andres in 2019 when he was a summer student at the University of Amster ... more |
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