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  Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will explore the moon's polar regions and is mulling over a manned lunar landing in the coming five years, according to a white paper released on Friday. The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," said China will continue its studies and research "on the plan for a human lunar landing." A new-generation manned spacecraft will be developed to support its exploration of the cislunar space, according to the paper. It is part of the country's ambitious lunar ... read more |
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Rocket Lab to provide Venture Class Launch Services for NASALong Beach CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Rocket Lab has been selected by NASA as one of twelve companies to provide launch services for the agency's Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions, providing new opport ... more 
Astra Awarded VADR Contract by NASAAlameda CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Astra Space, Inc. has been awarded of the Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) Launch Services Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract from the National Aerona ... more  
NASA's HERMES mission passes key milestone, moves toward launchWashington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 NASA's HERMES mission - a four-instrument suite to be mounted outside NASA's Moon-orbiting Gateway - has passed a critical mission review on Jan. 27, 2022. The review, Key Decision Point C, ev ... more  
Crater tree ringsParis (ESA) Jan 28, 2022 This feature could easily be mistaken for a tree stump with characteristic concentric rings. It's actually an impressive birds-eye view into an ice-rich impact crater on Mars. Tree rings provide sna ... more |
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Extremely harsh volcanic lake shows how life might have existed on MarsBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 A few specialist microbes survive conditions analogous to those of Mars' early history, reports a new publication in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science-and this may be thanks to a broad range ... more 
SpaceX again scrubs launch of Italian satelliteOrlando FL (UPI) Jan 29, 2022 SpaceX again scrubbed its launch of an Italian Earth-observation satellite, the COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation 2, on Friday. The aerospace company ran into weather problems for a second day in ... more  
Extreme exoplanet has a complex and exotic atmosphereBern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 An international team including researchers from the University of Bern and the University of Geneva as well as the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) ... more  
Shining a light on synthetic dimensionsYokohama, Japan (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Humans experience the world in three dimensions, but a collaboration in Japan has developed a way to create synthetic dimensions to better understand the fundamental laws of the Universe and possibl ... more 
China's cooperation with int'l space community fruitfulBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China has been engaged with the international space community over the past five years, yielding fruitful results in space science, technology and application, a Chinese official said Friday. ... more |
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China Focus: China to explore space science more: white paperBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will carry out more space science exploration in the next five years, said a white paper on the country's space activities released Friday. The white paper, titled "China's Space Program ... more 
China to boost satellite services, space technology application: white paperBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will continue to boost public services with satellites and promote the application and transfer of space technology in the next five years, according to a white paper on the country's space pr ... more 
China to improve space infrastructure with new satellites, technologies: white paperBeijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 China will continue to improve its space infrastructure, and integrate remote-sensing, communications, navigation, and positioning satellite technologies in the next five years, according to a white ... more  
SCOUT releases autonomy software to enable safer and less complex space operationsAlexandria VA (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 SCOUT Inc. has announced its latest Autonomy Software offerings: computer vision and guidance software to make navigation safer and less complex for space operators. These offerings include software ... more 
Out of Pebble PurgatoryPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2022 The final two pebbles hitching a ride aboard our rover's bit carousel are gone but not forgotten. I'll give you the latest on why they are gone and then tell you why we are not forgetting them - or ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 27, 2022 
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station farewelled over 2000 kg of scientific experiments and hardware on Sunday 23 January as a cargo Dragon spacecraft began its return to Earth.
ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer captured the resupply vehicle in all its glory as it departed the orbital outpost at 15:40 GMT/16:40 CET. It splashed down approximately 29 hours later off the coast of Flo ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
Rocket Lab has been selected by NASA as one of twelve companies to provide launch services for the agency's Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare (VADR) missions, providing new opportunities for science and technology payloads and fostering a growing U.S. commercial launch market. VADR is a five-year program with a maximum total budget for $300 million in launch contracts.
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 San Antonio, TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm that salty water likely exists between grains of ice or sediment under the ice cap at Mars' south pole. Laboratory measurements conducted by SwRI geophysicist Dr. David Stillman support oddly bright reflections detected by the MARSIS subsurface sounding radar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 
China will explore the moon's polar regions and is mulling over a manned lunar landing in the coming five years, according to a white paper released on Friday.
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," said China will continue its studies and research "on the plan for a human lunar landing."
A new-generation manned spacecraft will be developed to support it ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 25, 2022 
The EU launched Tuesday a billion-euro fund to support startups in the space sector with the hope it will be a "game changer" and attract private investors into the key sector.
Named the Cassini fund after the 17th century Italian astronomer, it was launched as part of the European Investment Fund (EIF) which provides risk financing to small and medium-sized businesses across Europe.
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
The University of Surrey and Space Power are tackling the problem of powering satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) during their eclipse period when they cannot see the sun. By collaborating on a space infrastructure project, the joint team will develop new technology which uses lasers to beam solar power from satellites under solar illumination to small satellites orbiting closer to Earth during ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
The forensic evidence left in the 14 Her giant planetary system suggests an active dynamical past. Two giant planets, several times more massive than Jupiter, in highly eccentric orbits around a solar-type star were found orbiting at nearly right angles to each other.
In the recently published paper "14 Her: a likely case of planet-planet scattering," Daniella Bardalez Gagliuffi-a senior m ... 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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 Gainesville FL (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
After three consecutive years of worldwide declines, the number of shark bites picked up in 2021, with a total of 73 unprovoked incidents. The data, published this week by the Florida Museum of Natural History's International Shark Attack File, also included 39 provoked shark bites and nine fatalities that occurred throughout the year.
The number of unprovoked bites in 2021 aligns with the ... more |
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 Xian (XNA) Jan 26, 2022 
A health check on all 52 in-orbit satellites of China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been completed, according to the Xi'an Satellite Control Center.
The center said the satellites met all key indicators, meaning the constellation can provide services without issue.
The evaluation was conducted without interrupting the satellites' usual navigation services, and develo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2022 
Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two years of service that depicted the unique and untrodden moonscape on the moon's far side, revealing its notable differences with the near side with in situ evidence.
The study published on Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal, Science Robotics, described cloddy soil, gel-like rocks, and fresh small craters ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 26, 2022 
For the second time in its mission so far, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has flown through the tail of a comet. Predicted in advance by astronomers at University College London, UK, the spacecraft collected a wealth of science data that now awaits full analysis.
For a spacecraft designed to conduct unique studies of the Sun, Solar Orbiter is also making a name for itself exploring ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 
Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection has completed its previously announced business combination with CF Acquisition Corp. V (Nasdaq: CFV) ("CFV"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald. The business combination was approved at a special meeting of CFV stockholders on January 24, 2022. Beginning Wednesday, J ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
New findings published Jan. 27 in the journal Nature Astronomy have called into question decades of theoretical understanding used by astrophysicists to interpret an observational phenomenon central to understanding energy released during powerful eruptions from the Sun, known as solar flares.
Solar flares, which are triggered when magnetic field lines break and reconnect above the Sun's s ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering mechanics alumnus made important contributions to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which arrived at its home in distant orbit Monday.
The telescope, the world's largest and most powerful space science observatory, launched on Dec. 25, starting its journey toward its destination about 1 million miles from Earth.
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Jan 25, 2022 
Astronomers discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes we have found at the centers of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode. This makes it one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, an object that has long been sought by astronomers.
"We have very good detections of t ... more |
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