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  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet. The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round-trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program. "This groundbreaking endeavor is destined to inspire the world when the first robotic round-trip mission retrieves a sample from a ... read more |
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NASA, SpaceX investigate Dragon capsule parachute openingsWashington DC (UPI) Feb 4, 2021 SpaceX and NASA officials are investigating a lag in parachute openings during the return of the company's Dragon capsules from the International Space Station with cargo and astronauts, the organizations said during a teleconference Friday. ... more 
Astra Space scrubs first Florida launch a second timeWashington DC (UPI) Feb 7, 2021 Astra Space postponed its first rocket launch from Florida on Monday for the second time in three days due to a "minor telemetry issue" and did not set a new launch date, a company official said. ... more 
Search is on for young space entrepreneurs ahead of first UK rocket launchesLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 With Britain's first satellite launches set to take place this year, the SatelLife Competition is looking for the best new ideas for how to use data collected from space to benefit daily life, from ... more 
UCF lands DOD award for advance hypersonic propulsion researchOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Anew race to harness hypersonic speed for travel and defense has started, and University of Central Florida researchers are helping the U.S. stay ahead of the pack with a new $1.5 million U.S. Depar ... more |
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NASA's Artemis I moonshot slips back to April or MayWashington DC (UPI) Feb 2, 2021 NASA announced Wednesday that its plan to launch the Artemis I SLS rocket on an uncrewed journey around the moon in March has slipped to April or May. ... more  
How Dark Matter Could Be Measured in the Solar SystemWashington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Pictures of the Milky Way show billions of stars arranged in a spiral pattern radiating out from the center, with illuminated gas in between. But our eyes can only glimpse the surface of what holds ... more 
Nobody Tell Elmo About IssolePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 07, 2022 America's favorite red monster may not be interested in rocks, but Perseverance can't wait to keep exploring the rocks on Mars! How does the rover study rocks up-close? The Mars2020 Pers ... more  
Protons are probably actually smaller than long thoughtBonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers ev ... more 
Researchers set record by preserving quantum states for more than 5 secondsLemont IL (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 Breakthrough using common material could pave way for new quantum technologies. Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hackerproof communication networks ... more |
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Collaborative research project on quantum technology starts on the International Space StationMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 In early December 2021, the project "Development of a laser system for experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates on the International Space Station within the BECCAL payload (BECCAL-II)" commenced, ... more  
Tonga eruption sent ripples through Earth's ionospherePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2022 The powerful underwater volcanic eruption that blanketed the island nation of Tonga with ash and sent tsunami waves across the world also caused ripples in Earth's ionosphere, according to measureme ... more  
NASA Greenland mission completes six years of mapping unknown terrainPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 27, 2022 The most important thing to remember about NASA's Oceans Melting Greenland mission, which ended Dec. 31, 2021, may be its name: OMG proved that ocean water is melting Greenland's glaciers at least a ... more 
EnMAP will see our Earth in more than just colourBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) satellite, the first hyperspectral satellite developed and built in Germany, is still in a clean room in Bremen. The final tasks are being carr ... more 
Remote sensing technology reduces urban air pollutionSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 Cities that adopt roadside emissions sensors to detect high polluting vehicles, together with an enforcement program to inspect and repair these vehicles, could significantly improve urban air quali ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
Scientific investigations on skin aging and tumor cells, along with tests of technology for oxygen production, batteries, and growing plants, all travel on the 17th Northrop Grumman commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff no earlier than Saturday, Feb. 19, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virgin ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
With Britain's first satellite launches set to take place this year, the SatelLife Competition is looking for the best new ideas for how to use data collected from space to benefit daily life, from supporting local communities and the NHS, to monitoring the environment and tackling climate change.
The competition is now in its fifth year, with previous winning ideas including drones carryi ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for understanding when conditions suitable for life may have existed on early Mars.
Published in leading journal Science Advances, the research examined grains of the mineral zircon in Martian meteorite NWA 7034. The ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
At a press conference today, NSF's NOIRLab announced that it has been selected, along with the SKA Observatory (SKAO), by the International Astronomical Union to host the new IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. The center coordinates collaborative multidisciplinary international efforts with institutions and individuals and works acr ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
A small forest of antennas sprouts from the roof of ESA's Navigation Laboratory, based at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, which is among the most frequently satnav-fixed locations on Earth. This is also the site of the very first Galileo positioning fix, acquired back in 2014 using the first quartet of Galileo satellites.
"The antenna is a critical component of any Global Na ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Exoplanets come in shapes and sizes that are not found in our solar system. These include small gaseous planets called mini-Neptunes and rocky planets several times Earth's mass called super-Earths.
Now, astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths. Radiation from the planets' sta ... more |
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 Leicester UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA's Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, describes the delicate current cycle driven by Jupiter's rapid rotation and the release of sulphur ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
The deep-ocean floor is the least explored ecosystem on the planet, despite covering more than 60% of the Earth surface. Largely unknown life in abyssal sediments, from benthic animals to microbes, helps to recycle and/or sequester the sinking (in)organic matter originating from pelagic communities that are numerically dominated by microscopic plankton.
Benthic ecosystems thus underpin two ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 
The first mission in NASA's program to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until spring at the earliest, the US space agency said Wednesday, saying it needed more time to complete safety checks.
The Artemis I launch, initially scheduled for late 2021 and then postponed twice more, will now happen no earlier than April.
"Teams are taking operations a step at a time to ensure the ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
An international team of astronomers has discovered a pair of asteroids that split off from their parent body a mere 300 years ago. The duo is exceptional because it is the youngest known "asteroid pair" by at least a factor of ten, it passes close to Earth's orbit, and it has properties that are hard to explain given its young age.
The majority of asteroids in our solar system reside in t ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
The Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program (EnMAP) satellite, the first hyperspectral satellite developed and built in Germany, is still in a clean room in Bremen. The final tasks are being carried out and the spacecraft is on the 'home straight'.
If everything goes according to plan, the new satellite will be transported to NASA's spaceport in Florida by an Ilyushin Il-76 transport ai ... more |
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 Hanscom AFB MA (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
A Hanscom team recently awarded a $19.3 million contract to support a constellation of high-tech weather satellites capable of observing precipitation and storm structures from space. As part of the agreement, Boston-based meteorological intelligence company Tomorrow.io will provide the Aerospace Management Systems Division, headquartered here, with three-dimensional global weather and ocean dat ... more |
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 Notre Dame IN (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million stars that can be used to decipher the chemical history of elements in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The research, published February 3 in The Astrophysical Journal, represents about one-hundredth of a percent of the roughly 240 billion stars in the Milky Wa ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Maryland and University of Paris-Saclay has traced the movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies, the dominant congregations of matter, within 350 ... more |
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