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  Washington (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 Up to 40 SpaceX high-speed internet satellites have been knocked out of orbit by a geomagnetic storm shortly after launch, but pose little threat to Earth as they burn up in the atmosphere, the company said. Geomagnetic storms are caused by ejections of the solar corona into space, resulting in disturbances to the Earth's upper atmosphere and increased drag on objects in low orbits. The latest 49 satellites from the Starlink network launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on February 3 ... read more |
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Increasing production is important for Hypersonics, Defense official saysWashington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 The Defense Department is working hard on developing both hypersonic offensive and defensive capabilities. But in the immediate future, one of the most important areas to be developed is increasing ... more  
Scientists in Britain smash fusion energy recordAbingdon, United Kingdom (AFP) Feb 9, 2022 Scientists in Britain said Wednesday they have smashed a previous record for generating fusion energy, an achievement hailed a "milestone" on the protracted path towards harnessing a power source considered cheap and clean. ... more 
UCF lands new project to study effect of rain on hypersonic travelOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 University of Central Florida researchers are part of a new $1 million project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to better understand and predict how and why raindrops are affect ... more 
Gilmour Space, SENER Aeroespacial to develop Autonomous Flight Termination System for Eris rocketGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 SENER Aeroespacial, a company of the SENER engineering and technology group, and Australian launch services company Gilmour Space Technologies, are working together on an Autonomous Flight Terminati ... more |
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SBIRS GEO-5 operationally accepted after exceeding on-orbit testing expectationsPeterson SFB CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed Martin, has been operationally accepted by the U.S. Space Force less than a year after bein ... more  
Indian Space Agency decommissions communication satelliteNew Delhi(Sputnik) Feb 09, 2022 Space debris has become a real concern for space exploration agencies worldwide. According to estimates, there are 7,200 artificial satellites in total orbiting Earth and 27,000 pieces of man-made d ... more  
Protecting dark and quiet skies from satellite constellation interferenceChicago IL (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 If you've ever tried to star gaze in a residential or urban area, you know that a streetlight or even the lights from a nearby town can greatly interfere with your ability to identify Orion's Belt a ... more  
Glaciers are melting faster and with more consequences than expectedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 02, 2022 Developments at the South Pole are raising new concerns. A group of smaller glaciers, named Pope, Smith and Kohler, are melting faster than expected. So far, the neighbouring giant glaciers, Thwaite ... more  
Operational Optical Data Services for Meteosat SatellitesMadrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 Following an open invitation to tender, the technology multinational GMV, European industrial leader in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), has been awarded ... more |
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Is the 'fine-tuned universe' an illusion?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 For decades physicists have been perplexed about why our cosmos appears to have been precisely tuned to foster intelligent life. It is widely thought that if the values of certain physical parameter ... more 
A new programming language for high-performance computersBoston MA (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 High-performance computing is needed for an ever-growing number of tasks - such as image processing or various deep learning applications on neural nets - where one must plow through immense piles o ... more 
Scientists discover a mysterious transition in an electronic crystalBoston MA (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 When temperature changes, many materials undergo a phase transition, such as liquid water to ice, or a metal to a superconductor. Sometimes, a so-called hysteresis loop accompanies such a phase chan ... more 
Beyond sci-fi: manipulating liquid metals without contactWollongong, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 In a landmark discovery, FLEET University of Wollongong (UOW) researchers have realised the non-contact manipulation of liquid metal. The metals can be controlled to move in any direction, and manip ... more 
Increasing accuracy of atomic force calculations with space-warp transformationIshikawa, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 Atomic forces are primarily responsible for the motion of atoms and their versatile arrangement patterns, which is unique for different types of materials. Atomic simulation methods are a popular ch ... 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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 Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
SENER Aeroespacial, a company of the SENER engineering and technology group, and Australian launch services company Gilmour Space Technologies, are working together on an Autonomous Flight Termination System (AFTS) for the Eris launch vehicle, which is being developed for the small satellite market.
The AFTS is a smart Hardware/Software unit with autonomous decision-making capacity respons ... more |
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 Manchester UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Scientists at The University of Manchester and The University of Glasgow have today provided more insight into the possibility of establishing a pathway to generate oxygen for humans to potentially call the Moon or Mars 'home' for extended periods of time.
Creating a reliable source of oxygen could help humanity establish liveable habitats off-Earth in an era where space travel is more ach ... 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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 Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
If you've ever tried to star gaze in a residential or urban area, you know that a streetlight or even the lights from a nearby town can greatly interfere with your ability to identify Orion's Belt and see a rare comet or other celestial bodies. But what is more of a disappointment for us is a cosmic disruption for scientists and others in the space industry.
To preserve this vital characte ... more |
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 New Delhi(Sputnik) Feb 09, 2022 
Space debris has become a real concern for space exploration agencies worldwide. According to estimates, there are 7,200 artificial satellites in total orbiting Earth and 27,000 pieces of man-made debris caught in orbit.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully decommissioned a 14-year-old communication satellite, INSAT-4B, which provided services in the Ku and C freq ... 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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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 
Southwest Research Institute scientists joined a team that reanalyzed and modeled data from a planned lunar impact more than a decade ago. The findings suggest that volatiles present in a crater near the Moon's south pole were likely delivered by a comet. Volatiles are chemical elements and compounds that can be readily vaporized and, in this case, were stabilized in ice lurking in this permanen ... more |
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 Milton Keynes UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometre across in its orbit about the Sun - only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes round the Sun on average two months ahead of the Earth, dancing around in front like an excited herald of our coming.
This object, known as 2020 XL5, was first spotted in December 2020 using Pan-STARRS telescopes on the sum ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Following an open invitation to tender, the technology multinational GMV, European industrial leader in Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), has been awarded a new contract by the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), located in Darmstadt (Germany) for the provision of Operational Optical Data Services to suppo ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Nuclear physicists explore different nuclei to learn how protons and neutrons behave. For instance, they have found that nuclei made of just a few protons and neutrons typically contain close to an equal number of each. But as nuclei get heavier, they need to pack in more neutrons than protons to remain intact.
These extra neutrons tend to stick to the outer edges of heavy nuclei and form ... 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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