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  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its formation. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Gottingen, the University of Munster (WWU) and the National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER) in Bhubaneswar, India present the most detailed study of Urvara crater to date. For the first time, they evaluated ... read more |
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Ch'al-Type Rocks at Santa CruzPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2022 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. About 20 inches (50 centimeters ... more  
Russia halts space launches from French Guiana over sanctionsMoscow (AFP) Feb 26, 2022 Russia is suspending space launches from French Guiana and withdrawing its technical personnel in response to EU sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the space agency said Saturday. ... more  
US-Russia tensions spill into space, but ISS safe -- for nowWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2022 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has placed a question mark over the future of the International Space Station, long a symbol of post Cold War cooperation, where astronauts and cosmonauts proudly live and work side-by-side. ... more  
Russian invasion of Ukraine and resulting US sanctions threaten future of ISSMaxwell AFB AL (The Conversation) Feb 25, 2022 New U.S. sanctions on Russia will encompass Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, according to a speech U.S. President Joe Biden gave on Feb. 24, 2022. In response to these sanctions, the head of ... more |
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HSE University researchers discover what happens on the bright side of the moonMoscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 Researchers from HSE University have developed a mathematical model that explains the levitation of charged dust particles over the sunlit lunar surface for almost any latitude. For the first time, ... more  
NASA rocket team to chase pulsating auroraGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 A new NASA sounding rocket mission will soon take to the Alaskan skies. The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, will fly above an often-overlooked kind of northern li ... more  
Tuning in to invisible waves on the JET tokamakBoston MA (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 Research scientist Alex Tinguely is readjusting to Cambridge and Boston. As a postdoc with the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), the MIT graduate spent the last two years in Oxford, England, ... more  
Satellite laser altimetry helps monitor changes in global lake water storageNanjing, China (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 As the main freshwater resource on Earth's surface, lakes play an important role in maintaining ecosystem stability and the sustainable development of human society. However, it's been difficu ... more |
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NASA develops technology to dissect the lower atmosphereGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 The part of the atmosphere closest to the planet is the hardest to measure from space due to the volume of gases above it. Studying Earth's planetary boundary layer, or PBL, will enable scientists t ... more 
NASA supports research to advance earth scienceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Through a new prize competition, NASA is engaging minority serving institutions (MSIs) to bring ideas for new information technologies that will help address climate change. The prize competition, t ... more  
Advanced Air Mobility for HealthcareEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 During the global pandemic people have realized remote healthcare, delivery, and easy access to services are paramount. NASA's Advanced Air Mobility or AAM mission paves the way toward enabling sign ... more 
NASA Selects Futuristic Space Technology Concepts for Early StudyWashington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 An astronaut steps into a body scanner and, hours later, walks on Mars in a custom-made spacesuit, breathing oxygen that was extracted from Mars' carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere. On Venus, an inflata ... more |
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Webb Mirror Alignment continues successfullyBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 Webb continues on its path to becoming a focused observatory. The team has successfully worked through the second and third out of seven total phases of mirror alignment. With the completion of thes ... more  
Successful first year for UK-Australia Space BridgeLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 This week marks the first anniversary of the Space Bridge between UK and Australia - a partnership focused on facilitating collaboration between the two countries' space sectors. A world first, the ... more 
New sensor paves way for mapping the world under Earth surfaceBirmingham UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 An object hidden below ground has been located using quantum technology - a long-awaited milestone with profound implications for industry, human knowledge and national security. University of ... more 
James Webb Telescope adjustments bring stars more into focusWashington DC (UPI) Feb 25, 2021 NASA announced Friday that it completed another step in its alignment process of the new James Webb Space Telescope, bringing its test images more into focus. ... more 
Astronaut Matthias Maurer marks his first 100 days in spaceParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2022 Happy 100 days in space to ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. The first-time space flier marked the milestone on 19 February 2022 and what a busy 100-days it been. In a Twitter post marking the mi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 25, 2022 
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has placed a question mark over the future of the International Space Station, long a symbol of post Cold War cooperation, where astronauts and cosmonauts proudly live and work side-by-side.
The outpost was the subject of a menacing Twitter thread by Russian space agency head Dmitry Rogozin, who warned Thursday that US sanctions could "destroy our cooperation" an ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 24, 2021 
NASA officials said Thursday the space agency is making progress toward a crucial test in mid-March of the first moon rocket since the Apollo-era but the agency did not set a new launch date for the first lunar mission.
NASA plans the full "wet-dress rehearsal" of the SLS moon rocket on the pad at 6 p.m. ET on March 17.
The first such mission to the moon, although uncrewed, may h ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2022 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. About 20 inches (50 centimeters) across on average, the boulders in the foreground are among the type of rocks the rover team has named "Ch'al" (the Navajo term for "frog" and pronounced "chesh"). Perseverance will return to the ar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022 
China will make six manned space flights in 2022 to complete the building of its space station and see the maiden flight of Long March-6A, the country's first carrier rocket powered by a solid and liquid engine.
Ma Tao, deputy director of the Space Department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), revealed on Wednesday China's rocket launch plan at a press confer ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
Rocket Lab USA has been awarded a subcontract by MDA Ltd to lead the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar's new Low Earth Orbit satellites. Globalstar, Inc. Rocket Lab will lead the development of the spacecraft buses, while MDA will act as prime contractor to manufacture Globalstar's satellites, lead the development of the payload, and perform the final satellite assembl ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
Recent advancements in 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) for metallic structures make it possible to print all-metal electromagnetic devices-like antennas and waveguides-on demand. A new partnership between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Optisys, LLC, headquartered in West Valley City, Utah, will explore the potential fo ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars with detail up to a thousand times better than possible with other observatories.
Roman will use its Coronagraph Instrument - a system of masks, prisms, detectors, and even self-flexing mirrors ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 
Three prominent features on the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth - the farthest planetary body ever explored, by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - now have official names.
Proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by the International Astronomical Union, the new feature names follow a theme set by "Arrokoth" itself, which means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin Native American language.
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
As the main freshwater resource on Earth's surface, lakes play an important role in maintaining ecosystem stability and the sustainable development of human society.
However, it's been difficult to evaluate changes in global lake-water volume across space and time due to data problems. Specifically, ground-monitoring data have not been sufficiently representative of all lakes, and traditio ... more |
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 Apopka FL (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS). This compact targeting device provides unparalleled precision targeting and is capable of operation in GPS-denied environments.
"NGHTS will significantly enhance the ability of Marines to identify ground targets under a wide range of condit ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a study contract with the European Space Agency worth one million euros for a payload concept to extract oxygen from Moon rock.
For a sustainable habitation on the Moon, humans will need to utilise resources that they find on the Moon rather than transport these resources from Earth; one of these resou ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2022 
For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon's attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.
Initial observations of an asteroid dubbed '2022 AE1' showed a potential Earth impact on 4 July 2023 - not enough time to attempt deflection and large enough to do real damage to a lo ... more |
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
L3Harris Technologies' third high-resolution weather instrument is set to launch March 1 onboard a NOAA satellite - strengthening the nation's ability to monitor the environment and rapidly detect severe weather.
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is the primary instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), the third in a series of four advanced geostationary ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Scientists developed a neural network deep learning technique to extract hidden turbulent motion information from observations of the Sun. Tests on three different sets of simulation data showed that it is possible to infer the horizontal motion from data for the temperature and vertical motion. This technique will benefit solar astronomy and other fields such as plasma physics, fusion science, ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the evolution of our galaxy. The study is published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Ytterbium is one of four ... more |
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 Hefei, China (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Dr. HE Zhicheng and his coworkers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a new way to measure the physical properties of galactic ionized gas, and discovered the acceleration of quasar outflows at the scale of tens of parsecs for the first time. Their paper was published on Science Advances
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