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  Vienna VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has announced a new space-as-a-service agreement with NorthStar Earth and Space ("NorthStar"), a comprehensive Earth and Space Information Services Platform, to build a constellation of satellites focused on space-situational awareness (SSA) and debris monitoring. The first award within the contract is for three satellites, with pre-agreed options for NorthStar to scale the constellation to dozens of satellites as their business operational needs grow. With this ded ... read more |
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NASA extends Ingenuity Helicopter MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 NASA has extended flight operations of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter through September. In the months ahead, history's first aircraft to operate from the surface of another world will support the Pe ... more 
Beyond Gravity boosts its capacity for satellite dispenser systems in Linkoping and creates 60 new jobs with new production facilityZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) is significantly ramping up its production of satellite dispensers in Linkoping, Sweden, with the construction of a new facility. It will be used to produce disp ... more  
Carrier rocket preparing for its debut flightBeijing (XNA) Mar 17, 2022 Smart Dragon 3, a new model of solid-propellant carrier rocket, is scheduled to make its debut flight in September, according to a senior rocket scientist. Engineers at the China Academy of La ... more  
Celestia Aerospace closes 100M euro seed round with London-Based Invema LtdBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Invema Group LTD, with headquarters in London and international offices in Arizona (USA), Miami (USA), Toronto (Canada), Bogota (Colombia), Casablanca (Morocco), Tunis (Tunisia), Riyadh (Saudi Arabi ... more |
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Astranis Space Technologies first MicroGEO Satellite completes final testingSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Astranis Space Technologies Corp. has announced that the first MicroGEO satellite is ready for launch after successful completion of final testing. Astranis has now completed all major tests necess ... more  
ISS crews prepare for flow of visitors, rotations over next monthMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2022 Crews on the International Space Station (ISS) will cope with almost unprecedented human congestion as 18 astronauts and cosmonauts arrive, work and depart from it over the next month, NASA ISS Oper ... more 
India maps out plan to increase satellite launchesNew Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2022 The Indian National Space Promotion and Authorisation Centre (INSPACe) has started hiring people for top posts at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to take on new space missions and incr ... more 
China tests rocket engine for upcoming space lab launchesBeijing (XNA) Mar 17, 2022 A Chinese high-thrust oxyhydrogen rocket engine has completed a 520-second test in preparation for the upcoming launches of space station lab modules, its maker said on Wednesday. Developed by ... more |
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Searching for Planet NineBoston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 The Solar System has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class as contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres and perhaps many more solar system small bodies. ... more  
Meteorites that helped form Earth may have formed in the outer solar systemTokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Our Solar System is believed to have formed from a cloud of gas and dust, the so-called solar nebula, which began to condense on itself gravitationally ~ 4.6 billion years ago. As this cloud contrac ... more  
Roman Telescope could help find other Earths by surveying space dustGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems' habitable zones, or ... more 
Combing the cosmos: New color catalog aids hunt for life on frozen worldsIthaca NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Aided by microbes found in the subarctic conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay, an international team - including researchers from Portugal's Instituto Superior de Agronomia and Tecnico, Canada's Univer ... more |
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Radar studies of ice at Mercury may help Artemis ProgramColumbia MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, some craters on Mercury's poles contain ice. The deposits, which were first detected in the early 1990s, were thought to be thick layers of nearly pure w ... more  
'Visionary' US astrophysicist Eugene Parker dead at 94Washington (AFP) March 16, 2022 Eugene Parker, a pioneering American astrophysicist whose mathematical prediction that charged particles streamed from stars in a solar wind was met with disbelief before he was ultimately vindicated, has died aged 94, NASA said on Wednesday. ... more 
NASA releases brilliant image of star from James Webb Space TelescopeWashington DC (UPI) Mar 16, 2021 NASA on Wednesday released the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope after sharpening its focus, as the agency plans to start peering at the earliest galaxies in the universe. ... more  
Gravitational wave mirror experiments can evolve into quantum entitiesHamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Quantum physical experiments exploring the motion of macroscopic or heavy bodies under gravitational forces require protection from any environmental noise and highly efficient sensing. An ide ... more  
WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsuleSt. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on t ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Mar 16, 2022 
Two NASA astronauts completed a spacewalk Tuesday to prepare for the installation of new solar arrays at the International Space Station, amid tension between Russia and the United States over the Ukraine conflict.
Astronauts Kayla Barron, 34, and Raja Chari, 44, spent six hours and 54 minutes on their spacewalk, having exited the station around 8:15 a.m. EDT - their second and first spac ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 15, 2021 
California-based rocket company Astra Space launched three small satellites from Alaska on Tuesday morning and said the payloads deployed successfully.
The rocket, LV0009, lifted off from Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island as planned at 9:22 a.m. PDT.
"We have great news to report," Astra CEO Chris Kemp said on a live broadcast a little over an hour after launch. "The pay ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2022 
Due to an issue with the Sol 3410 and 3411 plans, parts of the Sol 3410 plan didn't execute and the planned drive did not occur. But the Sol 3409 contact science activities completed successfully, returning nice MAHLI images of bedrock.
Because the rover did not move, the high-gain antenna view of Earth is still occluded, preventing direct communication from Earth and daily uplink. So we w ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 14, 2022 
China will carry on its moon research in the future with Chang'e-6, Chang'e-7 and Chang'e-8 missions by 2030, chief designer of the country's lunar exploration program Wu Weiren said.
The Chang'e-6 is scheduled to bring back to Earth lunar samples with a mass of up to 2 kilograms; the Chang'e-7 will be tasked with landing on the lunar south pole and detecting local natural resources; and t ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Mar 15, 2022 
British space technology will help pioneer new approaches to energy, communications and resources, thanks to new projects from the UK Space Agency
Science and Innovation Minister George Freeman announced the 2 million pound boost for 13 new projects during British Science Week (11-20 March), which aims to inspire interest in and celebrate science, engineering, technology and maths for peop ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 
There's a powerful new member of NASA's family of giant antennas that enable engineers and scientists on Earth to communicate with the growing number of spacecraft exploring our solar system.
Called Deep Space Station 53, or DSS-53, the 111-foot (34-meter) antenna is part of NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). It's now operational at the network's facility outside Madrid, one of three such gr ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 
These are exciting times for exoplanet research, moving from demography towards detailed characterization. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), successfully launched in December 2021, is projected to detect the atmospheres of rocky exoplanets transiting in front of M dwarfs - stars that are fainter than the Sun - orbiting within the 'habitable zone'.
The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
The Solar System has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class as contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres and perhaps many more solar system small bodies. These are defined approximately as bodies that orbit the Sun but that are not massive enough (unlike regular planets) to gravitationally dominate their environments by clearing away material. Astronom ... more |
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 Cape Town (AFP) March 15, 2022 
On Cape Town's beaches, swimmers shower off sand from their feet. Irrigation pipes water the region's famed vineyards. And Shadrack Mogress fumes as he fills a barrel with water so he can flush his toilet.
It's been four years since South Africa's tourist capital nearly ran dry, during a drought that left the city limping towards a "Day Zero" when all the pipes would empty.
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 13, 2022 
China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has entered a new phase of sustained stable services and rapid development, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office on Friday.
Measured by the global continuous monitoring and evaluation system, the BDS-3 system shows an advanced performance index in providing global positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services, with more out ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 11, 2022 
The Apollo missions to the Moon brought a total of 2,196 rock samples to Earth. But NASA has only just started opening one of the last ones, collected 50 years ago.
For all that time, some tubes were kept sealed so that they could be studied years later, with the help of the latest technical breakthroughs.
NASA knew "science and technology would evolve and allow scientists to study the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 11, 2022 
In a Swiss cleanroom, this historic object has been taking shape. Made of carbon fibre reinforced polymer, this is the central core of ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence.
NASA's DART spacecraft is currently on its way to the Didymos asteroid pair in deep space, to test the kinetic impact technique of asteroid deflection on the smaller of the two bodies on 26 September this y ... more |
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 San Francisco (SPX) Mar 02, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL) has announced the general availability of the next generation of its PlanetScope Monitoring product, offering high quality, analysis-ready data to all existing PlanetScope customers. While previously offering four spectral bands, PlanetScope will now include eight spectral bands in addition to a series of enhancements, providing customers with richer, cleaner, and more ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2022 
Following a successful test campaign in Europe, the structural thermal model of the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (Smile)'s payload module will soon be delivered to China to complete the qualification of the satellite.
Smile is a joint mission between ESA and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and will aim to build a more complete understanding of the Sun-Earth conne ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Mar 16, 2022 
NASA on Wednesday planned to release details about how the agency is sharpening the focus of the large main mirror on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will start peering at the earliest galaxies in the universe soon.
NASA plans to update the press and the public on James Webb progress during a virtual press conference at noon EDT.
Previously, the agency released early images fro ... more |
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 Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2022 
Quantum information will revolutionize not only research and industry, but also our everyday life. Among others, it promises enormous progress in the simulation of materials and processes, which will push the development of new medical substances, the improvement of batteries, transport planning, and secure information and communication. A quantum bit (qubit) can assume many different states bet ... more |
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