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  Moscow (AFP) March 23, 2022 The Russian space agency said Wednesday it will insist its international partners pay it in rubles, after President Vladimir Putin said Russia will only accept ruble payments for gas deliveries to "unfriendly countries". "We will also conclude all our external agreements in rubles," the Roscosmos space agency head Dmitry Rogozin was quoted as saying by the official Tass news agency. Hours earlier Putin announced that only rubles will be accepted in payment for gas deliveries to "unfriendly count ... read more |
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Rocket Lab to Launch Three Demonstration Satellites for E-SpaceLong Beach CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Rocket Lab USA (Nasdaq: RKLB) will launch three demonstration satellites for E-Space, to validate the systems and technology for its satellite system. The satellites are scheduled to fly as part of ... more  
Mini robots practise grasping space debrisOberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 A challenging feat for a little robot: Honey the Astrobee must grasp and transport Bumble the Astrobee. To pull it off, Honey needs to understand Bumble's trajectory, position itself correctly and a ... more  
Satellite operator OneWeb switches launches to SpaceXLondon (AFP) March 21, 2022 Global satellite communications company OneWeb said Monday that it will switch launches to Elon Musk's SpaceX, after suspending activities with Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more 
Lettuce could protect astronauts' bones on Mars tripDavis CA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Astronauts might one day grow and eat genetically modified plants to ward off disease associated with long spaceflights. Researchers at the University of California, Davis College of Engineering hav ... more |
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Spaceflight Inc and Astrocast Extend Launch ContractSeattle WA (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, has announced an extended multi-launch agreement (MLA) with long-time customer, Internet of Things (IoT) constellation developer, Astro ... more  
Turn your phone into a space monitoring toolParis (ESA) Mar 23, 2022 A newly released Android app will turn your smartphone into an instrument for crowdsourced science. Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will reco ... more  
SES to Accelerate Access to C-Band Spectrum to support rapid deployment of 5GLuxembourg (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 SES, the leader in global content connectivity solutions, announced an agreement with Verizon Communications to expand the US-based mobile carrier's access to a portion of the C-band (3700-3800 MHz) ... more  
Russia hypersonic missile 'not a game changer' in Ukraine: USWashington (AFP) March 20, 2022 Russia's claim it used a hypersonic missile in Ukraine was a way to reclaim war momentum, but the next-generation weaponry has not proved to be a "game changer," the Pentagon's chief said Sunday. ... more |
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Australia launches Space Command to counter China's ambitionsSydney (AFP) March 22, 2022 Australia's government on Tuesday launched "Space Command", a new defence agency with echoes of the United States' Space Force that has been tasked with securing the country's place in an "already contested" cosmos. ... more  
Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 22nd flightWashington DC (UPI) Mar 22, 2021 NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 22nd flight over the weekend, the space agency announced. ... more 
Drilling into Mars with LasersPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022 Perseverance is adding a pop of color to Mars' regular repertoire: purple. The color palette of Mars' surface is one of muted hues. Burnt orange tones reflect the iron-bearing minerals that have rus ... more 
Sol 3421: Close Encounter with a "Gator"Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2022 Curiosity is investigating the different surface expressions of the Greenheugh pediment, and the weekend drive put the rover right next to some "gator-back terrain" - some evenly spaced ridges with ... more |
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Ryugu be a remnant of an extinct cometNagoya, Japan (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 Asteroids hold many clues about the formation and evolution of planets and their satellites. Understanding their history can, therefore, reveal much about our solar system. While observations made f ... more 
Characteristics of Apophis, the asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (Julio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of Brazil are ... more  
NASA confirms more than 5,000 planets outside the solar systemWashington DC (UPI) Mar 22, 2021 The total number of confirmed planets in the universe ticked past 5,000 this week with the addition of 65 exoplanets, NASA says. ... more 
Scientists unlock mystery rooted in the deepest past of evolutionOttawa, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel an enduring mystery of structural biology: Why do two otherwise identical protein forms found in everything from plants, amphibians and human bein ... more  
On icy moon Enceladus, expansion cracks let inner ocean boil outDavis UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from "tiger stripe" fissures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus - sometimes as much as 200 kilograms of water per ... more |
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 Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) March 18, 2022 
Three Russian cosmonauts blasted off to the International Space Station Friday, as Moscow's military intervention in Ukraine brought the Kremlin's relations with the West to their lowest point since the Soviet era.
Russian space veteran Oleg Artemyev and rookies Denis Matveyev and Sergei Korsakov set off at 1555 GMT, a NASA live feed showed, beginning a three-hour ride to the orbital lab whe ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 18, 2022 
NASA's massive new rocket eased onto its launchpad Friday, ready for a battery of tests that will clear it to blast off to the Moon this summer on an uncrewed flight.
It left the Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building Thursday evening and began a nearly 11-hour journey on a crawler-transporter to the hallowed Launch Complex 39B, arriving at 4:15 am.
Around 10,000 people had gat ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2022 
The rover's self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it - and it's doing so using artificial intelligence. On the path ahead are sandpits, craters, and fields of sharp rocks that the rover ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 19, 2022 
China plans to conduct a number of frontier scientific experiments on its Tiangong space station, with the two laboratory modules, Wentian and Mengtian, scheduled to be launched this year, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The experiments include raising fish, growing vegetables, setting up the most precise clock ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 21, 2022  Global satellite communications company OneWeb said Monday that it will switch launches to Elon Musk's SpaceX, after suspending activities with Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
"OneWeb... announced today that the company and SpaceX entered into an agreement that will enable OneWeb to resume satellite launches," OneWeb said in a brief statement.
The terms of the agreement remai ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
A challenging feat for a little robot: Honey the Astrobee must grasp and transport Bumble the Astrobee. To pull it off, Honey needs to understand Bumble's trajectory, position itself correctly and avoid a collision at all costs. Artificial intelligence (AI) helps the cube-shaped robot to accurately assess the situation. The experiment is part of the TumbleDock/ROAM project, which the German Aero ... more |
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 Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 
For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel an enduring mystery of structural biology: Why do two otherwise identical protein forms found in everything from plants, amphibians and human beings hang onto a slight variation across the mighty span of evolution?
It's a puzzle rooted in the deepest past. But now, the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine and Yale University colleag ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
On March 22, the newest U.S.-European sea level satellite, named Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, became the official reference satellite for global sea level measurements. This means that sea surface height data collected by other satellites will be compared to the information produced by Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich to ensure their accuracy.
Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in November ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 23, 2022 
A newly released Android app will turn your smartphone into an instrument for crowdsourced science. Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will record small variations in satellite signals, gathering data for machine learning analysis of meteorology and space weather patterns.
The CAMALIOT app, developed through ESA's Navigation Innovation ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Bright and dark swirling patterns on the Moon's surface have been linked to the topography of the swirls, says a new paper by a team of scientists from the Planetary Science Institute.
"This is the first time there has been a demonstrated correlation between the swirl albedo patterns and topography," said PSI Senior Scientist Deborah Domingue, lead author of "Topographic Correlations withi ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (Julio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of Brazil are participating, analyses the surface and dynamics of Apophis, an asteroid that will pass close to Earth in 2029.
The Apophis asteroid was discovered in 2004 and has been monitored since then due ... more |
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 Redlands CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2022 
Governments and businesses across the world are pledging to adopt more sustainable and equitable practices. Many are also working to limit activities that contribute to climate change. To support these efforts, Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, in partnership with Impact Observatory and Microsoft, is releasing a globally consistent 2017-2021 global land-use and land-cover map of ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2022 
Major smashups between rocky bodies shaped our solar system. Observations of a similar crash give clues about how frequent these events are around other stars. Most of the rocky planets and satellites in our solar system, including Earth and the Moon, were formed or shaped by massive collisions early in the solar system's history. By smashing together, rocky bodies can accumulate more material, ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
A team of scientists has predicted the science return from one of NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope's groundbreaking planned surveys, which will analyze millions of galaxies strewn across space and time. The mission's enormous, deep panoramas will provide the best opportunity yet to discern between the leading theories about what's speeding up the universe's expansion.
Roman will ex ... more |
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