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  Paris (ESA) May 10, 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope is aligned across all four of its science instruments, as seen in a previous engineering image showing the observatory's full field of view. Now, we take a closer look at that same image, focusing on Webb's coldest instrument: the Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI. The MIRI test image (at 7.7 microns) shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud. This small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way provided a dense star field to test Webb's performance. Here, a close-up of ... read more |
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Virgin Orbit announces next launch, dubbed 'Straight Up'Long Beach CA (SPX) May 10, 2022 Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) has entered flight preparation mode for its forthcoming launch, Straight Up, that will support the United States Space Force's STP-28A mission. After departing Virgin Orb ... more 
Roscosmos boss calls to hold Elon Musk 'accountable' for supporting Ukraine 'fascists'Washington DC (UPI) May 10, 2022 Elon Musk has responded after Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos, sent a message to Russian media accusing him of supporting "fascist forces" in Ukraine. The a ... more 
DLR Land Down UnderAdelaide, Australia (SPX) May 10, 2022 In preparation for their ReFEx rocket launch campaign from Australia, the DLR team are visiting spaceport partner Southern Launch. As part of their visit, the DLR team will be visiting Southern Laun ... more 
Phantom Space places order for more than 200 Ursa Major rocket enginesTucson AZ (SPX) May 10, 2022 Phantom Space Corporation, a space applications company, has announced an agreement to purchase more than 200 rocket engines from Ursa Major, America's only independent pure-play rocket propulsion c ... more |
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UK blogger detained in Baikonur confirms release from custody after issued fineMoscow (Sputnik) May 10, 2022 UK blogger Benjamin Rich, who was recently detained near a launch pad in the Baikonur spaceport, said on Sunday that the Russian police released him after questioning and handed out a fine. On ... more  
NASA's InSight Records Monster Quake on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2022 NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the miss ... more 
Sliding Into the Weekend Like - Sols 3466-3468Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2022 It's been a challenging week in Gale crater, but Curiosity and the rover team are ready to put those challenges behind us as we head into a busy weekend plan. I've been on shift as LTP and SOWG Chai ... more 
Webb telescope's first full color, scientific images coming in JulyWashington (AFP) May 9, 2022 Get ready for a summer blockbuster. ... more |
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AST SpaceMobile announces $75M committed equity facilityMidland TX (SPX) May 08, 2022 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network designed to be accessible directly by standard mobile phones, today announced it ... more 
Rocket Lab launches BRO-6 for UnseenlabsRennes, France (SPX) May 10, 2022 Unseenlabs, the European leader in radio frequency (RF) signals detection from space, successfully launched its seventh satellites dedicated to the geolocation of vessels at sea on may 3, with rocke ... more 
Plans unveiled to better connect space industries in Scotland and the UAEEdinburgh UK (SPX) May 10, 2022 Globally focused strategic space marketing firm AstroAgency, headquartered in Edinburgh, has announced it will team up with a Dubai-based space investment and advisory company AzurX, to support spac ... more  
Earth from Space: Rhine River, GermanyParis (ESA) May 08, 2022 The Rhine River, the longest river in Germany, is featured in this colourful image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Along this river lies the city of Bonn: the host of this year's Livi ... more |
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China launches the Tianzhou 4 cargo spacecraftBeijing (XNA) May 10, 2022 In the latest stage in its space station program, China launched the Tianzhou 4 cargo spacecraft early on Tuesday morning, to transport fuel and supplies to its Tiangong space station, according to ... more 
From weather forecasting to climate change, NASA's AIRS builds a legacyPasadena CA (JPL) May 06, 2022 On April 13, a blizzard dropped 4 feet of snow on Minot, North Dakota, as a drought-fueled wildfire burned in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and severe storms spawned eight tornadoes in Kentucky. NASA's Atmos ... more  
Zortrax Z-PEEK confirmed to meet ESA's outgassing requirementsWarsaw, Poland (SPX) May 08, 2022 All polymeric materials must meet strict outgassing requirements before they are cleared for a space flight. Gases released by a vast majority of polymers in high vacuum tend to contaminate sensors ... more  
Neon ice shows promise as new qubit platformSt. Louis MO (SPX) May 05, 2022 The fundamental building blocks of a quantum computer are quantum bits, or qubits. Some of the most common examples of qubits are based on the different energy states of single electrons. In a ... more  
First rays of sunlight for Sunrise III at the Arctic CircleGottingen, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2022 Approximately a month before it begins its research flight in the stratosphere, the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III has looked at the Sun for the first time from its launch site at the A ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 6, 2022  NASA's Crew-3 mission returned home to Earth on Friday after six months aboard the International Space Station.
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft with NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn, as well as European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer, undocked from the orbital laboratory a day earlier.
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 10, 2022 
Elon Musk has responded after Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos, sent a message to Russian media accusing him of supporting "fascist forces" in Ukraine.
The accusation by Rogozin, shared to Twitter by Musk, comes after the chief executive of SpaceX sent user terminals for its Starlink satellite-internet system to Ukraine in February at the request of offic ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2022 
NASA's InSight Mars lander has detected the largest quake ever observed on another planet: an estimated magnitude 5 temblor that occurred on May 4, 2022, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. This adds to the catalog of more than 1,313 quakes InSight has detected since landing on Mars in November 2018. The largest previously recorded quake was an estimated magnitude 4.2 detected Aug. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 10, 2022 
In the latest stage in its space station program, China launched the Tianzhou 4 cargo spacecraft early on Tuesday morning, to transport fuel and supplies to its Tiangong space station, according to the China Manned Space Agency, or CMSA.
In a brief statement, the agency said that a Long March 7 carrier rocket blasted off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province at 01:56 am, ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) May 10, 2022 
Globally focused strategic space marketing firm AstroAgency, headquartered in Edinburgh, has announced it will team up with a Dubai-based space investment and advisory company AzurX, to support space businesses in both regions, access new development opportunities and forge collaborative partnerships.
The two organisations boast a global space client base, with AzurX acting as the trusted ... more |
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) May 08, 2022 
All polymeric materials must meet strict outgassing requirements before they are cleared for a space flight. Gases released by a vast majority of polymers in high vacuum tend to contaminate sensors and other fragile spacecraft components which severely degrades their performance.
That is why there are only a few polymers suitable for space. Now, Z-PEEK, a 3D printing filament based on poly ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) May 08, 2022 
A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analysed the mass distribution of over 870 planet-forming disks in the Orion A cloud. By exploiting the statistical properties of this unprecedented large sample of disks and developing an innovative data processing scheme, they found that far away from harsh environments like hot stars, the decli ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) May 01, 2022 
NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter during the mission's 40th close pass by the giant planet on Feb. 25, 2022. The large, dark shadow on the left side of the image was cast by Jupiter's moon Ganymede.
Citizen scientist Thomas Thomopoulos created this enhanced-color image using raw data from the JunoCam instrument (Figure A). At the time the raw image was taken, the Juno sp ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 10, 2022 
In the climate science community, the 2015/16 El Nino is considered the first extreme El Nino of the 21st century. Climatologists have put forth great effort studying this anomalous season. This event still sparks research interests because of the large geographic region of warm sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies along the equator, but also because several major characteristics are distinct ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 15, 2022 
The 13th China Satellite Navigation Conference will be held in Beijing in May, highlighting the digital economy and intelligent navigation, according to the China Satellite Navigation Office.
The conference will showcase the latest industrialization achievement of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), the office said.
Diverse events such as summit forums, academic exchanges, ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 08, 2022 
Chinese material scientists have found the soil on the moon may potentially be able to generate oxygen and fuel, a find that signifies more tantalizing possibilities of utilizing lunar resources to further human exploration on the moon or beyond.
The researchers with Nanjing University showed that the lunar sample brought back by China's Chang'e-5 probe contains active compounds that can c ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 06, 2022 
Today, ESA and the Zooniverse launch Rosetta Zoo, a citizen science project that invites volunteers to engage in a cosmic game of 'spot the difference'. By browsing through pictures collected by ESA's Rosetta mission, you can help scientists figure out how a comet's surface evolves as it swings around the Sun.
Rosetta spent over two years orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between 20 ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 05, 2022 
Why does Earth support life, while Venus and Mars - and for all we know, any other planet in the universe - do not?
"It's one of the most fundamental questions in all of science: Why are we here? And it's what Endurance is after," said Glyn Collinson, a space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and principal investigator for NASA's Endurance mission.
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 Morgantown WV (SPX) May 03, 2022 
A cross-disciplinary team of researchers from West Virginia University are undertaking a pioneering project in space weather research to improve modeling and forecasting of space weather to safeguard satellites in orbit and infrastructure on Earth.
Space weather is a relatively unexplored phenomenon that is caused by large bursts of particles released by the sun. The unusually strong burst ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 9, 2022 
Get ready for a summer blockbuster.
The James Webb Space Telescope will produce "spectacular color images" of the cosmos in mid-July - its first observations dedicated to its mission of scientific discovery, an astronomer overseeing the project said Monday.
The successor to Hubble has spent the last five months aligning its instruments in preparation for the big reveal, with scientists ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 06, 2022 
A rare and enigmatic outburst from a galaxy 236 million light-years away may have been sparked by a magnetic reversal, a spontaneous flip of the magnetic field surrounding its central black hole.
In a comprehensive new study, an international science team links the eruption's unusual characteristics to changes in the black hole's environment that likely would be triggered by such a magneti ... more |
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