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  Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Roscosmos on Tuesday blamed an "external impact," not a manufacturing defect, for a coolant leak from an unmanned Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station on February 11. High-resolution pictures of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft were taken by cosmonauts using the ISS' 17-meter-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which revealed a 12-millimeter hole where the coolant fluid poured out of the cooling system on February 11th. On February 11, a Russian unmanned Progress MS-22/83P car ... read more |
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Mercury's black disc helps sharpen Solar Orbiter's viewParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2023 This year started with a nice imaging opportunity for Solar Orbiter, and a chance to further improve the quality of its data. On 3 January 2023, inner planet Mercury crossed the spacecraft's field o ... more  
DoD invests additional $1.5M toward 3D-printed hypersonic rocket engineWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2023 The Department of Defense awarded a $1.5 million contract to New Frontier Aerospace to continue its work on a 3D printed rocket engine. ... more  
Newly discovered form of salty ice could exist on surface of extraterrestrial moonsSeattle WA (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 The red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, are striking. Scientists suspect it is a frozen mixture of water and salts, but its chemical signature is mysterious beca ... more  
Redwire partners with Starfish Space for Otter Pup satellite docking missionJacksonville FlL (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Redwire Corporation (NYSE:RDW) has partnered with Starfish Space to provide Redwire's ARGUS space domain awareness camera for Starfish Space's first-ever satellite docking mission, Otter Pup. ... more |
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Flight Crew Arrives at NASA's Kennedy Space Center for Crew-6 MissionSpace Coast FL (SPX) Feb 21, 2023 The crew arrived on a NASA Gulfstream business jet from their home base at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and safely landed at the Launch and Landing Fac ... more 
Radiation-resistant Ka-band radio for LEO constellation offers speeds Beyond 5GTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Axelspace Corporation Associate Professor Atsushi Shirane, and Professor Kenichi Okada and Assistant Professor Takashi Tomura of Tokyo Institute of Technology have successfully developed a radiation ... more 
Russian rescue mission for three space station astronauts set this weekWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2023 Russia's space agency Roscosmos' delayed rescue mission to send a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station and bring three astronauts back to Earth is scheduled to lift off Thursday night EDT from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ... more  
Better tools needed to determine ancient life on MarsIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of life might not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, according to a research team co-led by ... more |
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When data show up late: Sols 3746-3748Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2023 Today, I was heading for my computer when my colleagues went off to celebrate the end of the working week. Yes, that's right, planning started at 5 pm in my part of the world (the UK) today. That wa ... more 
SpaceX Endeavour's crew arrive at KSC ahead of launchWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2023 An international team of astronauts and scientists arrived at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, ahead of a six-month science mission to the International Space Station set to blast off on Sunday. ... more  
Vast acquires launcher to accelerate growthLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 To accelerate its mission to expand humanity across the solar system by developing long term human habitation in space, Vast has acquired space startup Launcher. Vast is building an artificial gravi ... more 
New transmitter design for small satellite constellations improves signal transmissionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Today, there are many emerging applications for small satellite constellations, ranging from space-borne networks to environmental monitoring. However, small satellites have special needs when it co ... more |
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Low power Ka-band transmitters on Earth observation satellitesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 Axelspace Corporation has successfully developed a Ka-band radio for Earth observation microsatellites. The radio operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radio. The collab ... more  
Lockheed Martin gets $1BN contract for sea-based hypersonic strike capabilityLittleton CO (SPX) Feb 20, 2023 Lockheed Martin is partnering with the U.S. Navy to integrate hypersonic strike capability onto surface ships. The U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a contract worth more than $2 billion, if all opt ... more 
Sols 3744-3745: The One That Got AwayPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023 The team was eagerly awaiting our downlink this morning to hear how the drill attempt from Sol 3742 went. The images came down and indeed there was a drill hole... a mini drill hole... and sadly not ... more 
Perseverance set to begin third year on Mars at Jezero CraterPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023 NASA's Perseverance rover will celebrate its second anniversary on the surface of Mars Saturday, Feb. 18. Since arriving at Jezero Crater in 2021, the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover has been exa ... more  
Chandrayaan-3 undergoes EMI/EMC test successfullyBengaluru, Inida (SPX) Feb 20, 2023 The Chandrayaan-3 lander has successfully passed its EMI/EMC test, which took place from January 31 to February 2, 2023, at the U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru. This test is crucial for ... more |
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 Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 22, 2023  Roscosmos on Tuesday blamed an "external impact," not a manufacturing defect, for a coolant leak from an unmanned Russian supply ship docked at the International Space Station on February 11.
High-resolution pictures of the Progress MS-21 spacecraft were taken by cosmonauts using the ISS' 17-meter-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which revealed a 12-millimeter hole where the coolant fluid pour ... more |
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 Space Coast FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2023 
SpaceX completed a launch doubleheader Friday night, February 17. When an Airbus-built communications satellite soared into orbit at 10:59 p.m. EST (0359 GMT on February 18) Friday from Cape Canaveral atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, to place the satellites in geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles (nearly 36,000 kilometers) over the Earth to provide connectivity for ships and aircraft in the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023 
NASA's Perseverance rover will celebrate its second anniversary on the surface of Mars Saturday, Feb. 18. Since arriving at Jezero Crater in 2021, the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered rover has been examining geologic features and collecting samples of the Red Planet that are central to the first step of the NASA-ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Sample Return campaign. Scientists want to study Marti ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 16, 2023 
Multiple engineering experiments are currently underway, or poised to begin, at a cabinet on China's space station which is in a near-Earth orbit. These experiments aim to acquire know-how that can support more experimental possibilities and human survival in outer space.
The Space Basic Experiment Cabinet mounted on the country's space lab module Mengtian is carrying its first group of fi ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Feb 20, 2023 
Yahsat, the UAE-based satellite communications company, has completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) for its Thuraya 4-NGS Programme's Next Generation Service Platform and Broadband Products. This development marks a crucial milestone in the ongoing transformation of Thuraya 4-NGS, an initiative that has become integral to Yahsat's growth strategy and the advancement of its mobility satcom bus ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
Axelspace Corporation has successfully developed a Ka-band radio for Earth observation microsatellites. The radio operates with less than half the power consumption of conventional radio. The collaborative research was jointly developed with Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech). With key collaborators Atsushi Shirane of the Laboratory for Future Interdisciplinary Research of Science and Pr ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 17, 2023 
The James Webb Space Telescope - the most precise telescope ever built - was decisive in discovering the frozen forms of a long series of molecules, such as carbon dioxide, ammonia, methane, methanol and even more complex molecules, frozen out as ices on the surface of small dust grains.
The dust grains grow in size when being a part of the discs of gas and dust forming around young stars. ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
The red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, are striking. Scientists suspect it is a frozen mixture of water and salts, but its chemical signature is mysterious because it matches no known substance on Earth.
A team led by the University of Washington may have solved the puzzle with the discovery of a new type of solid crystal that forms when water and tabl ... more |
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 Santiago (AFP) Feb 18, 2023 
In international waters off the coasts of Chile and Peru, the ocean teems with plant and animal species - some do not exist anywhere else and many are endangered.
Urgently seeking to prevent biodiversity loss in these waters, Chile is pushing for a new marine protected area (MPA) to be created, and hoping to seal the deal during an upcoming summit at UN headquarters in New York.
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 Wuhan, China (SPX) Feb 16, 2023 
China will employ BeiDou satellite-based augmentation system (BDSBAS) to provide high-precision positioning service in railway survey and construction, according to the China Railway Siyuan Survey and Design Group Co., Ltd.
Four satellite-based and 12 ground-based observation stations will be set up along the Wufeng-Enshi railway section in central China's Hubei Province.
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2023 
China has released a new batch of datasets from the payloads installed on the Chang'e-4 probe on the official website of the Lunar and Planetary Data Release System.
The datasets include 3,991.1 MB of 803 data files obtained by the four scientific payloads on the Chang'e-4 lander and rover between December 26, 2021 and January 10, 2022.
The Chang'e-4 probe, launched on Dec 8, 2018, m ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2023 
On Feb. 3, an asteroid more than three times as long as it is wide safely flew past Earth at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers, or a little under five times the distance between the Moon and Earth). While there was no risk of the asteroid - called 2011 AG5 - impacting our planet, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California closely tracked the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 22, 2023 
Understanding Earth's delicate natural balance and how it is being altered by human activity is not only key to advancing science but also fundamental to acting on environmental issues, the climate crisis, and preparing for their societal impact. With their hallmark of demonstrating novel space technologies and returning scientific excellence, ESA's family of Earth observing Earth Explorer resea ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 22, 2023 
This year started with a nice imaging opportunity for Solar Orbiter, and a chance to further improve the quality of its data. On 3 January 2023, inner planet Mercury crossed the spacecraft's field of view, resulting in a transit where Mercury appeared as a perfectly black circle moving across the face of the Sun.
A number of the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter's instruments captured the transit. In ... more |
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 Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
NASA will launch Israel's first space telescope mission, the Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (ULTRASAT). ULTRASAT, an ultraviolet observatory with a large field of view, will investigate the secrets of short-duration events in the universe, such as supernova explosions and mergers of neutron stars.
Led by the Israel Space Agency and Weizmann Institute of Science, ULTRASAT is plan ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2023 
When two black holes collide into each other to form a new bigger black hole, they violently roil spacetime around them, sending ripples called gravitational waves outward in all directions. Previous studies of black hole collisions modeled the behavior of the gravitational waves using what is known as linear math, which means that the gravitational waves rippling outward did not influence, or i ... more |
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