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  Starbase TX (SPX) Nov 19, 2023 In a significant advancement for SpaceX's ambitious space program, the company successfully conducted the second test launch of Starship, the largest rocket ever built, aimed at future missions to Mars. Despite a largely successful flight, the test faced a challenge at the eight-minute mark. Taking off from SpaceX's Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, the launch occurred at 7:00 am local time (1300 GMT). ... read more |
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Australians vote on name for home-made Moon roverSydney (AFP) Nov 20, 2023 Australians began voting Monday on a name for the country's first home-made Moon rover, with a shortlist including "Mateship", "Roo-ver" and "Kakirra" - an Indigenous word for the Earth's satellite. ... more 
Advanced Space's CAPSTONE operates one year at the MoonWestminster CO (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Advanced Space, a leading space tech solutions company, announced today that their Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) mission has succe ... more  
Cube Quest concludes: Wins an lessons learned from Centennial ChallengeWashington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Artemis I launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 16, 2022, penning a new era of space exploration and inching the agency closer to sending the first woman and first person of c ... more  
Maritime Launch reports non-brokered private placement of convertible debenturesHalifax, Canada (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Maritime Launch Services Inc. (NEO: MAXQ, OTCQB: MAXQF) has reported a non-brokered private placement of unsecured convertible debentures (the "Debentures") for minimum gross proceeds of $2,000,000 ... more |
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OpenAI stands by decision to fire Sam Altman despite pressureSan Francisco (AFP) Nov 20, 2023 The board of ChatGPT creator OpenAI on Sunday rejected pressure from Microsoft and other major investors to reverse its stunning decision to fire CEO Sam Altman, US media reported. ... more |
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Maxar hands over JUPITER 3, to EchoStarPalo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Maxar Space Systems today announced that it had successfully handed over operations of the largest commercial communications satellite ever manufactured in their Palo Alto, California facility, the ... more  
MetOp Second Generation weather satellite pair show offParis (ESA) Nov 20, 2023 Having satellites in different types of orbit is essential to delivering data to forecast the weather accurately. With the first Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite safely in geostationary or ... more  
NASA's Deep Space Optical Comm Demo Sends, Receives First DataLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2023 In a landmark achievement, NASA's Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment has successfully conducted its 'first light' test, sending and receiving data via laser from a distance unpreced ... more  
OLS using Eutelsat for maritime connectivity off Brazilian coastParis, France (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Eutelsat has reported that Offshore Link Sat (OLS) has expanded its capacity on EUTELSAT 8 West B for GEO maritime connectivity services off the Brazilian coast. OLS, a Brazilian telecommunica ... more |
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  PSI unveils Mercury's hidden glaciers, suggesting new astrobiological insights  
Spacecraft fall silent as Mars disappears behind the SunParis (ESA) Nov 20, 2023 The space between Earth and Mars is usually buzzing with science data, telemetry and commands racing to and from almost a dozen missions at the Red Planet. But for roughly one and a half days this N ... more |
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Virtual Observatory provides first look at the Solar polesBoulder CO (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Scientists are turning to artificial intelligence (AI) to view the Sun's poles - or at least produce an educated guess of what the Sun's poles might look like, since they've never been observed befo ... more  
NASA's Cold Atom Lab sets stage for quantum chemistry in spacePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2023 The remotely operated facility aboard the International Space Station has created another tool that researchers can use to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us. For the first time in ... more 
France's Macron warns against 'punitive' AI regulationParis (AFP) Nov 17, 2023 The European Union must avoid overly restrictive regulation of artificial intelligence technologies, French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday. ... more 
EagleView Unveils Developer Portal to Enhance Geospatial Intelligence IntegrationWashington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 EagleView, a leader in geospatial intelligence and analytics, has announced the launch of EagleView Developer, a new portal designed to streamline access to the company's APIs and developer resource ... more |
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 NASA maps minerals and ecosystem function across US southwest  
Nobody wants a Musk monopoly on satellite internet: Eutelsat bossParis (AFP) Nov 15, 2023 The boss of European satellite operator Eutelsat knows her task will not be easy: to forge a competitor to Elon Musk's Starlink and provide superfast internet from space. ... more |
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NASA telescope data becomes music you can playBoston MA (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 For millennia, musicians have looked to the heavens for inspiration. Now a new collaboration is enabling actual data from NASA telescopes to be used as the basis for original music that can be playe ... more 
Webb observes the glowing embers of colliding neutron starsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 Gamma-ray bursts are brief flashes of the most energetic form of light, reaching us from the distant Universe. They have their origin in stellar explosions, but the exact circumstances are still deb ... more 
Deep learning speeds up galactic calculationsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 Supernovae, exploding stars, play a critical role in the formation and evolution of galaxies. However, key aspects of them are notoriously difficult to simulate accurately in reasonably short amount ... more 
Instruments led by IRF selected for ESA potential future mission to either Mars or Earth's OrbitParis (ESA) Nov 20, 2023 The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the selection of three prospective space missions. Among these missions, the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) takes the lead in managing the sci ... more |
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Heat Shield demo passes the test dubbed 'Just flawless'Langley Research Center Hampton VA (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 A little more than a year ago, a NASA flight test article came screaming back from space at more than 18,000 mph, reaching temperatures of nearly 2,700 degrees Fahrenh ... more  
Hubble measures the size of the nearest transiting Earth-sized planetParis (ESA) Nov 20, 2023 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has measured the size of the nearest Earth-sized exoplanet that passes across the face of a neighbouring star. This alignment, called a transit, opens the door to ... more  
Galileo Second Generation satellite aces first hardware testsParis (ESA) Nov 20, 2023 The new Galileo satellite model from Thales Alenia Space underwent mechanical and signal performance testing this summer at ESA's ESTEC Test Centre. Structural models resisted launch-like noise and ... more  
Juice burns hard towards first-ever Earth-Moon flybyParis (ESA) Nov 17, 2023 ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana on 14 April 2023. It's on a mission to make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its thr ... more |
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CAPSTONE marks one year in near rectilinear halo orbitBoca Raton FL (SPX) Nov 20, 2023 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP) mars the one-year milestone of the CAPSTONE mission in a lunar Near Rectilinear Halo Orbit (NRHO). CAPSTONE, designed, built, and integrated by Terran Orbital ... more 
Pennsylvania Invests Millions in Astrobotic TechnologyWashington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 Astrobotic Technology, a leading space exploration company, is expanding its presence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with an ambitious plan to create a 'space campus'. This move is set to bolster the ... more 
Construction on NASA mission to map 450 million galaxies is under wayPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 10, 2023 NASA's SPHEREx space telescope is beginning to look much like it will when it arrives in Earth orbit and starts mapping the entire sky. Short for Specto-Photometer for the History of the Universe, E ... more 
Gemini North peers deeper into the dust with new instrumentWashington DC (SPX) Nov 14, 2023 Gemini North, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF's NOIRLab, is now peering deeper into the dusty dwellings of young stars with its new IGRINS-2 instrument. This next-ge ... more |
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Using eclipses to calculate the transparency of Saturn's ringsLancaster UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 A Lancaster University PhD student has measured the optical depth of Saturn's rings using a new method based on how much sunlight reached the Cassini spacecraft while it was in the shadow of the rin ... more 
NASA data reveals possible reason some exoplanets are shrinkingPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2023 Some exoplanets seem to be losing their atmospheres and shrinking. In a new study using NASA's retired Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers find evidence of a possible cause: The cores of these plane ... more 
IXPE untangles theories surrounding historic supernova remnantWashington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) telescope has captured the first polarized X-ray imagery of the supernova remnant SN 1006. The new results expand scientists' understanding of the re ... more  
Mount Sinai bioengineers send cardiac muscle samples into space to study heart cell biology in microgravityNew York NY (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 Mount Sinai's Cardiovascular Research Institute is sending bioengineered human heart muscle cells and micro-tissues into space for the first time on NASA's 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services m ... more |
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With unprecedented flares, stellar corpse shows signs of lifeIthica NY (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 After a distant star's explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months - a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, a C ... more 
Amazon's Project Kuiper completes successful tests of broadband connectivityWashington DC (UPI) Nov 16, 2021 Initial testing of Amazon's Project Kuiper was successful, putting the project on track to begin offering high-speed Internet to select customers next year, the company announced Thursday. ... more 
ALMA demonstrates highest resolution yetTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) has demonstrated the highest resolution yet with observations of an old star. The observations show that the star is surrounded by a ring-like str ... more 
Downloading NASA's dark matter data from above the cloudsSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 16, 2023 Data from a NASA mission to map dark matter around galaxy clusters has been saved by a new recovery system designed by scientists at the University of Sydney. The system allowed the retrieval of gig ... more |
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