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September 02, 2024
EXO WORLDS
Inside the 'golden age' of alien hunting at the Green Bank Telescope



Green Bank, United States (AFP) Sept 2, 2024
Nestled between mountains in a secluded corner of West Virginia, a giant awakens: the Green Bank Telescope begins its nightly vigil, scanning the cosmos for secrets. If intelligent life exists beyond Earth, there's a good chance the teams analyzing the data from the world's largest, fully steerable radio astronomy facility will be the first to know. "People have been asking themselves the question, 'Are we alone in the universe?' ever since they first gazed up at the night sky and wondered if t ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX launches back-to-back Starlink flights after FAA lifts ban on Falcon fleet
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 31, 2024
SpaceX carried out back-to-back launches of Falcon 9 rockets carrying Starlink satellites into orbit early Saturday, just hours after U.S. officials lifted a temporary ban on the rocket fleet. ... more
SPACEMART
Global space industry to exceed $6.1 trillion by 2064
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2024
The space industry is expected to experience significant growth, with a market valuation projected to reach $6.1 trillion by 2064, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. The report, titled ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Using observations from a NASA suborbital rocket, an international team of scientists has, for the first time, successfully measured a planet-wide electric field thought to be as fundamental to Eart ... more
ENERGY TECH
Bubbling, frothing and sloshing: Long-hypothesized plasma instabilities finally observed
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Whether between galaxies or within doughnut-shaped fusion devices known as tokamaks, the electrically charged fourth state of matter known as plasma regularly encounters powerful magnetic fields, ch ... more
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SOLAR DAILY
Satellite Data Enhances Understanding of Solar Power Generation in Asia Pacific
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Amid the ongoing energy crisis and the growing threat of climate change, the need to harness renewable energy sources has become increasingly urgent. Solar energy, in particular, is emerging as a le ... more
ICE WORLD
Greenland's Accelerated Warming Linked to Clear-Sky Radiation and Atmospheric Dynamics
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Global warming, fueled by human activities, has led to rising average temperatures across the globe. However, Greenland is experiencing warming at a rate faster than the global average, causing its ... more
SOLAR DAILY
NASA's Europa Clipper Equipped with Massive Solar Arrays for Jupiter Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft, the largest ever built for planetary exploration, has been fitted with a set of gigantic solar arrays at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. These arrays, each mea ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Virgin Galactic SpaceshipTwo crash litigation
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Sep 01, 2024
The crash of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo, known as VSS Enterprise, on October 31, 2014, marked a significant setback in the emerging commercial space industry. The spacecraft broke apart mid-fl ... more

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ROCKET SCIENCE


UAH TERMINUS student team launches NASA RockSat-X payload

TIME AND SPACE
Dark matter could have helped make supermassive black holes in the early universe
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2024
It takes a long time for supermassive black holes, like the one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, to form. Typically, the birth of a black hole requires a giant star with the mass of at least 5 ... more
MOON DAILY
Researchers advance AI Models for Lunar science
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 01, 2024
Chinese scientists have introduced the world's first professional multimodal large language model (LLM) tailored specifically for lunar science, promising a significant boost in the speed and effici ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA shares reduced Crew-9 team that will return stranded astronauts from ISS
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 30, 2024
NASA on Friday shared the reduced crew for its upcoming SpaceX Crew-9 mission to the International Space Station in order to accommodate the return of the stranded astronauts of the Boeing Starliner. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA says Boeing's Starliner will return to Earth uncrewed on Sept. 6
Washington DC (UPI) Aug 30, 2024
NASA said Thursday that Boeing's technically troubled Starliner spacecraft is set to return to Earth next week without stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni WIlliams. ... more
WATER WORLD
NASA JPL Developing Underwater Robots to Venture Deep Below Polar Ice
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled together, peering down a narrow hole in a thick la ... more
SPACEMART


Advanced Control Strategy Enables Effective Surrounding of Noncooperative Targets by Spacecraft Formations

SOLAR SCIENCE
Scientists Uncover Key Source of Solar Wind Energy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Astronomers have long been puzzled by how the Sun's supersonic "solar wind" continues to receive energy as it travels through the Solar System. Now, leveraging the alignment of two spacecraft studyi ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Sentinel-2C Set for September Launch Aboard Vega Rocket
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
In preparation for liftoff on 4 September 2024 (3 September Kourou time), the Vega-Sentinel-2C upper-composite has been hoisted into the launch tower at Europe's Spaceport. The Sentinel-2 miss ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA and Boeing Prepare for Uncrewed Starliner Return Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
NASA and Boeing teams have completed a comprehensive Delta-Flight Test Readiness Review, giving the green light for the uncrewed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to undock from the International Space S ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Blue Origin completes latest space tourism flight
Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2024
Blue Origin flew its latest group of six thrill-seekers to the edge of space and back again Thursday, including the youngest-ever woman to complete the feat. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA's Advanced Solar Sail Successfully Deploys in Space
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System has successfully completed the deployment of its sail-hoisting boom system, marking a key milestone for the mission. The confirmation of this achievement ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket grounded pending mishap investigation
Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2024
SpaceX's stalwart Falcon 9 rocket has been grounded while the Federal Aviation Administration investigates why its first-stage booster tipped over and exploded while attempting to land after its latest launch, the agency announced Wednesday. ... more
MOON DAILY
HKU Geologists Uncover Extensive Intrusive Magmatism at Chang'e-6 Lunar Site
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Lunar igneous activities, including both intrusive and extrusive magmatism, offer crucial insights into the Moon's interior and its thermal history. These activities are distributed asymmetrically b ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Highest-Resolution Black Hole Images Captured by Event Horizon Telescope
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has achieved the sharpest images ever captured from Earth, detecting light from the centers of distant galaxies at a frequency of around 345 GHz. This ... more
MARSDAILY
Martian Ice Caps Reveal Insights into Ancient Climate Shifts
Hanover, NH (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Katherine Lutz, a PhD student at the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies and National Science Foundation Fellow, began her journey in planetary science by examining satellite images of M ... more
IRON AND ICE
NASA Advances Work on NEO Surveyor Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is making significant progress on the NEO Surveyor, a next-generation infrared space telescope designed to detect asteroids and comets that could potentially t ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA Contracts Intuitive Machines for 2027 Lunar South Pole Research Mission
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
NASA has awarded a $116.9 million contract to Intuitive Machines of Houston to deliver a new set of science experiments and technology demonstrations to the lunar South Pole in 2027 as part of the a ... more
MARSDAILY
Perseverance Kicks off the Crater Rim Campaign
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2024
Perseverance is officially headed into a new phase of scientific investigation on the Jezero Crater rim! For the last 2 months, the Perseverance rover has been exploring the Neretva Vallis reg ... more
TIME AND SPACE
AI advances solutions to complex quantum chemistry challenges
London, UK (SPX) Aug 26, 2024
Researchers at Imperial College London and Google DeepMind have harnessed neural networks, a form of AI modeled after the human brain, to address one of quantum chemistry's most challenging problems ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New Horizons Offers Precise Measurements of Cosmic Light in the Universe
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Astronomers have achieved a significant milestone in understanding the darkness of deep space, thanks to NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. This mission has enabled the most accurate and direct measure ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2024
Figuring out the nature of dark matter, the invisible substance that makes up most of the mass in our universe, is one of the greatest puzzles in physics. New results from the world's most sensitive ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Solar Orbiter Identifies Magnetic Mechanism Behind Solar Wind Acceleration
Paris, France (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has delivered vital data that sheds light on the longstanding mystery of the energy source responsible for heating and accelerating the solar wind. In collaboration wi ... more
MOON DAILY
Astrobotic Concludes Peregrine Mission One, Publishes Post-Mission Findings
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 30, 2024
Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One (PM1), launched on January 8, 2024, aboard United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, aimed to make history by landing on the Moon. However, a significant anomaly dur ... more
ROBO SPACE
NASA invites industry input on Astrobee space robotics
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2024
NASA is reaching out to American companies for insights on the operation and enhancement of its free-flying robotic system aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This initiative is part of NA ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX postpones historic mission featuring first private spacewalk
Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Aug 28, 2024
SpaceX on Tuesday postponed once more its attempt at launching a daring orbital expedition featuring an all-civilian crew that is aiming to carry out the first-ever spacewalk by private citizens. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Florida Tech Astrobiologist explores likelihood of life originating on Earth
Melbourne, FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2024
Florida Tech astrobiologist Manasvi Lingam has asked life's biggest questions from a young age. Though he can't recall his exact queries, he says his interests were perfectly consistent with those o ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA supports research to enhance astronaut health on extended space missions
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2024
NASA has committed funding to 11 new research projects aimed at improving the health and performance of astronauts during long-duration space missions. These studies will be conducted on Earth and d ... more
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