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  Paris (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 The European Union on Tuesday announced 200 million euros ($222 million) of funding for the Ariane 6 rocket launcher and for small and medium-sized space technology companies. Half the money is in the form of a loan for the new Ariane 6 heavy launcher programme, a collaboration between the European Space Agency programme and the ArianeGroup. The other 100 million euros go towards a venture capital programme to "support innovation and growth of European smaller and medium-sized space technology c ... read more |
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Aerospike rocket engines are more efficient than classic onesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 On December 20th, 2019 ARCA started the tests for its advanced aerospike engine LAS 25DA, for the water-based, electric Launch Assist System (LAS) rocket. After reading the test data from the ... more  
China's space station core module, manned spacecraft arrive at launch siteWenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rai ... more  
Meir, Koch complete battery swaps to upgrade station power systemsHouston TX (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 At 1:33 p.m. EST, Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA concluded their third spacewalk together. During the six hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronaut ... more  
Mars' water was mineral-rich and saltyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 Presently, Earth is the only known location where life exists in the Universe. This year the Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three astronomers who proved, almost 20 years ago, that planets are ... more |
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NASA sounding rocket observing nitric oxide in polar nightWallops Island, VA (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 Aurora, also known as the northern lights, are a sight to behold as they dance across the sky when solar winds collide with the Earth's atmosphere. However, they also contribute to a process t ... more 
Warming up for the SunParis (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real. After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, w ... more  
Budget battle hampers EU in spaceBrussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 Space is becoming increasingly militarised and European satellites are under-protected, experts warned Tuesday, voicing dismay at cuts proposed in the EU's draft budget. ... more  
NASA funds AnalySwift, Purdue tech to speed up composite deployable structure designWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space. AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial s ... more 
Study reveals unexpected rise in potent greenhouse gasWashington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2020 Scientists had expected the levels of HFC-23, a type of hydrofluorocarbon and a potent greenhouse gas, to drop in the latest global survey of greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, atmospheric concentrations of HFC-23 are rising. ... more |
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China's international journal Satellite Navigation launchedBeijing (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature. The peer-reviewed aca ... more  |
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DARPA Awards Lockheed Martin Hypersonic OpFires Phase 3 ContractOrlando FL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $31.9 million contract for the Operational Fires (OpFires) Phase 3 Weapon System Integration program. OpFi ... more 
Gremlins program completes first flight test for X-61A vehicleWashington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 DARPA's Gremlins program has completed the first flight test of its X-61A vehicle. The test in late November at the U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground in Utah included one captive-carry mission aboar ... more 
Exquadrum-Dynetics team test full-scale OpFires rocketAdelanto CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Exquadrum has completed the hot-fire test of the revolutionary new rocket being developed to accomplish the DARPA Operational Fires (OpFires) advanced tactical weapon system mission objectives. The ... more 
Russia claims edge as US lags in hypersonic weapons developmentWashington DC (Sputnik) Jan 20, 2020 Last week, US President Donald Trump admitted that the United States is working on the development of hypersonic rockets, noting that the US is seeking to add them to its arsenal of "big, powerful, ... more 
Four nations to be protected with Lockheed Martin's next generation radarMoorestown NJ (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 Through partnerships with the U.S. Government, Spain, Japan, and Canada, Lockheed Martin's solid state radar (SSR) technology will provide front-line defense to nations around the world with cutting ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
At 1:33 p.m. EST, Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA concluded their third spacewalk together. During the six hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully completed the battery upgrade for one channel on one pair of the station's solar arrays.
[Today's] work included removing the last two nickel-hydrogen batteries from this area of ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $31.9 million contract for the Operational Fires (OpFires) Phase 3 Weapon System Integration program. OpFires seeks to develop and demonstrate an innovative ground-launched system to enable a hypersonic boost glide missile system to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly engage time-sensitive tar ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2020 
Members of the public have an opportunity to vote for their favorite name for NASA's next Mars rover. The nine candidate names were made possible by the "Name the Rover" essay contest, which invited students in kindergarten through 12th grade from across the United States to come up with a fitting name for NASA's Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) and write a short essay about it. ... more |
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 Wenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rail transport, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday.
The core module will take part in joint rehearsals with the Long March-5B carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space La ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
The European Commission is partnering with the European Investment Bank Group, announcing EUR 200 million of investments into the EU space sector, supporting ground-breaking innovation in the industry. During the European Space Policy Conference in Brussels, EIB Vice-President Ambroise Fayolle is signing an agreement with Andre-Hubert Roussel, CEO of ArianeGroup, confirming a EUR 100 million loa ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space.
AnalySwift LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated commercial software provider, has received a $125,000 Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grant from NASA. The STTR award will help the company further develop its SwiftComp software, technology that provid ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the journey of phosphorus from star-forming regions to comets using the combined powers of ALMA and the European Space Agency's probe Rosetta. Their research shows, for the first time, where molecules conta ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Miami Beach, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2020 
Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida's tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.
"We have erosion hotspots," said Stephen Leatherman, an expert on beaches and the environment at Florida International University.
"When the beach is critically narrow, there's not en ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature.
The peer-reviewed academic journal "Satellite Navigation" is online in an open-access format, according to the joint sponsor Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS Tuesday.
The journal aims to report ne ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whos ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it was relatively bright and slow. Now, scientists have determined not only what the fireball was, but also where it came from.
"We uncovered the fireball's true identity," says Toshihiro Kasuga, paper author and visiting scientist at the National Astro ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
Capella Space, an information services company providing Earth observation data on demand, has unveiled its evolved satellite design to enable on-demand observations of anywhere on Earth.
Informed by extensive customer feedback and findings from the launch of Denali, Capella's testbed satellite, the re-engineered design features a suite of technological innovations to deliver timely, flexi ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 
Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real.
After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, which has seen the control team play out a range of scenarios where something goes wrong, mission control is almost "green for launch".
On 6 February (CET), Solar Orbiter will begin its loopy jou ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. This wave became visible by observing naturally generated microwave lasers, whose spatial arrangement changed unexpectedly rapid.
Although the basic principles of star format ... more |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
A new search led by Montana State University has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too small to host them, and surprised scientists with their location within the galaxies.
The study, headed by MSU astrophysicist Amy Reines, searched 111 dwarf galaxies within a billion light years of Earth using the National Science Foundation' ... more |
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