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  Paris (SPX) May 07, 2019 Following the initial institutional and commercial launch orders for Ariane 6 obtained by Arianespace since the autumn of 2017, and the resolution of the ESA Council on April 17, 2019, related to the rocket's exploitation framework, ArianeGroup is starting to build the first series-production batch of 14 Ariane 6 launchers. These 14 launchers, scheduled to fly between 2021 and 2023, will be built in ArianeGroup plants in France and Germany, as well as in those of its European industrial partners i ... read more |
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For InSight, dust cleanings will yield new sciencePasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2019 The same winds that blanket Mars with dust can also blow that dust away. Catastrophic dust storms have the potential to end a mission, as with NASA's Opportunity rover. But far more often, passing w ... more  
First planetary defense technology demonstration to collide with asteroid in 2022Baltimore MD (SPX) May 07, 2019 The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) - NASA's first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique - will get one chance to hit its target, the small moonlet in the binary asteroid syst ... more  
Adding satnav to turn power grids into smart systemsParis (ESA) May 07, 2019 An ESA-backed project is harnessing satnav to insert an intelligent sense of place and time to power grids, to provide early warning of potentially dangerous electricity network failures. Four ... more  
Global TanDEM-X forest map is availableCologne, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 Forests are Earth's lungs; they help to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and thus counteract global warming, while also providing protection and resources for humans, animals a ... more |
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Recognising sustainable behaviour in orbitParis (ESA) May 07, 2019 Solving the growing problem of space debris will require everyone who flies rockets and satellites to adhere to sustainable practices, which doesn't always happen. Now there will be a way to recogni ... more  
Are M106's Globular Clusters a Relic of Cosmic High NoonMichoacan, Mexico (SPX) May 03, 2019 An international scientific team led by a Mexican researcher discovered globular clusters rotating at the same speed as the gas in the disk of the spiral galaxy Messier 106 (also known as M106 or NG ... more 
Blue supergiant stars open doors to concert in spaceLeuven, Belgium (SPX) May 07, 2019 Blue supergiants are rock-and-roll: they live fast and die young. This makes them rare and difficult to study. Before space telescopes were invented, few blue supergiants had been observed, so our k ... more 
Astronomers discover 2,000-year-old remnant of a novaGottingen, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2019 For the first time, a European research team involving the University of Gottingen has discovered the remains of a nova in a galactic globular cluster. A nova is an explosion of hydrogen on the surf ... more 
Pinpointing the Gaia Spacecraft to the Map the Milky WayParis (ESA) May 03, 2019 This image, a composite of several observations captured by ESO's VLT Survey Telescope (VST), shows the ESA spacecraft Gaia as a faint trail of dots across the lower half of the star-filled field of ... more |
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Lockheed Martin completes testing milestone for Mars 2020 heat shieldDenver CO (SPX) May 05, 2019 Protecting against the extremes of space travel is critical to the success of any mission. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully completed the flight hardware structure of the heat shield, va ... more  |
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Magma is the key to the moon's makeupNew Haven CT (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have the answer. Many theorists believe a Mars-sized obje ... more 
Hera's APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made ofParis (ESA) May 03, 2019 From Earth asteroids appear as little more than dots in the sky. Europe's miniature APEX spacecraft will operate as a mineral prospector in deep space, surveying the make-up of its target asteroids ... more  
Gateway to the Solar SystemBethesda, MD (SPX) May 03, 2019 It seems like everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Others want to go to an asteroid. So, what is the easi ... more  
LeoSat's commercial traction accelerates to hit US$2B milestoneWashington DC (SPX) May 07, 2019 LeoSat Enterprises today announced it has signed more than US$2B in commercial agreements ahead of launching the world's fastest, most secure and widest coverage data network delivered over a conste ... more 
Maxar Technologies to receive full insurance payout for WorldView-4 lossWestminster CO (SPX) May 07, 2019 Maxar Technologies, a global technology innovator powering the new space economy, today announced that its insurance carriers have accepted the company's $183 million claim for loss arising from the ... more |
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 Traverse City MI (SPX) May 07, 2019 
ATLAS Space Operations, Inc., a leading innovator in communications for the space industry, today announced NASA has awarded it a contract for the Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program's Space Relay Partnership and Services Study. Prime contractor ATLAS partnered in its proposal with Laser Light Communications, Inc, a leader in advanced optical communications and data distribution v ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (UPI) May 02, 2019  SpaceX acknowledged Thursday that the company's Crew Dragon capsule was destroyed last weekend in an explosion during a test firing.
"It is too early to confirm any cause," Vice President Hans Koenigsmann during a press conference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "This will make us a better company ... to ensure that Crew Dragon is one of the safest spacecraft ever built."
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2019 
The same winds that blanket Mars with dust can also blow that dust away. Catastrophic dust storms have the potential to end a mission, as with NASA's Opportunity rover. But far more often, passing winds cleared off the rover's solar panels and gave it an energy boost. Those dust clearings allowed Opportunity and its sister rover, Spirit, to survive for years beyond their 90-day expiration dates. ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) May 03, 2019 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-7 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean, beginning its first maritime space monitoring mission this year.
The ship departed from a port in eastern China's Jiangsu Province Wednesday.
As a part of China's new generation of spacecraft tracking ships, Yuanwang-7 is about 220 meters long, 40 meters high and has a displacement of nearly 30,000 tonnes. I ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2019 
LeoSat Enterprises, which is launching a constellation of 108 low-earth-orbit communications satellites that will provide the fastest, most secure and widest coverage data network in the world, today announced that X2nSat, the highly reliable satellite solutions provider, has selected LeoSat to support new infrastructure solutions for the ever-expanding needs of the healthcare industry.
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 Paris (ESA) May 07, 2019 
Solving the growing problem of space debris will require everyone who flies rockets and satellites to adhere to sustainable practices, which doesn't always happen. Now there will be a way to recognise those who do.
We increasingly rely on satellites for every-day activities like navigation, weather forecasting and telecommunications, and any loss of these space-based services could have a ... more |
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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
The study of a tiny grain of stardust - older than our solar system - is shining new light on how planetary systems are formed.
The microbe-sized extraterrestrial particle, which originated from a nova explosion more than 4.5 billion years ago, was discovered inside a meteorite collected in Antarctica by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation.
A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 07, 2019 
Scientist Lia Siegelman is using a surprising data source to study the ocean around Antarctica - one that has flippers and bears a passing resemblance to Jabba the Hut.
Siegelman is using data from a single tagged southern elephant seal to study small-scale ocean features in a little-known part of the ocean around Antarctica. She is a visiting research student from the University of Wester ... more |
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 Rotterdam, Netherlands (SPX) May 03, 2019 
CGI has signed an agreement with Thales Alenia Space France to enhance and maintain security software for the Galileo satellite navigation system. Valued at approximately 14 million euros, the contract will last until the end of 2020. CGI experts are working on this strategic project from Rotterdam and Toulouse.
CGI will improve the functionality, robustness and reliability of Galileo's gr ... more |
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 New Delhi (Xinhua) May 06, 2019 
India will become the first country to land a rover on the Moon's the south pole if the country's space agency "Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)" successfully achieves the feat during the country's second Moon mission "Chandrayaan-2" later this year.
"This is a place where nobody has gone. All the ISRO missions till now to the Moon have landed near the Moon's equator," ISRO Chairm ... more |
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 College Park, United States (AFP) May 4, 2019 
After devastating the French Riviera in 2013, destroying Dhaka in 2015 and saving Tokyo in 2017, an international asteroid impact simulation ended Friday with its latest disaster - New York in ruins.
Despite a simulated eight years of preparation, scientists and engineers tried but failed to deflect the killer asteroid.
The exercise has become a regular event among the international co ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2019 
In the late 1950s, a scientist named Lewis Kaplan divined a new and groundbreaking way to calculate temperature in the atmosphere for weather forecasting: by measuring the vibration of molecules at different altitudes. The hope was to do this using a brand-new technology, an Earth-observing satellite.
At the time, the only way to get a reading on atmospheric temperature was to dispatch hig ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according to new research. In a new study, scientists found STEVE's source region in space and identified two mechanisms that cause it.
Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Ty ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question.
New research conducted by SISSA removes the recent doubts on the presence of dark matter within the galaxies, disproving the em ... more |
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 Nijmegen, Netherlands (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Astronomers have just managed to take the first image of a black hole, and now the next challenge facing them is how to take even sharper images, so that Einstein's Theory of General Relativity can be tested.
Radboud University astronomers, along with the European Space Agency (ESA) and others, are putting forward a concept for achieving this by launching radio telescopes into space. They ... more |
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