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  Washington (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 NASA on Monday earmarked almost $3 billion to Lockheed Martin to build three Orion capsules, to allow US astronauts to return to the moon by 2024. The megadeal calls for a first phase including three capsules for $2.7 billion, for Artemis missions III to V - to take astronauts back to the moon. Each capsule can carry four astronauts. The space agency plans to order three more capsules during fiscal year 2022 for missions VI to VIII, for a total of $1.9 billion, said a NASA statement. ... read more |
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SpaceX installs wings on Starship ahead of official update Saturday by MuskWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2019 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to give an update on the new design for his Starship Mk1 presentation next Saturday, with the company working round the clock so the piece is ready for its big reve ... more 
NASA Commits to Long-term Artemis Missions with Orion Production ContractWashington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 NASA is setting in motion the Orion spacecraft production line to support as many as 12 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024. ... more  
Japanese, Russian rockets prepare to launch cargo and crew this weekHouston TX (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 Japan is getting ready to launch its H-II Transport Vehicle-8 (HTV-8) cargo craft on Tuesday at 12:05 p.m. EDT to replenish the International Space Station crew. Russia has already rolled out its So ... more 
Chinese researchers conduct in situ measurement of lunar dust at Chang'e-3 landing siteLanzhou, China (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 Chinese researchers have successfully conducted an in situ measurement of lunar dust at the landing site of the country's Chang'e-3 probe. Using a temperature-controlled sticky quartz crystal ... more |
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DARPA announces final teams for Spectrum Collaboration Challenge Championship eventWashington DC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 DARPA has announced the 10 teams that have qualified for the Championship Event of the Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2) - a three-year contest to unlock the potential of the radio frequency (R ... more 
Last Soyuz-FG Carrier Rocket installed at BaikonurBaikonur, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2019 The last ever Soyuz-FG carrier rocket to be launched was installed at a launch site at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Monday, Russia's state space agency, Roscosmos, said. According to th ... more 
Pad 39B water flow test comes through loud and clearKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 NASA eclipsed another milestone in its plan to send the first woman and next man to the lunar surface by 2024 with the latest successful water flow test on the mobile launcher at Kennedy Space Cente ... more 
ISRO's latest rocket science maths pains former officialsNew Delhi (IANS) Sep 24, 2019 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K.Sivan's statement on Saturday that the Chandrayaan-2 mission was a 98 percent success has invited scorn many former senior officials of the space ... more  
Karla crater confirmed to be an impact structureKazan, Russia (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 The Karla crater, one of the about 150 large impact structures on Earth, is situated near the border of the Republic of Tatarstan and Chuvash Republic, about 163 kilometers from Kazan Federal Univer ... more |
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 Venus may have been habitable  
New vibration sensor detects buried objects from moving vehicleWashington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 Detecting landmines can be a challenging and slow process. Detecting them from a moving vehicle would make the process more speedy, but at the expense of accuracy. At the Optical Society's (OS ... more  |
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NASA blames bad weather for failure to warn about approaching hazardous asteroidWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 The celestial object flew past the Earth five times closer than the Moon and highlights the need to improve NASA's detection systems. Internal emails reveal that NASA discussed 2019 OK "becaus ... more 
Comet gateway discovered to inner solar systemOrlando FL (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the inner sola ... more  
Venus puts on variety show among its cloud-topsGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 Studies of the cloud-tops of Venus by JAXA's Akatsuki spacecraft show striking variety in wind speeds year-on-year and between the planet's northern and southern hemispheres. The first fine-scale ob ... more  
New initiative to explore origin and future of UniverseHannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 Anna Ijjas, leader of the recently established Lise Meitner Research Group "Gravitational Theory and Cosmology" at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute / AEI ... more 
Top Five Technologies Needed for a Spacecraft to Survive Deep SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 When a spacecraft built for humans ventures into deep space, it requires an array of features to keep it and a crew inside safe. Both distance and duration demand that spacecraft must have systems t ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Sept 18, 2019 
Russia is testing a gun that returning cosmonauts could use to fend off wild animals when landing in remote areas, the head of the Russian space agency said Wednesday.
Cosmonauts have been unarmed for more than a decade but Roscosmos agency head Dmitry Rogozin said it was time to bring back weapons as manned launches move to the Russian Far East.
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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2019 
The last ever Soyuz-FG carrier rocket to be launched was installed at a launch site at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome on Monday, Russia's state space agency, Roscosmos, said.
According to the space agency, the launch of Russia's Soyuz-FG rocket, which has a Ukrainian control system, is scheduled for September 25 at 11:57 GMT. It is planned to reach the International Space Station on the ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 
US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the US space program's efforts to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as "tremendous," yet outlined that the ultimate goal is Mars.
"We're going to Mars," Trump told reporters after a White House meeting with Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, marking Mars as a more exciting target than the moon.
"We're stopping at the moon. The m ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 20, 2019 
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced his nation's intention to join the United States' Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA's Artemis lunar program.
The announcement took place at a ceremony Saturday at NASA Headquarters in Washington during which NASA Deputy Administrator, Jim Morhard, and Head of the Australian Space Agency, Megan Clark, signed a joint stat ... more |
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 Maui HI (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 
A first-of-its-kind global ad hoc coalition dedicated to developing and maintaining a set of "living" space-safety best practices was announced at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference - AMOS.
The new coalition, the Space Safety Coalition (SSC), is comprised of space operators, space industry associations and space industry stakeholders. SSC aims to lead ... more |
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 Lafayette CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
The most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth are termed co-orbital objects. An attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth throughout our deep past are the co-orbital objects. They most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth. Co-orbital objects approach Earth very closely every year at distances much shorter th ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 
Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, a large moon of Jupiter, has been erupting on a relatively regular schedule.
The volcano Loki is expected to erupt in mid-September 2019, according to a poster by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun presented this week.
"Loki is the largest and ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Sept 21, 2019  China and the Solomon Islands established diplomatic relations Saturday, days after the Pacific island nation severed ties with Taiwan.
"We look forward to the quick development of bilateral relations between China and the Solomons," Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said at a ceremony in Beijing alongside his Solomons counterpart Jeremiah Manele.
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 
China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 5:10 a.m. Monday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the two satellites entered orbit. They are the 47th and 48th satellites of the BDS satellite family.
The new satellites and the carrier rocket were developed by t ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
Future moon missions are at risk because of lunar soil. It seems harmless, but moon dust can actually damage scientific equipment and be harmful to human health: It is like a sticky powder made from shards of glass.
Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon 50 years ago, and his footprints in lunar soil will be there for million of years, according to NASA. There is no wind to blow the fo ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 23, 2019 
Scientists analysing the treasure trove of images taken by ESA's Rosetta mission have turned up more evidence for curious bouncing boulders and dramatic cliff collapses.
Rosetta operated at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between August 2014 and September 2016, collecting data on the comet's dust, gas and plasma environment, its surface characteristics and its interior structure.
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Sep 20, 2019 
Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert Thursday.
The five satellites were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 2:42 p.m. (Beijing Time).
The satellites belong to a commercial remote-sensing satellite constellation project "Zhuhai-1," which will comprise 34 micro-nano satellites ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
Experimenting at 2.2 million degrees Celsius, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have found that an astronomical model - used for 40 years to predict the sun's behavior as well as the life and death of stars - underestimates the energy blockage caused by free-floating iron atoms, a major player in those processes.
The blockage effect, called opacity, is an element's natu ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 
A Rice University scientist and his colleagues are booting their search for dark matter into a study they hope will enhance all of data science.
Rice astroparticle physicist Christopher Tunnell and his team have received a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to reimagine data science techniques and help push data-intensive physical sciences past the tipping point to discover ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
Anna Ijjas, leader of the recently established Lise Meitner Research Group "Gravitational Theory and Cosmology" at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute / AEI) in Hannover, and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, receive 1.3 million US-dollars for four years from the Simons Foundation.
The goal of the newly ... more |
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