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  Orlando FL (UPI) Oct 19, 2019 Rocket startup company Firefly Aerospace said Friday it will partner with Aerojet Rocketdyne. One of the first projects on which the two will collaborate is 3D printing of Firefly's Reaper engines, according to the formal announcement. "This means we'll have access to the very significant expertise that Aerojet has developed over decades," said Eric Salwan, director of commercial business development at Firefly. "We'll be able to work to develop solutions better than we could separately." Fi ... read more |
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Planetary Protection Review addresses changing reality of space explorationWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 NASA released a report Friday with recommendations from the Planetary Protection Independent Review Board (PPIRB) the agency established in response to a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engin ... more  
US makes history with first all-female spacewalkWashington (AFP) Oct 18, 2019 US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir on Friday became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk - a historic milestone as NASA prepares to send the first woman to the Moon. ... more  
Astro Digital has successful dedicated launch of a 16U CubeSat bus with advanced payloadsSanta Clara CA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 Astro Digital, a leading provider of holistic solutions to develop, deploy and operate space infrastructure, has announced the successful dedicated launch of its latest mission with Rocket Lab from ... more  
China prepares for space station constructionBeijing (XNA) Oct 18, 2019 China is preparing for the upcoming high-density space missions to construct China's space station, and the Long March-5B carrier rocket, set to launch capsules for the space station, is expected to ... more |
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U.S. sold $55.4B in weapons to allies, partners in FY19Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2019 U.S. manufacturers sold weapons valued at $55.4 billion to foreign partners in fiscal year 2019, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced. ... more 
Spacesuits of the futureFrederica DE (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 ILC Dover, the company that outfitted the Apollo astronauts and all subsequent NASA manned missions including current flights to the International Space Station - has launched a line of spacesuits f ... more  
Mars InSight's 'Mole' is moving againPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2019 NASA's InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known as "the mole," dig nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) over the past week. While modest, the movement is significan ... more  
India's second Moon mission begins spectroscopic studies of lunar surfaceNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2019 espite the setback in India's second lunar mission - Chandrayaan-2, the rover of the satellite continues to go around the Moon with all its payloads and is completely functional. The lander failed t ... more 
The search for extrasolar planets continuesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 The discovery of the first exoplanet almost 25 years ago changed our perception of the origin and evolution of the Universe and challenged the uniqueness of our own Solar System. Today, scientists f ... more |
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 The clumpy and lumpy death of a star  
Super spirals spin super fastBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 When it comes to galaxies, how fast is fast? The Milky Way, an average spiral galaxy, spins at a speed of 130 miles per second (210 km/sec) in our Sun's neighborhood. New research has found that the ... more  |
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South Africa's HIRAX telescope driving industry engagementsGauteng, South Africa (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 The Hydrogen and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX), led out of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), has deployed two new prototype telescope dish designs, one aluminium and the other fibregla ... more  
A year trapped in Arctic iceParis (ESA) Oct 17, 2019 As millions of people around the world marched for urgent action on climate change ahead of this week's UN Climate Action Summit, an icebreaker set sail from Norway to spend a year drifting in the A ... more  
Joint Polar Satellite System's Microwave Instrument Fully AssembledGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 spacecraft, scheduled to launch in 2022, has been fully asse ... more  
Tale of 2 climate crises gives clues to the presentPhoenix AZ (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 Figuring out what lies ahead for our species and our planet is one of the most pressing and challenging tasks for climate scientists. While models are very useful, there is nothing quite like Earth' ... more  
Physicists shed new light on how liquids behave with other materialsBristol UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Their findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), challenge the accepted wisdom on wetting and drying phase behaviour. The authors provide a firm concept ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 18, 2019 
US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir on Friday became the first all-female pairing to carry out a spacewalk - a historic milestone as NASA prepares to send the first woman to the Moon.
"It symbolizes exploration by all that dare to dream and work hard to achieve that dream," Meir said after the 7-hour, 17-minute spacewalk to replace a power controller on the International Space Sta ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Oct 19, 2019 
Rocket startup company Firefly Aerospace said Friday it will partner with Aerojet Rocketdyne. One of the first projects on which the two will collaborate is 3D printing of Firefly's Reaper engines, according to the formal announcement.
"This means we'll have access to the very significant expertise that Aerojet has developed over decades," said Eric Salwan, director of commercial business ... more |
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 College Station TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 
Mars once had salt lakes that are similar to those on Earth and has gone through wet and dry periods, according to an international team of scientists that includes a Texas A and M University College of Geosciences researcher.
Marion Nachon, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Geology and Geophysics at Texas A and M, and colleagues have had their work published in the cu ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 18, 2019 
China is preparing for the upcoming high-density space missions to construct China's space station, and the Long March-5B carrier rocket, set to launch capsules for the space station, is expected to make its maiden flight in 2020.
Zhou Jianping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been appointed the chief designer of China's manned space program, and Gu Yidong, an aca ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2019 
SpaceX wants spectrum access for nearly four times as many satellites as originally planned for its high-speed internet constellation, the company and a UN agency confirmed Wednesday.
On October 7, the US Federal Communications Commission sent the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union 20 filings with each one asking permission for 1,500 satellites, the ITU's Alexandre Vallet, ch ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
In the not-too-distant future an international regulatory and enforcement agency may be looking for Space Traffic Controllers to fill hundreds of positions for well-trained professionals.
It is likely that these positions will be located in an international metropolis such as Washington, Paris, London, Hong Kong, Rome or Moscow. Applicants must pass a rigorous training program including ma ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 18, 2019 
Rock cores collected from deep beneath the planet's surface suggest ancient microbes have been living inside Europe's largest meteorite crater for millions of years.
Some 400 million years ago, a massive space rock slammed into northern Europe, excavating a giant crater in the middle of what's now Sweden. Today, prospectors are drilling for natural gas within the confines of the ancient ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes, which was conducted by Carnegie's Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak and NASA's Nima Pahlevan and published by Nature.
Reports of harmful algal blooms - like the ones that shut down Toledo's water supply in 2014 or led to states of emergency b ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 
India is moving forward towards harnessing space technology for national development and to make it accessible for everyone as they go about their daily lives.
To improve the geo-location capabilities of upcoming mobile phones, automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and US-based chip-maker Qualcomm have developed a new chipset platform. ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2019 
espite the setback in India's second lunar mission - Chandrayaan-2, the rover of the satellite continues to go around the Moon with all its payloads and is completely functional. The lander failed to soft-land on the surface of the Moon and lost contact with the Earth Station of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
The Rover has now started collecting data on the lunar surface an ... more |
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 La Palma, Spain (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
The study of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is driven by both scientific and practical reasons. Because of their proximity to our planet, they can provide key information regarding the delivery of water and organic-rich material to the early Earth, and the subsequent emergence of life. On the other hand, these small bodies of the solar system have non-negligible long-term probabilities of colliding ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
The Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS) for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 spacecraft, scheduled to launch in 2022, has been fully assembled and has begun environmental testing.
A next-generation instrument that detects microwave radiation from the Earth's atmosphere and surface, ATMS provides atmospheric temperature and moistu ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 19, 2019 
ESA's Solar Orbiter mission has completed its test campaign in Europe and is now being packed ready for its journey to Cape Canaveral at the end of this month, ahead of launch in February 2020.
The spacecraft was on display today for the final time in Europe, at the IABG test centre near Munich, Germany. It was built at Airbus Stevenage, UK, and has spent the last year at IABG undergoing e ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is going to get a major computing power upgrade as the University of Central Florida expands its relationship with Microsoft.
UCF manages the National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory (AO), home to one of the most powerful and sensitive radio telescopes in the world with a unique planetary radar system. AO has contributed to decades of science ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
"Weather" in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. The scientists used sophisticated simulations to show how powerful jets from supermassive black holes are disrupted by the motion of hot gas and galaxies, preventing gas from cooling, which could otherwise form stars. The team publish their work in the journal M ... more |
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