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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 25, 2019 Virgin Galactic is set to become the first commercial spaceflight company to be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange next week, a Securities and Exchange Commission filing indicates. The Wednesday filing shows the company, founded by Richard Branson, was expected to merge Friday with Social Capital Hedosophia, a venture capital firm. After the completion of the merger, the two companies were expected to trade under the ticker symbol SPCE on Monday. The two companies have a combined ... read more |
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US vows closer cooperation with French space agencyWashington (AFP) Oct 23, 2019 The United States on Wednesday pledged closer cooperation with France's space agency, saying the two were advancing the commercial development of space. ... more  
Indian, Japanese space agencies to launch joint lunar mission study in 2023New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 25, 2019 The failure of its recent Chandrayaan-2 lunar mission notwithstanding, a resilient India is set to make another bid to explore the far side of moon. The Indian space agency ISRO will make another at ... more 
Invest in Artemis to get a ride to Moon: USWashington (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 Several countries want their astronauts to hitch a ride with the United States on its next set of lunar missions, but the second nation to have Moon boots on the ground will depend on how much they contribute, NASA's chief said Thursday. ... more  
NASA attaches first of 4 RS-25 engines to Artemis I rocket stageNew Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Engineers and technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket tha ... more |
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RUAG Space and TTTech aim to provide fast TTEthernet for NASA Lunar GatewayWashington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 RUAG Space, a leading space supplier, and TTTech, a leader in high-tech network technology, are teaming up to provide space electronics for the NASA space station "Lunar Gateway". In 2011, via a Spa ... more  
Martian landslides not conclusive evidence of iceLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 Detailed three-dimensional images of an extensive landslide on Mars, which spans an area more than 55 kilometres wide, have been analysed to understand how the unusually large and long ridges and fu ... more 
New selfie shows Curiosity, the Mars chemistPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2019 A new selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it's especially meaningful for the mission's team: stitched together from 57 individual images taken by a camera on the end of ... more 
Indian space agency ISRO's launch vehicles to carry along 14 foreign satellitesNew Delhi (XNA) Oct 25, 2019 Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry along as many as 14 small foreign satellites in its next three PSLVs (Polar Satellite Launch Vehicles) over the next two months, reliable sources ... more  
First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collisionMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 For the first time, a freshly made heavy element, strontium, has been detected in space, in the aftermath of a merger of two neutron stars. This finding was observed by ESO's X-shooter spectrograph ... more |
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 China's absence from global space conference due to "visa problem" causes concern  
India, China to co-exist in billion-dollar smallsat market, says analystNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had successfully launched 104 satellites using a single rocket in February 2017, making India a major player in the multi-billion dollar space market. W ... more  |
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No defects found in reproductive ability of male mice returning from short stay in spaceOsaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 A team of researchers led by Professor Ikawa Masahito from the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University, in a joint research project with the University of Tsukuba and the Japan ... more 
Rocket Lab teams with Kongsberg for Electron and Photon ground supportWashington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Rocket Lab has partnered with Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT), the world's largest provider of ground station services, to be the sole provider of ground station services for the Electron launch ... more  
How aerosols affect our climateNew Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 For many, the word "aerosol" might conjure thoughts of hairspray or spray paint. More accurately, though, aerosols are simply particles found in the atmosphere. They can be human-made, like from car ... more  
Robot acquires new, essential spacewalking functions says cosmonautMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 25, 2019 A Russian-developed anthropomorphic space-faring robot can now perform the important function of deploying fasteners to handrails during spacewalks, cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov said Thursday. ... more 
NASA, industry partner for space-based study of potential alzheimer's keyHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 An innovative experiment underway on the International Space Station could help researchers make new progress in the fight against aggressive neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parki ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA's Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. As the only place for conducting long-duration research on how living in microgravity affects living organisms, especially humans, as well as testing technologies to allow humans to work at the Moon, the space station serves as a unique asset in the effo ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon.
Integration of the RS-25 engines to the recently completed core stage structure is a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its pa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2019 
A new selfie taken by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is breathtaking, but it's especially meaningful for the mission's team: stitched together from 57 individual images taken by a camera on the end of Curiosity's robotic arm, the panorama also commemorates only the second time the rover has performed a special chemistry experiment.
The selfie was taken on Oct. 11, 2019 (Sol 2,553) in a locati ... more |
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 Washington DC (XNA) Oct 23, 2019 
"I miss an important space agency in this panel. Where is China?" Attendees at a plenary of the ongoing weeklong International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington brought the question atop the panel voting system and demanded an answer.
The crowd-sourced question popped up after the audience found that Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) sched ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
paceX is developing Starlink, a satellite constellation that uses a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and required user ground transceivers. Services to be provided include new space-based Internet communications.
SpaceX initially planned to deploy nearly 12,000 satellites, but has now increased this number by 30,000, adding up to 42,000 satellites. The initial 12,000 satellites are ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 
Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and control techniques.
Unfortunately, space traffic has many more degrees of freedom and much less control capability. Add to this the completely uncontrolled nature of space debris and the reality that most debris objects cannot be tracked ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have announced a new collaboration with scientists working on a NASA telescope.
So has alien hunting finally earned its stripes as a scientific discipline?
To find out, AFP spoke to scientist Jill Tarter who has devoted her life to searching for signals emanating from distant galaxies and who inspired the charac ... 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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 Sao Paulo (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Amazon river dolphins are showing alarming levels of contamination mainly because of illegal panning for gold, conservationists say.
Researchers measured contamination levels in 46 of these large freshwater creatures known for long, bottle-like snouts in major basins of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Peru.
All of them had some degree of mercury contamination and in more than half the lev ... more |
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2019 
The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit.
The COps system will allow the Air Force to operationally command and control the new, more powerful GPS III satellites as well as legacy GPS satellites currently in the constellation. T ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 
The lander of India's second lunar probe, Chandrayaan-2 lost contact with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s earth station minutes before the scheduled time for soft-landing on the Moon's South Pole on 7 September, crashing the hope of making space history.
The latest images sent by India's second Lunar Probe's Rover present many interesting facts about the secondary craters o ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
The Lucy mission led by Southwest Research Institute is one step closer to its 2021 launch to explore the Trojan asteroids, a population of ancient small bodies that share an orbit with Jupiter.
With the successful completion of its critical design review last week, the Lucy spacecraft is on track to begin a 12-year journey of almost 4 billion miles to visit a record-breaking seven asteroi ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
For many, the word "aerosol" might conjure thoughts of hairspray or spray paint. More accurately, though, aerosols are simply particles found in the atmosphere. They can be human-made, like from car exhaust or biomass burning, or naturally occurring, from sources such as volcanic eruptions or sea spray.
Aerosols account for one of the greater uncertainties in understanding the Earth's clim ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets that mention unusual red skies with radioisotope data to identify solar storms that likely occurred around 679 to 655 BCE, prior to any previously datable events. This work may help modern astronomers predict future solar flares or coronal mass ejections that can damage satellite and terrestrial ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
For the first time, a freshly made heavy element, strontium, has been detected in space, in the aftermath of a merger of two neutron stars. This finding was observed by ESO's X-shooter spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is published in Nature. The detection confirms that the heavier elements in the Universe can form in neutron star mergers, providing a missing piece of the puzzle ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
New measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe, led by astronomers at the University of California, Davis, add to a growing mystery: Estimates of a fundamental constant made with different methods keep giving different results.
"There's a lot of excitement, a lot of mystification and from my point of view it's a lot of fun," said Chris Fassnacht, professor of physics at UC Davis ... more |
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