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  Washington DC (UPI) Dec 08, 2019 The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft containing 5,700 pounds of cargo arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday morning. The spacecraft, which is SpaceX's 19th delivery to the ISS, was captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan at 5:05 a.m. At 7:47 a.m., it was installed at the ISS, according to NASA. Aboard were genetically enhanced "mighty mice," 36,000 worms and a new version of the CIMON rocket to interact with astronauts. T ... read more |
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NASA break SLS tank to test extreme limitsHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 08, 2019 Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Dec. 5 deliberately pushed the world's largest rocket fuel tank beyond its design limits to really understand its breaki ... more  
Rocket Lab launches shooting star satellite from New ZealandWashington DC (UPI) Dec 08, 2019 A satellite that spits out artificial shooting stars for light shows in the sky flew into space Friday from New Zealand. The launch came at 9:18 p.m. local time, or 3:18 a.m. EST. The satellit ... more  
ISS-bound Progress MS-13 lifts off from Baikonur CosmodromeBaikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Dec 08, 2019 On Friday, A Soyuz-2.1a medium launch vehicle carrying Progress MS-13 lifted off from Launch Pad 31 at 12:34:11 Moscow time Dec 6. In 8 min 48 sec after the lift-off contact the vehicle normally sep ... more  
First launch of UK's OneWeb satellites from Baikonur now set for 30 JanMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 08, 2019 The first launch of UK telecommunications satellites OneWeb from Baikonur Cosmodrome is scheduled for 30 January, a spokesman for Glavkosmos, subsidiary of Russian space agency Roscosmos, said. ... more |
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Green light for BRICS satellite amid space arms race fearsNew Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 06, 2019 The plan was first mooted by China to improve co-operation around natural disasters. But it took shape later when BRICS space agencies agreed to build a "virtual constellation of remote sensing sate ... more 
Nilesat-301 satellite to be built by Thales Alenia SpaceCannes, France (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Egyptian operator Nilesat to build the Nilesat-301 geostationary communications satellite, winning the contract against an international field of c ... more 
SpaceChain sends blockchain tech to ISSCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 SpaceChain announced that its blockchain hardware wallet technology is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of today's CRS-19 commercial resup ... more  
SN Now: The Final Installment of SCaN NowGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2019 NASA satellites, no matter the destination, have to communicate their data to mission control and scientists on Earth. These missions capture extraordinary data that make communications an essential ... more 
Life of a foamParis (ESA) Dec 08, 2019 A fine coffee froth does not last forever. The bubbles that make the milk light and creamy are eventually torn apart by the pull of gravity. But there is a place where foams have a more stable life ... more |
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 The PI's Perspective: What a Year, What a Decade!  
China sends six satellites into orbit with single rocketTaiyuan, China (XNA) Dec 08, 2019 China sent six satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province at 4:52 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time). They were launched by a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rock ... more  |
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China launches new optical remote sensing satelliteTaiyuan, China (XNA) Dec 08, 2019 China sent a new optical remote sensing satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province at 10:55 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time). The Jilin-1 Gao ... more 
Satellites key to '10 Insights in Climate Science' reportParis (ESA) Dec 08, 2019 A new easy-to-read guide, '10 New Insights in Climate Science' has been presented to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's Executive Secretary, Patricia Espinosa, at the COP25 ... more 
SpaceChain sends blockchain tech to ISS for Fintech marketCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 SpaceChain announced that its blockchain hardware wallet technology is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of today's CRS-19 commercial resup ... more  
Signs of life: New field guide aids astronomers' searchIthaca NY (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 A Cornell University senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide. Zifan Lin has developed high-resolution spectral mod ... more  
CIMON-2 is on its way to the ISSBremen, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 A new Crew Interactive MObile companioN (CIMON) is on its way the International Space Station (ISS). On 5 December 2019 at 18:29 CET (12:29 local time) the US SpaceX CRS-19 mission lifted off from t ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 
UbiQD, Inc., a New Mexico-based nanotechnology development company, has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The 24-month contract provides $750,000 in funding for UbiQD's collaborative research and development with the University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (UA-CEA ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 08, 2019  The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft containing 5,700 pounds of cargo arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday morning.
The spacecraft, which is SpaceX's 19th delivery to the ISS, was captured by the Canadarm2 robotic arm operated by astronauts Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan at 5:05 a.m. At 7:47 a.m., it was installed at the ISS, according to NASA.
Aboard were genetic ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2019 
The search for evidence of life on Mars could be helped by fresh insights into ancient rocks on Earth.
Research which suggests that structures previously thought to be fossils may, in fact, be mineral deposits could save future Mars missions valuable time and resources.
Microscopic tubes and filaments that resemble the remains of tiny creatures may have been formed by chemical reacti ... more |
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Dec 08, 2019 
China sent six satellites into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern Shanxi Province at 4:52 p.m. Saturday (Beijing Time).
They were launched by a Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) rocket and have entered the planned orbit successfully.
It was the second launch from the Taiyuan launch center in less than six hours after another KZ-1A rocket sent the Jilin-1 Gaofen 02B satellit ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 
SpaceChain announced that its blockchain hardware wallet technology is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of today's CRS-19 commercial resupply service mission. This is the first technology demonstration of blockchain hardware on the ISS, and it will be installed in Nanoracks' commercial platform on Station.
Today marks the third bl ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 08, 2019 
NASA satellites, no matter the destination, have to communicate their data to mission control and scientists on Earth. These missions capture extraordinary data that make communications an essential part of each mission: pictures of galaxies, critical information on solar flares and much more. An interactive online tool now shows live data transmissions from each of NASA's three space communicat ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 
"They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts.
Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into other star systems called binary systems because they have two stars. They concluded that 87% of exo-Earths one might find in binary systems should ha ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 08, 2019 
New Horizons is healthy and performing well as it flies ever onward, at nearly one million miles per day! This month we're collecting new data on the Kuiper Belt's charged particle and dust environment, and observing two distant Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) to learn about their surface properties, shapes and rotation periods, and to search for satellite systems.
Much more is in store for thi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 05, 2019 
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows in a loop around Antarctica, connecting the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans. It is one of the most significant ocean currents in our climate system because it facilitates the exchange of heat and other properties among the oceans it links.
But how the current transfers heat, particularly vertically from the top layer of the ocean to the bottom la ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 
China launched two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 8:55 a.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket and the Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-1) upper stage attached to the carrier rocket, the two satellites have entered their planned orbits. They are the 50th and 51st satellites of th ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 05, 2019 
China's lunar rover Yutu-2 has driven 345.059 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory.
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have ended their work for the 12th lunar day, and switched to dormant mode for the lunar night, the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said W ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 
Shortly after NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrived at asteroid Bennu, an unexpected discovery by the mission's science team revealed that the asteroid could be active, or consistently discharging particles into space. The ongoing examination of Bennu - and its sample that will eventually be returned to Earth - could potentially shed light on why this intriguing phenomenon is occurring.
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Dec 08, 2019 
China sent a new optical remote sensing satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in northern China's Shanxi Province at 10:55 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time).
The Jilin-1 Gaofen 02B satellite, which belongs to the Jilin-1 satellite family, was launched by Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A) and entered the planned orbit successfully.
The satellite was independently developed by the ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2019 
A year ago, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any satellite in history, collecting a spectacular trove of data from the very edge of the sun's million-degree corona.
Now, that data has allowed solar physicists to map the source of a major component of the solar wind that continually peppers Earth's atmosphere, while revealing strange magnetic field reversals that could ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 
The space telescope CHEOPS is scheduled to begin its journey into space on Tuesday, December 17th, onboard a Soyuz rocket from the European Space Agency (ESA) in Kourou, French Guiana. CHEOPS is a joint mission of ESA and Switzerland, led by the University of Bern, in collaboration with the University of Geneva.
CHEOPS (short for CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) consists of a space tele ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Dec 04, 2019 
In space, black holes appear in different sizes and masses. The record is now held by a specimen in the Abell 85 cluster of galaxies, where an ultra-massive black hole with 40 billion times the mass of our Sun sits in the middle of the central galaxy Holm 15A.
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and the University Observatory Munich discovered this by evalu ... more |
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