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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2019 NASA has big plans for returning astronauts to the Moon in 2024, a stepping stone on the path to sending humans to Mars. But where should the first people on the Red Planet land? A new paper published in Geophysical Research Letters will help by providing a map of water ice believed to be as little as an inch (2.5 centimeters) below the surface. Water ice will be a key consideration for any potential landing site. With little room to spare aboard a spacecraft, any human missions to Mars will ... read more |
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket makes 12th test flightWashington (AFP) Dec 11, 2019 Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, launched the 12th crewless test of its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday, pushing the first flights with passengers to 2020. ... more  
The return to Venus and what it means for EarthPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2019 Sue Smrekar really wants to go back to Venus. In her office at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, the planetary scientist displays a 30-year-old image of Venus' surface taken ... more 
NASA gears up to test fire new SLS moon rocket in MississippiStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 NASA is preparing to test fire the largest rocket since the Apollo era at the sprawling Stennis Space Center in southern Mississippi, where the new Space Launch System core is expected to arrive in ... more  
Looking Toward Work on NASA's Potential Asteroid-Hunting Space TelescopeTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 The University of Arizona is spearheading work that would begin efforts to construct a space-based infrared telescope that could provide the capabilities NASA needs to search for asteroids and comet ... more |
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Trisept and Satellite Applications Catapult team to advance space access in the UK and beyondOxford UK (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration management services for commercial and government missions, has signed a comprehensive teaming agreement with Satellite Applications Cat ... more  
Spaceflight Inc. closes 2019 with 3 successful launches in one week across three continentsSeattle WA (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 Spaceflight, the leading provider of mission management and rideshare integration services, reports it has successfully executed nine missions in 2019, the most rideshare launches the company has pe ... more  
Self-driving microrobotsNew York NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 Most synthetic materials, including those in battery electrodes, polymer membranes, and catalysts, degrade over time because they don't have internal repair mechanisms. If you could distribute auton ... more  
Quantum expander for gravitational-wave observatoriesChangchun, China (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 Ultra-stable laser light that was stored in optical resonators of up to 4km length enabled the first observations of gravitational waves from inspirals of binary black holes and neutron stars. Due t ... more  
US Air Force Head mulls declassifying secret programs to gain support for Space Force in CongressMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 11, 2019 The Pentagon has recently been actively pursuing the development and deployment of new equipment in space, including designed to detect early launches of ballistic intercontinental missiles from the ... more |
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Proton-hydrogen collision model could impact fusion researchWashington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 The motions of plasmas may be notoriously difficult to model, but they can be better understood by analysing what happens when protons are scattered by atoms of hydrogen. In itself, this property is ... more  |
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Framatome signs a cooperation agreement with Japan on the development of fast neutron reactorsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 On December 3, 2019, Framatome signed a cooperation agreement in Tokyo with the CEA and Japanese organizations JAEA, MHI and MFBR on the development of fast neutron reactors. This agreement fo ... more 
Mars: we may have solved the mystery of how its landslides formLondon, UK (The Conversation) Dec 11, 2019 Some landslides on Mars seem to defy an important law of physics. "Long, runout landslides" are formed by huge volumes of rock and soil moving downslope, largely due to the force of gravity. But the ... more 
Two rovers to toll on Mars Again in 2020Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2019 Curiosity won't be NASA's only active Mars rover for much longer. Next summer, Mars 2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's design, they aren't twins: ... more  
Russian cosmonauts planning two spacewalks at ISS in 2020Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 12, 2019 Russian cosmonauts plan to carry out two spacewalks at the International Space Station next year, a source in the space industry said. "EVA-47 (the 47th extravehicular activity on the ISS unde ... more  
Russian astrophysicists discovered a neutron star with an unusual magnetic field structureMoscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 Scientists from Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology, Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI), and Pulkovo Observatory discovered a unique neutron star, the magnetic ... more |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 10, 2019 
The Near Infrared Airglow Camera (NIRAC) uses an Aerospace-patented orbital motion compensation system to take long-exposure, smear-free images at night. Motion compensation from a fast-moving, low Earth orbiting platform can be difficult, but NIRAC's custom optical system enables imaging at a spatial resolution of 80 meters, even as the ISS travels more than 10 kilometers during the camera's 1. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 11, 2019 
Blue Origin, the space company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, launched the 12th crewless test of its New Shepard rocket on Wednesday, pushing the first flights with passengers to 2020.
The 60-foot-long (18-meter) suborbital rocket reached an altitude of 65 miles (105 kilometers), according to preliminary information, crossing the internationally recognized boundary of space known as the Ka ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2019 
Curiosity won't be NASA's only active Mars rover for much longer. Next summer, Mars 2020 will be headed for the Red Planet. While the newest rover borrows from Curiosity's design, they aren't twins: Built and managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, each has its own role in the ongoing exploration of Mars and the search for ancient life. Here's a closer look at what s ... 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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 McLean VA (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the first seven companies it has authorized to provide its Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS) services, planned for commercial introduction in the first half of 2020. The seven companies, Arion Communications, AST, Marlink, Marsat, NSSLGlobal, Satcom Global and Speedcast will be the first in the industry to provide truly global satellite ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 
OneWeb, whose goal is to connect everyone everywhere, and OneWeb Satellites, a joint venture between Airbus and OneWeb are coming together to advance the OneWeb Responsible Space program with a commitment to implement an advanced-technology grappling fixture, developed by Altius Space Machines, on OneWeb's satellites.
Dedicated to the idea that Space is a shared natural resource and if use ... 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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 Kennedy Space Center FL (UPI) Dec 09, 2019 
Kennedy Space Center in Florida has spent $100 million fixing storm damage and rebuilding sand dunes to protect launch pads in the past 10 years, and that number is expected to grow dramatically in the coming years.
New studies indicate sea level rise is accelerating and will impact low-lying areas, including the space center, sooner than previously thought.
The space center's strate ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 11, 2019 
The launch of Russia's Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Glonass-M navigation satellite, expected to be conducted at the Plesetsk spaceport in the country's east on 10 December, has been postponed due to problems with the third stage of the carrier, a source in the rocket and space industry stated.
"The launch has been postponed as the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket is not r ... 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 11, 2019 
On Friday, Oct. 11, the OSIRIS-REx team should have been preparing to point their spacecraft cameras precisely over the asteroid Bennu to capture high-resolution images of a region known as Osprey. It is one of four sites scientists are considering from which the spacecraft can safely collect a sample in late 2020.
But early that morning, the team learned that a telecommunications facility ... more |
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 New 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 satellites".
The Indian space ministry has indicated major progress in terms of establishing a BRICS satellite for various applications including natural resources management and disaster management ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 06, 2019 
Early returns from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's camera on NASA's latest mission to study the Sun's corona revealed on Dec. 4 a star more complex than ever imagined.
NRL's Wide-field Imager for Parker Solar Probe, or WISPR, the only imaging instrument aboard the NASA Parker Solar Probe mission, is now 84 percent of the way to the Sun.
WISPR produced multiple scientifically rel ... more |
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 Rome, Italy (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 
A new study led by Dr. Daniela Carollo - researcher of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics - on the kinematics and chemical composition of a sample of stars in the vicinity of the Sun, revealed that the stars that make up the thick disk of our galaxy, the Milky Way, belong to two distinct stellar populations with different characteristics and not to a single one, as has been thought ... more |
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 Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Dec 11, 2019 
Physicists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel have imaged electrons flowing viscously through a nanodevice, just like water flowing through a pipe. Long predicted but only now visualized for the first time, this curious new behavior for electrons has important implications for future electronic devices.
From roaring waves to swirling whirlpools, the flow of a liquid can be extr ... more |
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