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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 When Boeing's Orbital Flight Test (OFT) launches on Dec. 20, 2019, it will be a major step toward returning human spaceflight capability to the U.S. The uncrewed mission for NASA's Commercial Crew Program will rendezvous and dock Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft with the International Space Station and return to Earth on Dec. 28. Starliner will launch atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 (SLC-41) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. "This ... read more |
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SpaceX launches JCSAT 18 Kacific 1 communication satelliteOrlando FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 SpaceX successfully launched on Monday evening a communications satellite that is owned jointly by two companies, one in Japan and one in Malaysia, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida. The r ... more  
CHEOPS space telescope to investigate extrasolar planetsKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 17, 2019 On 17 December 2019 at 05:54 local time (09:54 CET), the European Space Agency (ESA) CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope is scheduled to lift off from Europe's spaceport in ... more  
Star formation in Milky Way's center came in burstsHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 Astronomers have uncovered the previously unknown history of the stars near the center of our galaxy. Their work shows that the stars in question formed in two waves: more than 90% of the stars form ... more 
Ancient star burst found in central region of Milky WayGarching, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2019 ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has observed the central part of the Milky Way with spectacular resolution and uncovered new details about the history of star birth in our galaxy. Thanks to the new ... more |
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ISRO launches high resolution RISAT-2BR1 spy satelliteNew Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 12, 2019 The RISAT-2BR1 is an all-weather radar reconnaissance satellite, able to image the Earth in both daylight and at night, regardless of any clouds obscuring the surface. It is the second spacecraft in ... more 
HawkEye 360 awarded study contract by the National Reconnaissance OfficeHerndon VA (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 HawkEye 360 Inc., the first commercial company to use formation flying satellites to create a new class of radio frequency (RF) data analytics, reports it has been awarded a contract for a commercia ... more  
Lockheed Martin's precision strike missile successful in first flight testDallas TX (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 Lockheed Martin has tested its next-generation long-range missile designed for the U.S. Army's Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) program at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. All test objectives w ... more  
Citadel Defense collaborates with US Govt to deploy safe, trusted and reliable counter drone solutionsSan Diego, CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 Citadel Defense has worked with three undisclosed U.S. Government agencies for six months to deploy counter drone technology that meets regulatory, safety, and critical infrastructure protection req ... more  
How saving the ozone layer in 1987 slowed global warmingSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroying the ozone layer, now appears to be the first international treaty to successfully slow ... more |
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 Greenland's Rapid Melt Will Mean More Flooding 
One-third of recent global methane increase comes from tropical AfricaBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 Concentrations of methane, a greenhouse gas about 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide, have risen steadily in Earth's atmosphere since 2007. Although several potential explanations, including a ... more  |
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UCI-led team releases high-precision map of Antarctic ice sheet bed topographyIrvine CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 A University of California, Irvine-led team of glaciologists has unveiled the most accurate portrait yet of the contours of the land beneath Antarctica's ice sheet - and, by doing so, has helped ide ... more  
35-year data record charts sea-temperature changeParis (ESA) Dec 09, 2019 Four trillion satellite measurements, taken over four decades from 1981 to 2018, have been merged to create a continuous global record that will help to understand the science behind Earth's climate ... more  
New biomass map to take stock of the world's carbonMadrid, Spain (ESA) Dec 09, 2019 The first of a series of global maps aimed at quantifying change in carbon stored as biomass across the world's forests and shrublands has been released by ESA's Climate Change Initiative at COP25 - ... more  
Russia working on means to destroy dangerous asteroids hurtling toward EarthMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2019 Humongous space rocks fly past Earth on a regular basis, and have in the past collided with our planet, leading to unparalleled mass-extinctions. To make matters worse, some of them are known to fly ... more  
Scientists map a planet's global wind patterns for the first time, and it's not EarthBaltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 A new paper in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local ... more |
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 Plum Brook Station OH (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
NASA's Super Guppy flew low in the sky as it transported the Orion spacecraft to Ohio. After it touched down, a series of events began to unfold to transfer the Artemis I vehicle to NASA's Plum Brook Station for testing.
The capsule was pulled out of the belly of the Super Guppy and lifted onto a 130-foot long, 38-wheel truck that maneuvered Ohio's back roads to get to the facility in Sand ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2019  SpaceX successfully launched on Monday evening a communications satellite that is owned jointly by two companies, one in Japan and one in Malaysia, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida.
The rocket launched as planned at 7:10 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The late autumn weather was ideal for the launch with light clouds and light breeze.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 
A new paper in Science documents for the first time the global wind circulation patterns in the upper atmosphere of a planet, 120 to 300 kilometers above the surface. The findings are based on local observations, rather than indirect measurements, unlike many prior measurements taken on Earth's upper atmosphere. But it didn't happen on Earth: it happened on Mars. On top of that, all the data cam ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Dec 16, 2019  Calling all radio amateurs! ESA is challenging anyone with amateur radio equipment to catch the first signals from OPS-SAT, ESA's brand new space software laboratory.
On 17 December, OPS-SAT will be launched into low-Earth orbit on a Soyuz rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, together with ESA's Cheops exoplanet-tracker.
Once launched, the satellite will deploy its solar panels and ult ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 17, 2019 
On 17 December 2019 at 05:54 local time (09:54 CET), the European Space Agency (ESA) CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite (CHEOPS) space telescope is scheduled to lift off from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on board a Soyuz launcher. The mission will further extend the search for exoplanets, which was one of the topics of this year's Nobel Prize in physics. Didier Queloz, one of th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone. The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft. It was the 22nd flyby during which the solar-powered spacecraft collected science data on the gas giant, soaring only 2,175 miles (3,500 kilometers) above its cloud tops. The flyby also marked a victory for ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2019 
Four trillion satellite measurements, taken over four decades from 1981 to 2018, have been merged to create a continuous global record that will help to understand the science behind Earth's climate.
A paper published recently in Nature Scientific Data describes how this new dataset of global sea-surface temperature is one of the longest satellite climate data records available. The datase ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 12, 2019 
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a federal law specifying the annual budget and expenditure for the US Department of Defence. The House and Senate Conference Committee has now approved the final defense bill for 2020.
Congress has designated India's NavIC - a regional satellite navigation system, as an "allied" navigational system alongside Galileo of the European Union and ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 16, 2019 
For the past decade, Russia has been working on its "Oryol" (Eagle) space ship intended for a lunar mission. The landing of Russian astronauts on the Moon is scheduled for 2030.
Overweight Russian astronauts won't be able to take part in the country's lunar mission aboard the Oryol space ship due to restrictions on the total weight of cargo the spacecraft will deliver to our planet's natur ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 12, 2019 
A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory-built camera mounted on the NASA Parker Solar Probe revealed an asteroid dust trail that has eluded astronomers for decades.
Karl Battams, a computational scientist in NRL's Space Science Division, discussed the results from the camera called Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) on Dec. 11 during a NASA press conference.
WISPR enabled researchers ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 09, 2019 
The Montreal Protocol, an international agreement signed in 1987 to stop chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) destroying the ozone layer, now appears to be the first international treaty to successfully slow the rate of global warming.
New research published in Environmental Research Letters has revealed that thanks to the Protocol, today's global temperatures are considerably lower. And by mid-cent ... more |
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 Space Weather at NASA 
by Lina Tran for GSFC News
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 12, 2019
In a Dec. 10 press event at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, three scientists presented new images of the ionosphere, the dynamic region where Earth's atmosphere meets space. Home to astronauts and everyday technology like radio and GPS, the ionosphere constantly responds to changes from space above ... more |
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 Columbia MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
A question that has long puzzled scientists is how our Milky Way galaxy, which has an elegant spiral shape with long arms, took this form.
Universities Space Research Association has announced that new observations of another galaxy are shedding light on how spiral-shaped galaxies like our own get their iconic shape.
According to research from the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrar ... more |
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 Seville, Spain (SPX) Dec 13, 2019 
Professor Jose Maria Martin-Olalla, from the University of Seville, has published a new report where the impact of seasonal clock-changing in daily life is analyzed from time use surveys in United States, Spain, Italy, France and Great Britain. These countries have faced seasonal regulation of clocks for more than forty years.
The results state that human cycles are not misaligned by Dayli ... more |
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