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  Cape Canaveral (AFP) Dec 20, 2019 Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't achieve its mission objective of docking with the International Space Station, NASA said Friday, dealing a blow to the agency's plans to end US dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut taxi rides. Officials said the autonomously flown capsule experienced a glitch involving its onboard clock that led it to burn too much propellant, forcing an early return to Earth on Sunday morning. "We have made a final decision - Starliner will not dock with the @Space_Station and will return to White Sands on Sunday," ... read more |
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Boeing to send 'Rosie' to space in key crewless missionWashington (AFP) Dec 20, 2019 Boeing is set to launch its Starliner capsule Friday on a crewless eight-day journey to the International Space Station and back, a dry run for NASA's plans to end US dependence on Russia for space rides. ... more 
From take off to landing, NASA and Boeing work together to launch Commercial CrewKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 When Boeing launches its uncrewed maiden voyage of the CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station this week, it will mark a critical milestone toward NASA's return of launching American as ... more 
Astronauts "Train Like You Fly" in Boeing Starliner SimulationsHouston TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 While Starliner tests its capabilities during Boeing's first uncrewed Starliner flight test, astronauts are getting ready to fly through extensive training at NASA's Johnson Space Center. As home to ... more  
Solving the challenges of long duration space flight with 3D PrintingHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 The International Space Station has continuously been home to astronauts for more than nineteen years. Astronauts conduct scientific research using dozens of special facilities aboard the space stat ... more |
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The 'cores' of massive galaxies had already formed 1.5 billion years after the big bangTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of massive galaxies in the Universe had formed already 1.5 billion years after the ... more  
Spitzer studies a stellar playground with a long historyPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2019 This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across. Home to an abundance of young stars ... more 
Data shows earliest supermassive black holes had plenty to eatWashington (UPI) Dec 19, 2019 Every since scientists found supermassive black holes in the early universe, they have been trying to figure out what they ate. ... more 
NASA's Fermi links nearby pulsar's gamma-ray 'halo' to antimatter puzzleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a faint but sprawling glow of high-energy light around a nearby pulsar. If visible to the human eye, this gamma-ray "halo" would appear about 40 ... more  
Europe's exoplanet hunter reaches orbit around EarthParis (AFP) Dec 18, 2019 Europe's CHEOPS planet-hunting space telescope left Earth on Wednesday and moved into orbit, a day after its lift-off was delayed by a technical rocket glitch during the final countdown. ... more |
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Mars 2020 Rover Completes Its First DrivePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 19, 2019 NASA's next Mars rover has passed its first driving test. A preliminary assessment of its activities on Dec. 17, 2019, found that the rover checked all the necessary boxes as it rolled forward and b ... more  |
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A warm Space Station welcome for cool new hardwarePasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2019 Astronaut Christina Koch recently gave a warm welcome to a very cool arrival to the International Space Station: a new piece of hardware for the Cold Atom Lab, an experimental physics facility that ... more  
New NASA-funded CubeSat poised to take Earth's temperature from spaceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 All of a sudden a tiny NASA-funded satellite, one of many passengers aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, shot into the sky on a mission to prove its new technology could change the way we measure E ... more 
Starliner Ready for its Inaugural FlightKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket rolled out of the Vertical Integration Facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 41 earli ... more 
NASA selects informal learning institutions to engage next generationWashington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 NASA's Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) program has selected four informal education organizations to promote STEM learning and help inspire the next generation ... more 
Boeing flight test for Commercial Crew Program will pave the way for future scienceHouston TX (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) is the second uncrewed test flight of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a partnership with the aerospace industry to launch astronauts on U.S. rockets and s ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral (AFP) Dec 20, 2019  Boeing's Starliner spacecraft won't achieve its mission objective of docking with the International Space Station, NASA said Friday, dealing a blow to the agency's plans to end US dependence on Russian rockets for astronaut taxi rides. Officials said the autonomously flown capsule experienced a glitch involving its onboard clock that led it to burn too much propellant, forcing an early return to Earth on Sunday morning. ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 19, 2019 
After a long field-testing campaign the GMV -developed avionics system for PLD Spaces' MIURA 1 launch vehicle has successfully passed its Qualification Acceptance Review (QAR), clearing it for fitting in this suborbital launch vehicle, one of the essential prelaunch conditions.
Since 2017 GMV has been working on the design, development and qualification of a complete avionics system for th ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Joanna Clark has been interested in geology ever since she was a child. Today, the University of Houston doctoral student is turning that curiosity into a career and getting noticed by NASA, which awarded her a $285,000 grant to develop a technique that could one day be used to better understand past climate conditions on Mars.
"We hope to have samples from Mars one day and when we do, we ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Dec 19, 2019 
The Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province will host around 20 launch missions in 2020, including two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), according to an official from the center.
Wang Zemin, deputy director of the launch center, made the remarks after China successfully sent two BDS satellites into space from Xichang on Monday.
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 Singapore (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
Kacific1 was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7.10pm eastern time (UTC-4) on 16 December 2019 from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, USA. It was placed into its target geostationary transfer orbit 33 minutes following initial ignition.
Owned by Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific), the Boeing-built communications satellite will stream ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
The International Space Station has continuously been home to astronauts for more than nineteen years. Astronauts conduct scientific research using dozens of special facilities aboard the space station, which also provides them with a place to eat, sleep, relax and exercise. To make all of this possible requires sending more than 7,000 pounds of spare parts to the station annually. Another 29,00 ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Meet what may be the largest carnival delights known to science: the "super-puff" worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.
As their confectionary name suggests, these planets are as lightweight as cotton candy - literally. The fluffy globes are the lowest density exoplanets ever discovered beyond Earth's solar system.
"They're very bizarre," said Jessica Libby-Roberts, a graduate student ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2019 
Providing potable drinking water to deployed troops operating in low resource or contested environments is no simple undertaking. Logistics teams face great risk delivering water and often incur what would otherwise be preventable casualties.
DARPA's new Atmospheric Water Extraction (AWE) program sets out to sharply reduce that risk by giving deployed units the technology to capture potabl ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 16, 2019 
As France's top rugby players scrum, run and tackle they are being tracked by more than just TV cameras and the watching eyes of the crowd. Satnav-based tracking devices between their shoulder blades are keeping tabs on their position and performance playing-rugby-marker and helping to safeguard their health.
Rugby is inherently highly physical, but the sport is doing everything it can to ... 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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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
Billions of years ago, asteroid collisions resulted in the ejection of fragments hundreds of kilometers across and sharing similar orbits. The resulting groups are known as asteroid families.
Other asteroid groups formed as a result of rotational fission, which happens when a rapidly spinning body reaches critical rotation speed and splits into relatively small fragments only a few kilomet ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
The Earth's inner core is hot, under immense pressure and snow-capped, according to new research that could help scientists better understand forces that affect the entire planet.
The snow is made of tiny particles of iron - much heavier than any snowflake on Earth's surface - that fall from the molten outer core and pile on top of the inner core, creating piles up to 200 miles thick that ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 18, 2019 
NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed a magnetic explosion the likes of which have never been seen before. In the scorching upper reaches of the Sun's atmosphere, a prominence - a large loop of material launched by an eruption on the solar surface - started falling back to the surface of the Sun. But before it could make it, the prominence ran into a snarl of magnetic field lines, spark ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2019 
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dust that stretches over 500 light-years across. Home to an abundance of young stars, it has drawn the attention of astronomers for decades.
Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instrument took this image during Spitzer's "cold mission," which ran from the spacecraft's ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 20, 2019 
A distant galaxy more massive than our Milky Way - with more than a trillion stars - has revealed that the 'cores' of massive galaxies in the Universe had formed already 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, about 1 billion years earlier than previous measurements revealed.
"If we point a telescope to the sky and take a deep image, we can see so many galaxies out there," said Masayuki Tana ... more |
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