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  Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 17, 2020 Physicists are teaming up with computer scientists in a NASA-funded study to help predict solar flares and radiation that can disable spacecraft and potentially kill astronauts. NASA has awarded a $550,000 grant to the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne to begin the three-year machine learning project next month. Computer algorithms will analyze data and imagery from the sun and solar system radiation. The space agency's goal is to identify warning signs that precede solar radiatio ... read more |
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Lockheed Martin Ships Mobile Communications Satellite To Launch SiteDenver CO (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 Lockheed Martin shipped its third satellite based on the modernized LM 2100 bus to French Guiana for launch aboard an Ariane V rocket. JCSAT-17 will provide flexible mobile communications services t ... more  
China's first civilian HD mapping satellite in service for eight yearsBeijing (XNA) Jan 17, 2020 China's first civilian high-definition mapping satellite Ziyuan III 01 has celebrated its 8th birthday in orbit. Despite its five-year design life, it continues to collect data, the Ministry o ... more  
Plant-powered sensor sends signal to spaceParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2020 A device that uses electricity generated by plants as its power source has communicated via satellite - a world first. Such sensors could be used to connect everyday objects in remote location ... more  
Boeing: Starliner capsule can return to flight with minimal workWashington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2020 Boeing officials said Wednesday the company's Starliner space capsule can be fully refurbished with almost no new hardware following a software malfunction during its maiden flight Dec. 20. ... more |
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Spinlaunch receives additional $35M from investorsLong Beach, CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 Jonathan Yaney, Founder and CEO of SpinLaunch, Inc., has announced that the company has received an additional investment of $35 million for continued development of the world's first kinetic launch ... more 
First Spacebus Neo satellite launchedParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2020 Ariane 5's first launch of 2020 has delivered two telecom satellites, Konnect and GSAT-30, into their planned transfer orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 21:05 GMT (22:05 CET, 18:05 local time ... more  
Active asteroid unveils fireball identityTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it was relatively bright and slow. Now, scientists have det ... more  
Huygens landing spin mystery solvedParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2020 Fifteen years ago today, ESA's Huygens probe made history when it descended to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan and became the first probe to successfully land on another world in the outer Solar ... more  
Astronomers reveal interstellar thread of one of life's building blocksMunich, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the jo ... more |
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 NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency's Great Observatories  
Taking the temperature of dark matterDavis CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 Warm, cold, just right? Physicists at the University of California, Davis are taking the temperature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about a quarter of our universe. We ... more  |
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Anatomy of a Rover: The Mechanics of a Winning Student Vehicle DesignHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 NASA's Human Exploration Rover Challenge isn't for the faint of heart. The critical thinking that goes into designing rovers and the hours spent building them require dedication from teams of studen ... more 
Farewell to the Eu CROPIS missionCologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 The experimentation phase on board the Eu:CROPIS satellite developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) came to an end on 31 December 2019. The compact s ... more  
Mapping the cosmic journey of phosphorus with Rosetta and ALMAParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2020 Astronomers using the combined powers of ESA's Rosetta mission and the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have traced the journey of phosphorus - one of life's building ... more 
Search is on for young space entrepreneurs across the UKLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 The UK Space Agency is offering young people expert advice and a share of Pounds 50,000 for their ideas of how satellites could improve life on Earth. The SatelLife Competition, now in its fo ... more 
First Spacebus Neo satellite set for launchParis (ESA) Jan 14, 2020 The first satellite developed under an initiative to help European industry deliver competitive satellites for the commercial telecommunications market has entered its final phase before launch. ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
The first of three spacewalks planned for January begins Wednesday to continue upgrading International Space Station power systems and a cosmic ray detector. While the spacewalkers ready their suits and tools, the rest of the Expedition 61 crew is on science and maintenance duty today.
NASA Flight Engineer Jessica Meir is partnering for a second time with fellow NASA astronaut Christina Ko ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's X-60A program recently achieved a key developmental milestone with the completion of integrated vehicle propulsion system verification ground testing.
The X-60A is an air-launched rocket designed for hypersonic flight research. It is being developed by Generation Orbit Launch Services under an AFRL Small Business Innovation Research contract.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
These images show clouds of dust over our planetary neighbour's northern polar ice cap. They were acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), which is operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and has been orbiting Mars on board the European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Express spacecraft since 2004. Such observations of active atmospheric proc ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2020 
China's aerospace industry will see a busy year in 2020, with the number of space launches expected to exceed 40, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
The highlights of the space activities include the launch of China's first Mars probe, the Chang'e-5 lunar probe, which is expected to bring moon samples back to Earth, the final step of China's current ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
The UK Space Agency is offering young people expert advice and a share of Pounds 50,000 for their ideas of how satellites could improve life on Earth.
The SatelLife Competition, now in its fourth year, is looking for innovative proposals that could use data collected from space to benefit daily life, such as growing new businesses, improving health services or tackling climate change.
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jan 10, 2020 
Cancer patients may one day be able to get their entire course of radiation therapy in less than a second rather than coming in for treatment over the course of several weeks, and researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania have taken the first steps toward making it a reality.
In a new report published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Bio ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
Phosphorus, present in our DNA and cell membranes, is an essential element for life as we know it. But how it arrived on the early Earth is something of a mystery. Astronomers have now traced the journey of phosphorus from star-forming regions to comets using the combined powers of ALMA and the European Space Agency's probe Rosetta. Their research shows, for the first time, where molecules conta ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
Rare metallic elements found in clumps on the deep-ocean floor mysteriously remain uncovered despite the shifting sands and sediment many leagues under the sea. Scientists now think they know why, and it could have important implications for mining these metals while preserving the strange fauna at the bottom of the ocean.
The growth of these deep-sea nodules - metallic lumps of manganese, ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 29, 2019 
China will finish the construction of the BeiDou-3 Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3), with another two geostationary orbit satellites to be launched before June 2020, said BDS Spokesperson Ran Chengqi on Friday.
Friday marks the one-year anniversary of China's BDS-3 system providing global service.
Ran said at a press conference of the State Council Information Office that with the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 15, 2020  Mission X: train like an astronaut is an international educational challenge, focusing on health, science, fitness and nutrition, which encourages pupils to train like an astronaut.
The perfect project for school teachers of pupils between 8 and 12 years old, Mission X is also ideal for educators who run science clubs, youth and community groups, after-school clubs and home educators.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
At around 1 a.m. local standard time on April 29, 2017, a fireball flew over Kyoto, Japan. Compared to other fireballs spotted from Earth, it was relatively bright and slow. Now, scientists have determined not only what the fireball was, but also where it came from.
"We uncovered the fireball's true identity," says Toshihiro Kasuga, paper author and visiting scientist at the National Astro ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 17, 2020 
China's first civilian high-definition mapping satellite Ziyuan III 01 has celebrated its 8th birthday in orbit.
Despite its five-year design life, it continues to collect data, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Wednesday.
Since it was launched in January 2012, the satellite has sent back 3D data covering 79 million square kilometers of the globe as of Dec. 31, 2019.
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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
A Florida Tech physicist has been awarded a $550,000 NASA grant to try to solve one of astronomy's most vexing and dangerous problems: predicting when and where harmful doses of solar energetic particle radiation will occur.
Whether from solar flares, solar wind, corona mass ejections or other phenomena, radiation from solar energy particles can affect astronauts working in space, spacecra ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 14, 2020 
Astrophysicists have come a step closer to understanding the origin of a faint glow of gamma rays covering the night sky. They found that this light is brighter in regions that contain a lot of matter and dimmer where matter is sparser - a correlation that could help them narrow down the properties of exotic astrophysical objects and invisible dark matter.
The glow, known as unresolved gam ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2020 
A new study by a group of researchers at the University of Birmingham has found that collisions of supermassive black holes may be simultaneously observable in both gravitational waves and X-rays at the beginning of the next decade.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has recently announced that its two major space observatories of the 2030s will have their launches timed for simultaneous use. ... more |
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