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February 04, 2020
ROCKET SCIENCE
Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers RL10 engines that will help send NASA astronauts to deep space



West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently delivered four RL10 upper stage engines to NASA's Stennis Space Center that will help power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it carries astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to deep space. These missions are part of NASA's Artemis program, which will land the first woman and next man on the Moon, and set the stage to send astronauts to Mars. "Nearly 500 Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10 engines have powered launches into space," said Eileen Drake, Aerojet Rocketdyne CE ... read more

MARSDAILY
MAVEN explores Mars to understand radio interference at Earth
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft has discovered "layers" and "rifts" in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon ... more
SPACEMART
OneWeb lifts off: Next batch ready to launch
Exploration Park FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
34 satellites for the OneWeb constellation are ready for launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellites which arrived in two shipments, including one last week, have been tested, and have now been ... more
TECH SPACE
"Breakthrough" 3D-printed rocket engine tests completed in Fife, Scotland
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
The first ever eco liquid-fuel rocket engine ground tests to take place in Scotland have been deemed a huge success - and a major step forward in the UK's ambitions to become a space nation. E ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA grants KBR the right to train private astronauts at NASA facilities
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
KBR will become the first company to train private astronauts at NASA facilities. The company recently signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA Johnson Space Center allowing it to provide human spacef ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL
ISRO's Gaganyaan to facilitate space tourism
Thiruvananthapuram, India (IANS) Feb 04, 2020
Gaganyaan, the country's planned mission to take humans to space, will open huge commercial opportunities in the space sector, said former ISRO chairman G Madhavan Nair. Nair while speaking at ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Getting around the Solar System
Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
There is currently a great interest in going someplace in the Solar System. NASA wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Still others just want to go to an asteroid. All of these des ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Showing how the tiniest particles in our universe saved us from complete annihilation
Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Recently discovered ripples of spacetime called gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove the theory that life survived the Big Bang because of a phase transition that allowed neutrino par ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Particles are smoking gun for solar wind interactions beyond Earth orbit
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Using data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe (PSP), a team led by Southwest Research Institute identified low-energy particles lurking near the Sun that likely originated from solar wind interactions w ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Progress made toward priorities of Heliophysics Decadal Survey
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
NASA, NSF, and NOAA have made substantial progress in implementing the programs recommended in the 2013 decadal survey on solar and space physics (heliophysics) despite a challenging budgetary lands ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
New argument presented to highlight the axion nature of dark matter
Kazan, Russia (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
According to the hypothesis, axionic dark matter, provoking structural rearrangement in compact stars with a strong magnetic field, can protect them from a catastrophic loss of magnetic energy, but ... more
SPACEWAR
Ordinary inspector or nasty foe
Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 03, 2020
US authorities believe that some of the satellites that Moscow launched recently might have undocumented features, such as the ability to attack other spacecraft. A graduate student at Purdue ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Space Flight Laboratory and Kepler Communications team up for nanosatellite constellation
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of microspace missions for over 21 years, is designing and building the first fully operational nanosatellite in Kepler Communications' next-generation con ... more
TECH SPACE
UNH researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins
Durham NH (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Scientists at the University of New Hampshire have unlocked one of the mysteries of how particles from flares on the sun accumulate at early stages in the energization of hazardous radiation that is ... more
GPS NEWS
Space Force decommissions 26-year-old GPS satellite to make way for GPS 3 constellation
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Feb 03, 2020
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron decommissioned Satellite Vehicle Number-36, the second to last Block IIA satellite, Jan. 27. Capt. Collin Dart, 2nd SOPS assistant flight commander of GPS mis ... more


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SPACE TRAVEL
DLR 2020 - research for climate, mobility and the energy transition
Cochstedt, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2020
Synthetic fuels, a test field for autonomous driving and a new research aircraft - the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is focusing on interdisciplinary resea ... more
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CIVIL NUCLEAR
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy begins NRC licensing process for BWRX-300 Small Modular Reactor
Wilmington NC (SPX) Feb 03, 2020
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has officially begun the regulatory licensing process for its BWRX-300 small modular reactor. On December 30, 2019 the company submitted the first licensing top ... more
MOON DAILY
One step closer to prospecting the Moon
Paris (ESA) Feb 03, 2020
The first European device to land on the Moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are one step closer to flight as part of Russia's Luna-27 mission. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Ultra-high energy events key to study of ghost particles
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 03, 2020
Physicists at Washington University in St. Louis have proposed a way to use data from ultra-high energy neutrinos to study interactions beyond the standard model of particle physics. The 'Zee burst' ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Exploring strangeness and the primordial Universe
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2020
Physicists believe that in the Universe's first ten microseconds free quarks and gluons filled all of spacetime, forming a new phase of matter named 'quark-gluon plasma' (QGP). Experimental and theo ... more
SPACEWAR
Space experts warn against militarization of space, highlight space economy
Jerusalem, Israel (XNA) Jan 31, 2020
In view of the challenges in space such as the increase of orbital debris, militarization of space will be "very bad," Charles Frank Bolden, former administrator of NASA, told Xinhua at the sideline ... more
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New research launching to station aboard Northrop Grumman's 13th Resupply Mission
Melissa Gaskill for ISS News
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 30, 2020 Investigations studying tissue culturing, bone loss and phage therapy will be launching, along with more scientific experiments and supplies, to the International Space Station on a Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft. The vehicle launches no earlier than Feb. 9 from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. This is the second mission under Northrop's Commer ... more
+ Getting around the Solar System
+ Voyager 2 engineers working to restore normal operations
+ NASA grants KBR the right to train private astronauts at NASA facilities
+ DLR 2020 - research for climate, mobility and the energy transition
+ ISRO's Gaganyaan to facilitate space tourism
+ In Davos, the spectre of a tech cold war
+ Indian astronauts to begin training in Russia for country's first manned space mission
Aerojet Rocketdyne delivers RL10 engines that will help send NASA astronauts to deep space
West Palm Beach FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently delivered four RL10 upper stage engines to NASA's Stennis Space Center that will help power NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket as it carries astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft to deep space. These missions are part of NASA's Artemis program, which will land the first woman and next man on the Moon, and set the stage to send astronauts to Mars. "Nearly 5 ... more
+ SpaceX Falcon 9 launches fourth batch of 60 Starlink satellites
+ Russian Space Agency confirms plans to launch nuclear-powered space tug by 2030
+ Rocket Lab successfully launches U.S. spy satellite
+ India plans to send 50 satellite launch vehicles into orbit within next 5 years
+ Elon Musk drops surprise techno track
+ First Spacebus Neo satellite launched
+ Stennis Space Center sets stage for Artemis testing in 2020


MAVEN explores Mars to understand radio interference at Earth
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) spacecraft has discovered "layers" and "rifts" in the electrically charged part of the upper atmosphere (the ionosphere) of Mars. The phenomenon is very common at Earth and causes unpredictable disruptions to radio communications. However, we do not fully understand them because they form at altitudes that are very difficult to explore at Ear ... more
+ Mars' water was mineral-rich and salty
+ Russian scientists propose manned Base on Martian Moon to control robots remotely on red planet
+ To infinity and beyond: interstellar lab unveils space-inspired village for future Mars settlement
+ Nine finalists chosen in Mars 2020 rover naming contest
+ Could future homes on the Moon and Mars be made of fungi?
+ NASA's Mars 2020 Rover closer to getting its name
+ Impressive cloud formations over Mars' northern polar ice cap
China to launch more space science satellites
Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2020
China plans to launch more space science satellites in the coming three to four years, according to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The satellites will be used to detect electromagnetic signals associated with gravitational waves, solar eruption activities, astronomy and the interaction between solar wind and the Earth's magnetosphere. Four new missions include the Gravitation ... more
+ China's space station core module, manned spacecraft arrive at launch site
+ China to launch Mars probe in July
+ China's space-tracking vessels back from missions
+ China may have over 40 space launches in 2020
+ China launches powerful rocket in boost for 2020 Mars mission
+ China's Xichang set for 20 space launches in 2020
+ China sends six satellites into orbit with single rocket
OneWeb lifts off: Next batch ready to launch
Exploration Park FL (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
34 satellites for the OneWeb constellation are ready for launch from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The satellites which arrived in two shipments, including one last week, have been tested, and have now been fitted into the dispenser of the Soyuz-2.1b rocket. OneWeb's upcoming launch of 34 satellites has been scheduled for Thursday 6 February 21:42 (GMT) / Friday 7 February 02:42 (local time) from the hi ... more
+ SpaceX launches fourth batch of Starlink satellites
+ US sees record year for private space sector in 2020
+ Xplore and Nanoracks partner to commercialize deep space
+ Space science investment generates income and creates jobs
+ Northrop Grumman breaks ground for expanded satellite manufacturing facilities in Gilbert, Arizona
+ Fury over 'space junk' mounts as Musk set to launch 60 satellites for Starlink
+ Second space data highway satellite set to beam
"Breakthrough" 3D-printed rocket engine tests completed in Fife, Scotland
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
The first ever eco liquid-fuel rocket engine ground tests to take place in Scotland have been deemed a huge success - and a major step forward in the UK's ambitions to become a space nation. Edinburgh-based satellite launch firm Skyrora has completed a week of static horizontal firings conducted in Fife to compare the behaviour of kerosene and eco-fuel. The test firings allowed Skyro ... more
+ As seen in movies, new meta-hologram can be used as a communication tool
+ UNH researchers find clues to how hazardous space radiation begins
+ Two defunct satellites narrowly miss collision: officials
+ 'Satellite Collision is a Clear and Present Danger' - Professor
+ Two satellites just avoided a head-on smash. How close did they come to disaster?
+ AFRL, partners develop innovative tools to accelerate composites certification
+ Can wood construction transform cities from carbon source to carbon vault


To make amino acids, just add electricity
Fukuoka, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2020
New research from Kyushu University in Japan could one day help provide humans living away from Earth some of the nutrients they need to survive in space or even give clues to how life started. Researchers at the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research reported a new process using electricity to drive the efficient synthesis of amino acids, opening the door for simpler a ... more
+ AI could deceive us as much as the human eye does in the search for extraterrestrials
+ NESSI comes to life at Palomar Observatory
+ For hottest planet, a major meltdown, study shows
+ How Earth climate models help scientists picture life on unimaginable worlds
+ Which will survive? A microorganism zoo in the stratosphere
+ Some non-photosynthetic orchids consist of dead wood
+ The skin of the earth is home to pac-man-like protists
Seeing stars in 3D: The New Horizons Parallax Program
Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2020
Have a good-sized telescope with a digital camera? Then you can team up with NASA's New Horizons mission this spring on a really cool - and record-setting - deep-space experiment. In April, New Horizons, which by then will be more than 46 times farther from the Sun than Earth, nearing 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) from home, will be used to detect "shifts" in the relative position ... more
+ Looking back at a New Horizons New Year's to remember
+ NASA's Juno navigators enable Jupiter cyclone discovery
+ The PI's Perspective: What a Year, What a Decade!
+ Reports of Jupiter's Great Red Spot demise greatly exaggerated
+ Aquatic rover goes for a drive under the ice
+ NASA scientists confirm water vapor on Europa
+ NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'Dance of Avoidance'


A Snapshot of molecules in a deep-sea symbiosis
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Bacteria in our environment can be difficult to study: They are tiny and often live under conditions hard to recreate in the lab, for example in the deep sea or as symbionts in an animal host (or both, as the symbiotic bacteria in the present study). Investigations of the bacterial genome tell us what the microbes are theoretically capable of. What they actually do, however, is not reveale ... more
+ Grey seals observed communicating by clapping underwater
+ Understanding long-term trends in ocean layering
+ Bulgarians' patience runs dry over water crisis
+ SAIC receives $13.9 million care contract for Navy Marine Mammal Program
+ 'Blob' research shows ecological effects that halted fishing and hiked whale entanglements
+ Model predicts future phytoplankton boom in tropics
+ Revenge of the albatross: seabirds expose illicit fishing
Space Force decommissions 26-year-old GPS satellite to make way for GPS 3 constellation
Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Feb 03, 2020
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron decommissioned Satellite Vehicle Number-36, the second to last Block IIA satellite, Jan. 27. Capt. Collin Dart, 2nd SOPS assistant flight commander of GPS mission engineering, said the disposal of SVN-36 will allow for newer vehicles to take it's place. "The main reason it was decommissioned was because, at this time, we're accepting a lot of the new ... more
+ Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps
+ Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide
+ China's international journal Satellite Navigation launched
+ FAA warns military training exercise could jam GPS signals in southeast, Caribbean
+ China Focus: China to complete Beidou-3 satellite system in 2020
+ China's Beidou navigation system to provide unique services
+ From airport approaches to eCall in cars in 10 years with EGNOS


Moonstruck: Japan billionaire cancels hunt for lunar love
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 30, 2020
A Japanese billionaire who launched a public search for a girlfriend willing to join him on a trip into space abruptly cancelled the hunt on Thursday, despite attracting nearly 30,000 applicants. Yusaku Maezawa earlier this month said he was looking for a mate willing to join him when he heads on a trip around the Moon in 2023 or later, as the first private passenger on a voyage offered by E ... more
+ One step closer to prospecting the Moon
+ AFRL And Blue Origin partner on test site for BE-7 lunar lander engine development
+ First commercial Moon delivery assignments to will advance Artemis
+ ESA opens oxygen plant - making air out of moondust
+ Mission X 2020 Walk to the Moon challenge is open!
+ New moon rover tested in Lunar Operations Lab
+ China's lunar rover travels over 357 meters on moon's far side
Roscosmos to rename Russia's asteroid detection system to 'Milky Way'
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2020
The Russian automated tool of monitoring hazardous situations in near-Earth space will be given a new name of "Milky Way," the first deputy director of Russian space agency Roscosmos, Yury Urlichich, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to rename the system to 'Milky Way.' As of today, it is called the NES ASPOS [Warning Automated System of Hazardous Situations in near-Earth Space]", Urlichic ... more
+ Meteorite chunk contains unexpected evidence of presolar grains
+ OSIRIS-REx completes closest flyover of sample site Nightingale
+ We found the world's oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw
+ The Salt of the Comet
+ Outbound comets are likely of alien origin
+ Active asteroid unveils fireball identity
+ Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust


Another reason to reduce man-made ozone: To cool a warming planet
Bethlehem, PA (SPX) Jan 28, 2020
While elected officials in the U.S. debate a proposed "Green New Deal" and U.S. President Donald Trump derides "prophets of doom" in Davos, environmental scientists continue to gather evidence about how changes to industry could mitigate the harms of climate change. In a News and Views article in Nature Climate Change ("Cleaner Air is a Win-Win," 10.1038/s41558-019-0685-4) Lehigh Universit ... more
+ QinetiQ to play key role in maximising European capabilities in operational earth observation
+ Aerosols have an outsized impact on extreme weather
+ The fingerprints of paddy rice in atmospheric methane concentration dynamics
+ Artificial intelligence to rebuild Iraq via second phase of the UNOSAT challenge
+ NASA, Partners name ocean studying satellite for noted Earth scientist
+ Agreement on data utilization of earth observation satellite with FAO
+ Ozone-depleting substances caused half of late 20th-century Arctic warming, says study
First images of Sun released from World's largest solar telescope
Honolulu HI (SPX) Jan 30, 2020
Researchers and the general public are getting a glimpse of the most detailed view ever of the Sun, thanks to the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) on Haleakala, Maui. The imagery, released January 29, 2020, shows cell-like structures the size of Texas roiling on the Sun's surface and the tiny footprints of magnetism that reach into space. Scientists op ... more
+ Space super-storm likelihood estimated from longest period of magnetic field observations
+ NSF's newest solar telescope produces first images, most detailed images of the sun
+ RUAG Space: Key products for Sun Explorer Solar Orbiter
+ Progress made toward priorities of Heliophysics Decadal Survey
+ Particles are smoking gun for solar wind interactions beyond Earth orbit
+ Citizen scientists identify new kind of northern lights
+ New mission will take 1st peek at Sun's poles


Stellar explosions and jets showcased in new three-dimensional visualizations
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 30, 2020
Since ancient times, the study of astronomy has largely been limited to the flat, two-dimensional projection of what appears on the sky. However, just like a botanist puts a plant under a microscope or a paleontologist digs for fossils, astronomers want more "hands on" ways to visualize objects in space. A new set of computer simulations represents an exciting step in that direction. Each ... more
+ New argument presented to highlight the axion nature of dark matter
+ NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery
+ How to take a picture of a light pulse
+ Interaction between light and material promises new platform for computing
+ NASA'S Interstellar Mapping And Acceleration probe mission enters design phase
+ Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star's atmosphere
+ New insights about the brightest explosions in the Universe
Showing how the tiniest particles in our universe saved us from complete annihilation
Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Feb 04, 2020
Recently discovered ripples of spacetime called gravitational waves could contain evidence to prove the theory that life survived the Big Bang because of a phase transition that allowed neutrino particles to reshuffle matter and anti-matter, explains a new study by an international team of researchers. How we were saved from a complete annihilation is not a question in science fiction or a ... more
+ Ultra-high energy events key to study of ghost particles
+ Exploring strangeness and the primordial Universe
+ Astronomers witness the dragging of space-time in stellar cosmic dance
+ Pulsar-white dwarf binary system confirms general relativistic frame-dragging
+ An ultrafast microscope for the quantum world
+ Quantum physics: On the way to quantum networks
+ Taming electrons with bacteria parts
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