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  Almaty, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 20, 2021 A Japanese billionaire returned to Earth Monday, after 12 days spent on the International Space Station where he made videos about performing mundane tasks in space including brushing teeth and going to the bathroom. Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano parachuted onto Kazakhstan's steppe at around the expected landing time of 0313 GMT Monday, along with Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin. Footage from the landing site, around 150 kilometres (90 miles) southeast ... read more |
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Russia ready to 'fight' for space tourism supremacyMoscow (AFP) Dec 19, 2021 After a decade-long hiatus, Russia is relaunching an ambitious bid for dominion over the world's budding space tourism industry, jostling with zealous billionaires, the United States, and rising China. ... more  
SpaceX launches Turksat-5bWashington DC (UPI) Dec 19, 2021 SpaceX launched a communications satellite from Florida overnight Saturday for the Turkish company Turksat. ... more  
Raytheon Intelligence and Space to build Space Force weather satellite prototypeEl Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, has been awarded a $67 million contract to demonstrate an Electro-Optical Infrared Weather System, or EWS, Prototype with the abili ... more 
NCAR's mini-satellite to measure howling winds high in atmosphereBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received $6.5 million in funding from NASA to launch a roughly shoebox-sized satellite into space carrying an instrument designed to measure t ... more |
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Out of the Shadows of the Maria Gordon notch: Sols 3328-3329Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2021 Our Sol 3326 drive was successful, completing our shot through the Maria Gordon notch, with its spectacular structures and deep shadows, and continuing our climb up Mount Sharp. To keep MAHLI safe o ... more  
Rock composition determines how deadly a meteorite impact isLiverpool UK (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 A new University of Liverpool study has found that the minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an impact it will have. The eart ... more  
Space-bound research a step toward feeding Earth's peopleClemson SC (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 Clemson researcher Chris Saski admits sending the University's iconic Tiger Paw to space aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is, quite literally, "an out-of-this-world experience." But it's the ... more  
NOAA's Arctic report card finds 'alarming' trend in climate crisisWashington DC (UPI) Dec 14, 2021 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's 2021 Arctic report card shows a region transformed by human-caused climate change, a thawing of a once reliably frozen region. ... more 
Solely European supply chain for space-qualified Alexandrite laser crystals on the horizonHannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 The European Union wants to use the unique properties of Alexandrite crystals in Earth observation satellites in the future. To make the EU independent of non-European suppliers, the Laser Zentrum H ... more |
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New research explains Earth's peculiar chemical compositionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 Earth's surface environment hosts large reservoirs of hydrogen (H, mainly in the form of water, H2O), nitrogen (in atmospheric N2) and carbon (mainly in carbonate rocks). H, N and C are sometimes ca ... more  
New copper surface eliminates bacteria in just two minutesMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 A new copper surface that kills bacteria more than 100 times faster and more effectively than standard copper could help combat the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. The new co ... more 
'Alarm bells' as UN validates record Arctic temperatureGeneva (AFP) Dec 14, 2021 The UN on Tuesday officially recognised the 38 degrees Celsius measured in Siberia last year as a new record high for the Arctic, sounding "alarm bells" over climate change. ... more  
MicroCarb first European mission to characterise greenhouse gas fluxes on Earth's surfaceLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) announces Dr Paul Green's appointment to the Mission Advisory Group for climate mission, MicroCarb. MicroCarb is the first European mission intended to m ... more  
A quantum view of 'combs' of lightStanford CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Unlike the jumble of frequencies produced by the light that surrounds us in daily life, each frequency of light in a specialized light source known as a "soliton" frequency comb oscillates in unison ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 19, 2021 
After a decade-long hiatus, Russia is relaunching an ambitious bid for dominion over the world's budding space tourism industry, jostling with zealous billionaires, the United States, and rising China.
Russia flaunted its comeback this month dispatching two cosmic adventurers - Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant - to the International Space Station (ISS) in its first lau ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 19, 2021  SpaceX launched a communications satellite from Florida overnight Saturday for the Turkish company Turksat. Elon Musk's rocket firm launched the Turksat 5B satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a two-hour window that opened at 10:58 pm. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2021 
The 17th flight of NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on Dec. 5 pushed the total flight time past the 30-minute mark. The 117-second sortie brought history's first aircraft to operate from the surface of another world closer to its original airfield, "Wright Brothers Field," where it will await the arrival of the agency's Perseverance Mars rover, currently exploring "South Seitah" region of Mars' ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2021 
Chinese astronauts live and work more conveniently and comfortably in orbit with the application of advanced information technology, said the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC).
There are smart home systems in China's space station core module Tianhe, Bai Linhou, deputy chief designer of the space station at the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) under the CASC ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 20, 2021 
Green and digital transition in Europe will benefit from ESA expertise that supports national plans for investing recovery and resilience funds in space projects.
At the 303rd ESA Council meeting in Paris on 15 December 2021, ESA Member States took the decision to further the role of ESA as provider of expertise in support of national space plans, in particular in order to accompany the in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Northern Command and the Space Force marked the completion of construction on the long-range discrimination radar site at Clear Space Force Station, Alaska, during a ceremony on Monday.
The multi-mission LRDR is designed, for now, to better track incoming ballistic missiles. It combines the capabilities of lower frequency radars - which can track multiple o ... more |
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 London UK (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Blue Skies Space Ltd. has confirmed that scientists from fourteen universities across the world have joined its first space science mission, Twinkle, as the initial group of Founding Members.
The Founding Members include institutions from North America (Vanderbilt University, Ohio State University, University of Toronto), Asia-Pacific (Nanjing University, National Tsing Hua University, Uni ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2021 
Sounds from a Ganymede flyby, magnetic fields, and remarkable comparisons between Jupiter and Earth's oceans and atmospheres were discussed during a briefing on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in New Orleans.
Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio has debuted a 50-second audio track generated ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Sea level changes caused the decline of one of the longest pre-Columbian coastal societies of the Americas 2000 years ago, known as Sambaqui. This is demonstrated in a study carried out in Brazil by researchers from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Prehistory of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, recently published in the journal Scientif ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 09, 2021 
Europe's largest satellite constellation has grown even bigger, following the launch of two more Galileo navigation satellites by Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 5 December. Galileo satellites 27-28 add to an existing 26-satellite constellation in orbit, providing the world's most precise satnav positioning to more than 2.3 billion users around the globe.
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 20, 2021 
A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take place - a piercing tool built by ESA will open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases which may have been preserved in the sample.
Analysis of the gaseous volatiles will allow scientists to better understand the geology of the Moon and hel ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Dec 17, 2021 
For Hollywood A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, their new end-of-the-world comedy was a chance to send a little respect back to scientists.
In "Don't Look Up", released on December 24 on Netflix, they play two astronomers who discover a comet will wipe out life on Earth within six months, but then try in vain to get politicians and the media to take the threat seriously. ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has received $6.5 million in funding from NASA to launch a roughly shoebox-sized satellite into space carrying an instrument designed to measure the howling thermospheric winds, which can gust more than 300 miles per hour through the highest reaches of the Earth's atmosphere.
The blustery winds in the thermosphere - the upper layer of the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 
For the first time in history, a spacecraft has touched the Sun. NASA's Parker Solar Probe has now flown through the Sun's upper atmosphere - the corona - and sampled particles and magnetic fields there.
The new milestone marks one major step for Parker Solar Probe and one giant leap for solar science. Just as landing on the Moon allowed scientists to understand how it was formed, touching ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Unlike the jumble of frequencies produced by the light that surrounds us in daily life, each frequency of light in a specialized light source known as a "soliton" frequency comb oscillates in unison, generating solitary pulses with consistent timing.
Each "tooth" of the comb is a different color of light, spaced so precisely that this system is used to measure all manner of phenomena and c ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Dec 17, 2021  Upending textbook explanations, astrophysicists from the University of Miami, Yale University, and the European Space Agency suggest that primordial black holes account for all dark matter in the universe.
Proposing an alternative model for how the universe came to be, a team of astrophysicists suggests that all black holes-from those as tiny as a pin head to those covering billions of miles-we ... more |
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