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January 11, 2022
ROCKET SCIENCE
Gilmour Space fires up for 2022 with Australia's largest rocket engine test



Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have greeted the new year with a successful 110-kilonewton test fire of the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia. The 75-second test was a major milestone for Gilmour Space, which is developing Australian Made rockets that will, over the next five years, be capable of launching 300- to 4,000-kilogram satellites and payloads into low earth and other orbits. "What you see here is the main engine that will power the first and sec ... read more

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
ASU instrument captures breathtaking 'first light' images
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
ASU scientists and engineers building the Europa Thermal Emission Imaging System (E-THEMIS) for NASA's Europa Clipper passed a major hurdle recently by capturing the first successful test images fro ... more
EXO WORLDS
Elusive atmospheric molecule produced in a lab for the 1st time by UH
Manoa HI (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
The previously elusive methanediol molecule of importance to the organic, atmospheric science and astrochemistry communities has been synthetically produced for the first time by University of Hawai ... more
SPACEMART
Advertising plays key role in satellite TV success, study shows
Notre Dame IN (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
The pay television market in the United States was dominated by a handful of cable operators until the early 1990s with the entry of satellite TV, which has grown consistently ever since. A ne ... more
SOLAR DAILY
Russian company develops method for effective transfer of solar energy to Earth
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 06, 2022
Despite being one of the easiest and most accessible methods of gathering renewable energy, solar panels are unable to perform well in many spots of the world and in non-ideal weather conditions. In ... more
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EARLY EARTH
Study reveals more hostile conditions on Earth as life evolved?
Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 06, 2022
During long portions of the past 2.4 billion years, the Earth may have been more ?inhospitable?to life than scientists previously thought, according to?new?computer simulations. Using a state- ... more
EXO WORLDS
Eccentric exoplanet discovered
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
Led by the University of Bern, an international research team has discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. The discovery was also made thanks to observations performed by the SA ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid with a refreshed surface
Sagamihara City, Japan (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
How did our Solar System form and evolve? Various models for the creation of our system of planets have been proposed, but the planets themselves provide unfortunately little information as their in ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Hubble sees cosmic clues in a galactic duo
Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2022
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like N ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Physicist seeks to understand dark matter with Webb Telescope
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
The much-anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope will usher in a new era of research on our universe. Among the many researchers planning to take advantage of the data from the Hubble S ... more
ROBO SPACE


Amazon helps develop Alexa-like Callisto system for Artemis moon mission

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GPS NEWS
Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellites
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, wil ... more
EARLY EARTH
Earth's first giant
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 01, 2022
The two-meter skull of a newly discovered species of giant ichthyosaur, the earliest known, is shedding new light on the marine reptiles' rapid growth into behemoths of the Dinosaurian oceans, and h ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Arianespace consolidates leadership in commercial market with 15 Ariane, Soyuz and Vega launches in 2021
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
Arianespace confirmed its strong performance in 2021, with 15 successful launches - five more than in 2020 - and 305 satellites sent into orbit using its three launchers, Ariane, Soyuz and Vega, fro ... more
TECHNOLOGY NEWS
Scalable, high-speed avionics for safety-critical space applications
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Jan 03, 2022
The exploitation and exploration of space opens the door to improvements of life on earth, new discoveries and new research opportunities. However, space flight also provides a unique range of chall ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
'Amazing milestone' as NASA fully deploys Webb telescope in space
Washington (AFP) Jan 8, 2022
The most powerful space telescope ever built completed a tricky two-week-long deployment phase Saturday, unfolding its final golden mirror panel, as it readies to study every phase of cosmic history. ... more
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NASA's newest astronaut class begins training in Houston
Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 11, 2022
NASA swore in 10 new astronaut candidates Monday at Johnson Space Center in Houston - six men and four women - who someday may walk on the moon or Mars. The candidates were "sworn in this morning, kicking off their two-year training," NASA said on Twitter, noting it was the 23rd astronaut candidate class since 1959. The 10 candidates will now learn engineering systems of spacecraft such ... more
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Gilmour Space fires up for 2022 with Australia's largest rocket engine test
Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies have greeted the new year with a successful 110-kilonewton test fire of the most powerful rocket engine ever developed in Australia. The 75-second test was a major milestone for Gilmour Space, which is developing Australian Made rockets that will, over the next five years, be capable of launching 300- to 4,000-kilogram satellites and payloads ... more
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Assessing Perseverance's Seventh Sample Collection
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 10, 2022
On Wednesday, Dec. 29 (sol 306) Perseverance successfully cored and extracted a sample from a Mars rock. Data downlinked after the sampling indicates that coring of the rock the science team nicknamed Issole went smoothly. However, during the transfer of the bit that contains the sample into the rover's bit carousel (which stores bits and passes tubes to the tube processing hardware inside the r ... more
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Shouzhou XIII crew finishes cargo spacecraft, space station docking test
Beijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2022
The Shenzhou XIII astronauts in China's space station core module have completed the manual rendezvous and docking experiment with the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Saturday. At the beginning of the experiment, the astronauts in the core module teleoperated the Tianzhou 2 cargo craft to leave the front docking port of the core module's node cabin and mov ... more
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Advertising plays key role in satellite TV success, study shows
Notre Dame IN (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
The pay television market in the United States was dominated by a handful of cable operators until the early 1990s with the entry of satellite TV, which has grown consistently ever since. A new study from the University of Notre Dame documents the role of advertising to help explain satellite operators' continued success. "Commercial Success through Commercials? Advertising and Pay T ... more
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Debris from failed Russian rocket falls into sea near French Polynesia
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021
The upper stage of a failed Russian Angara A5 rocket plummeted uncontrolled to Earth, crashing into open sea near French Polynesia. The U.S. 18th Space Control Squadron confirmed the 4 p.m. Wednesday re-entry The Persei upper stage was part of a heavy-lift rocket. The debris weighed an estimated 3.5 tons. Astronomer Jonathon McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophy ... more
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Eccentric exoplanet discovered
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
Led by the University of Bern, an international research team has discovered a sub-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a red dwarf star. The discovery was also made thanks to observations performed by the SAINT-EX observatory in Mexico. SAINT-EX is run by a consortium including the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at the University of Bern and the National Center of Competence in Research NCCR Pla ... more
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Ocean Physics Explain Cyclones on Jupiter
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
Hurtling around Jupiter and its 79 moons is the Juno spacecraft, a NASA-funded satellite that sends images from the largest planet in our solar system back to researchers on Earth. These photographs have given oceanographers the raw materials for a new study published in Nature Physics that describes the rich turbulence at Jupiter's poles and the physical forces that drive the large cyclones. ... more
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Microbes produce oxygen in the dark
Odense, Denmark (SPX) Jan 07, 2022
There is more going on in the deep, dark ocean waters than you may think: Uncountable numbers of invisible microorganisms go about their daily lives in the water columns, and now researchers have discovered that some of them produce oxygen in an unexpected way. Oxygen is vital for life on Earth, and is mainly produced by plants, algae and cyanobacteria via photosynthesis. A few microbes ar ... more
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Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellites
Paris, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2022
Arianespace will launch the first two satellites in 2022, leading to the Full Operational Capability of Galileo open service. Then, three successive launches on Ariane 62 in 2023, 2024 and 2025, will finalize the launch of the first generation of Galileo satellites and will increase the constellation resilience. These will be the 13th to 16th Galileo missions by Arianespace, which has orbi ... more
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How scientists designed the orbit of the Chang'E 5 mission
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 05, 2022
In the early morning of November 24, 2020, the Chang'E 5 lunar probe was launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center and successfully executed a 23-day journey of lunar sample return (LSR) mission. In a review paper recently published in Space: Science and Technology, Dr. Zhong-Sheng Wang and his colleagues from the Beijing Institute of Spacecraft System Engineering, addresses three key orbit ... more
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How the Earth's tilt creates short, cold January days
Champaign IL (The Conversation) Jan 11, 2022
As the Earth orbits the sun, it spins around an axis - picture a stick going through the Earth, from the North Pole to the South Pole. During the 24 hours that it takes for the Earth to rotate once around its axis, every point on its surface faces toward the Sun for part of the time and away from it for part of the time. This is what causes daily changes in sunlight and temperature. There ... more
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Hubble sees cosmic clues in a galactic duo
Paris (ESA) Jan 10, 2022
This spectacular image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures the spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies roughly 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. While it looks like NGC 105 is plunging edge-on into a neighboring galaxy, this is just a circumstance of perspective. NGC 105's elongated neighbor is actually far more distant. Such visual associations are the result of ... more
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Iowa City IA (SPX) Jan 11, 2022
About 400,000 years after the universe was created began a period called "The Epoch of Reionization." During this time, the once hotter universe began to cool and matter clumped together, forming the first stars and galaxies. As these stars and galaxies emerged, their energy heated the surrounding environment, reionizing some of the remaining hydrogen in the universe. The universe's reioni ... more
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