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  Paris (AFP) Feb 01, 2022 As the race to send people to the Moon and beyond heats up, Europe faces calls to make a choice: Keep paying for seats on spacecraft or finally fly its own manned vehicle. Imagine if Christopher Columbus did not have a ship to sail to the Americas, the head of the European Space Agency said recently, lamenting that the continent lacked a vessel to "explore the next frontier". "We will be on the Moon and we believe we will be living there. We will use the Moon as an economic zone. This is a n ... read more |
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Kendall Outlines 'Operational Imperatives,' Choices During Think Tank AppearanceWashington DC (AFNS) Jan 25, 2022 While the United States military remains "the best in the world," Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Jan. 19 that the Air and Space Forces must move quickly to adapt and modern ... more  
NASA provides updated International Space Station Transition PlanWashington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2022 The International Space Station is a unique laboratory that is returning enormous scientific, educational, and technological developments to benefit people on Earth and is enabling our ability to tr ... more  
NASA asteroid tracking system now capable of full sky searchWashington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2022 The NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS)-a state-of-the-art asteroid detection system operated by the University of Hawaii (UH) Institute for Astronomy (IfA) for the age ... more  
New funding to support sustainable future of spaceLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2022 The UK Space Agency is providing 1.7 million pounds for new projects to support sustainable space operations, Science Minister George Freeman announced Monday. The 13 new projects will help tr ... more |
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China's Mars orbiter sends back selfie video on Lunar New Year eveBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2022 China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 extended festival greetings to the Chinese people with stunning video footage captured by a camera on its orbiter to snap selfies above the red planet on Monday, the eve ... more  
NASA Planes Fly into Snowstorms to Study SnowfallGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Scientists repeatedly check the weather forecasts as they prepare aircraft for flight and perform last-minute checks on science instruments. There's a large winter storm rolling in, but that's exact ... more 
Caltech names Laurie Leshin Director of JPLPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2022 Laurie Leshin, president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has been appointed director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and vice president of Caltech. Leshin will formally assume her p ... more  
China, Russia to start building lunar research station by 2026Washington DC (UPI) Jan 28, 2021 China said Friday that it expects to sign a space agreement with Russia by the end of this year that will include construction of a joint lunar research facility. ... more  
Scientists make a new type of optical device using aluminaTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Scientists from the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and the University of Minnesota, Tomotake Matsumura and Shaul Hanany, and their collaborators have made a new type ... more |
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CU Boulder scientists bring stellar flares into clearer focusBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 Armed with a new statistical analysis of stellar flares on hundreds of distant stars, scientists are beginning to understand the likelihood that remote "exoplanets" might sustain life in our galaxy, ... more  
Understanding how efficient solar flares release their energyNewark NJ (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 New findings published Jan. 27 in the journal Nature Astronomy have called into question decades of theoretical understanding used by astrophysicists to interpret an observational phenomenon central ... more 
NASA aims to make observations from space junk collision with MoonWashington (AFP) Jan 27, 2022 NASA said Thursday it aims to survey the crater formed when the remains of a SpaceX rocket are expected to crash into the Moon in early March, calling the event "an exciting research opportunity." ... more  
What wintering squirrels can teach astronautsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 When bears and ground squirrels hibernate in winter, they stop eating, lasting until spring simply on the fat reserves they've stored up in their bodies. Usually, this sort of prolonged fasting and ... more 
Diamond quantum sensor detects "magnetic flow" excited by heatNomi, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 In recent times, sustainable development has been the overarching guiding principle of research concerning environmental issues, energy crises, and information and communication technology. In this ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2022 
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS), manager of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, has announced the release of a new online tool for educators called Expedition Space Lab. This tool is designed to provide educators with easy access to ISS-related lessons, activities, and other resources to integrate into their curriculum.
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 New Delhi (IANS) Jan 28, 2022 
Rocket maker Skyroot Aerospace Private Ltd's Vikram-1 rocket is slated to lift off from a mobile launch pad or transporter, erector and launcher (TEL), a top company official said.
The Hyderabad-based company is planning to test launch its rocket with a couple of satellites by the end of this year, he added.
"Our maiden rocket launch will be with a couple of satellites from a mobile launc ... more |
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 San Antonio, TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
A Southwest Research Institute scientist measured the properties of ice-brine mixtures as cold as -145 degrees Fahrenheit to help confirm that salty water likely exists between grains of ice or sediment under the ice cap at Mars' south pole. Laboratory measurements conducted by SwRI geophysicist Dr. David Stillman support oddly bright reflections detected by the MARSIS subsurface sounding radar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 
China will explore the moon's polar regions and is mulling over a manned lunar landing in the coming five years, according to a white paper released on Friday.
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," said China will continue its studies and research "on the plan for a human lunar landing."
A new-generation manned spacecraft will be developed to support it ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 01, 2022 
As the race to send people to the Moon and beyond heats up, Europe faces calls to make a choice: Keep paying for seats on spacecraft or finally fly its own manned vehicle.
Imagine if Christopher Columbus did not have a ship to sail to the Americas, the head of the European Space Agency said recently, lamenting that the continent lacked a vessel to "explore the next frontier".
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2022 
The UK Space Agency is providing 1.7 million pounds for new projects to support sustainable space operations, Science Minister George Freeman announced Monday.
The 13 new projects will help track and remove dangerous debris in space. They include an AI-based tool which can take autonomous action to avoid a collision and another which will see multiple small spacecraft fired at debris befor ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 31, 2021 
Scientists have discovered that a planet outside of the solar system may have a complex atmosphere made of metal gases that operate like Earth's atmosphere.
The research, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, found evidence that metals discovered in the atmosphere of WASP-189b are layered - the first time research has suggested that gas giant planets like Jupiter might have a comp ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as electrons, protons, and heavier ions whiz around thus forming the invisible, torus-shaped radiation belts. With their high velocities reaching almost the speed of light, the particles can ionize other mo ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Jan 28, 2022 
Protesters in Iran's southeast attacked trucks belonging to Afghan drivers during a demonstration on Friday over water rights for a river that flows from Afghanistan, Iranian state media said.
Demonstrators from Sistan-Baluchestan province, which shares a frontier with Afghanistan, rallied at a border crossing to protest the issue concerning the Helmand River, state news agency IRNA reported ... more |
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 Xian (XNA) Jan 26, 2022 
A health check on all 52 in-orbit satellites of China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been completed, according to the Xi'an Satellite Control Center.
The center said the satellites met all key indicators, meaning the constellation can provide services without issue.
The evaluation was conducted without interrupting the satellites' usual navigation services, and develo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
NASA's HERMES mission - a four-instrument suite to be mounted outside NASA's Moon-orbiting Gateway - has passed a critical mission review on Jan. 27, 2022.
The review, Key Decision Point C, evaluated the mission's preliminary design and program plan to achieve launch by its target launch readiness date no earlier than November 2024. With the successful review, HERMES now moves into Phase C ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 01, 2022 
In a global collaboration, a team of researchers recently proved a 90-year-old theory on why comets' heads, but never the tails, are green.
The scientific explanation, published in PNAS on Dec. 21, has to do with the way the molecule dicarbon (C2) gets blown apart by sunlight. The other part of the story lies in an accidental discovery and a love of spectroscopic perturbations, passed from ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 
Satellogic Inc., a leader in sub-meter resolution satellite imagery collection has completed its previously announced business combination with CF Acquisition Corp. V (Nasdaq: CFV) ("CFV"), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company sponsored by Cantor Fitzgerald. The business combination was approved at a special meeting of CFV stockholders on January 24, 2022. Beginning Wednesday, J ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 
New findings published Jan. 27 in the journal Nature Astronomy have called into question decades of theoretical understanding used by astrophysicists to interpret an observational phenomenon central to understanding energy released during powerful eruptions from the Sun, known as solar flares.
Solar flares, which are triggered when magnetic field lines break and reconnect above the Sun's s ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Jan 26, 2022 
A University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering mechanics alumnus made important contributions to NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which arrived at its home in distant orbit Monday.
The telescope, the world's largest and most powerful space science observatory, launched on Dec. 25, starting its journey toward its destination about 1 million miles from Earth.
Webb is an international ... more |
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 Nomi, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 
In recent times, sustainable development has been the overarching guiding principle of research concerning environmental issues, energy crises, and information and communication technology. In this regard, spintronic devices have emerged as promising candidates for surpassing conventional technology, which has run into the problem of excess waste heat generation in miniaturized devices.
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