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  Washington DC (UPI) Feb 4, 2021 SpaceX and NASA officials are investigating a lag in parachute openings during the return of the company's Dragon capsules from the International Space Station with cargo and astronauts, the organizations said during a teleconference Friday. The return of such capsules was never in jeopardy, and the landing systems performed well during 24 cargo missions and three crewed splashdowns, SpaceX's Bill Gerstenmaier said. Two recent Dragon splashdowns, cargo mission CRS-24 on Jan. 24 and Crew- ... read more |
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Astra's planned first launch in Florida scrubbedOrlando FL (UPI) Feb 05, 2022 The planned launch of an Astra Space rocket from Florida was scrubbed Saturday after the failure of ground equipment needed to launch. "Unfortunately, due to a range asset that has gone out of ... more  
NASA-Funded Study Extends Period When Mars Could Have Supported LifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2022 The surface of Mars is barren and inhospitable, but perhaps it wasn't always that way. Billions of years ago, when life emerged on Earth, the climate of Mars could have been Earth-like as well, with ... more  
Moons may yield clues to what makes planets habitableRochester UK (SPX) Feb 03, 2022 Earth's moon is vitally important in making Earth the planet we know today: the moon controls the length of the day and ocean tides, which affect the biological cycles of lifeforms on our planet. Th ... more  
Atlanta to host key SMR and Advanced Reactor event in MayLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 03, 2022 Nuclear power's role in cutting carbon emissions will be a major topic at SMR and Advanced Reactor 2022 in Atlanta, Reuters Events announced today. The world's foremost event for advanced and ... more |
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ESA determines new 'space time'Paris (ESA) Feb 01, 2022 Since November 2021, ESA's satellites and ground stations have been running on a newly defined, incredibly precise "ESOC time". Measured by two atomic clocks in the basement of the ESOC mission cont ... more 
Sols 3374-3375: MAHLI Lets the Dog Out at the Prow!Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2022 In our weekend drive we aimed to get up close to the "Toron" block, which is a "float rock" or out of place chunk of bedrock in the workspace. Unlike many float rocks, Toron's original location (tan ... more 
Astronomers trace galaxy flows across 700 million light yearsManoa HI (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii Ins ... more 
Animal genomes: Chromosomes almost unchanged for over 600 million yearsVienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 03, 2022 Animal diversity is fascinating, but how is this reflected in their genetic material, the genome? Is it possible to definitely distinguish animals from one another based on genetic information, and ... more  
Ancient ice reveals mysterious solar stormLund, Sweden (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What p ... more |
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New research strengthens link between glaciers and Earth's 'Great Unconformity'Hanover NH (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 January 25, 2022 - New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved away by ancient glaciers during the planet's "Snowball Earth" p ... more  
Israel Signs Artemis AccordsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 In becoming the first country to sign the Artemis Accords in 2022, Israel affirmed its commitment to a common set of principles to guide cooperation among nations participating in 21st century space ... more  
Study shows 'shocking' way Earth's magnetic field produces plasma jetsStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 02, 2022 Even though Earth's magnetic field shields us from solar wind and space weather-it doesn't always offer complete protection. Researchers have discovered a new mechanism in Earth's space environment ... more  
A human fingerprint on the Pantanal InfernoPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2022 One of the world's largest freshwater wetlands-the Pantanal-spreads across a bowl-shaped plain where Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay meet. During the rainy season in most years, floodwater drains from ... more  
Earth from Space: LesothoParis (ESA) Jan 28, 2022 Known for its tall mountains and narrow valleys, Lesotho is the only nation in the world that lies completely above 1000 m in elevation. Lesotho has an area of just 30 000 sq km, around the same siz ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
Scientific investigations on skin aging and tumor cells, along with tests of technology for oxygen production, batteries, and growing plants, all travel on the 17th Northrop Grumman commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. The Cygnus spacecraft is scheduled for liftoff no earlier than Saturday, Feb. 19, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virgin ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 4, 2021 
SpaceX and NASA officials are investigating a lag in parachute openings during the return of the company's Dragon capsules from the International Space Station with cargo and astronauts, the organizations said during a teleconference Friday.
The return of such capsules was never in jeopardy, and the landing systems performed well during 24 cargo missions and three crewed splashdowns, Sp ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for understanding when conditions suitable for life may have existed on early Mars.
Published in leading journal Science Advances, the research examined grains of the mineral zircon in Martian meteorite NWA 7034. The ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
At a press conference today, NSF's NOIRLab announced that it has been selected, along with the SKA Observatory (SKAO), by the International Astronomical Union to host the new IAU Centre for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference. The center coordinates collaborative multidisciplinary international efforts with institutions and individuals and works acr ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
A small forest of antennas sprouts from the roof of ESA's Navigation Laboratory, based at the ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, which is among the most frequently satnav-fixed locations on Earth. This is also the site of the very first Galileo positioning fix, acquired back in 2014 using the first quartet of Galileo satellites.
"The antenna is a critical component of any Global Na ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 03, 2022 
Animal diversity is fascinating, but how is this reflected in their genetic material, the genome? Is it possible to definitely distinguish animals from one another based on genetic information, and perhaps even make predictions about how genetic information changes over time? This has been the great hope since the beginning of the "genome era" in 2000, when the human genome was sequenced for the ... more |
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 Leicester UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA's Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, describes the delicate current cycle driven by Jupiter's rapid rotation and the release of sulphur ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
The deep-ocean floor is the least explored ecosystem on the planet, despite covering more than 60% of the Earth surface. Largely unknown life in abyssal sediments, from benthic animals to microbes, helps to recycle and/or sequester the sinking (in)organic matter originating from pelagic communities that are numerically dominated by microscopic plankton.
Benthic ecosystems thus underpin two ... 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 (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 
The first mission in NASA's program to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until spring at the earliest, the US space agency said Wednesday, saying it needed more time to complete safety checks.
The Artemis I launch, initially scheduled for late 2021 and then postponed twice more, will now happen no earlier than April.
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
An international team of astronomers has discovered a pair of asteroids that split off from their parent body a mere 300 years ago. The duo is exceptional because it is the youngest known "asteroid pair" by at least a factor of ten, it passes close to Earth's orbit, and it has properties that are hard to explain given its young age.
The majority of asteroids in our solar system reside in t ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
In partnership with Google, in a widely attender Google Earth Outreach webinar, Earth Blox demonstrated its ability to provide near-instantaneous cloud powered access and analysis of satellite imagery in a no-code user interface (UI), opening access to Earth observation (EO) data to non-experts of every sector like never before.
Launched in 2019, Earth Blox seeks to make "EO data accessibl ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jan 27, 2022 
Through analyzes of ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica, a research team led by Lund University in Sweden has found evidence of an extreme solar storm that occurred about 9,200 years ago. What puzzles the researchers is that the storm took place during one of the sun's more quiet phases - during which it is generally believed our planet is less exposed to such events.
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Astronomers from Georgia State University have found an explanation for the strange occurrence of massive stars located far from their birthplace in the disk of our Milky Way Galaxy.
Stars more massive than the Sun have very hot cores that drive nuclear energy generation at very high rates. They are among the brightest objects in our galaxy. But because they burn through their hydrogen fue ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Maryland and University of Paris-Saclay has traced the movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies, the dominant congregations of matter, within 350 ... more |
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