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  Washington (AFP) Feb 14, 2022 US billionaire Jared Isaacman, who chartered the first all-civilian orbital spaceflight, announced Monday three more private missions with SpaceX - which will include spacewalking and culminate in the first crewed flight of the next-generation Starship rocket. The first, named Polaris Dawn, will take place no sooner than the fourth quarter of this year, and will be commanded by Isaacman, the founder of payment processing company Shift4. The program represents a new step for the commercial space ... read more |
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SpaceX plans new private spaceflight missions, first private spacewalkWashington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2021 SpaceX plans to launch a new private astronaut mission, Polaris Dawn, from Florida as early as Nov. 1 and will attempt to conduct the first private spacewalk in history, the company announced Monday. ... more  
Mars rover Perseverance notches a year of science, tech achievementsWashington DC (UPI) Feb 14, 2021 The Mars rover Perseverance and its feisty sidekick helicopter Ingenuity have set records and pushed new frontiers for interplanetary space exploration since landing on the Red Planet one year ago this Friday. ... more  
Webb Is Chilling OutWashington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 While we have started the long process of aligning the telescope mirrors, almost all of the components on Webb's cold side are still continuing to cool. Webb's giant sunshield keeps the telesc ... more  
Advanced Space, USAF sign deal to collaborate on Cislunar ActivitiesWestminster CO (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 Advanced Space LLC., a leading space solutions company, has entered into a Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles D ... more |
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Sidus Space books slew of news orders for hardware and servicesCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce that it has received over $1.5 milli ... more 
Rocket Lab brings forward launch for earth imaging company SynspectiveLong Beach CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB), a global leader in launch services and space systems, has announced the launch window for a dedicated Electron mission for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspec ... more  
China welcomes cooperation on space endeavorsBeijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022 China always welcomes cooperation on space endeavor, as it adheres to the belief that outer space is a common treasure of humanity, and that its exploration, development and peaceful use are common ... more 
Sols 3383-3384: Picking Our Way to the PedimentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2022 We are continuing our traverse towards the "Greenheugh pediment." We passed along this area on our detour to The Prow, and our sedimentologists have a long list of imaging wishes, features which cau ... more  
NASA Telescope Spots Highest-Energy Light Ever Detected From JupiterPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2022 The planet's auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why they eluded another mission 30 years ago. Scientists have ... more |
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Planetary bodies observed in habitable zone of dead starLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 A ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures has been observed orbiting close to a white dwarf star, hinting at a nearby planet in the "habitable zone" where water and thus life cou ... more 
Webb telescope spots its first star -- and takes a selfieWashington (AFP) Feb 11, 2022 Star light, star bright, the James Webb Space Telescope has seen its first star (though it wasn't quite tonight) - and even taken a selfie, NASA announced Friday. ... more 
Hubble Views a Cosmic InteractionBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope feels incredibly three-dimensional for a piece of deep-space imagery. The image shows Arp 282, an interacting galaxy pair composed of the Seyfert ... more  
Future gravitational wave detector in space could uncover secrets of the UniverseNottingham UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 New research has shown that future gravitational wave detections from space will be capable of finding new fundamental fields and potentially shed new light on unexplained aspects of the Universe. ... more  
Raytheon Intelligence and Space completes Next Gen OPIR GEO Block 0 MilestoneEl Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2022 Raytheon Intelligence and Space has completed Thermal Vacuum Testing of its sensor payload for the U.S. Space Force's Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared, or Next-Gen OPIR GEO, Block 0 miss ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Feb 10, 2022 
A record number of international patents were filed last year, indicating that innovation had not been stymied by the pandemic, the United Nations said Thursday.
Even as Covid-19 took a vast human and economic toll, international patent applications continued to grow, with Asia, and China in particular, cementing their leading positions.
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 
Ten years ago this week, 13 February 2012, ESA opened a new era of independent access to space with the flawless inaugural flight of its small launcher Vega. Flying from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Vega has gone on to earn a reputation for precision and versatility in anticipation of a more capable version, Vega-C.
Placing medium-sized satellites into the low Earth polar orbits th ... more |
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 Manchester UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Scientists at The University of Manchester and The University of Glasgow have today provided more insight into the possibility of establishing a pathway to generate oxygen for humans to potentially call the Moon or Mars 'home' for extended periods of time.
Creating a reliable source of oxygen could help humanity establish liveable habitats off-Earth in an era where space travel is more ach ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022 
China will make six manned space flights in 2022 to complete the building of its space station and see the maiden flight of Long March-6A, the country's first carrier rocket powered by a solid and liquid engine.
Ma Tao, deputy director of the Space Department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), revealed on Wednesday China's rocket launch plan at a press confer ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
The window to apply for ESA's astronaut vacancy opened on 31 March 2021 and closed 18 June. This is the first call for new astronauts in over 10 years and the first-time candidates with a physical disability had been invited to apply.
Of the 22,523 valid astronaut applications received by ESA, 2,000 of these were from the UK.
Following a comprehensive screening phase, 1,361 people we ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Sidus Space, Inc., a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce that it has received over $1.5 million in purchase orders for space hardware and services supporting four customers. The purchase orders received consist of both new orders and a modification to a previous purchase order.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT) in Chile have found evidence of another planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. This candidate planet is the third detected in the system and the lightest yet discovered orbiting this star. At just a quarter of Earth's mass, the planet is also one of the lightest exopl ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2022 
The planet's auroras are known to produce low-energy X-ray light. A new study finally reveals higher-frequency X-rays and explains why they eluded another mission 30 years ago.
Scientists have been studying Jupiter up close since the 1970s, but the gas giant is still full of mysteries. New observations by NASA's NuSTAR space observatory have revealed the highest-energy light ever detected ... more |
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 Saint-Jean-De-Luz, France (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 
Environmental organisation Sea Shepherd on Tuesday filed a legal complaint against the owners of a large fishing vessel after tens of thousands of dead fish were spotted off France's Atlantic coast.
The NGO last week published footage of what it said were more than 100,000 dead fish floating in the sea some 300 kilometres (186 miles) off the southwestern port city of La Rochelle in the Bay o ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 
ESA's Navigation Laboratory has a new recruit: this drone can carry different types of satellite navigation receivers to collect data for follow-on analysis.
The NavLab, based at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is focused on the testing, analysis and characterisation of navigation systems for both ESA and external customers.
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Advanced Space LLC., a leading space solutions company, has entered into a Cooperative Research And Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate, and the Spacecraft Technology Division to share data collected from cislunar space through the CAPSTONE mission.
Advanced Space owns and operates the CAPSTONE mission going to the Mo ... more |
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 Milton Keynes UK (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometre across in its orbit about the Sun - only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes round the Sun on average two months ahead of the Earth, dancing around in front like an excited herald of our coming.
This object, known as 2020 XL5, was first spotted in December 2020 using Pan-STARRS telescopes on the sum ... more |
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 Mississauga, Canada (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Magellan Aerospace Corporation reports a news contract award from MDA Ltd. to provide spacecraft avionics for their next Earth observation mission named CHORUS. The new spacecraft builds on MDA's RADARSAT heritage and will continue the work of RADARSAT-2, which remains operational serving its worldwide customer base. The avionics subsystems for CHORUS will be developed at Magellan's Winnipeg fac ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 
It's the first mission of its kind, set to monitor our active and unpredictable Sun and help protect us from its violent outbursts - and it has a new name.
Once known as "Lagrange," ESA's upcoming space weather mission needed a new name that would reflect its vital role: helping to protect Earth's infrastructure, satellites, inhabitants and space explorers from unpredictable but violent so ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2022 
The James Webb Space Telescope is nearing completion of the first phase of the months-long process of aligning the observatory's primary mirror using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument.
The team's challenge was twofold: confirm that NIRCam was ready to collect light from celestial objects, and then identify starlight from the same star in each of the 18 primary mirror segments. T ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Scientists have produced the largest and most accurate virtual representation of the Universe to date. An international team of researchers, led by the University of Helsinki, and including members from Durham University in the UK, used supercomputer simulations to recreate the entire evolution of the cosmos, from the Big Bang to the present. The findings are published in the Monthly Notices of ... more |
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