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  Washington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2021 A mixup among leading astronomers about a rocket that will crash into the moon on March 4 has led to calls for better debris tracking of Deep Space manufactured objects. Independent astronomer Bill Gray of Maine, one of few astronomers who track human-made objects in Deep Space, discovered in January that a section of a discarded rocket would crash into the moon. Due to earlier miscalculations and a general lack of data available, he thought the object was a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage t ... read more |
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SpaceX successfully launches 46 Starlink satellites from FloridaWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2021 SpaceX successfully launched 46 of the company's own Starlink broadband Internet communications satellites from Florida on Monday. ... more  
ABB secures order for near real-time satellite imaging technologyQuebec City, Canada (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 ABB has been awarded a contract worth around $30 million by the Canadian data and analytics company EarthDaily Analytics Corp. (EDA) to develop and manufacture next-generation multispectral imaging ... more  
Sea Level to rise up to a foot by 2050Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2022 Coastal flooding will increase significantly over the next 30 years because of sea level rise, according to a new report by an interagency sea level rise task force that includes NASA, the National ... more  
Kacific and Farmer Charlie team up to boost agricultural output across PacificSingapore (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 Kacific Broadband Satellites and Farmer Charlie will bring affordable satellite-powered agricultural information and expertise to farmers in remote and isolated places across South East Asia and the ... more |
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How to look thousands of kilometers deep into the Earth?Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 Researchers led by Sergey Lobanov from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences have developed a new method to measure the density of silicon dioxide (SiO2) glass, one of the most important ma ... more 
Satellite imagery gives researchers timeline of when swine waste lagoons were builtRaleigh NC (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an automated technique that uses satellite imagery to determine when swine waste lagoons were constructed, allowing researchers to deter ... more 
China's land-observing satellite starts to take picturesBeijing (XNA) Feb 15, 2022 A Chinese remote-sensing satellite started to take pictures in its orbit, scientists in charge of the satellite said Friday. China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place the L-SAR 01A satell ... more  
AFRL holds collaborative space domain awareness eventKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles and Directed Energy Directorates hosted the 9th Annual Space Domain Awareness Leadership Workshop at Kirtland AFB, January 25 - 27. More than 100 sen ... more  
AFRL holds directed energy and kinetic energy wargaming experimentKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at Kirtland AFB, Jan. 24-28, 2022. The Directed E ... more |
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Northrop Grumman launches cargo ship to International Space StationKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 A fresh supply of 8,300 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia at 12:40 p.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 19, aboard a Northrop Grumman Cygnu ... more 
NRAO and Optisys Partner Up to Produce 3D Devices for Radio AstronomyCharlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 Recent advancements in 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) for metallic structures make it possible to print all-metal electromagnetic devices-like antennas and waveguides-on demand. ... more  
China's Chang'e-4 discovers glass globules on far side of moonBeijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2022 The Yutu-2 lunar rover of China's Chang'e-4 mission has discovered two macroscopic translucent glass globules during its exploration of the far side of the moon, which could potentially help reveal ... more  
Fingerprinting minerals to better understand how they are affected by meteorite collisionsMenlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can compress and transform minerals in the planet's crust. Since the ... more 
Getting ready for lunar orbitTurin, Italy (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway. As the n ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 18, 2022 
A new flavor of Coca-Cola is coming soon - a promotional announcement from Coca-Coca Thursday said, "From the furthest reaches of the galaxy, Coca-Cola Starlight is arriving."
The new limited edition drink, called Coca-Cola Starlight, features a taste the beverage maker calls unique, and will be offered in both regular and zero sugar and is expected to be available Feb. 21.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2021 
SpaceX successfully launched 46 of the company's own Starlink broadband Internet communications satellites from Florida on Monday.
The mission, Starlink 4-8, was the first since the company lost about 40 of the Starlink satellites on Feb. 4 during a solar storm that thickened the air and caused the satellites to burn up as they crashed back through the atmosphere.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2022 
NASA's Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb. 18, 2021, and the six-wheeled scientist has other important accomplishments in store as it speeds toward its new destination and a new science campaign.
Weighing roughly 1 ton (1,025 kilograms), Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to touch down on Mars, returning dramatic video o ... 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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 Moray, Scotland (SPX) Feb 18, 2022  Ambitious plans to create hundreds of high quality jobs and business opportunities by developing a North Highland and Moray 'space cluster' have received a 38,000 pound boost from the UK Space Agency.
A strategy to develop the cluster, funded by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), was published last September by Caithness and North Sutherland ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
Recent advancements in 3D printing (also known as additive manufacturing) for metallic structures make it possible to print all-metal electromagnetic devices-like antennas and waveguides-on demand. A new partnership between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Optisys, LLC, headquartered in West Valley City, Utah, will explore the potential fo ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 
The collective activity of life-all of the microbes, plants, and animals-have changed planet Earth.
Take, for example, plants: plants 'invented' a way of undergoing photosynthesis to enhance their own survival, but in so doing, released oxygen that changed the entire function of our planet. This is just one example of individual lifeforms performing their own tasks, but collectively having ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 
Three prominent features on the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth - the farthest planetary body ever explored, by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - now have official names.
Proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by the International Astronomical Union, the new feature names follow a theme set by "Arrokoth" itself, which means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin Native American language.
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 Livermore CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 
Earth's supply of water is incredibly important for its ability to sustain life, but where did that water come from? Was it present when Earth formed or was it delivered later by meteorites or comets from outer space?
The source of Earth's water has been a longstanding debate and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists think they have the answer - and they found it by look ... 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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 Turin, Italy (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway.
As the name implies, the Gateway will be located within the Moon's orbit and is being built by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of ESA. Among its components is the International Habitation Module or I-Hab.
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can compress and transform minerals in the planet's crust. Since these changes depend on the pressure produced upon impact, experts can use features in Earth's minerals to learn about the meteorite's life story, from the moment of collision all the way back to the con ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 15, 2022 
A Chinese remote-sensing satellite started to take pictures in its orbit, scientists in charge of the satellite said Friday.
China launched a Long March-4C rocket to place the L-SAR 01A satellite in space on Jan. 26. The satellite, equipped with L-band synthetic aperture radar (SAR), can monitor the geological environment, landslides, and earthquakes.
The radar is now capable of taki ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2022 
The Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer 3, or MinXSS-3, successfully launched on the InspireSat-1 small satellite at 7:29 p.m. EST on Feb. 13, 2022. Also known as the Dual Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer, or DAXSS, it is the third of three NASA-funded MinXSS CubeSats. It will spend up to a year in low-Earth orbit studying X-rays coming from flares on the Sun.
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 18, 2022 
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, began forming around 12 billion years ago. Since then, it has been growing in both mass and size through a sequence of mergers with other galaxies. Perhaps most exciting is that this process has not quite finished, and by using data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft, astronomers can see it taking place. This in turn allows to reconstruct the history of our galaxy, revealing t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 
JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, separated by just a millimeter or the width of a sharp pencil tip, tick at different rates.
The experiments, described in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature, suggest how to make atomic clocks 50 times ... more |
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