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  Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 24, 2022 The crisis over Russia's Ukrainian aggression presents NASA and other space agencies with the most serious diplomatic strain in the 22-year history of the International Space Station partnership, experts said. Russia is a major partner with the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada in the space station's maintenance and operation. Russia provides critical cargo and crew transport, along with engines that fire periodically to keep the station aloft. Cosmonauts and astronauts often work side ... read more |
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Rocket Lab officially opens third launch pad, Next launch within a weekMahia Peninsula, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the completion of its second orbital launch pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand - the Company's third dedicated pad for its Electron rocket - and ... more 
Clean driving technology enables cleaner rocket fuelRiverside CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 A chemical used in electric vehicle batteries could also give us carbon-free fuel for space flight, according to new UC Riverside research. In addition to emission reductions, this chemical al ... more  
NASA opens second phase of $5 Million Lunar Power Prize CompetitionHuntsville AL (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Under Artemis, NASA plans to return to the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. This will require lunar surface systems that can deliver continuo ... more 
MIT Lunar Station Corp helps support safe lunar missionsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 This year NASA hopes to return astronauts to the Moon as early as March or April. Strategically, the Moon has something essential for life in space: water. Lunar ice can supply oxygen for hu ... more |
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Thales Alenia Space wins study contract to develop payload to extract Oxygen on the MoonBristol UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a study contract with the European Space Agency worth one million euros for a payload concept to extract oxyg ... more  
Caution! Martian wind at workParis (ESA) Feb 24, 2022 This image from ESA's Mars Express shows part of possibly the largest single source of dust on Mars: a wind-sculpted feature known as the Medusae Fossae Formation, or MFF. The MFF is not only ... more 
Sol 3395: Last Chance for ContactPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2022 Before the science team says "OK TO GO!," today's plan involves getting one of the last looks at the rocks right below the Greenheugh Pediment, some observations at the contact between them, and som ... more  
Whitepaper highlights ground segment's critical role in satellite connectivityParis, France (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 The satellite industry is set for unprecedented transformation, with the impact of cloud-based systems, the introduction of next-generation NGSO broadband constellations, and convergence towards a u ... more |
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SpaceX to launch IoT tech demo satellites for Plan-SAnkara, Turkey (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Plan-S Satellite and Space Technologies, a Turkish provider of end-to-end satellite solutions for global IoT services, have signed a series of agreements to launch three IoT tech demo satellites onb ... more  
Robotic cubes shapeshift in outer spaceBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 If faced with the choice of sending a swarm of full-sized, distinct robots to space, or a large crew of smaller robotic modules, you might want to enlist the latter. Modular robots, like those depic ... more  
Northrop Grumman awarded US Space Force contract for deep-space advanced radarColorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $341 million contract by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to develop, test and deliver a Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability ( ... more  
New power sourcesBoston MA (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 In the mid-1990s, a few energy activists in Massachusetts had a vision: What if citizens had choice about the energy they consumed? Instead of being force-fed electricity sources selected by a utili ... more |
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'Tatooine-like' exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescopeBirmingham UK (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University of Birmingham. The planet, called Kepler-16b, has so far ... more  
Galaxy collision creates 'space triangle' in new Hubble imageBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled the unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy, as captured in a new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The interacting galaxy ... 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  
The secret of Venus may be hidden in the heat of the nightLisbon, Portugal (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 Despite being close to Earth and having nearly the same size, Venus is another world. Underneath its thick mantle of acid sulfuric clouds, at the surface 460 degrees Celsius are the rule. This tempe ... more  
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 |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 24, 2022 
The crisis over Russia's Ukrainian aggression presents NASA and other space agencies with the most serious diplomatic strain in the 22-year history of the International Space Station partnership, experts said.
Russia is a major partner with the United States, Europe, Japan and Canada in the space station's maintenance and operation.
Russia provides critical cargo and crew transport, ... more |
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 Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the completion of its second orbital launch pad at Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand - the Company's third dedicated pad for its Electron rocket - and confirmed the new pad's first mission will be a dedicated commercial launch scheduled to lift-off within a week's time.
Pad B is based within Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, the world's first priva ... more |
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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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 Ankara, Turkey (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Plan-S Satellite and Space Technologies, a Turkish provider of end-to-end satellite solutions for global IoT services, have signed a series of agreements to launch three IoT tech demo satellites onboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 via Exolaunch, a global leader in launch, in-space logistics and deployment services for small satellites. The satellites being built by Plan-S will be launched in the second ha ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $341 million contract by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) to develop, test and deliver a Deep-Space Advanced Radar Capability (DARC) in support of its Space Domain Awareness mission.
"The DARC program will field a resilient ground-based radar providing our nation with significantly enhanced space domain awareness for ge ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University of Birmingham.
The planet, called Kepler-16b, has so far only been seen using the Kepler space telescope. It orbits around two stars, with the two orbits also orbiting one another, forming a binary star system. Kepler-16b is located some 245 light years fr ... 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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 Pasadena 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 Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and other federal agencies. Titled Global and Regional Sea Level Rise Scenarios for the United States, the Feb. 15 report concludes that sea level along ... more |
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 Apopka FL (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has been selected to provide the U.S. Marine Corps with the Next Generation Handheld Targeting System (NGHTS). This compact targeting device provides unparalleled precision targeting and is capable of operation in GPS-denied environments.
"NGHTS will significantly enhance the ability of Marines to identify ground targets under a wide range of condit ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a study contract with the European Space Agency worth one million euros for a payload concept to extract oxygen from Moon rock.
For a sustainable habitation on the Moon, humans will need to utilise resources that they find on the Moon rather than transport these resources from Earth; one of these resou ... more |
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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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 Melbourne FL (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
L3Harris Technologies' third high-resolution weather instrument is set to launch March 1 onboard a NOAA satellite - strengthening the nation's ability to monitor the environment and rapidly detect severe weather.
The Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) is the primary instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T (GOES-T), the third in a series of four advanced geostationary ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
A new NASA sounding rocket mission will soon take to the Alaskan skies. The LAMP mission, short for Loss through Auroral Microburst Pulsations, will fly above an often-overlooked kind of northern lights to test a theory on what causes them. The launch window at Poker Flat Research Range in Fairbanks, Alaska, opens on Feb. 24, 2022.
The aurora borealis, or northern lights, is a familiar tre ... more |
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 Canberra, Canada (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
Our galaxy is a giant 'smoothie' of blended stars and gas but a new study tells us where the components came from. In its early days, the Milky Way was like a giant smoothie, as if galaxies consisting of billions of stars, and an enormous amount of gas had been thrown together into a gigantic blender. But a new study picks apart this mixture by analysing individual stars to identify which origin ... more |
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 Broomfield CO (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Ball Aerospace supported completion of critical design review (CDR) for NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) mission. Ball will now move forward with building the telescope and spacecraft.
In addition to designing and building the spacecraft and telescope, Ball Aerospace is responsible for conducting system integration ... more |
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