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  Paris (AFP) March 1, 2022 A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars is "very unlikely" to launch this year due to sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency said. The launch of the Rosalind Franklin rover, whose mission is to drill into Martian soil to seek out signs of life, was originally planned for 2020 but postponed due to Covid-19 and technical delays. In January the ESA declared the ExoMars mission was ready to launch this September, with Russia providing the launcher, descent ... read more |
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NASA to launch sophisticated weather satelliteWashington DC (UPI) Mar 1, 2021 NASA plans to launch the latest in an advanced series of weather satellites, the GOES-T, from Florida on Tuesday to improve weather forecasting over the Pacific and western United States. ... more  
NASA awards SpaceX additional crew flights to Space StationWashington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 NASA has awarded three additional missions to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, for crew transportation services to the International Space Station as par ... more 
Rocket Lab selects Virginia for Neutron launch pad and manufacturing complexLong Beach CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has selected Wallops Island, Virginia, as the location for its first launch site and extensive manufacturing and operations facilities, for its 8-ton payload class ... more  
North Korea hails 'significant' test in military satellite developmentsSeoul (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 North Korea said it had carried out a test of "great significance" for developing a reconnaissance satellite, state media reported Monday, a day after Seoul said it had detected a ballistic missile launch. ... more |
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New rocket to be partially reusableBeijing, China (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 China's next-generation rocket designed to carry astronauts will be multifunctional and partly reusable, according to a senior rocket scientist. Wang Xiaojun, president of the China Academy of ... more 
First Multiple-Sol DrivePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2022 Perseverance capped its first year on Mars by speeding back around Seitah toward what is expected to be the final sampling location in its crater floor campaign. The drive on Mars was split across t ... more 
Sols 3398-3400: The Road AheadPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2022 The drive on Sol 3397 went well and gave us some good perspective on the road ahead, as seen in the above Navcam image. Curiosity is perched at the edge of the pediment, carefully planning our route ... more  
NASA exploring ways to keep ISS afloat without Russian help: officialWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 NASA is exploring ways to keep the International Space Station in orbit without Russian help, but doesn't see any immediate signs Moscow is withdrawing from the collaboration following the invasion of Ukraine, a senior official said Monday. ... more |
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Rocket Lab launches 2nd satellite for the Synspective SAR constellationMahia, New Zealand (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB), a leading launch and space systems company, has successfully deployed a second Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite to orbit for data and solutions provider S ... more 
Tycoons bound for ISS aren't tourists, insists space companyWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 Three tycoons and an ex-NASA astronaut are all set for the first fully private voyage to the International Space Station next month - just don't call them tourists. ... more 
SpaceX Axiom crew nears final training for first all-private mission to ISSWashington DC (UPI) Feb 28, 2021 NASA and Houston-based Axiom Space are in the final stages of training and preparation to launch the first all-private astronaut mission, Ax-1, to the International Space Station in late March, mission leaders said Monday. ... more 
US-Russia tensions spill into space, but ISS safe -- for nowWashington (AFP) Feb 25, 2022 Russia's invasion of Ukraine has placed a question mark over the future of the International Space Station, long a symbol of post Cold War cooperation, where astronauts and cosmonauts proudly live and work side-by-side. ... more |
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Astronaut Matthias Maurer marks his first 100 days in spaceParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2022 Happy 100 days in space to ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer. The first-time space flier marked the milestone on 19 February 2022 and what a busy 100-days it been. In a Twitter post marking the mi ... more  
NASA invites collaboration to define future of air travelMoffett Field Ca (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 We've long held dreams of what the future of air travel could look like. Something out of the Jetson's TV show or a Star Wars movie is generally the "go to" vision for most people: aircraft of all t ... more  
Scientists reveal 4.4 million galaxies in a new mapDurham UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 Durham University astronomer collaborating with a team of international scientists have mapped more than a quarter of the northern sky using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), a pan-European radio tel ... more 
New evidence proves acceleration of quasar outflows at scale of tens of parsecsHefei, China (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 Dr. HE Zhicheng and his coworkers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a new way to measure the physical properties of galactic io ... more  
Deep neural network to find hidden turbulent motion on the SunTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 Scientists developed a neural network deep learning technique to extract hidden turbulent motion information from observations of the Sun. Tests on three different sets of simulation data showed tha ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2022 
NASA is exploring ways to keep the International Space Station in orbit without Russian help, but doesn't see any immediate signs Moscow is withdrawing from the collaboration following the invasion of Ukraine, a senior official said Monday.
Kathy Lueders, who heads the agency's human spaceflight program, told reporters on a call that operations on the research platform were proceeding "nomin ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 28, 2021  NASA and Houston-based Axiom Space are in the final stages of training and preparation to launch the first all-private astronaut mission, Ax-1, to the International Space Station in late March, mission leaders said Monday.
But don't call the crew - three billionaires paying $55 million each - space tourists, Michael Lopez-Alegria, former astronaut and Ax-1 mission commander, said du ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2022 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. About 20 inches (50 centimeters) across on average, the boulders in the foreground are among the type of rocks the rover team has named "Ch'al" (the Navajo term for "frog" and pronounced "chesh"). Perseverance will return to the ar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 
China's deep space exploration laboratory has been officially inaugurated, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Co-established by the CNSA, Anhui Province and the University of Science and Technology of China, the laboratory is headquartered in Hefei.
It will carry out science and technology research focusing on major national projects in the field of deep spa ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
Rocket Lab USA has been awarded a subcontract by MDA Ltd to lead the design and manufacture of 17 spacecraft buses for Globalstar's new Low Earth Orbit satellites. Globalstar, Inc. Rocket Lab will lead the development of the spacecraft buses, while MDA will act as prime contractor to manufacture Globalstar's satellites, lead the development of the payload, and perform the final satellite assembl ... more |
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 Swindon UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
Pulse Power and Measurement Ltd (PPM) has been working with Aston University through a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to develop a game-changing approach to technology used in the radio-over-fibre communications industry. The project will look to transform the connection between low earth orbit (LEO) satellite antenna dishes and modems through optics rather than electronics, delivering per ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars with detail up to a thousand times better than possible with other observatories.
Roman will use its Coronagraph Instrument - a system of masks, prisms, detectors, and even self-flexing mirrors ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Reconstruction of natural streamflow without water management, e.g., irrigation and reservoir regulation is fundamental to the sustainable management of water resources. In China, previous reconstructions from sparse and poor-quality gauge measurements have led to large biases in simulation of the interannual and seasonal variability of natural flows.
In the current study, the researchers ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2022 
For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon's attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.
Initial observations of an asteroid dubbed '2022 AE1' showed a potential Earth impact on 4 July 2023 - not enough time to attempt deflection and large enough to do real damage to a lo ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 1, 2021 
NASA plans to launch the latest in an advanced series of weather satellites, the GOES-T, from Florida on Tuesday to improve weather forecasting over the Pacific and western United States.
United Launch Alliance's Atlas V rocket is prepared for liftoff during a two-hour window starting at 4:38 p.m. EST from Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Meteorologists around th ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Scientists developed a neural network deep learning technique to extract hidden turbulent motion information from observations of the Sun. Tests on three different sets of simulation data showed that it is possible to infer the horizontal motion from data for the temperature and vertical motion. This technique will benefit solar astronomy and other fields such as plasma physics, fusion science, ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has provided an important clue to the origin of the element Ytterbium in the Milky Way, by showing that the element largely originates from supernova explosions. The groundbreaking research also provides new opportunities for studying the evolution of our galaxy. The study is published in Astronomy and Astrophysics.
Ytterbium is one of four ... more |
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 Hefei, China (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Dr. HE Zhicheng and his coworkers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a new way to measure the physical properties of galactic ionized gas, and discovered the acceleration of quasar outflows at the scale of tens of parsecs for the first time. Their paper was published on Science Advances
According to modern theories on ga ... more |
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