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  Paris (ESA) May 24, 2022 Astronauts live and work in orbit along with teeming populations of microorganisms, which could present a serious threat to health - and even the structural integrity of spacecraft. To help combat such invisible stowaways, an ESA-led project is developing microbe-killing coatings suitable for use within spacecraft cabins. Crewmen on the International Space Station are not alone. A microbial survey of surfaces within the orbital outpost found dozens of different bacteria and fungi species, includin ... read more |
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UK company reveals micro-launcher rocketLondon, UK (SPX) May 24, 2022 Orbex's Prime rocket reaching technical readiness represents a significant achievement that brings together key elements of the ground infrastructure and prototype launch vehicle for the first time ... more  
Ghostly 'mirror world' might be cause of cosmic controversyAlbuquerque NM (SPX) May 20, 2022 New research suggests an unseen 'mirror world' of particles that interacts with our world only via gravity that might be the key to solving a major puzzle in cosmology today - the Hubble constant pr ... more  
Satellogic and UP42 team up to offer rapid monitoring capabilitiesNew York NY (SPX) May 18, 2022 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, a geospatial developer platform and marketplace en ... more 
Swarm unveils magnetic waves deep downParis (ESA) May 24, 2022 While volcanic eruptions and earthquakes serve as immediate reminders that Earth's insides are anything but tranquil, there are also other, more elusive, dynamic processes happening deep down below ... more |
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Gogo Business Aviation to launch LEO Global Broadband serviceGeneva VA (SPX) May 24, 2022 Gogo Business Aviation (NASDAQ: GOGO) has announced it will launch the first global broadband service in business aviation to use an electronically steered antenna (ESA) on a low earth orbit (LEO) s ... more  
Mayday and Satellogic collaborate to modernize risk and disaster intelligenceNew York NY (SPX) May 17, 2022 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has entered into a teaming agreement with Mayday.ai ("Mayday"), a German- ... more 
Navarino teams with OneWeb to extend connectivity to commercial shippingLondon, UK (SPX) May 24, 2022 OneWeb, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, and Navarino, one of the world's leading maritime technology companies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to become a ... more  
New calculations of Solar spectrum resolve decade-long controversy about the Sun's chemical compositionHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) May 20, 2022 Astronomers have resolved the decade-long solar abundance crisis: the conflict between the internal structure of the Sun as determined from solar oscillations (helioseismology) and the structure der ... more |
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Hubble Reaches New Milestone in Mystery of Universe's Expansion RateBaltimore MD (SPX) May 20, 2022 Completing a nearly 30-year marathon, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has calibrated more than 40 "milepost markers" of space and time to help scientists precisely measure the expansion rate of the un ... more 
Unraveling a perplexing explosive process that occurs throughout the universePlainsboro NJ (SPX) May 20, 2022 Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy in one second as the Sun pours out in a year and are among the most puzzling phenomena in the universe. Now researchers at Princeton University, t ... more  
Mastcam-Ing All the Things: Sols 3480-3482Pasadena CA (JPL) May 24, 2022 Coming into planning on Friday, we were greeted with a beautiful vista, with well preserved layering and amazing outcrops, and a reminder of just how stunning the planet Mars is. Mastcam takes a 360 ... more  
Planets of binary stars as possible homes for alien lifeCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 24, 2022 Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to n ... more |
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Unraveling a perplexing explosive process that occurs throughout the universePlainsboro NJ (SPX) May 24, 2022 Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy in one second as the Sun pours out in a year and are among the most puzzling phenomena in the universe. Now researchers at Princeton University, t ... more  
New spin on galaxy rotation saves controversial gravity theorySt Andrews UK (SPX) May 24, 2022 An international group of astronomers, led by a physicist at the University of St Andrews, has revived an alternative gravity theory. Headed by Dr Indranil Banik of the School of Physics and A ... more  
Human's motion perception revealed by spaceflight: studyBeijing (XNA) May 24, 2022 Spaceflight, apart from exploring the unknown universe, can also help us, the inhabitants of Earth, to understand how gravity is affecting our brain in its visual perception. Humans have evolv ... more 
Airbus to further develop LISA gravitational wave observatory missionFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) May 20, 2022 Airbus has been awarded a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to further develop the implementation of LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), one of the most ambitious science missions ... more 
Musk, Bolsonaro talk free speech, deforestation in BrazilPorto Feliz, Brazil (AFP) May 20, 2022 Billionaire Elon Musk jetted into Brazil Friday to meet far-right President Jair Bolsonaro and unveil a project to link thousands of Amazonian schools to the internet and expand satellite monitoring of the rainforest. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2022 
The engineering team with NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is trying to solve a mystery: The interstellar explorer is operating normally, receiving and executing commands from Earth, along with gathering and returning science data. But readouts from the probe's attitude articulation and control system (AACS) don't reflect what's actually happening onboard.
The AACS controls the 45-year-old spac ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 19, 2022 
Aerospace manufacturer Blue Origin will delay its next sub-orbital spaceflight because of a vehicle issue, the company announced Wednesday.
Originally scheduled to take place Friday, the launch would have been the fifth manned flight for the Washington state-based company's New Shephard space vehicle.
"During our final vehicle checkouts, we observed one of New Shepard's backup system ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 19, 2022 
Despite the incredibly rough terrain surrounding Mirador butte, our nearly 10-year-old rover successfully drove a net distance forward ~10 meters and ~2 meters in elevation! To get a sense of what our Rover Planners try to avoid navigating this terrain, check out this Navcam image of our left front wheel at our parking spot.
Not only did the Sol 3476 drive succeed, but placed us perfectly ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 18, 2022 
This study is led by Dr. Prof. Yong Wei and Dr. Kai Fan from Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS). Authors and their colleagues from the National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Max-Planck-Institute for Solar System Research, the Sun Yat-Sen University, and the Peking University have developed a comprehensive method, which include the noise ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Western Sydney University's International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) in a move to formalise and strengthen international space observation research partnerships and collaborations.
The MoU will facilitate the sharing of research data and analytics, and the co-location of vital space observat ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) May 18, 2022 
The E.T.PACK-Fly consortium, coordinated by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and made up of the University of Padova, the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden), the Spanish company SENER Aeroespacial and the German start-up Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), has received euro 2.5 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC) to develop a device based on a space tether to deor ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) May 24, 2022 
Nearly half of Sun-size stars are binary. According to University of Copenhagen research, planetary systems around binary stars may be very different from those around single stars. This points to new targets in the search for extraterrestrial life forms.
Since the only known planet with life, the Earth, orbits the Sun, planetary systems around stars of similar size are obvious targets for ... more |
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 Bayreuth, Germany (SPX) May 12, 2022 
Caption: Materials synthesis research and study in terapascal range for the first time
Jules Verne could not even dream of this: A research team from the University of Bayreuth, together with international partners, has pushed the boundaries of high-pressure and high-temperature research into cosmic dimensions.
For the first time, they have succeeded in generating and simultaneously analy ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) May 24, 2022 
China's foreign minister will make a "milestone" visit to Solomon Islands this week, the island state said, after the two nations sealed a wide-ranging security pact last month.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's trip comes at a time of heightened United States and Australian concern about China's intentions in the South Pacific.
The Solomon Islands government confirmed the China visit in a stat ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 20, 2022 
More than 11 thousand people around Europe and the world have turned their smartphones into space monitoring tools by downloading the CAMALIOT app, so far delivering more than 53 billion measurements of meteorology and space weather patterns to researchers.
Leave it by your window each night with your satnav positioning turned on and your phone will record small variations in satellite sig ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions broke loose on the moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands of square miles of the orb's surface in hot lava. Over the eons, that lava created the dark blotches, or maria, that give the face of the moon its familiar appearance today.
Now, new research from CU Boulder suggests that volcanoes may have left another lasting impact on the luna ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) May 18, 2022 
In an article published in the journal Icarus, researchers at Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) and collaborators report the findings of a study reconstituting the formation of the dwarf planet Ceres. The research was conducted by Rafael Ribeiro de Sousa, a professor in the program of graduate studies in physics on the Guaratingueta campus. The co-authors of the article are Ernesto Vieira Neto, ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 18, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, has entered into an agreement with UP42, a geospatial developer platform and marketplace enabling direct access to Satellogic's satellite tasking high-resolution multispectral and wide-area hyperspectral imagery via the UP42 API-based platform. The agreement includes the archive of high-fre ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 19, 2022 
Powerful flares, breathtaking views across the solar poles, and a curious solar 'hedgehog' are amongst the haul of spectacular images, movies and data returned by Solar Orbiter from its first close approach to the Sun. Although the analysis of the new dataset has only just started, it is already clear that the ESA-led mission is providing the most extraordinary insights into the Sun's magnetic b ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) May 19, 2022 
A unique new instrument, coupled with a powerful telescope and a little help from nature, has given researchers the ability to peer into galactic nurseries at the heart of the young universe.
After the big bang some 13.8 billion years ago, the early universe was filled with enormous clouds of neutral diffuse gas, known as Damped Lyman-a systems, or DLAs. These DLAs served as galactic nurse ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) May 24, 2022 
Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy in one second as the Sun pours out in a year and are among the most puzzling phenomena in the universe. Now researchers at Princeton University, the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have simulated and proposed a cost-effective experiment to produce and obse ... more |
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