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What the Voyager probes can teach humanity about immortality and legacy Miami, FL (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar space. Both Voyager 1 and its twin, Voyager 2, carry little pieces of humanity in the form of their Golden Records. These messages in a bottle include spoken greetings in 55 languages, sounds and images from nature, an album of recordings and images from numerous cultures, and a written message of welcome from ... read more |
NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 As the Artemis missions journey to the Moon and NASA plans for the long voyage to Mars, new navigation capabilities will be key to science, discovery, and human exploration. Through NASA's Commercia ... more Mamoa HI (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in ea ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will st ... more Turin, Italy (ESA) Jun 03, 2022 The fourth European Service Module structure to power astronauts on NASA's Orion spacecraft to the Moon is now complete. The structure is seen here at a Thales Alenia Space site in Turin, Italy. ... more |
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Student-Built, Dime-Sized Instrument Is Venus-bound on NASA's DAVINCI Brooke Hess for GSFC News Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Venus Oxygen Fugacity (VfOx) is a small, button-sized sensor aboard NASA's DAVINCI mission to Venus' atmosphere that will be designed, fabricated, tested, operated, ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 In a recently published paper, NASA scientists and engineers give new details about the agency's Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission, which w ... more Canary Islands, Spain (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) has led the development of a new numerical procedure that allows to reproduce in a few seconds with Big Data and machine learning techniques the interg ... more Shanghai, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Dr. LU Xing, an associate researcher from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from Yunnan University, the Harvard-Smithsonian Ce ... more |
China launches nine Geely-01 satellites Xichang (XNA) Jun 03, 2022 China on Thursday launched a Long March-2C carrier rocket to place a group of nine commercial satellites in space. The Geely-01 constellation consisting of nine satellites were lifted at 12:00 ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Two meteorological satellites, along with their ground application systems, began trial operation on Monday, said the China Meteorological Administration. The two satellites, Fengyun-3E (FY-3E ... more Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine region. Like the Arctic, this European mountain range is becoming greener. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from the Univ ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2022 During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not onl ... more |
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First images from Webb Space Telescope coming soon Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership with ESA (European Space Agency) and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), will release its first full-color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, 202 ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN, or MAVEN, mission returned to normal science and relay operations on May 28, 2022, after recovering from an extended safe mode event. The spacecraft en ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2022 A test version of the payload module of ESA's exoplanet-detecting Plato spacecraft underwent a prolonged vacuum soak within Europe's largest thermal vacuum chamber, to evaluate its endurance of spac ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 NASA has selected Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to advance spacewalking capabilities in low-Earth orbit and at the Moon, by buying services that provide astronauts with next generation spacesuit ... more Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 Both men have been blasted into space and have served in the U.S. Senate. But NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly were "back in school" during a visit to Arizona State University ... more |
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NASA Moon Mission Set to Break Record in Navigation Signal Test Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 As the Artemis missions journey to the Moon and NASA plans for the long voyage to Mars, new navigation capabilities will be key to science, discovery, and human exploration. Through NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, Firefly Aerospace of Cedar Park, Texas, will deliver an experimental payload to the Moon's Mare Crisium basin. NASA's Lunar GNSS Receiver Experiment (LuGRE) payloa ... more |
Ursa Major announces new engine to replace unavailable Russian-made engines Denver CO (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 Ursa Major, America's only privately funded company that focuses solely on rocket propulsion, has introduced the latest in its line of engines. Arroway is a 200,000-pound thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged combustion engine that will serve markets including current U.S. national security missions, commercial satellite launches, orbital space stations, and future missions not yet conceived. ... more |
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Perseverance Has a Pet Rock! Mamoa HI (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 How do you choose a rock on Mars? Sometimes you don't- it chooses you. For the past 4 months, Perseverance has had an unexpected traveling companion. Back on sol 341- that's over 100 sols ago, in early February- a rock found its way into the rover's front left wheel, and since hitching a ride, it's been transported more than 5.3 miles (8.5 km). This rock isn't doing any damage to the wheel, but ... more |
China's space tracking ship departs for 100th mission Nanjing (XNA) May 29, 2022 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 Thursday set sail for its first voyage this year from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province. The vessel will carry out its 100th maritime mission during this voyage. Yuanwang-3 has become the first ship of China's Yuanwang fleet to embrace its 100th mission. Commissioned on May 18, 1995, Yuanwang-3 is a second-generation Chinese space tracking ... more |
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Satellogic launches 4 Satellites on SpaceX Transporter-5 Mission New York NY (SPX) May 27, 2022 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation data collection, reports the launch of four additional satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. They were delivered to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit on SpaceX's Transporter-5 mission on May 25, 2022 onboard the Falcon 9 reusable, two-stage rocket, under SpaceX's Rideshare program. All four sat ... more |
NASA Supports Small Business Research to power future exploration Washington DC (SPX) May 27, 2022 NASA has selected hundreds of small businesses and dozens of research institutions to develop technology to help drive the future of space exploration, ranging from novel sensors and electronics to new types of software and cutting-edge materials. The newly awarded projects under the agency's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program also ... more |
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Geology from 50 light-years away Margaret W. Carruthers for Webb News Baltimore MD (SPX) May 27, 2022 With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon after the first observations are revealed this summer, Webb's in-depth science will begin. Among the investigations planned for the first year are studies of two hot exoplanets cla ... more |
Bern flies to Jupiter Bern, Switzerland (SPX) May 31, 2022 In spring 2023, the time will have come: The JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) space probe of the European Space Agency ESA will begin its journey into space. The Jupiter system is almost 780 million kilometers away from the sun and an icy, dark world: The average temperature on the surface of the icy moons is below minus 140 degrees Celsius. After an almost eight-year journey, JUICE will ... more |
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China's diplomatic gambit heralds new 'Battle for the Pacific' Sydney (AFP) June 3, 2022 A 10-day South Pacific island-hopping tour by China's top diplomat focused world attention on a usually overlooked region, opened a new front in Beijing's quest for global influence and challenged decades of Western primacy. On the face of it, Wang Yi's trip was a failure. His centrepiece proposal - a regional pact to turbocharge China's role in Pacific island security - was leaked to ... more |
Astrocast acquires Hiber, accelerates OEM strategy. Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 31, 2022 Astrocast, a leading global nanosatellite IoT network operator, has announced the signature of an agreement to acquire Hiber, a Netherlands-based, IoT-as-a-Service provider. Under the agreement, Astrocast agreed to acquire all of Hiber's shares in exchange for the issuance of new Astrocast shares, representing 16.5% of Astrocast's share capital, calculated prior to its previously announced publi ... more |
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NASA selects new instruments for priority Artemis science on Moon Washington DC (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Adding to the growing list of commercial deliveries slated to explore more of the Moon than ever before under Artemis, NASA has selected two new science instrument suites, including one that will study the mysterious Gruithuisen Domes for the first time. These payload suites mark the second selection through the agency's Payloads and Research Investigations on the Surface of the Moon (PRIS ... more |
Planetary Defense exercise uses Apophis as Hazardous Asteroid Stand-In Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 01, 2022 Watching the skies for large asteroids that could pose a hazard to the Earth is a global endeavor. So, to test their operational readiness, the international planetary defense community will sometimes use a real asteroid's close approach as a mock encounter with a "new" potentially hazardous asteroid. The lessons learned could limit, or even prevent, global devastation should the scenario play o ... more |
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The consequences of climate change in the Alps are visible from space Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 03, 2022 Global warming has a particularly pronounced impact on the Alpine region. Like the Arctic, this European mountain range is becoming greener. Writing in the journal Science, researchers from the University of Lausanne and the University of Basel have now used satellite data to show that vegetation above the tree line has increased in nearly 80% of the Alps. Snow cover is also decreasing, albeit s ... more |
The Sun is spinning round again Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 01, 2022 All was amiss with the Sun! In the early 2000s, a new set of data brought down the chemical abundances at the surface of the Sun, contradicting the values predicted by the standard models used by astrophysicists. Often challenged, these new abundances made it through several new analyses. As they seemed to prove correct, it was thus up to the solar models to adapt, especially since they serve as ... more |
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Strange neutron star spinning every 76 seconds is discovered in stellar graveyard Manchester UK (SPX) May 31, 2022 An international team of scientists have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds. The team, led by members of the ERC-funded MeerTRAP (More Transients and Pulsars) group at The University of Manchester say it is a unique discovery as it resides in the neutron star graveyard where they do not expect to see an ... more |
Black holes helped quenching star formation in the early Universe Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jun 02, 2022 While some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not the least because they are so distant and faint that they evade being observed. But looking at the combined light from thousands of galaxies, a team of astronomers including the University of Copenhagen showed t ... more |
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