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  Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have built some of the largest rocket engines ever to light up the icy reaches of space. Now Marshall and its commercial partners have delivered one of the smallest propulsion systems in its history, designed to help propel an upcoming NASA mission to shed new light on the Moon's South Pole - in search of a much more useful type of ice. Lunar Flashlight, no larger than a briefcase, is an innovative, low-cost CubeSat developed ... read more |
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Webb: Engineered to Endure Micrometeoroid ImpactsBaltimore MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft, which routinely sustain many impacts over the course of long and productive science missions in space. Between May 23 an ... more 
UK and US to launch Joint Mission Aboard UK's first Virgin Orbit orbital flightLong Beach CA (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) announces today that a joint mission between the United Kingdom's Defense Science and Technology Laboratory and the United States Naval Research ... more  
Comet Interceptor approved for constructionParis (ESA) Jun 09, 2022 ESA's Comet Interceptor mission to visit a pristine comet or other interstellar object just starting its journey into the inner Solar System has been 'adopted' this week; the study phase is complete ... more  
Keeping Our Sense of Direction: Dealing With a Dead SensorPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 As the season has turned to winter in Jezero Crater, conditions have become increasingly challenging for Ingenuity, which was designed for a short flight-test campaign during the much warmer Martian ... more |
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NASA's Lucy Mission Continues Solar Array Deployment ProcessPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2022 NASA's Lucy mission team is in the midst of a multi-stage effort to further deploy the spacecraft's unlatched solar array. On May 9, the team commanded the spacecraft to operate the array's deployme ... more  
NASA's Europa Clipper Mission Completes Main Body of the SpacecraftPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 The agency's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft. The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been ... more 
SpaceX launches Nilesat 301 satellite, recovers Falcon 9 first stageWashington DC (UPI) Jun 8, 2021 SpaceX on Wednesday launched a communications satellite and recovered its Falcon 9 rocket at sea. ... more  
Dragon Mission on Hold as Astronauts Conduct Eye Exams, Spacesuit WorkWashington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 NASA and SpaceX are standing down from this week's Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-25 cargo mission to the International Space Station. Officials from NASA and SpaceX met today to discuss an issue identi ... more |
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NASA Supplier Completes Manufacturing Artemis III SLS Booster MotorsPromontory UT (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 The 10 Space Launch System (SLS) rocket motor segments that will help launch the Artemis III crew on their mission to land on the Moon are complete. Teams finished manufacturing the segments for the ... more 
CIRCE space weather suite announced for first UK satellite launchLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory's (Dstl) miniaturised space weather instrumentation suite will be one of the payloads aboard Virgin Orbit which is targeting the first UK satellite laun ... more 
Mars sleeps with one eye openParis (ESA) Jun 09, 2022 This scarred and colourful (by martian standards!) landscape shows part of Aonia Terra, an upland region in the southern highlands of Mars. The image was taken by ESA's Mars Express on 25 April 2022 ... more  
France Signs Artemis Accords as French Space Agency Marks MilestoneWashington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, affirming its commitment to sustainable space exploration that follows a common set of principles promoting beneficial use of space for all ... more |
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Detecting new particles around black holes with gravitational wavesAmsterdam. Netherlands (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 Clouds of ultralight particles can form around rotating black holes. A team of physicists from the University of Amsterdam and Harvard University now show that these clouds would leave a characteris ... more  
Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System ScienceBoston MA (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the Universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observ ... more 
Colossal collisions linked to solar system scienceNottingham UK (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observ ... more 
Abell 2146: Colossal Collisions Linked to Solar System ScienceHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the Universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observ ... more 
New insights into neutron star matterDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 Throughout the Universe, neutron stars are born in supernova explosions that mark the end of the life of massive stars. Sometimes neutron stars are bound in binary systems and will eventually collid ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
NASA and SpaceX are standing down from this week's Falcon 9 launch of the CRS-25 cargo mission to the International Space Station. Officials from NASA and SpaceX met today to discuss an issue identified over the weekend and the best path forward.
During propellant loading of the Dragon spacecraft, elevated vapor readings of mono-methyl hydrazine (MMH) were measured in an isolated region of ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 8, 2021 
SpaceX on Wednesday launched a communications satellite and recovered its Falcon 9 rocket at sea.
Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, carrying a Nilesat 301 satellite at 5:04 p.m. on Wednesday.
The rocket's first stage booster returned to earth about 8 minutes and 45 seconds after launch and touched down on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions d ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 07, 2022 
An international research team including the University of Gottingen has investigated the chances of survival of kombucha cultures under Mars-like conditions. Kombucha is known as a drink, sometimes called tea fungus or mushroom tea, which is produced by fermenting sugared tea using kombucha cultures - a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. Although the simulated Martian environment destroye ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 05, 2022 
China on Sunday successfully launched a manned mission to its Tiangong Space Station.
The three-person crew launched on the Shenzhou-14 spacecraft from the Jiquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert at 10:44 a.m. local time with the astronauts entering the Tianhe core module at 8:50 p.m.
The astronauts - Chen Dong, Liu Yang and Cai Xuzhe - will live and work in space for six m ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 7, 2021 
Maine leaders have long been searching for ways to keep more of high school and college graduates from leaving the state. But lobstering and forestry, two stalwarts of the Maine economy, aren't what they used to be.
Enter the new space economy.
"There's something sexy about space," Terry Shehata, executive director of the Maine Space Grant Consortium, a NASA-funded nonprofit, tol ... more |
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 Centennial CO (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
SEAKR Engineering, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, announced a successful demonstration of optical inter-satellite links between two Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Mandrake 2 satellites. During the first test, more than 280 gigabits of data were transferred at a range of 114 kilometers during a period of more than 40 minutes.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 07, 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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 08, 2022 
The agency's mission to explore Jupiter's icy moon takes a big step forward as engineers deliver a major component of the spacecraft.
The main body of NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has been delivered to the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Over the next two years there, engineers and technicians will finish assembling the craft by hand before testing it to make ... more |
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 Dili, East Timor (AFP) June 3, 2022 
China's foreign minister signed a series of agreements in East Timor on his final stop of a 10-day diplomatic blitz of the South Pacific on Friday, boosting ties between Beijing and Southeast Asia's youngest country.
Wang Yi met with East Timor's top diplomat Adaljiza Magno in the capital Dili for a signing ceremony where they penned agreements on agriculture, media partnerships and economic ... more |
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 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
France is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, affirming its commitment to sustainable space exploration that follows a common set of principles promoting beneficial use of space for all of humanity.
Philippe Baptiste, president of the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) - the French space agency - signed the document during an event hosted by the Ambassador of France to t ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 09, 2022 
ESA's Comet Interceptor mission to visit a pristine comet or other interstellar object just starting its journey into the inner Solar System has been 'adopted' this week; the study phase is complete and, following selection of the spacecraft prime contractor, work will soon begin to build the mission.
Comet Interceptor will share a ride into space with ESA's Ariel exoplanet mission in 2029. The ... more |
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 Grenoble, France (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
Lynred, a leading global provider of high-quality infrared (IR) detectors for the aerospace, defense and commercial markets, today announces the launch of two multispectral linear array IR detectors for application in a range of Earth observation missions. Pega and Capyork are designed for integration into imaging satellites, tracking and measurement instruments used in water cycle observation a ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
Solar flares are among the most violent explosions in our solar system, but despite their immense energy - equivalent to a hundred billion atomic bombs detonating at once - physicists still haven't been able to answer exactly how these sudden eruptions on the Sun are able to launch particles to Earth, nearly 93 million miles away, in under an hour.
Now, in a study published June 8 in Natur ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jun 09, 2022 
Micrometeoroid strikes are an unavoidable aspect of operating any spacecraft, which routinely sustain many impacts over the course of long and productive science missions in space. Between May 23 and 25, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope sustained an impact to one of its primary mirror segments. After initial assessments, the team found the telescope is still performing at a level that exceeds a ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 08, 2022 
A group of astronomers led by Sarah Bosman from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have robustly timed the end of the epoch of reionisation of the neutral hydrogen gas to about 1.1 billion years after the Big Bang. Reionisation began when the first generation of stars formed after the cosmic "dark ages", a long period when neutral gas alone filled the Universe without any sources of light. T ... more |
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