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Bernese researchers simulate defense of the Earth Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the world's first full-scale planetary defense test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth. Researchers of the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS now show that instead of leaving behind a relatively small crater, the impact of the DART spacecraft on its target could leave the asteroid near unrecognizable. 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid impact on the Earth likely caused the extinc ... read more |
SpaceX launches first C-band television broadcast satellite into space for SES Washington DC (UPI) Jun 30, 2021 The first television broadcast satellite under SES's C-band lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening on a SpaceX rocket. ... more Houston TX (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 Just like us, robots can't see through walls. Sometimes they need a little help to get where they're going. Engineers at Rice University have developed a method that allows humans to help robots "se ... more Paris (AFP) June 28, 2022 Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the creatures of the deep oceans exist in a world of unlikely profusion, surviving on scant food and under pressure that would crush human lungs. ... more Paris (AFP) June 30, 2022 Astronauts lose decades' worth of bone mass in space that many do not recover even after a year back on Earth, researchers said Thursday, warning that it could be a "big concern" for future missions to Mars. ... more |
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Air Force hosts service chiefs to discuss JADC2 Washington DC (AFNS) Jun 30, 2022 Reemphasizing a critical joint partnership in all-domain warfare, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. met with his fellow service chiefs from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Space Force Jun ... more Andersen AFB, Guam (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 During the Defense Department's Valiant Shield 22 exercise this month, Raytheon Intelligence and Space, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) business, successfully demonstrated the ability to collect ... more Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA), a leading provider of advanced technology and services to the rapidly expanding global space industry, announced at the 2022 UN Ocean Conference a major new contribution to inter ... more Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 "I'll miss the "ah ha" moments," said Col. Eric Felt, director of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, who will depart AFRL for an assignment at the Pentagon in July. ... more |
NASA previews 'emotional' impact of James Webb images ahead of release Washington DC (UPI) Jun 29, 2021 The highly anticipated first photos from the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope provided scientists with an emotional experience, NASA officials said Wednesday, two weeks before their public release. ... more Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 Many of us have probably already - literally - handled the chemical compound iso-propanol: it can used as an antiseptic, a solvent or a cleaning agent. But this substance is not only found on Earth: ... more Wallops Island VA (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 A NASA aircraft will fly over the I-95 corridor from Washington to Baltimore and Hampton, Virginia, in support of an atmospheric campaign in the mid-Atlantic region between July 5 and 16, 2022. ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 Researchers have shown that a new mid-infrared spectrometer can precisely measure the ratios of different forms of water - known as isotopologues - in atmospheric water vapor through open air in a l ... more |
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Swarm of Tiny Swimming Robots Could Look for Life on Distant Worlds Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 29, 2022 Someday, a swarm of cellphone-size robots could whisk through the water beneath the miles-thick icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus, looking for signs of alien life. Packed ... more Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) reports that its Lunar Photon spacecraft has successfully completed the third of seven planned orbit raising maneuvers, bringing the CAPSTONE spacecraft closer to ... more Beijing (XNA) Jun 30, 2022 Tianwen 1, China's historic Mars mission, has accomplished all its preset scientific tasks, according to the China National Space Administration. The administration said on Wednesday that the ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2022 Telescopes designed to operate in space have to be constructed differently than those meant to operate on the ground. But what about telescopes that operate in between? An upcoming NASA missio ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 30, 2022 Just in time for worldwide Asteroid Day: a threatening space rock lingered at the top of risk lists around the globe for months, with a real chance of impacting Earth on 2 April 2052. Now, ESA's ast ... more |
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Rocket Lab's Lunar Photon completes 3rd orbit raising maneuver for CAPSTONE Moon mission Long Beach CA (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) reports that its Lunar Photon spacecraft has successfully completed the third of seven planned orbit raising maneuvers, bringing the CAPSTONE spacecraft closer to the Moon. Owned and operated by Advanced Space on behalf of NASA, the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (CAPSTONE) CubeSat will be the first ... more |
SpaceX launches first C-band television broadcast satellite into space for SES Washington DC (UPI) Jun 30, 2021 The first television broadcast satellite under SES's C-band lifted off from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday evening on a SpaceX rocket. SES, a video and data solutions company, said the satellite will free up the lower 300 MHz of C-band spectrum to ensure the company can provide video and data services to its customers while enabling wireless operators to quickly deploy 5G services across t ... more |
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My Favorite Martian Image: 'Enchanted' Rocks at Jezero Crater Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 30, 2022 Not even Obi-Wan Kenobi could convince Perseverance's Katie Stack Morgan that these are not the rocks she's looking for. Ask any space explorer, and they'll have a favorite photograph or two from their mission. For Katie Stack Morgan, the deputy project scientist for NASA's Perseverance Mars rover, the first close-up image of layered rocks at the base of Jezero Crater's ancient river delta ... more |
Shenzhou XIII astronauts doing well after returning to Earth Beijing (XNA) Jun 30, 2022 The three crew members of the Shenzhou XIII have recovered from the physical effects of their six-month mission and will return to routine training after medical assessment, according to the chief of the People's Liberation Army Astronaut Division. Major General Jing Haipeng, commander of the division, told a news conference at the unit's headquarters in northwestern Beijing on Tuesday tha ... more |
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Inmarsat report calls for enhanced debris mitigation and stronger regulations in space London, UK (SPX) Jun 28, 2022 Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has issued a far-reaching report on sustainability in space calling on industry operators, national governments and regulators to take coordinated action to reduce space debris, enhance safety and better manage the expansion of mega constellations in Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The report, produced in partnership with resear ... more |
GMV cements leadership in collision avoidance operations automation and coordination in Europe Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 Space is getting congested and today, active collision avoidance has become a routine task in space operations, relying on validated, accurate and timely space surveillance data. For a typical satellite in LEO, hundreds of conjunction alerts can be expected every week. Processing and filtering these still leaves about two actionable alerts per spacecraft and week requiring detailed follow-up by ... more |
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Long-term liquid water also on non-Earth-like planets Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 Liquid water is an important prerequisite for life to develop on a planet. As researchers from the University of Bern, the University of Zurich and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS report in a new study, liquid water could also exist for billions of years on planets that are very different from Earth. This calls our currently Earth-centred idea of potentially habitabl ... more |
You can help scientists study the atmosphere on Jupiter Minneapolis MN (SPX) Jun 23, 2022 A new citizen science project, led by researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with support from NASA, allows volunteers to play an important role in helping scientists learn more about the atmosphere on Jupiter. Citizen scientists can help astrophysicists categorize tens of thousands of stunning images taken from the Juno spacecraft with just a web browser. The planet Jupite ... more |
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Life in the abyss, a spectacular and fragile struggle for survival Paris (AFP) June 28, 2022 Cloaked in darkness and mystery, the creatures of the deep oceans exist in a world of unlikely profusion, surviving on scant food and under pressure that would crush human lungs. This extremely hostile environment, which will come under the spotlight at a major United Nations oceans summit in Lisbon this week, has caused its inhabitants to develop a prodigious array of alien characteristics ... more |
The face of Galileo Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2022 Ahead of Galileo satellites like this one going to space, they are switched on as if already operating there within ESA's Maxwell EMC Facility. This test procedure is a check of the satellite's 'electromagnetic compatibility', with all its systems running together to detect any harmful interference between them. Once Maxwell's main door is sealed, its metal walls form a 'Faraday Cage', scr ... more |
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spots rocket impact site on Moon Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 24, 2022 Astronomers discovered a rocket body heading toward a lunar collision late last year. Impact occurred March 4, with NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter later spotting the resulting crater. Surprisingly the crater is actually two craters, an eastern crater (18-meter diameter, about 19.5 yards) superimposed on a western crater (16-meter diameter, about 17.5 yards). The double crater was unex ... more |
Exotic carbon microcrystals in meteorite dust Chelyabinsk, Russia (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 The largest meteorite observed so far this century entered the Earth's atmosphere above Chelyabinsk in the Southern Urals, Russia on February 15, 2013. Unusually, dust from the surface of this meteorite survived its fall and is being extensively studied. This dust includes some unusually shaped microcrystals of carbon. A study of the morphology and simulations of the formation of these cry ... more |
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NASA aircraft conducting atmospheric studies over DC to Baltimore Wallops Island VA (SPX) Jun 30, 2022 A NASA aircraft will fly over the I-95 corridor from Washington to Baltimore and Hampton, Virginia, in support of an atmospheric campaign in the mid-Atlantic region between July 5 and 16, 2022. The four-engine turboprop P-3 aircraft, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will fly five days during the 12-day period at altitudes from 1,000 to 10,000 feet. Each flight dur ... more |
Are the Sun's magnetic arches an optical illusion Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2022 From afar, the Sun appears blank and featureless in visible light. But through a solar telescope in different wavelength, it is revealed to be much, much more. In extreme ultraviolet light, the Sun resembles a rumpled ball of yarn. It teems with giant radiant arcs known as coronal loops soaring through the Sun's corona, or outer atmosphere. Coronal loops are considered fundamental to the S ... more |
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Webb telescope: NASA to reveal deepest image ever taken of Universe Washington (AFP) June 29, 2022 NASA administrator Bill Nelson said Wednesday the agency will reveal the "deepest image of our Universe that has ever been taken" on July 12, thanks to the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope. "If you think about that, this is farther than humanity has ever looked before," Nelson said during a press briefing at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, the operations cente ... more |
Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jun 29, 2022 To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can "live" outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of our left-handed universe. They designed a mind-bending experiment at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory to try to detect a particle that has been speculated but not spotted. If fo ... more |
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