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  Washington (AFP) July 11, 2022 Space enthusiasts are holding their breath. The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful ever sent into orbit, is set Tuesday to unveil breathtaking new views of the Universe with a clarity that's never been seen before. Distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet are among the observatory's first targets, US space agency NASA said Friday. But the images themselves have been jealously guarded to build suspense ahead of the big reveal. "I'm looking very much forwa ... read more |
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Asteroid Bennu Reveals its Surface is Like a Plastic Ball PitGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 After analyzing data gathered when NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a sample from asteroid Bennu in October 2020, scientists have learned something astonishing: The spacecraft would have sunk ... more  
NASA Mirrors on ESA Pathfinder to Empower Space GeodesyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 NASA will supply the upcoming European Space Agency (ESA) Lunar Pathfinder mission with an array of laser retroreflectors, mirrored devices that reflect light back at its source. The retroreflectors ... more  
Terran Orbital completes CAPSTONE's First TCM BurnBoca Raton LA (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, has announced the successful complet ... more  
Australia's space future blasts off from NhulunbuySydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 Australia has taken another step towards becoming a serious contributor to the global space economy with the launch of a NASA sounding rocket from the Arnhem Space Center at Nhulunbuy in the Norther ... more |
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Web archive with astronomical photographic plates goes onlineNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers' hearts miss a beat. We ar ... more 
NASA reveals Webb telescope's first cosmic targetsWashington (AFP) July 8, 2022 NASA said Friday the first cosmic images from the James Webb Space Telescope will include unprecedented views of distant galaxies, bright nebulae, and a faraway giant gas planet. ... more 
Surface of asteroid Bennu soft like plastic ball pit, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft findsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 8, 2021 An amazing surprise greeted NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it touched down on the asteroid Bennu in 2020 - The asteroid was not what it seemed - according to research published Thursday in the journals Science and Science Advances. ... more  
Searching for Sand TransportPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 11, 2022 Perseverance is currently stopped for sampling at Skinner Ridge rock. Sampling activities constitute an important aspect of Perseverance's mission, and the rover's strategic path is developed around ... more |
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Let's go to MarsBethesda MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Sending humans to Mars has been a dream of scientists and a large part of the population ever since Nicolaus Copernicus first postulated that it was a planet, about 500 years ago. Even before that f ... more 
Porosity of the moon's crust reveals bombardment historyBoston MA (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Around 4.4 billion years ago, the early solar system resembled a game of space rock dodgeball, as massive asteroids and comets, and, later, smaller rocks and galactic debris pummeled the moon and ot ... more  
Building blocks for RNA-based life abound at center of our galaxyMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano group, that is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond to a nitrogen atom, are typically toxic. But paradoxically, they are also a key ... more 
NASA Helps Decipher How Some Distant Planets Have Clouds of SandPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 11, 2022 A new study using archival observations by the now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope found a common trait among distant worlds where the exotic clouds form. Most clouds on Earth are made of wate ... more |
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SpaceX launches $5K monthly Starlink internet service for yachts, oil rigsWashington DC (UPI) Jul 11, 2022 Elon Musk's SpaceX has announced its new Starlink Maritime service to provide satellite internet to yachts and oil rigs for $5,000 per month. Starlink Maritime on its website advertises low-la ... more  
ESA astronaut selection in the final stagesParis (ESA) Jul 08, 2022 The ESA astronaut selection has been progressing as planned, with phase two of the selection process ending in March this year, and phase three ending in June. During phase three, just over 40 ... more  
Microgravity Science Glovebox mars 20 years of Zero G researchHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 Thinking outside the box propels many NASA innovations for missions exploring space and improving life on Earth. But thinking - or working - inside the box makes scientific discoveries possible aboa ... more  
Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site starts in HainanHaikou (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 Construction of China's first commercial spacecraft launch site started Wednesday in Wenchang City, south China's island province of Hainan. As a major project of the Hainan free trade port co ... more  
City heat extremesParis (ESA) Jul 07, 2022 With air temperatures in excess of 10C above the average for the time of year in parts of Europe, the United States and Asia, June 2022 has gone down as a record breaker. The fear is that these extr ... more |
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 Boca Raton LA (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite solutions, primarily serving the United States and Allied aerospace and defense industries, has announced the successful completion of CAPSTONE's first TCM burn (TCM-1). As the first statistical maneuver of the mission, TCM-1 is designed to clean up expected dispersions from the launch vehicle injection - enabling CAPSTONE to ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 
China's first space launch site dedicated to commercial missions started construction in Wenchang, a coastal city in Hainan province, on Wednesday, according to the provincial government.
The Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site program is a joint venture of the Hainan government and three State-owned space conglomerates-China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, China Aerospace Science a ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
Is sustainable human exploration of Mars possible? How will humans affect the new environment? Around 60 researchers from the University of Bremen and other institutes are investigating these questions as part of an initiative.
On July 8, 2022, the University of Bremen is set to launch its large-scale initiative "Humans on Mars - Pathways Toward a Long-Term Sustainable Exploration and Sett ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2022 
Scientific endeavors aboard China's space station are expected to bear fruits, as the Shenzhou-14 taikonauts have devoted more time to microgravity experiments on the orbiting core module Tianhe since entering it a month ago.
China's space station is designed to be a versatile space lab, capable of accommodating 25 experiment cabinets for scientific exploration. The China Manned Space Agen ... more |
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 Leicester UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
Kleos Space Ltd, the UK subsidiary of Kleos Space S.A., is to set up operations at the Space Park Leicester, a world-leading hub for innovative research, enterprise and education in space and
earth observation. Kleos is a 'space-powered' Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a- Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider.
The new UK facility will provide access to a buoy ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 8, 2022 
From laser beams and wooden satellites to galactic tow-truck services, start-ups in Japan are trying to imagine ways to deal with a growing environmental problem: space debris.
Junk like used satellites, parts of rockets and wreckage from collisions has been piling up since the space age began, with the problem accelerating in recent decades.
"We're entering an era when many satellites w ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
Communications across the vastness of interstellar space could be enhanced by taking advantage of a star's ability to focus and magnify communication signals. A team of graduate students at Penn State is looking for just these sorts of communication signals that might be taking advantage of our own sun if transmissions were passing through our solar system.
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 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.
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 Monterrey, Mexico (AFP) July 10, 2022 
Maria Celia Navarro smiles wistfully as she remembers the now-unthinkable luxury of taking a shower in her home before a water shortage struck one of Mexico's wealthiest cities.
Nestled in mountains a few hours' drive from the US border, industrial powerhouse Monterrey boasts living standards that many Mexicans could only dream of.
Residents of the northern city, whose metropolitan area ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jul 10, 2022 
After an exclusive negotiation process that began in December 2021, Orolia - a company recognized globally for its positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) and related activities, technologies and equipment - today joins Safran Electronics and Defense, the European leader and world number three in inertial navigation systems.
Orolia employs more than 435 people in Europe and North America ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have been switched to dormant mode for the lunar night after working stably for a 44th lunar day.
The lander was switched to dormant mode at 6:00 am Wednesday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2, at 7:14 pm Tuesday, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 07, 2022 
Chinese researchers have studied the large meteorite irons to ascertain the world's longest meteorite-strewn field in Altay, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
China has successively discovered the meteorite irons at a weight of 28 tonnes, 23 tonnes, 18 tonnes, five tonnes and 0.43 tonnes in Altay. The massive Altay irons were found to comprise the longest known strewn fie ... more |
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 Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Jul 06, 2022 
An ozone hole, seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole, is currently sitting over tropical regions and has been since the 1980s, according to a Canadian researcher.
In AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, Qing-Bin Lu, a scientist from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, reveals a large, all-season ozone hole - defined as an area of ozone loss larger than 25% compared with t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
The motion of a tiny number of charged particles may solve a longstanding mystery about thin gas disks rotating around young stars, according to a new study from Caltech.
These features, called accretion disks, last tens of millions of years and are an early phase of solar system evolution. They contain a small fraction of the mass of the star around which they swirl; imagine a Saturn-like ... more |
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 Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 11, 2022 
Lots of little dots with no apparent pattern: where laypeople may just see milky gray photos sprinkled with what looks like random crumbs, it is enough to make astronomers' hearts miss a beat. We are talking about historical photographic plates showing negatives of the night sky.
Together with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and the universities of Hamburg and Tartu (Estonia ... more |
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 Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2022 
The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed - something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years - has now been solved by a team of astrophysicists whose findings are published in Nature.
The existence of over 200 quasars powered by supermassive black holes less than a billion years after the Big Bang had remained one of the outstanding problems in astrophysics becau ... more |
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