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  Washington (AFP) July 20, 2022 Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist who analyzed the data said Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP. "We're potentially looking at the most distant starlight that anyone has ever seen," ... read more |
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Wideband Lens for Lunar Rover microscopeChesham UK (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 Resolve Optics has received an order from a leading aerospace company to design and supply an optimised wide waveband lens for a multi-spectral microscope required for a Moon exploration mission. ... more 
NASA delays VIPER lunar rover's launch by one yearWashington DC (UPI) Jul 19, 2021 NASA is delaying a major moon mission as it continues testing the spacecraft that will deliver a rover to the lunar surface in search of water, ice and other potential resources, the agency announced Tuesday. ... more 
NASA's new Moon rocket to launch as soon as August 29Washington (AFP) July 20, 2022 Mark your calendars: NASA's Artemis program to return to the Moon could launch its first uncrewed test flight as soon as August 29, the agency said Wednesday. ... more  
Australian rocketry team regains sky wings with triple win at Spaceport America CupSydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 The USYD Rocketry Team has been announced as the overall winner of the Spaceport America Cup intercollegiate rocketry competition, held annually in New Mexico. Competing against 97 student teams fro ... more |
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Futuristic Space Habitat lands at Institut Auf Dem RosenbergHohenweg, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 Pioneering Swiss boarding school Institut auf dem Rosenberg unveiled today - the anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's famous moon landing - the Rosenberg Space Habitat (RSH), which will s ... more 
Goodyear joins Lockheed Martin to commercialize lunar mobilityDenver CP (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company supplied essential products for NASA's Apollo program, including the Apollo 11 mission which landed on the Moon 53 years ago today. The company will continue tha ... more 
A helping hand for MarsParis (ESA) Jul 20, 2022 The mission to return martian samples back to Earth will see a European 2.5 metre-long robotic arm pick up tubes filled with precious soil from Mars and transfer them to a rocket for an historic int ... more 
When Mars throws you a curveball Sol 3539-3540Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 21, 2022 The rover has been making its way along the "Bolivar" ridge, dodging small boulders and rocks that have apparently eroded off the hillside as seen in the above engineering camera image. Unfortunatel ... more |
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DLR to investigate dust from asteroid RyuguBerlin-Adlershof, Germany (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 Between June 2018 and November 2019, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 examined asteroid Ryugu, which is just under one kilometre in size, at close range. The spacecraft came into contact with Ryugu ... more  
BlueWalker 3 test satellite fully assembled and shippedMidland TX (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTS) reports that its BlueWalker 3 test satellite has been fully assembled and left its Midland, TX headquarters and manufacturing facility. Over the next few w ... more 
NASA awards launch contract for Roman Space TelescopeWashington DC (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 NASA has awarded a NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) in Hawthorne, California, to provide launch service for the Nancy Grace Roman Space T ... more 
Japanese-NASA X-ray Observatory stands tall as testing beginsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 The X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission will greatly expand our knowledge of the high-energy universe and recently passed two key milestones on its path to observing the cosmos. Nicknamed X ... more |
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Gemini's GHOST captures exquisite first light observations of chemically rich starWashington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 Gemini South, one of the world's most productive and powerful optical-infrared telescopes, received a major capability boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph ca ... more  
A New Method to Detect ExoplanetsLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single 'normal' stars. New research shows that there may be exceptions to this trend. Researchers from the Autonomous University ... more 
Unequal siblings: Ius and Tithonium ChasmaBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 When NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft reached Mars more than 50 years ago at the end of 1971 and began to explore the planet from orbit, there was initially great disappointment at the control centre: vi ... more 
Neutrino Factories in Deep Outer SpaceWurzburg, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 The Earth's atmosphere is continuously bombarded by cosmic rays. These consist of electrically charged particles of energies up to 1020 electron volts. That is a million times more than the energy a ... more 
Hey Siri: How Much Does This Galaxy Cluster WeighPittsburgh PA (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 It's been nearly a century since astronomer Fritz Zwicky first calculated the mass of the Coma Cluster, a dense collection of almost 1,000 galaxies located in the nearby universe. But estimating the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
While the International Space Station was traveling more than 267 miles over the South Atlantic Ocean, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the forward-facing port of the station's Harmony module at 11:21 a.m. EDT Jul 17, with NASA astronauts Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins monitoring operations from the station.
The Dragon launched on SpaceX's 25th contracted commercial ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
The USYD Rocketry Team has been announced as the overall winner of the Spaceport America Cup intercollegiate rocketry competition, held annually in New Mexico. Competing against 97 student teams from around the globe, including ETH Zurich and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University of Sydney team placed first in three categories - winning the overall competition with t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2022 
Curiosity is back on the road, but some interesting boulders caught our attention and led to a short detour. The team was already planning to divert to the southwest to get some imaging of nearby cliffs, but the large boulders that have tumbled down provide a tantalizing glimpse of what's to come.
Boulders like the large one shown in the above Navcam image (now named "Ilha Novo Destino") c ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 13, 2022 
China launched a Tianlian II-series satellite early on Wednesday morning to form a global network of the country's second-generation relay satellites.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 12:29 am from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China's Sichuan province and then placed the Tianlian II-03 satellite into a geostationary orbit, according to China Aerospace Sc ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
In 2016 and 2018, I was invited to Ukraine. I gave speeches about the Space Revolution at the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, in Dnipro and other venues, and met with the Mayors, leaders of the Rada, the Ukrainian cosmonaut corps, and other space leaders, as well as several groups of their rising tech community.
The folks I met there, just a couple of years after what they refer to as the "Mai ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 15, 2022 
The pressure is on at ESA's mission control. An ESA satellite dodges out of the way of a mystery piece of space junk spotted just hours before a potential collision.
Now a crucial step in the spacecraft's ongoing journey to safer skies has to be quickly rescheduled, as violent solar activity related to the ramping up of the solar cycle warps Earth's atmosphere and threatens to drag it down ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single 'normal' stars. New research shows that there may be exceptions to this trend. Researchers from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon (UANL), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and New York University Abu Dhabi suggest a new way of detecting dim bodies, including planets, orbiting exotic binary stars ... more |
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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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 Fort Collins CO (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Milky seas - the rare phenomenon of glowing areas on the ocean's surface that can cover hundreds of square miles - are not new to scientists at Colorado State University. They have previously demonstrated the use of satellites to see these elusive phenomena. What was missing were photographic observations of milky seas observed from the Earth's surface and from space at the same time.
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 Los Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
Space Systems Command awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company the contract to deliver operations and sustainment support services for the Global Positioning System IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF. The support contract provides specialized sustainment services to maintain the GPS IIR/IIR-M/III/IIIF space vehicles and signal in space, and meet evolving requirements for a resilient system for the joint wa ... more |
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 Denver CP (SPX) Jul 21, 2022 
The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company supplied essential products for NASA's Apollo program, including the Apollo 11 mission which landed on the Moon 53 years ago today. The company will continue that tradition-focusing on lunar vehicle tires-by joining Lockheed Martin in its development of a lunar mobility vehicle.
Since Apollo, Goodyear continued innovating alongside NASA to advance desig ... more |
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 Berlin-Adlershof, Germany (SPX) Jul 20, 2022 
Between June 2018 and November 2019, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 examined asteroid Ryugu, which is just under one kilometre in size, at close range. The spacecraft came into contact with Ryugu twice and collected samples from the asteroid's surface.
"Hayabusa2 was and is one of the most complex missions in the history of research into the bodies of the Solar System," emphasises Anke ... more |
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
How can we measure the well-being of our planet Earth? Scientists and researchers in Germany are now offered a new platform for analysing Earth observation satellite data. EO-Lab has been commissioned by the German Space Agency at German Aerospace Centre (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2022 
Fluctuations in space weather are disrupting train signals and causing significant delays. A project investigating the effect of solar storms on railway signals will be presented this week at the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2022) by Cameron Patterson, a PhD student at Lancaster University.
The sun's tendency to affect technology on Earth, as well as in space, is known as space weather. ... more |
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 Clemson SC (SPX) Jul 17, 2022 
Cosmic rays, charged particles that travel up to nearly the speed of light from deep outer space, constantly bombard Earth.
For more than a century, astrophysicists have tried to determine the origin of those extremely energetic particles, which are up to a million times more energetic than anything achieved by the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider near ... more |
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 Fayetteville AR (SPX) Jul 15, 2022 
A physicist at the University of Arkansas has defended the validity of the Stokes-Einstein equation, one of Albert Einstein's most famous equations, as it relates to biology. The research will help scientists better understand antibiotic resistance and the mechanical properties of cancer cells.
Working with proteins in live bacteria, Yong Wang, assistant professor in the Fulbright College ... more |
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