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  Washington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2022 United Launch Alliance launched a missile warning satellite for the U.S. Space Force on Thursday morning. ULA launched SBIRS GEO-6, into orbit on its Atlas V rocket on time at 6:29am. The SBIRS GEO-6 is an enhanced satellite built by Lockheed Martin that uses the LM 2100 Combat Bus to provide "even greater resiliency and cyber-hardening against growing threats," ULA said. ... read more |
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As reflective satellites fill the skies, UA students helping astronomers adaptTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to Earth, especially during the first few hours after sunset and the first few hours before sunrise. As more companies l ... more  
SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddockSydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was confirmed to be part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions by authorities Thursday. ... more 
Slingshot Aerospace acquires Numerica's space division and UK-Based SeradataAustin TX (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building space simulation and analytics products to accelerate space sustainability, has announced that the company has acquired Numerica's Space Domain Awarenes ... more 
ASTRA announces major new equity facilityWashington DC (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Astra Space, Inc. (NASDAQ: ASTR) has entered into a common stock purchase agreement with B. Riley Principal Capital II, LLC ("B. Riley Principal Capital II"). The agreement governs a Committed Equit ... more |
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Tonga eruption blasted unprecedented amount of water into stratospherePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2022 When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan. 15, it sent a tsunami racing around the world and set off a sonic boom that circled the globe twice. The underwater eruption in the South P ... more  
International Space Agency Teamwork puts the Whole World in our HandsHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 NASA data scientist Dr. Manil Maskey has a calm demeanor and a ready smile. He's also a trailblazer. With peers from around the world, he has created an unprecedented tool to bring our planet down t ... more  
First global map of cargo ship pollution reveals effects of fuel regulationsBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 A new study in Science Advances led by UMBC's Tianle Yuan used satellite data from 2003 - 2020 to determine the effect of fuel regulations on pollution from cargo ships. The research team's data rev ... more 
NASA's mineral dust detector on ISS starts gathering data with EMITPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2022 Newly installed on the space station, the instrument, called EMIT, will help answer questions about how mineral dust from Earth's arid regions affects climate. After being installed on the ext ... more |
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'We're going;' NASA says its ready for Artemis I unmanned trip to moonWashington DC (UPI) Aug 3, 2021 Sounding like an excited new parent, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson declared during a press briefing Wednesday that the agency's Artemis mission is ready to take its first physical steps to return to the moon and sometime later head to Mars. ... more  
Major new investment accelerates construction of the Giant Magellan TelescopePasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 The Giant Magellan Telescope, the most powerful telescope ever engineered using the world's largest mirrors, today announced it has secured a $205 million investment from its international consortiu ... more  
Virgin Galactic secures land for new astronaut campus and training facilityTustin CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) has secured land to move forward with a new astronaut campus and training facility in the State of New Mexico, near the Company's commercial operations he ... more  
NASA team troubleshoots asteroid-bound Lucy across the solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Following the successful launch of NASA's Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021, a group of engineers huddled around a long conference table in Titusville, Florida. Lucy was mere hours into its 12-year f ... more |
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Through the Pass We Go Sols 3551-3552Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2022 Curiosity is making its way through the stunning "Paraitepuy Pass," the little canyon that runs between the "Deepdale" and "Bolivar" buttes to our east and west, respectively. The canyon floor is fi ... more  
The strength of the strong forceNewport News VA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Much ado was made about the Higgs boson when this elusive particle was discovered in 2012. Though it was touted as giving ordinary matter mass, interactions with the Higgs field only generate about ... more 
More supernova dust in the solar systemMainz, Germany (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Until recently, cosmochemists and astrophysicists assumed that supernovae and their progenitors, the supergiant stars, contributed only little of our solar system's stardust content. However, recent ... more  
HKU Laboratory for Space Research put a positive spin on the Buckyball 'C60Hong Kong, China (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 Is there now at long last some plausible theoretical basis for the molecular origins and carriers of at least some of the most prominent so called 'UIE' (unidentified Infrared Emission) bands that h ... more 
Rocky road ahead still not the good kind: Sols 3548-3550Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2022 For this 3-sol weekend plan, I worked as the Tactical Uplink Lead. This morning we came in to discover that the drive had stopped early due to high slip on the steep terrain, and our parking place w ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 01, 2022 
NewSpace is a recently formed movement and philosophy that encompasses a globally emerging private spaceflight industry. This term is generally used in connection with a global private sector of new aerospace companies and ventures.
One primary objective is to develop faster, better and cheaper access to space and spaceflight technologies. This movement is thought to be a major driving for ... more |
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 Tustin CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
Virgin Galactic Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: SPCE) has secured land to move forward with a new astronaut campus and training facility in the State of New Mexico, near the Company's commercial operations headquarters.
The land, located in Sierra County, will be home to a new, first of its kind astronaut campus, for exclusive use by Virgin Galactic Future Astronauts and up to three of their guests ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 02, 2022 
For this 3-sol weekend plan, I worked as the Tactical Uplink Lead. This morning we came in to discover that the drive had stopped early due to high slip on the steep terrain, and our parking place was not a safe spot to unstow and use the arm. So we quickly switched gears and loaded up the plan with lots of remote science.
This terrain is particularly beautiful, so the opportunity to take ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Jul 28, 2022 
China on Wednesday sent six new satellites into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
The satellites, including a new space technology test satellite and a test satellite for probing atmospheric density, were launched by a Lijian-1 carrier rocket at 12:12 p.m. Beijing Time and entered the orbit successfully.
The Lijian-1 solid-propellant rocket was indepe ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection is pleased to announce its selection of Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS) to provide cloud storage of mission critical Satellite-as-a-Service operation and customer data for the upcoming LizzieSat Constellation.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 29, 2022 
Debris of the recently launched Long March 5B carrier rocket of China fell back to the Earth and ended up in the Pacific Ocean early Sunday morning, with most of the remnants burnt up during the reentry process, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The debris' atmospheric reentry and crash took place around 12:55 am (Beijing time), the agency said in a brief statement, noting the touchdown ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 02, 2022 
A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years from the Earth. This is the first discovery by a new instrument on the Subaru Telescope and offers a chance to investigate the possibility of life on planets around nearby stars. With such a successful first result, we can expect that the Subaru Telescope will discover more, potentially even bette ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2022 
Because it's bigger, Jupiter ought to have larger, more spectacular rings than Saturn has. But new UC Riverside research shows Jupiter's massive moons prevent that vision from lighting up the night sky.
"It's long bothered me why Jupiter doesn't have even more amazing rings that would put Saturn's to shame," said UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane, who led the research.
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 Sydney (AFP) Aug 4, 2022 
Parts of Australia's beleaguered Great Barrier Reef now have the highest levels of coral cover seen in decades, a government report said Thursday, suggesting the aquatic wonder could survive given the chance.
Portions of the vast UNESCO heritage site showed a marked increase in coral cover in the last year, reaching levels not seen in 36 years of monitoring, the Australian Institute of Marin ... more |
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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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 Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2022 
The specially trained woolly astronaut, Shaun the Sheep, has been assigned a seat on the Artemis I mission to the Moon, it was announced today.
Shaun's assignment was announced by ESA's Director for Human and Robotic Exploration Dr David Parker.
David Parker said, "Shaun's mission assignment rounds off the first phase for the latest members of our astronaut corps, with Italian ESA as ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 
Following the successful launch of NASA's Lucy spacecraft on Oct. 16, 2021, a group of engineers huddled around a long conference table in Titusville, Florida. Lucy was mere hours into its 12-year flight, but an unexpected challenge had surfaced for the first-ever Trojan asteroids mission.
Data indicated that one of Lucy's solar arrays powering the spacecraft's systems - designed to unfurl ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 29, 2022 
China used a Long March 2D carrier rocket to launch several remote-sensing satellites on Friday night, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 9:28 pm at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and soon placed the Yaogan 35-02 satellites, the third group of spacecrafts in the Yaogan 35 remot ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 2, 2021 
A solar storm birthed from a hole in the sun's atmosphere is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field Wednesday.
Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center are calling for a chance of a geomagnetic storm, caused by a southern hole in the sun's atmosphere.
The gaseous material is flowing from the hole in the sun's atmosphere ... more |
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 Yekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Jul 27, 2022 
For the first time in the history of observations, scientists from the Helsinki and Ural Federal Universities Jarmo Moilanen and Maria Gritsevich have systematized information about all forms of atmospheric halos recorded by mankind at the end of 2021. From numerous sources of data on observations, the history of which includes 4-5 millennia, 119 different forms of atmospheric halo are known tod ... more |
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 Matsumoto, Japan (SPX) Jul 26, 2022  The team* led by Prof. Toru Misawa of the School of General Education, Shinshu University found for the first time that the internal donut-shaped structure of the central nuclei of bright galaxies in the distant universe can have an "anisotropic" effect on the gas distributed over a vast area around them.
Because luminous nuclei of distant galaxies (qua ... more |
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