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  Seoul (AFP) Aug 5, 2022 South Korea's first lunar orbiter successfully launched on a year-long mission to observe the Moon, Seoul said Friday, with the payload including a new disruption-tolerant network for sending data from space. Danuri - a portmanteau of the Korean words for "Moon" and "enjoy" - was on a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida by Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX. It aims to reach the Moon by mid-December. "South Korea's first lunar orbiter 'Danuri' left for space at 8:08 am on ... read more |
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RIT astrophysicists collaborate on JWST survey yielding wide view of the early universeRochester NY (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 New images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. The images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a much wi ... more  
Blue Canyon Technologies opens new factory dedicated to manufacturing cubesatsLafayette CO (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies LLC ("BCT" or "Blue Canyon"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raytheon Technologies, celebrated the grand opening of ... more  
Ten Earth Years Later On Mars Sols 3553-3554Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 05, 2022 Tosol we uplinked a two-sol plan as Curiosity continues to navigate "Paraitepuy Pass." The terrain surrounding the rover, while visually stunning, has impacted our communication bandwidth and timing ... more 
Additional Artemis I test objectives to provide added confidence in capabilitiesHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 During Artemis I, NASA plans to accomplish several primary objectives, including demonstrating the performance of the Orion spacecraft's heat shield from lunar return velocities, demonstrating opera ... more |
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US Space Force conducts innovative talent acquisition processArlington VA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 In May 2022, the U.S. Space Force held a Cyber Constructive Service (CCS) Credit Board, in which the service called for applications from civilian cyber professionals to become cyber officers in the ... more  
Using satellite imagery to protect the environment and assist humanitarian aidParis, France (SPX) Aug 02, 2022 Every year, the Airbus Foundation delivers satellite imagery covering tens of thousands of square kilometres around the globe to support its partners involved in humanitarian aid and protecting the ... 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 part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions, authorities confirmed Thursday. ... more  
ISS tests organisms, materials in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Space may look empty, but it contains extreme temperatures, high levels of background radiation, micrometeoroids, and the unfiltered glare of the Sun. In addition, materials and equipment on the out ... more |
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Blue Origin sends first Egyptian and Portuguese nationals to spaceWashington (AFP) Aug 5, 2022 Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin on Thursday launched six people to space, including the first from Egypt and Portugal, on the company's sixth crewed flight. ... more 
3 in Blue Origin crew set new world records aboard New Shepard spaceflightWashington DC (UPI) Aug 4, 2021 Private space company Blue Origin completed its sixth private human spaceflight on Thursday, carrying an American woman and two others who set a new Guinness World Record on the trip. ... more 
Artemis 1 becomes cultural, educational time capsule for trip around moonWashington DC (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 When NASA's Orion spacecraft travels beyond the Moon during Artemis I, boosted by the Space Launch System rocket on its maiden voyage, the spacecraft will carry a host of mementos for educational en ... more  
Spire Global to scale up constellation for HANCOM inSPACE with second satelliteVienna VA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has announced an agreement with HANCOM inSPACE ("Hancom"), initially a spin-off by Korea Aerospace Research Institute and now a part of HANCOM Group, for a second mis ... more |
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Quasar to deliver space data as a serviceSydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Rashmi Karanth has always been fascinated by space. As a child, she would look up to the skies and wonder what lay beyond. The computer science engineer and business technology expert also has ... more  
Researchers create the first artificial vision system for both land and waterBoston MA (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 Giving our hardware sight has empowered a host of applications in self-driving cars, object detection, and crop monitoring. But unlike animals, synthetic vision systems can't simply evolve under nat ... more 
Rocket Lab launches back-to-back spysat for NROLong Beach CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has launched its second of two back-to-back national security missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). The NROL-199 "Antipodean Adventure" mission la ... more 
Mission ends for Copernicus Sentinel-1B satelliteParis (ESA) Aug 04, 2022 On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable to deliver radar data. Sin ... more  
Unlocking gravity's secrets at the smallest scalesBethlehem PA (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 There are four fundamental forces that describe every interaction in nature: electromagnetism, the weak force, the strong force and gravity. While gravity, the mutual attraction that brings ob ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 4, 2021 
Private space company Blue Origin completed its sixth private human spaceflight on Thursday, carrying an American woman and two others who set a new Guinness World Record on the trip.
Blue Origin's New Shepard N-22 mission lifted off Thursday morning from Launch Site One in West Texas carrying six passengers on the space-tourism flight.
Onboard were Sara Sabry, Steve Young, Coby ... 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.
The primary mission of LizzieS ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 05, 2022 
Rashmi Karanth has always been fascinated by space. As a child, she would look up to the skies and wonder what lay beyond.
The computer science engineer and business technology expert also has a keen interest in data and analytics. "How you make data consumable and present it as information is something I'm very passionate about," says Karanth.
Having forged a highly successful caree ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Aug 04, 2022 
On 23 December 2021, Copernicus Sentinel-1B experienced an anomaly related to the instrument electronics power supply provided by the satellite platform, leaving it unable to deliver radar data. Since then spacecraft operators and engineers have been working tirelessly to rectify the issue. Unfortunately, despite all concerted efforts, ESA and the European Commission announce that it is the end ... 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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 Mainz, 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 studies suggest that a significant fraction of the stardust (more than 25 percent) in the solar system comes from supernova explosions and their progenitor stars. This allows us to better understand ... more |
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 Newport 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 1 percent of ordinary mass. The other 99 percent comes from phenomena associated with the strong force, the fundamental force that binds smaller particles called quarks into larger particles called pr ... more |
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