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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney's "Encanto" and Warner Brothers' "The Batman," a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival honoring standout works of computer animated storytelling. "A Web Around Asteroid Bennu" highlights the tricky navigation it took for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2020. Produced at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, the video will show in Vancouver, British Columbia, on ... read more |
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Wide view of early universe hints at galaxy among the earliest ever detectedAustin TX (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 Two new images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope show what may be among the earliest galaxies ever observed. Both images include objects from more than 13 billion years ago, and one offers a mu ... more  
Wentian's small mechanical arm completes in-orbit testsBeijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA). With ... more 
AI helps discover new space anomaliesMoscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 The SNAD team, an international network of researchers including Matvey Kornilov, Associate Professor of the HSE University Faculty of Physics, has discovered 11 previously undetected space anomalie ... more  
Lehigh physicists to probe gravity's secrets at the smallest scalesBethlehem PA (SPX) Aug 08, 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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One Hundred days of MinervaParis (ESA) Aug 08, 2022 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti was launched to the International Space Station on 27 April as a part of Crew-4 for her second mission, Minerva. One hundred days in, mission Minerva is still go ... more  
NASA's Perseverance cores 12th sample, team assessing rover's coring bitPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 08, 2022 Images and data downlinked Thursday from Perseverance show that we've successfully cored, sealed, and stored our 12th sample of the mission. As the team always does, images of several sample collect ... more  
Perseid meteor shower peaks Aug. 12, but the full Moon may spoil the showWashington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2021 The Perseid meteor shower, one of Earth's biggest, is set to peak with best viewing starting Aug. 11. ... more  
A molecule of light and matterVienna, Austria (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 Theoretically, this effect has been predicted for a long time, but now scientists at the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at TU Wien, in cooperation with the University of Inns ... more |
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A cosmic tango points to a violent and chaotic past for distant exoplanetToowoomba, Australia (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see? For most people, such thoughts conjure up systems that mirror the Solar System: planets orbitin ... more 
Astrophysicists observe one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts everWashington DC (UPI) Aug 5, 2021 The collision of two distant neutron stars released one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts ever recorded, scientists say. ... more 
No trace of dark matter halosBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 Dwarf galaxies are small, faint galaxies that can usually be found in galaxy clusters or near larger galaxies. Because of this, they might be affected by the gravitational effects of their larger co ... more  
Madrid Flight On Chip project wraps up design processMadrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 After more than three and a half years of project, Madrid Flight On Chip (MFoC) successfully culminates providing an important milestone for the implementation of advanced technological products and ... more |
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Utah's Great Salt Lake is disappearingParis (ESA) Aug 02, 2022 Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest, forcing the fast-growing city to curb its water use. From space, satel ... more  
SpaceWorks RED-Rescue delivers goods key to survival in wartimeAtlanta GA (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 SpaceWorks successfully demonstrated RED-Rescue, its new, low-cost solution in delivering life-saving food, supplies and equipment to downed or isolated Airmen. The flight test was conducted in Marc ... more  
IOP Publishing announce Nuclear Fusion will become fully Open AccessWashington DC (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 IOP Publishing (IOPP) has announced that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) journal Nuclear Fusion (NF) will become fully open access to reflect the increasing demand for more accessible ... more 
Fusion simulation code developed to project fusion instabilities in TAESeoul, South Korea (SPX) Aug 04, 2022 On 1 August, the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy(KFE) announced that a new fusion simulation code was developed to project and analyze the Toroidal-Alfven-Eigenmode (TAE). In TAE, instabilities occ ... more  
South Korea's first lunar orbiter launched by SpaceXSeoul (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. ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 08, 2022 
The small mechanical arm mounted with Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, has successfully completed in-orbit tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
With the support of the ground team, the small mechanical arm has completed a series of in-orbit function and performance tests. All indexes performed well, achieving expected results, said the CMSA.
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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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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Aug 03, 2022 
After more than three and a half years of project, Madrid Flight On Chip (MFoC) successfully culminates providing an important milestone for the implementation of advanced technological products and introduces disruptive changes in the design and verification of complex space systems. The researchers, engineers and technicians of the consortium organizations have positioned Madrid at the forefro ... more |
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 Toowoomba, Australia (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 
If you close your eyes and imagine a system of planets orbiting a distant star, what do you see?
For most people, such thoughts conjure up systems that mirror the Solar System: planets orbiting a host star on near-circular orbits - rocky planets closer in, and giants such as Jupiter in the icy depths.
However, the more we study the cosmos, the more we begin to realise planetary syste ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Aug 02, 2022 
Utah's Great Salt Lake dropped to its lowest recorded water level last month as a megadrought persists across the US southwest, forcing the fast-growing city to curb its water use. From space, satellite images show how water levels have fallen from 1985 to 2022 - exposing large expanses of lakebed.
According to data from the US Geological Survey, the Great Salt Lake's surface water elevati ... 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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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 08, 2022 
The SNAD team, an international network of researchers including Matvey Kornilov, Associate Professor of the HSE University Faculty of Physics, has discovered 11 previously undetected space anomalies, seven of which are supernova candidates. The researchers analysed digital images of the Northern sky taken in 2018 using a k-D tree to detect anomalies through the 'nearest neighbour' method. Machi ... 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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