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  Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 Fifty years after the last Apollo mission, the Artemis program is poised to take up the baton of lunar exploration with a test launch on Monday of NASA's most powerful rocket ever. The goal is to return humans to the Moon for the first time since the last Apollo mission in 1972 - and eventually to Mars. The 322-foot (98-meter) Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is scheduled to blast off at 8:33 am (1233 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The mission, more than a decade in th ... read more |
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An overview of NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the MoonWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2022 NASA's Artemis 1 mission, scheduled to take off on Monday, is a 42-day voyage beyond the far side of the Moon and back. ... more 
'Long time coming': NASA 'a go' for launch of Artemis test mission to moonWashington DC (UPI) Aug 23, 2021 NASA says it's set to launch the first test flight Monday of its long-anticipated mission that will return U.S. astronauts to the moon for the first time in 50 years. ... more  
What are wormholes? An astrophysicist explains these shortcuts through space-timeBuffalo NY (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all the way around the mountain to visit one another. But, if they wanted to get there fa ... more  
DARPA selects SpaceLink to participate in its program to connect the proliferated space domainMCLean VA (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 SpaceLink, a company that provides secure data from any orbit, any time, announced it was selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Strategic Technology Office (STO) for a co ... more |
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US Space Force SSC's GEO Wide Field of View On OrbitEl Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 The United States Space Force Space Systems Command's Geosynchronous Earth Orbit Wide Field of View Testbed is online and the bus checkout is complete. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's Blossom ... more 
STARCOM executes first JNTC-accredited, largest SPACE FLAG exercise everSchriever SFB CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 Space Training and Readiness Command completed its first exercise iteration of SPACE FLAG (SPACE FLAG 22-3) since being accredited by the Joint Staff as a Joint National Training Capability. S ... more  
Kacific supports Vodafone PNG for new mobile network into rural areasSingapore (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has partnered with Vodafone PNG to deploy the satellite operator's Mobile Backhaul services, helping to greatly expand Vodafone PNG's voice and 3G/4G dat ... more  
NASA using astronomical forensics to study exploded starGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. Th ... more |
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Ready for its close-up: New technology sharpens images of black holesBoston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 When scientists unveiled humanity's historic first image of a black hole in 2019 - depicting a dark core encircled by a fiery aura of material falling toward it - they believed even richer imagery a ... more  
New study examines how many moons an earth-mass planet could hostArlington, TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 A new study by a trio of physics researchers attempts to quantify how many moons the Earth, or an exoplanet with the mass of Earth orbiting a Sun-like star, could host in its orbit. Their findings: ... more  
Orbex to hire fifty new staff over next six months, in final countdown to UK rocket launchForres, UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 UK-based launch services company Orbex is hiring an additional fifty staff members over the next six months. The new team members will support the company's final push to prepare for the first verti ... more 
Case solved: missing carbon monoxide was hiding in the iceBoston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 Astronomers frequently observe carbon monoxide in planetary nurseries. The compound is ultra-bright and extremely common in protoplanetary disks - regions of dust and gas where planets form around y ... more |
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China's space tracking ship sails for monitoring missionsBeijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2022 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 set sail for monitoring missions from its home port on Monday morning, according to China Science Daily. The vessel has prepared for the new missions as ... more 
The global hunt for dark matter has arrived in Australia at the Stawell Underground Physics LaboratoryMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 Located 1km underground in the Stawell Gold Mine, the first dark matter laboratory in the southern hemisphere is preparing to join the global quest to understand the nature of dark matter and unlock ... more  
Looking inside a neutron star using gravitational wavesBirmingham UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 The unique oscillations in binary neutron stars right before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection. Researchers at the Univer ... more  
Rhine river runs dryParis (ESA) Aug 24, 2022 Water levels on the Rhine River, Europe's second-largest river, have continued to drop owing to soaring temperatures and lack of rainfall, preventing many vessels from navigating through the waters ... more  
Madrid meteor's cometary origins unearthedParis (ESA) Aug 24, 2022 A fireball spotted over Madrid has had its astronomical ancestry unearthed. While it ended its days burning up in Earth's atmosphere on 31 July this year, the fragment began its life as part of Come ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 17, 2022  A spacewalk by two Russians on Wednesday was ended abruptly due to a problem with the battery in cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev's suit, though at no point was he in any danger, the US and Russian space agencies said.
"Oleg, you must return to the airlock as soon as possible," the Earth-based Russian mission controllers ordered, more than two hours into his trip outside the International Space Stat ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 24, 2022 
China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-3 set sail for monitoring missions from its home port on Monday morning, according to China Science Daily.
The vessel has prepared for the new missions as the technicians have completed the overhaul and test of shipborne tracking and monitoring equipment and carried out operation drills.
In 2022, Yuanwang-3 sailed for more than 70 days and complet ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 18, 2022 
An international team of researchers came up with a plasma-based way to produce and separate oxygen within the Martian environment. It's a complementary approach to NASA's Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, and it may deliver high rates of molecule production per kilogram of instrumentation sent to space.
Such a system could play a critical role in the development of life ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 23, 2022 
The Long March carrier rocket family, China's backbone launch vehicle fleet, has set a new record for successful consecutive launches after a Long March 2D launch over the weekend, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor.
The rocket blasted off at 1:37 am Saturday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province and l ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 22, 2022 
George Lordos is not your typical graduate student. A degree in economics from Oxford University, an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a 20-year professional career were not the end of his learning journey. His longtime passion for space, particularly the prospect of making a sustainable society on Mars a reality, drew him back to school yet again, this time to study aeronautics a ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
At a time when astronomers around the world are reveling in new views of the distant cosmos, an experiment on the International Space Station has given Cornell researchers fresh insight into something a little closer to home: water.
Specifically, the space station's microgravity environment illuminated the ways that water droplets oscillate and spread across solid surfaces - knowledge that ... more |
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 Arlington, TX (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 
A new study by a trio of physics researchers attempts to quantify how many moons the Earth, or an exoplanet with the mass of Earth orbiting a Sun-like star, could host in its orbit. Their findings: Anywhere from three to seven, depending on the moon's mass.
The study, titled "Moon-packing around an Earth-mass planet", was published in the August 1 online edition of the Monthly Notices of t ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Aug 18, 2022 
Below Europa's thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves on Earth, but a new study shows that the same is likely true for Jupiter's moon, where it may play a role in building its ice shell.
The underwater snow is much purer than other kinds of ice, w ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 24, 2022 
Water levels on the Rhine River, Europe's second-largest river, have continued to drop owing to soaring temperatures and lack of rainfall, preventing many vessels from navigating through the waters at full capacity. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured part of the Rhine River near Cologne - showing the stark difference between August 2021 and August 2022.
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
MariaDB Corporation has announced it has acquired CubeWerx, leaders in geospatial solutions, for an undisclosed amount. With the acquisition, MariaDB adds cloud-native, scalable geospatial capabilities that the company plans to offer through its fully managed cloud service MariaDB SkySQL. Applications that leverage geospatial data are truly transformative, enabling businesses to offer new produc ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 19, 2022 
It might be considered cheating, as this picture was taken over two Moons ago, but this Moonrise seen from the International Space Station deserves extra attention - and so, we are submitting this image for NASA's Moon Snap.
Taken by ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti from orbit during her Minerva mission, it is a sight rarely seen: Earth's natural satellite appearing over the horizon ab ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 18, 2022 
Microscopic grains of ancient material that predate our Sun's birth were found in samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission, according to new work from an international team led by Carnegie's Jens Barosch and Larry Nittler and published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Named after a Japanese folktale, Ryugu is a near-Earth object shaped kind of like a spinning ... more |
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 Camarillo CA (SPX) Aug 19, 2022 
Semtech Corporation (Nasdaq: SMTC), a leading global supplier of high performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms, announced a collaboration with New Zealand's IoT Ventures and global connectivity provider Lacuna Space.
IoT Ventures has used Semtech's LoRa devices to develop its Drought Early Warning System, a network of low-cost rainwater tank and rain monit ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 18, 2021 
A plume of "dark plasma" from the sun is expected to be overtaken by a "cannibal" solar burst that may cause an aurora display visible throughout large portions of the United States on Thursday.
The first "dark plasma explosion" was first seen on Sunday after erupting from a sunspot on the sun's surface at a speed of 1.3 million mph, tearing through the sun's atmosphere and creating a c ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 
A NASA-funded sounding rocket mission will observe the remnants of an exploded star, uncovering new details about the eruption event while testing X-ray detector technologies for future missions. The High-Resolution Microcalorimeter X-ray Imaging, or Micro-X, experiment will launch Aug. 21 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The mission's target of study is some 11,000 light- ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 24, 2022 
Imagine two towns on two opposite sides of a mountain. People from these towns would probably have to travel all the way around the mountain to visit one another. But, if they wanted to get there faster, they could dig a tunnel straight through the mountain to create a shortcut. That's the idea behind a wormhole.
A wormhole is like a tunnel between two distant points in our universe that c ... more |
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