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  Washington DC (UPI) Aug 30, 2021 Engineers with NASA have repaired an issue with the space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft, but have yet to identify the cause of the problem, officials confirmed on Tuesday. The probe had been sending garbled data about its status, including information about its health and activities to mission controllers, despite otherwise operating normally. NASA also said the rest of the probe appeared healthy as it continued to gather and return scientific data. "The team has since located the ... read more |
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New launch attempt Saturday for NASA's Moon rocket: officialKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Aug 30, 2022 NASA will make a second attempt to launch its powerful new Moon rocket on Saturday, after scrubbing a test flight earlier in the week, an official said. ... more  
Sol 3572: And Now for Something Completely Different? Or Not!Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 23, 2022 We are almost through Paraitepuy pass, an area between two large buttes that has made for tricky driving while dealing with communication challenges, sand and broken-up rocks. But the end is in sigh ... more  
Comet impacts formed continents when Solar System entered galactic armsPerth, Australia (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 New Curtin research has found evidence that Earth's early continents resulted from being hit by comets as our Solar System passed into and out of the spiral arms of the Milky Way Galaxy, turning tra ... more  
BlackSky awarded NASA contract to advance Earth Science researchHerndon VA (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received its first call order, worth $1.7 million, from NASA to evaluate accessibility, accuracy, quality and utility of the Company's imaging data services for ... more |
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Scientists evaluate Earth-cooling strategies with geoengineering simulationsIthaca NY (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 A group of international scientists led by Cornell is - more rigorously and systematically than ever before - evaluating if and how the stratosphere could be made just a little bit "brighter," refle ... more  
AFRL partners with NASA, academia, industry on spacecraft flight experimentKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate in collaboration with the Georgia Tech Research Institute, or GTRI, NASA and DuPont de Nemours, Inc., has a brand-new spacecraft material ... more  
Beijing says Washington still waging Cold War in spaceBeijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2022 Regarding space exploration as an integral part of the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, China has always kept an open attitude to international cooperation and it is committ ... more  
Nontoxic material found to be ultra-strong solar energy harvesterLondon, UK (SPX) Aug 29, 2022 Solar cells are vital for the green energy transition. They can be used not only on rooftops and solar farms but also for powering autonomous vehicles, such as planes and satellites. However, photov ... more |
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Globalstar and Globalsat to Deploy IoT Solution for Monitoring of Renewable Energy Stations in Latin AmericaPanama City, Panama (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 Globalstar (NYSE American: GSAT), has partnered with Globalsat Group to deploy a jointly developed IoT solution powered by Globalstar's satellite network designed to monitor renewable energy station ... more  
ESA technology for safer, smarter European roadsParis (ESA) Aug 30, 2022 An agreement signed yesterday looks to extend the use of ESA space technology along European roads. The Agency's Navigation Directorate has finalised a Memorandum of Intent with ERTICO, the organisa ... more 
Sols 3573-3574: Making up for Lost Contact SciencePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 24, 2022 It was a busy day for the Curiosity uplink team! After our arm activity and data volume restrictions described by Lucy Thompson from last plan, we came in today with ~120% downlinked data performanc ... more  
Discovery of the oldest visible planetary nebula hosted by a 500 million year old galactic clusterHong Kong (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 An international team of astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have discovered a rare celestial jewel- ... more |
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Space tech: In Jilin, they build satellitesBeijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2022 Over the past decade, Chen Maosheng and his team have manufactured satellites - a lot of them. They've built 53 Jilin-1 Gaofen-03 satellites, 43 of which have been launched and operated in orbit. ... more  
NASA to fly six scientific balloons from New MexicoWallops Island VA (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 NASA's Scientific Balloon Program is moving full-steam ahead into the fall 2022 campaign with six scientific, engineering, and student balloon flights supporting 17 missions. The flights are schedul ... more 
Allen Dufort: Coding a cutting-edge space telescopeProvidence RI (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 In July, as the world marveled at the first images of the Cosmic Cliffs and previously invisible areas of star birth revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope, Allen Dufort felt excited that he'd s ... more  
NASA schedules SwRI-led PUNCH mission to launch in 2025San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 More than 60 engineers and scientists are gathering at Southwest Research Institute Aug. 23-24 to kick off the launch vehicle collaboration for NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere ... more 
Webb inspects the heart of the Phantom GalaxyParis (ESA) Aug 30, 2022 New images of the spectacular Phantom Galaxy, M74, showcase the power of space observatories working together in multiple wavelengths. In this case, data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Teles ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2022  Recently, the Russian space agency Roscosmos declared that Russia would depart the International Space Station program "after 2024", while the US Congress authorized NASA to extend the program to 2030. In that same week, Russians circulated a horrific video of a Ukrainian soldier being castrated before his murder by Putin's invading troops, while dozens of other Ukrainian POWs were slaughtered while being held in Russian captivity.
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 Kent WA (SPX) Aug 28, 2022  On August 31, New Shepard's 23rd mission, a dedicated payloads flight, will fly 36 payloads from academia, research institutions, and students across the globe. The launch window opens at 8:30 AM CDT / 13:30 UTC from Launch Site One in West Texas.
This mission brings the total number of commercial payloads flown on the vehicle to more than 150. Two of the payloa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2022 
Coming in to work on the three-sol plan for the weekend, we were met with another set of stunning Images of the landscape around us. But for the Rover Planners the thing that really stood out is just how close we are to the very large rock (which you can see in the above image). Fortunately, Curiosity is safe and sound and ready for another set of exciting activities on Mars.
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 28, 2022 
The energy particle detector deployed on Wentian, the first lab module of China's space station, will help the Shenzhou-14 crew members carry out extravehicular activities (EVAs), according to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA).
The Wentian module has been operating stably in orbit for nearly a month, and the Shenzhou-14 crew have been training and preparing for their first EVAs during t ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 26, 2022 
Elon Musk's SpaceX satellites will connect directly to T-Mobile cellphones to provide service access even in the most remote places beyond the reach of cell towers from next year, the two companies announced Thursday.
The new service, which will work on existing cellphones and utilize SpaceX's network of thousands of Starlink satellites in Earth's orbit, will begin offering text messaging se ... more |
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In NASA's hunt for water and resources beyond Earth, a new technology could coat the "skin" of a satellite, turning its entire surface into a sensor that tallies the chemicals present on distant planets.
Solving the mysteries of our home planet, solar system, and beyond is a key priority for NASA, and the new sensor could be a powerful tool in the investigation. Mahmooda Sultana, an instru ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 25, 2022  The months-old James Webb Space Telescope has added another major scientific discovery to its growing list: detecting for the first time signs of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.
Although the exoplanet would never be able to support life as we know it, the successful discovery of CO2 gives researchers hope that similar observations could be carried out o ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 24, 2021 
As part of a cosmic phenomenon called retrograde motion, Uranus - the second-to-last planet in our solar system - will reverse its eastward course on Wednesday and begin moving west in the sky for a few months.
Retrograde motion occurs as the Earth moves around the sun and the stellar views at night change little by little. The orbit, in turn, makes objects like planets in our solar s ... more |
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 Reston VA (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), a FORTUNE 500 science and technology leader, was recently selected by the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to design and build a medium-size unmanned undersea vehicle. The single award, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract holds an approximate value of $358 million if all options are exercised. Work will be performed primarily in Lynnwood, Washington.
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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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 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 a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 
Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, the DART investigation team last month completed a six-night observation campaign to confirm earlier calculations of the orbit of Dimorphos-DART's asteroid target-around its larger parent asteroid, Didymos, confirming where the asteroid is expected to be located at the time of impact. DART, which is the world's first attempt to change the speed ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) received its first call order, worth $1.7 million, from NASA to evaluate accessibility, accuracy, quality and utility of the Company's imaging data services for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.
"New discoveries in Earth science can be accelerated with innovative research methods and real-time dynamic data sets that keep up with ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2022 
More than 60 engineers and scientists are gathering at Southwest Research Institute Aug. 23-24 to kick off the launch vehicle collaboration for NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission.
PUNCH, which will study the inception of the solar wind, has secured its ride into Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, sharing a ride into space with NASA's Spectro-Photomete ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 
An international team of astronomers led by members of the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) and Department of Physics at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), have discovered a rare celestial jewel-a so-called Planetary Nebula (PN) inside a 500 million-year-old Galactic Open Cluster (OC) called M37 (also known as NGC2099). This is a very rare finding of high astrophysical value. Their findings h ... more |
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 Stony Brook NY (SPX) Aug 25, 2022 
Much of the matter in the universe remains unknown and undefined, yet theoretical physicists continue to gain clues to the properties of dark matter and black holes. A study by a team of scientists including three from Stony Brook University proposes a novel method to search for new particles not currently contained in the standard model of particle physics. Their method, published in Nature Com ... more |
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