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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 1, 2021 NASA has awarded five new missions to private exploration company SpaceX in a deal worth $1.4 billion that will transport astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station over the next eight years. The contracts were awarded as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract (CCtCap), an initiative that opens the door for business with the private sector, the space agency said. "The [deal] includes ground, launch, in-orbit, and return and recovery operations, car ... read more |
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NASA, Axiom Space to launch second private astronaut mission to ISS in 2023Washington DC (UPI) Aug 31, 2021 NASA and Axiom Space said Wednesday that they plan to launch a second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station in 2023. ... more  
Perseverance Rover team's first resultsBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 Two papers recently released in the scholarly journal Science by Farley et al. and Liu et al., which describe recent major results from NASA's Mars 2020 mission provide new insight into the history ... more  
Where to land on the Moon?Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 It was 1972 when the last humans landed on the Moon. The Apollo programme was discontinued thereafter. But interest in the Moon has been rekindled. With China having landed a robot - and raised its ... more  
Outpost raises $7M seed round to develop reusable satellites for Earth return serviceSanta Monica CA (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 Outpost Technologies Corporation ("Outpost"), the sustainable space company, announced the closing of a $7.1M Series Seed round. During a bearish fundraising envi ... more |
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Accenture invests in hyperspectral satellite company Pixxel to monitor Earth's healthBangalore, India (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Pixxel, a leader in cutting-edge earth imaging technology. Based in Bangalore with a presence in Los Angeles, Pi ... more 
MAVEN and EMM make first observations of patchy proton aurora at MarsBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission and the United Arab Emirates' Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) have released joint observations of dynamic proton aurora events at Mars. Remo ... more 
A vast and mysterious valley system in the southern Martian highlandsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 These images, acquired using with DLR High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), reveal a chaotic region on our neighbouring planet. It is located near Holden Crater in the southern Martian highlands and ... more 
MIT's MOXIE experiment reliably produces oxygen on MarsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 On the red and dusty surface of Mars, nearly 100 million miles from Earth, an instrument the size of a lunchbox is proving it can reliably do the work of a small tree. The MIT-led Mars Oxygen ... more |
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An Unexpected Stop during Sols 3580-3581Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2022 We kicked off Curiosity operations this morning with the news that our previous drive did not complete as planned. Some of the sand in the area caused the rover to veer ever-so-slightly off course, ... more 
A Whole New World - Sols 3578-3579Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2022 After a successful 13 meter weekend drive, Curiosity finds itself in the middle of "Marker Band" valley. The underlaying bedrock has changed dramatically over the last week, from dark and nodular to ... more 
Chang'e-5 reveals an intermediate stage in space weathering process of lunar soilsBeijing, China (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 This study is conducted by a joint team from Chinese Academy of Sciences. They use aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Electron-energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) and scanning ... more  
Solar satellite breaks ground with new dataBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2022 China's solar observation satellite has achieved major scientific and technological feats during its in-orbit operation, according to the China National Space Administration. The satellite Xih ... more |
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Space Station experiment to probe origins of elementsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 Astronomer Carl Sagan put it best: "We're made of star stuff." The atoms that make up the chemicals of our bodies didn't originate on Earth; they came from deep space. The big bang created hydrogen, ... more  
Plant growth in China's space lab in good conditionBeijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2022 The seeds of two plants in China's Wentian lab module have germinated and are now in good condition, according to a briefing on the progress of plant culture experiments in the country's space stati ... 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 
Long March successfully deploys Beijing 3B satelliteBeijing (XNA) Aug 30, 2022 A Long March 2D carrier rocket placed a remote sensing satellite in orbit on Wednesday, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. The rocket blasted off at 11:01 am from th ... more 
AIR releases upgraded remote sensing monitoring and forecasting system of vegetation pests and diseasesBeijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2022 Pests and diseases are major threats to food security in the world, especially for wheat, rice, and maize, the world's dominant food crops. More than 40 percent yield loss is caused by pests and dis ... 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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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 
These images, acquired using with DLR High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), reveal a chaotic region on our neighbouring planet. It is located near Holden Crater in the southern Martian highlands and is part of a vast valley system through which considerable masses of water once flowed in a northerly direction.
The HRSC has been mapping the Red Planet on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2022 
The seeds of two plants in China's Wentian lab module have germinated and are now in good condition, according to a briefing on the progress of plant culture experiments in the country's space station on Monday.
Seed samples of the two plants, Arabidopsis and rice, were installed in the life ecology experiment cabinet of the lab module, which went into space in July. The space growth exper ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 26, 2022 
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.
"Our decades of ex ... more |
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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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 Bangalore, India (SPX) Sep 01, 2022 
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Pixxel, a leader in cutting-edge earth imaging technology. Based in Bangalore with a presence in Los Angeles, Pixxel is building the world's highest resolution hyperspectral imaging satellite constellation in order to offer industry AI-powered insights that discover, solve, and predict climate issues at a fract ... 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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