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  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. On Sept. 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid for planetary defense. This image of the light from asteroid Didymos and its orbiting moonlet Dim ... read more |
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Albedo raises $48M to capture the highest resolution satellite imageryAustin TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Albedo, a company developing low-flying satellites that will deliver ultra high resolution images, has announced a $48M Series A financing round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Cap ... more  
UK built Prometheus 2 imaging and monitoring cubesats on track for UK launchLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 The Prometheus 2 satellites, which have been jointly designed by Airbus and In-Space Missions, are on track for their UK launch from Newquay, Cornwall, later this year with environmental testing com ... more 
Surrey Satellite opens new Australian officeAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 SSTL has announced that on the 13th September it will open an office in Australia in Adelaide. The announcement follows the meeting on Friday 2nd September between the Rt. Hon Anne-Marie Trevelyan M ... more  
Sidus Space executes multiple launch agreement with SpaceXCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service satellite company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing; multi-disciplinary engineering services; satellite design, production, lau ... more |
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Europe's tallest ever communications satellite launchedParis (ESA) Sep 08, 2022 The fourth Spacebus Neo satellite to benefit from ESA's Neosat programme has launched into space on board the second Ariane 5 launch mission of 2022. The 8.9 metre, three-storeys-high communications ... more 
Scotland's space sector set to become greenest on EarthEdinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Scotland's space sector has declared its commitment to reducing its impact on the environment through the publication of a new sustainable space roadmap, the first of its kind on Earth. The ne ... more  
Ariane 5 launches EUTELSAT KONNECT VHTS satelliteKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Sep 08, 2022 On Wednesday, September 7th, 2022 at 6:45 pm local time, an Ariane 5 launcher, operated by Arianespace, successfully lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (South America), carr ... more 
Space launch from Australia to use satellite tracking from InmarsatGold Coast, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications has signed an agreement with Gilmour Space Technologies to support space launches from Australia using Inmarsat's InRange system ... more |
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Glaciers flowed on ancient Mars, but slowlyNantes, France (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 The weight and grinding movement of glaciers has carved distinctive valleys and fjords into Earth's surface. Because Mars lacks similar landscapes, researchers believed ancient ice masses on the Red ... more  
NASA taps Axiom Space for first Artemis lunar spacesuitsHouston TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking system for the Artemis III mission, which will land Americans on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. This award - the ... more  
SPECULOOS discovers a potentially habitable super-EarthLiege, Belgium (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 An international team of scientists, led by Laetitia Delrez, astrophysicist at the University of Liege (Belgium), has just announced the discovery of two 'super-Earth' type planets orbiting LP 890-9 ... more 
Two new rocky worlds around an ultra-cool starBern, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 An international research team, with the participation of the University of Bern and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS, discovered two "super-Earth" exoplanets. One is loc ... more |
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Scientists reveal magnetic reconnection details triggering filament eruptionBeijing, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Eruption of a solar filament produces a coronal mass ejection, which is a major driver of space weather. Understanding how filaments erupt is thus essential for space weather forecasting. Both ... more  
Forsway introduces latest satellite terminals, Forsway Odin F-60 and Odin F-60 ProAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 Forsway, a provider of innovative, cost-efficient solutions for enabling broadband connectivity in underserved regions, has announced its next generation of satellite terminals. Produced by strategi ... more  
NASA manages astronaut health with effective diagnostics researchCleveland OH (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 As NASA prepares to send astronauts further into space for longer durations, managing and maintaining their health is a top priority. Researchers and engineers are currently testing a suite of medic ... more  
Gamma rays from neighboring galaxy related to millisecond pulsarsAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 A team of researchers, including UvA physicists and astronomers, has studied gamma rays caused by the Sagittarius Dwarf, a small neighbouring galaxy of our Milky Way. They showed that all the observ ... more  
Antenna enables advanced satellite communications testingBoston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 On the rooftop of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building sits a 38-foot-wide dome-shaped radio antenna enclosure, or radome. Inside the climate-controlled environment, shielded from the New England weat ... 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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 Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Sept 4, 2022 
After scrapping a second attempt to get its new 30-story lunar rocket off the ground due to a fuel leak, NASA officials said Saturday it may not be possible to try again this month.
The current launch window for NASA's Artemis 1 mission to the Moon ends Tuesday and is "definitely off the table," said Jim Free, associate administrator for Exploration Systems Development, at a press conference ... more |
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 Nantes, France (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
The weight and grinding movement of glaciers has carved distinctive valleys and fjords into Earth's surface. Because Mars lacks similar landscapes, researchers believed ancient ice masses on the Red Planet must have been frozen firmly to the ground. New research suggests they were not stuck in place, but just moved very slowly.
Motion is part of the definition of a glacier. On Earth, meltw ... more |
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 Wenchang, China(XNA) Sep 05, 2022 
A Long March-5B Y4 rocket, tasked with sending China's space station lab module Mengtian into orbit, has been transported to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in the southern province of Hainan, the China Manned Space Agency said Saturday.
The rocket will undergo final assembly and testing together with the Mengtian lab module, which arrived earlier.
Preparations for the launch mis ... more |
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 Edinburgh, Scotland (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
Scotland's space sector has declared its commitment to reducing its impact on the environment through the publication of a new sustainable space roadmap, the first of its kind on Earth.
The new roadmap sets out the steps needed to achieve the long-term goals of Scottish space missions, which are to be space debris neutral, zero emissions created from on-the-ground activities, and for Scotl ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 
On the rooftop of an MIT Lincoln Laboratory building sits a 38-foot-wide dome-shaped radio antenna enclosure, or radome. Inside the climate-controlled environment, shielded from the New England weather, a steel structure supports a 20,000-pound, 20-foot diameter satellite communications (SATCOM) antenna. The antenna - called the Multi-Band Test Terminal (MBTT) - can rotate 15 degrees per second, ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
By using radio telescopes to study sun-like stars in their death throes, scientists hope to reveal important information about the origin of life-enabling chemicals in the universe. The National Science Foundation is awarding a $339,362 Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grant to a team led by Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Joel Kastner to conduct such a study.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 02, 2022 
NASA's Juno spacecraft observed the complex colors and structure of Jupiter's clouds as it completed its 43rd close flyby of the giant planet on July 5, 2022.
Citizen scientist Bjorn Jonsson created these two images using raw data from the JunoCam instrument aboard the spacecraft. At the time the raw image was taken, Juno was about 3,300 miles (5,300 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops, ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Sept 5, 2022 
A snap ban on foreign military vessels docking in Solomon Islands is poised to be lifted, the Pacific nation's leader told parliament Monday.
Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said a review of the makeshift ban was "progressing very well. We do not expect the temporary moratorium to last for a long time".
Two weeks ago, US Coast Guard ship Oliver Henry opted to turn away from Honiara, cap ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2022 
Europe's latest Galileo satellites in space have joined the operational constellation, transmitting navigation signals to three billion users across planet Earth as well as relaying distress calls to rescuers. Their entry into service follows a summer test campaign and will result in a measurable increase in positioning accuracy and improved data delivery performance of the overall Galileo syste ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
NASA has selected Axiom Space to deliver a moonwalking system for the Artemis III mission, which will land Americans on the surface of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. This award - the first one under a competitive spacesuits contract - is for a task order to develop a next generation Artemis spacesuit and supporting systems, and to demonstrate their use on the lunar surface during ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. On Sept. 26, DART will intentionally crash into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet of Didymos. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the world's first test of the kinetic impact technique, using a spacecraft to deflect an as ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
Albedo, a company developing low-flying satellites that will deliver ultra high resolution images, has announced a $48M Series A financing round co-led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Shield Capital, bringing the company's total funding to $58M in less than two years since inception.
Participation in the round included new investors Republic Capital, Giant Step Capital, and C16 Venture ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 08, 2022 
Eruption of a solar filament produces a coronal mass ejection, which is a major driver of space weather. Understanding how filaments erupt is thus essential for space weather forecasting.
Both observations and simulations suggest that filament eruption is closely related to magnetic flux emergence. It is thought that eruption is triggered by magnetic reconnection between a filament and an ... more |
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 Leiden, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 07, 2022 
Compared to most other wavelengths, astronomy has a blind spot in the area of far-infrared radiation. A far-infrared space telescope can only utilize its full sensitivity with an actively cooled mirror below 4 Kelvin (-269 C). Such a telescope doesn't exist yet, which is why there has been little worldwide investment in the development of corresponding detectors.
In 2004, SRON decided to b ... more |
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 Torun, Poland (SPX) Sep 06, 2022 
Researchers from the Institute of Physics at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Torun (Poland): dr Katarzyna Bielska, dr habil. Agata Cygan, NCU Prof., Prof. dr habil. Roman Ciurylo and Prof. dr habil. Daniel Lisak participated in the research into the intensities of the overtone lines. Teams from the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA and the Physikalisch-Technis ... more |
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