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  Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 An uncrewed Blue Origin rocket carrying research payloads crashed shortly after liftoff from Texas on Monday, but the capsule carrying experiments escaped and floated safely back to Earth. The incident marked a setback for Amazon founder and executive chair Jeff Bezos' company as well as the space tourism sector, though observers were encouraged by the fact that had people been aboard, they would have likely survived. Blue Origin tweeted a short video clip showing the moment when the capsule fir ... read more |
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Blue Origin rocket suffers booster failure, prompting emergency abort systemWashington DC (UPI) Sep 12, 2021 Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket suffered a booster failure after lifting off Monday morning, causing an emergency abort system to separate the capsule from the booster. ... more  
SpaceX says likely won't need 42,000 satellites for Starlink internetParis (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 SpaceX, which has requested authorisation to deploy up to 42,000 satellites to provide its Starlink satellite internet service, probably won't need to launch that many into orbit, its chief operations officer said Monday. ... more 
NASA's Moon mission pushed back, againWashington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 NASA is now targeting September 27 as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the agency said in a blog post Monday. ... more  
Sols 3592-3593: OnwardsPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2022 Curiosity is back on the road! The arm (seen above while conducting science activities on sol 3583) is good to go, so the team planned a full day of activities. Curiosity has been sitting in the sam ... more |
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Western researchers among first to capture James Webb Space Telescope imagesLondon, Canada (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) has captured the most detailed and sharpest images ever taken of the inner region of the Orion Nebula, a stellar nursery situated in the constellation Orion 1,3 ... more  
SciTec awarded US Space Force contract for mission data processing application providerBoulder CO (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 SciTec, Inc. was awarded a $272M contract by U.S. Space Force Space Systems Command (SSC) for Mission Data Processing Application Provider (MDPAP) to deliver critical applications for the Space Forc ... more 
Airbus to provide satellite communications for Armed Forces of Czech Republic and the NetherlandsParis, France (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Airbus has signed contracts with the Ministries of Defence of Czech Republic and the Netherlands to provide satellite communications for a 15 year period. The Armed Forces of Czech Republic and the ... more  
Ramon and Kythera partner to deliver autonomous communications payload solutionsParis, France (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Ramon.Space, the leader in space-resilient computing infrastructure, and Kythera Space Solutions (Kythera), the leader in dynamic management systems for next-generation payloads and SATCOM networks, ... more |
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Vestigo Aerospace raises $375K in seed funding to spur deorbit systemsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Vestigo Aerospace, a space technology company focused on deorbit systems, has closed a seed funding round with an investment of $375,000 from Manhattan West, a Los Angeles-based strategic investment ... more 
Spaceflight signs with NewSpace India to launch Astrocast IoT satellite into orbitSeattle WA (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Spaceflight, the leading global launch services provider, has announced it will launch four Astrocast 3U spacecraft aboard India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) mission under a commercial ar ... more  
Solar Orbiter solves magnetic switchback mysteryParis (ESA) Sep 12, 2022 With data from its closest pass of the Sun yet, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has found compelling clues as to the origin of magnetic switchbacks, and points towards how their physical forma ... more 
PCX Aerosystems Announces Acquisition of NuSpaceNewington CT (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 PCX Aerosystems ("PCX"), a market-leading producer of advanced mechanical systems for the aerospace industry, announced the September 2, 2022 acquisition of NuSpace, Inc. ("NuSpace") from Cornerston ... more |
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Thales Alenia Space Partners With Kythera Space Solutions for Advanced Space Inspire Mission Segment SoftwareParis, France (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 Kythera Space Solutions (Kythera), the leading provider of dynamic management systems for next-generation payloads and SATCOM networks, has entered into a 10-year partnership with Thales Alenia Spac ... more  
A thousand days of CHEOPSBern, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 After a thousand days in orbit, the CHEOPS space telescope shows almost no signs of wear. Under these conditions, it could continue to reveal details of some of the most fascinating exoplanets for q ... more  
Why go back to the Moon?Washington (AFP) Sept 10, 2022 On September 12, 1962, then US president John F Kennedy informed the public of his plan to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade. ... more 
Rocket Lab Prepares to Launch Synspective Satellite on 30th Electron LaunchLong Beach CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch its 30th Electron rocket and 150th satellite to space during a dedicated mission for Japanese Earth-imaging company Synspective on Wednesda ... more  
Redwire and Sodern team up to market the Exquisite-Class Eagle Eye Star TrackerParis, France (SPX) Sep 13, 2022 Redwire Corporation (NYSE: RDW), a leader in space infrastructure for the next generation space economy, today signed a formal teaming agreement with Sodern, a world leader in star trackers and neut ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 9, 2021 
Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to astronauts serving on the International Space Station on Friday as she convened the meeting of the National Space Council at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
In the call, Harris talked about the importance of protecting Earth and joining forces to meet other space initiatives. She is the chair of the council.
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 Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 
NASA is now targeting September 27 as the earliest possible launch date for its uncrewed Artemis 1 mission to the Moon, the agency said in a blog post Monday.
The date would depend on engineering teams successfully carrying out a test to fuel up the Space Launch System rocket, and receive a waiver to avoid retesting batteries on an emergency flight system that is used to destroy the rocket i ... 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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 Paris (AFP) Sept 12, 2022 
SpaceX, which has requested authorisation to deploy up to 42,000 satellites to provide its Starlink satellite internet service, probably won't need to launch that many into orbit, its chief operations officer said Monday.
Starlink - the satellite internet service of tech billionaire Elon Musk - offers high-speed broadband service to customers in areas that are poorly or not served by fixed ... 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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 Bern, 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 located at just the right distance from its star to potentially hold liquid water on its surface.
Most of the planets that have been discovered around other stars - also known as exoplanets - are b ... more |
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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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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
Coral reef islands and their reefs - found across in the Indo-Pacific - naturally grow and shrink due to complex biological and physical processes that have yet to be fully understood. Now, climate change is disrupting them further, leading to new uncertainties for legal maritime zones and small island states.
But it may not be time to panic yet. A number of technologies and new approaches ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 12, 2022 
A new foundation model dubbed RingMo has been developed to improve accuracy for remote sensing image interpretation, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Remote sensing images has been successfully applied in many fields, such as classification and change detection, and deep learning approaches have contributed to the rapid dev ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 12, 2022 
With data from its closest pass of the Sun yet, the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has found compelling clues as to the origin of magnetic switchbacks, and points towards how their physical formation mechanism might help accelerate the solar wind.
Solar Orbiter has made the first ever remote sensing observation consistent with a magnetic phenomenon called a solar switchback - sudden and ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 09, 2022 
Nature likes spirals - from the whirlpool of a hurricane, to pinwheel-shaped protoplanetary disks around newborn stars, to the vast realms of spiral galaxies across our universe.
Now astronomers are bemused to find young stars that are spiraling into the center of a massive cluster of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
The outer arm of the spira ... 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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