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  Kennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) Oct 5, 2022 A SpaceX rocket carrying a Russian crew member blasted off from Florida Wednesday on a voyage that carries significant symbolism as war rages in Ukraine. Anna Kikina, the only female cosmonaut in service, is part of the Crew-5 mission, which also includes one Japanese and two American astronauts. "Let's do this," said Nicole Mann, commander of the Crew Dragon capsule and the first Native American in space, shortly before liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at noon. Docking is sc ... read more |
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BeetleSat announces next steps for world's first LEO satellite network with expandable antennasMiami FL (SPX) Oct 04, 2022 BeetleSat, a global provider of telecommunications and satellite technology, unveiled the next phases of development for its much-anticipated LEO broadband satellite constellation. The announcement ... more  
Atlas V rocket launches two communications satellitesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 5, 2021 Two new communications satellites are deployed into space after launching aboard an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. ... more  
SpaceX's Crew 5 mission blasts off to International Space StationWashington DC (UPI) Oct 5, 2021 NASA and SpaceX's Crew 5 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at noon EDT on Wednesday and is on its way to the International Space Station. ... more 
SpinLaunch completes Flight Test 10Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 SpinLaunch has announced the results of its tenth successful Flight Test of its Suborbital Accelerator from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The flight test, which occurred on September 27, 2022, demo ... more |
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Firefly Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys customer payloads with its Alpha RocketCedar Park TX (SPX) Oct 01, 2022 Firefly Aerospace, a new space leader in launch, spacecraft, and in-space services, announced that its Alpha FLTA002 mission successfully reached orbit and deployed customer payloads, lifting off on ... more  
SOAR Telescope catches Dimorphos's expanding comet-like tail after DART impactWashington DC (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos, on Monday 26 September 2022. This was t ... more  
Rover findings offer glimpse of Red Planet's ancient landscapeBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 CU Boulder geologist Lisa Mayhew is among the scientists working to recreate the history of an ancient landscape that wouldn't look out of place in Utah-only this terrain sits on Mars millions of mi ... more 
Curiosity targets Canaima bedrock for sampling: Sol 3612Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 05, 2022 Over the weekend, Curiosity took compositional measurements of the "Canaima" bedrock target in order to determine if the target merits collecting drilled sample. Concurrently, the engineering team t ... more |
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Laughing gas in space could mean lifeRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Scientists at UC Riverside are suggesting something is missing from the typical roster of chemicals that astrobiologists use to search for life on planets around other stars - laughing gas. Ch ... more 
AE Industrial Partners makes significant investment in York Space SystemsBoca Raton FL (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 AE Industrial Partners, LP ("AEI"), a leader in space investing and a private equity firm specializing in aerospace, defense and government services, space, power and utility services, and specialty ... more 
ViaSat-3 achieves flight configurationCarlsbad CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) has reported the completion of the integration of the first ViaSat-3 satellite, marking the first time the satellite is in its flight configuration. he ViaSat-3 sate ... more 
Satellogic signs 3 year deal with Albania to access dedicated satellite constellationNew York NY (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has reached a three-year agreement with the Government of Albania to deve ... more |
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Studying yeast DNA in space may help protect astronauts from cosmic radiationVancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Nuclear fusion reactions in the sun are the source of heat and light we receive on Earth. These reactions release a massive amount of cosmic radiation - including x-rays and gamma rays - and charged ... more 
John Deere announces Request for Proposals for satellite communications opportunityMoline IL (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Deere and Company (NYSE: DE) announced it has issued a satellite communications (SATCOM)-focused request for proposals to secure a cutting-edge solution that will further connect its fleet of intell ... more  
Concert Technologies to use C6 Launch to launch its satellitesStrathroy, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 Concert Technologies and C6 Launch signed a non exclusive launch services agreement. Under the agreement, C6 Launch will provide launch services for several of Concert's satellites to low Earth orbi ... more  
China begins search for fourth astronaut generationBeijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022 China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said ... more 
India loses contact with budget Mars orbiter after eight yearsNew Delhi (AFP) Oct 4, 2022 India has lost contact with its Mars orbiter, eight years after the low-cost probe made it the first Asian nation with a spacecraft circling the red planet, its space agency said. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2021 
NASA is shifting the launch date of its Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station in the wake of Hurricane Ian, the space agency confirmed.
"The safety of the crew, ground teams, and hardware are of the utmost importance to NASA and SpaceX," NASA said in a statement on the agency's website.
The launch will now take place no earlier than 12 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 5. A ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) is preparing to launch its 31st Electron rocket and 151st satellite to orbit during a dedicated mission for General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) on Friday, October 7 UTC.
The launch will take place from Pad B at Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. The launch window opens 17:09 UTC on October 7th (06:09 NZDT, October ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2022 
Last week, Perseverance attempted an abrasion on the Chiniak target at Enchanted Lake. Scientists and engineers worked together to plan this activity on an intriguing target of potentially fine-grained rocks at the base of the Jezero delta. But, when the images came down on sol 564 (September 21st), the once coherent rock target was broken, precluding any further proximity science or sampling on ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 05, 2022 
China has recently started recruiting the country's fourth generation of astronauts, and the search has opened to people in Hong Kong and Macao for the first time, the China Manned Space Agency said.
The agency said in a news release on Sunday afternoon experts will pick 12 to 14 candidates for the new generation. Among them, seven to eight will be spacecraft pilots, three to four will be ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 
Satellogic Inc. (NASDAQ: SATL), a leader in sub-meter resolution Earth Observation ("EO") data collection, announced that it has reached a three-year agreement with the Government of Albania to develop a Dedicated Satellite Constellation. This unique program derives from Satellogic's Constellation-as-a-Service model and will provide Albania with responsive satellite imagery capabilities across i ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 
Nuclear fusion reactions in the sun are the source of heat and light we receive on Earth. These reactions release a massive amount of cosmic radiation - including x-rays and gamma rays - and charged particles that can be harmful for any living organisms.
Life on Earth has been protected thanks to a magnetic field that forces charged particles to bounce from pole to pole as well as an atmos ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 
New simulations show that truly Earth-like exoplanets with oceans and continents, and beaches along the boundaries, may be much more common around red dwarfs than previously expected. This means ongoing and future exoplanet survey missions can expect to find multiple Earth-analogs for further study before the end of the decade.
The "habitable zone" is defined as the range of orbits around ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 03, 2022 
NASA's Juno space probe captured detailed images during a close flyby of Europa, Jupiter's largest moon.
The probe came within 219 miles of the ice-covered celestial body, one of the closest approaches by any spacecraft.
The first image taken by the probe's Junocam was released Thursday. It shows the icy and rugged surface of an area close to Europa's equator, known as the Annwn ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 
The Dutch government faces a court case to make it protect the people of the Caribbean island of Bonaire from rising sea levels, environmental group Greenpeace said Wednesday.
Greenpeace and residents of the tiny Dutch territory are set to file the case in The Hague district court later this year following a study that highlights the perils of climate change, it said.
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 Brantford, Canada (SPX) Sep 28, 2022 
Trackem GPS has officially launched its latest version of its client facing GPS tracking platform. The software launch has been 18 months in the making, for the 18-year-old business GPS fleet tracking company. The tall task of client migration has begun and is expected to be ongoing for a number of months ahead.
Trackem's new software platform was built to deliver on three main principles, ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
A Curtin-led research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts on Earth, such as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs.
The study also found that major impact events on Earth were not stand-alone events, but were accompanied by a series of smaller impacts, shedding new light on asteroid dynamics in the i ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 29, 2022 
The James Webb and Hubble telescopes on Thursday revealed their first images of a spacecraft deliberately smashing into an asteroid, as astronomers indicated that the impact looks to have been much greater than expected.
The world's telescopes turned their gaze towards the space rock Dimorphos earlier this week for a historic test of Earth's ability to defend itself against a potential life- ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 25, 2022 
Following preparatory activities and a stringent process ESA Member States today formally selected Harmony for implementation as the tenth Earth Explorer mission within the FutureEO programme. This unique satellite mission concept is, therefore, now set to become a reality to provide a wealth of new information about our oceans, ice, earthquakes and volcanoes - which will make significant contri ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Sep 16, 2022 
Witnessing a total solar eclipse is an unforgettable experience and may have been even more impressive throughout history before we were able to understand and accurately predict their occurrence. But the historical records of these remarkable astronomical spectacles are more than mere curiosities-they provide invaluable information on changes in the Earth's movement.
In a new study in Pub ... more |
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 Lanzhou, China (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
The Jinping Underground Nuclear Astrophysics (JUNA) collaboration has reported a recent direct measurement of the cross section of a crucial stellar neutron source reaction, 13C(a,n)16O. The study was published in Physical Review Letters on September 23.
By achieving the most accurate cross sectional measurement of this reaction at astrophysical energies so far, the study has resolved long ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 4, 2021 
Three scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for independent research over the course of half a century that has brought new understanding to the behavior of tiny particles that make up the foundation of matter in the universe.
American researcher John Clauser, French scientist Alain Aspect of the University of Paris, and Austrian scientist Anton Zeilinger of the Univer ... more |
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