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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2021 SpaceX on Saturday launched two Intelsat satellites into Earth orbit after the mission was aborted Friday night. The Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 communication satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:05 p.m. EDT by SpaceX on behalf of the company Intelsat from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The Falcon 9's first stage booster landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship about nine minutes later, according to SpaceX. It was th ... read more |
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Uploading the Cloud ImagerFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 The development of Europe's second generation polar-orbiting weather satellites has reached another decisive milestone with the installation of the Ice Cloud Imager Instrument (ICI) onto the MetOp-S ... more  
Earth from Space: Melt ponds in West GreenlandParis (ESA) Oct 06, 2022 During spring and summer, as the air warms up and the sun beats down on the Greenland Ice Sheet, melt ponds pop up. Melt ponds are vast pools of open water that form on both sea ice and ice sheets a ... more  
All expenses paid 'Zero Gravity' flight opportunity by Dr. ChrispyChicago IL (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 Fresh Content Society, a Chicago social media management agency, is partnering with client Dr Chrispy (Dr. Chris Boshuizen) to send one lucky winner on an all expenses paid Zero Gravity flight, the ... more 
Venture Catalyst Space set to target next cohort of Australian startupsAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Learn, build, reiterate. That was the mantra Raj Gautam, founder and chief executive of start-up company QL Space, learned when he took part in the Venture Catalyst Space program. Gautam launc ... more |
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Kleos Observer Mission satellite cluster ready for launch integrationLuxembourg (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 Kleos Space S.A (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1), a space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) and Mission-as-a-Service (MaaS) provider, announces that its fourth cluster of fou ... more 
Honeywell selected by Mangata Networks for control systems on new constellationPhoenix AZ (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Honeywell has announced that Mangata Networks, a satellite telecommunications company, selected Honeywell's space integrated attitude control system (IACS) in support of its new constellations compr ... more  
DART Mission photos came from NASA's first use of Argotec microsatelliteTurin, Italy (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 When NASA's DART spacecraft successfully hit the asteroid Dimorphos, the closest cameras that captured the impact were on LICIACube, a microsatellite built by Argotec. The next closest cameras were ... more  
Spin flips show how galaxies grow from the cosmic webMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 The large-scale structure of the universe is traced by the distribution of galaxies. This 'cosmic web' consists of giant filamentary structures linking massive clusters of galaxies. The new st ... more |
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Astronomers find a "cataclysmic" pair of stars with the shortest orbit yetBoston MA (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 Nearly half the stars in our galaxy are solitary like the sun. The other half comprises stars that circle other stars, in pairs and multiples, with orbits so tight that some stellar systems could fi ... more 
Overlapping galaxies VV 191 in Webb and Hubble composite imageWashington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 By combining data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, researchers were able to trace light that was emitted by the large white elliptical galaxy ... more  
A day at the beach for life on other worldsTokyo, 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 ong ... more 
JPL developing more tools to help search for life in deep spacePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2022 A team at the Lab has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life. Are we alone in the universe? An ... more |
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NASA's Juno gets highest-resolution close-up of Jupiter's moon EuropaPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 Observations from the spacecraft's pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science. The highest-resolut ... more  
Potential source of 'shock-darkened' meteorites has implications for asteroid deflectionTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 05, 2022 When the Chelyabinsk fireball exploded across Russian skies in 2013, it littered Earth with a relatively uncommon type of meteorite. What makes the Chelyabinsk meteorites and others like them specia ... more  
Moon science generationParis (ESA) Oct 06, 2022 What do you call three or more space fanatics? Interns. Imagine landing your dream internship at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC), and then being unable to go into work. A group of excellent youn ... more  
Australia seeks to grow plants on Moon by 2025Sydney (AFP) Oct 6, 2022 Australian scientists are trying to grow plants on the Moon by 2025 in a new mission unveiled Friday that they said could help pave the way for a future colony. ... more 
Micro Meat and Orbital Assembly team up on space-based food production ventureHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 Micro Meat, a pioneer in the alternative protein industry, and Orbital Assembly (OA), developer of space-based business parks with variable gravity, have signed a memorandum of understanding to co-d ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2022  A SpaceX capsule carrying a Russian crew member docked Thursday with the International Space Station on a NASA mission that carries significant symbolism amid the war in Ukraine.
The Crew Dragon spaceship "Endurance" blasted off Wednesday from Florida and rendezvoused with the orbiting research outpost some 30 hours later, docking at 5:01 pm Eastern Time (2301 GMT).
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 National Harbor MD (SPX) Oct 06, 2022  Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, Air Force Research Laboratory commander, moderated a future of propulsion panel comprised of Air Force experts Sept. 21, 2022, during the Air and Space Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
"We're really proud to be a part of telling you about the future of propulsion ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 
The Curiosity team continues with our "Canaima" drill campaign. [Today's] 2-sol plan will provide our first look at the minerals present within this sample. This is complementary but different than the chemical compositions provided by ChemCam and APXS before we drilled. CheMin uses X-ray diffraction to confirm crystalline mineralogy, they direct a beam of X-rays, as fine as a human hair, throug ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 06, 2022 
The Wentian lab module of China's Tiangong space station has been repositioned to dock with a radial port on the station's Tianhe core module on Friday afternoon, which marked a key step in Tiangong's in-orbit assembly, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a news release that during the hour-long operation that finished at 12:44 pm, Wentian was moved from the axia ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2021  SpaceX on Saturday launched two Intelsat satellites into Earth orbit after the mission was aborted Friday night.
The Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 communication satellites were launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:05 p.m. EDT by SpaceX on behalf of the company Intelsat from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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 Santa Fe NM (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Solstar Space (Solstar), the company making persistent in-orbit communications available, announced its currently in development, Deke Space Communicator will provide a cost-effective and easy communications solution to support end-of-life decommissioning of spacecraft. When installed on satellites prior to initial launch, the Solstar Deke Space Communicator will give satellite operators persist ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2022 
A team at the Lab has invented new technologies that could be used by future missions to analyze liquid samples from watery worlds and look for signs of alien life. Are we alone in the universe? An answer to that age-old question has seemed tantalizingly within reach since the discovery of ice-encrusted moons in our solar system with potentially habitable subsurface oceans.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 06, 2022 
Observations from the spacecraft's pass of the moon provided the first close-up in over two decades of this ocean world, resulting in remarkable imagery and unique science.
The highest-resolution photo NASA's Juno mission has ever taken of a specific portion of Jupiter's moon Europa reveals a detailed view of a puzzling region of the moon's heavily fractured icy crust.
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 Sydney (AFP) Oct 7, 2022 
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said Friday he has assured Australia that his nation will not allow a Chinese military presence in its territory.
The island nation has been at the centre of a diplomatic tussle in the southern Pacific Ocean between the United States, Australia and their allies on one side and an increasingly assertive China on the other.
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 Las Vegas NV (SPX) Sep 29, 2022 
Taoglas, a leading provider of advanced components for a smarter world, launches their first in a new series of high precision, multi-band GNSS front ends for autonomous vehicles, precision agriculture, automotive, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and robotics at Mobile World Congress (MWC 2022).
The new TFM.110A comes fully integrated with two cascaded low noise amplifiers (LNA) and pre-fil ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
Our pioneering scientists from the Institute for Computational Cosmology used supercomputer simulations to reveal an alternate explanation for the Moon's origin, as a satellite placed immediately into orbit following a giant impact between Earth and a Mars-sized body.
The researchers created the highest resolution simulations yet produced to study the Moon's origin 4.5 billion years ago. ... more |
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 Washington 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 the first planetary defense test in which an impact of a spacecraft attempted to modify the orbit of an asteroid.
Two days after DART's impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and M ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
The development of Europe's second generation polar-orbiting weather satellites has reached another decisive milestone with the installation of the Ice Cloud Imager Instrument (ICI) onto the MetOp-SG-B satellite. The novel sensor has now been successfully integrated at Airbus' Satellite Integration Centre in Friedrichshafen, Germany. ICI is one of the five instruments on board this next generati ... 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.
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 06, 2022 
The large-scale structure of the universe is traced by the distribution of galaxies. This 'cosmic web' consists of giant filamentary structures linking massive clusters of galaxies.
The new study finds that galaxies with bigger bulges tend to spin perpendicular to the filaments in which they are embedded, while galaxies with smaller bulges tend to spin parallel to these filaments.
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 Paderborn, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2022 
Tiny particles that are interconnected despite sometimes being thousands of kilometres apart - Albert Einstein called this 'spooky action at a distance'. Something that would be inexplicable by the laws of classical physics is a fundamental part of quantum physics. Entanglement like this can occur between multiple quantum particles, meaning that certain properties of the particles are intimately ... more |
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