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  Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, today unveiled the latest iteration of its first-of-its-kind proprietary manufacturing platform, Stargate 4th Generation metal 3D printers. These printers will underpin both the development and rate production of Terran R, Relativity's fully reusable, 3D printed rocket that will be capable of launching 20,000 kg to low Earth orbit (LEO). The newest Stargate printer technology defies tradit ... read more |
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Planet launches nonprofit program to drive more access to timely, global satellite dataSan Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL)reports the launch of its Nonprofit Program, an offering that provides access to Planet imagery and support services specifically for nonprofits and non-governmental organi ... more  
Spacecraft manufacturer Apex emerges from stealth with $7.5M in fundingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 Apex, the Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturing company, emerged from stealth Monday with over $7.5M in funding. As the cost to launch satellites and spacecraft to orbit has declined dras ... more  
Gilmour Space offers tech demo satellite mission from Australia in 2024Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 Australian rocket and satellite builder, Gilmour Space Technologies, is offering a new rideshare mission into Low Earth Orbit - this time, on one of its G-class satellite buses (or G-Sat) scheduled ... more  
Driving on the Sidewalk, MARDI-Style: Sols 3630-3632Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 25, 2022 We continue our drive through "Marker Band valley", an area of high interest scientifically, due to strong evidence of sulfates from orbital mapping. In this area, the sulfates are typically magnesi ... more |
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Scientists discover the source of one of the rarest groups of meteoritesLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 Since return mission Hayabusa2 brought samples of asteroid Ryugu back to Earth in 2020, a team of experts from across the world have been examining them to learn more about the origins of our solar ... more  
Discovery could dramatically narrow search for space creaturesRiverside CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf - the most common type of star in the universe - appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on oth ... more  
'Marshmallow' world orbiting a cool red dwarf starWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 A gas giant exoplanet with the density of a marshmallow has been detected in orbit around a cool red dwarf star by a suite of instruments, including the NASA-funded NEID radial-velocity instrument o ... more 
Using Webb Telescope to study supernovae as source of heavy elements in universeBlacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 In 1980's popular book "Cosmos," Carl Sagan wrote of what makes us: "All the elements of the Earth except hydrogen and some helium have been cooked by a kind of stellar alchemy billions of years ago ... more |
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Deep learning with lightBoston MA (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 Ask a smart home device for the weather forecast, and it takes several seconds for the device to respond. One reason this latency occurs is because connected devices don't have enough memory or powe ... more 
The most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matterBoston MA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe. With this analysis, dubbed Pantheon+, cosmologists fi ... more 
SpaceX announces Starlink Internet service on airplanesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 19, 2021 SpaceX announced that its satellite internet service Starlink will be available on select airplanes beginning next year. ... more  
Ride into microgravity with a 'spy' amongst numerous experimentsKiruna, Sweden (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 On 21 October 2022 at 09:25, the MAPHEUS 12 research rocket of the German Aerospace Center took off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden. It reached an altitude of 260 kilome ... more |
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Mapping planet Earth for better positioning: ESA's GENESIS missionParis (ESA) Oct 21, 2022 ESA's Navigation Directorate is planning a new satellite whose results will enable the generation of an updated global model of Earth - the International Terrestrial Reference Frame, employed for ev ... more  
Methane-eating 'borgs' have been assimilating Earth's microbesBerkeley CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 In Star Trek, the Borg are a ruthless, hive-minded collective that assimilate other beings with the intent of taking over the galaxy. Here on nonfictional planet Earth, Borgs are DNA packages that c ... more  
Health of coral reefs written in the sand - and visible via satelliteSydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 How healthy are coral reefs? And how are they responding to climate change? After more than 10 years of monitoring the Great Barrier Reef, University of Sydney geoscientists have developed a techniq ... more 
China completes test of vacuum liquid oxygen-methane rocket engineBeijing, ChinaBeijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2022 China has completed a test of its largest-thrust vacuum liquid oxygen-methane engine, which was designed for use on a commercial rocket, the engine maker said Thursday. Developed by the Chines ... more 
Designing the trajectory of a microsatellite swarm from the macro-micro perspectiveBeijing, China (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 As an emerging multi-satellite cooperative flight mode, microsatellite swarm has become an important future research issue for distributed space systems due to their advantages of low cost, rapid re ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 19, 2021 
NASA has approved resumption of routine spacewalks outside the International Space Station after a seven-month pause and after finishing an October flight readiness review.
The review was the last step in an investigation into a "close call" on a spacewalk in March.
Three spacewalks are planned, beginning sometime in mid-November, to work on installation of roll out solar arrays ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
Two very different payloads flying on one rocket are ready for their ride to space. Creating an integrated stack that stands 25 feet tall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) and NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator (LOFTID) spacecraft are safely secured inside the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V roc ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 
According to new research, Mars may have been born a blue and water-covered world, long before the Earth had even finished forming. The discovery could open a window for scientists on an overlooked chapter in Martian history.
In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, a team of researchers, including several from Arizona State University, found that Mars's earliest ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 25, 2022 
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor, will continue to invest in major space programs such as the manned lunar missions and the development of a super-heavy carrier rocket, said the company's chairman.
Chairman Wu Yansheng told reporters on Saturday that his company has set three goals for its future development - upgrading the existing rocket ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 20, 2021 
SpaceX successfully launched its latest round of Starlink satellites Thursday, bringing the total number in orbit to more than 3,500, the company confirmed in a celebratory post.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 10:50 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
The rocket was carrying a batch of 54 satellites into low-Earth orbit, the fourth shell of the ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 
Relativity Space, the first company to 3D print rockets and build the largest metal 3D printers in the world, today unveiled the latest iteration of its first-of-its-kind proprietary manufacturing platform, Stargate 4th Generation metal 3D printers. These printers will underpin both the development and rate production of Terran R, Relativity's fully reusable, 3D printed rocket that will be capab ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 
An Earth-like planet orbiting an M dwarf - the most common type of star in the universe - appears to have no atmosphere at all. This discovery could cause a major shift in the search for life on other planets. Because M-dwarfs are so ubiquitous, this discovery means a large number of planets orbiting these stars may also lack atmospheres and therefore are unlikely to harbor living things.
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2022 
ESA's Mars Express has captured the rare moment of Mars' small moon Deimos passing in front of Jupiter and its four largest moons - the focus of ESA's upcoming Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer launching next year. Celestial alignments like these enable a more precise determination of the martian moons' orbits.
Since arriving in orbit at the Red Planet in 2003, Mars Express routinely observes the ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
How healthy are coral reefs? And how are they responding to climate change? After more than 10 years of monitoring the Great Barrier Reef, University of Sydney geoscientists have developed a technique that allows them to answer these questions using satellites. And it all relies on sand aprons.
It turns out that sand aprons, deposits of sand along the shore of a lagoon that are ubiquitous ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 
Words like "tough" or "rugged" are rarely associated with a quantum inertial sensor. The remarkable scientific instrument can measure motion a thousand times more accurately than the devices that help navigate today's missiles, aircraft and drones. But its delicate, table-sized array of components that includes a complex laser and vacuum system has largely kept the technology grounded and confin ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 24, 2022 
A new study led by Prof. CHEN Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) provides an answer to the question of how young volcanism occurred on the Moon.
The researchers found that mantle melting-point depression due to the presence of fusible, easily melted components could generate young lunar volcanism.
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
Ateam of scientists led by Arecibo Observatory and the University of Central Florida has measured a change in the rotation period of the potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid 3200 Phaethon, a future spacecraft target.
Phaethon is just the 11th asteroid with a measured change in its rotation period, and it is the largest of them.
The discovery is an example of progress in global e ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL)reports the launch of its Nonprofit Program, an offering that provides access to Planet imagery and support services specifically for nonprofits and non-governmental organizations (NGOS).
In line with Planet's mission to use space to help life on Earth and in effort to enable more impactful uses of Planet's data, the offering addresses two traditional challenges f ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2022 
The countdown has begun! Exactly one year from today, the first of two major solar eclipses just six months apart will occur over the Americas. On October 14, 2023, the Moon will pass directly between Earth and the Sun but will cover only 90% of the brilliant solar disk. The remaining 10% will appear as a blazing "ring of fire" around the Moon's dark silhouette.
This annular (Latin for rin ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
This glittering view of the Pillars of Creation was delivered by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope's Near-Infrared Camera - and it begs to be examined pixel by pixel. The scene may look both familiar and entirely new - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope viewed it first in 1995 and followed up in 2014, and many other telescopes have stared deeply at this scene.
But this is the first time an obse ... more |
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 Newport News VA (SPX) Oct 20, 2022 
Nuclear physicists have confirmed that the current description of proton structure isn't all smooth sailing. A new precision measurement of the proton's electric polarizability performed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has revealed a bump in the data in probes of the proton's structure. Though widely thought to be a fluke when seen in earlier mea ... more |
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