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  Paris (ESA) Oct 27, 2022 Satellite navigation is headed closer to users. ESA's Navigation Directorate is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred kilometres up in space, supplementing Europe's 23 222-km-distant Galileo satellites. Operating added-value signals, these novel so-called 'LEO-PNT' satellites will investigate a new multi-layer satnav system-of-systems approach to deliver seamless Positioning, Navigation and Timing services that are much more accurate, robust ... read more |
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D-Orbit signs launch contract with AAC SpaceQuestFino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 Space logistics and transportation company D-Orbit announced the signing of a launch contract with AAC SpaceQuest, the US subsidiary of AAC Clyde Space. SpaceQuest is a well-established satellite ma ... more  
UCF researcher receives NASA award to develop revolutionary rocket engine technologyOrlando FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 A University of Central Florida researcher has received NASA funding to further develop a novel rocket engine system that could revolutionize space travel. The project focuses on rotating deto ... more 
NASA inflatable heat shield finds strength in flexibilityHampton VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 How does something that looks like a stack of orange inner tubes covered in a black tarp survive temperatures reaching 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it plunges through the atmosphere? An upcoming tech ... more  
Claro Brasil to Extend 4G and 5G-Ready Mobile Services Across Amazon Region with SES's O3b mPOWERLuxembourg (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 With unprecedented demand for high-powered mobile connectivity in the most isolated communities of the Amazon, SES has signed a multiyear capacity renewal with Claro Brasil, through Embratel, its co ... more |
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Spice innovation for Earth with the SeRANIS missionBetzdorf, Luxembourg (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 LuxSpace, a subsidiary of space and technology group OHB SE, and the University of German Armed Forces Munich just signed a contract for the dtec.bw SeRANIS (Seamless Radio Access Network for Intern ... more 
Airbus and Salam join forces for High Altitude Platform Station connectivity servicesFarnborough UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2022 Airbus' HAPS Connectivity Business has signed a strategic partnership with Salam, a leading Saudi telecommunications and ICT company and part of the Mawarid Media and Communications Group (MMCG), to ... more 
PickNik Robotics wins Space Force contract for on-orbit captureBoulder CO (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 PickNik Robotics has won a SpaceWERX contract to work on robotics for the US Space Force. In addition, the company recently won a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract for ... more  
Thermal control designs keep astronauts cool on space stationBeijing (XNA) Oct 27, 2022 For astronauts, staying cool and comfortable on China's Tiangong space station is no problem. The station orbits Earth in about 90 minutes at an altitude of 400 km. It experiences large fluctuations ... more |
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Ride into microgravity with a 'spy' amongst numerous experimentsCologne, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 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  
NASA Lucy spacecraft captures moon images and 'Terminator Mosaic'Washington DC (UPI) Oct 26, 2021 NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured new high resolution images of the Moon's Central Highlands surface taken while the spacecraft was between Earth and the Moon. ... more  
Trying to Avoid Nodules: Sols 3633-3634Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2022 The long Sol 3631 drive went well, leaving the rover near exposures of nodule-rich bedrock. Because we have examined the chemical composition of nodules recently, a goal for today's planning was to ... more 
Arecibo Observatory scientists publish major study on near-earth asteroidsOrlando FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 The largest paper ever published on radar observations of near-Earth asteroids has been released, compiling years' worth of data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Using delay-Dopple ... more |
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New technique to determine age will open new era of planetary scienceMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 The coming decade is expected to bring a veritable bonanza for the science of planets: space missions are scheduled to bring back samples of rock from the moon, Mars, the Martian moon of Phobos, and ... more  
Webb offers never-before-seen details of early universeBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was specially designed to detect the faint infrared light from very distant galaxies and give astronomers a glimpse at the early universe. The nature of galaxies du ... more 
Observation puzzles researchersBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 An international team of astrophysicists has made a puzzling discovery while analyzing certain star clusters. The University of Bonn played a major role in the study. The finding challenges Newton's ... more 
Rare earth element synthesis confirmed in neutron star mergersTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 A group of researchers has, for the first time, identified rare earth elements produced by neutron star mergers. When two neutron stars spiral inwards and merge, the resulting explosion produces a l ... more 
VLA finds cosmic rays driving galaxy's windsCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have discovered an important new clue about how galaxies put the brakes on vigorous episodes of star formati ... 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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 Orlando FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 
A University of Central Florida researcher has received NASA funding to further develop a novel rocket engine system that could revolutionize space travel.
The project focuses on rotating detonation rocket engines (RDREs), which are powered by continuous Mach 5 explosions that rotate around the inside of the engine and are sustained by hydrogen and oxygen propellants fed into the system in ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 27, 2022 
The long Sol 3631 drive went well, leaving the rover near exposures of nodule-rich bedrock. Because we have examined the chemical composition of nodules recently, a goal for today's planning was to find patches of bedrock that are relatively nodule-free in order to look for changes in the "background" bedrock.
So the Sol 3633 plan starts with a couple APXS integrations on "Balata," a bedro ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 26, 2022 
China's Mengtian space lab module and its carrier - a Long March 5B rocket - were moved to a service tower on Tuesday morning to undergo final tests before their planned flight in the coming days, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a brief news release that prelaunch preparation work is underway at the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the southernmost island prov ... 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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 Hampton VA (SPX) Oct 27, 2022 
How does something that looks like a stack of orange inner tubes covered in a black tarp survive temperatures reaching 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit as it plunges through the atmosphere? An upcoming technology demonstration uses advanced materials to make a heat shield that's tougher than it looks.
Hypersonic Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerator (HIAD) technology has been in development for more ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 26, 2021 
Scientists studying the evolution of acoustic communication in vertebrates discovered that 53 species of sea creatures, once thought to be silent, have been communicating after all.
The study, published by scientific journal Nature Communications, says sea dwelling vertebrates such as turtles and lungfish audibly communicate. Unlike frogs and birds, their sounds are difficult to detect ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 27, 2022 
Satellite navigation is headed closer to users. ESA's Navigation Directorate is planning an in-orbit demonstration with new navigation satellites that will orbit just a few hundred kilometres up in space, supplementing Europe's 23 222-km-distant Galileo satellites. Operating added-value signals, these novel so-called 'LEO-PNT' satellites will investigate a new multi-layer satnav system-of-system ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 26, 2021 
NASA's Lucy spacecraft has captured new high resolution images of the Moon's Central Highlands surface taken while the spacecraft was between Earth and the Moon.
The Oct. 16 images were taken approximately 140,000 to 160,000 miles from the moon after Lucy flew by the Earth for its first of three gravity assists, the space agency said. They included a "Terminator Mosaic," as well as sing ... 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 (UPI) Oct 25, 2021 
The last solar eclipse of the year was visible across Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia and Africa on Tuesday.
The partial eclipse is the second of the year and began at about 4:48 a.m. ET with the moon beginning to overlap with the sun. At its peak, about 82%-86% of the sun will be eclipsed. This will happen around 11:10 a.m., though the best spot to observe will be the North P ... 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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