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  Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 Breakthrough Listen has begun observations using a powerful new instrument deployed to the MeerKAT radio telescope in the remote Karoo region of South Africa. The new search for technosignatures - indicators of technology developed by extraterrestrial intelligence - expands the number of targets searched by a factor of 1,000. The astronomers and engineers on the Breakthrough Listen team have spent the last three years developing and installing the most powerful digital instrumentation ever deploye ... read more |
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NASA to cancel GeoCarb Mission, expands greenhouse gas portfolioGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 NASA announced Monday it intends to cancel development of its GeoCarb mission, and instead implement a plan for pursuing alternate options to measure and observe greenhouse gases. Newer option ... more 
NASA responds to Independent Review of Earth System ObservatoryWashington DC (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 NASA shared a response Wednesday on an independent review board established to assess plans and goals for the next generation of Earth-observing satellites: NASA's Earth System Observatory, a cuttin ... more  
NASA May Have Landed on a Martian Megatsunami Deposit Nearly 50 Years AgoTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 When NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars nearly 50 years ago, its cameras imaged a boulder-strewn surface of elusive origin. New research led by Planetary Science Institute Se ... more  
Webb Space Telescope, Keck team up to study Saturn's moon TitanBerkeley CA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has turned its infrared cameras on Saturn's moon Titan, giving astronomers another eye on the largest and one of the most unusual moons in the solar system. ... more |
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NASA's Orion capsule performs burn to leave distant retrograde orbitWashington DC (UPI) Dec 1, 2021 NASA's Orion space capsule, which is in day 16 of its Artemis I test flight, completed a burn Thursday to take it out of distant retrograde orbit. ... more  
The PI's Perspective: Extended Mission 2 Begins!Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 New Horizons remains healthy from its position deep in the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther from the Earth and Sun by about 300 million miles per year! The spacecraft, which began its second e ... more  
HFES releases Policy Statement on Human Space FlightWashington DC (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) has issued a new Policy Statement on Human Space Flight and Exploration Programs. As both government and commercial space operations continue to evolv ... more 
Analyzing the rhythmically layered bedrock above the marker band: Sols 3669-3670Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 02, 2022 Curiosity drove ~25 meters back toward the Marker Band from our detour to the Gediz Vallis Ridge and has returned to the rhythmically layered bedrock we observed on Sols 3648-3649. The first t ... more |
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Navigating the sea from space with innovative technologiesParis (ESA) Nov 21, 2022 Shipping is the most energy efficient form of transport, and more than 80% of goods traded globally are carried via the oceans, with a doubling in volume during the last quarter of a century. Recogn ... more 
ESA ground stations to support first commercial Moon landingParis (ESA) Dec 01, 2022 Mission 1 is the first mission of the HAKUTO-R lunar exploration programme from the company ispace, based in Tokyo, Japan, with offices in Luxembourg and the US. It will be launched into a low-energ ... more  
New minerals discovered in massive meteorite may reveal clues to asteroid formationEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals that have never before been seen on Earth in a 15 tonne meteorite found in Somalia - the ninth largest meteorite ever found. "Whe ... more 
Back to the Marker Band - Sols 3667-3668Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2022 Still stuffed and feeling thankful our weekend plans were successful! This morning's downlink showed we had more power to play with than was modeled last week, this time due to the SAM activities ru ... more |
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Tiangong space station open to worldBeijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 Over the past 19 years, from China's first manned space mission Shenzhou V to the latest Shenzhou XV launch, the nation's space endeavors have progressed from a single-astronaut mission to the long- ... more  
Phantom Space wins 4 new NASA Task OrdersTucson AZ (SPX) Nov 26, 2022 Phantom Space Corp. has been awarded four new NASA task orders to launch CubeSat satellites into space as part of the new VADR contract. NASA's VADR missions (for Venture-class Acquisition of ... more 
Small asteroids are probably youngBern, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 The Hayabusa2 spacecraft was developed in order to study the history of the asteroid Ryugu, and collected samples and returned them to earth for laboratory analysis. The project participants are Dr. ... more 
What's in a Vein?Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 01, 2022 After scraping away the top few layers of stone using its abrading bit, the Perseverance rover has revealed a network of thin, white veins. Could these hold clues about ancient life? Geologica ... more 
China ready to implement moon landing projectJiuquan, China (XNA) Dec 01, 2022 China has made breakthroughs in the development of the new-generation crewed spaceship, new-generation manned carrier rocket, moon lander, and moon landing spacesuit, stepping closer to its moon lan ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 30, 2022  Paris and Washington pledged Wednesday to reenforce their cooperation in space, particularly on exploration and climate, during a visit by France's Emmanuel Macron to NASA headquarters alongside US Vice President Kamala Harris.
The French president, on a state visit to the United States, highlighted the American lunar program Artemis, whose first uncrewed test mission launched in mid-Novembe ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
Pulsar Fusion, a UK rocket company that has seen its advanced space engines tested in the UK and Switzerland earlier this year, has been awarded funding from the UK Space Agency to develop 'Integrated nuclear fission-based power systems for electric propulsion'
The project will be supported by Southampton and Cambridge Universities and Nuclear AMRC.
Pulsar Fusion, based in Bletchley, Buck ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
When NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars nearly 50 years ago, its cameras imaged a boulder-strewn surface of elusive origin. New research led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Alexis Rodriguez shows the landing site may be on the margins of a megatsunami deposit, formed when a 3-kilometer asteroid impacted a northern Martian ocean about 3.4 billion years ago. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 01, 2022  The six Chinese astronauts from the Shenzhou XIV and Shenzhou XV missions marked a historic moment on Wednesday as they met inside the country's Tiangong space station.
It was the first time that six Chinese were in a space station at the same time and the first in-orbit gathering of two Chinese crews.
After about two hours of preparatory work following the docking of the Shenzhou XV ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 02, 2022 
In early 2023 Cheops satellite will observe two exoplanets, KELT-3b and TOI-560c. An exoplanet is a planet orbiting another star. By joining a Hack an Exoplanet hackathon, teams of secondary students will get to analyse real satellite data collected by Cheops and hack these mysterious alien worlds. In other words, teams will be given the tools to understand what these worlds look like, just like ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2021 
A Texas-based company has landed a five-year contract from NASA to build landing pads, roads and shelter on the moon and on Mars.
ICON, which is known for its 3D-printed homes and military barracks, announced Tuesday it has won a $57 million contract from NASA to build Project Olympus, which will 3D-print infrastructure constructed from existing materials on the moon and Mars. The compa ... more |
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 Vanderbijlpark, South Africa (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
Breakthrough Listen has begun observations using a powerful new instrument deployed to the MeerKAT radio telescope in the remote Karoo region of South Africa. The new search for technosignatures - indicators of technology developed by extraterrestrial intelligence - expands the number of targets searched by a factor of 1,000.
The astronomers and engineers on the Breakthrough Listen team ha ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
New Horizons remains healthy from its position deep in the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther from the Earth and Sun by about 300 million miles per year! The spacecraft, which began its second extended mission on Oct. 1, also continues its record-length hibernation that began June 1 and ends March 1.
Hibernation, which takes place in spacecraft "spin mode," saves fuel and wear and tear ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 29, 2022 
Australia's Great Barrier Reef should be added to a list of "in danger" World Heritage sites, according to UN experts who warned the fading wonder has been "significantly impacted" by climate change.
A UNESCO-tasked report said on Monday warming seas and agricultural pollution had put the reef at risk and that its resilience had been "substantially compromised".
The Great Barrier Reef is ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 21, 2022 
Shipping is the most energy efficient form of transport, and more than 80% of goods traded globally are carried via the oceans, with a doubling in volume during the last quarter of a century. Recognising the global need for seamless maritime navigation, ESA's Navigation Innovation and Support Programme, NAVISP - inventing the future of navigation with more than 200 R and D projects initiated to ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2022 
NASA's Orion space capsule reached its farthest distance from Earth on Monday and successfully completed the first half of a mission that aims to ultimately return American astronauts to the moon.
"Just over an hour ago, Orion set another record clocking its maximum distance from Earth at 270,000 miles," NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced at 5 p.m. EST on Monday from Johnson Space Ce ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
Michelle Thompson is a geologist. But while "geo" means earth, she studies things that are decidedly unearthly, or at least extraterrestrial: the moon and asteroids.
"I study space weathering: how space environments affect tiny mineral particles on planetary surfaces," said Thompson, an assistant professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences in Purdue University ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Nov 24, 2022 
Dabeeo, a geospatial information technology company based on AI (CEO: Ju-hum Park), has announced a partnership with Maxar Technology ("Maxar" hereinafter), a leading space technology and intelligence company. This partnership enables Dabeeo to expand its domestic and international earth observation service business.
The satellite data analysis market is expanding rapidly in line with the ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Nov 25, 2022 
China's solar exploration satellite has transmitted its first solar image since being sent to space in October, according to the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) based in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) - nicknamed Kuafu-1 in Chinese - sent hard X-ray imaging of solar flares that broke out at 1:00 a.m. (Universal Time) on Nov. 11, 2022, sa ... more |
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 Goleta CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2022 
Today, he is among the millions of space enthusiasts enjoying the exquisite photography from that instrument that NASA is publishing to give academics as well as armchair astronomers a look back billions of years into the history of the universe.
"It's a little bit of wonder, a little bit of amazement and in some ways, a deep sense of humility having a small role in it," said Peralta, a Ra ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
For the first time, researchers at MIT, Caltech, Harvard University, and elsewhere sent quantum information across a quantum system in what could be understood as traversing a wormhole. Though this experiment didn't create a disruption of physical space and time in the way we might understand the term "wormhole" from science fiction, calculations from the experiment showed that qubits traveled f ... more |
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