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  Washington DC (UPI) Dec 7, 2021 NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 35th flight over the weekend, setting a new altitude record of 46 feet in the thin Martian atmosphere. The 4-pound chopper's previous record was 39 feet, according to NASA's Ingenuity flight log. The helicopter was deployed from NASA's Perseverance rover that landed on the Martian surface in February 2021. Saturday's Ingenuity flight was its first since Nov. 22. The goal of this flight was to reposition the helicopter to make sure it ... read more |
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Southern Launch and ATSpace return to launch up to two Kestrel I rockets before the end of the yearAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 by Kurtis Eichler for The Lead After a severe electrical storm damaged an ATSpace rocket on the launch pad in November, the company has announced that repairs have been completed and they will atte ... more  
Spirent brings realistic testing to emerging LEO satellite applicationsPaignton UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Spirent Communications plc (LSE:SPT), the leading provider of test and assurance solutions for next-generation devices and networks, has announced availability of SimORBIT, the first high-accuracy o ... more 
Slingshot Aerospace raises $40M in oversubscribed Series A2 funding roundAustin TX (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Slingshot Aerospace, Inc., a company building data and analytics products to make space operations safer, has announced that it has raised $40.85 million in an oversubscribed Series A2 funding round ... more 
Orbital Assembly announces new equity offering to Advance Hybrid-Gravity Space Station developmentHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Orbital Assembly (OA), a leader in the race to make Hybrid-GravityTM space accessible for leisure, commercial and industrial activities has announced a crowdfunding equity offering (Regulation CF). ... more |
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Absolut Sensing selects NanoAvionics to build demonstration satellite to be launched first half of 2024Vilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Absolut Sensing, a subsidiary of the Absolut Group specialized in the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions, has achieved a significant milestone with the selection of satellite manufacturer Kongs ... more 
The future market for small satellitesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 The German federal government has launched the Small Satellite Initiative with the aim of consolidating the German space industry and supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), especially ... more 
From Shetlands to Azores, Europe's space race takes offParis (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 Projects to develop space centres that can launch satellites into Earth's orbit are sprouting up around Europe, amid the soaring popularity of small rockets and the commercialisation of space. ... more 
NASA advances Artemis Moon rocket production for future missionsNew Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 NASA is moving forward with Space Launch System (SLS) production and assembly activities for future Artemis missions. The agency is optimizing manufacturing capabilities by enabling SLS core s ... more |
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Arctic Sweden in race for Europe's satellite launchesEsrange Space Centre, Sweden (AFP) Dec 8, 2022 As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests. ... more 
New rocket successfully takes to outer spaceBeijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2022 Kuaizhou 11, the newest model of carrier rocket developed by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, carried out its first successful flight on Wednesday morning, lifting an experimental satellit ... more 
NASA's Perseverance rover gets the dirt on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 08, 2022 NASA's Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile of wind-blown sand a ... more  
How can karst caves be used as terrestrial simulation platform to test and design human base in Lunar lava tube?Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 If human beings want to survive on the other planets for a long time, they must first find or set up a safe, stable, and long-term shelter. Lunar lava tubes are geological structures of the moon dis ... more |
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Artemis I Flight Day 22 - Orion Continues on its Journey Back to EarthHouston TX (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 Orion continues its journey back to Earth on day 22 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission with flight controllers and engineers continuing to test the spacecraft and its systems in preparation for futur ... more  
Unusual gamma-ray burst reveals previously undetected hybrid neutron-star merger eventLos Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 The standard view of gamma-ray bursts as a signature for different types of dying stars might need a rewrite. Recent astronomical observations, supported by theoretical modeling, reveal a new observ ... more 
Gamma-ray burst is 'Rosetta Stone' for finding neutron star collisionsBirmingham UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 A highly unusual blast of high-energy light from a nearby galaxy has been linked by scientists to a neutron star merger. The event, detected in December 2021 by NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Obser ... more  
World's first space rice seeds back from orbitBeijing (XNA) Dec 08, 2022 Feat will help scientists find sustainable food source for long-term exploration missions Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou XIV mission have returned with the world's first rice seeds produce ... more 
Britain set to launch its first space missionNewquay UK (UPI) Dec 6, 2021 A tentative date has been set for Britain's first space launch. ... more |
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For the eighth year, the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, Inc. (CASIS) and U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) have partnered to solicit transport phenomena and fluid dynamics research leveraging the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory.
NSF will provide up to $3.6 million for multiple projects to utilize the space station's research facilities for fundam ... more |
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 Esrange Space Centre, Sweden (AFP) Dec 8, 2022  As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world's northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden's snowy Arctic forests.
Hopes are high that rockets like this could carry satellites as early as next year, in what could be the first satellite launch from a spaceport in continental Europe.
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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 (AFP) Dec 4, 2022  Three Chinese astronauts safely returned to Earth on Sunday after six months aboard the Tiangong space station, state media quoted the country's space agency as saying, with their mission deemed a "complete success."
The team, which had been aboard the station since early June, touched down at the Dongfeng landing site in Inner Mongolia at 8:09 pm Beijing time (1209 GMT), Xinhua news agency ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 2, 2021  SpaceX, the American aerospace manufacturing company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has received federal approval to launch 7,500 satellites in an operation that would expand the company's Starlink internet services around the world.
Thursday's decision by the Federal Communications Commission, although not everything SpaceX wanted, was seen as a monumental victory for the company as i ... more |
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Dec 06, 2022 
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), provider of comprehensive space solutions and secure, precise, geospatial intelligence, has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has modified Maxar's remote sensing license to enable the non-Earth imaging (NEI) capability for its current constellation on orbit as well as its next-generation WorldView Legion satellite ... 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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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
At least 2,500 endangered seals have been found dead along Russia's Caspian Sea coast, the local environment ministry said.
Investigators are still working to explain why the seals washed up on beaches in Dagestan, southern Russia.
Authorities are leaning towards suffocation from gas released from the seafloor as the "main" cause of death, said Svetlana Radionova, the head of the Russia ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Dec 02, 2022 
Kleos Space has partnered with leading geospatial developer platform and marketplace, UP42, to offer Kleos' RF geolocation data to their platform users.
Under the partnership, Kleos' geospatial data product, Guardian LOCATE, will be available on UP42's marketplace. Guardian LOCATE provides processed geolocated radio frequency transmissions collected over key areas of interest by Kleos' sat ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
Orion continues its journey back to Earth on day 22 of the 25.5-day Artemis I mission with flight controllers and engineers continuing to test the spacecraft and its systems in preparation for future flights with humans aboard.
Engineers conducted the second part of the propellant tank slosh development flight test, called propellant slosh, which is scheduled during quiescent, or less acti ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 05, 2022 
The cosmos' annual gift to sky watchers, the Geminids Meteor shower, will peak on Dec. 13-14 this year.
During peak activity and perfect weather conditions, which are rare, the Geminids produce approximately 100-150 meteors per hour for viewing. However, this year a wanning gibbous moon will make it harder to view most of the shower, resulting in only 30-40 visible meteors per hour at the ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 08, 2022 
As preparations to launch Europe's first Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite continue, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, has bid farewell to their precious satellite as it was sealed from view within the Ariane 5 rocket's fairing. This all-new weather satellite is set to take to the skies on 13 December.
Since its arrival at the spaceport in mid-October, MTG-I ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
Designed for the "Meridian Space Weather Monitoring Project-II", five digital ionosondes have been installed and start operation at the observatories of this Project, according to the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) on November 16, 2022.
The ionosphere stretches roughly 50 to 400 miles above Earth's surface, right at the edge of space, and ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Dec 5, 2022 
Australia on Monday started building a vast network of antennas in the Outback, its section of what planners say will eventually become one of the most powerful radio telescopes in the world.
When complete, the antennas in Australia and a network of dishes in South Africa will form the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a massive instrument that will aim to untangle mysteries about the creation o ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Dec 08, 2022 
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory will participate in a new Topical Theory Collaboration funded by DOE's Office of Nuclear Physics to explore the behavior of so-called "heavy flavor" particles.
These particles are made of quarks of the "charm" and "bottom" varieties, which are heavier and rarer than the "up" and "down" quarks that make up th ... more |
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