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  Washington (AFP) Dec 15, 2022 Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike. Dramatic NASA TV images showed white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear of the vessel for hours. The coolant leak forced the last-minute cancellation of a spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts on Wednesday and could potentially impact a return flight to Earth by three crew member ... read more |
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Juno exploring Jovian moons during extended missionPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2022 NASA's Juno mission is scheduled to obtain images of the Jovian moon Io on Dec. 15 as part of its continuing exploration of Jupiter's inner moons. Now in the second year of its extended mission to i ... more  
Planet makes its geospatial data available through Amazon SageMakerSan Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced it is making geospatial data available through Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning ... more  
Latest international water satellite packs an engineering punchPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2022 Set for a Thursday, Dec. 15 launch, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite promises to provide an extraordinary accounting of water over much of Earth's surface. Its measurements of ... more  
Radiation shielding: MAPbI3/epoxy composites exhibit superior performanceChangchun, China (SPX) Dec 14, 2022 As the rapid development of aerospace and nuclear industries, higher requirements are raised for the service life of detectors and the safety of staff. Gamma ray with extremely short wavelength and ... more |
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First Images Released From NOAA-21 VIIRS InstrumentGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 Bright blue water in the Caribbean Sea and smog in Northern India appear in the first global image produced with data from NOAA-21's VIIRS instrument. The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer S ... more  
MetTel Labs deploys VMware SD-WAN over StarlinkNew York NY (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 MetTel reports that its Customer Innovation Labs, the research and development unit of MetTel, has deployed its Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) service using the VMware SD-WAN solution o ... more 
Water-tracking SWOT satellite encapsulated in rocket payload fairingVandenberg CA AFB (SPX) Dec 12, 2022 The international Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission is one step closer to launching so it can track water on more than 90% of Earth's surface. The SWOT satellite, or the Surface Water ... more  
Precise solar observations fed millions in ancient MexicoRiverside CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for leap years. Before the Spanish arrival in 1 ... more |
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A new era of weather forecasting beginsParis (ESA) Dec 14, 2022 The Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite, set to revolutionise short-term weather forecasting in Europe, lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket at 21:30 CET (17:30 local time in Kourou) on 13 Decemb ... more  
Airbus delivers MicroCarb instrument, the first European mission to measure atmospheric CO2Paris, France (SPX) Dec 12, 2022 A special passenger crossed under the Channel this week: the MicroCarb instrument, en-route to be integrated with its satellite platform at RAL Space (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) in Oxfordshire, ... more 
Airbus delivers first Sentinel-4 air-monitoring instrument to ESAParis, France (SPX) Dec 14, 2022 Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA). It wi ... more  
ZEP-RE and Planet collaborate on drought insurance program in AfricaSan Francisco FL (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, have announced a new contract with ZEP-RE, a reinsurance company based in Nairobi, Kenya, to leverage Planet's ... more |
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Advanced Air Mobility makes travel more accessibleTeresa Whiting for AFRC Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 Imagine requesting an air taxi by app, like you do now with Uber or Lyft, to travel to your local airport - you could be soaring above road traffic and arrive much ... more 
Looking back from beyond the Moon: how views from space have changed the way we see EarthAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Dec 14, 2022 A photograph taken by NASA's Orion spacecraft has given us a new perspective on our home planet. The snap was taken during the Artemis I mission, which sent an uncrewed vehicle on a journey ar ... more  
Delta 2 leverages Space Domain Awareness in support of Artemis IPeterson SFB CO (SPX) Dec 14, 2022 Guardians at Space Delta 2 honed their skills in Space Domain Awareness by supporting Artemis I's 25-day, 1.4-million-mile mission. On November 16, 2022, NASA's Artemis I successfully launched ... more  
Spire Global to launch six satellites on SpaceX Transporter-6 MissionVienna VA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) will launch six satellites on the SpaceX Transporter-6 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station no earlier than January 2023. The satellites will demonstrate a ... more 
Spaceflight Inc. to Wrap Up 2022 with Transporter 6, its 10th Launch of the YearBellevue WA (SPX) Dec 14, 2022 Spaceflight Inc., the leading global launch services provider, has announced it's preparing its 10th and final launch of 2022. Spaceflight provided the launch and integration services for Kleos Spac ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 15, 2022 
Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.
Dramatic NASA TV images showed white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear of the vessel for hours.
The coolant leak forced the last-minute cancellation of a spacewalk by ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 11, 2021 
NASA's Orion capsule, after traveling 1.4 million miles through space, including orbiting the moon and collecting data, returned to Earth on Sunday.
The 25 1/2-day Artemis I mission landed in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico's Baja California at 12:40 p.m., NASA reported.
"Splashdown! From Tranquility Base to Taurus-Littrow to the tranquil waters of the Pacific, the latest chapter of ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 
Among the mountainous dunes and small, undulating ripples of Mars' desert-like surface are sand structures, intermediate in size, that are not quite like anything on Earth.
Stanford University scientists have now used an AI model to analyze a million Martian dunes and uncover how these sandy waves form on our sister planet at a scale - roughly 1 meter between crests - that previously seeme ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 09, 2022 
Scientists from Saudi Arabia will soon have the opportunity to carry out an experiment aboard China's Tiangong space station that is expected to help with the design and production of high-efficiency solar cells.
According to an agreement signed in March 2021 by the Saudi Space Commission and China Manned Space Agency, the Saudi experiment will focus on studying the effects of cosmic rays ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 12, 2022 
Sidus Space, Inc. (NASDAQ:SIDU), a Space-as-a-Service company focused on mission critical hardware manufacturing combined with commercial satellite design, manufacture, launch, and data collection, recently signed an agreement with Exolaunch to use their CarboNIX separation system to deploy LizzieSatTM satellites during the LizzieSat rideshare missions with SpaceX in 2023 and 2024. This agreemen ... more |
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 Changchun, China (SPX) Dec 14, 2022 
As the rapid development of aerospace and nuclear industries, higher requirements are raised for the service life of detectors and the safety of staff. Gamma ray with extremely short wavelength and strong penetration would cause the serious damage to the detectors and staff. Therefore, it is important to develop gamma ray shielding materials with outstanding radiation shielding performance.
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 New York NY (SPX) Dec 09, 2022 
New research sheds light on how the "hell planet" got so devilishly hot and how other worlds might become too toasty for life. That rocky world, 55 Cnc e (nicknamed "Janssen"), orbits its star so closely that a year lasts just 18 hours, its surface is a giant lava ocean, and its interior may be chock-full of diamond.
The fresh insights come thanks to a new tool called EXPRES that captured ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 15, 2022 
NASA's Juno mission is scheduled to obtain images of the Jovian moon Io on Dec. 15 as part of its continuing exploration of Jupiter's inner moons. Now in the second year of its extended mission to investigate the interior of Jupiter, the solar-powered spacecraft performed a close flyby of Ganymede in 2021 and of Europa earlier this year.
"The team is really excited to have Juno's extended ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2022 
Set for a Thursday, Dec. 15 launch, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite promises to provide an extraordinary accounting of water over much of Earth's surface. Its measurements of fresh water and the ocean will help researchers address some of the most pressing climate questions of our time and help communities prepare for a warming world. Making this possible is a scientific ... 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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 Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2022 
NASA's Orion space capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific on Sunday, completing the Artemis 1 mission - a more than 25-day journey around the Moon with an eye to returning humans there in just a few years.
After racing through the Earth's atmosphere at a speed of 25,000 miles (40,000 kilometers) per hour, the uncrewed capsule floated down to the sea with the help of three large orange ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 
Nearly two years after Japanese mission Hayabusa2 returned to Earth, samples from asteroid Ryugu continue to reveal valuable information about the history of the early solar system. A study by scientists from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Universite Paris Cite and CNRS1, as part of an international consortium, reveals the isotopic composition of zinc and copper of asteroid Ryugu. ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 15, 2022 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced it is making geospatial data available through Amazon SageMaker, a fully managed machine learning (ML) service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Now, Planet data can be directly embedded into Amazon SageMaker, allowing data scientists and ML engineers to acquire and analyze global, daily satellite ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 
Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and even adjusted for leap years.
Before the Spanish arrival in 1519, the Basin of Mexico's agricultural system fed a population that was extraordinarily large for the time. Whereas Seville, the largest urban center in Spain, had a population of fewer than 50,000, ... more |
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 Guizhou, China (SPX) Dec 13, 2022 
Many bright stars gather in the night sky and form a Milky Way across the sky. It is our home galaxy in the vast universe, however, the structure and composition of the Milky Way are mysterious yet. The vast interstellar space between the billions of stars is not empty, but filled with tenuous interstellar medium.
The diffuse hydrogen gas radiates a spectral line with a frequency of around ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 12, 2022 
According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, space and time are inextricably connected. In our Universe, whose curvature is barely measurable, the structure of this spacetime is fixed. In a laboratory experiment, researchers from Heidelberg University have succeeded in realising an effective spacetime that can be manipulated.
In their research on ultracold quantum gases, they were able to ... more |
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