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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 Perseverance has a unique device near its heart that inhales Mars' atmosphere and exhales pure oxygen. This device is named MOXIE, the Mars Oxygen In Situ Resource Utilization Experiment. The toaster-sized MOXIE uses a high-temperature, electrochemical process called solid oxide electrolysis to strip oxygen ions from the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of Mars. There are two little gas exit ports on MOXIE: one where oxygen flows out and another where a mixture of carbon monoxide and unreacted car ... read more |
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Construction Begins on NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid HunterPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth's orbital neighborhood, NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rig ... more 
No oxygen required to make these minerals on MarsSt. Louis MO (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet might have once had mor ... more  
IXPE quickly observes aftermath of exceptional cosmic blastGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 On Oct. 9, 2022, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory detected a high-energy blast of light from deep space. The light came from a powerful explosion called a ga ... more 
InSight goes silent as Martian dust and cold ends missionBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 The InSight Mars mission is history. On 20 December 2022, NASA declared the mission over. The two attempts from Mission Control Centre at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern Californi ... more |
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How magnetic waves interact with Earth's bubbleLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 A new study involving UCL has uncovered how magnetic waves are transmitted past a standing shock wave, known as the bow shock, that forms ahead of Earth as a result of the solar wind hitting our mag ... more 
HAARP to bounce signal off asteroid in NASA experimentFairbanks AK (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 An experiment to bounce a radio signal off an asteroid on Dec. 27 will serve as a test for probing a larger asteroid that in 2029 will pass closer to Earth than the many geostationary satellites tha ... more  
Moon water imager integrated with NASA's Lunar TrailblazerPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 JPL's cutting-edge instrument, which will provide insights into the lunar water cycle and composition of the Moon's surface, has been incorporated into the small satellite. Lunar Trailblazer, NASA's ... more  
Inauguration of mainland Europe's first satellite launch complexEsrange, Sweden (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 On 13 January 2023, the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf, together with European and Swedish political dignitaries will visit Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden to cut the ribbon of ... more |
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Virgin Orbit' Launcherone Systems given green light for upcoming missionNewquay UK (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has issued launch and range control licenses to Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) to undertake the first satellite launch from UK soil. The granting of these licenses rep ... more 
NASA explores a winter wonderland on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 When winter comes to Mars, the surface is transformed into a truly otherworldly holiday scene. Snow, ice, and frost accompany the season's sub-zero temperatures. Some of the coldest of these occur a ... more  
New study models the transmission of foreshock waves towards EarthHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 An international team of scientists led by Lucile Turc, an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and supported by the International Space Science Institute in Bern has studied the pr ... more  
What it would take to discover life on Saturn's icy moon EnceladusTucson AZ (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space probe, according to a new study led by University of Arizona resea ... more |
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Russia might send up rescue ship for ISS crewWashington (AFP) Dec 22, 2022 Russia is examining the flight worthiness of a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a leak last week, and might need to send up a rescue vessel for stranded crew, officials said Thursday. ... more 
Christmas craterscapeParis (ESA) Dec 27, 2022 This beautifully crisp icy scene with a swirling ribbon of rusty red and white striped terrain connecting two large craters wraps up the year on Mars. The High Resolution Stereo Imaging camera on bo ... more 
Martian winter wonderland across Ultimi ScopuliBerlin, Germany (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 Christmas and winter spirit - also on Mars. Impact craters connected by a striped, coloured ribbon can be seen in the final and very wintry HRSC Mars image of this year. We wish all readers of our m ... more 
How Hera asteroid mission will phone homeParis (ESA) Dec 27, 2022 This is the antenna that will transmit back the first close-up images of the distant Dimorphos asteroid since its orbit was shifted by a collision with NASA's DART spacecraft. The 1.13-m diame ... more 
The 10 Days of Christmas: Sols 3689-3698Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 On the first sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; one APXS analysis, one ChemCam analysis and a multitude of Mastcam, MAHLI and RMI images! On the second sol of Christmas, Curiosity will br ... more |
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Russia is examining the flight worthiness of a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the ISS that sprang a leak last week, and might need to send up a rescue vessel for stranded crew, officials said Thursday.
The vehicle, known as MS-22, began spraying its coolant into space on December 14, with dramatic NASA TV images showing white particles resembling snowflakes streaming out of the rear.
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 Esrange, Sweden (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
On 13 January 2023, the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf, together with European and Swedish political dignitaries will visit Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden to cut the ribbon of a new spaceport that will significantly reshape the European space landscape. After years of preparation and construction, European mainland's first orbital launch complex, Spaceport Esrange, will be ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 
On the first sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; one APXS analysis, one ChemCam analysis and a multitude of Mastcam, MAHLI and RMI images! On the second sol of Christmas, Curiosity will bring to us; more ChemCam RMI images, more Mastcam images, more Navcam images and drive to a new, exciting location.
To allow for the MSL science team and engineers to take some time off over the ... more |
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 Nanjing, China (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 
China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang 3, set sail on Sunday for a new round of spacecraft monitoring missions. The ship, which is a second-generation vessel and responsible for monitoring high-, medium-, and low-orbit satellites, spaceships, and space station modules, has a long history of service. It was launched over 20 years ago and has completed more than 100 missions with a 100% success rat ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 27, 2022 
China's private company GalaxySpace is accelerating the research and development of flat-panel stackable satellites, for rapid construction of a satellite internet constellation.
GalaxySpace said the design enables dozens of satellites to be stacked on top of each other like tablet personal computers and be launched at the same time on a single rocket. It can greatly improve the use effici ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 20, 2022 
NASA's Near Space Network enables spacecraft exploring the solar system and Earth to send back essential science data for researchers and scientists to investigate and make profound discoveries.
Now, the network has integrated four new global antennas to further support science and exploration missions. In December 2022, antennas in Fairbanks, Alaska; Wallops Island, Virginia; Punta Arenas ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
The mystery of whether microbial alien life might inhabit Enceladus, one of Saturn's 83 moons, could be solved by an orbiting space probe, according to a new study led by University of Arizona researchers. In a paper published in The Planetary Science Journal, the researchers map out how a hypothetical space mission could provide definite answers.
When Enceladus was initially surveyed in 1 ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
NASA's Juno spacecraft completed its 47th close pass of Jupiter on Dec. 14. Afterward, as the solar-powered orbiter was sending its science data to mission controllers from its onboard computer, the downlink was disrupted.
The issue - an inability to directly access the spacecraft memory storing the science data collected during the flyby - was most likely caused by a radiation spike as Ju ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
The Earth's deep-sea trenches are some of the least explored places on Earth - as they are very difficult to access, are pitch black and the pressure is extremely high. Collecting samples and making reliable measurements of the processes that regulate the turnover of organic material in the deep is therefore difficult.
In recent years, however, researchers from the Danish Center for Hadal ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Dec 18, 2022 
Airbus has successfully achieved the System Critical Design Review (CDR) on the EGNOS V3 satellite-based augmentation system. The EGNOS V3 (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) is designed to add key security features for the most safety-critical applications such as aircraft navigation and landing, and will provide entirely new services for maritime and land users. EGNOS V3 is the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 
JPL's cutting-edge instrument, which will provide insights into the lunar water cycle and composition of the Moon's surface, has been incorporated into the small satellite. Lunar Trailblazer, NASA's mission to understand lunar water and the Moon's water cycle led by Caltech in Pasadena, California, is one step closer to launching next year. Earlier this month, the agency's Jet Propulsion Laborat ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 27, 2022 
A space telescope designed to search for the hardest-to-find asteroids and comets that stray into Earth's orbital neighborhood, NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor (NEO Surveyor) recently passed a rigorous technical and programmatic review. Now the mission is transitioning into the final design-and-fabrication phase and establishing its technical, cost, and schedule baseline.
The mission sup ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
A new study involving UCL has uncovered how magnetic waves are transmitted past a standing shock wave, known as the bow shock, that forms ahead of Earth as a result of the solar wind hitting our magnetic bubble (magnetosphere).
Shock waves occur in air when a plane travels faster than the speed of sound and also occur in plasma (a fourth state of matter that makes up 99% of the visible Uni ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
An international team of scientists led by Lucile Turc, an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and supported by the International Space Science Institute in Bern has studied the propagation of electromagnetic waves in near-Earth space for three years. The team has studied the waves in the area where the solar wind collides with Earth's magnetic field called foreshock region, an ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 22, 2022 
A group of MPIA astronomers has managed to identify the "poor old heart of the Milky Way" - a population of stars left over from the earliest history of our home galaxy, which resides in our galaxy's core regions. For this feat of "galactic archaeology", the researchers analyzed data from the most recent release of ESA's Gaia Mission, using a neural network to extract metallicities for two milli ... more |
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 St Louis MO (SPX) Dec 27, 2022 
A team of scientists including physicist Johanna Nagy at Washington University in St. Louis successfully launched a balloon-borne experiment studying the early universe on Dec. 21. The instrument, called SPIDER, was carried aloft by a scientific balloon from its launch pad in Antarctica.
Nagy, an assistant professor of physics in Arts and Sciences, is one of a team of scientists who will u ... more |
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