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  Washington (AFP) Jan 12, 2023 The US government is examining 510 UFO reports, over triple the number in its 2021 file, and while many were caused by drones or balloons, hundreds remain unexplained, according to a report released Thursday. The 2022 report by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said that 247 "unidentified anomalous phenomena" or UAP reports have been filed with it since June 2021, when it revealed that it had records of 144 sightings of suspicious aerial objects under examination. In addition, the repo ... read more |
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Sweden claims largest discovery of 'crucial' rare-earth elements in EuropeWashington DC (UPI) Jan 12, 2023 While it could take more than a decade to develop, state-owned Swedish mining company LKAB said Thursday it uncovered Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements, elements that are central components for the energy transition. ... more  
Russia to send rescue mission to space stationMoscow (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Russia said Wednesday that it will send an empty spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) next month to bring home three astronauts whose planned return vehicle was damaged by a strike from a tiny meteoroid. ... more  
Private U.S. space company ABL fails to launch from AlaskaWashington DC (UPI) Jan 11, 2023 An effort to put a satellite launcher into low-Earth orbit from Alaska's Kodiak Island failed after the rocket crashed back to the launchpad, destroying the facility, private U.S. company ABL Space Systems said. ... more 
Rocket Lab sets new date for first Electron launch from U.S. soilWallops Island VA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its first Electron mission from U.S. soil is scheduled to open on January 23, 2023 with back-up dates extending through early F ... more |
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SpaceX capsule lands safely on return from ISSWashington DC (UPI) Jan 11, 2023 SpaceX confirmed Wednesday its Dragon cargo spacecraft successfully splashed down off the coast of Florida after returning from the International Space Station. ... more  
Martian meteorite contains large diversity of organic compoundsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt ... more 
In search of a new marker band drill site: Sols 3708-3709Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 We continue to characterize the Marker Band and the bedrock just below it, with the aim of understanding the origin of the Marker Band. For today's two-sol plan, in an area below the Marker Band, we ... more 
Pausing to take in the view: Sols 3710-3711Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 At this point in the mission, the team is very good at responding to tactical surprises. Today, we did not receive the necessary downlink to proceed with the nominal plan. Fortunately, we received e ... more |
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NASA's Webb confirms its first exoplanetBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Researchers confirmed an exoplanet, a planet that orbits another star, using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope for the first time. Formally classified as LHS 475 b, the planet is almost exactly the ... more  
Cosmic superbubble's magnetic field charted in 3D for the first timeSeattle WA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA) have unveiled a first-of-its-kind map that could help answer decades-old questions about the origins of stars and the influ ... more 
Researchers create an optical tractor beam that pulls macroscopic objectsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first times that laser ... more 
Astronomers dig out buried black holes with NASA's ChandraBoston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Hundreds of black holes previously hidden, or buried, have been found using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This result helps give astronomers a more accurate census of black holes in the universe ... more |
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New Webb image reveals dusty disk like never seen beforeBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has imaged the inner workings of a dusty disk surrounding a nearby red dwarf star. These observations represent the first time the previously known disk has been im ... more  
China's space-based solar camera publishes data on solar atmosphereBeijing (XNA) Jan 12, 2023 A China-developed space-borne solar camera studying the solar transition region released its first group of scientific data on Wednesday. The 46.5-nanometer extreme-ultraviolet imager or Solar ... more 
Unibap receives order from Thales Alenia SpaceStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 Unibap AB (publ) has received an order from Thales Alenia Space to provide SpaceCloud solution for technology development targeting use on future satellite missions. The order value is KEUR 182. ... more 
Space junk, not meteorites, remains biggest threat to spacecraftParis (AFP) Jan 11, 2023 Dodging the kind of meteorite strike that forced Russia to plan a space station rescue mission is nearly impossible, yet the greater threat to spacecraft is actually the man-made debris in orbit, experts say. ... more  
SES secures 300M Euro in financing from European Investment BankLuxembourg (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 The European Investment Bank (EIB), the financing institution of the European Union, and leading global content connectivity solutions provider SES announced details of their euro 300 million financ ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 11, 2023  Russia said Wednesday it would send a rescue capsule on February 20 for three crew of the International Space Station, after a meteorite damaged the spacecraft that was due to return them to Earth.
"The Soyuz MS-23 launch is on February 20, 2023 in an unmanned mode," Russia's space agency Roscosmos said.
The MS-22 spacecraft that was originally set to bring Russian cosmonauts Sergei Pro ... more |
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Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has announced the launch window for its first Electron mission from U.S. soil is scheduled to open on January 23, 2023 with back-up dates extending through early February. The daily launch opportunity runs from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST (23:00 - 1:00 UTC).
The "Virginia Is For Launch Lovers" mission will lift-off from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space's Mid- ... more |
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The Martian meteorite Tissint contains a huge diversity of organic compounds, found an international team of researchers led by Technical University of Munich and Helmholtz Munich's Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin and including Carnegie's Andrew Steele. Their work is published in Science Advances.
Tissint, which crash landed in Morocco more than 11 years ago, is one of only five Martian meteorite ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 10, 2023 
Galactic Energy, a private aerospace manufacturer in Beijing, launched its fifth Ceres 1 rocket on Monday afternoon, deploying five small satellites into orbit.
The Ceres 1 Y5 rocket blasted off at 1:04 pm from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the Gobi Desert and placed the satellites into a preset orbit shortly after, the company announced in a news release.
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The European Investment Bank (EIB), the financing institution of the European Union, and leading global content connectivity solutions provider SES announced details of their euro 300 million financing agreement at a press briefing at the SES headquarters in Betzdorf, Luxembourg.
The seven-year term loan will back investments related to the design, procurement and launch of three previousl ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 12, 2023  While it could take more than a decade to develop, state-owned Swedish mining company LKAB said Thursday it uncovered Europe's largest known deposit of rare-earth elements, elements that are central components for the energy transition.
Rare-earth elements such as lithium are essential for the batteries that power electric vehicles and other low-carbon technologies, though most of that ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
By their own admission, Anastasios "Andy" Tzanidakis and James Davenport are interested in unusual stars. The University of Washington astronomers were on the lookout for "stars behaving strangely" when an automated alert from the Gaia survey pointed them to Gaia17bpp. Survey data indicated that this star had gradually brightened over a 2 1/2-year period.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
In June 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew close to Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, observing evidence of magnetic reconnection. A team led by Southwest Research Institute used Juno data to examine the electron and ion particles and magnetic fields as the magnetic field lines of Jupiter and Ganymede merged, snapped and reoriented, heating and accelerating the charged particles in the region. ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 
As a river cuts through a landscape, it can operate like a conveyer belt, moving truckloads of sediment over time. Knowing how quickly or slowly this sediment flows can help engineers plan for the downstream impact of restoring a river or removing a dam. But the models currently used to estimate sediment flow can be off by a wide margin.
An MIT team has come up with a better formula to cal ... more |
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 Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jan 06, 2023 
Quectel Wireless Solutions, a global IoT solutions provider, has launched three new combo antennas to help IoT solution designers and developers optimize device performance.
Each new combo antenna has been designed to offer maximized choice and performance for IoT deployments so customers can ensure their devices can access the connectivity they need across a variety of wireless technologi ... more |
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 Guangzhou, China (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
The Moon has been considered extremely reductive since the Apollo era, as estimated by the low ferric iron content in lunar samples returned in the 1970s. In addition, it has long been a mystery whether a large amount of ferric iron exists on the Moon and how it is formed.
Recently, however, a research team led by Profs. XU Yigang and HE Hongping from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistr ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 7, 2023 
A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said.
The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.
After travelling from the icy reaches of our Solar System it will come closest to th ... more |
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 Boca Raton FL (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
Terran Orbital Corporation (NYSE: LLAP), a global leader in satellite-based solutions primarily serving the aerospace and defense industries, has announced its GEOStare SV2 spacecraft completed a commercial data services imagery contract for Lockheed Martin.
Throughout the duration of the contract, Terran Orbital's operations team successfully demonstrated the ability to rapidly re-task th ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 
Scientists with NASA's Parker Solar Probe mission have uncovered significant new clues about the origins of the solar wind - a continual stream of charged particles released from the Sun that fills the solar system.
Observations from multiple space and ground-based observatories show the solar wind could be largely fueled by small-scale jets, or "jetlets," at the base of the corona - the S ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
A new analysis of distant galaxies imaged by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows that they are extremely young and share some remarkable similarities to "green peas," a rare class of small galaxies in our cosmic backyard.
"With detailed chemical fingerprints of these early galaxies, we see that they include what might be the most primitive galaxy identified so far. At the same time, we ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2023 
Researchers have developed a way to use laser light to pull a macroscopic object. Although microscopic optical tractor beams have been demonstrated before, this is one of the first times that laser pulling has been used on larger objects.
Light contains both energy and momentum that can be used for various types of optical manipulation such as levitation and rotation. Optical tweezers, for ... more |
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