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  Esrange Space Centre, Sweden (AFP) Jan 13, 2023 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 a rocket like this could carry a satellite next year, in what could be the first satellite launch from a spaceport in continental Europe. Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Friday inaugurated "Spaceport Esrange", an extension to the Esran ... read more |
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Lunar Flashlight team assessing spacecraft's propulsion systemWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission successfully launched on Dec. 11, 2022, to begin its four-month journey to the Moon, where the small satellite, or SmallSat, will test several new technologies with a ... more  
Ongoing ISS Operations, Soyuz Status UpdateHouston TX (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 NASA and Roscosmos are adjusting the International Space Station flight plan after completing an investigation into a coolant leak on the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked to the station. NASA hos ... more 
Update on "Start Me Up" mission anomalyLong Beach CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 Preliminary analysis of data from the Start Me Up mission has begun to shed light on the outcome of the January 9th flight and next steps to follow. The Start Me Up mission was the first orbit ... more 
First steps towards the space station of the futureParis, France (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 In 1998, the International Space Station was launched, with astronauts living and working aboard. In addition to advances in medicine or helping to face the issues we have on Earth - such as water a ... more |
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Ingenuity completes the A-Z tour of the Wright Brothers Field at Jezero CraterLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired a new image using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon ... more  
SimX awarded US Space Force contract to adapt VR Medical Simulation Training for astronaut applicationsSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 The Virtual Advancement of Learning for Operational Readiness (VALOR) program at SimX, Inc. has been awarded a multi-year program by the U.S. Space Force (USSF) to develop a novel VR medical simulat ... more  
OneWeb confirms successful deployment of 40 satellitesCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 OneWeb has confirmed the successful deployment of 40 satellites launched by SpaceX from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. This launch is OneWeb's 16th to-date, with only two more launches remainin ... more  
Ball Aerospace enters final stages of building Space Force's next-gen weather satelliteBroomfield CO (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Ball Aerospace completed the spacecraft bus for the Weather System Follow-on-Microwave (WSF-M) satellite, the U.S. Space Force's next-generation operational environmental satellite system. Ball also ... more |
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Momentus to deliver FOSSA Systems satellites to orbitSan Jose CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 Momentus Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTS) has signed a contract with FOSSA Systems ("FOSSA"), a Spanish company that offers global low-power Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity and in-space services through it ... more  
NASA, DOD seek universities to develop cubesats for launchWashington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 NASA's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) is collaborating with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Space Force to solicit applicants for a set of hands-on learning engagements that will help higher education ... more  
NASA scientists and satellites make sense of Earth's subtle motionsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2023 Creeping, rising, falling, slipping - some parts of Earth are in perpetual motion. The movements are usually too tiny for human senses to notice, but they offer clues about more significant changes ... more  
Planet and NASA Harvest launch commercial partnership to advance food securitySan Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, and NASA Harvest, the federal space agency's Global Food Security and Agriculture Program, has announced a part ... more |
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Kleos Observer Mission UpdateLuxembourg (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Kleos Space S.A. (ASX: KSS, Frankfurt: KS1), a space-powered defence and intelligence technology Company, announces that two-way communication has been achieved with all four Observer Mission (KSF3) ... more  
TESS discovers planetary system's second Earth-size worldGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, scientists have identified an Earth-size world, called TOI 700 e, orbiting within the habitable zone of its star - the range of distance ... more 
Model-Independent Method to weigh protoplanetary disksTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Astronomers have found a way to directly measure the amount of gas in protoplanetary disks without needing to make assumptions about the relative amounts of different types of gas, making this metho ... more 
Distant star's dimming was likely a 'dusty' companion getting in the way, astronomers saySeattle 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" ... more 
Gaia helps discover directly imaged planet undergoing nuclear fusionExeter UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2023 Scientists have used the subtle movements of a distant star to help discover a new exoplanet - which is displaying signs of undergoing nuclear fusion in its core. An international team of scie ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
Imagine a future in space where pellet-beam propulsion systems speed up travel to other worlds, pipelines on the Moon transport oxygen between settlements, and Martian bricks grow on their own before being assembled into homes. Researchers will delve into these ideas and more using NASA grant funding.
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program fosters innovation by funding early- ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2023  NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired a new image using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage and pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon, was used during the 38th flight of Ingenuity on January 11, 2023 (Sol 667 of the Perseverance rover mission). During the flight, Ingenuity traveled a horizontal distance of ... 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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 Luxembourg (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 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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 Paris (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.
Russian announced on Wednesday a February mission to the International Space Station to pick up crew members left stranded after a strike damaged the capsule that was to take them home. ... 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.
As Tzanidakis will report on Jan. ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 
NASA's Lunar Flashlight mission successfully launched on Dec. 11, 2022, to begin its four-month journey to the Moon, where the small satellite, or SmallSat, will test several new technologies with a goal of looking for hidden surface ice at the lunar South Pole. While the SmallSat is largely healthy and communicating with NASA's Deep Space Network, the mission operations team has discovered that ... 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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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 10, 2023 
Planet Labs PBC (NYSE: PL), a leading provider of daily data and insights about Earth, has announced the completion of its acquisition of Salo Sciences, a San Francisco-based climate technology company that provides cutting-edge solutions to measure Earth's constantly changing ecosystems. In December, Planet announced it had signed an agreement to acquire Salo Sciences.
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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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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2023 
An international team of scientists have successfully mapped the magnetic field of our galaxy, the Milky Way, using telescopes that observe the sky in the microwave range. The new research is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
The team used the QUIJOTE (Q-U-I JOint TEnerife) Collaboration, sited at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. This c ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 13, 2023 
Two teams of astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope have observed repeated outbursts of light from inactive black holes that partially destroy stars again and again. This discovery is unexpected, since outbursts of black holes usually appear only once when a black hole consumes a star.
Supermassive black holes lie at the centres of most galaxies. Their masses range from hundred ... more |
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