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  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has acquired new images using its high-resolution color camera. The camera, which is mounted in the helicopter's fuselage, was pointed approximately 22 degrees below the horizon during the flight. The image shows the tracks of Perseverance running alongside a rocky outcrop. On January 19, 2023 (Sol 681 of the Perseverance rover mission), Ingenuity completed its 40th flight, traveling a horizontal distance of 561 feet (171 meters) and remaining in flight for 85.21 s ... read more |
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NASA's Lucy Mission Suspending Further Solar Array Deployment ActivitiesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 NASA's Lucy mission team has decided to suspend further solar array deployment activities. The team determined that operating the mission with the solar array in the current unlatched state carries ... more  
NASA, Boeing teams achieve milestone ahead of crewed flightHouston TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 NASA and Boeing recently completed a full start to finish integrated mission dress rehearsal for the company's CST-100 Starliner flight with astronauts to the International Space Station, which is s ... more  
Astronauts conduct first ISS spacewalk of 2023Washington DC (UPI) Jan 20, 2023 Two astronauts embarked on the first spacewalk of 2023 on Friday as they worked toward upgrading the International Space Station's power generation system. ... more  
Chinese astronauts send Spring Festival greetings from space stationBeijing (XNA) Jan 23, 2023 The Shenzhou-15 astronauts Fei Junlong, Deng Qingming and Zhang Lu sent their Spring Festival greetings from China's Tiangong space station in a video released by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA ... more |
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Sols 3718-3720: Go For Drilling at EncantoPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2023 In the previous plan, Curiosity conducted a preliminary assessment of the potential drill target "Encanto" (as seen in the above MAHLI image) and today we received the data. The drill preload test a ... more  
From Europe to Jupiter via KourouParis (ESA) Jan 23, 2023 "Trois, deux, un - et decollage!" This is how the last three seconds will be counted down in the control centre in Kourou, French Guiana, this April before one of the last Ariane 5 launch vehicles l ... more 
Exotic water ice contributes to understanding of magnetic anomalies on Neptune and UranusSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 Ordinary everyday ice, like the ice produced by a fridge, is known to scientists as hexagonal ice (ice Ih), and is not the only crystalline phase of water. More than 20 different phases are possible ... more  
Star visibility eroding rapidly as night sky gets brighterWashington (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday. ... more |
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Visitor to a galaxyMunich, Germany (SPX) 2322, 2023 A host of astronomical objects throng this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Background galaxies ranging from stately spirals to fuzzy ellipticals are strewn across the image, and brig ... more  
Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon, marries on 93rd birthdayLos Angeles (AFP) Jan 21, 2023 Legendary Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, the second person to set foot on the Moon, said he had married his longtime girlfriend on Friday, his 93rd birthday. ... more  
Britain's Tim Peake steps down from ESA astronaut corpsParis (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Britain's Tim Peake has hung up his spacesuit, stepping down from Europe's astronaut corps to become an ambassador for space activities, the European Space Agency said on Friday. ... more  
Rare opportunity to study short-lived volcanic island reveals sulfur-metabolizing microbesBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 In 2015, a submarine volcano in the South Pacific erupted, forming the Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha'apai island, destined to a short, seven-year life. A research team led by the University of Colorado Bould ... more |
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Satellite mapping finds new colony of Emperor penguinsLondon (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 Satellite mapping technology has discovered another new colony of the highly threatened Emperor penguins in Antarctica, researchers revealed Friday. ... more  
AIR launches high-resolution sensing and electrical stimulation neural activity studyBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 A major interdisciplinary project "Research on high-resolution sensing and electrical stimulation of sleep-wake neural electrical activity", led by Prof. CAI Xinxia from the Aerospace Information Re ... more  
Solar tower power plants - sunlight becomes electricity on demandBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 Solar power is becoming an increasingly important source of energy worldwide. At present, photovoltaic systems are predominantly being used in Germany. For sunny countries, solar tower power plants ... more  
Data reveal a surprising preference in particle spin alignmentUpton NY (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 Given the choice of three different "spin" orientations, certain particles emerging from collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), an atom smasher at the U.S. Department of Energy's ... more 
New explanation for Jupiter's two massive asteroid swarmsAbu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Jan 18, 2023 An international team of scientists including NYUAD researcher Nikolaos Georgakarakos and others from the US, Japan, and China led by Jian Li from Nanjing University, has developed new insights that ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 20, 2023 
Two astronauts embarked on the first spacewalk of 2023 on Friday as they worked toward upgrading the International Space Station's power generation system.
NASA astronaut Nicole Mann teamed up with Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for the morning spacewalk, which NASA officials said lasted seven hours and 21 minutes. They installed a modification kit at the far en ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 18, 2023 
Elon Musk's SpaceX launched one of its Falcon 9 rockets Wednesday morning with a GPS satellite on board, part of a U.S. Space Force program to have a constellation of 32 navigation satellites orbiting the Earth.
The rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:24 a.m. EST carrying the fifth Lockheed Martin-made Space Vehicle 6 of the so-called GPS 3 constel ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 19, 2023 
Yesterday's plan executed successfully including a short bump that placed us in front of an interesting block that may just contain our next drilled target!
Before the science team commits to drilling the target "Encanto," we will first investigate the chemistry and composition of the target using APXS, ChemCam, and Mastcam (using their multispectral capability), to ensure that it is scien ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 20, 2023 
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) plans to launch more than 200 spacecraft with over 60 space missions in 2023, according to a company report released Wednesday.
The CASC report unveiled plans for the country's space science and technology activities in 2023. It said that the Tianzhou 6 cargo craft, the Shenzhou XVI and the Shenzhou XVII flight missions would ta ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 
The UK Space Agency has announced 50 million pounds of funding for ambitious and innovative projects that will supercharge the UK's satellite communications industry. The funding is part of the European Space Agency (ESA) Advanced Research in Telecommunications Services (ARTES) program and will be used to develop new satellite constellations, ground systems, and end-to-end systems that deliver n ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2023 
In the blazing upper atmosphere of the Sun, a team of scientists have found new clues that could help predict when and where the Sun's next flare might explode.
Using data from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, researchers from NorthWest Research Associates, or NWRA, identified small signals in the upper layers of the solar atmosphere, the corona, that can help identify which regi ... more |
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 College Park MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2023 
As space missions delve deeper into the outer solar system, the need for more compact, resource-conserving and accurate analytical tools has become increasingly critical-especially as the hunt for extraterrestrial life and habitable planets or moons continues.
A University of Maryland-led team developed a new instrument specifically tailored to the needs of NASA space missions. Their mini ... more |
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 
Ordinary everyday ice, like the ice produced by a fridge, is known to scientists as hexagonal ice (ice Ih), and is not the only crystalline phase of water. More than 20 different phases are possible. One of them, called "superionic ice" or "ice XVIII", is of particular interest, among other reasons, because it is thought to make up a large part of Neptune and Uranus, planets frequently referred ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 20, 2023 
What caused the mass death of crustaceans off the coast of northeast England in late 2021? A new finding on Friday brought relief to the government, which is developing a flagship new "freeport" in the region.
The customs-free zone in Teesside is one of several planned that are aimed at showing off Britain's "post-Brexit freedoms" in trade, according to the government.
Some in parliament ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Jan 20, 2023 
HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, announced that Slingshot Aerospace awarded the RF data provider a contract to provide data for Slingshot's space-based monitoring and detection of RF threats and to support Slingshot's proliferated Low Earth Orbit (pLEO) Data Exploitation and Enhanced Processing (DEEP) program for th ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 
Super-thin chips made from lithium niobate are set to overtake silicon chips in light-based technologies, according to world-leading scientists in the field, with potential applications ranging from remote ripening-fruit detection on Earth to navigation on the Moon.
They say the artificial crystal offers the platform of choice for these technologies due to its superior performance and rece ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 
NASA's Lucy mission team has decided to suspend further solar array deployment activities. The team determined that operating the mission with the solar array in the current unlatched state carries an acceptable level of risk and further deployment activities are unlikely to be beneficial at this time. The spacecraft continues to make progress along its planned trajectory.
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2023 
Capella Space, a leading American satellite manufacturer and Earth observation company, has closed $60 million in growth equity financing from the U.S. Innovative Technology Fund ("USIT"). Capella will leverage this growth capital to expand its imaging capacity and develop new data products as customer demand grows for its frequent, timely and high-quality SAR imagery and analytics capabilities. ... more |
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 Shanghai (XNA) Jan 17, 2023 
In an "almost-out-of-service" period in 2021, China's Tianwen-1 orbiter, along with Mars Express of the European Space Agency, helped solar scientists know more about what happens near the sun.
During the late September to mid-October stretch in 2021, China's Mars orbiter experienced its first sun transit, when its communication with Earth was significantly disturbed by solar radiation. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 19, 2023 
Light pollution is growing rapidly and in some places the number of stars visible to the naked eye in the night sky is being reduced by more than half in less than 20 years, according to a study released Thursday.
The researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Science, said the increase in light pollution - skyglow - that they found was much larger than that measured by sat ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 22, 2023  Physicists at the University of Bonn have experimentally proven that an important theorem of statistical physics applies to so-called "Bose-Einstein condensates." Their results now make it possible to measure certain properties of the quantum "superparticles" and deduce system characteristics that would otherwise be difficult to observe. The study has now been ... more |
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