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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2023 On Thursday, Jan. 26, a small near-Earth asteroid will have a very close encounter with our planet. Designated 2023 BU, the asteroid will zoom over the southern tip of South America at about 4:27 p.m. PST (7:27 p.m. EST) only 2,200 miles (3,600 kilometers) above the planet's surface and well within the orbit of geosynchronous satellites. There is no risk of the asteroid impacting Earth. But even if it did, this small asteroid - estimated to be 11.5 to 28 feet (3.5 to 8.5 meters) across - would tur ... read more |
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NASA validates revolutionary propulsion design for deep space missionsHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 As NASA takes its first steps toward establishing a long-term presence on the Moon's surface, a team of propulsion development engineers at NASA have developed and tested NASA's first full-scale rot ... more  
Perseverance marks 1 Martian Year at JezeroLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 Perseverance and the team recently celebrated one Martian year (668 sols or 687 Earth days) on the Red Planet while continuing to offload sample tubes at the "Three Forks" depot location. The celebr ... more 
SwRI-led Lucy team announces new asteroid targetSan Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest Research Institute-led Lucy mission will get a close-up view of a small main ... more 
Stratolaunch creates Advanced Program Office at Purdue for hypersonicsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 Stratolaunch LLC and Purdue University are pleased to announce they have established a partnership dedicated to accelerating the time required to design, build, test and fly hypersonic vehicles. ... more |
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DARPA, NASA Collaborate on Nuclear Thermal Rocket EngineWashington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2023 DARPA, via its Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program, is collaborating with NASA to build a nuclear thermal rocket (NTR) engine that could expand possibilities for the s ... more  
OneWeb and Marsh's mission-critical collaboration continuesLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 OneWeb, the low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications company, and Marsh, the world's leading insurance broker and risk advisor, have announced that their relationship will continue through in ... more 
Viasat managed services contract by US Marine CorpsCarlsbad CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2023 Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, has announced it was awarded a contract to provide end-to-end satellite communications (SATCOM) support through a fully managed service t ... more  
Hawkeye 360 launches Cluster 6 satellites aboard inaugural Rocket Lab Electron flight from VirginiaHerndon VA (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, announced that its Cluster 6 next-generation satellites have successfully deployed t ... more |
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Nanoparticles make it easier to turn light into solvated electronsHouston TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 There are many ways to initiate chemical reactions in liquids, but placing free electrons directly into water, ammonia and other liquid solutions is especially attractive for green chemistry because ... more 
UK Space Agency announces new funding for satellite communicationsLondon, 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 Euro ... more  
GMV to develop the ground control center for Hisdesat's newMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 The Spanish government satellite operator, Hisdesat, has awarded multinational GMV a contract to build and develop the ground segment of the SPAINSAT NG program satellites. The two new satellites, s ... more  
From ground to air to space: Tillage estimates get tech boostUrbana IL (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 According to national USDA statistics, no-till and conservation tillage are on the rise, with more than three quarters of corn and soybean farmers opting for the practices to reduce soil erosion, ma ... more |
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Saving Earth-based explorers and enabling explorationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 24, 2023 In 2022, NASA-developed Search and Rescue technologies enabled rescue personnel to save 397 lives in the U.S. region. Since 1979, NASA has provided technical expertise to the Cospas-Sarsat program, ... more  
NASA measures underground water flowing from Sierra to Central ValleyPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2023 In a recent study, scientists found that a previously unmeasured source - water percolating through soil and fractured rock below California's Sierra Nevada mountains - delivers an average of 4 mill ... more 
NASA safety system enables Rocket Lab launch from WallopsWallops Island VA (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 A revolutionary NASA flight safety system has enabled a new era of space transportation with the successful flight of Rocket Lab USA's Electron rocket Jan. 24, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in ... more  
UAE astronaut says not required to fast during Ramadan on ISSHouston (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 Emirati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi said Wednesday that he will not be required to fast during Ramadan while on his upcoming space mission. ... more 
How ESA works with the EU to advance European spaceParis (ESA) Jan 25, 2023 ESA has formed a formidable partnership with the EU to secure the future of Europe in space, developing Earth observation, navigation, secure connectivity and space entrepreneurship, people attendin ... more |
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 Houston (AFP) Jan 26, 2023 
Emirati astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi said Wednesday that he will not be required to fast during Ramadan while on his upcoming space mission.
The 41-year-old will become the first Arab astronaut to spend six months in space when he blasts off for the International Space Station (ISS) next month aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Neyadi, NASA's Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg and Russia's Andr ... more |
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 Wallops Island VA (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 
A revolutionary NASA flight safety system has enabled a new era of space transportation with the successful flight of Rocket Lab USA's Electron rocket Jan. 24, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
This mission, the first Electron launch from the United States, was enabled by NASA's work in developing the NASA Autonomous Flight Termination Unit (NAFTU), a critical piece of fligh ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2023 
Despite giving it the "old college try," Curiosity's attempt to drill into the Marker Band at the "Encanto" site did not reach sampling depth. Because other rocks around the rover look similar to "Encanto" and are likely also too hard to drill, the Science Team decided to convert the plan to a "Touch and Go."
Although the Science Team is disappointed to leave this Marker Band location with ... more |
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 Beijing (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) on New Year's Eve.
The trio, dressed in blue jumpsuits with dark red patterns, each held a sticker showing their own calligraphy. Two of the stickers were written with the Chinese character "f ... more |
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 Herndon VA (SPX) Jan 26, 2023 
HawkEye 360 Inc., the world's leading commercial provider of space-based radio frequency (RF) data and analytics, announced that its Cluster 6 next-generation satellites have successfully deployed to orbit aboard the inaugural Rocket Lab Electron flight from Launch Complex 2 at Virginia Space's Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport within NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. Communication with the satellit ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 23, 2023 
The Spanish government satellite operator, Hisdesat, has awarded multinational GMV a contract to build and develop the ground segment of the SPAINSAT NG program satellites. The two new satellites, scheduled for launch in 2024 and 2025 respectively, will replace the operator's current SpainSat and XTAR-EUR satellites, and significantly improve on their performance and capabilities.
The main ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 25, 2023 
Frozen molecules were central to the origin of life on Earth. In addition to impacts of icy comets and asteroids, according to current theory, our planet likely also received the elementary components of life from the ices of the immense interstellar molecular cloud from which the Earth and the rest of the solar system emerged.
In a new study, an international research team, with the parti ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 24, 2023 
In a recent study, scientists found that a previously unmeasured source - water percolating through soil and fractured rock below California's Sierra Nevada mountains - delivers an average of 4 million acre feet (5 cubic kilometers) of water to the state's Central Valley each year. This underground source accounts for about 10% of all the water that enters this highly productive farmland each ye ... 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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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 25, 2023 
The China National Space Administration on Saturday released a group of new photos from the country's lunar rover Yutu 2, together with its good wishes for all Chinese people, ahead of the Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rabbit.
The photos showed the wheel track left by the rover, some rocks and a small impact crater on the lunar surface.
Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, is known as the pet o ... more |
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 Chongqing, China (XNA) Jan 26, 2023 
China plans to use its new China Compound Eye facility in Chongqing to observe asteroids and Earth-like planets hundreds of millions of kilometers away as part of its planetary defense work. The Chongqing Innovation Center under the Beijing Institute of Technology, which designed and built the China Compound Eye, recently released its first 3D radar map of an area of moon craters taken by the hi ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 20, 2023 
With diminishing ice one of the biggest casualties of our warming world, it's imperative that accurate measurements continue to be made for scientific research and climate policy, as well as for practical applications such as ship routing.
To ensure that ESA and NASA are getting the best out of their ice-measuring satellites and to help prepare for Europe's new CRISTAL satellite, the two s ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 25, 2023 
Solar flares and other types of space weather can wreak havoc with spaceflight and with telecommunications and other types of satellites orbiting the Earth. But, to date, scientists' ability to research ways to overcome that challenge has been severely limited. That's because experiments they conduct in laboratories here on Earth are affected by gravity in ways that are so different from conditi ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 19, 2023 
There are many ways to initiate chemical reactions in liquids, but placing free electrons directly into water, ammonia and other liquid solutions is especially attractive for green chemistry because solvated electrons are inherently clean, leaving behind no side products after they react.
In theory, solvated electrons could be used to safely and sustainably break down carbon dioxide or che ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 25, 2023  A new study led by a joint team at Nagoya University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has measured the cosmic age of a very distant galaxy. The team used the ALMA radio telescope array to detect a radio signal that has been travelling for approximately 97% of the age of the Universe. This discovery confirms the existence of galaxies in the very early Universe found by the James ... more |
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