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  Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Space logistics and orbital transportation company D-Orbit launched Starfield, the eighth commercial mission of their proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) ION Satellite Carrier (ION), and the first one in a midinclination orbit. The OTV lifted off January 31st, 2023, at 8:15 a.m. PT (16:15 UTC) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and was successfully deployed 57 minutes later into an approximately 340km altitude ... read more |
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Researchers complete first real-world study of Martian helicopter dust dynamicsHoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Mars is a dusty planet. From tiny dust devils to vast storms that shroud the planet, dust is a constant challenge for research missions. That was especially true for Ingenuity, the rotorcraft that s ... more  
SwRI investigations reveal more evidence that Mimas is a stealth ocean worldSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 When a Southwest Research Institute scientist discovered surprising evidence that Saturn's smallest, innermost moon could generate the right amount of heat to support a liquid internal ocean, collea ... more  
Two nearby exoplanets might be habitablePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2023 The discovery: Two planets about as massive as Earth orbit a red-dwarf star only 16 light-years away - nearby in astronomical terms. The planets, GJ 1002 b and c, lie within the star's habitable zon ... more  
Scientists release newly accurate map of all the matter in the universeChicago IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to find it first. When the universe began, matter was flung outward and gradually formed the planets, stars and galaxies that we know and love today. B ... more |
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A spiral amongst thousandsParis (ESA) Feb 01, 2023 A crowded field of galaxies throngs this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, along with bright stars crowned with Webb's signature six-pointed diffraction spikes. ... more  
NASA Spinoffs bolster climate resilience, improve medical care, moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 When it comes to NASA, most people look to the skies as rockets, rovers, and astronauts push the boundaries of space exploration. But the benefits of going above and beyond can be found here on Eart ... more 
NASA announces finalists in challenge to design future astronaut foodMolly Porter fort MSFC Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 NASA has selected 11 finalists in Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a public competition to extend the limits of humans in space - through food. A fir ... more 
The faults and valleys of a Martian volcanic highland plateauBerlin, Germany (DLR) Feb 01, 2023 January's 'Mars Image of the Month' reveals a geologically complex region on the flanks of Thaumasia Planum, an extensive volcanic plateau in the highlands southeast of the Valles Marineris valley s ... more |
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Is there life on Mars? Maybe, and it could have dropped its teddyLos Angeles (AFP) Jan 31, 2023 Yogi, Paddington and Winnie the Pooh, move over. There's a new bear in town. Or on Mars, anyway. ... more 
Making the Most of Limited Data: Sols 3278-3279Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 01, 2023 The Sol 3727 drive went well, positioning the rover at the transition in the Marker Band that was the goal of the drive. As expected, we did not receive enough image data to allow DRT brushing to be ... more  
Lockheed Martin's first LM 400 Multi-Mission Spacecraft completedDenver CO (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 The first Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) LM 400, a flexible, mid-sized satellite customizable for military, civil or commercial users, rolled off the company's digital factory production line and is ad ... more 
ATLAS works with AWS to advance federated network and expand ground station coverageTraverse City MI (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 ATLAS Space Operations, a leading Ground Software as a Service (GSaaS) provider, has announced that it is the first provider to join the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Solution Provider Program (SPP) to ... more |
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Studies on hibernating squirrels may help astronautsFairbanks AK (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 Can studying sleeping Arctic ground squirrels help astronauts and further NASA's mission? Dr. Kelly Drew and her students studied hibernating squirrels and their ability to retain muscle and bone ma ... more 
Astral alchemyOsaka, Japan (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 The Standard Model of particle physics tells us that most particles we observe are made up of combinations of just six types of fundamental entities called quarks. However, there are still many myst ... more  
Final flight of HAWC Program screams through the skyWashington DC (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 The joint DARPA and U.S. Air Force Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) completed yet another successful flight test. The Lockheed Martin version of the missile, with its Aerojet Rocketdyne ... more  
Thales Alenia Space and partners sign contract with ESA for TeQuantS quantum projectParis, France (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 Thales Alenia Space, the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the TeQuantS* project aimed at developing quantum s ... more 
Untangling a knot of galaxy clustersBoston MA (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 Astronomers have captured a spectacular, ongoing collision between at least three galaxy clusters. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA's (European Space Agency's) XMM-Newton, and a trio ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 01, 2023
NASA has selected 11 finalists in Phase 2 of the Deep Space Food Challenge, a public competition to extend the limits of humans in space - through food.
A first-of-its-kind coordinated effort between NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Deep Space Food Challenge aims to kickstart future food systems for pioneering missions to the Moon, Mars, and b ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 30, 2023 
America may now be aiming to put astronauts back on the Moon, but for years the United States turned its back on manned missions after the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
Its space programme suffered a catastrophic setback when all seven astronauts were killed when the shuttle broke up on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere 20 years ago on February 1, 2003.
It was the second shuttle disa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2023 
Less than six weeks after it began, construction of the first sample depot on another world is complete. Confirmation that NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully dropped the 10th and final tube planned for the depot was received around 5 p.m. PST (8 p.m. EST) Sunday, Jan. 29, by mission controllers at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2023 
China's Deep Space Exploration Lab (DSEL) said Monday that it is inviting top global talents to apply for the 2023 Overseas Outstanding Young Talents Program, to promote the development of deep-space exploration.
According to the DSEL, the program, funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, aims to attract outstanding young scholars from overseas, who have made achievement ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
The second Airbus-built Inmarsat-6 geostationary telecommunications satellite (I-6 F2) has arrived on board an Airbus Beluga at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ready for its launch in February.
The second satellite of the Inmarsat-6 generation is based on Airbus' ultra-reliable Eurostar E3000 spacecraft and will be the 58th Eurostar E3000 built by Airbus. It will be the ninth Eurostar ... more |
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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
Space logistics and orbital transportation company D-Orbit launched Starfield, the eighth commercial mission of their proprietary orbital transfer vehicle (OTV) ION Satellite Carrier (ION), and the first one in a midinclination orbit.
The OTV lifted off January 31st, 2023, at 8:15 a.m. PT (16:15 UTC) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
When pondering the probability of discovering technologically advanced extraterrestrial life, the question that often arises is, "if they're out there, why haven't we found them yet?" And often, the response is that we have only searched a tiny portion of the galaxy. Further, algorithms developed decades ago for the earliest digital computers can be outdated and inefficient when applied to moder ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft did not acquire all planned images during the orbiter's most recent flyby of Jupiter on Jan. 22. Data received from the spacecraft indicates that the camera experienced an issue similar to one that occurred on its previous close pass of the gas giant last month, when the team saw an anomalous temperature rise after the camera was powered on in pre ... more |
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 Corvallis OR (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
On Jan. 16, 2016, beachgoers up and down the Washington, Oregon and northern California coasts were surprised by multiple "sneaker" waves that inundated beaches, caused injuries and swamped a vehicle.
Sneaker waves, also known as wave runup events, can be perceived as a mini-tsunami because the waves surge much farther up the beach than anticipated, often catching beachgoers unaware. The r ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 25, 2023 
Galileo's capabilities have grown with the addition of a new High Accuracy Service, freely available worldwide to anyone with a suitably equipped receiver. Delivering horizontal accuracy down to 20 cm and vertical accuracy of 40 cm, the High Accuracy Service is enabled through an additional level of real-time positioning corrections, delivered through a new data stream within the existing Galile ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 27, 2023 
NASA continues to evaluate data and learn more about the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket's debut performance during the agency's Nov. 16 Artemis I launch. Following an initial data assessment and review that determined the SLS rocket met or exceeded all performance expectations, SLS engineers are now taking a closer look at the Moon rocket's performance to prepare for the first crewed Artemis m ... 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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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
LeoLabs, the leading commercial provider of Space Domain Awareness (SDA) services and low Earth orbit (LEO) mapping, announced the commissioning of the LeoLabs West Australian Space Radar (WASR). This radar site, located in Western Australia, adds critical coverage of the Southern Hemisphere in the Indo-Pacific region.
WASR is the latest addition to LeoLabs network of phased array space ra ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Feb 01, 2023 
A crowded field of galaxies throngs this Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, along with bright stars crowned with Webb's signature six-pointed diffraction spikes.
The large spiral galaxy at the base of this image is accompanied by a profusion of smaller, more distant galaxies which range from fully-fledged spirals to mere bright smudges. Named LEDA 204664 ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
Sometimes to know what the matter is, you have to find it first. When the universe began, matter was flung outward and gradually formed the planets, stars and galaxies that we know and love today. By carefully assembling a map of that matter today, scientists can try to understand the forces that shaped the evolution of the universe.
A group of scientists, including several with the Univer ... more |
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