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October 20, 2023
DRAGON SPACE
Next-generation rocket for China's manned space missions on track



Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
China's forthcoming rocket designed for manned space missions, Long March 10, is on course for its initial launch around 2027, says a senior designer from the project team. The advanced launch vehicle is being developed at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), a primary contributor to rocketry in China and a subsidiary of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. Zhang Zhi, a veteran rocket designer at CALT, indicated that the development of Long March 10 is proceeding as p ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
China prepares to launch Shenzhou-17 crewed spaceship
Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 20, 2023
The combination of the Shenzhou-17 crewed spaceship and a Long March-2F carrier rocket was transferred to the launching area on Thursday, the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said. According t ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
'No prospects': Russians slowly leaving legendary spaceport city
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 20, 2023
Surrounded by the vast sand dunes of the Kazakh steppe, on satellite images the city of Baikonur looks like an oasis of glimmering lights in an otherwise dry desert. ... more
OUTER PLANETS
NASA's Webb Discovers New Feature in Jupiter's Atmosphere
Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Jupiter has some of the most conspicuous atmospheric features in our solar system. The planet's Great Red Spot, large enough to envelop Earth, is nearly as well known as some of the various rivers a ... more
SPACEMART
Launch of Ovzon 3 targeted for as soon as December 2023
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Swedish satellite company Ovzon, in collaboration with SpaceX and Maxar, is working towards a launch window of early December for its Ovzon 3 satellite. "The final assembly and testing of the ... more
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MARSDAILY


Year 2075: Martian rovers saved from cyber attack

TIME AND SPACE
$30 million in funding helps scientists study universe's oldest light
San Diego CA (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Everyone has an origin story, including the universe. The Big Bang Theory is the leading explanation for the universe's origin - one that began 13.8 billion years ago from an incomprehensibly dense, ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers detect most distant fast radio burst to date
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
An international team has spotted a remote blast of cosmic radio waves lasting less than a millisecond. This 'fast radio burst' (FRB) is the most distant ever detected. Its source was pinned down by ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Black holes could come in 'perfect pairs' in an ever expanding Universe
Southampton UK (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Researchers from the University of Southampton, together with colleagues from the universities of Cambridge and Barcelona, have shown it's theoretically possible for black holes to exist in perfectl ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Heart Cells in Space Help Advance Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Heart disease is the leading cause of death globally, and once cardiovascular tissue is damaged, there's no means of restoring its function. But it's possible damaged tissue could be regenerated via ... more
IRON AND ICE
Lucy preparing for its first asteroid flyby
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is preparing for its first close-up look at an asteroid. On Nov. 1, it will fly by asteroid Dinkinesh and test its instruments in preparation for visits in the next decade to ... more

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ROCKET SCIENCE


NASA's innovative rocket nozzle paves way for deep space missions

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Record-breaking fast radio burst offers path to weigh the Universe
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
In a paper published in Science, a global team led by Macquarie University's Dr Stuart Ryder and Swinburne University of Technology's Associate Professor Ryan Shannon, report on their discovery of t ... more
SOLAR SCIENCE
Patterns in Sun's layers has implications for longstanding solar mystery
Belfast, Northern Ireland (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Astronomers at ARC are one step closer to understanding an enduring solar mystery by capturing the most detailed representations to date of the magnetic field of the 'quiet Sun' - and discovering so ... more
MARSDAILY
Welcome to the Drillhole Family, 'Sequoia': Sols 3982-3983: Welcome
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 20, 2023
Earth planning date: Wednesday, October 18, 2023: The target 'Sequoia' has been successfully drilled! The image today is one of my favourites - the shadow of the rover mast, and the perfectly drille ... more
TECH SPACE
Revolutionary atomic sensor redefines radio wave antenna
Dunedin, New Zealand (SPX) Oct 18, 2023
Physicists at the University of Otago have broken new ground by employing a glass bulb filled with atomic vapor to develop a novel type of antenna for radio waves. The research project was spearhead ... more
SPACEWAR
Space Development Agency partners with SpiderOak for OrbitSecure
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2023
Space cybersecurity firm SpiderOak has secured an Other Transactional Authority agreement with the Space Development Agency (SDA). The contract aims to explore the integration of SpiderOak's OrbitSe ... more
MARSDAILY


Rocket Lab Moves Into System Integration Phase for NASA's Mars Mission

SPACE TRAVEL
Planetary Scientist Alan Stern Joins Virgin Galactic for Research Mission
San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
Dr. Alan Stern, a leading planetary scientist and the Associate Vice President of Southwest Research Institute's (SwRI) Space Science Division, will fly aboard the VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's comme ... more
MOON DAILY
TRIDENT drill integrated into VIPER lunar rover
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
Engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, together with the team from Honeybee Robotics in Altadena, California, are gearing up to incorporate the latest addition to NASA's first robotic ... more
MARSDAILY
Searching for concentrated biosignatures in an ancient, Martian mud lake
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
A landmark discovery by a collaborative team led by the Planetary Science Institute's Alexis Rodriguez has unveiled evidence of sedimentary plains created by aquifer drainage within Martian collapse ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Grasping the three-dimensional morphology of kilonovae
Darmstadt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
An advanced new three-dimensional (3D) computer simulation of the light emitted following a merger of two neutron stars has produced a similar sequence of spectroscopic features to an observed kilon ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
New Siena Galaxy Atlas delivers improved measurements of almost 400,000 nearby galaxies
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
Astronomers have created a detailed atlas of almost 400,000 galaxies in our cosmic neighborhood. The Siena Galaxy Atlas was compiled using data from NSF's NOIRLab telescopes, and is designed to be t ... more
EARLY EARTH
Large swings in past ocean oxygen revealed
Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 16, 2023
As the climate warms, there is major concern that Earth's ocean will lose oxygen. A study published recently by oceanographers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa revealed that locked in ancient d ... more
TIME AND SPACE
PKU astronomers shed light on evolutionary paths of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
A new paper entitled "Evolutionary Paths of Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Host Galaxies," published on August 17, 2023, in Nature Astronomy, provides critical new insights on the co-evolution of ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
NASA conducts 1st hot fire of new RS-25 Certification Test Series
Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
NASA conducted the first hot fire of a new RS-25 test series Oct. 17, beginning the final round of certification testing ahead of production of an updated set of the engines for the SLS (Space Launc ... more
RAY GUNS
Israel expedites Iron Beam deployment amid escalating costs of missile defense
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 16, 2023
In the face of increasing rocket attacks and large-scale border incursions from Gaza, resulting in thousands dead, Israel is pressed to reconsider its defense strategies. The costs associated with o ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
India wants a space station by 2035, moon mission by 2040
Washington DC (UPI) Oct 17, 2023
The Indian government wants an Indian space station by the year 2035 and a crewed Indian mission to land on the moon by 2040. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
New SwRI chamber simulates harsh acoustic environment of rocket launches
San Antonio, TX (SPX) Oct 18, 2023
The Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has expanded its aerospace testing capabilities with a cutting-edge acoustic test chamber designed to mimic the grueling acoustic conditions experienced durin ... more
MOON DAILY
India plans manned Moon mission, space station
New Delhi (AFP) Oct 18, 2023
India plans to send a man to the Moon and set up a space station by 2040, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said, as the country ramps up its space programme. ... more
MARSDAILY
International team reveals source of largest ever Mars quake
Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2023
A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event recorded on Mars. The study, led by the University ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Study reveals how supernovae collisions ignite the birth of stars and planets in the north celestial pole loop
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2023
In a study examining the dynamics of neutral hydrogen gas within the North Celestial Pole (NCP) Loop, scientists have uncovered an unforeseen revelation - a collision between two supernova shells ha ... more
SPACEWAR
BlackSky wins Air Force research contract to track vehicles in real time from space
Herndon VA (SPX) Oct 17, 2023
BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a competitive U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory AFWERX Direct to Phase 2 contract, funded by the Space Development Agency, to build an automated target rec ... more
FLORA AND FAUNA
Leading scientists, philosophers identify nature's missing evolutionary law
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2023
A paper in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes "a missing law of nature," recognizing for the first time an important norm within the natural world's workings. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Beyond the Frigid Void: Per Wimmer's Adventures in the Shadows of the Known
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2023
Imagine, if you dare, a realm where temperatures dive to an unearthly 55 degrees below Celsius. A place where every breath feels like a thousand icy needles, and the vast expanse of Earth seems an e ... more
IRON AND ICE
Lucy continues approach to Asteroid Dinkinesh for November 1 encounter
San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 17, 2023
Since NASA's Lucy spacecraft first imaged the asteroid Dinkinesh on Sept. 3, 2023, Lucy has traveled over 33 million miles (54 million km) and is now 4.7 million miles (7.6 million km) away from the ... more
IRON AND ICE
Hypervelocity impact experiments probe the origin of organics on the dwarf planet Ceres
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Oct 17, 2023
One of the most exciting findings from NASA's Dawn mission is that Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt that lies between Mars and Jupiter, hosts complex organics. The discovery of aliphat ... more
MARSDAILY
Eclipse on Earth, Exploration on Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2023
On Saturday, October 14th, an annular eclipse will be visible across much of North, Central, and South America. Although Perseverance won't see this event from Mars, it's no stranger to Martian ecli ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
HALO Space successfully completes second battery of test flights
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 16, 2023
HALO Space, the space tourism company with which GMV collaborates, recently carried out the second round of test flights for its space tourism trips in the dry lake of Cuddeback (California, USA), a ... more
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