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  Tokyo (AFP) Dec 5, 2020 In a streak of light across the night sky, samples collected from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth on Sunday after being dropped off by Japanese space probe Hayabusa-2. Scientists hope the precious samples, which are expected to amount to no more than 0.1 grams of material, could help shed light on the origin of life and the formation of the universe. The capsule carrying samples entered the atmosphere just before 2:30 am Japan time (1730 GMT Saturday), creating a shooting-star-like fireball ... read more |
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Chang'e 5 mission completes difficult docking in lunar orbitBeijing (XNA) Dec 06, 2020 Two flying sections of China's Chang'e 5 robotic mission completed a rendezvous and docked with each other early on Sunday before transferring lunar samples collected in the mission. The rende ... more 
China unfurls its first fabric flag on moonWashington DC (UPI) Dec 04, 2020 China's Chang'e-5 lander departed the moon after spending two days on the surface, leaving behind its first official flag. ... more  
World's largest solar observatory releases first image of a sunspotWashington DC (UPI) Dec 04, 2020 The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, DKIST, the world's largest solar observatory, has released its first portrait of a sunspot. The photograph's impressive details highlight the optical powers of the Hawaiian observatory. ... more  
SpaceX to carry heart tissue, fiber optics lab to space stationWashington DC (UPI) Dec 04, 2020 SpaceX plans to launch cargo to the International Space Station on Saturday morning, including simulated heart tissue for a medical experiment, a holiday meal and the first privately owned airlock. ... more |
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Lincoln Laboratory is designing a payload to integrate on Japanese satellitesBoston MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 According to Space-Track.org, approximately 21,000 objects of human origin are orbiting Earth, and about 1,500 of these objects are in or near geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Satellites in GEO support c ... more  
US Startup says 25-ton drone could put small satellites into orbitWashington DC (Sputnik) Dec 07, 2020 The presentation comes amidst this year's first manned space launch performed by a private company, SpaceX, which successfully delivered human crew to the International Space Station. CEO Elon Musk ... more  
Balloon firm plans test to later take tourists to edge of spaceOrlando FL (UPI) Dec 07, 2020 A new space tourism company plans its first uncrewed test flight of a capsule suspended from a hydrogen balloon in late March from Florida. Arizona-based Space Perspective has announced plans ... more  
Contract signed for new Copernicus ROSE-L missionParis (ESA) Dec 07, 2020 ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract to develop the new high-priority Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) environmental monitoring mission - as part of Eu ... more  
Some Russian Cosmonauts May Be Vaccinated Against COVID-19 With Sputnik V, Source SaysMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 07, 2020 Some cosmonauts and employees of the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center may be vaccinated against the COVID-19 coronavirus with Sputnik V, a source in the space and rocket industry ... more |
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NASA awards contract for flight and integration servicesEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 NASA has selected Virgin Galactic LLC of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Masten Space Systems Inc. of Mojave, California, to provide flight and integration services for payloads chosen by the agency's F ... more  |
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Balloon firm plans test to later take tourists to edge of space Washington DC (UPI) Dec 03, 2020 A new space tourism company plans its first uncrewed test flight of a capsule suspended from a hydrogen balloon in late March from Florida. ... more 
NASA confirms SIMPLEx Mission Small Satellite to blaze trails studying Lunar surfaceWashington DC (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 A small-satellite mission to understand the lunar water cycle - detecting and mapping water on the lunar surface in order to investigate how its form, abundance, and location relate to geology - has ... more 
EUMETSAT confirms the choice of Arianespace's European launchers for its future missionsParis, France (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 EUMETSAT has joined the signatories of the "joint statement on the institutional exploitation of Ariane 6 and Vega C" in favor of a European preference for launchers on institutional missions in Eur ... more  
Rochester researchers uncover key clues about the solar system's historyRochester NY (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carb ... more 
NASA Selects Heliophysics Missions of Opportunity for Space Science Research and Technology DemonstrationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 NASA has selected two SmallSat missions - a study of Earth's outer most atmosphere and a solar sail spaceflight test mission - to share a ride to space in 2025 with the agency's Interstellar Mapping ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 07, 2020 
For the past 20 years, astronauts have been performing experiments on the International Space Station. Science in low Earth orbit is not only hugely important in preparation for continued space exploration, the research also benefits life on Earth. We've seen discoveries that have advanced Earth-bound medicine, engineering and agriculture, and from this weekend onwards, microgravity will help us ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2020 
NASA has selected Virgin Galactic LLC of Las Cruces, New Mexico, and Masten Space Systems Inc. of Mojave, California, to provide flight and integration services for payloads chosen by the agency's Flight Opportunities program, which is managed at the agency's Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The two companies join four others to provide service under commercial indefinite ... more |
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New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
The most habitable region for life on Mars would have been up to several miles below its surface, likely due to subsurface melting of thick ice sheets fueled by geothermal heat, a Rutgers-led study concludes.
The study, published in the journal Science Advances, may help resolve what's known as the faint young sun paradox - a lingering key question in Mars science.
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 30, 2020 
China plans to launch a space telescope for research in electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in December, according to the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
The telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), will be launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's S ... more |
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EOS Data Analytics to launch satellite with Dragonfly Multispectral Imagers in 2022Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2020 EOS Data Analytics has announced the conclusion of an agreement with Dragonfly Aerospace for the delivery of two HR-250 high-performance multispectral imagers. A satellite equipped with the Dragonfl ... more 
Despite pandemic-related setbacks, the NewSpace industry has new players enter the fieldLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2020 In the United States, NewSpace companies, including SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and Firefly Aerospace, and giants like Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems, and Lockheed Martin, have avoided the massive layo ... more 
Redcliffe Partners' Ukrainian Space Regulation ReviewKyiv, Ukraine (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 Over the past decade, the aerospace industry has evolved from a race by countries for kudos into an accelerator of economic and scientific development, where technology travels freely between differ ... more
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 01, 2020 
Florida-based OneWeb Satellites has returned to full-scale production of spacecraft after its big client and part owner, OneWeb, emerged from bankruptcy.
The high-tech factory near Kennedy Space Center churns out eight satellites a week, which is the average pace it was on before the bankruptcy, CEO Tony Gingiss said in an interview Friday.
"We are stronger and leaner as an organ ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 
According to Space-Track.org, approximately 21,000 objects of human origin are orbiting Earth, and about 1,500 of these objects are in or near geosynchronous orbit (GEO). Satellites in GEO support critical services, including commercial and military communications, weather forecasting, and missile launch warnings. The number of satellites and debris objects in the GEO belt is growing as launch r ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 
In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, researchers at the University of Rochester were able to use magnetism to determine, for the first time, when carbonaceous chondrite asteroids - asteroids that are rich in water and amino acids - first arrived in the inner solar system. The research provides data that helps inform scientists about the early origi ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter's icy moons are affected by the particles around Jupiter and search for the pre-conditions for life. After 14 years of work, the instrument is ready to take its place on ESA's Jupiter spacecraft JUICE.
Prof. Stas Ba ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) Dec 4, 2020 
Pacific island leaders will hold a virtual summit next week to demand urgent worldwide action on climate change ahead of UN-brokered talks on the issue.
The Pacific's low-lying island nations are among the worst affected by global warming, threatened by rising seas and increasingly extreme cyclones.
Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano said the Pacific Islands Forum - an 18-member region ... more |
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Paris (ESA) Dec 07, 2020 
A sailor in the Vendee Globe solo round-the-world yacht race faced disaster in the Southern Ocean as raging waves pounded his vessel apart. But he was saved thanks to the search and rescue antennas aboard Europe's Galileo satellites, part of the international Cospas-Sarsat rescue system.
Skipper Kevin Escoffier later recounted his Monday afternoon ordeal: "You see the images of shipwrecks? ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 2, 2020 
A Chinese space probe on Wednesday began drilling on the surface of the Moon hours after landing, in an ambitious attempt to bring back the first lunar samples in four decades.
Beijing has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022 and of eventually sending humans to the Moon.
The Chang'e-5 spacecraft - named for the mythic ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
One Friday evening in 1992, a meteorite ended a more than 150 million-mile journey by smashing into the trunk of a red Chevrolet Malibu in Peekskill, New York. The car's owner reported that the 30-pound remnant of the earliest days of our solar system was still warm and smelled of sulfur.
Nearly 30 years later, a new analysis of that same Peekskill meteorite and 17 others by researchers at ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 07, 2020 
ESA and Thales Alenia Space have signed a contract to develop the new high-priority Copernicus Radar Observation System for Europe in L-band (ROSE-L) environmental monitoring mission - as part of Europe's Copernicus programme. The contract was signed in the presence of Riccardo Fraccaro, Undersecretary of the Italian Prime Minister's Office, and ESA's Director General, Jan Worner.
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 03, 2020 
The ESA-NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is celebrating its twenty-fifth launch anniversary.
Two and a half decades of scientific discovery is a major milestone for any space mission. But when the spacecraft at the heart of the celebration was only designed to last for two years, and operates from an area outside the Earth's protective magnetosphere, it's an unalloyed triumph ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 01, 2020  The iconic Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puero Rico, the most powerful in the world, was destroyed Tuesday morning in an uncontrolled collapse.
The 57-year-old facility had hosted Nobel Prize-winning scientists and blockbuster Hollywood movies alike over the years. But the dome containing instruments that weighed over 1 million pounds crashed into the dish below at 6:55 a.m. ES ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
Computer simulations have struggled to capture the impact of elusive particles called neutrinos on the formation and growth of the large-scale structure of the Universe. But now, a research team from Japan has developed a method that overcomes this hurdle.
In a study published this month in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers led by the University of Tsukuba present simulations that acc ... more |
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