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  Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2020 China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, another milestone for its space programme after putting humans into orbit and landing a probe on the Moon. It is among a trio of nations, along with the United Arab Emirates and the United States, launching missions to the Red Planet this month, taking advantage of a period when Mars and Earth are favourably aligned. Beijing's space programme has made huge strides in recent years as it tries to catch up with the United States and Russia. Here are f ... read more |
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China launches Mars probe in space race with USWenchang, China (AFP) July 23, 2020 China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, a journey coinciding with a similar US mission as the powers take their rivalry into deep space. ... more  
Loft Orbital selects LeoStella to supply satellites for Space Infrastructure-as-a-ServiceSan Francisco CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 Loft Orbital Solutions Inc. (Loft Orbital), a Space Infrastructure-as-a-Service company, has signed a contract with LeoStella, a specialized satellite constellation design and manufacturing company, ... more  
NASA Juno takes first images of Ganymede's North PolePasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2020 On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar system, the moon Ganymede. The infra ... more 
ESA tunes up Mars rover for challenges aheadParis (ESA) Jul 23, 2020 As Mars exploration prepares for a rebirth, a European rover tunes up its gear for the challenges ahead. Tomorrow, 23 July, ESA and dozens of industrial partners will assess the readiness of t ... more |
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Aerojet Rocketdyne completes its propulsion for NASA's Artemis II missionEl Segundo CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed all of its propulsion hardware for the first crewed flight of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft. The engines and motors, which Aeroje ... more  
Leveraging microgravity to improve medical diagnosticsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 What if a single drop of blood were all that is needed to provide reliable medical diagnostics in any setting on-or even off-Earth? This week, NASA astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who ... more  
Astronomers track down 'lost' worlds spotted but unconfirmed by TESS surveyWashington DC (UPI) Jul 21, 2020 One by one, an international team of astronomers is rediscovering "lost" worlds first spotted, but unconfirmed, by NASA's TESS telescope. ... more 
Could mini-Neptunes be irradiated ocean planetsMarseille, France (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 Many exoplanets known today are 'super-Earths,' with a radius 1.3 times that of Earth, and 'mini-Neptunes,' with 2.4 Earth radii. Mini-Neptunes, which are less dense, were long thought to be gas pla ... more 
Parts come together this year for DARPA's robotic in-space mechanicWashington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 Eyeing a launch in 2023, DARPA's Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program will focus the remainder of this year on completing the elements of the robotic payload. The objective ... more |
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 Subaru Telescope and New Horizons explore the outer Solar System 
Human exploration of Mars is on the horizonWashington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 During an event with the Space Foundation, I was excited to be part of a discussion on how our upcoming Mars 2020 Perseverance launch and the Artemis program are critical to opening the door to smar ... more  |
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A population of asteroids of interstellar origin inhabits the Solar SystemSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 A study conducted by scientists at Sao Paulo State University's Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin clas ... more 
Emirates launches first Mars probe with help from UC BerkeleyBerkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the Arab world - thanks, in part, to scien ... more
Emirati 'Hope' probe heads for MarsDubai (AFP) July 20, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars blasted off from Japan on Monday on a mission to unravel the secrets of weather on the Red Planet. ... more 
UAE celebrates launch of first Arab interplanetary missionDubai (AFP) July 19, 2020 The United Arab Emirates celebrated in the early hours of Monday morning the launch of its "Hope" probe to Mars, the first interplanetary mission by an Arab nation. ... more 
First Arab space mission to Mars launches from JapanTokyo (AFP) July 20, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars, an unmanned probe dubbed "Hope", blasted off from Japan on Monday, in a bid to reveal more about the atmosphere of the Red Planet. ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
At 2:58 p.m. PDT [21:58 UTC] on Sunday, July 19, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe - the first by any country in the Arab world - thanks, in part, to science collaboration, training and instrument components provided by the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL).
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 20, 2020 
The involvement of foreign countries in the ambitious Russian lunar mission is not limited to testing equipment. A lunar mass spectrometer manufactured jointly with Switzerland will be installed on board the Luna-25 to study probes of lunar soil.
The launch readiness of equipment installed on Luna-25, the first lunar lander mission from the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in the c ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 16, 2020 
Collaborative observations with NASA's New Horizons mission have been ongoing at the Subaru Telescope since May 2020. Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), the wide field camera mounted on the prime focus of the Subaru Telescope, is used for the observations to search for target candidates for New Horizons' next observations.
Astronomers from Japan are participating in the observation team together wit ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
The rediscovery of a lost planet could pave the way for the detection of a world within the habitable 'Goldilocks zone' in a distant solar system.
The planet, the size and mass of Saturn with an orbit of thirty-five days, is among hundreds of 'lost' worlds that University of Warwick astronomers are pioneering a new method to track down and characterise in the hope of finding cooler planets ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 23, 2020 
Arianespace's next Ariane 5 launch from the Guiana Space Center (CSG) in Kourou, French Guiana, is scheduled for Tuesday, July 28, in a launch window from 21:29 UTC to 22:15 UTC.
Satellites to be placed in orbit will serve Japanese B-SAT and operators Intelsat and Northrop Grumman's SpaceLogistics LLC. BSAT-4b was built by the American company Maxar Technologies and will be used to broadca ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 23, 2020  China launched a rover to Mars on Thursday, another milestone for its space programme after putting humans into orbit and landing a probe on the Moon.
It is among a trio of nations, along with the United Arab Emirates and the United States, launching missions to the Red Planet this month, taking advantage of a period when Mars and Earth are favourably aligned.
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 
A study conducted by scientists at Sao Paulo State University's Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences (IGCE-UNESP) in Rio Claro, Brazil, has identified 19 asteroids of interstellar origin classified as Centaurs, outer Solar System objects that revolve around the Sun in the region between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune.
An article on the study titled "An interstellar origin for hig ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Northrop Grumman has formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus, Inc. to offer the company's Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of Northrop Grumman's Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering.
The agreement augments Northrop Grumman's advanced end-to-end C-UAS capabilities by including Epirus' EMP systems to defeat UAS swarms, and ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and coauthor Jani Radebaugh of Brigham Young University.
Morphological features such as nested collapses, elevated ramparts, halos, and islan ... more |
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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
QinetiQ's space business has secured a new contract worth 8.5m euro with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development and production of microgravity-based heat transfer experiments, expected to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2026.
Called the Heat Transfer Host 1, or simply HOST1, the contract includes the development of the experimentation platform and four ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Filling in the most-significant gaps in our understanding of the universe's history, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released Sunday a comprehensive analysis of the largest three-dimensional map of the cosmos ever created.
The survey, of which Carnegie is an integral member, has been one of the most successful and influential in the history of astronomy. It operates out of both Apache ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
Storage is just as important aboard the International Space Station as it is on Earth. While the space station is about the size of a football field, the living space inside is much smaller than that. Just as you wouldn't store garden tools in a house when you could store them in a shed outside, astronauts now have a "housing unit" in which they can store tools for use on the exterior of the spa ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 17, 2020 
An oversight failure left the Pentagon unable to judge if a $174 million Afghan surveillance drone project is effective, an inspector general's report says.
Released on Friday by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan, the report notes that at least $174 million was spent between 2015 and 2019 to supply Afghanistan's security forces with ScanEagle remotely piloted aircraft.
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