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  Bothell WA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is pleased to announce that Spaceflight Inc. has selected TUI's NanoSat Terminator Tape Deorbit System for end-of life disposal of its new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehicle. As part of an upcoming mission, Spaceflight will test the deorbit process with the Terminator Tape. When the orbit transfer vehicle's mission is completed, a timer release system will deploy the Terminator Tape to rapidly deorbit the Sherpa-FX vehicle so that it does not contribute to the growth of ... read more |
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Russian Cosmonauts Could Be Going to the Moon Without a Super-Heavy Launch VehicleMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russi ... more  
NASA's Mars 2020 mission will search for traces of past microbial life with the Perseverance roverBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 With Perseverance, its most complex Mars rover to date, NASA is opening a new chapter in the search for traces of ancient life on Mars. The launch of the new rover is scheduled to take place on 30 J ... more 
Battelle Energy Alliance seeks industry partners to design nuclear power system for MoonWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 The prospective reactor must be able to generate an uninterrupted electricity output of at least 10 kilowatts. The US Department of Energy has recently put out a request to the private sector ... more 
China Mars mission faces many obstaclesBeijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 A Mars landing mission must overcome a wide variety of difficulties and obstacles before it can fly through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet's surface, experts said. The mission m ... more |
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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 
Perseverance microphones fulfill long campaign to hear sounds from MarsPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 If you could stand on the surface of Mars, what would you hear? While 8 missions have returned stunning views from the surface of the Red Planet, none have returned any sound. That's about to ... more  
Exoplanet rediscovery is step toward finding habitable planetsWarwick 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 ... 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 |
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Robot hotel gets its occupantsGreenbelt 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 tha ... more  |
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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  
From the Moon to Mars: China's long march in spaceBeijing (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. ... more 
Millennium Space Systems completes DRAG RACER satellite qualification ahead of orbital debris missionChantilly VA (SPX) Jul 17, 2020 TriSept Corporation, a leading provider of launch integration and mission management services, and Millennium Space Systems has announced preparations are underway for the experimental DRAG RACER or ... more 
Place for space testingNoordwijk, Netherlands (ESA) Jul 17, 2020 ESA's Compact Antenna Test Range at its ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. This anechoic chamber is used to test space antennas of 1 m across or less, or else entire small satelli ... more 
Data-relay satellite beams at light speedParis (ESA) Jul 17, 2020 The most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed has gained its second satellite. The European Data Relay System (EDRS) was built to accelerate the flow of information from Ear ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
A Mars landing mission must overcome a wide variety of difficulties and obstacles before it can fly through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet's surface, experts said.
The mission must have a heavy-lift carrier rocket such as China's Long March 5 or the United States' Atlas V that is powerful enough to transport a large, heavy probe to the Earth-Mars transfer trajectory, accordi ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 
Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russian manned spaceflight programs.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocket. ... more |
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 Pasadena 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 infrared imagery collected by the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument provides the first infrared mapping of the massive moon's northern frontier.
The only moon in the sola ... 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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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 
Aerojet Rocketdyne has successfully completed a second series of propulsion system tests in support of the Operational Fires (OpFires) program, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) effort to develop a ground-launched hypersonic missile for tactical use.
"We're pleased to be a part of developing this vital defense technology, applying our decades of experience in hypersonic a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 
Most meteorites that have landed on Earth are fragments of planetesimals, the very earliest protoplanetary bodies in the solar system. Scientists have thought that these primordial bodies either completely melted early in their history or remained as piles of unmelted rubble.
But a family of meteorites has befuddled researchers since its discovery in the 1960s. The diverse fragments, found ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... 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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 Wright-Patterson AFB OHw (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has awarded multiple indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contracts to The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri; General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California; Kratos Unmanned Aerial Systems, Inc., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Palmdale, California. These initial awards will establish a vendor pool tha ... more |
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