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  Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2020 ESA has given industry the go-ahead to build Space Rider space and ground segments. Launched on a Vega-C rocket, this spacecraft will serve as an uncrewed robotic laboratory in low Earth orbit, returning to Earth with its payloads and being reused on future missions. Space Rider offers routine access to and return from space for a wide range of European space and non-space applications, including in-orbit research and technology demonstrations. The Space Rider programme achieved major ... read more |
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Israel sets sights on 2024 unmanned moon landingJerusalem (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 Israel launched Wednesday the Beresheet 2 project aimed at landing an unmanned craft on the moon in 2024, after a previous such mission had crashed into the lunar surface. ... more  
Japan begins space capsule analysis hoping for asteroid sampleTokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2020 Scientists in Japan on Tuesday began analysing a capsule sent back to Earth by a probe, hoping to find asteroid material that could offer clues on how the universe was formed. ... more 
NASA Names Artemis Team of Astronauts Eligible for Early Moon MissionsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 NASA has selected 18 astronauts from its corps to form the Artemis Team and help pave the way for the next astronaut missions on and around the Moon as part of the Artemis program. Vice Presid ... more 
Chang'e 5 set to start journey to EarthBeijing (XNA) Dec 09, 2020 Lunar samples collected by China's Chang'e 5 robotic probe will soon start their journey toward Earth, according to the China National Space Administration. The rocks and dust from the moon ha ... more |
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Simulations could unlock mystery of the Moon's formationDurham UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 Astronomers have taken a step towards understanding how the Moon might have formed out of a giant collision between the early Earth and another massive object 4.5 billion years ago. Scientists ... more  
UC Riverside-led team looks back to find life beyondRiverside CW (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 UC Riverside is leading one of the NASA Astrobiology Program's eight new research teams tackling questions about the evolution and origins of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond our sol ... more 
NASA outlines science goals for future astronauts on MoonWashington (AFP) Dec 7, 2020 The US space agency NASA published a voluminous report on Monday outlining the scientific priorities for the Artemis III astronauts it intends to send to the Moon in 2024. ... more
Japan space agency hails return of asteroid dust on EarthTokyo (AFP) Dec 6, 2020 Japan space agency officials on Sunday hailed the arrival of rare asteroid samples on Earth after they were collected by space probe Hayabusa-2 during an unprecedented mission. ... 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 |
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New XLAB facility enhances Aerospace's prototyping capabilitiesLos Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 The Aerospace Corporation recently unveiled its new xLab facility on the El Segundo campus. The renovations are designed to better equip our technical experts as they collaborate on building innovat ... more  |
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New Data Confirm 2020 SO to be the Upper Centaur Rocket Booster from the 1960'sPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2020 Using data collected at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) and orbit analysis from the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, scientists have confir ... more 
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 
Key building block for organic molecules discovered in meteoritesSapporo, Japan (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 Scientists from Japan and the USA have confirmed the presence in meteorites of a key organic molecule which may have been used to build other organic molecules, including some used by life. The disc ... more 
MDA announces contract for Canadarm3Toronto, Canada (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 MDA announced today that it has been awarded a contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop Canadarm3, the third generation Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based robotic system destined for ... more  
Spiders in space: without gravity, light becomes key to orientationBasel, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 10, 2020 Humans have taken spiders into space more than once to study the importance of gravity to their web-building. What originally began as a somewhat unsuccessful PR experiment for high school students ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 07, 2020 
Experiments on the International Space Station have shown that the process of "biomining" will work in microgravity; a discovery that could help the first space settlers gather the minerals they need to build a long-term presence beyond Earth.
The BioAsteroid experiment will take up match-box sized containers carrying asteroid rock, that will then be used to grow bacteria and fungi in an i ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Dec 9, 2020 
Israel launched Wednesday the Beresheet 2 project aimed at landing an unmanned craft on the moon in 2024, after a previous such mission had crashed into the lunar surface.
The original Beresheet, Hebrew for "Genesis", was a tall, oddly shaped 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) spacecraft built by Israeli NGO SpaceIL and state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries.
It had reached the moon in April 20 ... 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.
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 Riverside CW (SPX) Dec 09, 2020 
UC Riverside is leading one of the NASA Astrobiology Program's eight new research teams tackling questions about the evolution and origins of life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond our solar system.
The teams comprise the inaugural class of NASA's Interdisciplinary Consortia for Astrobiology Research program. The UCR-led team is motivated by the fundamental question of how to det ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Dec 10, 2020 
The U.S. Space Force is studying the possibility of merging management of dozens of launch sites in Florida and California under a new operator to keep pace with the growing commercial space industry.
"A future spaceport authority would ideally be able to address the needs of all consumers to include national security and civil customers," said Space Force Maj. Nicholas Mercurio, public af ... more |
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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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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 8, 2020 
Scientists in Japan on Tuesday began analysing a capsule sent back to Earth by a probe, hoping to find asteroid material that could offer clues on how the universe was formed.
Officials from Japan's space agency said they were jubilant about the successful return of the capsule, which landed in Australia on Sunday after separating from the Hayabusa-2 probe.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2020 
The U.S. Navy Surface War Center announced a test in which an autonomous drone was launched and landed on a moving ship as a target for laser weapons.
The tests, held last week at the NSWC Division at Port Hueneme, Calif., involved software made for the Navy by Planck Aerosystems Inc. that allow the drone to follow the ship without people controlling it, the Navy said.
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
Lockheed Martin has announced the U.S. Space Force has determined the fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) is complete and ready for launch in 2021.
Built in a record time and at no additional cost to the government for the upgrade, SBIRS GEO-5 is the first military space satellite built on the company's modernized, modular LM 2100 combat bus ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2020 
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere that acts as a protective shield from meteoroids; meanwhile, erosion and other geologic processes e ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Dec 10, 2020 
China sent two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Thursday morning.
The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:14 am (Beijing Time), according to the ce ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2020 
The effect that nearly massless, subatomic particles called neutrinos have on the formation of galaxies has long been a cosmological mystery - one that physicists have sought to measure since discovering the particles in 1956.
But an international research team including the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU) Principal Investigator Naoki Yoshida, w ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2020 
ESA has given industry the go-ahead to build Space Rider space and ground segments.
Launched on a Vega-C rocket, this spacecraft will serve as an uncrewed robotic laboratory in low Earth orbit, returning to Earth with its payloads and being reused on future missions.
Space Rider offers routine access to and return from space for a wide range of European space and non-space applicatio ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 09, 2020 
A U.S. Navy warrant officer specialty for Aerial Vehicle Operators was announced this week, with plans to train about 450 personnel for the designation.
The AVO warrant officer will be charged with operating MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial vehicles, which are typically launched from maritime vessels.
The aircraft will be included aboard fleet carrier airwings in 2024, the Navy sai ... more |
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