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  Jiuquan , China (AFP) June 16, 2021 Astronauts blasting off on Thursday for China's first manned mission to its new space station will have a choice of 120 different types of food and "space treadmills" for exercise during their stay, China's space agency said. The mission will be China's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years, as Beijing pushes forward with its ambitious programme to establish itself as a space power. The astronauts will spend three months onboard the station, which has separate l ... read more |
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China to send 3 astronauts to space stationBeijing (XNA) Jun 16, 2021 China will launch its seventh manned space mission on Thursday morning to deploy three astronauts to the core module of the nation's permanent space station, according to a project leader. Ji ... more  
Next stop Jupiter as country's interplanetary ambitions growBeijing (XNA) Jun 16, 2021 Barely a month after China landed its first rover on Mars, the country's scientists already have plans to explore Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System. Zhang Rongqiao, an official a ... more  
Brazil Signs Artemis AccordsBrasilia, Brazil (SPX) Jun 16, 2021 Brazil is the latest country to sign the Artemis Accords, affirming its commitment to ensuring sustainable space exploration that adheres to a common set of principles benefiting all of humanity. ... more  
European Robotic Arm enters service on the ISSParis (ESA) Jun 16, 2021 A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, according to one of the three laws of robotics imagined by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. On board humanity's only outpost in space, this ... more |
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Lunar samples record impact 4.2 billion years agoLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2021 An international team of researchers led by The Open University (OU) has provided the first sample-based evidence, which they argue reflects the age of the Serenitatis Basin - one of the oldest crat ... more  
Juice moves into Large Space SimulatorParis (ESA) Jun 15, 2021 The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer has moved into the 'Large Space Simulator' at ESA's test centre, ready for grueling environmental tests at a range of temperatures. Since arriving at ESA's Europ ... more  
Mars rover to move south after testingBeijing (XNA) Jun 15, 2021 China's Mars rover Zhurong will continue moving southward to explore the Red Planet, focusing on key scientific issues, such as potential locations of water and ice, as well as volcanic activities, ... more  
NASA approves further development of asteroid hunterLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 14, 2021 NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing the mission to move fo ... more 
Have your name forever on the Moon with Spacebit's Wevolver Engineering ChallengeAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jun 14, 2021 The Spacebit Engineering Challenge enables engineers around the world to contribute to the development of "Asagumo 2.0", a four-legged walking rover that is set to fly to the Moon with the NASA Comm ... more |
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ISS National Lab to Host Session at World Stem Cell SummitKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 14, 2021 The International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory will host a panel of industry experts on the impacts of health, aging, and human survival research onboard the orbiting laboratory at t ... more 
Rover leaves 'China's imprint' on MarsBeijing (AFP) June 11, 2021 Solar panel "wings" spread out and two camera "eyes" pointing ahead, China's Mars rover Zhurong struck a birdlike pose as it explored the red planet in photos released by the country's space agency Friday. ... more 
China making plans for future space exploration: officialBeijing (XNA) Jun 14, 2021 China is making plans for the future development of its space program, including exploring asteroids and the Jovian system, collecting samples from Mars and exploring the polar region of the moon, s ... more 
Queqiao: The bridge between Earth and the far side of the moonWashington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2021 Because of a phenomenon called gravitational locking, the Moon always faces the Earth from the same side. This proved useful in the early lunar landing missions in the 20th century, as there was alw ... more 
China reveals photos taken by Mars roverBeijing (XNA) Jun 11, 2021 The China National Space Administration made public on Friday four pictures taken by the Tianwen 1 robotic mission, showing the Zhurong rover on Martian surface and scene ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Jun 11, 2021 
In the early days of cellphone use, each user was limited to their chosen provider's network and service capabilities. Restricting customers to service within one network led to high prices for out-of-network calls and limited value for customers. Cellphone providers long ago adopted roaming, allowing devices to jump from network to network without interrupting service and increasing competition ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 16, 2021 
A small proportion of debris from a Long March 7 carrier rocket fell back to waters in the southern Pacific Ocean on Tuesday afternoon, said the China Manned Space Agency.
According to analysis of tracking data, most of the debris burned out during the atmospheric re-entry that started around 4:49 pm, the agency said in a brief statement.
The rocket, the third in the Long March 7 ser ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 15, 2021 
China's Mars rover Zhurong will continue moving southward to explore the Red Planet, focusing on key scientific issues, such as potential locations of water and ice, as well as volcanic activities, according to a project leader.
Liu Jianjun, chief designer of the Tianwen 1 mission's scientific system, said on Saturday that mission planners decided the rover would move south out of scientif ... more |
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 Jiuquan , China (AFP) June 16, 2021  Astronauts blasting off on Thursday for China's first manned mission to its new space station will have a choice of 120 different types of food and "space treadmills" for exercise during their stay, China's space agency said.
The mission will be China's longest crewed space mission to date and the first in nearly five years, as Beijing pushes forward with its ambitious programme to establish ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 14, 2021 
What would happen if all the satellites orbiting Earth stopped working? In short, global chaos would ensue. "Satellites have long been an integral part of our day-to-day lives. The services they provide are indispensable for mobility on land, at sea and in the air, for all power and communications networks, for the international systems used for financial transactions, global weather forecasting ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 15, 2021 
The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer has moved into the 'Large Space Simulator' at ESA's test centre, ready for grueling environmental tests at a range of temperatures.
Since arriving at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in April, a number of activities have taken place ahead of the environmental testing. This included the application of multi-layered insulation, a depl ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jun 11, 2021 
Researchers from Penn's Department of Physics and Astronomy have developed a new method for better understanding the relationship between a star's chemical composition and planet formation. The study was led by recent graduate Jacob Nibauer for his senior thesis with Bhuvnesh Jain and was co-supervised by former Penn postdoc Eric Baxter.
The researchers found that the majority of stars in ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 16, 2021 
Barely a month after China landed its first rover on Mars, the country's scientists already have plans to explore Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System.
Zhang Rongqiao, an official at the China National Space Administration and chief planner of the Tianwen 1 Mars mission, told reporters at a news conference at his administration's Beijing headquarters on Saturday that China will ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Jun 11, 2021 
The type of material present under glaciers has a big impact on how fast they slide towards the ocean. Scientists face a challenging task to acquire data of this under-ice landscape, let alone how to represent it accurately in models of future sea-level rise.
"Choosing the wrong equations for the under-ice landscape can have the same effect on the predicted contribution to sea-level rise a ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 11, 2021 
GMV has been awarded by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) with the contract for the implementation of the Galileo High Accuracy Data Generator (HADG), which will be the facility in charge of generating the high-accuracy corrections data to enable the provision of the Galileo High Accuracy Initial Service (HAS).
The purpose of the HADG is to ensure the continuous pro ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 11, 2021 
Because of a phenomenon called gravitational locking, the Moon always faces the Earth from the same side. This proved useful in the early lunar landing missions in the 20th century, as there was always a direct line of sight for uninterrupted radiocommunications between Earth ground stations and equipment on the Moon. However, gravitational locking makes exploring the hidden face of the moon - t ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jun 14, 2021 
NASA has approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful mission review, authorizing the mission to move forward into Preliminary Design (known as Key Decision Point-B).
The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA's planetary defense efforts by expediting our ability to discover and ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 14, 2021 
Covering an area of over 80 000 sq km, around the size of Austria, Chongqing is located in southwest-central China. Chongqing covers a large area crisscrossed by rivers and mountains. These are the Daba Mountains in the north, the Wu Mountains in the east, the Wuling Mountains in the southeast and the Dalou Mountains in the south.
The city of Chongqing, one of the most important economic c ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jun 15, 2021 
Solar flares jetting out from the sun and thunderstorms generated on Earth impact the planet's ionosphere in different ways, which have implications for the ability to conduct long range communications.
A team of researchers working with data collected by the Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) at the Arecibo Observatory, satellites, and lightning detectors in Puerto Rico have for the first tim ... more |
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 Matsumoto, Japan (SPX) Jun 16, 2021 
Solar activities, such as CME(Coronal Mass Ejection), cause geomagnetic storm that is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere. Geomagnetic storms can affect GPS positioning, radio communication, and power transmission system.
Solar explosions also emit radiation, which can affect satellite failures, radiation exposure to aircraft crew, and space activity. Therefore, it is impo ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 15, 2021 
By mapping the motion of galaxies in huge filaments that connect the cosmic web, astronomers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), in collaboration with scientists in China and Estonia, have found that these long tendrils of galaxies spin on the scale of hundreds of millions of light years. A rotation on such enormous scales has never been seen before. The results published in ... more |
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