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- 28 Jan 2021
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15:17 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Big Research with Small Satellites Artist’s impression of the SOMP2b satellite. (Credit: TU Dresden/Tino Schmiel) On January 24, 2021, the SOMP2b small satellite was launched into space with a Falcon 9 rocket at 4:00 p.m. ...
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15:01 UTC
Universe Today
Astronomers Find a Planet Like Jupiter, but It Doesn’t Ha... Can you picture Jupiter without any observable clouds or haze? It isn’t easy since Jupiter’s latitudinal cloud bands and its Great Red Spot are iconic visual features in our Solar ...
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14:12 UTC
Parabolic Arc
LIST & Gradal Announce Joint Luxembourg Lab Producing Ult... Ultra-lightweight technology. (Credit: Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology) LUXEMBOURG (LIST PR) — The Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) is thrilled to announce a new partnership venture with ...
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13:00 UTC
OrbitalHub
2020 NASA dicit: Globally, 2020 was the hottest year on record, effectively tying 2016, the previous record. Overall, Earth’s average temperature has risen more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s. ...
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12:46 UTC
SPACE.com
Sirius XM's newest satellite, SXM-7, has failed in orbit
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12:28 UTC
SPACE.com
NASA's Mars rover Perseverance is in the home stretch of ...
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12:26 UTC
SPACE.com
The lessons learned from the fatal Challenger shuttle dis...
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12:24 UTC
Space News
NASA prepares for Mars 2020 landing WASHINGTON — NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is on track for a landing next month that will begin in earnest an effort to return samples of the planet to Earth.The spacecraft, ...
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12:17 UTC
SPACE.com
Extreme black holes probably have 'hair'
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12:00 UTC
AmericaSpace
Spacewalkers Complete Columbus Upgrades, Look Ahead to Mo...
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11:46 UTC
Parabolic Arc
NASA’s Perseverance Rover 22 Days From Mars Landing This illustration shows the events that occur in the final minutes of the nearly seven-month journey that NASA’s Perseverance rover takes to Mars. Hundreds of critical events must execute perfectly ...
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11:04 UTC
astrobites
Put A Ring On It Title: Can planetary rings explain the extremely low density of HIP 41378 f?Authors: B. Akinsanmi, N. C. Santos, J. P. Faria, M. Oshagh, S. C. C. Barros, A. Santerne and ...
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10:35 UTC
Parabolic Arc
NASA’s Artemis Base Camp on the Moon Will Need Light, Wat... An astronaut descends the ladder to explore the lunar surface. (Credit: NASA) By Lonnie ShekhtmanNASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GREENBELT, Md. — American astronauts in 2024 will take their first ...
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10:22 UTC
Space News
Electron launch demonstrated enhanced kick stage WASHINGTON — Rocket Lab stretched the performance of the kick stage of its Electron rocket on its most recent launch, the first in a series of milestones the company has ...
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US Mint marks 35 years since Challenger with 'Teacher in ...
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05:50 UTC
SALT Astronomy
Night Log 2021-01-27 SA: DanièlSO: FredOthers: Thabelo (for SCAM)------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------We managed to complete 5 blocks before humidity forced us to close.The remainder of the night was spent completing closed dome calibrations.Science data taken for:2016-2-COM-001 ...
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04:04 UTC
Cosmic Log
New study links sleep cycles to moon cycles A newly published study adds to the long-debated evidence that humans are hard-wired to sleep less when the moon is full or the lights are on, probably due to the ...
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01:24 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Rocket Lab Demonstrates New Orbital Maneuvering Capabilit... Electron launches with OHB satellite. (Credit: Rocket Lab webcast) Launched just six months after contract signing, Rocket Lab’s ‘Another One Leaves The Crust’ mission demonstrated the longest on-orbit burn to ...
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01:06 UTC
Parabolic Arc
Space Flight Laboratory Announces Successful Launch of 12... HawkEye 360 RF geolocating microsatellite constellation. (Credit: SFL) TORONTO, 25 January 2021 (SFL PR) – Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), a developer of complete microspace missions, today announced the launch and ...
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00:45 UTC
Space News
Firefly Aerospace seeking to raise $350 million WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle developer Firefly Aerospace, nearing its first orbital launch attempt, is looking to raise $350 million to scale up production and work on a new, larger ...
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00:40 UTC
Parabolic Arc
MDA Appoints New Vice President of Satellite Systems BRAMPTON, Ont. (MDA PR) — MDA is pleased to welcome Amer Khouri as the company’s new Vice President of Satellite Systems. As the leader for this business, Mr. Khouri will ...
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00:02 UTC
Universe Today
Space and Sustainability: How the Lessons of B2 Inspired ...
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15:17 UTC
Parabolic Arc
- 27 Jan 2021
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22:59 UTC
Cosmosphere
Quantum Internet Possible With Drones IMAGE: A fleet of drones could create a quantum network by transmitting quantum particles among the fleet’s formation and relaying the particles to ground stations at various locations within a ...
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22:59 UTC
CosmoQuest
Quantum Internet Possible With Drones IMAGE: A fleet of drones could create a quantum network by transmitting quantum particles among the fleet’s formation and relaying the particles to ground stations at various locations within a ...
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22:58 UTC
CosmoQuest
World Record Laser Link Could Help Prove Einstein Was Rig... IMAGE: UWA’s rooftop observatory. CREDIT: ICRAR. One of the more annoying limiting factors in doing a lot of science is our atmosphere. Place-to-place variations in temperature, humidity, and other factors ...
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22:58 UTC
Cosmosphere
World Record Laser Link Could Help Prove Einstein Was Rig... IMAGE: UWA’s rooftop observatory. CREDIT: ICRAR. One of the more annoying limiting factors in doing a lot of science is our atmosphere. Place-to-place variations in temperature, humidity, and other factors ...
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22:56 UTC
Cosmosphere
Galaxy Collisions Can Starve Massive Black Holes IMAGE: Artist’s impression of gas being pulled away from a galactic nucleus. CREDIT: Miki et al., 2021 In a paper appearing in Nature Astronomy and led by Yohei Miki, researchers ...
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22:56 UTC
CosmoQuest
Galaxy Collisions Can Starve Massive Black Holes IMAGE: Artist’s impression of gas being pulled away from a galactic nucleus. CREDIT: Miki et al., 2021 In a paper appearing in Nature Astronomy and led by Yohei Miki, researchers ...
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22:52 UTC
CosmoQuest
Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Provides Evidence of Star Formation IMAGE: A tidal dwarf galaxy (blue) and a spiral galaxy (greyscale). The Milky Way is an example of a spiral galaxy. CREDIT: Hubble Space Telescope / ALMA One of my ...
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22:52 UTC
Cosmosphere
Tidal Dwarf Galaxy Provides Evidence of Star Formation IMAGE: A tidal dwarf galaxy (blue) and a spiral galaxy (greyscale). The Milky Way is an example of a spiral galaxy. CREDIT: Hubble Space Telescope / ALMA One of my ...
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22:50 UTC
CosmoQuest
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets All Have Very Similar Compositions IMAGE: Measuring the mass and diameter of a planet reveals its density, which can give scientists clues about its composition. Scientists now know the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets ...
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22:50 UTC
Cosmosphere
TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets All Have Very Similar Compositions IMAGE: Measuring the mass and diameter of a planet reveals its density, which can give scientists clues about its composition. Scientists now know the density of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets ...
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22:47 UTC
CosmoQuest
First Cloudless Hot Jupiter Discovered IMAGE: Artist illustration of exoplanet WASP-62b. The illustration is drawn from the perspective of an observer nearby to the planet. CREDIT: M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian It ...
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22:47 UTC
Cosmosphere
First Cloudless Hot Jupiter Discovered IMAGE: Artist illustration of exoplanet WASP-62b. The illustration is drawn from the perspective of an observer nearby to the planet. CREDIT: M. Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian It ...
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22:47 UTC
Cosmic Log
Jeff Bezos kicks back with a fiery rocket engine test If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few fireworks shows more thrilling than a test firing of your very own rocket engine. At least that’s ...
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22:45 UTC
CosmoQuest
TOI-178 With Six Planets in Orbital Resonance Challenges ... IMAGE: This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. It is based on the known physical parameters for the ...
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22:45 UTC
Cosmosphere
TOI-178 With Six Planets in Orbital Resonance Challenges ... IMAGE: This artist’s impression shows the view from the planet in the TOI-178 system found orbiting furthest from the star. It is based on the known physical parameters for the ...
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22:43 UTC
CosmoQuest
Lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano IMAGE: Shiveluch is one of the biggest and most active of a line of volcanoes that follow the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula in easternmost Russia. The volcanoes and peninsula ...
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22:43 UTC
Cosmosphere
Lots of water in the world’s most explosive volcano IMAGE: Shiveluch is one of the biggest and most active of a line of volcanoes that follow the spine of the Kamchatka Peninsula in easternmost Russia. The volcanoes and peninsula ...
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22:16 UTC
SPACE.com
Hot Wheels Perseverance lands in stores ahead of rover on...
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21:53 UTC
Geekwire
Jeff Bezos kicks back with full-thrust firing of Blue Ori... Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine lights up for a full-thrust test firing in Texas. (Jeff Bezos via Instagram)If you’re hanging out in West Texas during a pandemic, there are few ...
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21:52 UTC
Space News
Lawmakers amp up pressure on Biden to investigate Space C... WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) on Jan. 27 added his voice to the chorus of lawmakers demanding that the Biden administration investigate the Air Force’s decision to move U.S. ...
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20:51 UTC
SPACE.com
Spacewalking astronauts tackle European lab upgrade at sp...
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20:50 UTC
Space News
U.S. Space Force acquisitions to get fresh look, lawmaker... WASHINGTON — Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.), a leading proponent of establishing the U.S. Space Force, said he wants the Biden administration to put pressure on the service to clean up ...
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20:13 UTC
SPACE.com
The full moon may influence sleep and menstrual cycles, s...
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19:30 UTC
SpaceFlight Insider
Cable issues prevent spacewalkers from finishing Bartolom... A view of the front of the International Space Station. The Bartolomeo platform, which was not yet installed when this photo was taken, is located on the forward side of ...
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19:02 UTC
Universe Today
All The Gravitational Waves Detected So Far
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18:22 UTC
Coalition for Deep ...
Today’s Deep Space Extra In Today’s Deep Space Extra… Victor Glover, one of 18 astronauts selected by NASA to train for the Artemis program, embarked on an International Space Station spacewalk early Wednesday with ...
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18:09 UTC
Nanowerk Space Expl...
Precision measurements of intracluster light suggest poss...
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18:00 UTC
SPACE.com
First look: EXO-6 is beaming up a hyper-detailed First Co...
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22:59 UTC
Cosmosphere