Mom and daughter bound for space after winning Virgin Galactic prize
Wednesday, 25 November 2020 07:39
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Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2021
A health coach from Antigua and Barbuda has won two tickets worth almost $1 million to be among Virgin Galactic's first space tourists - and plans to take the trip of a lifetime with her teenage daughter.
Keisha Schahaff, 44, said she wanted to cross the final frontier with her 17-year-old, a science student living in Britain who dreams of one day working for NASA.
Virgin Galactic foun
A health coach from Antigua and Barbuda has won two tickets worth almost $1 million to be among Virgin Galactic's first space tourists - and plans to take the trip of a lifetime with her teenage daughter.
Keisha Schahaff, 44, said she wanted to cross the final frontier with her 17-year-old, a science student living in Britain who dreams of one day working for NASA.
Virgin Galactic foun New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total count
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2021
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude of distant stars. How did scientists discover such a huge number of planets, seemingly all at once? The answer lies with a new deep neural network called ExoMiner.
Deep neural networks are mach
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude of distant stars. How did scientists discover such a huge number of planets, seemingly all at once? The answer lies with a new deep neural network called ExoMiner.
Deep neural networks are mach AFRL collaborates with Magdalena Ridge Observatory to further space exploration
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Kirtland ADF NM (SPX) Nov 24, 2021
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) astronomers are one-step closer to having their own high-powered window to space and the universe, after receiving congressional funding for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI).
The university will receive $6.2 million in congressional funds to complete the first phase of the anticipated $30 million five-year project to
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) astronomers are one-step closer to having their own high-powered window to space and the universe, after receiving congressional funding for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MROI).
The university will receive $6.2 million in congressional funds to complete the first phase of the anticipated $30 million five-year project to Lockheed Martin conducts missile warning system's Critical Design Review
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Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force conducted the system level Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 space program. This marks another significant step toward the first NGG satellite launch in 2025.
NGG is the Space Force's new, advanced space-based missile warning system that incorporates improved wa
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force conducted the system level Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 space program. This marks another significant step toward the first NGG satellite launch in 2025.
NGG is the Space Force's new, advanced space-based missile warning system that incorporates improved wa China launches new satellite for Earth observation
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Jiuquan (XNA) Nov 24, 2021
China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday.
The satellite, Gaofen-3 02, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.
The satellite will operate in a solar synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 km and will be networked with the orbiting G
China launched a new Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Tuesday.
The satellite, Gaofen-3 02, was launched by a Long March-4C rocket at 7:45 a.m. (Beijing Time) and has entered the planned orbit successfully.
The satellite will operate in a solar synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 km and will be networked with the orbiting G Before geoengineering, some fundamental chemistry
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Philadelphia PA (SPX) Nov 23, 2021
It's a tempting thought: With climate change so difficult to manage and nations unwilling to take decisive action, what if we could mitigate its effects by setting up a kind of chemical umbrella - a layer of sulfuric acid in the upper atmosphere that could reflect the sun's radiation and cool the Earth?
According to a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a collaborati
It's a tempting thought: With climate change so difficult to manage and nations unwilling to take decisive action, what if we could mitigate its effects by setting up a kind of chemical umbrella - a layer of sulfuric acid in the upper atmosphere that could reflect the sun's radiation and cool the Earth?
According to a new study in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, a collaborati Satellite launched to assist in ocean surveillance
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 24, 2021
China launched a high-resolution Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Tuesday to improve its ocean surveillance capability.
The Gaofen 3-02 satellite was launched by a Long March 4C carrier rocket at 7:45 am and entered a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 kilometers, the China National Space Administration said.
The sate
China launched a high-resolution Earth-observation satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China on Tuesday to improve its ocean surveillance capability.
The Gaofen 3-02 satellite was launched by a Long March 4C carrier rocket at 7:45 am and entered a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 755 kilometers, the China National Space Administration said.
The sate Northrop Grumman Australia teams with Inmarsat for sovereign satellite capability
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Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 23, 2021
Northrop Grumman Australia will partner with Inmarsat to develop an agile, resilient and sovereign satellite communications capability to support the future joint force and protect Australia's strategic interests in response to the JP9102 Australian Defence Satellite Communication System project.
Under JP9102, the two companies will collaborate to deliver an Integrated Control Segment that
Northrop Grumman Australia will partner with Inmarsat to develop an agile, resilient and sovereign satellite communications capability to support the future joint force and protect Australia's strategic interests in response to the JP9102 Australian Defence Satellite Communication System project.
Under JP9102, the two companies will collaborate to deliver an Integrated Control Segment that New software, new drill target, and an existential question
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021
A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven years that I have operated spacecraft both in orbit and on the surface of Mars, I've come back again and again to the question of who is most responsible for making a spacecraft go.
Is it the ACE who sends the commands to the Deep Space Network (DSN) to be sent to the spac
A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven years that I have operated spacecraft both in orbit and on the surface of Mars, I've come back again and again to the question of who is most responsible for making a spacecraft go.
Is it the ACE who sends the commands to the Deep Space Network (DSN) to be sent to the spac NASA awards contract for bed rest studies
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Paris (ESA) Nov 23, 2021
NASA has selected Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR) of Cologne, Germany, to provide use of its facility to support long-duration bed rest research.
The $49.9 million Bedrest Studies Contract will support a series of bed rest studies at the company's facility in Cologne, Germany. Services also may be required at other NASA centers, contractor or subcontractor locations, or vend
NASA has selected Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR) of Cologne, Germany, to provide use of its facility to support long-duration bed rest research.
The $49.9 million Bedrest Studies Contract will support a series of bed rest studies at the company's facility in Cologne, Germany. Services also may be required at other NASA centers, contractor or subcontractor locations, or vend One in five galaxies in the early universe could still be hidden behind cosmic dust
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Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Nov 23, 2021
Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen's Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies 29 billion light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies remain hidden from our telescopes, camouflaged by cosmic dust. The new knowledge changes perceptions of our universe's evolution since the Big Bang.
Researchers at the University
Astronomers at the University of Copenhagen's Cosmic Dawn Center have discovered two previously invisible galaxies 29 billion light-years away. Their discovery suggests that up to one in five such distant galaxies remain hidden from our telescopes, camouflaged by cosmic dust. The new knowledge changes perceptions of our universe's evolution since the Big Bang.
Researchers at the University Curiosity sends a picture postcard from Mars
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021
NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two versions of the black-and-white images from different times of the day and added colors to create a rare postcard from the Red Planet.
Curiosity captures a 360-degree view of its surroundings with
NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two versions of the black-and-white images from different times of the day and added colors to create a rare postcard from the Red Planet.
Curiosity captures a 360-degree view of its surroundings with Hubble Finds Flame Nebula's Searing Stars May Halt Planet Formation
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 24, 2021
The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or "proplyds" - disks of gas and dust around stars that may one day form new solar systems.
Hubble found four confirmed proplyds and four possible proplyds in the nebula, but the proplyds are being
The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or "proplyds" - disks of gas and dust around stars that may one day form new solar systems.
Hubble found four confirmed proplyds and four possible proplyds in the nebula, but the proplyds are being One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long
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Boston MA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up more than 4,000 far-flung worlds, orbiting stars thousands of light years from Earth. These extrasolar planets are a veritable menagerie, from rocky super-Earths and miniature Neptunes to colossal gas giants.
Among the more confounding planets discovered to date are "hot Jupiters" - massive balls of gas that are about the size of o
The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up more than 4,000 far-flung worlds, orbiting stars thousands of light years from Earth. These extrasolar planets are a veritable menagerie, from rocky super-Earths and miniature Neptunes to colossal gas giants.
Among the more confounding planets discovered to date are "hot Jupiters" - massive balls of gas that are about the size of o NASA set to launch spacecraft to kick an asteroid off course
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Washington (AFP) Nov 23, 2021
NASA is preparing to launch a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid - a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth.
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment, blasting off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time Tuesday (0621 GMT Wednesday) aboa
NASA is preparing to launch a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid - a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth.
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment, blasting off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time Tuesday (0621 GMT Wednesday) aboa