Astroscale Ships ELSA-d Spacecraft to Launch Site
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China's Chang'e-5 orbiter embarks on new mission to gravitationally stable spot at L1
Monday, 21 December 2020 08:31![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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A new satellite 'Made in Belgium' with SPACEBEL software
Monday, 21 December 2020 08:31![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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SLS team completes propellant loading of Core Stage during Green Run test
Monday, 21 December 2020 08:31![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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SwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
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Scientists complete yearlong pulsar timing study after reviving dormant radio telescopes
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The upside of volatile space weather
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On the Hunt for a Missing Giant Black Hole
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Euclid's optical and infrared instruments integrated in spacecraft
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Lockheed Martin confident Aerojet deal will be approved, but it’s not a slam dunk
Sunday, 20 December 2020 21:43![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet said he expects the U.S. government to approve the company’s proposed $4.4 billion acquisition of Aerojet Rocketdyne despite concerns that it could reduce competition in the hypersonic missiles market.
NASA receives $23.271 billion in fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill
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WASHINGTON — Congress will provide NASA with nearly $23.3 billion in the final fiscal year 2021 omnibus spending bill, restoring several science programs but falling far short of the funding sought for a lunar lander program.
Viasat announces agreement to acquire RigNet
Sunday, 20 December 2020 19:40![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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SAN FRANCISCO — Viasat Inc. announced an agreement Dec. 21 to acquire Houston-based communications firm RigNet Inc. in an all-stock transaction with a value of approximately $222 million based on Viasat’s current share price and RigNet’s debt.
The more things change: Ansys acquisition isn’t likely to alter AGI or Comspoc
Sunday, 20 December 2020 16:21![](/plugins/content/jlexcomment/assets/icon.png)
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For three decades, Paul Graziani never seriously considered selling Analytical Graphics Inc., the Exton, Pennsylvania-based company he co-founded and has led since 1989.
“We felt like we got a pretty good gig on our own here,” Graziani said in an interview.
Study finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid
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![SwRI scientists studied the composition of a small shard of a meteoroid to determine that it likely originated from a previously unknown parent asteroid. This false-color micrograph of the meteoroid sample shows the unexpected amphibole crystals identified in orange. Credit: NASA/USRA/Lunar and Planetary Institute SwRI-led team finds meteoric evidence for a previously unknown asteroid](https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/swriledteamf.jpg)
A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists has identified a potentially new meteorite parent asteroid by studying a small shard of a meteorite that arrived on Earth a dozen years ago. The composition of a piece of the meteorite Almahata Sitta (AhS) indicates that its parent body was an asteroid roughly the size of Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and formed in the presence of water under intermediate temperatures and pressures.
NASA Discoveries, R&D, Moon to Mars Exploration Plans Persevere in 2020
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