Canberra, Australia (The Conversation) Dec 23, 2020
A remote outback station about 800km north of Perth in Western Australia is one of the best places in the world to operate telescopes that listen for radio signals from space. It's the site of CSIRO's Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory (MRO) and is home to three telescopes (and soon a fourth when half of the Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio telescope, is built there).

Washington DC (UPI) Jan 01, 2021
For the first time, scientists successfully demonstrated sustained, long-distance teleportation of quantum information. The breakthrough, described this month in the journal PRX Quantum, suggests a viable quantum internet could soon be a reality. "Quantum teleportation is essential for many quantum information technologies, including long-distance quantum networks," according to

Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 01, 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion energy. This work, enabled through a public-private DOE grant program, supports efforts to develop high-performance fusion grade plasmas. In one such project PPPL is working in coordination with MIT's Pl

Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Jan 01, 2021
GomSpace has seen out 2020 with the signing of a contract with an existing customer within the North American market in the geo-intelligence industry for the delivery of a software defined radio modules and antenna systems. The contract is worth 5,1 MSEK and will be fully delivered in 2021. GomSpace has over the years built a strong product portfolio and in-orbit track record with its soft

Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2021
China's space industry has produced a remarkable scorecard this year: characterized by the nation's first independent Mars mission, the completion of a global navigation satellite network and a landmark adventure that retrieved rocks and soil from the moon. The most significant event in China's space field, and also one of the most notable space activities globally, this year-the Chang'e 5

Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 01, 2021
Tiny fruit flies are helping NASA study how brain activity and sleep patterns change when organisms live in the microgravity of space. An experiment on the International Space Station will build on the United States' legacy of using fruit flies to understand how life endures in space. The experiment, known as Genes in Space-7, uses genetic matter derived from fruit fly brains to unde

Washington DC (SPX) Jan 01, 2021
A record number of launches, new streamlined launch and reentry licensing regulations, and a historic licensed crewed mission are some of the noteworthy commercial space transportation achievements of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in 2020. The FAA will build on these accomplishments in the coming year. "This record-setting year in launches, and the new streamlined launch and re

Washington DC (UPI) Dec 30, 2020
NASA has given the go-ahead to a pair of heliophysics missions designed to aid the study of space weather. Both the Extreme Ultraviolent High-Throughput Spectroscopic Telescope Epsilon Mission, or EUVST, and the Electrojet Zeeman Imaging Explorer mission, or EZIE, aim to illuminate the physics of solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, the phenomena that produce electromagn

Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2021
China's Chang'e-5 probe retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon. It has been much anticipated just how these would be used for research. Researchers have set up special storage facilities, constructed laboratories for sample processing and analysis, and developed detailed operating procedures to ensure that lunar samples are not contaminated as far as possible and that the res

Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2021
The two architects built the foldable futuristic-looking shelter as part of an experiment to establish whether ordinary people without training could survive in harsh conditions, including those on the Moon. Danish "space architects" Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sorensen have wrapped up their mission in Greenland aimed at testing a "Lunark" shelter - an origami-inspired camp design