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Evry, France (SPX) Feb 04, 2022
After the successful launch of NASA's Webb Space Telescope on December 25 with Ariane 5, Arianespace is back to the Guiana Space Center (CSG) with Soyuz for a February 10 lift-off. The first Arianespace mission of the year will orbit 34 additional OneWeb satellites. With this mission, Arianespace will exceed 100 satellites launched on Soyuz from the CSG, while OneWeb's fleet will be brought to 4
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Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 07, 2022
A few years ago, a novel measurement technique showed that protons are probably smaller than had been assumed since the 1990s. The discrepancy surprised the scientific community; some researchers even believed that the Standard Model of particle physics would have to be changed. Physicists at the University of Bonn and the Technical University of Darmstadt have now developed a method that
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Lemont IL (SPX) Feb 04, 2022
Breakthrough using common material could pave way for new quantum technologies. Quantum science holds promise for many technological applications, such as building hackerproof communication networks or quantum computers that could accelerate new drug discovery. These applications require a quantum version of a computer bit, known as a qubit, that stores quantum information. But researchers
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University Park PA (SPX) Feb 04, 2022
By demonstrating exceptional control of an open optical system, an international research team has provided a path to experimentally measure and test exotic phenomena and gain insights into new physics with exquisite sensitivity. Reported in Nature Communications, the Penn State, Michigan Technological University and Vienna University of Technology researchers created a stable surface of '
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Mainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2022
In early December 2021, the project "Development of a laser system for experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates on the International Space Station within the BECCAL payload (BECCAL-II)" commenced, with the involvement of a team of researchers led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger and Dr. Andre Wenzlawski from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). In collaboration with Humboldt-Univ
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2022
The powerful underwater volcanic eruption that blanketed the island nation of Tonga with ash and sent tsunami waves across the world also caused ripples in Earth's ionosphere, according to measurements from the Global Differential Global Positioning System (GDGPS) managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. When the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted on Jan.
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2022
NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet. The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round-trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program. "This groundbreaking

Is the 'fine-tuned universe' an illusion?

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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2022
For decades physicists have been perplexed about why our cosmos appears to have been precisely tuned to foster intelligent life. It is widely thought that if the values of certain physical parameters, such as the masses of elementary particles, were tweaked, even slightly, it would have prevented the formation of the components necessary for life in the universe - including planets, stars, and g
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Notre Dame IN (SPX) Feb 08, 2022
University of Notre Dame researchers, along with collaborators in China and Australia, published a new sample catalog of more than 24 million stars that can be used to decipher the chemical history of elements in the Milky Way Galaxy. The research, published February 3 in The Astrophysical Journal, represents about one-hundredth of a percent of the roughly 240 billion stars in the Milky Wa
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Washington DC (UPI) Feb 7, 2021
Astra Space postponed its first rocket launch from Florida on Monday for the second time in three days due to a "minor telemetry issue" and did not set a new launch date, a company official said. "Unfortunately, we need to stand down from today's launch attempt," Astra product manager Carolina Grossman said during a live launch broadcast. The rocket's software aborted a launch at
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Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2022
Lockheed Martin's space division has won a NASA contract to build the rocket that will return the first Mars rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, the US space agency said Monday. The "small, lightweight rocket" will be the first to take off from another planet, bringing back "rock, sediment and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet," NASA said in a statement. NASA's Perse
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Ishikawa, Japan (SPX) Feb 08, 2022
Atomic forces are primarily responsible for the motion of atoms and their versatile arrangement patterns, which is unique for different types of materials. Atomic simulation methods are a popular choice for the calculation of these forces, the understanding of which can vastly enhance existing knowledge on how to improve a material's function at an atomic level. Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) m
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E-Space, the Greg Wyler-led startup behind Rwanda’s September filing for a constellation of 300,000 satellites, said Feb. 7 it has raised $50 million to fund the launch of two sets of test satellites this year.

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The Space Systems Command issued a request for information on industry capabilities to combat cyber attacks and protect critical networks during wartime.

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SciTec won a $5 million contract from the Space Force to develop a software application that analyzes data from U.S. missile-warning satellites.

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