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- 28 Feb 2021
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18:30 UTC
SpacePolicyOnline.c...
What’s Happening in Space Policy February 28-March 6, 202... Here is SpacePolicyOnline.com’s list of space policy events for the week of February 28-March 6, 2021 and any insight we can offer about them. The House and Senate are in ...
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18:25 UTC
NASA Space Station ...
Spacewalkers Conclude Today’s Spacewalk Spacewalkers Victor Glover and Kate Rubins are pictured at the mast canister, installing bracket support struts to the base of the solar array on Feb, 28th 2021.NASA astronauts Kate Rubins ...
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17:27 UTC
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Video: Vice President Kamala Harris Calls NASA Astronaut ... Video Caption: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris placed a special phone call to space this week when she spoke with astronaut Victor Glover who is aboard the International Space Station. ...
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17:20 UTC
The Guardian
Letters: Sir Arnold Wolfendale obituary
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17:20 UTC
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China Launches 3 Yaogan-31 Military Reconnaissance Satell... Long March 4C lifts off with three Yaogan-31 reconnaissance satellites. (Credit: CASC) JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCH CENTER, China (CASC PR) — On February 24 at 10:22 a.m., the Long March 4C ...
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16:58 UTC
Universe Today
A Review of “Extraterrestrial” by Prof. Avi Loeb On October 19th, 2017, astronomers from the Haleakala Observatory in Hawaii announced the first-ever detection of an interstellar object in our Solar System. In honor of the observatory that first ...
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16:54 UTC
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SpaceX to Launch 60 Starlink Satellites on Sunday Falcon 9 launches 60 Starlink satellites. (Credit: SpaceX webcast) KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. (SpaceX PR) — SpaceX is targeting Sunday, February 28 for launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Launch ...
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16:47 UTC
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India Launch Amazonia-1 Earth Observation Satellite for B... PLSV-C51 launches with the Amazonia-1 satellite. (Credit: ISRO) SRIHARIKOTA, India (ISRO PR) — India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C51 successfully launched Amazonia-1 along with 18 co-passenger satellites today (February 28, ...
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16:24 UTC
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Russia Launches Arktika-M Meteorological Satellite MOSCOW (Roscosmos PR) — This morning, February 28, 2021 at 09:55:01 Moscow time, a successful launch of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with the Fregat upper stage and the Arktika-M spacecraft ...
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16:19 UTC
Lunar Meteorite Hun...
The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 01MAR2021
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15:00 UTC
SciTech Daily
Sensing Suns: Astronomers Accurately Measure the Temperat...
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14:01 UTC
SPACE.com
A SpaceX rocket will launch a Starlink satellite fleet to...
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13:38 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Live coverage: SpaceX preps Falcon 9 rocket for launch fr... Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s 20th batch ...
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13:23 UTC
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GomSpace and J.P. Morgan Test Blockchain Transaction on G... ESA’s biggest small satellite yet: the GomX-4B six-unit CubeSat will demonstrate miniaturised technologies, preparing the way for future operational nanosatellite constellations. (Credit: GomSpace) UPPSALA, Sweden (GomSpace PR) — GomSpace and ...
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13:22 UTC
SPACE.com
Vice President Kamala Harris calls NASA astronaut on Inte...
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13:02 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Watch live: Astronauts begin spacewalk to prep for statio... STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSIONTwo astronauts floated outside the International Space Station early Sunday for the first in a series of spacewalks needed to upgrade the ...
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12:53 UTC
EarthSky Blog
What is a quasar? Artist’s concept of quasar J0313-1806, currently the most distant quasar known. Quasars are highly luminous objects in the early universe, thought to be powered by supermassive black holes. This illustration ...
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12:12 UTC
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ICEYE’s 3 Newest Satellites From Late January Launch Retu... San Diego (Credit: ICEYE) ICEYE is currently delivering SAR Data Services from the world’s most advanced radar imaging satellite constellation designed for Persistent Monitoring. Data from these new spacecraft will ...
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11:34 UTC
NASASpaceFlight.com
Spacewalk underway, beginning process of increasing Space... Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are set to conduct a spacewalk to begin the process of increasing the station’s electrical power generation output. The spacewalk, US EVA-71, ...
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11:20 UTC
SciTech Daily
Measuring the Expansion of the Universe: Surprising Discr...
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11:14 UTC
NASA Space Station ...
Astronauts Rubins and Glover Begin Spacewalk NASA Astronaut Kate Rubins during a six-hour and 48-minute spacewalk on Sept. 1, 2016.NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover have begun their spacewalk outside the International Space Station to ...
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10:47 UTC
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NIAC Award: Building a Levitating Railroad on the Moon Artist’s depiction of the FLOAT lunar railway system to provide reliable, autonomous, and efficient payload transport on the Moon. (Credits: Ethan Schaler) NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I AwardFunding: ...
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10:11 UTC
Space News
Indian PSLV rocket launches Brazilian Amazonia-1 satellit... HELSINKI — India launched its first mission of the year late Saturday, sending Brazil’s Amazonia-1 Earth observation satellite and 18 smaller payloads into orbit.The 44-meter-high PSLV-C51 rocket with two solid ...
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09:55 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Russia launches Arctic weather satellite Russia launched a Soyuz rocket Sunday through a veil of fog over the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying the first spacecraft in a new program to monitor Arctic weather systems ...
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09:31 UTC
NASA Space Station ...
NASA TV Coverage of Spacewalk Underway Astronauts (from left) Kate Rubins and Victor Glover are pictured during previous spacewalks on the space station.NASA Television coverage of today’s spacewalk with NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover ...
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08:28 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Indian rocket launches Brazilian satellite to track Amazo... A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center with the Amazonia 1 satellite and 18 secondary payloads. Credit: ISROAn Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle placed ...
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06:19 UTC
SPACE.com
India launches Brazil's Amazonia-1 Earth observation sate...
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06:04 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Live coverage: Soyuz rocket set for launch with polar wea... Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Russian Soyuz rocket with the Arktika-M 1 weather satellite designed to provide coverage of Russia’s Arctic region. Text updates will appear ...
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05:50 UTC
SALT Astronomy
Night Log 2021-02-27 SA: EnricoSO: TheaOthers: ------------------------------------------------------------------------Summary------------------------------------------------------------------------ Another bright night with 13 blocks of again mostly lower priorities observed. A stray mirror segment forced us to do a mirror alignment and high humidity ...
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05:40 UTC
SciTech Daily
Star’s Destruction by Supermassive Black Hole Linked to O...
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05:00 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Japan at Night The contrast of the bright lights against the dark landscape makes this a favorite astronaut photo. Read More...
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04:43 UTC
Universe Today
Dust Particles in the Martian Atmosphere can Create Stati... Lightning is one of the most powerful forces in nature. Up to 1 billion volts of electricity can flow into a strike in less than a second. Such a large ...
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02:43 UTC
National Space Soci...
‘For All Mankind’ and The Price of Women’s Pain
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01:57 UTC
The Ancient Solar S...
This week in space: GPS satellites to be upgraded for in-... Learn the ins and outs of pseudoscience, and debunking it: Read 'Escaping The Rabbit Hole' here.Want to support the future of science and engineering? You can do so through one ...
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01:23 UTC
SciTech Daily
Reclusive Neutron Star May Have Been Found in Famous Supe...
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00:16 UTC
Exos Aerospace Blog
EXOS in Langheroeromonferrato.net EXOS, L’AVANGUARDIA DELLA CORSA LOW COST ALLO SPAZIO, PRODURRA’ E ASSUMERA’ IN PIEMONTE“EXOS, the avant-garde of the low cost space race, will produce and hire in Piedmont” The post EXOS ...
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00:08 UTC
Not Even Wrong
Yet More Geometric Langlands News It has only been a couple weeks since my last posting on this topic, but there’s quite a bit of new news on the geometric Langlands front.One of the great ...
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- 27 Feb 2021
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23:23 UTC
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ISRO to Launch Brazilian Earth Observation Satellite, 18 ... PSLV-C51 on the launch pad. (Credit: ISRO) SRIHARIKOTA, India (ISRO PR) — PSLV-C51, which is the 53rd mission of PSLV, will launch Amazonia-1 of Brazil as primary satellite and 18 ...
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22:52 UTC
SciTech Daily
New Metamaterial Structures for Studying the Oldest Light...
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22:39 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Live coverage: Indian PSLV counting down to launch with 1... Live coverage of the countdown and launch India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle with Brazil’s Amazonia 1 Earth observation satellite and 18 smaller co-passenger payloads. Text updates will appear automatically below. ...
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22:34 UTC
NASASpaceFlight.com
Russia’s Soyuz-2-1b to launch Arktika-M No.1 weather sate... Russia will launch the first in a new series of weather satellites to aid forecasting over its high-latitude regions. The Arktika-M No.1 satellite, aboard a Soyuz-2-1b/Fregat rocket, will lift off ...
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22:34 UTC
Astrophiz
Astrophiz 121: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s March 202... Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-121-dr-ian-musgraves-march-skyguide A monthly treat for naked eye observers, telescopers and astrophotographers.Dr @ianfmusgrave gives us his fabulous guide to what to observe in the morning & evening skies for the ...
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21:54 UTC
NPR
Not My Job: We Quiz NASA's Swati Mohan On Planets Closer ... Swati Mohan was the Guidance and Controls Operations Lead on the NASA Mars 2020 Mission, which successfully landed the newest Mars Rover, Perseverance, on February 18.(Image credit: T. Wynne/NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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21:45 UTC
NASA Watch
VP Harris Gives Astronaut Glover A Call Vice President Kamala Harris Calls NASA Astronaut Victor Glover "In celebration of Black History Month, NASA astronaut Victor Glover welcomed Vice President Kamala Harris to the International Space Station for ...
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21:30 UTC
astrobites
Masquerade! Dwarf Nova Faces on Parade English Title: Classical Novae Masquerading as Dwarf Novae? Outburst Properties of Cataclysmic Variables with ASAS-SNAuthors: A. Kawash, L. Chomiuk, J. Strader, E. Aydi, K. V. Sokolovsky, T. Jayasinghe, C. S. ...
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21:19 UTC
SpacePolicyOnline.c...
More Good Vibes for NASA from Biden & Harris President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris continued to shower NASA with good vibes this week. Biden used the Mars program as an example of America’s can-do spirit while ...
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21:05 UTC
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Dynetics Completes Human Landing System’s Preliminary Des... Artist concept of the Dynetics Human Landing System on the surface of the Moon. (Credits: Dynetics) HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Feb. 25, 2021 (Dynetics PR) — Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of ...
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20:57 UTC
Spaceflight Now
Russian satellite for polar weather forecasting ready for... A Soyuz-2.1b rocket stands on the launch pad at Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: RoscosmosThe first in a new constellation of Russian Arctic weather satellites is ...
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20:31 UTC
SciTech Daily
Wayward Comet Makes a Temporary Stop Near Jupiter’s Aster...
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19:33 UTC
NASA Space Station ...
NASA TV Broadcasts Spacewalk on Sunday From left, NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Jeff Williams are pictured during a spacewalk in September of 2016 performing solar array maintenance.NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover are scheduled ...
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