Scientists Finally Know What Time It Is On Saturn

January 20, 2019 – Using new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, researchers believe they have solved a longstanding mystery of solar system science: the length of a day on Saturn. Ten hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds. Read More
Air Force Awards Hosted Payloads Delivery Order Under HoPS Contract To General Atomics
January 20, 2019 – The Air Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded General Atomics, Electromagnetic Systems Group (GA-EMS) a firm-fixed-price delivery order under the Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contract for commercially hosting the Argos Advanced Data Collection System (A-DCS). Funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the total value of the contract is $37,906,872.
SwRI Scientists Study Moon Craters To Understand Earth’s Impact History

January 17, 2019 – Using images and thermal data collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), Southwest Research Institute scientists and their collaborators have calculated the ages of large lunar craters across the Moon to be less than 1 billion years. By comparing the impact history of the Moon with Earth’s craters over this interval, they discovered that the rate of sizable asteroid collisions has increased by a factor of two to three on both bodies over the last 290 million years. Read More
Saturn Hasn’t Always Had Rings

January 17, 2019 – One of the last acts of NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its death plunge into Saturn’s hydrogen and helium atmosphere was to coast between the planet and its rings and let them tug it around, essentially acting as a gravity probe. Read More
PSI Scientist Anticipated “Snowman” Asteroid Appearance

January 15, 2019 – On January 2, the New Horizons spacecraft made the most distant flyby ever attempted, successfully returning images of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule. While the world is agog at the so-called “snowman” shape of this icy asteroid, the concept is nothing new to PSI scientist and artist, Bill Hartmann. The figure shows paintings that Hartmann made from 1978 to 1996, to illustrate the possible outcome of very low-velocity collisions of distant asteroids. These are compared with the first released color image of Ultima Thule. The story goes back 50 years. Read More
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 To Resume Operations

January 15, 2019 – NASA has moved closer to conducting science operations again with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, which suspended operations on Tuesday, January 8. Today, the instrument was brought back to its operations mode. Read More
Maxar Technologies Announces CEO Transition
January 15, 2019 – Maxar Technologies yesterday announced the appointment of Daniel Jablonsky as President and Chief Executive Officer of Maxar, effective immediately. Jablonsky, who most recently served as President of DigitalGlobe, a Maxar Technologies company, will also join the Maxar Board of Directors. He succeeds Howard Lance, who has resigned from his roles as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of Maxar. Read More
Solar Flares: From Emergence To Eruption

January 14, 2019 – A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash. Read More
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Source: Nature
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Source: BBC Newsround
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Source: Space Foundation
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Source: SpaceChain
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Source: Astronomy
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Source: University of Colorado Boulder
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Source: SpaceFlight Now
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Source: Spaceflight Now
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Source: SpaceNews
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Source: NASASpaceFlight.com
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Source: GeekWire
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Source: Northrop Grumman
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Source: Universities Space Research Association
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Source: National Geographic
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Source: NASA
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Source: SpaceNews
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Source: SpaceNews
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Source: SpaceNews
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Source: Spaceflight Now
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Source: Colorado Sentinel
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Source: The Gazette
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Source: Woodmen Edition
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Source: Collins Aerospace
CUbit Quantum Initiative Launch Fueled By Seed Funding, Faculty Expertise
Source: University of Colorado Boulder
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Source: Motherboard
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Source: Science News
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Source: Boeing
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Source: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Double Star System Flips Planet-Forming Disk Into Pole Position
Source: University of Warwick
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Source: Université de Genève
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Source: Curtin University
POLAR Experiment Reveals Orderly Chaos Of Black Holes
Source: Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
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Source: NASA
European Service Module Welds Complete
Source: ESA
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Source: Cosmos
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Source: SpaceNews
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Source: SpaceNews
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Source: Western University
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Source: NASA
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Source: Harris
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Source: NASA SpaceFlight.com
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Source: Spaceflight Now
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Source: CPR
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Source: The Advocate
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