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Patrick Stewart and Space Exploration / Patrick Stewart und seine Meinung zur Weltraumerkundung
Star-Trek-Star Patrick Stewart: Weltall nicht erkunden
Fernsehstar Sir Patrick Stewart hat sich kurz vor Beginn der neuen Star-Trek-Serie eindringlich dagegen ausgesprochen, dass die Menschheit weiter das Weltall erkundet.
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Sir Patrick Stewart Explains His ‘Unease’ About Human Space Exploration
Sir Patrick Stewart explains his concerns with human space exploration at New York Comic Con’s “Star Trek Universe” panel on Oct. 5, 2019. Story: Patrick Stewart, Billy Dee Williams Highlight a Common Misconception About Space Exploration
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SpaceX Abort Test / SpaceX Test des Rettungssystems
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon abort test was ‘picture-perfect,’ Elon Musk says
SpaceX’s high-altitude test of its Crew Dragon launch escape system on Sunday morning (Jan. 19) appears to have been a “picture-perfect mission,” company founder and CEO Elon Musk said.
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon returns to shore after successful abort test (photos)
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule returned to port Sunday night (Jan. 19), hours after it flawlessly executed a test of its built-in, launch-escape system and splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.
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SpaceX: Rakete explodiert kurz nach dem Start – Test erfolgreich
Knapp eine Minute nach dem Start in Florida ging eine Rakete von SpaceX über dem Atlantik in Flammen auf – zur Freude von Chef Elon Musk. Die Zerstörung war Teil eines Tests.
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SpaceX: Erfolgreicher letzter Test vor bemannten Flug zur ISS
Die Raumkapsel von SpaceX hat sich bei einem Test erfolgreich kurz nach dem Start von ihrer Rakete getrennt. Nun dürfte der erste bemannte Flug folgen.
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Perfekter Test des Crew Dragon-Rettungssystems
Der Test des Rettungssystems des neuen bemannten US-Raumschiffes Crew Dragon von SpaceX ist am Sonntag perfekt verlaufen. Dazu wurde die schwere Trägerrakete Falcon 9 um 16.30 Uhr deutscher Zeit mit vollbetankter Erststufe vom Weltraumbahnhof Cape Canaveral (Florida) gestartet. Nach knapp eineinhalb Minuten, als sich die Rakete […]
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In photos: SpaceX’s amazing Crew Dragon in-flight abort test launch
SpaceX successfully conducted an in-flight abort test of its Crew Dragon crew capsule on Jan. 19 to test the emergency escape system for astronauts. See photos of the test here!
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SpaceX aces Crew Dragon launch abort test, destroys rocket on purpose
SpaceX just took a giant leap in its quest to launch astronauts, successfully showcasing the Crew Dragon capsule’s launch escape system during flight.
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Further Title News / Weitere Titelthemen
ExoMars Rover schließt Umgebungstests ab
Zum Ende des Jahres 2019 hat der Rover Rosalind Franklin bei Airbus in Toulouse eine Reihe von Vorbereitungstests für den Flug zum Roten Planeten erfolgreich absolviert. Während der Tests wurde der Rover aufgeheizt und abgekühlt, um die großen Temperaturschwankungen auf seiner Reise durch das Weltall und auf der Marsoberfläche zu simulieren. So muss der Rosalind Franklin beispielsweise mit Temperaturen von -120°C außerhalb und -50°C innerhalb des Rovers auf dem Mars rechnen und in der Lage sein, in weniger als einem Hundertstel des atmosphärischen Drucks der Erde zu funktionieren – und das in einer kohlendioxidreichen Atmosphäre.
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ExoMars Rover completes environmental tests
The Rosalind Franklin rover of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission completed a series of environmental tests at the end of 2019 at Airbus, Toulouse, France. This included final thermal and vacuum tests where the Rover is heated and cooled to simulate the temperatures of its journey through space and on the surface of Mars. For example, Rosalind Franklin can expect temperatures dropping to –120°C outside, and –50 °C inside the rover once on Mars. It must also be able to operate in less than one hundredth of Earth’s atmospheric pressure – and in a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere.
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The Spitzer Space Telescope will shut down Jan. 30. NASA celebrates its legacy this week.
A 16-year NASA mission that painted the universe in infrared light will come to an end this month, as the Spitzer Space Telescope takes its final observations on Jan. 29.
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Russlands Antwort auf OneWeb und Starlink erfordert allein Trägerraketen für knapp fünf Milliarden Euro
Das von Präsident Waldimir Putin vor zwei Jahren in Auftrag gegebene Sfera-Programm als Antwort Russlands auf die westlichen Internetsatellitensysteme OneWeb und Starlink erfordert allein Raketentechnik im Umfang von umgerechnet 4,8 Milliarden Euro. Damit sollen bis 2030 bei 148 Starts 638 Satelliten ins All geschossen werden, meldet die Moskauer Nachrichtenagentur RIA […]
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Excited for space in 2020? Join an AMA with Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik in our Space.com Forums!
From new spacecraft launches to ambitious cars on Mars, there’s a lot of space exploration set for 2020. Join Space.com Editor-in-Chief Tariq Malik this week for an AMA on the year’s most anticipated space missions.
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International Space Station / Internationale Raumstation
US-Astronautinnen schließen Batterieaustausch an der ISS erfolgreich ab
Die US-Astronautinnen Jessica Meir und Christina Koch haben am Montag den Austausch von Batterien an der Internationalen Raumstation ISS erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Beim dritten gemeinsamen Ausstieg montierten sie in sechs Stunden und 58 Minuten die letzten von 24 leistungsstarken Lithium-Ionen-Batterien. Sie ersetzen 48 alte Nickel-Wasserstoff-Sammler.
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Meir, Koch Complete Battery Swaps to Upgrade Station Power Systems
At 1:33 p.m. EST, Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch of NASA concluded their third spacewalk together. During the six hour and 58-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully completed the battery upgrade for one channel on one pair of the station’s solar arrays.
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US-Astronautinnen setzten erfolgreich Batterie-Austausch an der ISS fort
Die US-Astronautinnen Jessica Meir und Christina Koch haben am Mittwoch den Batterie-Austausch an der Internationalen Raumstation ISS fortgesetzt. In knapp siebeneinhalbstündiger Arbeit demontierten sie beim zweiten rein weiblichen Ausstieg in den freien Raum alte Nickel-Wasserstoff-Batterien und montierten neue Lithium-Ionen-Sammler. […]
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Astronauts Wrap Up First Spacewalk of 2020
At 2:04 p.m. EST, Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Christina Koch and Jessica Meir of NASA concluded their spacewalk. During the 7-hour, 29-minute spacewalk, the two NASA astronauts successfully replaced nickel-hydrogen batteries with newer, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for the power channel on one pair of the station’s solar arrays. Meir and Koch are scheduled to venture outside the station again Monday, Jan. 20, for a second battery replacement spacewalk.
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Astronauts upgrade space station batteries in second all-woman spacewalk
The second all-female spacewalk in history continued the work of the first, as NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch upgraded batteries outside of the International Space Station.
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Two female US astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, replacing batteries on the station’s port truss.
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir finished their spacewalk at 2:04 p.m. US Eastern Time, which lasted about seven hours and 29 minutes, according to the US space agency NASA. This is the second all-female spacewalk. Koch and Meir completed the first one in October last year. Two female US astronauts complete spacewalk, replacing batteries
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Meir, Koch Working In Vacuum of Space to Swap Station Batteries
wo NASA astronauts switched their spacesuits to battery power this morning at 6:35 a.m. EST to begin today’s spacewalk. Expedition 61 Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch are entering into the vacuum of space for about six-and-a-half-hours to finish replacing nickel-hydrogen batteries with new lithium-ion batteries that store and distribute power generated by the station’s solar arrays on the station’s port truss. The lithium-ion batteries provide an improved power capacity for operations with a lighter mass and a smaller volume than the nickel-hydrogen batteries.
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Zeitfonds der Russen für wissenschaftliches Programm in der ISS leicht gesunken
Die Verringerung der russischen ISS-Besatzung von drei auf zwei Mitglieder vor knapp drei Jahren hat zu einem leichten Rückgang des Zeitfonds für die wissenschaftliche Arbeit geführt. Er sank von 35 auf 27,9 Prozent der faktischen Arbeitszeit, teilte die Nachrichtenagentur RIA Nowosti mit. Spezialisten des Flugleitzentrums (FLZ) […]
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Nutrition Studies, Spacewalk Preps Ahead of SpaceX Crew Escape Test
The Expedition 61 crew split its time today between upcoming spacewalk preparations and continuous microgravity research. SpaceX is also preparing for a final test of its commercial crew ship before it launches humans. The International Space Station is bustling with activity as two astronauts keep their U.S. spacesuits ready for another spacewalk set for Monday at 6:50 a.m. EST. NASA Flight Engineers Jessica Meir and Christina Koch will wrap up installing new lithium-ion batteries upgrading the orbiting lab’s power systems. NASA TV will start its live coverage at 5:30 a.m.
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SpaceX aims to launch astronauts this spring after Crew Dragon escape test success
The first crewed flight of SpaceX’s new astronaut taxi is likely just a few months away, now that a critical safety test is in the rearview mirror.
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Episode 01: The Orbital Test Flight of Boeing’s Starliner
Spacewalkers Switch Focus to Final Repairs on Cosmic Ray Detector
The Expedition 61 astronauts have one more spacewalk planned this weekend and they will finish the repair of a cosmic ray detector. This will be the ninth spacewalk for the crew, more than in any other increment in the history of the International Space Station.
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Microbial wipe down
Doubling as both Station maintenance and science experiment, Jack collected microbes living on the surfaces of his orbital home for ESA’s Extremophiles experiment. Headed by Dr. Christine-Moissl Eichinger from the Medical University of Graz, Austria, the experiment studies how microbes settle into the harsh environment of space.
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Earth / Erde
Scientists study plasma ‘bubbles’ in Earth’s magnetic field with Gamera model named for Japanese monster
Auroras and satellite function might be influenced by ”bubbles” of plasma near the tail of Earth’s magnetosphere.
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SpaceX gears up for next Starlink satellite megaconstellation launch with rocket test
SpaceX has fired up the rocket booster that will ferry the company’s fourth batch of Starlink satellites into space.
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Scientists study plasma ‘bubbles’ in Earth’s magnetic field with Gamera model named for Japanese monster
Auroras and satellite function might be influenced by ”bubbles” of plasma near the tail of Earth’s magnetosphere.
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SpaceX gears up for next Starlink satellite megaconstellation launch with rocket test
SpaceX has fired up the rocket booster that will ferry the company’s fourth batch of Starlink satellites into space.
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Moon / Mond
Back to the Moon with ESA
The first flight of the Artemis programme, which will see humans return to the Moon, is scheduled to begin soon. The lunar spacecraft consists of NASA’s Orion crew module and the European Service Module, or ESM. Developed by ESA and building on technology from its Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the ESM will provide propulsion, life support, environmental control and electrical power to Orion.
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China releases huge batch of amazing Chang’e-4 images from moon’s far side
hina’s long-lived lunar robots Chang’e-4 and Yutu-2 are once again at work on the far side of the moon, where they woke up for their 14th day on Jan. 18 and 19.
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Solar System / Sonnensystem
Solar Orbiter Mission
Solar Orbiter launch – fairing separation
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. It is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in February 2020.
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Solar Orbiter solar array deployment
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. It is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in February 2020.
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Solar Orbiter Earth flyby
Solar Orbiter will make one gravity assist flyby of Earth and numerous flybys of Venus over the course of its mission to adjust its orbit, bringing it closer to the Sun and also out of the plane of the Solar System to observe the Sun from progressively higher inclinations. This will result in the spacecraft being able to take the first ever images of the Sun’s polar regions, crucial for understanding how the Sun ‘works’.
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Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
Solar Orbiter, a mission led by the European Space Agency with NASA participation, is scheduled to launch on Feb. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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via Space.com https://ift.tt/2CqOJ61Building blocks of life spotted on Rosetta’s comet hint at composition of its birthplace
Observations from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft are shedding light on the mysterious make-up of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, revealing a mix of compounds thought to be essential precursors to life – including salts of ammonium and a particular type of hydrocarbons. These new studies suggest the comet gleaned this mate-rial from the presolar cloud where the Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago.
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Further Solar System News / Weiteren Meldungen zum Sonnensystem
Ganymede | Mission Juno
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Confirms Discovery of Eurybates Satellite
NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This “bonus” science exploration opportunity for the project was discovered using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in September 2018, December 2019, and January 2020. Launching in October 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, a population of small bodies orbiting the Sun “leading” and “trailing” Jupiter, at the same distance from the Sun as the gas giant. With flyby encounters past seven different asteroids – one in the Main Asteroid Belt and six in the Trojans, Lucy will be the first space mission in history to explore so many different destinations in independent orbits around our Sun.
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Solar Orbiter Mission
Solar Orbiter launch – fairing separation
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. It is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in February 2020.
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Solar Orbiter solar array deployment
Solar Orbiter is a space mission of international collaboration between ESA and NASA. Its mission is to perform unprecedented close-up observations of the Sun and from high latitudes, providing the first images of the uncharted polar regions of the Sun, and investigating the Sun-Earth connection. It is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA in February 2020.
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Solar Orbiter Earth flyby
Solar Orbiter will make one gravity assist flyby of Earth and numerous flybys of Venus over the course of its mission to adjust its orbit, bringing it closer to the Sun and also out of the plane of the Solar System to observe the Sun from progressively higher inclinations. This will result in the spacecraft being able to take the first ever images of the Sun’s polar regions, crucial for understanding how the Sun ‘works’.
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Solar Orbiter, a new mission to the sun by Europe and NASA, to launch next month
Solar Orbiter, a mission led by the European Space Agency with NASA participation, is scheduled to launch on Feb. 5 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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via Space.com https://ift.tt/2CqOJ61Building blocks of life spotted on Rosetta’s comet hint at composition of its birthplace
Observations from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft are shedding light on the mysterious make-up of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, revealing a mix of compounds thought to be essential precursors to life – including salts of ammonium and a particular type of hydrocarbons. These new studies suggest the comet gleaned this mate-rial from the presolar cloud where the Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago.
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Further Solar System News / Weiteren Meldungen zum Sonnensystem
Ganymede | Mission Juno
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NASA’s Lucy Mission Confirms Discovery of Eurybates Satellite
NASA’s Lucy mission team is seeing double after discovering that Eurybates, the asteroid the spacecraft has targeted for flyby in 2027, has a small satellite. This “bonus” science exploration opportunity for the project was discovered using images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in September 2018, December 2019, and January 2020. Launching in October 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, a population of small bodies orbiting the Sun “leading” and “trailing” Jupiter, at the same distance from the Sun as the gas giant. With flyby encounters past seven different asteroids – one in the Main Asteroid Belt and six in the Trojans, Lucy will be the first space mission in history to explore so many different destinations in independent orbits around our Sun.
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Beyond Solar System / Milchstraße & Kosmos
NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great Observatories
NASA will host a live program at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the far-reaching legacy of the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope – a mission that, after 16 years of amazing discoveries, soon will come to an end.
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XMM-Newton maps black hole surroundings
Material falling into a black hole casts X-rays out into space – and now, for the first time, ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has used the reverberating echoes of this radiation to map the dynamic behaviour and surroundings of a black hole itself.
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The dynamic behaviour of a black hole corona
These illustrations show the surroundings of a black hole feeding on ambient gas as mapped using ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory.As the material falls into the black hole, it spirals around to form a flattened disc, as shown here, heating up as it does so. At the very centre of the disc, close to the black hole, a region of very hot electrons – with temperatures of around a billion degrees – known as the corona produced high-energy X-rays that stream out into space.
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XMM-Newton discovers scorching gas in Milky Way’s halo
ESA’s XMM-Newton has discovered that gas lurking within the Milky Way’s halo reaches far hotter temperatures than previously thought and has a different chemical make-up than predicted, challenging our understanding of our galactic home.
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Global Gaia campaign reveals secrets of stellar pair
A 500-day global observation campaign spearheaded more than three years ago by ESA’s galaxy-mapping powerhouse Gaia has provided unprecedented insights into the binary system of stars that caused an unusual brightening of an even more distant star.
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Politics / Politik
Bridenstine: NASA will nicht generell auf russische Zubringerdienste zur ISS verzichten
Trotz der bevorstehenden Wiederaufnahme der eigenen bemannten Flüge will die US-Luft- und Raumfahrtbehörde NASA nicht generell auf russische Zubringerdienste zur Internationalen Raumstation ISS verzichten. Das wäre nicht vernünftig, sagte NASA-Chef Jim Bridenstine anlässlich des erfolgreichen Tests des Rettungssystems des Crew Dragon von SpaceX. Es sei wichtig, […]
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Russland: Juri Borissow bleibt als Vizepremier im Amt – Rogosin: Neue Regierung hat keine direkten Auswirkungen auf GK Roskosmos
Juri Borissow bleibt auch in der neuen russischen Regierung als Vizepremier für das Militär und die Raumfahrt zuständig. Wie Verteidigungsminister Sergej Schoigu ist er in das Kabinett des neuen Ministerpräsidenten Michail Mischustin übernommen worden. Der Chef der GK Roskosmos, Dmitri Rogosin, erwartet indes keine direkten […]
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Technology / Technologie
Ariane 5 ECA bringt zwei Telekommunikationssatelliten ins All
Eine Ariane 5 ECA-Trägerrakete hat am Donnerstagabend zwei Telekommunikationssatelliten ins All gebracht. Mit EUTELSAT Konnekt und GSAT-30 an der Spitze stieg sie vom europäischen Weltraumbahnhof Kourou in Französisch-Guyana auf. Auftraggeber sind Eutelsat und die indische Weltraumagentur ISRO.
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Warming up for the Sun
Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real.
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World / Welt
The first all-woman Mars analog crew just ‘returned to Earth’ in Hawaii
A history-making all-female crew of analog astronauts have “returned to Earth,” completing a two-week mission in a mock Mars habitat on the big island of Hawaii.
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What will NASA’s Mars 2020 rover be called? There’s 155 names on the shortlist.
The competition to name NASA’s next Mars rover has entered a new phase, with the space agency culling the field from 28,000 down to 155.
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Nine Finalists Chosen in NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover Naming Contest
Nine finalists have been chosen in the essay contest for K-12 students across U.S. to name NASA’s next Mars rover. Now you can help by voting for your favorite.
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NASA’s next Mars rover will get one of these 9 names
NASA has chosen nine finalists in the student naming contest for its next Mars rover, which currently goes by the bland Mars 2020.
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Entertainment / Unterhaltung
New Boeing video shows Snoopy’s ride on Starliner Orbital Flight Test
Snoopy’s latest adventure as the “world famous astronaut” has now been revealed in a new video from the first Orbital Flight Test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner.
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Lego is launching an International Space Station model for sale
The International Space Station is about to launch into the Lego universe. It hits store shelves Feb. 1, 2020.
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Science / Wissenschaft
Frag astronews.com: Was würde passieren, wenn man einen Mensch ohne Schutzanzug aus einem Raumschiff wirft?
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TUB-Astrobiologen: Bestimmte Mikroben können auf dem Roten Planeten überleben
ls der NASA-Marsrover Curiosity im Juni 2018 organische Moleküle auf dem Mars fand, war die Fachwelt begeistert. Es bedeutete, dass Leben auf dem Roten Planeten irgendwann einmal existiert haben oder auch jetzt noch möglich sein könnte. Erstmals konnte nun die Arbeitsgruppe des Astrobiologen Dirk Schulze-Makuch vom Zentrum für Astronomie und […]
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Building blocks of life spotted on Rosetta’s comet hint at composition of its birthplace
Observations from ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft are shedding light on the mysterious make-up of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, revealing a mix of compounds thought to be essential precursors to life – including salts of ammonium and a particular type of hydrocarbons. These new studies suggest the comet gleaned this mate-rial from the presolar cloud where the Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago.
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Can this new model predict which alien worlds could support life?
It’s a tough job to figure out which planets are potentially habitable, because we can only see so much detail in our telescopes.
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Shape the future of European biology research in space
What biology research would you conduct on the International Space Station? As the world celebrates 20 years of astronauts living and working on the International Space Station, ESA is preparing for another decade of European research in humankind’s weightless laboratory.
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Self-destructing dark matter may be flooding the sky with gamma-rays, study suggests
There’s a faint gamma-ray background in the universe, and scientists now think it could be caused by dark matter.
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Three history-making space fliers to enter Astronaut Hall of Fame in May
Record-setting spacewalker Michael Lopez-Alegria, space shuttle commander Pamela Melroy and Scott Kelly, who logged the longest U.S. spaceflight, will be inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
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