Новости за 30.10.2020

Sydney (AFP) Oct 29, 2020
Australia's ANZ became the country's last major bank to walk away from thermal coal investments Thursday, delivering a fresh blow to a sector facing export market upheaval and widespread public hostility. The bank said that from 2030 it would no longer finance thermal coal mines or coal-fired power stations, joining Australia's other "big four" banks who have already made similar commitments

Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 28, 2020
NorthStar Earth and Space (NorthStar), a Canadian company with a first-in-space mission to deliver safe and sustainable operations for the rapidly accelerating New Space Economy, has contracted Thales Alenia Space (TAS) to build the first three satellites of its debut "Skylark" constellation for Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services, with Seattle, WA's LeoStella overseeing the final assembl

Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 27, 2020
A new method for verifying a widely held but unproven theoretical explanation of the formation of stars and planets has been proposed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). The method grows from simulation of the Princeton Magnetorotational Instability (MRI) Experiment, a unique laboratory device that aims to demonstrate the MRI proces

Wilmington NC (SPX) Oct 30, 2020
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) has announced that Synthos Green Energy (SGE), a member of the Synthos Group S.A., has initiated discussions with Poland's National Atomic Energy Agency (Panstwowa Agencja Atomistyki - PAA) about a potential BWRX-300 small modular reactor project. Under the Polish Nuclear Act of 29 November 2000, before applying for a permit to construct a nuclear facility,

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 29, 2020
Researchers have created a new computer component capable of toggling between 16 possible memory states - the kind of computing versatility provided by brain synapses. The new component, called a graphene field effect transistor, described Thursday in the journal Nature Communications, could pave the way for advances in brain-inspired computing. Modern computers are exclusively

Cannes, France (SPX) Oct 28, 2020
Thales Alenia Space, the Joint Venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), signed the first phase of a contract with NorthStar Earth and Space Inc., the Canadian space-based information services company, to start the development and production of the first three smallsat satellites that are part of the world's first and most advanced commercial space-based environmental and near-space mon

Albuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 28, 2020
An international team of scientists recently measured the spectrum of the atmosphere of a rare hot Neptune exoplanet, whose discovery by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was announced just last month. The discovery was made with data provided from the now-retired NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, which allows a unique, infrared view of the universe to look into regions of sp

Beijing (XNA) Oct 27, 2020
The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee listened to a report on quantum science and technology by Xue Qikun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in a collective study session last week. That Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed the importance and urgency for the Party to deepen its understanding of the cutting-ed

Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Oct 29, 2020
Centaurs are minor planets believed to have originated in the Kuiper Belt in the outer solar system. They sometimes have comet-like features such as tails and comae - clouds of dust particles and gas - even though they orbit in a region between Jupiter and Neptune where it is too cold for water to readily sublimate, or transition, directly from a solid to a gas. Only 18 active Centaurs hav

Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2020
NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has successfully stowed the spacecraft's Sample Return Capsule (SRC) and its abundant sample of asteroid Bennu. On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the mission team sent commands to the spacecraft, instructing it to close the capsule - marking the end of one of the most challenging phases of the

Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 28, 2020
NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission has logged a lot of flight miles since being lofted skyward on July 30 - 146.3 million miles (235.4 million kilometers) to be exact. Turns out that is exactly the same distance it has to go before the spacecraft hits the Red Planet's atmosphere like a 11,900 mph (19,000 kph) freight train on Feb. 18, 2021. "At 1:40 p.m. Pacific Time Tuesday Oct 2

Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2020
Marseille, France and Mountain View, CA: There are nearly one million catalogued asteroids, but we don't know much about many of them. Now Unistellar and its scientific partner, the SETI Institute, can count on a network of nearly 3,000 amateurs capable of observing thousands of asteroids and providing an estimate of their size and shape. With mobile stations located in Asia, North America and E

Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 28, 2020
When Northrop Grumman launched its Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on October 2, 2020, it was loaded with a multitude of research and technology development investigations to be carried out onboard the orbiting laboratory. Once Cygnus berthed with the space station three days later and its contents were unloaded by the astronauts onboard, it was time to start per

Athens GA (SPX) Oct 28, 2020
Humankind's next giant step may be onto Mars. But before those missions can begin, scientists need to make scores of breakthrough advances, including learning how to grow crops on the red planet. Practically speaking, astronauts cannot haul an endless supply of topsoil through space. So University of Georgia geologists are figuring out how best to use the materials already on the planet's

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2020
After years of detective work, scientists working on the European Space Agency (ESA) Rosetta mission have now been able to locate where the Philae lander made its second and penultimate contact with the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on 12 November 2014, before finally coming to a halt 30 metres away. This landing was monitored from the German Aerospace Center Philae Control Ce

Kobe, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2020
Professor ARAKAWA Masahiko (Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, Japan) and members of the Hayabusa2 mission discovered more than 200 boulders ranging from 30cm to 6m in size, which either newly appeared or moved as a result of the artificial impact crater created by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2's Small Carry-on Impactor (SCI) on April 5th, 2019. Some boulders were disturbed even in are

Mahia, New Zealand (SPX) Oct 30, 2020
Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the global leader in dedicated small satellite launch, has successfully launched its 15th Electron mission and deployed Earth-imaging satellites for Planet and Spaceflight Inc. customer Canon Electronics. The mission was Rocket Lab's fifth for this year, making Electron the second-most frequently flown U.S. launch vehicle in 2020. The 'In Focus' miss

Paris (ESA) Oct 30, 2020
Vega-C and Ariane 6 are being developed by ESA to assure Europe's independent access to space. The maiden flight for Vega-C is planned to take place in June 2021, that for Ariane 6 for the second quarter of 2022. Solid progress is being made on both Vega-C and Ariane 6 development programmes. Since March, some technical events and the COVID-19 pandemic have both impacted the progress of ac

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