Space News, 12 October 2019 | 15 Minute News

Emirati astronaut returns home to hero's welcome

Phys.org - 12 Oct 2019 19:27

An Emirati astronaut who became the first Arab to reach the International Space Station received a hero's welcome home on Saturday.

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Descartes Labs raises $20 million to create Earth's digital twin

Space News - 12 Oct 2019 02:32

Descartes Labs, a company that specializes in applying machine learning to geospatial datasets, raised $20 million in a Series B-2 bridge financing round. SpaceNews.com

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Astronauts Mourn Alexei Leonov, the World's 1st Spacewalker, While On a Spacewalk of Their Own

SPACE.com - 12 Oct 2019 01:13

Alexei Leonov, the world's first spacewalker, died in a Moscow hospital Friday (Oct. 11), but his legacy lives on aboard the International Space Station where the crew performed a spacewalk today.

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NASA official hints first SLS launch could slip to mid-2021

Space News - 12 Oct 2019 01:18

While NASA continues to wait to set a new official date for the first launch of its Space Launch System, an agency official said Oct. 10 that the launch could slip as late as the middle of 2021. SpaceNews.com

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Earth from Space: Lake Natron, Tanzania

SpaceRef - 12 Oct 2019 18:55

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over two saline lakes in East Africa: the larger Lake Natron in northern Tanzania and the smaller Lake Magadi, just over the border in Kenya....

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Stratolaunch gets mystery new owner

Space News - 12 Oct 2019 17:46

Stratolaunch, the venture founded by the late Paul Allen to develop an air-launch system, has "transitioned" ownership, but the company is not disclosing who the new owner is. SpaceNews.com

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Pyramid-Size Asteroid to Hurtle Past Earth (Again)

SPACE.com - 12 Oct 2019 14:04

A fast-moving visitor is approaching our cosmic neighborhood. Dubbed 2019 SX5, this near-Earth object is about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

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A Second Interstellar Visitor Has Arrived in Our Solar System. This Time, Astronomers Think They Know Where It Came From

SPACE.com - 12 Oct 2019 14:03

When 'Oumuamua passed through our solar system in 2017, no one could figure out where the object came from. But astronomers think they've worked out how Comet 2I/Borisov got here.

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Frozen Earth in 'Snowpiercer' Is a Grim (and Possible) Future for Our Warming Planet

SPACE.com - 12 Oct 2019 14:02

The grim future of new TNT sci-fi series "Snowpiercer" began with climate change. Could our rapidly warming world undergo a global deep freeze?

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Op-ed | Priority-one for space policy should be to protect U.S. satellites

Space News - 12 Oct 2019 11:14

Should dominance be our immediate space security priority? The short answer is no. SpaceNews.com

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Pence added to IAC 2019 opening ceremony

Space News - 12 Oct 2019 01:29

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to speak during the opening ceremony of the 70th International Astronautical Congress here Oct. 21, the IAC's organizers announced this week. SpaceNews.com

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Astroscale, ClearSpace aim to make a bundle removing debris

Space News - 12 Oct 2019 01:12

Within a year, Astroscale plans to begin a complex series of demonstrations to show the startup's spacecraft can grab a piece of space debris and dispose of it in the atmosphere. SpaceNews.com

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