Small satellite peers inside Hurricane Florence
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 -
A new experimental weather satellite no bigger than a cereal box got an inside look at Hurricane Florence in a test of technology that could influence the future of storm monitoring from space. The satellite took its first images of Hurricane Florence on Tuesday, Sept. 11, just hours after its instrument was turned on.
TEMPEST-D, which deployed into low-Earth orbit from the International S ...
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Candy-Pink lagoon serves up salt-rich diet for potential life on Mars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
The discovery of a microorganism that gives a candy-pink lagoon in central Spain its startling colour is providing new evidence for how life could survive on a high-salt diet on Mars or Europa.
The Laguna de Pena Hueca, part of the Lake Tirez system in La Mancha, has very high concentrations of salt and sulphur and is a good analogue for chloride deposits found in the Southern highlands of ...
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Matter falling into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light
London, UK (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
A UK team of astronomers report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light, located in the centre of the billion-light year distant galaxy PG211+143. The team, led by Professor Ken Pounds of the University of Leicester, used data from the European Space Agency's X-ray observatory XMM-Newton to observe the black hole. Their results appear in a new paper i ...
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Westerbork radio telescope's major upgrade
Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
With an innovative new type of receiver, called Apertif, the field of view of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope in the Netherlands has been increased 37 times. Apertif, developed by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), will be officially opened on 13 September 2018 by deputy Cees Bijl of the Drenthe province. On this day the 50-year anniversary of the telescope will als ...
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A new twist on stellar rotation
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
What do we know about distant stars aside from their brightness and colors? Is our Sun a typical star? Or does it show certain properties that make it special, or maybe even unique? One property that is not fully understood is rotation.
In its outer layers the Sun has a rotation pattern that scientists refer to as 'latitudinal differential rotation.' This means that different latitudes rot ...
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Meteorite hunting with Marc Fries
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 -
Thousands of meteorites fall onto the Earth each year. When a fall occurs in an accessible area, scientists and amateur space enthusiasts pursue the specimens, often submitting them to collections that serve planetary research. The Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) division at NASA's Johnson Space Center studies meteorites and is implementing tools and technique to more easi ...
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GBT upgrade to sharpen telescope's vision
Green Bank WV (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded more than $1.3 million to upgrade its Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia with an innovative precision laser ranging measurement system.
This upgrade will allow the telescope to observe celestial objects, day or night, at radio wavelengths as small as 3 millimeters. This new capability is essential for studying the chemistry and com ...
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Lockheed Martin embraces agile software development to evolve signals intelligence capabilities
National Harbor MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 -
Working with the Air Force, Lockheed Martin has used agile development to evolve the signals intelligence capabilities for the Distributed Common Ground System, the Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) system. The AF DCGS produces actionable intelligence from data collected by sensors on manned and unmanned ISR platforms.
"To help our customers upgrade systems, L ...
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Russian scientists send FEDOR robot to Roscosmos for launch
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 21, 2018 -
The demonstration model of Russia's humanoid robot FEDOR will be transferred to the Roscosmos state space corporation, which plans to send it into space on the new Federation spacecraft, Russia's Foundation for Advanced Research (FPI) said Wednesday.
"The board of trustees decided to transfer scientific and technical products created within the framework of the fund's projects for their fu ...
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Chinese institute's virtual ground stations serve 10 countries
Beijing (XNA) Sep 21, 2018 -
The Institute of Aerospace Information Research has helped 10 countries install virtual ground stations, it said in a report Tuesday.
The report was released at the fourth International Symposium on Earth Observation for Arid and Semi-Arid Environments, which began in Xining, capital of China's northwestern Qinghai Province, on Monday.
The 10 countries are Mongolia, Kenya, Sri Lanka, ...
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
The International Space Station serves as humanity's orbital research platform, conducting a variety of experiments and research projects while in orbit around the planet.
On June 20, 2018, the space station deployed the NanoRacks-Remove Debris satellite into space from outside the Japanese Kibo laboratory module.
This technology demonstration was designed to explore using a 3D camer ...
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Evry, France (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
Arianespace has been selected by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute to launch KOMPSAT-7. Stephane Israel, Arianespace CEO, and Lim Cheol-Ho, President of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), signed the KOMPSAT-7 launch contract today.
Using a Vega C launcher, the mission will be conducted from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, from December 2021.
For nea ...
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Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 21, 2018 -
A fully-functioning prototype of the return stage of a reusable launch vehicle will be built in Russia within the next four years, an official from Russia's Advanced Research Foundation (FPI) told Sputnik.
"As for the whole project, we are counting on four years from the start of the fully-fledged work...According to our estimates, the work will begin in the first half of next year," the o ...
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Beijing (XNA) Sep 21, 2018 -
China plans to launch the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-9 in 2028, said an official of China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 on Tuesday.
Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA, said that the length of the Long March-9 will exceed 90 meters, and the rocket would have a core stage with a diameter o ...
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Hong Kong (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited has received its second patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), titled, "Methods and Systems for Improving Spectrum Utilisation for Satellite Communications" (US Patent No. 10,050,698 B2).
This new patent is about the methods and systems to mitigate the imbalance of uplink and downlink spectrum allocation in satel ...
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Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
Analogue astronauts have successfully trialed a radar that could help future Mars explorers identify where to dig for water. ScanMars is an Italian experiment that was used to identify subsurface water features in the Mars-like Dhofar region of Oman during the AMADEE-18 analogue mission in February 2018.
The results have been presented by Alessandro Frigeri of the Istituto Nazionale di Ast ...
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 -
On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming 50 miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds - PMCs.
A recent NASA long-duration balloon mission observed these clouds over the course of five days at their home in the mesosphere. The resulting photos, which scientists have just begun to ...
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 21, 2018 -
The Opportunity team is increasing the frequency of commands it beams to the rover via the dishes of NASA's Deep Space Network from three times a week to multiple times per day.
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). That's nearly 100 sols (days) without communication. It is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault, perhaps, a mission c ...
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