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February 05, 2016
EXO WORLDS
The frigid Flying Saucer
Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2016
The international team, led by Stephane Guilloteau at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France, measured the temperature of large dust grains around the young star 2MASS J16281370-2431391 in the spectacular Rho Ophiuchi star formation region, about 400 light-years from Earth. This star is surrounded by a disc of gas and dust - such discs are called protoplanetary discs as they are the early stages in the creation of planetary systems. This particular disc is seen nearly edge-on, and its ... read more
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PHYSICS NEWS

First locks released from LISA Pathfinder's cubes
Today, the lock fingers that kept the two test masses on LISA Pathfinder secure during the launch and cruise phase were successfully unlocked. As planned, the two cubes are still attached to the spa ... more
SPACE SCOPES

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Fully Assembled
The 18th and final primary mirror segment is installed on what will be the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever launched. The final mirror installation Wednesday at NASA's Goddard Space Fl ... more
GPS NEWS

Thermal Vacuum Test Validates Lockheed Martin's GPS III Satellite Design
Engineers at Lockheed Martin recently proved their design for the world's most powerful Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite can operate in and withstand the harsh conditions it will experience ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

NASA's Juno Spacecraft Burns for Jupiter
NASA's solar-powered Juno spacecraft successfully executed a maneuver to adjust its flight path today, Feb. 3. The maneuver refined the spacecraft's trajectory, helping set the stage for Juno's arri ... more


EXO LIFE

How Friendly Is Enceladus' Ocean To Life
How acidic is the ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus? It's a fundamental question to understanding if this geyser-spouting moon could support life. Enceladus is part of a family of icy worlds, inc ... more

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OUTER PLANETS

Pluto's Mysterious, Floating Hills
The nitrogen ice glaciers on Pluto appear to carry an intriguing cargo: numerous, isolated hills that may be fragments of water ice from Pluto's surrounding uplands. These hills individually measure ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Team Demonstrates Loading of Swedish 'Green' Propellant
A NASA team has successfully demonstrated the handling and loading of a new-fangled, Swedish-developed "green propellant" that smells like glass cleaner, looks like chardonnay, but has proven powerf ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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Aerospacelab and Xona Unite to Transform Satellite Navigation
GITAI's robotic system triumphs in ISS demo
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Turbulent times: When stars approach
When we look at the night sky, we see stars as tiny points of light eking out a solitary existence at immense distances from Earth. But appearances are deceptive. More than half the stars we know of ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A violent wind blown from the heart of a galaxy tells the tale of a merger
An international team led by a researcher from Hiroshima University has succeeded in revealing the detailed structure of a massive ionized gas outflow streaming from the starburst galaxy NGC 6240. T ... more
STATION NEWS

Russia to Deliver Three Advanced Spacesuits to ISS in 2016
Three new advanced Russian Orlan-MKS spacesuits will be delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) by the end of 2016, the head of the Russian segment of the ISS said on Wednesday. Ear ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity climbing steeper slopes to reach science targets
Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is climbing up steep slopes to reach high-value science targets up on 'Knudsen Ridge.' Opportunity performe ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION

China releases images captured by HD earth observation satellite
China released first images captured by the nation's most sophisticated observation satellite Gaofen-4 on Wednesday, including one showing the capital city Beijing amid heavy smog. Each of the ... more
24/7 News Coverage
'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
Neolithic Mariners: Unveiling the Mediterranean's Oldest Boats
Greece to buy seven Canadian water bombers for wildfires
RUSSIAN SPACE

Kazakhstan Ratifies Protocol With Russia for Baikonur Cosmodrome Incidents
Kazakhstan's upper house of parliament ratified a protocol, introducing amendments to the 1999 intergovernmental agreement with Russia on procedures in the event of an accident occurring during a ro ... more
IRON AND ICE

Inside Rosetta's comet
There are no large caverns inside Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's Rosetta mission has made measurements that clearly demonstrate this, solving a long-standing mystery. Comets are the ic ... more
GPS NEWS

China to launch nearly 40 Beidou navigation satellites in five years
China plans to launch nearly 40 Beidou navigation satellites in the next five years to support its global navigation and positioning network, a spokesperson said Wednesday. By the end of 2018, ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Millisecond Pulsars Likely Account for Signal in Galactic Center
The puzzling excess of gamma rays from the center of the Milky Way probably originates from rapidly rotating neutron stars, or millisecond pulsars, and not from dark matter annihilation, as previous ... more
INTERNET SPACE

Passenger Connectivity Services To Surpass $5 Billion By 2025
According to Euroconsult's newly released report, Prospects for In-Flight Entertainment and Connectivity, total revenues from passenger connectivity services are expected to grow from $700 million i ... more

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EARLY EARTH

Examining how terrestrial life's building blocks may have first formed
How did life begin? This is one of the most fundamental questions scientists puzzle over. To address it, they have to look not just back to the primordial Earth, but out into space. Now, scientists ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

The Orion Crew Module Pressure Vessel Ready For Testing
The Orion crew module pressure vessel for NASA's Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is secured in an upgraded version of a test stand called the birdcage in the high bay inside the Neil Armstrong Operatio ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Luxembourg's ultimate offshore investment: Space mining

IRON AND ICE

Philae comet probe: World prepares for final farewell

STATION NEWS

Russian spacewalk marks end of ESA's exposed space chemistry

DEEP IMPACT

New study challenges Jupiter's role as planetary shield, protecting Earth from comet impacts

IRON AND ICE

Small Asteroid to Pass Close to Earth March 5

SPACEMART

Lockheed Martin Awarded JCSAT-17 Satellite Contract From SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Galactic center's gamma rays unlikely to originate from dark matter, evidence shows

MOON DAILY

ASU satellite selected for NASA Space Launch System's first flight

MICROSAT BLITZ

Heliophysics CubeSat to Launch on NASA's SLS

SPACE SCOPES

JWST Instruments Are Coming In From The Cold

Russians spacewalk to retrieve biological samples

Space Launch System's first flight will launch small Sci-Tech cubesats

Heliophysics CubeSat to launch on NASA's SLS

Lunar Flashlight selected to fly as secondary payload on Exploration Mission-1

CuSP will observe solar energetic particles in outer space

Saturn's rings: less than meets the eye

Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away

NASA's ICESat-2 equipped with unique 3-D manufactured part

Scientists debate likelihood of finding life on other planets

New Tool Provides Successful Visual Inspection of ISS Robot Arm

Will Space Debris be Responsible for World War III?

Novel Calibration Tool Will Help Astronomers Look for Habitable Exoplanets

Bright sparks shed new light on the dark matter riddle

Indra Expands Hispasat Ground Segment

Space-Earth System Produces Highest-Resolution Astronomical Image

Harris Corporation to offer fully digital GPS III payload

Pentagon Can't Overcome Its Russian Engines Addiction: McCain

Sandy Selfie Sent from NASA Mars Rover

India gathers navies in show of maritime might

Boeing could make Super Hornets in India if purchased


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