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The Second Moon Race Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The US and China are in an undeclared race back to the Moon. At first glance it's easy to dismiss China's efforts as being little more than what the US and Russia achieved decades ago. And while the pace of China's manned launches has been slow with over a year in many cases between launches; looks can be deceptive and China has achieved each critical step towards building a permanent space station within the next few years. Meanwhile, its overall space program builds out each critical element to ... read more |
'Peter Pan' radio galaxies that may never grow up Toronto, Canada (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies - galaxies powered by newly energized black holes. The improved tally will help astronomers understand the relatio ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 A team of NASA-sponsored scientists will meet with the Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Research Institute (IKI) next week to continue work on a Joint Science Definition Team study focused on iden ... more London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The UK Space Agency has awarded just under 150,000 pounds to three business incubation centres across the UK which will support entrepreneurs and small companies in the space industry. The Age ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 Every day, invisible magnetic explosions are happening around Earth, on the surface of the sun and across the universe. These explosions, known as magnetic reconnection, occur when magnetic field li ... more |
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Designing new rocket engines that don't blow up Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The problem has haunted the space program since Apollo: the flame inside the rocket engine literally spirals out of control, producing forces that can cause the engine to explode. It's one of the re ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 13, 2017 Following three days of intensive work, mission control has declared the newly launched Sentinel-2B satellite fit and ready for commissioning. The 1100 kg Sentinel was launched on Tuesday atop a Veg ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 For the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it's been a long time between dinners. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found that the black hole ate its last big meal about ... more Washington (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 Researchers looking into the effects of deep space travel on the human body may have just discovered something that could jeopardize humankind's chances of a successfully colonizing Mars. With work ... more Washington (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 Has this ever happened to you? You're drifting through the vacuum of space, millions of miles from Earth, when suddenly you have a craving for pizza. To satisfy this probable demand, a startup has r ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 Pointing to the adoption of an ambitious five-year program for the development of astronautics in the United States, US legislators urged NASA to abandon its cooperation with the Russian Federal Spa ... more |
NASA Mars Orbiter Tracks Back-to-Back Regional Storms Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 Opportunity is located just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, less than half a mile (700 meters) away from the next big science objective, a gully. The rover completed the last in-situ scie ... more Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017 A Long March-7 Y2 carrier rocket arrived at a launch center in south China on Saturday in preparation for the launch of China's first cargo spacecraft next month. After about a week of ocean a ... more Madison WI (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 In an abandoned gold mine one mile beneath Lead, South Dakota, the cosmos quiets down enough to potentially hear the faint whispers of the universe's most elusive material - dark matter. Shielded fr ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 NASA's upcoming mission to investigate the habitability of Jupiter's icy moon Europa now has a formal name: Europa Clipper. The moniker harkens back to the clipper ships that sailed across the ... more |
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 Pointing to the adoption of an ambitious five-year program for the development of astronautics in the United States, US legislators urged NASA to abandon its cooperation with the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos by next year; RT quoted experts as saying that cooperation between the organizations would continue. Earlier this month, America's Congress supported a law that outlines a st ... more New Plant Habitat Will Increase Harvest on International Space Station Keeping Liquids Off the Wall Space Tourism and Business Looking Up |
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The problem has haunted the space program since Apollo: the flame inside the rocket engine literally spirals out of control, producing forces that can cause the engine to explode. It's one of the reasons why some U.S. military and commercial satellite launches rely on Russian rocket engines to take them to space. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Michigan, Purdue University a ... more Space squadron supports record-breaking satellites launch Europe launches fourth Earth monitoring satellite Elon Musk: tech dreamer reaching for sun, moon and stars |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2017 Opportunity is located just outside the rim of Endeavour Crater, less than half a mile (700 meters) away from the next big science objective, a gully. The rover completed the last in-situ science measurements inside Endeavour Crater on Sol 4657 (Feb. 28, 2017). Because of constrained data volume, Sol 4658 (March 1, 2017), was a dedicated 'atmospheres' day, a sol of just low-data volu ... more Paleolake deposits on Mars might look like sediments in Indonesia NASA Mars Orbiter Tracks Back-to-Back Regional Storms New evidence for a water-rich history on Mars |
Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017 China is expected to launch its first probe satellite to Mars in July or in August 2020, local media reported Tuesday. The People's Daily newspaper reported citing Wan Weixing, an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, responsible for Beijing's Mars exploration program would arrive to Mars after seven months of flight and would start sending information back in 2021. The med ... more Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes China to launch 6-8 latest navigation satellites in 2017 |
London, UK (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The UK Space Agency has awarded just under 150,000 pounds to three business incubation centres across the UK which will support entrepreneurs and small companies in the space industry. The Agency is working with UK industry to deliver world-class science innovation support, in line with the Government's Industrial Strategy, which emphasises the importance of science, innovation and skills. ... more ISRO Makes More Space for Private Sector Participation in Satellite Making Kuwait Space Agency - a pipedream or reality How low can you go? New project to bring satellites nearer to Earth |
Paris (ESA) Mar 13, 2017 Following three days of intensive work, mission control has declared the newly launched Sentinel-2B satellite fit and ready for commissioning. The 1100 kg Sentinel was launched on Tuesday atop a Vega rocket from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. Joining its orbiting twin, the new satellite will double the high-resolution coverage from the Sentinel-2 mission for the EU's Copernicus env ... more U.S. Naval Research Lab develops light, transparent armor Cancer-Causing Radiation Biggest Threat to Humans on Deep Space Missions Mikros contracted for U.S. Navy radar support systems |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 09, 2017 On Feb. 22, astronomers announced that the ultra-cool dwarf star, TRAPPIST-1, hosts a total of seven Earth-size planets that are likely rocky, a discovery made by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in combination with ground-based telescopes. NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope also has been observing this star since December 2016. Today these additional data about TRAPPIST-1 from Kepler ar ... more Hunting for giant planet analogs in our own backyard Faraway Planet Systems Are Shaped Like the Solar System Biochemical 'fossil' shows how life may have emerged without phosphate |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2017 This close-up view of Jupiter captures the turbulent region just west of the Great Red Spot in the South Equatorial Belt, with resolution better than any previous pictures from Earth or other spacecraft. NASA's Juno spacecraft captured this image with its JunoCam citizen science instrument when the spacecraft was a mere 5,400 miles (8,700 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloudtops on Dec. 11, 2 ... more NASA Mission Named 'Europa Clipper' Juno to remain in current orbit at Jupiter Europa Flyby Mission Moves into Design Phase |
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Boston MA (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 At high latitudes, such as near Antarctica and the Arctic Circle, the ocean's surface waters are cooled by frigid temperatures and become so dense that they sink a few thousand meters into the ocean's abyss. Ocean waters are thought to flow along a sort of conveyor belt that transports them between the surface and the deep in a never-ending loop. However, it remains unclear where the deep ... more Why did rainfall over Asian inland plateau region undergo abrupt decrease around 1999 Stanford biologists identify ancient stress response in corals Aussie lake turns vivid pink |
Los Angeles CA (UPI) Mar 07, 2017 Raytheon is closer to delivering next-generation capabilities for the U.S. Air Force-led Global Positioning System Operational Control System project. The company recently announced the completion of a major engineering milestone for the project, also referred to as GPS OCX. The work was conducted over a two-year period, and consisted of software development with a focus on cybersecurit ... more Police in China's restive Xinjiang to track cars by GPS GLONASS station in India to expedite 'space centric' warfare command Australia and Lockheed field 2nd-Gen sat-based augmentation system |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2017 NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said it has located its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft after disappearing for years. JPL said scientists found the spacecrafts orbiting the moon by using a new technological application found on ground-based interplanetary radar. "Finding LRO was relatively easy, as we were working with the mission's navigators a ... more Under Trump, the Moon regains interest as possible destination India's Moon Mission on 2018 Target, Says ISRO Chief An Epic Lunar Experience Lands at Space Center Houston |
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 Among the most striking features on the surface of Ceres are the bright spots in the center of Occator crater, which stood out already as NASA's space probe Dawn approached the dwarf planet. Scientists under the leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) have now for the first time determined the age of this bright material, which consists mainly of deposits of specia ... more Warped Meteor Showers Hit Earth at All Angles Earth is bombarded at random Dawn Identifies Age of Ceres' Brightest Area |
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Cape Cod MA (SPX) Mar 03, 2017 The temperature of Earth's interior affects everything from the movement of tectonic plates to the formation of the planet. A new study led by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) suggests the mantle - the mostly solid, rocky part of Earth's interior that lies between its super-heated core and its outer crustal layer - may be hotter than previously believed. The new finding, published Mar ... more How Arctic weather can improve mid-latitude forecasts NASA examines deadly spring-like weather with GPM satellite Flashy first images arrive from NOAA's GOES-16 lightning mapper |
Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 07, 2017 Eruptions on the Sun's surface send clouds of electrically charged particles towards Earth, producing solar storms that - among other things - can trigger the beautiful Northern Lights over the Arctic regions. But the storms may also have a strong impact on the efficiency of communication and navigation systems at high latitudes. It is therefore important to study the phenomena. New resear ... more Studying magnetic space explosions with NASA missions Solar storms remove electrons from large portions of Earth's atmosphere First Solar Images from NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite |
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Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 09, 2017 Astronomers have used ALMA to detect a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the universe was only four percent of its present age. This galaxy was observed shortly after its formation and is the most distant galaxy in which dust has been detected. This observation is also the most distant detection of oxygen in the universe. These new results provide brand-new insights into the bi ... more Dark Matter Detection Receives 10-Ton Upgrade Cosmic environments and their influence in star formation New survey finds 'Peter Pan' radio galaxies that may never grow up |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 For the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it's been a long time between dinners. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found that the black hole ate its last big meal about 6 million years ago, when it consumed a large clump of infalling gas. After the meal, the engorged black hole burped out a colossal bubble of gas weighing the equivalent of millions of suns, which now ... more OLYMPUS experiment sheds light on structure of protons Researchers propose technique for measuring weak or nonexistent magnetic fields Magnetic fields at the crossroads |
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