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Origami-inspired Robot Can Hitch a Ride with a Rover Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 The next rovers to explore another planet might bring along a scout. The Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) in development at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, was inspired by origami. Its lightweight design is capable of flattening itself, tucking in its wheels and crawling into places rovers can't fit. Over the past year and a half, PUFFER has been tested in a range of rugged terrains, from the Mojave Desert in California to the snowy hills of Antarctica. The ide ... read more |
Start-Ups at the Final Frontier Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 NewSpace companies seeking their place in a rapidly growing and demanding commercial space market, will have an unmissable opportunity in late April to reach new heights. A business event known as S ... more Exploration Park FL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 OneWeb Satellites LLC has broken ground to mark the beginning of construction on its estimated $85 million high-volume satellite manufacturing factory in Exploration Park, Florida. During a ceremony ... more Los Alamos NM (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The inner Van Allen belt has less radiation than previously believed, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. Observations from NASA's Van Allen probes show the fastest, ... more Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 In an effort to advance basic and applied research for lunar and planetary science, and advance human exploration of the solar system though scientific discovery, NASA created the Solar System Explo ... more |
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Scientists make the case to restore Pluto's planet status Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Johns Hopkins University scientist Kirby Runyon wants to make one thing clear: Regardless of what one prestigious scientific organization says to the contrary, Pluto is a planet. So, he says, is Eur ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The movements of the stars and the planets have almost no impact on life on Earth, but a few times per year, the alignment of celestial bodies has a visible effect. One of these geometric events - t ... more Bethesda MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 In just two weeks, at the 33rd Space Symposium, the space community will hear about a possible game-changing discovery that may create a new "Ecosystem for Near-Earth Space Control." On April 3rd, a ... more Davie FL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Globalsat Group and Space Global have announced a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding). Under the agreement, Globalsat Group will take part in early trials of the Sky and Space Global satellite system. ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 21, 2017 The first Russian next-generation manned spacecraft called the Federation, which is 80 percent built of composite materials, will be manufactured by 2021, Russia's Energia space corporation said Fri ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics - Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one ... more |
Two more spacewalks for Thomas Pesquet Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017 The notion of glitter might appear as somewhat frivolous, but scientists are using Sun glitter in images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to map the motion of the sea surface. Created by ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III, or SAGE III, reached another in a series of major recent milestones Friday, March 17, by collecting first light data from its new home on the Intern ... more Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017 Some of the most wonderful pictures taken by astronauts from space are of aurora dancing over our planet. Now the photos are more than just pretty pictures thanks to an ESA project that makes them s ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 New research challenges the prevailing theory that the unique nature of Earth's iron was the result of how its core was formed billions of years ago. The study opens the door to competing theo ... more |
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 21, 2017 The first Russian next-generation manned spacecraft called the Federation, which is 80 percent built of composite materials, will be manufactured by 2021, Russia's Energia space corporation said Friday. "It will be 80 percent composite...the spacecraft will be made of composite materials while the reusable landing capsule will be built from traditional materials," Energia General Director ... more NASA Selects New Research Teams to Further Solar System Research Two more spacewalks for Thomas Pesquet Trump's budget would cut NASA asteroid mission, earth science |
Washington (SPX) March 20, 2017 A SpaceX reusable cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific Ocean safely on Sunday, ending a mission to supply astronauts on the International Space Station, the company said. The Dragon capsule - the only such vessel capable of returning research samples and other material to Earth - remained docked with the ISS for nearly a month after delivering more than two tonnes of food, water and sci ... more Hitting the brakes at Alpha Centauri N. Korea's Kim hails engine test as 'new birth' for rocket industry N.Korea rocket test shows 'meaningful progress': South |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 21, 2017 As children, we learned about our solar system's planets by certain characteristics - Jupiter is the largest, Saturn has rings, Mercury is closest to the sun. Mars is red, but it's possible that one of our closest neighbors also had rings at one point and may have them again someday. That's the theory put forth by NASA-funded scientists at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, whose findi ... more ExoMars: science checkout completed and aerobraking begins Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert Opportunity Driving South to Gully |
Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017 Chinese state media is reporting that the country's space program has developed a craft capable of both landing on the moon and flying in low-Earth orbit. The new spacecraft is claimed to be able to accommodate multiple astronauts, according to spaceship engineer Zhang Bainian, who Science and Technology Daily cited as comparing the forthcoming ship to the Orion craft currently in developm ... more Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes Riding an asteroid: China's next space goal |
Exploration Park FL (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 OneWeb Satellites LLC has broken ground to mark the beginning of construction on its estimated $85 million high-volume satellite manufacturing factory in Exploration Park, Florida. During a ceremony with Florida Governor Rick Scott, OneWeb Satellites CEO Brian Holz and Airbus Defense and Space Inc., President Mike Cosentino, it will be announced that the factory near NASA's Kennedy Space Center ... more Globalsat Sky and Space Global sign MoU for testing and offering satellite service in Latin America Start-Ups at the Final Frontier Russia probes murder of senior space official in jail |
Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have entered new territory with regard to the pulsing of electron beams. Their method could soon be used to develop electron microscopes suitable for ultra-short time scales such as needed for observing the motion of atoms. Electron microscopes have opened up a whole new world to researchers: state-of-the-art scanning an ... more The strangeness of slow dynamics Ecosystem For Near-Earth Space Control Airbus ships first high-power all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite to Kourou for Eutelsat |
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Washington DC (SPX) Mar 16, 2017 When planets first begin to form, the aftermath of the process leaves a ring of rocky and icy material that's rotating and colliding around the young central star like a celestial roller derby. Analogs to our own Solar System's Kuiper Belt, these disks of debris left over from planet formation can be detected by astronomers and studied to help understand the processes that create planetary syste ... more Protostar blazes bright, reshaping its stellar nursery Operation of ancient biological clock uncovered Fossil or inorganic structure? Scientists dig into early life forms |
Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 Johns Hopkins University scientist Kirby Runyon wants to make one thing clear: Regardless of what one prestigious scientific organization says to the contrary, Pluto is a planet. So, he says, is Europa, commonly known as a moon of Jupiter, and so is the Earth's moon, and so are more than 100 other celestial bodies in our solar system that are denied this status under the prevailing definition of ... more ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board NASA Mission Named 'Europa Clipper' Juno Captures Jupiter Cloudscape in High Resolution |
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Durham NC (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Researchers have created a new model for predicting decompression sickness after deep-sea dives that not only estimates the risk, but how severe the symptoms are likely to be. The US Navy Diving Manual may incorporate the model into its next update, as will commercial products intended to help recreational divers plan their ascents to avoid "the bends." The results appear online in the journal P ... more Diving with the sharks Study quantifies effect of 'legacy phosphorus' in reduced water quality Great Barrier Reef may never recover from bleaching: study |
London (UPI) Mar 13, 2017 Scientists studying the Northern Lights say they think their research will lead to new technology to reduce outages from satellite navigation systems. Researchers at the University of Bath in England found for the first time that turbulence does not take place within the Northern Lights and instead that unknown mechanisms are responsible for the outages of Global Navigation Satellite Sy ... more DevOps process reduces GPS OCX development time for Raytheon Police in China's restive Xinjiang to track cars by GPS GLONASS station in India to expedite 'space centric' warfare command |
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Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017 Seven teams, including three from India, have qualified for the country's first private moon mission in December, space technology start-up TeamIndus said on Wednesday. "Teams Callisto, Ears and Kalpana from India, Space4Life from Italy, Lunadome from Britain, Killa Lab from Peru and Regolith Revolution from the US have qualified to fly their experiments to the lunar surface in our spacecr ... more Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor NASA finds missing LRO, Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiters Under Trump, the Moon regains interest as possible destination |
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 15, 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 special ... more Warped Meteor Showers Hit Earth at All Angles Mechanism underlying size-sorting of rubble on asteroid Itokawa revealed Earth is bombarded at random, crater study shows |
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Paris (ESA) Mar 21, 2017 Some of the most wonderful pictures taken by astronauts from space are of aurora dancing over our planet. Now the photos are more than just pretty pictures thanks to an ESA project that makes them scientifically usable. Aurora offer a visual means to study space weather, the conditions in the upper regions of our atmosphere. These colourful displays are produced when electrically charged p ... more SAGE III Achieves First Light from Space Station Perch Less radiation in inner Van Allen belt than previously believed Glitter helps to monitor ocean waves |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 21, 2017 The movements of the stars and the planets have almost no impact on life on Earth, but a few times per year, the alignment of celestial bodies has a visible effect. One of these geometric events - the spring equinox - is just around the corner, and another major alignment - a total solar eclipse - will be visible across America on Aug. 21, with a fleet of NASA satellites viewing it from space an ... more Cornell's FOTON studies 'space weather' to improve satellite communication New research on northern lights will improve satellite navigation accuracy Studying magnetic space explosions with NASA missions |
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Columbia MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2017 Universities Space Research Association (USRA), headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, has been awarded a contract to provide NASA with science and mission operations support for its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) program. The contract covers a 5-year base period followed by six two year options for a total of approximately $514 million. The period of performance be ... more First public data released by hyper suprime-cam Subaru Strategic Program NASA's Webb Telescope Ghostly 'Lights Out' Inspection Distant galaxies are dominated by gas and stars so where is the Dark Matter |
East Lansing, MI (SPX) Mar 15, 2017 Astronomers have found evidence for a star that whips around a black hole about twice an hour. This may be the tightest orbital dance ever witnessed for a black hole and a companion star. Michigan State University scientists were part of the team that made this discovery, which used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as NASA's NuSTAR and the Australia Telescope Compact Array. The clo ... more Radiation from nearby galaxies helped fuel first monster black holes Scientists identify a black hole choking on stardust Streamlining the measurement of phonon dispersion |
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