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Large asteroid to hurtle past Earth on April 19 Paris (AFP) April 14, 2017 An asteroid as big as the Rock of Gibraltar will streak past Earth on April 19 at a safe but uncomfortably close distance, according to astronomers. "Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid this size," NASA said in a statement. Dubbed 2014-JO25 and roughly 650 metres (2,000 feet) across, the asteroid will come within 1.8 million kilometres (1.1 million miles) of Earth, less than five times the distance to th ... read more |
Aviation poised for 'third revolution': Airbus boss Amsterdam (AFP) April 12, 2017 The aerospace industry is on the brink of a "third revolution" and Airbus boss Tom Enders is determined his giant company will play a leading role in its future. ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2017 An international team of researchers have created a high-resolution map of Earth's lithospheric magnetic field. Scientists created the map using a wealth of new data collected by the European Space Agency's Swarm satellites. ... more Washington (AFP) April 14, 2017 NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts beyond earth's orbit and eventually to Mars, the US space agency said on Thursday. ... more Paris (AFP) April 13, 2017 France and Japan want to recover pieces of a Martian Moon and bring them back to Earth, the head of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said Thursday. ... more |
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Saturn moon has necessary conditions to harbor life: NASA Washington (AFP) April 13, 2017 An ice-encrusted moon orbiting Saturn appears to have the conditions necessary for life, NASA announced Thursday, unveiling new findings made by its unmanned Cassini spacecraft. ... more Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 A growing number of satellite system owners and operators need new capabilities to protect their assets and missions in space. To address this need, Lockheed Martin has introduced iSpace - int ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2017 BAE Systems received a contract to research and develop new space and missile defense technologies for the U.S. Army, the company announced Wednesday. ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2017 The Kremlin plans to modernize weaponry and equipment issued to Russian forces in Crimea and the Arctic regions. ... more McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 We have entered a strategic alliance with Airbus Defence and Space that will give our customers access to the X and UHF frequency bands using the Skynet satellite constellation, increasing our capab ... more Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 One way to understand how ocean acidity can change, for example, in response to rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels, is to look to the history of seawater acidity. Dr. Itay Halevy of the Weizmann Ins ... more |
The earliest animals were marine jellies San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Researchers have found signs of fault displacement at well-known rock outcrops in Colorado that mark the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact that may have hurried the extinction of the dinosaurs. They wi ... more Houston TX (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Findings from Rice University physicists working at Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are providing new insight about an exotic state of matter called the "quark-gluon plasma" that occurs when pr ... more Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Diamonds with minute flaws could play a crucial role in the future of quantum technology. For some time now, researchers at TU Wien have been studying the quantum properties of such diamonds, but on ... more Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, and splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen for fuel is a promising path for alternative energy. One of the main obstacles to making hydrogen production a ... more |
Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2017 Two Russian cosmonauts and a US astronaut touched down safely in central Kazakhstan Monday following a 173-day mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). "Touchdown confirmed," said a commentator on NASA Television, describing it as a "textbook" landing. NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough was accompanied by Russian space agency cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko in ... more You Say Tomato, I Say Tomatosphere: ISS Science to the Classroom NASA Invests in 22 Visionary Exploration Concepts No Roscosmos plans to send space tourists to ISS before 2020 |
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe's International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dream Chaser spaceplane. The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser is being developed as a reusable, lifting-body, multimission spacecraft capable of landing at commercial airports or space ... more Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from Esrange Bezos sells $1 bn in Amazon stock yearly to pay for rocket firm US-Russia Venture Hopes to Sell More RD-180 Rocket Engines to US |
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Washington (AFP) April 14, 2017 NASA will probably delay the first two missions of its Orion deep-space capsule, being developed to send astronauts beyond earth's orbit and eventually to Mars, the US space agency said on Thursday. A report by NASA's Office of Inspector General cited technical as well as budget challenges. The first launch of the Orion spacecraft atop the planned Space Launch System, or SLS - set to be ... more Opportunity Mars rover on the way to Perseverance Valley France, Japan aim to land probe on Mars moon NASA's MAVEN reveals Mars has metal in its atmosphere |
Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday. Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday. Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 We have entered a strategic alliance with Airbus Defence and Space that will give our customers access to the X and UHF frequency bands using the Skynet satellite constellation, increasing our capabilities and services in the Asia Pacific region. "This new partnership will enable Intelsat General to offer Skynet services to their already strong existing customer base," said Richard Frankli ... more Commercial Space Operators To Canada: "We're Here, and We can Help" Antenna Innovation Benefits the Government Customer Ukraine in talks with ESA to become member |
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Human exploration of Mars is now an official goal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill to increase NASA's budget. The law sets spending at $19.5 billion for the 12-month period starting on October 1, 2017. Congress will need to approve the money. And for the first time, the NASA budget adds human exploration of M ... more Recent advances and new insights into quantum image processing NASA Fellow studies new heatshield-making technique China Considering Cooperation With Russia on Space Debris |
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Nashville TN (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 When cartoonist and marine-biology teacher Steve Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants in 1999, he may have backed the wrong side of one of the longest-running controversies in the field of evolutionary biology. For the last decade, zoologists have been battling over the question, "What was the oldest branch of the animal family tree?" Was it the sponges, as they had long thought, or wa ... more Scientists look for life's building blocks in outer space Earth-Sized 'Tatooine' Planets Could Be Habitable Distantly related fish find same evolutionary solution to dark water |
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have revealed extraordinary details about a recently discovered far-flung member of our solar system, the planetary body 2014 UZ224, more informally known as DeeDee. At about three times the current distance of Pluto from the Sun, DeeDee is the second most distant known trans-Neptunian object (TNO) with a confirmed ... more Nap Time for New Horizons Hubble spots auroras on Uranus Cold' Great Spot discovered on Jupiter |
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Onna, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The Crown-of-Thorns Starfish - or COTS - is a familiar sight for scuba divers in tropical waters: the starfish, resembling the biblical that gave it its name, swarms over coral reefs around the world in huge spawning and destructive events. In the modern era, COTS were first reported in 1957 from the very shores in front of OIST, in the village of Onna-son, Okinawa where it is locally known as " ... more Guinea seizes shark fins from Chinese ships New England's glacial upland soils provide major groundwater storage reservoir Catch shares slow the 'race to fish' |
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 Europe's Galileo satnav network does more than let us find our way - it is also helping to save lives. Today sees a spotlight cast on Galileo's Search and Rescue service, which pinpoints people in distress on land or sea. The service is Europe's contribution to the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based locating system that has helped to rescue more than 42 000 people since 1982 - the ... more Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua Northrop Grumman, Honeywell receive EGI-M contracts China's BeiDou system to expand cooperation to SE Asia |
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Houston TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 The moon no longer has a magnetic field, but NASA scientists are publishing new research that shows heat from crystallization of the lunar core may have driven its now-defunct magnetic field some 3 billion years ago. Magnetized lunar rocks returned to Earth during the Apollo missions established that the moon once had a magnetic field. The moon's magnetic field lasted for more than a billi ... more How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age Surviving the long dark night of the Moon Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India |
San Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 Researchers have found signs of fault displacement at well-known rock outcrops in Colorado that mark the end-Cretaceous asteroid impact that may have hurried the extinction of the dinosaurs. They will present their results in a poster at the 2017 Seismological Society of America's (SSA) Annual Meeting. Norm Sleep of Stanford University and colleagues suggest that the impact, which occurred ... more Large asteroid to hurtle past Earth on April 19 Asteroid to fly safely past Earth on April 19 Rosetta's intimate portrait of a comet: read all about it |
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Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2017 An international team of researchers have created a high-resolution map of Earth's lithospheric magnetic field. Scientists created the map using a wealth of new data collected by the European Space Agency's Swarm satellites. "Magnetic fields have been measured in space by satellites for the last 50 years, but it is the measurement of magnetic 'gradients' from the three Swarm satellites ... more Solar Storms Can Drain Electrical Charge Above Earth Climate change to increase severe aircraft turbulence NASA's High-Altitude Plane Takes to the Sky for GOES-16 Field Campaign |
Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 13, 2017 The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST), currently under construction on Haleakala, Maui, is expected to start observing the Sun in 2020. When it does, it will rely on two complex infrared instruments being built by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA). Their goal is to measure the Sun's weak magnetic field. The first of these to be completed is called the Cryogenic ... more Charting the skies of history Discovery of a source of fast magnetic reconnection Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting |
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Madison WI (SPX) Apr 12, 2017 Like a lot of pioneering science, the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) got its start as the shoestring project of a curious young researcher. Sawing a hole in the ceiling of an office at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Physical Sciences Laboratory in the late 1970s, astrophysicist Ron Reynolds pointed a specially built spectrometer skyward for the first time and discovered a previously unkn ... more Waterloo Researchers Capture First "Image" of a Dark Matter Web that Connects Galaxies ALMA Team Up to Give First Look at Birthplaces of Most Current Star The making of a supernova |
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 Quantum mechanics rules. It dictates how particles and forces interact, and thus how atoms and molecules work - for example, what happens when a molecule goes from a higher-energy state to a lower-energy one. But beyond the simplest molecules, the details become very complex. "Quantum mechanics describes how all this stuff works," said Paul Hockett of the National Research Council of Canad ... more Potential new applications stem from controlling particles' spin configurations Proton-nuclei smashups yield clues about 'quark gluon plasma' Brightness of the universe with NASA's New Horizons spacecraft |
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