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  Miami (AFP) April 26, 2017 The United States is in a hurry to send people to Mars by the 2030s, but a key question remains for these deep space explorers: what will they wear? An audit report out Wednesday by the NASA Office of the Inspector General found that the US space agency has spent lots of money and time on developing new spacesuits, but has little to show for it. "Despite spending nearly $200 million on NASA's next-generation spacesuit technologies, the Agency remains years away from having a flight-ready spacesu ... read more |
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Russia, US Ready to Give You a Lift to Moon Orbit, ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017 Russian aerospace company RSC Energia and its US partners have worked out several options of sending tourists into the Moon's orbit and to the International Space Station (ISS), Energia's General Di ... more  
New Russian Medium-Class Carrier Rocket Could Compete With SpaceX's FalconMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017 A new medium-class carrier rocket to be developed in Russia will be able to compete with the Falcon rocket manufactured by the US-based SpaceX company, Russia's RSC Energia space corporation said. ... more 
RSC Energia, Boeing Hammer Out a Deal on Sea Launch ProjectLos Angeles (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017 Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) and Boeing have finally managed to reach a settlement over a sizeable $330 million debt incurred by the Russian company over the Sea Launch project ... more  
Sun's Eruptions Might All Have Same TriggerDurham, UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2017 Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new research that leads to better understanding of the Sun's activity. Researchers at Durham University ... more |
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Cassini makes first dive through Saturn's ringsWashington (UPI) Apr 26, 2017 Cassini is diving for rings - or, at least, through rings. ... more  
Quantum mechanics are complex enough, for now...Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Quantum mechanics is based on a set of mathematical rules, describing how the quantum world works. These rules predict, for example, how electrons orbit a nucleus in an atom, and how an atom can abs ... more  
Dawn Observing Ceres; 3rd Reaction Wheel MalfunctionsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2017 NASA's Dawn spacecraft is preparing to observe Ceres on April 29 from an "opposition" position, directly between the dwarf planet's mysterious Occator Crater and the sun. This unique geometry may yi ... more  
Commentary: Innovation drives China's space explorationBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2017 China has always understood that only innovation can drive the country along the trajectory to becoming a space power. In the past year, scientists and engineers have made major breakthroughs in the ... more 
China's Long March-5 Y2 carrier rocket leaves for launch siteTianjin (XNA) Apr 26, 2017 China's Long March-5 Y2 carrier rocket departed northern China's Tianjin Port for the launch base in southern Hainan Monday. Monday is also China's second Space Day, which was chosen to mark t ... more 
China courts international coalition set up to promote space cooperationXi'an (XNA) Apr 26, 2017 A coalition was established Sunday in northwest China's Shaanxi Province to promote innovation and cooperation on space exploration under the the Belt and Road Initiative. The coalition, set u ... more |
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 Macao marks 2nd China Space Day with astronaut sharing space experience  
Finding order and structure in the atomic chaos where materials meetRaleigh NC (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 Materials science researchers have developed a model that can account for irregularities in how atoms arrange themselves at the so-called "grain boundaries" - the interface where two materials meet. ... more  
US missile defence equipment reaches S.Korea siteSeoul (AFP) April 26, 2017 US troops began delivering a missile defence system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. ... more  
Russia's Brand-New S-500 Missile System to Have Unprecedented Damage RadiusMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017 In an interview with Sputnik, Russian military expert Viktor Baranets specifically touted unprecedented the damage range of Russia's next-generation S-500 Prometey missile system, which is currently ... more  
'Personal flying machine' maker plans deliveries this yearWashington (AFP) April 24, 2017 A Silicon Valley "flying car" startup, Kitty Hawk, reportedly backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, released a video Monday of its airborne prototype and announced plans for deliveries of a "personal flying machine" this year. ... more |
  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 25, 2017 
While astronauts have successfully grown plants and vegetables aboard the International Space Station, NASA scientists at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are collaborating with a university team to develop long-term methods that could help sustain pioneers working in deep space.
Agency researchers believe while there are many challenges for human exploration beyond Earth, they are conv ... more Miami (AFP) April 26, 2017NASA spacesuits over budget, tight on timeline: audit  Washington (AFP) April 24, 2017'Better you than me,' Trump tells record-breaking astronaut  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 23, 2017Cygnus docks with ISS, delivering 28 Cubesats from multiple customers |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017 
A new medium-class carrier rocket to be developed in Russia will be able to compete with the Falcon rocket manufactured by the US-based SpaceX company, Russia's RSC Energia space corporation said.
"RSC Energia proposes the development of a new medium-class launch vehicle for launches from Baikonur and Vostochny cosmodromes, as well as from the Sea Launch," the company's General Director Vl ... moreLos Angeles (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017RSC Energia, Boeing Hammer Out a Deal on Sea Launch Project  New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017India seeks status as a major space power with more satellite launches New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017India to Launch Carrier Rocket With Higher Payload Capacity in May |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
From the earliest days of our solar system's history, collisions between astronomical objects have shaped the planets and changed the course of their evolution. Studying the early bombardment history of Mars, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and the University of Arizona have discovered a 400-million-year lull in large impacts early in Martian history.
This discovery is pu ... more Copenhagen (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017Danish Martian Experts Get Their Hands on a Piece of 'Black Beauty'  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 24, 2017New Look at 2004's Martian Hole-in-One Site  Providence RI (SPX) Apr 21, 2017Researchers Produce Detailed Map of Potential Mars Rover Landing Site |
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 Xi'an (XNA) Apr 26, 2017 
A coalition was established Sunday in northwest China's Shaanxi Province to promote innovation and cooperation on space exploration under the the Belt and Road Initiative.
The coalition, set up in the provincial capital of Xi'an, encompasses 48 universities, research institutes and academic organizations at home and abroad. It was initiated by the Chinese Society of Astronautics and Xi'an- ... moreBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2017Commentary: Innovation drives China's space exploration  Macao (XNA) Apr 26, 2017Macao marks 2nd China Space Day with astronaut sharing space experience Tianjin (XNA) Apr 26, 2017China's Long March-5 Y2 carrier rocket leaves for launch site |
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Thanks to some high-tech improvements, ESA's radio dish in Argentina will be ready to receive the rising torrent of scientific data beamed back by future missions exploring deep in our Solar System.
Since 2012, ESA's deep-space tracking station at Malargue, about 1200 km west of Buenos Aires, Argentina, has provided critical links to some of Europe's most important missions, including ExoM ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Arianespace, Intelsat and SKY Perfect JSAT sign a new Launch Services Agreement, for Horizons 3e  McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Airbus and Intelsat team up for more capacity  McLean VA (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Commercial Space Operators To Canada: "We're Here, and We can Help" |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2017  The European Space Agency (ESA) has warned that man-made junk in space is getting out of hand. Radio Sputnik discussed the space debris problem with former head of the Space Debris Office of the European Space Agency, Dr. Heiner Klinkrad.
During a conference on space debris, held in Germany this week, the ESA expressed concerns over the increasing danger of orbiting space trash. Some exper ... more Oxford, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Engineering technique is damaging materials research reveals Raleigh NC (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Finding order and structure in the atomic chaos where materials meet  Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2017Lockheed Martin secures $1.6 billion contract for counterfire radars |
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 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (SPX) Apr 25, 2017 
One of the most successful techniques presently in use for detecting expolantes is the search for transits. Similar to the way the Moon cuts off the light of the Sun during an eclipse, a transit is produced when a planet orbiting a distant star cuts off a small fraction of its light when it passes between us and the star. There are many projects dedicated to detecting and monitoring small variat ... more Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2017Lack of Oxygen Not a Showstopper For Life  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 21, 2017Detecting Life in the Driest Place on Earth  Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 25, 2017In experiments on Earth, testing possible building blocks of alien life |
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 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 Laurel MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Nap Time for New Horizons  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Hubble spots auroras on Uranus  Leicester, UK (SPX) Apr 12, 2017Cold' Great Spot discovered on Jupiter |
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 Vienna (AFP) April 25, 2017 
Human activity risks contaminating pristine water stockpiled deep underground since the age of the mammoths, said a study Tuesday that warns of a looming threat to a critical life source.
So-called "fossil" groundwater - more than 12,000 years old - trickled into sub-surface aquifers long before it could be tarnished by pollution from farming and factory chemicals.
Generally stored at ... more Bloomington IN (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Research sheds new light on forces that threaten sensitive coastlines  Mexico City (AFP) April 26, 2017In Mexico City, water a rare commodity  Karlovac, Croatia (AFP) April 19, 2017Croatian rivers face hydroelectric peril |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
At 25-years old, Global Positioning System Satellite Vehicle Number 27 completed its time in orbit before the 2nd Space Operations Squadron said goodbye via final command and disposal here April 18. SVN 27 was launched in 1992, meaning it performed more than triple its design life of 7.5 years.
"The most interesting thing about this process for me, was the ability to do some experimentatio ... more Houston TX (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Researchers working toward indoor location detection  Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlight  Managua (AFP) April 7, 2017Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2017 
Russian aerospace company RSC Energia and its US partners have worked out several options of sending tourists into the Moon's orbit and to the International Space Station (ISS), Energia's General Director Vladimir Solntsev told Sputnik.
In August, Solntsev said Energia was preparing a Moon expedition on board an upgraded Soyuz spacecraft, with eight space tourists interested in a trip. Ren ... more Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 23, 2017Swedish Institute of Space Physics goes back to the Moon  New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2017India dreams of harvesting lunar dust to power fusion rectors  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2017NASA Scientists Find Dynamo at Lunar Core May Have Formed Magnetic Field |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2017 
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is preparing to observe Ceres on April 29 from an "opposition" position, directly between the dwarf planet's mysterious Occator Crater and the sun. This unique geometry may yield new insights about the bright material in the center of the crater.
While preparing for this observation, one of Dawn's two remaining reaction wheels stopped functioning on April 23. By elec ... more Paris (AFP) April 19, 2017Close call: When asteroids whisk past Earth  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2017Landslides on Ceres Reflect Ice Content  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 20, 2017New study ranks hazardous asteroid effects from least to most destructive |
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 Missoula MT (SPX) Apr 27, 2017 
New research by the University of Montana and its partner institutions gives insight into how forests globally will respond to long-term climate change.
Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics - where much of global forest productivity occurs - indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change wo ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 24, 2017When Swarm met Steve  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2017'Detergent' Molecules May Drive Recent Methane Changes  Bristol, UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Banned industrial solvent sheds new light on methane mystery |
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 Durham, UK (SPX) Apr 27, 2017  Large and small scale solar eruptions might all be triggered by a single process, according to new research that leads to better understanding of the Sun's activity. Researchers at Durham University, UK, and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, USA, used 3D computer simulations to show a theoretical link between large- and small-scale eruptions that were previously thought to be driven by differe ... more Beijing CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2017Interdisciplinary studies reveal relationship between solar activity and climate change  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2017NASA and Partners Survey Space Weather Science  Honolulu HI (SPX) Apr 13, 2017Hawaii-built Infrared Instrument for World's Largest Solar Telescope Catches its First Rays |
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 Durham, UK (SPX) Apr 24, 2017 
Observations of the Coma cluster carried out by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1933 implied that the system's total gravitating mass was far larger than that which could be detected from starlight or emission from intra-cluster gas. He proposed "dunkle Materie," or dark matter, as a binding agent for the cluster.
As years passed, new and more refined observations of clusters and of indiv ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Hubble's cosmic bubbles  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2017NASA's Cassini, Voyager missions suggest new picture of sun's interaction with galaxy  Kamuela HI (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Keck captures rare high-resolution images of exploded star |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
A supervoid is unlikely to explain a 'Cold Spot' in the cosmic microwave background, according to the results of a new survey, leaving room for exotic explanations like a collision between universes. The researchers, led by postgraduate student Ruari Mackenzie and Professor Tom Shanks in Durham University's Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy, publish their results in Monthly Notices of the Royal ... moreVienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 24, 2017Quantum mechanics are complex enough, for now...  Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 27, 2017First-ever direct observation of chiral currents in quantum Hall atomic simulation  Lemont IL (SPX) Apr 27, 2017Study offers new theoretical approach to describing non-equilibrium phase transitions |
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