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Two Webb instruments well suited for detecting exoplanet atmospheres University Park PA (SPX) May 10, 2017 The best way to study the atmospheres of distant worlds with the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in late 2018, will combine two of its infrared instruments, according to a team of astronomers. "We wanted to know which combination of observing modes (of Webb) gets you the maximum information content for the minimum cost," says Natasha Batalha, graduate student in astronomy and astrophysics and astrobiology, Penn State, and lead scientist on this project. "Information content i ... read more |
NASA team pursues blobs and bubbles with new PetitSat mission Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 10, 2017 Figuring out how plasma bubbles and blobs affect one another and ultimately the transmission of communications, GPS, and radar signals in Earth's ionosphere will be the job of a recently selected Cu ... more Moscow (Sputnik) May 10, 2017 Russian engineers are designing new advanced airships which may become a potent element of the country's anti-ballistic missile defenses. On May 6, 1937, the German passenger airship Hindenbur ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 10, 2017 Sometimes a brown dwarf is actually a planet-or planet-like anyway. A team led by Carnegie's Jonathan Gagne, and including researchers from the Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) at Univers ... more Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 09, 2017 More than 90% of Earth's continental crust is made up of silica-rich minerals, such as feldspar and quartz. But where did this silica-enriched material come from? And could it provide a clue in the ... more |
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Earth started 4.4 billion years ago as a barren water world Washington DC (UPI) May 8, 2017 Ancient rocks in Australia suggest early Earth was flat, barren and mostly under water. The vast seas were interrupted by only a handful of small islands 4.4 billion years ago. ... more Manhattan KS (SPX) May 10, 2017 Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have decreased physical fitness because of a decrease in the way oxygen moves through the body, according to a Kansas State University kinesiology s ... more Tempe AZ (SPX) May 10, 2017 Jupiter's moon Europa is definitely an odd place. Discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, it was first seen in detail only in the late 1970s, after spacecraft visited the Jovian system. Slightl ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2017 Black holes get a bad rap in popular culture for swallowing everything in their environments. In reality, stars, gas and dust can orbit black holes for long periods of time, until a major disruption ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 10, 2017 Three detector systems for the Euclid mission, led by ESA (European Space Agency), have been delivered to Europe for the spacecraft's near-infrared instrument. The detector systems are key com ... more Washington (UPI) May 9, 2017 U.S. Air Force F-15Cs have demonstrated the ability to securely communicate with other aircraft and ground stations using a Boeing-developed networking system, the company announced Monday. ... more |
Hughes maintains leading position in VSAT market Atlanta GA (SPX) May 08, 2017 A new analysis of decades of data on oceans across the globe has revealed that the amount of dissolved oxygen contained in the water - an important measure of ocean health - has been declining for m ... more Moss Landing CA (SPX) May 09, 2017 New laser technology is allowing MBARI scientists to look into the structure of giant larvaceans-tadpole-like marine animals that are important players in ocean ecosystems. In a recent paper in Scie ... more Edinburgh UK (SPX) May 09, 2017 Eating insects instead of beef could help tackle climate change by reducing harmful emissions linked to livestock production, research suggests. Replacing half of the meat eaten worldwide with ... more Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2017 Plastic, rubber, and many other useful materials are made of polymers - long chains arranged in a cross-linked network. At the molecular level, these polymer networks contain structural flaws that w ... more |
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2017 NASA has received and is reviewing 12 proposals for future unmanned solar system exploration. The proposed missions of discovery - submitted under NASA's New Frontiers program - will undergo scientific and technical review over the next seven months. The goal is to select a mission for flight in about two years, with launch in the mid-2020s. "New Frontiers is about answering the biggest qu ... more 'Road to Nowhere': Retired Cosmonaut Reveals How It Feels to Walk in Space Orion Motor Ready for Crewed Mission Orbiting at 250 Statute Miles, Florida Tech Experiment Tested |
London UK (SPX) May 05, 2017 Reaction Engines Ltd. has begun construction of a new engine test facility where it plans to undertake the first ground based demonstration of its revolutionary SABRE air-breathing rocket engine. The test facility at Westcott, Buckinghamshire, will enable Reaction Engines to test critical subsystems along with the testing of a SABRE engine core, which will commence in 2020. The proje ... more GSLV Successfully Launches South Asia Satellite ISRO Successfully Launches GSAT-9 'SAARC' South Asian Communication Satellite |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) May 08, 2017 Recurring slope lineae (RSL) are seasonal flows on warm slopes, and are especially common in central and eastern Valles Marineris, as seen in this observation by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). This image covers a large area full of interesting features, but the enhanced color closeup highlight some of the RSL. Here, the RSL are active on east-facing slopes, extending from boulde ... more NASA Rover Curiosity Samples Active Linear Dune on Mars Is Anything Tough Enough to Survive on Mars Japan aims to uncover how moons of Mars formed |
Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2017 China plans to conduct several manned space flights from 2019 to 2022, during which a 60-tonne space station will be assembled and built, said Wang Zhaoyao, director of China's manned space program office, Friday. "Tianzhou-1, China's first cargo spacecraft, was the last flight mission of the country's manned space program before the construction of a permanent space station," Wang said at ... more Reach for the Stars: China Plans to Ramp Up Space Flight Activity China's cargo spacecraft completes in-orbit refueling China courts international coalition set up to promote space cooperation |
Boston, MA (SPX) May 08, 2017 Allied Minds reports its portfolio company BridgeSat, Inc. has completed a $6 million Series A funding round, including participation from Space Angels, an early stage investment group comprising experts in the Space 2.0 field. The fundraise was completed at a pre-money valuation of $15 million, up from the previous valuation of $7 million. BridgeSat is reinventing satellite communication ... more How Outsourcing Your Satellite Related Services Saves You Time and Money AIA report outlines policies needed to boost the US Space Industry competitiveness Blue Sky Network Targets Key Markets For Iridium SATCOM Solutions |
Boston MA (SPX) May 05, 2017 Plastic, rubber, and many other useful materials are made of polymers - long chains arranged in a cross-linked network. At the molecular level, these polymer networks contain structural flaws that weaken them. Several years ago, MIT researchers were the first to measure certain types of these defects, called "loops," which are caused when a chain in the polymer network binds to itself inst ... more Space radiation reproduced in the lab for better, safer missions PowerPoint and LED projector enable new technique for self-folding origami Shape-changing fog screen invented |
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Mountain View CA (SPX) May 09, 2017 At its first annual gala fundraiser, held on April 22nd, the SETI Institute recognized three dedicated individuals, universally respected for their exceptional contributions to scientific research and STEM education and outreach. Director of Education, Edna DeVore, Senior Astronomer Dr. Seth Shostak and Senior Scientist Mark Showalter, were honored as the first "Fellows of the Institute" at a sp ... more Taking the pulse of an ocean world Two Webb instruments well suited for detecting exoplanet atmospheres When a brown dwarf is actually a planetary mass object |
Washington DC (Sputnik) May 08, 2017 Any third-grader can tell you about Jupiter's Great Red Spot (GRS), a titanic cyclone that has raged for centuries in Jupiter's atmosphere. It sticks out like a blemish on photos of the gas giant, and by most estimates is two or three times as large as the Earth itself. But the GRS is shrinking, and has been doing so for a while - and nobody is totally sure why. The Hubble Space Tele ... more The PI's Perspective: No Sleeping Back on Earth! ALMA investigates 'DeeDee,' a distant, dim member of our solar system Nap Time for New Horizons |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) May 08, 2017 A new analysis of decades of data on oceans across the globe has revealed that the amount of dissolved oxygen contained in the water - an important measure of ocean health - has been declining for more than 20 years. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology looked at a historic dataset of ocean information stretching back more than 50 years and searched for long term trends and patte ... more Lake water recharged by atmospheric precipitation in the Badain Jaran Desert Robots may bring reef relief Australian scientists say shark cull could wreck marine ecosystems |
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 Researchers working toward indoor location detection Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlight Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua |
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Paris (ESA) May 04, 2017 Bricks have been 3D printed out of simulated moondust using concentrated sunlight - proving in principle that future lunar colonists could one day use the same approach to build settlements on the Moon. "We took simulated lunar material and cooked it in a solar furnace," explains materials engineer Advenit Makaya, overseeing the project for ESA. "This was done on a 3D printer table, ... more NASA selects ASU's ShadowCam for moon mission Russia, US Ready to Give You a Lift to Moon Orbit, ISS Swedish Institute of Space Physics goes back to the Moon |
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 09, 2017 A Caltech chemical engineer who normally develops new ways to fabricate microprocessors in computers has figured out how to explain a nagging mystery in space - why comets expel oxygen gas, the same gas we humans breathe. The discovery that comets produce oxygen gas - also referred to as molecular oxygen or O2 - was announced in 2015 by researchers studying the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasime ... more Falkland Islands basin shows signs of being among world's largest craters Chemical engineer explains why comets expel oxygen Ancient meteorite impact sparked long-lived volcanic eruptions on Earth |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 10, 2017 Figuring out how plasma bubbles and blobs affect one another and ultimately the transmission of communications, GPS, and radar signals in Earth's ionosphere will be the job of a recently selected CubeSat mission. A team of NASA scientists and engineers, led by Jeffrey Klenzing and Sarah Jones, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently won NASA fundin ... more exactEarth Announces Two-Year $1.45 Million Commercial Customer Renewal Is Climate Changing Cloud Heights? Too Soon to Say AIRS: 15 Years of Seeing What's in the Air |
San Antonio TX (SPX) May 05, 2017 A sounding rocket originally developed as a prototype for NASA's next generation of space-based solar spectrographs will make its third flight tomorrow, May 5, at 12:25 p.m. MDT from White Sands, N.M. The Rapid Acquisition Imaging Spectrograph Experiment (RAISE), designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), carries an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph targeting an active regio ... more Space weather model simulates solar storms from nowhere NASA-funded sounding rocket will take 1,500 images of sun in 5 minutes Sun's Eruptions Might All Have Same Trigger |
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Paris (ESA) May 05, 2017 A major milestone for the CHEOPS mission was passed on 28 April 2017, when the telescope flight model was delivered to the University of Bern by Leonardo-Finmeccanica, on behalf of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF). CHEOPS will perform ultra-high precision photometry on bright stars already known to host exoplanets with typical sizes ... more A Lot of Galaxies Need Guarding in This NASA Hubble View NASA delivers detectors for ESA's Euclid spacecraft James Webb Space Telescope Arrives at NASA's Johnson Space Center |
Beijing, China (SPX) May 02, 2017 Correlation functions are often employed to quantify the relationships among interdependent variables or sets of data. A few years ago, Aaronson and Ambainis proposed a property-testing problem called Forrelation for studying the query complexity of quantum devices. Now scientists realized an experimental study of Forrelation in a 3-qubit nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processor. ... more Merging galaxies have enshrouded black holes Sandia develops math techniques to improve computational efficiency in quantum chemistry CCNY physicists demonstrate photonic hypercrystals for control of light-matter interaction |
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