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More to Life Than the Habitable Zone Boston MA (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 Two separate teams of scientists have identified major challenges for the development of life in what has recently become one of the most famous exoplanet systems, TRAPPIST-1. The teams, both led by researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., say the behavior of the star in the TRAPPIST-1 system makes it much less likely than generally thought, that planets there could support life. The TRAPPIST-1 star, a red dwarf, is much fainter and less massi ... read more |
Spacepath Communications Announces Innovative Frequency Converter Systems London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 SpacePath Communications is launching a new range of intelligent frequency converters (IFC) featuring an innovative, hot swappable system design. SpacePath's intelligent frequency converters f ... more Pune, India (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 A team of astronomers from the Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), both in Pune, India, and members of two ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 The Sun is a solar-type star, a new study claims - resolving an ongoing controversy about whether the star at the center of our Solar System exhibits the same cyclic behavior as other nearby, solar- ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017 A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the Red Planet captured by ESA's Mars Express. This section of the Libya Montes region, which sits on the equator a ... more |
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Opportunity will spend three weeks at current location due to Solar Conjunction Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2017 Opportunity is in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has arrived at the location within the valley where she will spend the approximately three-week solar conjuncti ... more Trieste, Italy (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 The dichotomy concerns the so-called angular momentum (per unit mass), that in physics is a measure of size and rotation velocity. Spiral galaxies are found to be strongly rotating, with an angular ... more Singapore (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 GomSpace together with The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS), Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited (ST Electronics) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore the ap ... more Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has observed a molecular outflow being launched from beyond the disk surro ... more McLean, VA (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) have played an important role in the U.S. military's operations in the Middle East, Africa and Southwest Asia in recent years, using ever-more-sophisticated on-board ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017 The final days of the LISA Pathfinder mission are some of the busiest, as controllers make final tests and get ready to switch off the gravitational pioneer next Tuesday. Following 16 months o ... more |
Recreating interstellar ions with lasers San Francisco (AFP) July 12, 2017 US startup Hyperloop One on Wednesday announced the first successful full-systems test of its near-supersonic rail transit system. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017 For the first time, scientists in China have successfully teleported a photon to space using quantum entanglement - the coupling of two quantum particles over vast distances. ... more Stanford CA (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 Stanford researchers have for the first time captured the freezing of water, molecule-by-molecule, into a strange, dense form called ice VII ("ice seven"), found naturally in otherworldly environmen ... more Paris (AFP) July 11, 2017 Three European companies are to work on a pioneering project to build a fully-automated supply ship, the French member of the scheme announced on Tuesday. ... more |
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2017 Founded in 2009, the Houston, Texas-based company NanoRacks LLC provides commercial hardware and services onboard the International Space Station (ISS) for government and commercial customers. To date, the firm has sent more than 550 payloads from over 30 countries to ISS, creating trends in commercial hardware in space. In an interview with Astrowatch.net, Jeffrey Manber, the founder and CEO of ... more Counting calories in space Trump offers bold space goals but fills in few details Liftoff for Trump's bold space plans may have to wait |
Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 10, 2017 Researchers at The University of Manchester, in collaboration with Central South University (CSU), China, have created an innovative ceramic coating that could revolutionize hypersonic travel - for defense, space and even air travel purposes. Hypersonic travel is defined as moving at Mach five or above - at least five times faster than the speed of sound. While a historic aspiration of avi ... more Aerojet Rocketdyne tests Advanced Electric Propulsion System Russia to Carry Out Five Launches From Vostochny Space Center in 2018 Spiky ferrofluid thrusters can move satellites |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017 The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope. Since before Curiosity's landing five years ago next month, this feature has been recognized as one of four unique terrains on lower Mount Sharp and therefore a key mission destination. Curiosity's science team informal ... more Tributes to wetter times on Mars Opportunity will spend three weeks at current location due to Solar Conjunction Mars surface 'more uninhabitable' than thought: study |
Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official. Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon |
Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017 The final days of the LISA Pathfinder mission are some of the busiest, as controllers make final tests and get ready to switch off the gravitational pioneer next Tuesday. Following 16 months of scientific effort, LISA Pathfinder completed its main mission on 30 June, having demonstrated the technology needed to operate ESA's future LISA space observatory to study gravitational waves - ripp ... more 100M Pound boost for UK space sector Iridium Poised to Make Global Maritime Distress and Safety System History HTS Capacity Lease Revenues to Reach More Than $6 Billion by 2025 |
London, UK (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 SpacePath Communications is launching a new range of intelligent frequency converters (IFC) featuring an innovative, hot swappable system design. SpacePath's intelligent frequency converters feature a hot swappable capability in a 1RU design. The 1:1 redundant, hot swappable frequency convertor requires no additional, external 1RU switch controller or external input /output switches. ... more WVU to develop software for future NASA Mars rovers, test 3-D printed foams on ISS Giant enhancement of electromagnetic waves revealed within small dielectric particles ANU invention may help to protect astronauts from radiation in space |
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Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 In a paper highlighted by Astronomy and Astrophysics journal, a team2 of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica e Ciencias do Espaco (IA3) discovered observational evidence for the existence of two distinct populations of giant planets. So far, more than 3500 planets have been detected orbiting solar type stars. Although recent results suggest that most planets in our Galaxy are roc ... more Molecular Outflow Launched Beyond Disk Around Young Star Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller More to Life Than the Habitable Zone |
Miami (AFP) July 10, 2017 An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet's Great Red Spot. The flyby of the Juno spacecraft, surveilling the 10,000-mile-wide (16,000-kilometer-wide) storm, is scheduled for 9:55 pm Monday (0155 GMT Tuesday). "Jupiter's mysterious Great Red Spot is probably th ... more Juno Completes Flyby over Jupiter's Great Red Spot Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis |
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Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 Climate change could turn one of Africa's driest regions into a very wet one by suddenly switching on a Monsoon circulation. For the first time, scientists find evidence in computer simulations for a possible abrupt change to heavy seasonal rainfall in the Sahel, a region that so far has been characterized by extreme dryness. They detect a self-amplifying mechanism which might kick-in beyo ... more Strengthening of West African Monsoon during Green Sahara period may have affected ENSO Scientists make 'squarest' ice crystals ever Bacteria collaborate to propel the ocean 'engine' |
Washington (UPI) Jul 7, 2017 Orbital Alliance Techsystems Operations has been awarded a $53.6 million modification to an existing contract for procurement of M1156 presicion-guidance kits, the Department of Defense announced on Thursday. The modification will provide PGKs for converting standard Army unguided 155mm artillery shells into GPS-guided munitions used by conventional artillery. Work will be perfor ... more India Plans to Roll Out National GPS Next Year Europe's Galileo satnav identifies problems behind failing clocks New orbiters for Europe's Galileo satnav system |
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Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2017 During a simulated space mission underwater last week, ESA tested an ingenious concept to bring astronauts safely back to base if they are incapacitated during lunar exploration. Four 'aquanauts', including ESA astronaut Pedro Duque and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, took part in NASA's 22nd Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO-22) mission, spending 10 days in the Aquarius habitat ... more Japanese Space Agency Proposes Plan to Send Astronauts to Moon Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 Russian aerospace firm to cooperate with China on Lunar exploration missions |
Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Hanna G. Sizemore says. "Pitted terrains may be common morphological markers of volatile-rich near-surface material in the asteroid belt," Sizemore said. ... more Bizarro comet challenging researchers NASA'S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'? |
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Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reports that its subsidiary Space Systems Loral (SSL) was selected to provide a next-generation satellite constellation for high-resolution Earth imaging to DigitalGlobe, the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet. Called WorldView Legion, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites will more than double DigitalGlobe's hig ... more Can satellites be used as an early warning system for landslides Study finds Earth's magnetic field 'simpler than we thought' See our seasons change from space |
Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 How much do solar cycle variations influence our climate system? Could the rising Earth temperatures due to anthropogenic effects partly be compensated by a reduction of solar forcing in the future? These questions have been in the focus of climate research for a long time. In order to answer these questions as precisely as possible, it is required to know the fluctuations of solar forcing ... more NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory sees sunspot turn toward Earth Musical Sun Reduces Range of Magnetic Activity Scientists uncover origins of the Sun's swirling spicules |
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Cambridge UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 A group of astronomers have shown that the fastest-moving stars in our galaxy - which are travelling so fast that they can escape the Milky Way - are in fact runaways from a much smaller galaxy in orbit around our own. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and computer simulations to demonstrate that these stellar sprinters originate ... more Smallest-Ever Star Discovered by Astronomers Australia Enters Strategic Partnership with European Southern Observatory Heart of an exploded star observed in 3-D |
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 07, 2017 Quantum technology is seen as an important future-oriented technology: smaller, faster and with higher performance than conventional electronics. However, exploiting quantum effects is difficult because nature's smallest building blocks have properties quite distinct from those we know from our everyday world. An international team of researchers has now succeeded in extracting a fault tolerant ... more China teleports quantum information to space, a first A future without fakes thanks to quantum technology Simulating splash at the microscopic level |
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