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Asteroid to shave past Earth on Oct 12: ESA Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2017 A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on October 12, far inside the Moon's orbit but without posing any threat, astronomers said Thursday. The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) - an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, according to the European Space Agency, This is just far enough to miss our geostationary satellites orbiting at about 36,000 kilometres. "We know for sure that there is no possibility for this ... read more |
How to watch this weekend's Perseid meteor shower Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017 Skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a show of shooting stars on Friday and Saturday night as the Perseid meteor shower peaks over the weekend. ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017 Thanks to a new computer model, planetary scientists now have a better idea of the types of chemicals hiding beneath Neptune's icy surface. ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 11, 2017 Astronomers have narrowed in on a more precise estimate of the TRAPPIST-1 system. ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 1, 2017 A new 10 mega joule medium-range multi-mission railgun from General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems has been assembled and is ready for testing, the company announced on Monday. ... more |
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NASA, Norway to develop Arctic laser-ranging station Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 NASA and the Norwegian Mapping Authority are partnering to develop a state-of-the-art satellite laser ranging station 650 miles from the North Pole that will produce high-precision locations of orbi ... more Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 Most of the nuclear reactions that drive the nucleosynthesis of the elements in our universe occur in very extreme stellar plasma conditions. This intense environment found in the deep interiors of ... more Boston MA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 When a firefighter, first responder or soldier operates a small, lightweight flight vehicle inside a building, in urban canyons, underground or under the forest canopy, the GPS-denied environment pr ... more Paris (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 The rotation rate of the Sun's core has been accurately measured for the first time. The Sun, which has been remarkably stable for the past 4.6 billion years, is held together by the almost perfect ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017 A team of astronomers is trying to account for a mysterious new class of rapidly pulsating blue stars. ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017 Scientists have found four Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a star system just 12 light-years away. ... more |
NASA's Scientific Balloon Program Reaches New Heights Xining, China (XNA) Aug 09, 2017 China will establish the country's first Mars simulation base, in northwest China's Qinghai Province, the local government said Tuesday. The base will be in the red cliff region in Da Qaidam ( ... more Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 After conducting a cosmic inventory of sorts to calculate and categorize stellar-remnant black holes, astronomers from the University of California, Irvine have concluded that there are probably ten ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 The Space Launch System (SLS) provides America with a unique capability to launch more than double what any current vehicle can carry on the first SLS mission and up to four times as much on subsequ ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 The five sunshield layers responsible for protecting the optics and instruments of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are now fully installed. Northrop Grumman Corporation in Redondo Beach, Cal ... more |
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 04, 2017 NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik looks through the hatch of the International Space Station's Bigelow Expandable Aerospace Module (BEAM) on July 31, 2017. He shared this photo on social media on August 2, commenting, "Ever wonder how you look when you enter a new part of a spacecraft? Well, this is it. First time inside the expandable BEAM module." The BEAM is an experimental expandable ... more Two Voyagers Taught Us How to Listen to Space NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington Voyager spacecraft still in communication 40 years out into the void |
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 Production of the five-segment powerhouse motors for the Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters is on target at prime contractor Orbital ATK's facilities in Utah, with 10 motor segments cast with propellant and four of those segments complete. Following propellant casting, the finished segments were evaluated using non-destructive techniques, such as x-ray, to ensure they met qual ... more NASA Guide Outlines Deep Space Rocket's Unprecedented Capabilities Dragon to be packed with new experiments for International Space Station VSS Unity Flies with Propulsion Systems Installed and Live |
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Xining, China (XNA) Aug 09, 2017 China will establish the country's first Mars simulation base, in northwest China's Qinghai Province, the local government said Tuesday. The base will be in the red cliff region in Da Qaidam (also known as Dachaidan) district in the Mongolian-Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Haixi. Situated at the Qaidam basin in western Qinghai, Haixi was chosen for its Mars-like landform, landscape ... more Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown! For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun Tributes to wetter times on Mars |
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 satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
Denver CO (SPX) Aug 04, 2017 Preliminary construction is underway on a new, $350 million Lockheed Martin facility that will produce next-generation satellites. The new facility, located on the company's Waterton Canyon campus near Denver, is the latest step in an ongoing transformation, infused with innovation to provide future missions at reduced cost and cycle time. The new Gateway Center, slated for completion in 2 ... more ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll Airbus DS to expand cooperation with Russia |
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 Who is the better experimentalist, a human or a robot? When it comes to exploring synthetic and crystallization conditions for inorganic gigantic molecules, actively learning machines are clearly ahead, as demonstrated by British Scientists in an experiment with polyoxometalates published in the journal Angewandte Chemie. Polyoxometalates form through self-assembly of a large number of met ... more Tiny terahertz laser could be used for imaging, chemical detection Machine learning could be key to producing stronger, less corrosive metals NASA, Norway to develop Arctic laser-ranging station |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 3, 2017 According to NASA, the universe needs police - specifically immigration enforcement. The space agency is hiring a planetary protection officer to keep Earthlings safe from alien invaders. The job is simple: prevent "biological contamination in human and robotic space exploration." The planetary protection officer will be tasked with keeping aliens from harming life on Earth. But ... more Scientists find four Earth-like exoplanets orbiting closest sun-like star TRAPPIST-1 twice as old as our solar system A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory |
Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2017 Spectacular sunsets and sunrises are enough to dazzle most of us, but to astronomers, dusk and dawn are a waste of good observing time. They want a truly dark sky. Not Ned Molter, a UC Berkeley astronomy graduate student. He set out to show that some bright objects can be studied just as well during twilight, when other astronomers are twiddling their thumbs, and quickly discovered a new feature ... more Scientists predict chemicals hiding beneath Neptune's icy surface Jovian storm looms large in the Jupiter's High North New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains |
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Hagatna, Guam (AFP) Aug 9, 2017 The Pacific island of Guam remained outwardly calm Wednesday in the face of a threatened North Korean attack, and a senior official in the US territory urged people to "relax and enjoy paradise". After US President Donald Trump threatened North Korea with "fire and fury" over its nuclear ambitions Tuesday, Pyongyang raised the stakes just hours later - saying it was considering missile stri ... more No longer water under the bridge, statistics yields new data on sea levels Teamwork key to ocean travel for jellies Guam tourism sees silver lining in North Korean threats |
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 Three of six new Lockheed Martin developed, state-of-the-art receivers are now deployed to help the U.S. Air Force maintain the accuracy of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signals. In June, the first new Monitor Station Technology Improvement Capability (MSTIC) receiver became operational at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The upgrades continued at Air Force Monitoring ... more IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system Russia, China to Set Up Pilot Zone to Test National Navigation Systems India Plans to Roll Out National GPS Next Year |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 Future space exploration aims to fly further from Earth than ever before. Now, Italian Space Agency scientists have expressed an interest in contributing to the development of robotic technologies to bring an asteroid from beyond lunar orbit back into closer reach in order to better study it. In a paper published in EPJ Plus, Marco Tantardini and Enrico Flamini from the Italian Space Agenc ... more NASA studies tethered CubeSat mission to study Lunar swirls Florida startup boldly sets sights on moon Moon could be wetter than thought, say scientists |
Paris (AFP) Aug 10, 2017 A house-sized asteroid will shave past our planet on October 12, far inside the Moon's orbit but without posing any threat, astronomers said Thursday. The space rock will zoom by harmlessly at a distance of about 44,000 kilometres (27,300 miles) - an eighth of the distance from the Earth to the Moon, according to the European Space Agency, This is just far enough to miss our geostationa ... more How to watch this weekend's Perseid meteor shower SwRI part of international team identifying primordial asteroids Supernova-Hunting Team Finds Comet with Aid of Amateur Astronomer |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 04, 2017 The U.S. and Brazil are teaming up to study scintillation in the ionosphere, a phenomena that affects radio signals, disrupting communications and GPS navigation. Aerospace is providing a sensor for this international CubeSat mission, dubbed SPORT, that will be deployed off the International Space Station. The ionosphere is a portion of Earth's atmosphere where radiation from the sun creates a l ... more Lockheed Martin Will Build New Space Instrument Focused on Vegetation Health and Carbon Monitoring Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows NOAA's GOES-S and GOES-T satellites coming together |
London, UK (SPX) Aug 07, 2017 The elemental composition of the Sun's hot atmosphere known as the 'corona' is strongly linked to the 11-year solar magnetic activity cycle, a team of scientists from UCL, George Mason University and Naval Research Laboratory has revealed for the first time. The study, published in Nature Communications and funded by the NASA Hinode program, shows that an increase in magnetic activity goes ... more The sun's core makes a complete rotation in one week Two weeks in the life of a sunspot Our solar system's 'shocking' origin story |
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2017 Understanding the history of star formation in the Universe is a central theme in modern astronomy. Various observations have shown that the star formation activity has varied through the 13.8 billion-year history of the Universe. The stellar birthrate peaked around 10 billion years ago, and has declined steadily since then. However, the cause of the declining stellar birthrate is still no ... more Scientists probe the conditions of stellar interiors to measure nuclear reactions Polish astronomers attempt to solve pulsating blue stars puzzle Dark Energy Survey reveals most accurate measurement of universe's dark matter |
Irvine CA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 After conducting a cosmic inventory of sorts to calculate and categorize stellar-remnant black holes, astronomers from the University of California, Irvine have concluded that there are probably tens of millions of the enigmatic, dark objects in the Milky Way - far more than expected. "We think we've shown that there are as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy," said UCI chair and ... more Primordial black holes may have helped to forge heavy elements First observation of the hyperfine splitting in antihydrogen Clever experiment documents multiscale fluid dynamics |
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