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SpaceX launches super-computer to space station Miami (AFP) Aug 13, 2017 SpaceX on Monday blasted off its unmanned Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station, carrying a host of science experiments and the most powerful computer ever sent into orbit. "Three, two, one, and liftoff," a SpaceX commentator said as the white Falcon 9 rocket climbed into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 12:31 pm (1631 GMT). Three minutes after launch, the rocket separated as planned, with the long, tall portion -- known as the first stage -- arcing back toward Earth and the second stage continuing to propel the cargo ship to space. The first stage of the rocket then powered its thrusters and operated its grid fins to set itself down on solid ground at Cape Canaveral for a controlled, upright landing at Landing Zone 1. ... read more |
RAVAN CubeSat measures Earth's outgoing energy Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 An experimental small satellite has successfully collected and delivered data on a key measurement for predicting changes in Earth's climate. The Radiometer Assessment using Vertically Aligned ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 14, 2017 Chinese scientists have become the first to realize quantum key distribution from a satellite to the ground, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network. ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 NASA's P-3 research plane begins flights this month through both clouds and smoke over the South Atlantic Ocean to understand how tiny airborne particles called aerosols change the properties of clo ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 centered on the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) which was launched on June 3, 2017 and is currently operating aboard the International Space Station (ISS). This platform was develo ... more |
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Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 The moon's magnetic field lasted 1 billion to 2.5 billion years longer than once thought - a finding with important implications for habitability on other moons and planets throughout the universe, ... more Boston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer ... more Denver CO (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 A team of engineers and technicians at Lockheed Martin has completed the integration of the company's first modernized A2100 satellite. The spacecraft, known as Hellas-Sat-4/SaudiGeoSat-1, now moves ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017 A small asteroid flying past Earth on 12 October will provide scientists with a valuable opportunity to learn more about its orbit and composition. The campaign will exercise the international netwo ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Mere weeks away from its dramatic, mission-ending plunge into Saturn, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has a hectic schedule, orbiting the planet every week in its Grand Finale. On a few orbits, Saturn's l ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close passes through Saturn's upper atmosphere with its fi ... more |
How to watch this weekend's Perseid meteor shower Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Opportunity is located in Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour crater and has resumed normal science activities post-conjunction. Taking advantage of the position through conjuncti ... more 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. ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth's ice-crystal cirrus clouds move across the Martian sky in some new image sequences from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. These clouds are the most clea ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017 An ancient mountain range on Mars preserves a complex volcanic and tectonic past imprinted with signs of water and ice interactions. The images, taken on 9 April by the high-resolution stereo ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2017 As NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft were changing our understanding of the solar system, they also spurred a leap in spacecraft communications. The mission's impact is still visible in California's Mojave Desert. There, at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, the arcs of antenna dishes peek out over craggy hilltops. Goldstone was the first place where the two Voyagers started ... more NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington A look inside the Space Station's experimental BEAM module Voyager spacecraft still in communication 40 years out into the void |
Miami (AFP) Aug 13, 2017 SpaceX on Monday blasted off its unmanned Dragon cargo ship toward the International Space Station, carrying a host of science experiments and the most powerful computer ever sent into orbit. "Three, two, one, and liftoff," a SpaceX commentator said as the white Falcon 9 rocket climbed into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 12:31 pm (1631 GMT). Three minutes after launch, the rocket separated as planned, with the long, tall portion -- known as the first stage -- arcing back toward Earth and the second stage continuing to propel the cargo ship to space. ... more Space Launch System Solid Rocket Boosters 'on Target' for First Flight NASA Guide Outlines Deep Space Rocket's Unprecedented Capabilities Dragon to be packed with new experiments for International Space Station |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth's ice-crystal cirrus clouds move across the Martian sky in some new image sequences from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. These clouds are the most clearly visible so far from Curiosity, which landed five years ago this month about five degrees south of Mars' equator. Clouds moving in the Martian sky have been observed previously by Curiosity and oth ... more Opportunity takes in the panoramic view while crossing some rocky terrain China to build first Mars simulation base Preserving the stress of volcanic uprise on Mars |
Beijing (XNA) Aug 14, 2017 Chinese scientists have become the first to realize quantum key distribution from a satellite to the ground, laying the foundation for building a hack-proof global quantum communication network. The achievement based on experiments conducted with the world' s first quantum satellite, Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), was published in the authoritative academic journal Nature on T ... more Xian Satellite Control Center resolves over 10 major satellite faults in 50 years China develops sea launches to boost space commerce Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit |
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 Blue Sky Network, an industry leading global provider of satellite asset tracking and fleet management solutions, announced that the company's new management team, led by President Gregoire Demory, would attend the LABACE trade show August 15th to 17th in Sao Paulo. LABACE is Latin America's largest, and the world's second largest, business aviation trade show. "Our new management and sale ... more India to Launch Exclusive Satellite for Afghanistan Lockheed Martin invests $350M in state-of-the-art satellite production facility ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies |
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 09, 2017 Terahertz radiation - the band of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and visible light - has promising applications in medical and industrial imaging and chemical detection, among other uses. But many of those applications depend on small, power-efficient sources of terahertz rays, and the standard method for producing them involves a bulky, power-hungry, tabletop device. ... more NASA, Norway to develop Arctic laser-ranging station Lockheed Martin integrates first modernized A2100 satellite Software lets designers exploit the extremely high resolution of 3-D printers |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2017 Scientists have found four Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a star system just 12 light-years away. The four planets are the closest Earth-like worlds yet discovered. And at just 1.7 Earth masses, they're also the smallest nearby Earth-like planets. Astronomers detected the presence of the four exoplanets by analyzing slight wobbles in the movement of tau Ceti, the closest known su ... more TRAPPIST-1 twice as old as our solar system A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory Gulf of Mexico tube worm is one of the longest-living animals in the world |
Edinburgh UK (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 Scientists have helped solve the mystery of what lies beneath the surface of Neptune - the most distant planet in our solar system. A new study sheds light on the chemical make-up of the planet, which lies around 4.5 billion kilometres from the sun. Extremely low temperatures on planets like Neptune - called ice giants - mean that chemicals on these distant worlds exist in a frozen s ... more New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis |
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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 Guam tourism sees silver lining in North Korean threats Invasion of glowing tropical jellyfish baffles U.S. scientists |
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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Boston MA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017 New evidence from ancient lunar rocks suggests that an active dynamo once churned within the molten metallic core of the moon, generating a magnetic field that lasted at least 1 billion years longer than previously thought. Dynamos are natural generators of magnetic fields around terrestrial bodies, and are powered by the churning of conducting fluids within many stars and planets. In a pa ... more Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed Astronauts to bring asteroid back into lunar orbit NASA studies tethered CubeSat mission to study Lunar swirls |
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 Asteroid 2012 TC4 will fly past Earth in October 2017 SwRI part of international team identifying primordial asteroids |
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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 Teledyne Brown Engineering and Oakman Aerospace, Inc. to partner on MUSES Platform NASA airborne mission returns to Africa to study smoke, clouds Lockheed Martin Will Build New Space Instrument Focused on Vegetation Health and Carbon Monitoring |
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 equilibrium between the force of gravity, which tends to cause it to collapse, and the pressure of the thermonuclear reactions in its core. Now, researchers working together with a team at the L ... more An NJIT researcher throws a global ham radio 'party' to study the eclipse Our solar system's 'shocking' origin story NASA instrument key to understanding solar powered planet arrives at Kennedy Space Center |
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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 stars has made it nearly impossible for scientists to perform nuclear measurements in these conditions - until now. In a unique cross-disciplinary collaboration between the fields of plasma phys ... more Polish astronomers attempt to solve pulsating blue stars puzzle Sunshield layers fully integrated on James Webb Space Telescope NRL brightens perspective of mysterious mini-halos |
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 Researchers set record for fastest light pulse Clever experiment documents multiscale fluid dynamics |
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