|
Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winter Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017 Opportunity is exploring "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater as mission planners prepare to park the rover for a winter layover. Winter substainally constrains the energy levels of the rover, such that the program has been exercising the strategy of driving the rover from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next. These lily pads are locations where the terrain is tilted sufficiently to the north to maximize the Sun illumination on the rover's solar panels. Even ... read more |
Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster Menlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks - a form of artificial intelligence - can ... more Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation duri ... more Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 In everyday life, ultraviolet, or UV, light earns a bad reputation for being responsible for sunburns and other harmful effects on humans. However, research suggests that UV light may have played a ... more Essex, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 eledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion euro contract by OHB System AG to supply customised Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission, unde ... more |
|
|
Previous Issues | Aug 31 | Aug 30 | Aug 29 | Aug 28 | Aug 25 |
|
Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 An international team of astronomers used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate whether there might be water on the seven earth-sized planets orbiting the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The ... more Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 Earth is 70 percent water, but only a tiny portion - 0.007 percent - is available to drink. As potable water sources dwindle, global population increases every year. One potential solution to ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2017 Bowie wasn't lying about Ziggy's bandmates - there are spiders from Mars. Sort of. ... more Raleigh NC (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 Researchers from North Carolina State University have significantly boosted the efficiency of two techniques, for splitting water to create hydrogen gas and splitting carbon dioxide (CO2) to create ... more New York NY (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 On a cold March night in Seoul almost 600 years ago, Korean astrologers spotted a bright new star in the tail of the constellation Scorpius. It was seen for just 14 days before fading from view. Fro ... more Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017 The movements of more than 300 000 stars surveyed by ESA's Gaia satellite reveal that rare close encounters with our Sun might disturb the cloud of comets at the far reaches of our Solar System, sen ... more |
Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month Madison WI (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 Astronomers have measured magnetic fields in a galaxy 4.6 billion light-years away - a big clue to understanding how magnetic fields formed and evolved over cosmic time. In an article published Aug. ... more Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 As stars pass close by our solar system, they can nudge comets from the distant Oort cloud into the inner regions around the Sun. Thus, stellar encounters are an important factor in determining the ... more Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 A team led by Edith Falgarone (Ecole Normale Superieure and Observatoire de Paris, France) has used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array to detect signatures of the carbon hydride CH+ in ... more Seoul (AFP) Aug 31, 2017 Tensions between North Korea and the United States are spiking again in the aftermath of Pyongyang's latest weapons test, when it lobbed an intermediate range missile over northern Japan. ... more |
Berlin (AFP) Aug 30, 2017 The gadgets on display at Berlin's mega consumer electronics fair this week may not look radically different, but they are smarter than ever before and designed to meet our every need - often before we've even thought of it ourselves. As smartphones and other electronic devices make greater use of artificial intelligence (AI), the digital assistants already pervasive in our lives are set to ... more NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through space ISS Orbit Increases Almost 2,000 Feet After Adjustment Maneuver - Control Center |
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight. The new method - called the Alternative Pyroshock Test - used a nitrogen-powered gas gun to shoot a 100-pound steel projectile into a steel resonant beam, which then transfers energy ... more ISRO Develops Ship-Based Antenna System to Track Satellite Launches Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg SpaceX launches Taiwan's first home-built satellite |
|
Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Planet. For the first time ever, deep-space ground stations from ESA, NASA and Russia's Roscosmos joined together, on 13 August, to receive ultra-faint signals from ESA's ExoMa ... more New mini tool has massive implications Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winter Citizen scientists spot Martian 'spiders' in unexpected places |
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 Beijing and Moscow may sign an agreement this October on joint space exploration, to be carried out in 2018-2022, Chinese media reported. The deal would cover five areas, including lunar and deep space exploration, satellite systems, space debris research and Earth remote sensing, CGTN broadcaster reported on Sunday. Xu Yansong, the head of the International Cooperation Department of ... more China, Russia to Have Smooth Space Cooperation, Says Expert Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 ASTROSCALE completed a Series C round and raised $53 million in total to date. Private companies, ANA Holdings Inc. (ANA - parent company of ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS Co., Ltd.) and OSG Corporation, join recurring venture capital investors (Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, JAFCO Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital) alongside new financier aSTART Co., Ltd. The successful completion of Se ... more LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll Bids for government funding prove strong interest in LaunchUK Blue Sky Network Reaffirms Commitment to Brazilian Market |
Menlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks - a form of artificial intelligence - can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods. "Analyses that typically take weeks to months to complete, ... more Clamping down on causality by probing laser cavities Rare-metals in the Himalayas: The potential world-class treasure Why does rubbing a balloon on your hair make it stick? |
|
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 In everyday life, ultraviolet, or UV, light earns a bad reputation for being responsible for sunburns and other harmful effects on humans. However, research suggests that UV light may have played a critical role in the emergence of life on Earth and could be a key for where to look for life elsewhere in the universe. A new study by Sukrit Ranjan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrop ... more Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets 15 Fast Radio Bursts Detected from Distant Universe A New Search for Extrasolar Planets from the Arecibo Observatory |
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like. Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis Scientists probe Neptune's depths to reveal secrets of icy planets |
|
Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 Earth is 70 percent water, but only a tiny portion - 0.007 percent - is available to drink. As potable water sources dwindle, global population increases every year. One potential solution to quenching the planet's thirst is through desalinization - the process of removing salt from seawater. While tantalizing, this approach has always been too expensive and energy intensive for large-scal ... more Decoding coral DNA could help save reefs from extinction Oil and water can mix under the right conditions, scientists say Ecuador prison for Chinese fishers caught in Galapagos |
Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 As of today, exactEarth, in partnership with Harris Corporation, is bringing five more satellites from our ever-growing real-time (RT) constellation into service. These additional satellites will raise the total to nine in our real-time system that have been successfully incorporated into exactEarth services. Combined with our first-generation satellites, we are proud to be operating the l ... more IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system India to launch satellite next week to fix malfunctioning navigation system Japan launches satellite for better GPS system |
|
Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the science community in Europe to propose ideas for research that could be performed on the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicinity. The Deep Space Gateway is a strategic platform that is being prepared by the International Space Station partner agencies to be humanity's next step beyond Low-Earth Orbit and out into the S ... more Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 n 2013 a small meteoroid, the size of a house, hurtled through Earth's atmosphere and exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. The explosion shattered windows, and more than a thousand people were treated for injuries from flying debris. How many similar-sized rocks have orbits that bring them close to Earth? A new study has answered that question using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on th ... more Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1 Close encounters of the stellar kind Backyard Observers Ready to View Asteroid's Close Flyby |
|
Essex, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 eledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion euro contract by OHB System AG to supply customised Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission, under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA). The FLEX mission, which is the eighth in ESA's Earth Explorer programme, is scheduled to launch in 2022. For the first time, it wi ... more Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows Man-made fossil methane emission levels larger than previously believed |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee. As LRO crossed the lunar south pole heading north at 3,579 mph (1,600 meters per second), the shadow of the Moon was racing across the United States at 1,500 mph (670 meters per ... more Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space |
|
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology - the nature and origin of the magnetic fields that play an important role in how galaxies develop over time. The scientists used the National Science Foundati ... more Magnetic fields in distant galaxy are new piece of cosmic puzzle Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel ALMA finds huge hidden reservoirs of turbulent gas in distant galaxies |
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A team of astronomers has observed the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy is the most distant in which a coherent magnetic field has been observed and provides important insight into how magnetism in the Universe formed and evolved. The observation shows a magnetic field of a similar strength and configuration to that seen in our own Milky Way Galaxy ... more Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia's Z machine Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios |
|
Buy Advertising | Media Advertising Kit | Editorial & Other Enquiries | Privacy statement |
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2016 - Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principals for news reporting and research purposes. AFP, UPI and IANS news wire stories are copyright Agence France-Presse, United Press International and Indo-Asia News Service. ESA news reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement, agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement |