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X-37B Flies Again In First SpaceX Launch Sydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 08, 2017 The fifth launch of the X-37B robot spaceplane almost makes this vehicle look routine. This time, liftoff has come with a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX instead of an Atlas V, a change from old-school launchers to NewSpace. By itself, this was controversial, but the spacecraft is in orbit as requested. Security for this launch seems to have been just as tight as for previous launches, with no leaks of information. That's another point in favour of the vehicle's new launch provider. The US Air F ... read more |
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. ... more Paris, France (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 The Rosetta space probe discovered a large amount of organic material in the nucleus of comet "Chury." In an article published by MNRAS on August 31, 2017, two French researchers advance the theory ... more Seattle WA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 For decades, as astronomers have imagined advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, they categorized such worlds by the amount of energy their inhabitants might conceivably be able to harness and use ... more Chennai (IANS) Sep 07, 2017 The Indian space agency is strongly suspecting the failure of pyro elements for the non-separation of the heat shield of its rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle's (PSLV) XL variant on Aug 31, said ... more |
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New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017 NASA's New Horizons mission has set the distance for its New Year's Day 2019 flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, aiming to come three times closer to MU69 than it famously flew past Pluto in 2015 ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 New work from a team of Carnegie scientists (and one Carnegie alumnus) asked whether any gas giant planets could potentially orbit TRAPPIST-1 at distances greater than that of the star's seven known ... more Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 A new X-ray study has revealed that stars like the Sun and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth. This result has positive implications for the long-term ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 By following up on mysterious high-energy sources mapped out by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/fermi), the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 Ball Aerospace successfully delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), NOAA's next-generation polar orbiting weather satellite, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Aug. 31, whe ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is in a downward spiral, with summer minimum extents about 40 percent smaller than in the 1980s. But predicting how the sea ice is going to behave in a particular year is ... more |
Second Lockheed Martin GPS 3 Satellite completes launch simulation tests Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 Two-dimensional materials are a sort of a rookie phenom in the scientific community. They are atomically thin and can exhibit radically different electronic and light-based properties than their thi ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 5, 2017 United Technologies is to acquire Rockwell Collins for $140.00 per share in cash and UTC stock - about $30 billion - the companies have announced. ... more Sendai, Japan (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 Researchers in Japan and China believe they have found new molecular fossils of archaea using a method of analysis commonly used in forensic science. According to a system designed by microbio ... more Atlanta GA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 The primordial soup that sloshed around billions of years ago, and eventually led to first life on our planet, might have been teeming with primal precursors of proteins. Ancestors of the first prot ... more |
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Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017 Berlin's IFA technology fair, Europe's largest and a bellwether for the Christmas season, draws to a close Wednesday. Here is a quick overview of what's hot and what's not in the aisles. - On the out - - Tablets: the fever that greeted Apple's launch of the iPad in 2010 has long dissipated. Smartphones boast increasingly large screens and high performance in a handier package than the no ... more 'Star Trek' actor Shatner sends message to Voyager ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricane Record-breaking NASA astronaut comes back to Earth |
Chennai (IANS) Sep 07, 2017 The Indian space agency is strongly suspecting the failure of pyro elements for the non-separation of the heat shield of its rocket Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle's (PSLV) XL variant on Aug 31, said a senior official. As a result of the heat shield not separating the 1,425 kg navigation satellite IRNSS-1H got stuck inside it resulting in the failure of the around Rs 250 crore mission. ... more Pentagon Will Have to Rely on Russian Rocket Engines Until Mid-2020s NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire SpaceX tests first stage of 'world's most powerful rocket' |
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Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Because borates may play an important role in making RNA - one of the building blocks of life - finding boron on Mars further opens the possibility that life could have once arisen on the planet," s ... more Life on Mars: Let's Try Oman Desert First for Space Mission Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winter For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday. The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration 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 New results reveal high tunability of 2-D material Van Allen probes survive extreme radiation five years on Europe's biggest X-ray laser begins operations |
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Boston MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 A new X-ray study has revealed that stars like the Sun and their less massive cousins calm down surprisingly quickly after a turbulent youth. This result has positive implications for the long-term habitability of planets orbiting such stars. A team of researchers used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton to see how the X-ray brightness of stars similar to the Su ... more Does the Organic Material of Comets Predate our Solar System? Earth as Hybrid Planet: The Anthropocene Era in Astrobiological Context Could TRAPPIST-1's Seven Earth-size Planets Have Gas Giant Siblings |
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Friday, Sept. 1, at 2:49 p.m. PDT (5:49 p.m. EDT and 21:49 UTC). At the time of perijove (defined as the point in Juno's orbit when it is closest to the planet's center), the spacecraft will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops. Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, ... more New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby To Pluto and beyond New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains |
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London, UK (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more 'losers' than 'winners' over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. The results are published in the journal Nature Climate Change this week (Monday 4 September). A team at British Antarctic Survey (BAS) examined the potential distribution of over 900 species of shelf-dwelling ... more Your tap water may contain plastic, researchers warn Pacific corals in 'worrying' state: researchers New research delivers hope for reef fish living in a high CO2 world |
Denver CO (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 Launch is the most strenuous part of a satellite's life. To survive the extreme sound wave pressure and pounding vibrations generated by more than 700,000 lbs. of thundering rocket thrust, spacecraft need a solid, reliable design if they hope to arrive operational on orbit. On July 13, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)'s second, fully-assembled GPS III space vehicle (SV) completed a realistic si ... more IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system Nine Satellites in exactEarth's Real-Time Constellation Now in Service India to launch satellite next week to fix malfunctioning navigation system |
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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 |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA's asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer), will pass about 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) above Earth just before 12:52 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 22. Using Earth as a slingshot, the spacecraft will receive an assist to complete its journey to the asteroid Bennu. OSIRIS-REx is undertaking ... more Close encounters of the stellar kind House-Sized Near-Earth Objects Rarer Than We Thought Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1 |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 Ball Aerospace successfully delivered the Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1), NOAA's next-generation polar orbiting weather satellite, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Aug. 31, where it is scheduled to launch Nov. 10, 2017. This follows a successful pre-ship review with NASA at Ball's Boulder, Colorado, manufacturing complex. "The arrival of the spacecraft at Vandenberg i ... more Pinpointing the sources of trans-Pacific dust Teledyne e2v sensors will play a vital role in ESA's FLEX satellite mission to study plant health and stress from space New era in air-quality monitoring a step away |
Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017 Star Storm, an explosive performance inspired by stellar processes in the Universe, will be premiered at the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, on 10 September. The creator of the show is Aoife van Linden Tol, the recipient of the first art and science@ESA residency organised by Ars Electronica in partnership with ESA. A multimedia artist working primarily with explosive ... more NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2017 By following up on mysterious high-energy sources mapped out by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/fermi), the Netherlands-based Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope has identified a pulsar spinning at more than 42,000 revolutions per minute, making it the second-fastest known. A pulsar is the core of a massive star that exploded as a supernova. In this stel ... more Stellar Corpse Sheds Light on Origin of Cosmic Rays Vast new super cluster of galaxies named Saraswati Shedding light on galaxies' rotation secrets |
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 UCLA physicists have proposed new theories for how the universe's first black holes might have formed and the role they might play in the production of heavy elements such as gold, platinum and uranium. A long-standing question in astrophysics is whether the universe's very first black holes came into existence less than a second after the Big Bang or whether they formed only millions of y ... more Aussie quantum tech has its sights set on human biochemistry Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe |
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