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China builds integrated space-ground quantum communication network Beijing, China (SPX) Oct 02, 2017 The first quantum-safe video conference was held between President Chunli Bai of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and President Anton Zeilinger of the Austria Academy of Sciences in Vienna, as the first real-world demonstration of intercontinental quantum communication on September 29th. Private and secure communications are fundamental human needs. In particular, with the exponential growth of Internet use and e-commerce, it is of paramount importance to establish a secure network with ... read more |
Methane belches kept water flowing on ancient Mars Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2017 Frequent belches of methane could explain how a younger Mars maintained liquid water on its surface despite a cold, arid climate. ... more Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 According to Euroconsult's latest report, Prospects for L-Band, IoT and M2M Markets, the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) market will grow from 4.3 million MSS terminals in 2016 to more than 12 milli ... more Korolyov, Russia (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 When the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite 60 years ago, it marked both the beginning of space exploration and the start of a race between Moscow and Washington. ... more Adelaide, Australia (XNA) Oct 03, 2017 China is an active member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and is impressive in opening its space missions to other countries, said Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of ... more |
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Australia's new frigates to feature long-range missile defence system Sydney (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 Australia's new frigates will be equipped with a long-range missile defence system to counter threats from rogue states like North Korea, officials announced Tuesday. ... more Paris (ESA) Oct 03, 2017 A start-up company from ESA's business incubator in Bavaria has developed a training app to help runners to exercise in a healthy way, and to reduce injuries from over-training. Drawing on erg ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 29, 2017 A new radar sensor that can capture real-time video through clouds has been developed and demonstrated by the U.S. military. ... more Washington (UPI) Oct 1, 2017 BAE Systems engineers, with students from Cranfield University, have come up with a new technology concept that uses unmanned aerial vehicles. ... more Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, Lockheed Martin engineers are revealing new details of its Mars Base Camp concept including how it aligns with NAS ... more Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 A new bio-ink that may support a more efficient and inexpensive fabrication of human tissues and organs has been created by researchers at UBC's Okanagan campus. Keekyoung Kim, an assistant pr ... more |
IAI unmanned helo performs proof-of-concept demo Riga, Latvia (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 Studies of craters in the Baltics (Estonia) are giving insights into the many impacts that have peppered the Earth over its long history. In southeastern Estonia, scientists have dated charcoal from ... more Oxford UK (SPX) Oct 02, 2017 Oxford University scientists have shed new light on how the Earth was first formed. Based on observations of newly-forming stars, scientists know that the solar system began as a disc of dust and ga ... more Kiel, Germany (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 Currently, winter has still a firm grip on Antarctica. At this time of the year, the Weddell Sea usually is covered with a thick layer of sea ice. In spite of the icy temperatures in the region, sat ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 Atmospheric researchers depart this month on NASA's DC-8 research aircraft on their third survey of the global atmosphere. Taking place for the first time in Northern Hemisphere fall, the season giv ... more |
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Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Sep 29, 2017 It's an exciting time to be working in the space sector - particularly with Australia's recently-announced commitment to developing a space agency. But with advances come new challenges. Similar to technologies such as digital communications and robotics, advances in space science bring ethical dilemmas. What rights do space tourists have? How can we prevent space terrorism? Who should reg ... more OECD calls for tourism to be more sustainable Space Cooperation Between China, Russia Needs Long-Term Mechanism NASA's New Hubble E-Book Series Dives into the Solar System and Beyond |
Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 mu Space Corp has announced at the 68th Annual International Astronautical Congress that they have entered into an agreement with Blue Origin to partner on a future launch of a geostationary satellite aboard their New Glenn orbital rocket. The launch is set to happen early in the next decade. Commenting on the new partnership, mu Space CEO James Yenbamroong says, "We've decided to go with ... more Arianespace to launch COSMO-SkyMed satellites manufactured by Thales New Zealand opens first rocket launch site Arianespace signs contract for 10 Vega and Vega C launchers |
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Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 This week at the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Adelaide, Australia, Lockheed Martin engineers are revealing new details of its Mars Base Camp concept including how it aligns with NASA's lunar Deep Space Gateway and a Mars surface lander. Mars Base Camp is a vision of how to send humans to Mars in about a decade. It's a sound, safe and compelling mission architecture centere ... more Lockheed Martin unveils reusable water-powered Mars lander Methane belches kept water flowing on ancient Mars SpaceX's Musk unveils plan to reach Mars by 2022 |
Adelaide, Australia (XNA) Oct 03, 2017 China is an active member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and is impressive in opening its space missions to other countries, said Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). Di Pippo made the remarks when having an interview with Xinhua on Wednesday during the 68th International Astronautical Congress (IAC ... more Mars probe to carry 13 types of payload on 2020 mission China's cargo spacecraft separates from Tiangong-2 space lab Work on China's mission to Mars 'well underway' |
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 According to Euroconsult's latest report, Prospects for L-Band, IoT and M2M Markets, the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) market will grow from 4.3 million MSS terminals in 2016 to more than 12 million terminals by 2026. M2M/IoT (machine-to-machine, Internet of Things) devices will have a significant share in this subscriber growth, while their contribution to operators' revenues should be more l ... more GomSpace and Luxembourg to develop space activities in the Grand Duchy Spacepath Communications Acquires Tango Wave Brodeur Partners Launches Entrepreneurial Space Group |
Korolyov, Russia (AFP) Oct 3, 2017 When the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite 60 years ago, it marked both the beginning of space exploration and the start of a race between Moscow and Washington. Sputnik, the tiny silver sphere with four spider leg-like antennae, showed off Soviet technological prowess. But German scientists - who had worked on Adolf Hitler's rocket projects and brought to the USSR af ... more New laser sensor could detect explosives, dangerous gases more quickly Germany-based Hensoldt acquires Kelvin Hughes UV-irradiated amorphous ice behaves like liquid at low temperatures |
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Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 02, 2017 As NASA looks to explore deeper into our solar system, one of the key areas of interest is studying worlds that can help researchers better understand our solar system and the universe around us. One of the next destinations in this knowledge-gathering campaign is a rare world called Psyche, located in the asteroid belt. Psyche is different from millions of other asteroids because it appea ... more Searching for Distant Worlds With a Flying Telescope MATISSE to Shed Light on the Formation of Earth and Planets Meteors splashing into warm ponds sparked life on Earth |
Friedrichshafen, Germany (ESA) Oct 03, 2017 A long radar boom that will probe below the surface of Jupiter's icy moons has been tested on Earth with the help of a helicopter. ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, JUICE, is scheduled for launch in 2022, arriving seven years later. JUICE will study Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere and vast magnetic fields, as well as the planet-sized moons Ganymede, Europa and Callisto. All three moons are ... more Solving the Mystery of Pluto's Giant Blades of Ice Global Aerospace Corporation to present Pluto lander concept to NASA Pluto features given first official names |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 15, 2017 Lockheed Martin is investing in Ocean Aero alongside Teledyne Technologies for the development of the Submaran unmanned maritime vehicle. The Submaran S10 is an autonomous unmanned submarine that is powered by solar and wind energy, giving it virtually unlimited endurance and letting it operate for months at a time. It can raise a small sail that can propel it at over 5 knots to conserv ... more El Nino events can be triggered by major volcanic eruptions in the tropics Big rainy season leaves dozens dead in Central America A sustainable future powered by sea |
Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Sep 26, 2017 exactEarth Ltd. reports that its exactTrax small vessel monitoring technology is now incorporated into Alltek Marine Electronic Corp's (AMEC) AIS Tracking Beacon (TB560). The AMEC TB560 is a simplified Class B AIS device that offers an efficient and cost-effective vessel monitoring solution within AIS VHF transmission range. Now outfitted with exactTrax technology from exactEarth, which ex ... more BeiDou navigation to cover Belt and Road countries by 2018 China's BeiDou-3 satellites get new chips US Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin GPS M-Code Early Use Ground System Upgrade Contract |
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 28, 2017 Two Chinese lunar missions will be delayed by the failed launch of a powerful rocket in July, a state-run newspaper said, in a setback for the country's ambitious space programme. Beijing sees its multi-billion-dollar forays into space as a symbol of China's rise and the success of the Communist Party in turning around the fortunes of the once poverty-stricken nation. Officials are still ... more Russian space agency, NASA agree to co-build lunar-orbit space station NASA, Roscosmos Sign Joint Statement on Researching, Exploring Deep Space Moon village the first stop to Mars: ESA |
Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 29, 2017 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest active inbound comet ever seen, at a whopping distance of 1.5 billion miles from the Sun (beyond Saturn's orbit). Slightly warmed by the remote Sun, it has already begun to develop an 80,000-mile-wide fuzzy cloud of dust, called a coma, enveloping a tiny, solid nucleus of frozen gas and dust. These observations represent the earliest si ... more Unexpected Surprise: A Final Image from Rosetta Studies of 'Crater Capital' in the Baltics Show Impactful History NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid CubeSat Goes Full Sail |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 Atmospheric researchers depart this month on NASA's DC-8 research aircraft on their third survey of the global atmosphere. Taking place for the first time in Northern Hemisphere fall, the season gives them the unique opportunity to make a detour from their previous flight paths to fly underneath the Antarctic ozone hole. The flight is part of NASA's Atmospheric Tomography (ATom) mission, a ... more New Radar Sensor Provides Clear Vision in Any Weather Public Invited to Analyze Photos Taken by International Space Station Astronauts Scientists monitor Silicon Valley's underground water reserves - from space |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 27, 2017 On Sept. 25, 2017, media were invited to see NASA's Parker Solar Probe in its flight configuration at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, where it is being built. The revolutionary heat shield that will protect the first spacecraft to fly directly into the Sun's atmosphere was installed for the first time on Sept. 21. This is the only time the spacecraft wil ... more A RAVAN in the sun Solar antics Solar wind impacts on giant 'space hurricanes' may affect satellite safety |
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Garching, Germany (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 An international team of scientists from the Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), the Towson and Pittsburgh Universities (USA) and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, has shed new light on the origins of the famous Tycho's supernova. The research, published in Nature Astronomy, debunks the common view that Tycho's supernova originated from a white dwarf, which had been slowly accreti ... more HEIC 1716 is bursting with starbirth NASA pushes back launch date for James Webb Space Telescope Astronomers detect Freon-40 around infant stars, comet |
Canary Islands, Spain (SPX) Oct 03, 2017 Black holes appear to play a fundamental role in how galaxies evolve throughout their life during a phase in which they are active and consume material from the galaxy itself. During this phase, the galaxy hosts an active galactic nucleus (AGN), and the effect that this nuclear activity produces in the galaxy is known as AGN feedback. This feedback can take place in different forms: the AG ... more Ravenous Black Holes Define Type I Active Galaxies Supersonic gas streams from Big Bang drive massive black hole formation Team led by graduate student at PPPL produces unique simulation of magnetic reconnection |
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