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Chinese private firm launches first space rocket Beijing (AFP) May 17, 2018 A suborbital rocket was launched into space Thursday by a start-up in China's burgeoning commercial aeronautics industry, as private firms snap at the heels of their dominant American rivals. OneSpace, the Beijing-based company behind the launch, is one of dozens of Chinese rivals jostling for a slice of the global space industry, estimated to be worth about $339 billion by Bank of America Merrill Lynch and currently dominated by SpaceX and Blue Origin in the US. Its nine-metre (30-foot) "Chongq ... read more |
US spacewalkers swap, check coolers 'Leaky' and 'Frosty' Tampa (AFP) May 16, 2018 A pair of American astronauts completed a successful spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday to swap and check on two external cooling boxes, nicknamed "Leaky" and "Frosty," NASA said. ... more Houston TX (SPX) May 17, 2018 Some of the earliest human explorers used mechanical tools called sextants to navigate vast oceans and discover new lands. Today, high-tech tools navigate microscopic DNA to discover previously unid ... more Seattle WA (SPX) May 16, 2018 Insect-sized flying robots could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms or sniffing out gas leaks. These robots soar by fluttering tiny wings because they are too s ... more Charlottesville VA (SPX) May 17, 2018 Not long after the Big Bang, the first generations of stars began altering the chemical make-up of primitive galaxies, slowly enriching the interstellar medium with basic elements such as oxygen, ca ... more |
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A laser from a space ant Manchester UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the "spectacular" Ant Nebula. The extre ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) May 17, 2018 NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will host an industry day on Tuesday, May 22. Officials will share information about the latest NASA contract opportunities with represent ... more Washington DC (Sputnik) May 17, 2018 Sources with direct knowledge of US intelligence reports say Russia is on the brink of developing a maneuverable, hypersonic nuclear-capable glider warhead that no US system can defeat. The so ... more Kent UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 Peter B. Lloyd, a PhD student in the School of Computing, working alongside Dr Peter Rodgers in the same department, and Dr Maxwell J. Roberts, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Essex, i ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 As signal strength improves and data is again captured, IMAGE is not reliably responding to commands. Since loss of contact on Feb. 24, 2018, IMAGE's signal has remained too weak to retrieve data. ... more |
Space cloud discovery London, UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 Stars in a galaxy 13.28 billion light years away formed only 250 million years after the Big Bang, finds a team of international astronomers led by groups at UCL and Osaka Sangyo University in Japan ... more |
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ALMA and VLT find evidence for stars forming soon after Big Bang Munich, Germany (SPX) May 17, 2018 An international team of astronomers used ALMA to observe a distant galaxy called MACS1149-JD1. They detected a very faint glow emitted by ionised oxygen in the galaxy. As this infrared light travel ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 17, 2018 Astronomers detected a faint but definite signal of oxygen in a galaxy located 13.28 billion light-years away from us, through observations using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (AL ... more San Francisco (AFP) May 16, 2018 An internal petition calling for Google to stay out of "the business of war" was gaining support Tuesday, with some workers reportedly quitting to protest a collaboration with the US military. ... more Houston TX (SPX) May 15, 2018 A 2017 theory proposed by Rice University physicists to explain the contradictory behavior of an iron-based high-temperature superconductor is helping solve a puzzle in a different type of unconvent ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 16, 2018 An emerging technology for removing excessive, potentially damaging heat from small, tightly packed instrument electronics and other spaceflight gear will be demonstrated for the first time during a ... more |
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US spacewalkers swap, check coolers 'Leaky' and 'Frosty' Tampa (AFP) May 16, 2018 A pair of American astronauts completed a successful spacewalk outside the International Space Station Wednesday to swap and check on two external cooling boxes, nicknamed "Leaky" and "Frosty," NASA said. The boxes, each about the size of a mini-refrigerator or window AC unit, are crucial to keeping the batteries cool aboard the orbiting lab. Since they operate using highly toxic ammonia ... more |
US indirectly confirms existence of Russia's hypersonic weapons Washington DC (Sputnik) May 17, 2018 Sources with direct knowledge of US intelligence reports say Russia is on the brink of developing a maneuverable, hypersonic nuclear-capable glider warhead that no US system can defeat. The sources, speaking to CNBC on condition of anonymity, reported that Russia tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic glide vehicle (presumably the Avangard) twice in 2016, and again in 2017. The 2017 test was ... more |
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Opportunity team continues studies on origin of 'Perseverance Valley' Pasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2018 Opportunity is only halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater, pursuing several scientific hypotheses as to the origin of the valley including both water and wind erosion. The next objective is to investigate some tabular rocks up close that are of interest to the science team. On Sol 5074 (May 3, 2018), Opportunity backed up about 6.07 feet (1.85 meters) to ... more |
Chinese rewrite record, live 370 days in self-contained moon lab Beijing (XNA) May 16, 2018 Chinese volunteers have completed a one-year test living in a simulated space lab in Beijing, setting a new record for the longest stay in a self-contained cabin. Four students, two males and two females, emerged from the Yuegong-1, or Lunar Palace 1, at Beihang University to the applause of academicians, researchers and fellow students Tuesday. The total length of the test, which st ... more |
Australian Space Agency Lost In Canberra Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 09, 2018 The creation of an Australian Space Agency (ASA) was one of the first budget "sweeteners" leaked by the Australian government in the lead-up to the 2019 Australian federal budget. This suggested that the government expected the idea to resonate as good news, and it has certainly created a wave of hope for Australia's relatively disenfranchised space community. But much of the details remain clou ... more |
Frequency-stable laser systems for space Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 15, 2018 For the first time a frequency reference based on molecular iodine was successfully demonstrated in space! What sounds a bit like science fiction is an important step towards laser interferometric distance measurements between satellites as well as for future global navigation satellite systems based on optical technologies. The frequency reference tests were carried out on 13 May on board ... more |
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Orbital variations can trigger 'snowball states' on exoplanets Seattle WA (SPX) May 15, 2018 Aspects of an otherwise Earthlike planet's tilt and orbital dynamics can severely affect its potential habitability - even triggering abrupt "snowball states" where oceans freeze and surface life is impossible, according to new research from astronomers at the University of Washington. The research indicates that locating a planet in its host star's "habitable zone" - that swath of space j ... more |
Old Data Reveal New Evidence of Europa Plumes Pasadena CA (JPL) May 15, 2018 Scientists re-examining data from an old mission bring new insights to the tantalizing question of whether Jupiter's moon Europa has the ingredients to support life. The data provide independent evidence that the moon's subsurface liquid water reservoir may be venting plumes of water vapor above its icy shell. Data collected by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in 1997 were put through new and adv ... more |
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437 million tons of fish, $560 billion wasted due to destructive fishing operations Vancouver, Canada (SPX) May 17, 2018 Industrial fisheries that rely on bottom trawling wasted 437 million tonnes of fish and missed out on $560 billion in revenue over the past 65 years, new UBC research has found. The study, carried out by the Sea Around Us initiative at UBC's Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF), documents the growth of bottom trawling between 1950 and 2014, a practice where industrial fishing vesse ... more |
Research shows how 'navigational hazards' in metro maps confuse travelers Kent UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 Peter B. Lloyd, a PhD student in the School of Computing, working alongside Dr Peter Rodgers in the same department, and Dr Maxwell J. Roberts, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Essex, is carrying out a series of studies on the New York City subway map. This is sometimes ranked as the most complex metro map in the world, but the results are expected to be applicable to other cities. ... more |
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Chinese volunteers emerge from virtual moon base Beijing (AFP) May 15, 2018 A group of Chinese volunteers has emerged from 110 days of isolation in a virtual "lunar lab", state media reported Tuesday, as the country pursues its ambition to put people on the moon. The official Xinhua news service streamed images on its website of the would-be astronauts emerging from their temporary home, a self-contained environment simulating conditions which future explorers will ... more |
Football field-sized asteroid to shave by Earth Tampa (AFP) May 15, 2018 An asteroid around the size of a football field is expected to zoom by Earth on Tuesday, but at a safe distance, the US space agency said. The space rock was discovered in 2010, but only recently did astronomers determine it would not collide with our planet, instead passing at a distance about halfway between the Earth and Moon. Asteroid 2010 WC9 will make a "close approach" to Earth at ... more |
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Satellite study finds major shifts in global freshwater College Park MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 A new global, satellite-based study of Earth's freshwater distribution found that Earth's wet areas are getting wetter, while dry areas are getting drier. The data suggest that this pattern is due to a variety of factors, including human water management practices, human-caused climate change and natural climate cycles. The NASA-led research team, which included Hiroko Beaudoing, a faculty ... more |
Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter set to soar high Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars and their curious casts of orbiting planets. But there's only one star we can travel to directly and observe up close - and that's our own: the Sun. Two upcoming missions will soon take us closer to the Sun than we've ever been before, providing our bes ... more |
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A laser from a space ant Manchester UK (SPX) May 17, 2018 An international team of astronomers have discovered an unusual laser emission that suggests the presence of a double star system hidden at the heart of the "spectacular" Ant Nebula. The extremely rare phenomenon is connected to the death of a star and was discovered in observations made by European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel space observatory. When low- to middleweight stars like ... more |
ALMA and VLT find evidence for stars forming soon after Big Bang Munich, Germany (SPX) May 17, 2018 An international team of astronomers used ALMA to observe a distant galaxy called MACS1149-JD1. They detected a very faint glow emitted by ionised oxygen in the galaxy. As this infrared light travelled across space, the expansion of the Universe stretched it to wavelengths more than ten times longer by the time it reached Earth and was detected by ALMA. The team inferred that the signal wa ... more |
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