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  El Segundo, CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2017 The Aerospace center for space policy analysis - one of five strategic initiatives recently announced by President and CEO Steve Isakowitz - issued an informative backgrounder on the National Space Council. The incoming Trump administration has signaled that it might move to revive the advisory organization, which has been absent from the White House since the George H.W. Bush administration. According to Dr. Jim Vedda, senior policy analyst at Aerospace, a White House space advisory group was ori ... read more |
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Observations of Ceres indicate that asteroids might be camouflagedThe appearance of small bodies in the outer solar system could be deceiving. Asteroids and dwarf planets may be camouflaged with an outer layer of material that actually comes from somewhere else. ... more  
Public to Choose Jupiter Picture Sites for NASA JunoWhere should NASA's Juno spacecraft aim its camera during its next close pass of Jupiter on Feb. 2? You can now play a part in the decision. For the first time, members of the public can vote to par ... more  
World's First Weather-Cracking Wind Satellite Aeolus to Improve Future ForecastsA team of scientists at the Airbus Defense and Space Center in the UK, have bid farewell to a satellite this week, which will allow for more accurate weather predictions, as it was shipped to France ... more  
Work Begins in Palo Alto on NASA's Dark Energy HunterLockheed Martin is helping NASA begin the hunt for dark energy, a mysterious force powering the universe's accelerating expansion. An instrument assembly the company is developing, if selected by NA ... more |
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Complex life may have come and gone in Earth's distant pastConditions suitable to support complex life may have developed in Earth's oceans - and then faded - more than a billion years before life truly took hold, a new University of Washington-led study ha ... more  
2017 Rocket Campaign Begins in AlaskaA NASA sounding rocket campaign during January through March 2017, at the Poker Flat Research Range in Alaska will support the effort to better understand the space that surrounds Earth - key situat ... more 
Pluto Global Color MapThis new, detailed global mosaic color map of Pluto is based on a series of three color filter images obtained by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera aboard New Horizons during the NASA sp ... more 
NASA's Terra Satellite Sees Alaskan Volcanic Eruption Wrapped in WhiteWhen NASA's Terra satellite passed over Alaska's erupting Bogoslof Volcano the MODIS instrument aboard captured an image of a large ash plume surrounded by clouds making it appear to be wrapped in w ... more  
From School to Space: Satellite Built by Brazilian Students Launched in OrbitA satellite built by students of a Brazilian middle school was launched into space from aboard the International Space Station on Monday, January 16. The Tancredo-1 satellite, developed by the ... more |
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Poland outlines big defence buys after NATO deploymentsPoland outlined major defence spending including an anti-missile system, helicopters and jet fighters on Wednesday, coinciding with concern over NATO and US policy from a new White House. ... more  
Northrop Grumman receives $140m BACN contract modificationNorthrop Grumman has received a $140 million contract modification to provide Battlefield Airborne Communication Nodes for the U.S. Air Force. ... more |
  
French astronaut Thomas Pesquet floated into space on his first-ever spacewalk Friday, and helped install three new, refrigerator-sized lithium-ion batteries to upgrade the power system at the International Space Station.
Wearing a white spacesuit with the French flag emblazoned on one shoulder, Pesquet and US astronaut Shane Kimbrough switched on their spacesuits' internal battery power to ... more NASA to rely on Soyuz for ISS missions until 2019 'Hidden Figures' soars in second week atop box office Lomonosov Moscow State University to Launch 'Space Department' in 2017 |
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SpaceX celebrated the first flight of its Falcon 9 rocket in over four and a half months on Saturday, with a remarkably smooth launch of the vehicle from California. The Falcon 9 had previously been grounded since September, after one of the rockets exploded on a launchpad in Florida during a routine fueling procedure. Though the stakes were high for Saturday's launch, the mission's success does ... more 2017 Rocket Campaign Begins in Alaska Ruptured oxidant tank likely cause of Progress accident Next Cygnus Mission to Station Set for March |
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Scientists used NASA's Curiosity Mars rover in recent weeks to examine slabs of rock cross-hatched with shallow ridges that likely originated as cracks in drying mud.
"Mud cracks are the most likely scenario here," said Curiosity science team member Nathan Stein. He is a graduate student at Caltech in Pasadena, California, who led the investigation of a site called "Old Soaker," on lower M ... more Opportunity Continues Its Journey South Along Crater Rim New Year yields interesting bright soil for Opportunity rover HI-SEAS Mission V crew preparing to enter Mars simulation habitat |
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China's first cargo spacecraft will leave the factory, according to the website of China's manned space mission.
A review meeting was convened last Thursday, during which officials and experts unanimously concluded that the Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft had met all the requirements to leave the factory.
The take-off weight of Tianzhou-1 is 13 tonnes and it can ship material of up to si ... more China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A China Space Plan to Develop "Strength and Size" Beijing's space program soars in 2016 |
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The Aerospace center for space policy analysis - one of five strategic initiatives recently announced by President and CEO Steve Isakowitz - issued an informative backgrounder on the National Space Council. The incoming Trump administration has signaled that it might move to revive the advisory organization, which has been absent from the White House since the George H.W. Bush administration. ... more Russia-China Joint Space Studies Center May Be Created in Southeastern Russia Iridium-1 NEXT Launched on a Falcon 9 EchoStar 19 positioned in orbital slot |
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China's quantum communication satellite, launched last August, is officially operational after four months of in-orbit testing, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Wednesday.
Testing of the satellite, payloads and space-ground links have been completed, the CAS said, adding that everything was operating properly.
The Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) satellite is the ... more China to develop prototype super, super computer in 2017 Thales supplying Crowsnest radar system to Royal Navy York Space Systems signs Cooperative Research and Development Agreement |
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Is there anybody out there? The question of whether Earthlings are alone in the universe has puzzled everyone from biologists and physicists to philosophers and filmmakers. It's also the driving force behind San Francisco State University astronomer Stephen Kane's research into exoplanets - planets that exist outside Earth's solar system.
As one of the world's leading "planet hunters," Kan ... more Looking for life in all the right places with the right tool Could dark streaks in Venusian clouds be microbial life VLT to Search for Planets in Alpha Centauri System |
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Where should NASA's Juno spacecraft aim its camera during its next close pass of Jupiter on Feb. 2? You can now play a part in the decision. For the first time, members of the public can vote to participate in selecting all pictures to be taken of Jupiter during a Juno flyby. Voting begins Thursday, Jan. 19 at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) and concludes on Jan. 23 at 9 a.m. PST (noon EST).
"We ... more Pluto Global Color Map Lowell Observatory to renovate Pluto discovery telescope Flying observatory makes observations of Jupiter previously only possible from space |
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Sea level in the Northeast and in some other U.S. regions will rise significantly faster than the global average, according to a report released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Moreover, in a worst-case scenario, global sea level could rise by about 8 feet by 2100. Robert E. Kopp, an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Rut ... more U.S., Cuba sign maritime border treaty Mighty river, mighty filter Syria regime encircles rebel area supplying Damascus water |
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DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, this week announced the successful deployment of the DT391GS Rugged GNSS Tablets for the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT).
The DT391GS tablets with Intel Celeron Dual Core Processors are used as Inspector Positioning Tablets with the critical hardware and software needed ... more Clocks 'failed' onboard Europe's navigation satellites: ESA Russia, China Work on Joint High-Precision Satellite Navigation System Raytheon completes qualification testing of next-gen GPS Launch and Checkout System |
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Arizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exploration has been under way for more than a year.
LunaH-Map, the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper, will launch in September 2018. Its task will be to find water and ice at the south pole of the moon, and map the deposits.
ASU Now s ... more Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82 The moon is older than scientists thought New map of the Moon under creation in China |
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The appearance of small bodies in the outer solar system could be deceiving. Asteroids and dwarf planets may be camouflaged with an outer layer of material that actually comes from somewhere else.
Using data primarily gathered by SOFIA, NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a team of astronomers has detected the presence of substantial amounts of material on the surface ... more Successful Deep Space Maneuver for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs NASA's Newly Announced Mission Could Solve the Mystery of Water on Asteroid Psyche |
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When NASA's Terra satellite passed over Alaska's erupting Bogoslof Volcano the MODIS instrument aboard captured an image of a large ash plume surrounded by clouds making it appear to be wrapped in white.
The Bogoslof Volcano is located on Bogoslof Island at 53 55'38" north latitude and 168 2'4" west longitude, along the southern edge of the Bering Sea. It is about 35 miles northwest of Una ... more World's First Weather-Cracking Wind Satellite Aeolus to Improve Future Forecasts China to launch electromagnetic monitoring satellite for earthquake study Study tracks 'memory' of soil moisture |
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The daily U.S. economic cost from solar storm-induced electricity blackouts could be in the tens of billions of dollars, with more than half the loss from indirect costs outside the blackout zone, according to a new study.
Previous studies have focused on direct economic costs within the blackout zone, failing to take into account indirect domestic and international supply chain loss from ... more ALMA starts observing the sun Next-generation optics offer the widest real-time views of vast regions of the sun NASA moon data provides more accurate 2017 eclipse path |
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A team of University of Notre Dame astrophysicists led by Peter Garnavich, professor of physics, has observed the unexplained fading of an interacting binary star, one of the first discoveries using the University's Sarah L. Krizmanich Telescope.
The binary star, FO Aquarii, located in the Milky Way galaxy and Aquarius constellation about 500 light-years from Earth, consists of a white dwa ... more Contracts Signed for ELT Mirrors and Sensors A tale of two pulsars' tails: Plumes offer geometry lessons to astronomers Astronomy prof, student predict explosion that will change the night sky |
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Every few thousand years, an unlucky star wanders too close to the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The black hole's powerful gravity rips the star apart, sending a long streamer of gas whipping outward. That would seem to be the end of the story, but it's not. New research shows that not only can the gas gather itself into planet-size objects, but those objects then are flung througho ... more Light source discovery 'challenges basic assumption' of physics Seeing the quantum future literally CU Boulder to lead operations for NASA black holes mission |
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