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  Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 27, 2017 An international project, led by Spain's National Research Council, (CSIC) provides information on the effects a projectile impact would have on an asteroid. The aim of the project is to work out how an asteroid might be deflected so as not to collide with the Earth. The research, published in The Astrophysical Journal, focuses on the study of the asteroid Chelyabinsk, which exploded over Russian skies in 2013 after passing through the atmosphere. The probability that a kilometre-sized asteroid co ... read more |
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India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landingGoogle and nonprofit company X Prize announced Wednesday that out of 33 original teams, five have secured launch contracts to send spacecraft to the moon. Teams must launch their spacecraft no later ... more  
New project to boost Sat Nav positioning accuracy anywhere in worldThe service, to be developed at prototype level, will benefit safety-critical industries like aviation and maritime navigation, as well as high accuracy dependent applications such as offshore drill ... more 
An urban collection of modern-day micrometeoritesMore than 100 billion micrometeorites (MMs) fall to Earth each year. Until now, scientists believed that these particles could only be found in the cleanest environments, such as the Antarctic. In t ... more  
Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse OriginsThin, blade-like walls, some as tall as a 16-story building, dominate a previously undocumented network of intersecting ridges on Mars, found in images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The s ... more |
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How fast is the universe expanding? Quasars provide an answerThe H0LiCOW collaboration, a cosmology project led by EPFL and Max Planck Institute and regrouping several research organizations in the world has made a new measurement of the Hubble constant, whic ... more  
NanoSpace receives commercial order to supply components to TURKSAT 6ANanoSpace AB - a subsidiary of GS Sweden AB - has received an order of Xenon flow control components from The Scientific and Technological Research Counsil of Turkey - Space Technologies Research In ... more  
Scientists and students tackle omics at NASA workshopAs Houston gears up for the Super Bowl, scientists and students are tackling Omics during the 2017 NASA Human Research Program (HRP) Investigators' Workshop in Galveston, Texas this week. Kicking of ... more  
Russian-Japanese research helps understand the effects of microgravity on bone tissueThe co-authors from the Russian side are Oleg Gusev (Extreme Biology Lab, Kazan Federal University) and Vladimir Sychyov (Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of RAS). As is well-known ... more  
New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar stormsThe dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic ... more |
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 Astronomers measure universe expansion, get hints of 'new physics' 
Faster-than-Expected Expansion of the Universe SupportedBy using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers including researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have made an independent measurement of how ... more  
Rapid gas flares discovered in white dwarf star for the first timeIncredibly rapid gas flares from a white dwarf binary star system have been detected for the first time by Oxford University scientists. The first sighting of such activity, it suggests that our cur ... more |
  
As Houston gears up for the Super Bowl, scientists and students are tackling Omics during the 2017 NASA Human Research Program (HRP) Investigators' Workshop in Galveston, Texas this week. Kicking off the week, astronaut, molecular biologist and Human Health and Performance Deputy Director Kate Rubins, Ph.D., awarded prizes to 10 art students at Mosbacher Odyssey Academy in Galveston on Tuesday f ... more Mister Trump Goes to Washington Airbus delivers propulsion test module for the Orion programme to NASA NASA to rely on Soyuz for ISS missions until 2019 |
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2016 was a fundamental year for Airbus Safran Launchers: the construction of the company was finalized on 1st July, with integration of all its personnel, activities and sites in France and Germany. On 31st December last, Arianespace joined the Airbus Safran Launchers group, becoming a 74% owned subsidiary following the buy-out of the CNES shares. This finalizes the organization of the Group, wh ... more ULA and team launches US military spy satellite When One launch is not enough: SpaceX Return To Flight Ruptured oxidant tank likely cause of Progress accident |
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An orbital manoeuvres was performed on Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) spacecraft to avoid the impending long eclipse duration for the satellite. The duration of the eclipse would have been as long as 8 hours in the coming days.
As the satellite battery is designed to handle an eclipse duration of only about 1 Hour 40 minutes, a longer eclipse would have drained the battery beyond the safe limi ... more Commercial Crew's Role in Path to Mars Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins Bursts of methane may have warmed early Mars |
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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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ESA launches a new version of its Planetary Science Archive (PSA) website, the online interface to data from the agency's space science missions that have been exploring planets, moons and other small bodies in the Solar System. With a new design and enhanced search functionalities, the platform now provides a direct and simple access to the scientific data, helping scientists to discover and ex ... more Iridium-1 NEXT Launched on a Falcon 9 Shaping the Future: Aerospace Works to Ensure an Informed Space Policy Russia-China Joint Space Studies Center May Be Created in Southeastern Russia |
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NanoSpace AB - a subsidiary of GS Sweden AB - has received an order of Xenon flow control components from The Scientific and Technological Research Counsil of Turkey - Space Technologies Research Institute ("TUBITAK UZAY") in Ankara.
The ordered Xenon flow control components will be used onboard the geosynchronous telecommunication satellite TURKSAT 6A that is scheduled for launch in 2020. ... more First European-built all-electric satellite EUTELSAT 172B getting ready to fly NSC to deliver virtual training gear to British army Metallic hydrogen, once theory, becomes reality |
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Depths such as those at the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument are an extreme challenge for explorers, providing scarce information about their inhabitants, let alone their behavior.
While most of them are known from dead specimens gathered by trawls, a team of scientists, led by Dr. Mary Wicksten, Texas A and M University, USA, have recently retrieved footage of a living shrimp from ... more SF State astronomer searches for signs of life on Wolf 1061 exoplanet Looking for life in all the right places with the right tool Could dark streaks in Venusian clouds be microbial life |
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One mystery has been whether the jets exist only in the planet's upper atmosphere - much like the Earth's own jet streams - or whether they plunge into Jupiter's gaseous interior. If the latter is true, it could reveal clues about the planet's interior structure and internal dynamics.
Now, UCLA geophysicist Jonathan Aurnou and collaborators in Marseille, France, have simulated Jupiter's je ... more Public to Choose Jupiter Picture Sites for NASA Juno Pluto Global Color Map Lowell Observatory to renovate Pluto discovery telescope |
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If you've visited North Carolina's Outer Banks or other barrier islands, you've likely experienced their split personalities - places where high waves can pound the sandy ocean shore while herons stalk placid saltmarsh waters just a short distance landward.
New research by a team from William and Mary and its Virginia Institute of Marine Science shows that these seemingly disparate ecosyst ... more Super El Nino and the 2015 extreme summer drought over North China Researchers discover greenhouse bypass for nitrogen Oceanographic analysis offers potential crash site of MH370 |
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Experts from the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash) will construct a ground Glonass satellite navigation tracking station in Nicaragua, the TsNIIMash's press service said Monday.
"The TsNIIMash's specialists will construct a station for tracking data of the Glonass and other global satellite navigation systems in Nicaragua," the press release reads.
Ac ... more New project to boost Sat Nav positioning accuracy anywhere in world Clocks 'failed' onboard Europe's navigation satellites: ESA Russia, China Work on Joint High-Precision Satellite Navigation System |
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China plans to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, aboard the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-5.
The mission will be China's first automated moon surface sampling, first moon take-off, first unmanned docking in a lunar orbit about 380,000 km from earth, and first return flight in ... more India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landing The science behind the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper mission Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82 |
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A mission to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid moon to alter its trajectory, a possible dry-run for an exercise in saving the Earth from Armageddon, has run into a cash crunch.
The proposed joint European-US mission, which sounds like it could form the plot for a sci-fi Hollywood blockbuster, has been dubbed AIDA (Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment).
In 2022, the idea is to launch ... more Today's rare meteorites were once common Micro spacecraft investigates cometary water mystery Rare meteorites challenge our understanding of the solar system |
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When Michelle Stokes and Stacie Bender look out across the snow-capped mountains of Utah and Colorado, they see more than just a majestic landscape. They see millions of gallons of water that will eventually flow into the Colorado River. The water stored as snowpack there will make its way to some 33 million people across seven western states, irrigating acres of lettuce, fruits and nuts in Cali ... more NOAA's GOES-16 Satellite Sends First Images to Earth How satellite data changed chimpanzee conservation efforts Doubt over Everest's true height spurs fresh expedition |
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The dynamic space environment that surrounds Earth - the space our astronauts and spacecraft travel through - can be rattled by huge solar eruptions from the sun, which spew giant clouds of magnetic energy and plasma, a hot gas of electrically charged particles, out into space. The magnetic field of these solar eruptions are difficult to predict and can interact with Earth's magnetic fields, cau ... more Extreme space weather-induced blackouts could cost US more than $40 billion daily ALMA starts observing the sun Next-generation optics offer the widest real-time views of vast regions of the sun |
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"We're made of star stuff," astronomer Carl Sagan famously said. Nuclear reactions that happened in ancient stars generated much of the material that makes up our bodies, our planet and our solar system. When stars explode in violent deaths called supernovae, those newly formed elements escape and spread out in the universe.
One supernova in particular is challenging astronomers' models of ... more Discovered one of the brightest distant galaxies so far known Hunting for dark matter with massive magnets and haloscopes Rapid gas flares discovered in white dwarf star for the first time |
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By using galaxies as giant gravitational lenses, an international group of astronomers including researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have made an independent measurement of how fast the universe is expanding. The newly measured expansion rate for the local universe is consistent with earlier findings. These are, however, in intriguing disagreement with measurements of the ea ... moreAstronomers measure universe expansion, get hints of 'new physics'How fast is the universe expanding? Quasars provide an answer Scientists unveil new form of matter: Time crystals |
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