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  Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2017 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed a short propulsive maneuver Wednesday to refine its track toward a New Year's Day 2019 flyby past 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) some 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth. Telemetry confirming that the engine burn went as planned reached the New Horizons mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), via NASA's Deep Space Network stations in Goldstone, California and Canberra, Australia, shortly after ... read more |
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Swirling spirals at the north pole of MarsA new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express shows off the Red Planet's north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark spiralling troughs. The mosaic was generated from 32 individual orbit 'strips' captured b ... more 
It's Never 'Groundhog Day' at JupiterNASA's Juno spacecraft will make its fourth flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Thursday, Feb. 2, at 4:57 a.m. PST (7:57 a.m. EST, 12:57 UTC). At the time of closest approach (called ... more  
Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for BillenniaThe Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved o ... more  
Aavid Thermacore Europe's technology will keep solar satellite coolA solar satellite with a deep space mission to capture the most spectacular images ever taken of the Sun will be cooled by technology pioneered by a North East England-based firm. The European ... more |
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The Outer Space Treaty has been remarkably successful - but is it fit for the modern age?Visiting Fellow, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science Space exploration is governed by a complex series of international treaties and agreements which have been ... more  
New research shows Ceres may have vanishing ice volcanoesA recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock - called cryovolcanoe ... more 
Anatomy of a debris incidentA space debris avoidance manoeuvre planned for ESA's Swarm mission proved unnecessary last week, but the close encounter highlighted the growing risk from space debris. It's an increasingly common o ... more  
The Legacy of Nazi Germany's "Wonder Weapons"Nazi Germany's "wonder weapons"or "vengeance weapons" are part of the remarkable technological advances either achieved or pursued during the course of the Second World War ... more 
Full Braking at Alpha CentauriIn April last year, billionaire Yuri Milner announced the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative. He plans to invest 100 million US dollars in the development of an ultra-light light sail that can be acce ... more  
India's Satnav Goes Out of Whack as Orbiting Atomic Clocks BreakIndian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) was launched as a more accurate navigation system compared to the US' GPS system. However, some as yet unexplained technical failures have put the ... more |
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 Iridium Adds Eighth Launch with SpaceX for Satellite Rideshare  
Dedicated Planet Imager Opens Its Eyes to Other WorldsAn astronomical instrument on Maunakea specifically designed to see planets around other stars has been successfully commissioned and has started to reveal stunning images of other worlds after almo ... more  
York Space Systems announces Space Segment Enterprise ProgramYork Space Systems, an aerospace company specializing in complete space segment customer solutions and the manufacture of small and medium class spacecraft, has announced the launch of its Space Seg ... more  
MEADS team submits updated proposal for Poland's Wilsa programThe Polish government received an updated offer for its medium-range air defense program from MEADS International. ... more  
Role of biosphere counteracting climate change may be underestimatedNew research suggests that the capacity of the terrestrial biosphere to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) may have been underestimated in past calculations due to certain land-use changes not being fully ... more |
  
In April last year, billionaire Yuri Milner announced the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative. He plans to invest 100 million US dollars in the development of an ultra-light light sail that can be accelerated to 20 percent of the speed of light to reach the Alpha Centauri star system within 20 years.
The problem of how to slow down this projectile once it reaches its target remains a challeng ... more New Era of Space Travel: Private Station May Replace ISS by Late 2020 The Outer Space Treaty has been remarkably successful - but is it fit for the modern age? Progress MS-03 cargo spacecraft to reenter January 31 |
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Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully ground tested its indigenously developed Cryogenic Upper Stage for GSLV MkIII on January 25, 2017. The cryogenic stage designated as C25 was tested for a duration of 50 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri demonstrating all the stage operations. The performance of the Stage during the test was as predicted. This is the f ... more NASA sounding rocket launches into Alaskan night Russia to call tender for 2nd Phase of Vostochny Spaceport construction in Fall Russia to check space flight engines over faulty parts |
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A new mosaic from ESA's Mars Express shows off the Red Planet's north polar ice cap and its distinctive dark spiralling troughs. The mosaic was generated from 32 individual orbit 'strips' captured between 2004 and 2010, and covers an area of around a million square kilometres.
The ice cap is a permanent fixture, but in the winter season - as it is now in early 2017 - temperatures are cold ... more Meteorite reveals 2 billion years of volcanic activity on Mars Opportunity marks 13 years of ground operations on Mars Similar-Looking Ridges on Mars Have Diverse Origins |
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China's plans for deep-space exploration included two Mars missions and one Jupiter probe.
China plans its first Mars probe by 2020, said Wu Yanhua, vice director of the China National Space Administration.
A second Mars probe will bring back samples and conduct research on the planet's structure, composition and environment, Wu said.
Also on the agenda are an asteroid explorat ... more China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory China launches commercial rocket mission Kuaizhou-1A China Space Plan to Develop "Strength and Size" |
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Iridium Communications has contracted with SpaceX for an eighth Falcon 9 launch. Along for the ride are the twin-satellites of the NASA/GFZ Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, which will be deployed into a separate low-Earth orbit, marking the first rideshare deal for Iridium. An agreement of this kind is economical for all parties, and affords Iridium the abili ... more Space, Ukrainian-style: Through Crisis to Revival ESA Planetary Science Archive gets a new lookIridium-1 NEXT Launched on a Falcon 9 |
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A solar satellite with a deep space mission to capture the most spectacular images ever taken of the Sun will be cooled by technology pioneered by a North East England-based firm.
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter will use k-Core Annealed Pyrolytic Graphite technology (APG) designed and manufactured by Aavid Thermacore Europe Ltd. Aavid Thermacore's technology will keep instruments ... more NASA's New Shape-Shifting Radiator Inspired by Origami Space Traffic Management Japan 'space junk' collector in trouble |
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A new device on the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii has delivered its first images, showing a ring of planet-forming dust around a star, and separately, a cool, star-like body, called a brown dwarf, lying near its companion star. The device, called a vortex coronagraph, was recently installed inside NIRC2 (Near Infrared Camera 2), the workhorse infrared imaging camera at Keck. It has the potenti ... more Dedicated Planet Imager Opens Its Eyes to Other Worlds First footage of a living stylodactylid shrimp filter-feeding at depth of 4826m SF State astronomer searches for signs of life on Wolf 1061 exoplanet |
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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft completed a short propulsive maneuver Wednesday to refine its track toward a New Year's Day 2019 flyby past 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt object (KBO) some 4 billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) from Earth.
Telemetry confirming that the engine burn went as planned reached the New Horizons mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory ... more It's Never 'Groundhog Day' at Jupiter Public to Choose Jupiter Picture Sites for NASA Juno Experiment resolves mystery about wind flows on Jupiter |
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Oceanographers commonly calculate large scale surface ocean circulation from satellite sea level information using a concept called "geostrophy", which describes the relationship between oceanic surface flows and sea level gradient.
Conversely, researchers rely on data from in-water current meters to measure smaller scale motion. New research led by University of Hawai'i at Manoa (UHM) oce ... more A closer look at what caused the Flint water crisis Controlling electron spin makes water splitting more efficient Marine ecosystems show resilience to climate disturbance |
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Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) was launched as a more accurate navigation system compared to the US' GPS system. However, some as yet unexplained technical failures have put the accuracy of the system into question.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has downplayed the failure of three atomic clocks onboard one of the satellites of the India's home grown amb ... more First-ever GPS data release to boost space-weather science NASA space radio could change how flights are tracked worldwide ISRO to Launch Standby Navigation Satellite to Replace IRNSS-1A |
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The Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved on the present-day lunar surface.
It has long been speculated that the Moon has been intermittently sprayed with the Earth's oxygen, with some researchers suggesting the nitrogen and noble gases ... more Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017 LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water deposits India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landing |
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A recently discovered solitary ice volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres may have some hidden older siblings, say scientists who have tested a likely way such mountains of icy rock - called cryovolcanoes - might disappear over millions of years.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft discovered Ceres's 4-kilometer (2.5-mile) tall Ahuna Mons cryovolcano in 2015. Other icy worlds in our solar system, like Pluto ... more Earth Narrowly Dodges Three Large Asteroids Objective: To deflect asteroids, thus preventing their collision with Earth Gaia turns its eyes to asteroid hunting |
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Researchers in Japan say they may be one step closer to solving the mystery at the core of the Earth.
It has long been established that approximately 85 percent of the Earth's core is made of iron, while nickel makes up an additional 10 percent. Details of the final 5 percent - believed to be some amount of light elements - has, until now, eluded scientists.
According to the Japanese ... more Wind satellite heads for final testing NASA Makes an EPIC Update to Website for Daily Earth Pics Subscale Glider Could Assist in Weather Studies, Prediction |
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A long-standing mystery among marine biologists is why otherwise healthy whales, dolphins, and porpoises - collectively known as cetaceans - end up getting stranded along coastal areas worldwide. Could severe solar storms, which affect Earth's magnetic fields, be confusing their internal compasses and causing them to lose their way?
Although some have postulated this and other theories, no ... more New space weather model helps simulate magnetic structure of solar storms Extreme space weather-induced blackouts could cost US more than $40 billion daily ALMA starts observing the sun |
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  An international science team says NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has observed high-energy light from solar eruptions located on the far side of the sun, which should block direct light from these events. This apparent paradox is providing solar scientists with a unique tool for exploring how charged particles are accelerated to nearly the speed of light and move across the sun during so ... more NASA's fermi discovers the most extreme blazars yet Cosmic dust that formed our planets traced to giant stars Both push and pull drive our galaxy's race through space |
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Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich have, for the first time, measured the lifetime of an excited state in the nucleus of an unstable element. This is a major step toward a nuclear clock that could keep even better time than today's best atomic timekeepers.
Atomic clocks are the most precise chronometers we now have. These timekeepers are based on precise knowledg ... more Study reveals substantial evidence of holographic universe 'Ghost particles' could improve understanding the universe Shaken, but not stirred |
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