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Spacex To Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond The Moon Next Year Hawthorne CA (SPX) Feb 28, 2017 SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission. "We expect to conduct health and fitness tests, as well as begin initial training later this year. Other flight teams have also expressed strong interest and we expect more to follow. Additional information will be released about the flight teams, contingent upon their approval and confirmation of the health and fitness test results," ... read more |
NASA wind tunnel tests Lockheed Martin X-Plane concept Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Supersonic passenger airplanes are another step closer to reality as NASA and Lockheed Martin begin the first high-speed wind tunnel tests for the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) X-plane prelim ... more San Francisco CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd and DigitalGlobe, have announced a definitive merger agreement, pursuant to which MDA will acquire DigitalGlobe for US$35.00 per share in a combination of cas ... more Boca Raton FL (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Zero Gravity Solutions, Inc., an agricultural biotechnology public company commercializing its technology derived from and designed for Space with significant applications for agriculture on Earth, ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 In just two years' time, a team of NASA engineers accomplished what some thought impossible: the group created a smaller, more capable "brain" for smaller spacecraft. Led by Project Manager an ... more |
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Vega flight opportunity for multiple small satellites Paris (ESA) Feb 27, 2017 Europe's Vega small launcher is set to demonstrate its extended capability to deploy multiple light satellites using its new versatile Small Satellites Mission Service (SSMS) dispenser, in the secon ... more Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Evidence of planetary debris surrounding a double sun in a Star Wars-like system has been found by a team of researchers including scientists from the University of Sheffield. The study, publi ... more Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Astronomers based at the University of Sheffield have found evidence that stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes 100 times more often than previously thought. Until now, such stell ... more Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission. A tr ... more Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Mars' mantle may be more complicated than previously thought. In a new study published in the Nature-affiliated journal Scientific Reports, researchers at LSU document geochemical changes over time ... more Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), blazed with the power of 100 million sun ... more |
Guardsmen to test space capsule recovery systems Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 27, 2017 Sentinel-2B, Europe's next Copernicus satellite is being readied by engineers from Airbus for a 7 March 2017 lift-off from Kourou, French Guiana. Sentinel-2B will be the fifth satellite of Europe's ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 For 12 days in January 2016, a football-field-sized balloon with a telescope hanging beneath it floated 24 miles above the Antarctic continent, riding the spiraling polar vortex. On Jan. 31, 2016, s ... more Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2017 The sky above parts of Earth's Southern Hemisphere will be illuminated Sunday in a "ring of fire" during the first solar eclipse of 2017, NASA said. ... more Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Feb 24, 2017 The James Webb Space Telescope continues to undergo testing at NASA facilities in Greenbelt, Md., in preparation for its scheduled 2018 launch. ... more |
Honolulu HI (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Research at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa could play a major role in NASA's goal to travel to Mars in the 2030s, including what the astronauts could eat during that historic mission. A trip to Mars and back is estimated to take about two and half years, and ideally, their diet would be healthy while requiring minimal effort and energy. UH Manoa mechanical engineering student Aleca Bor ... more Guardsmen to test space capsule recovery systems Russian cargo ship docks with space station Mystery surrounds return of Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane |
Miami (AFP) Feb 23, 2017 An unmanned cargo ship packed with food and supplies for astronauts arrived safely at the International Space Station Thursday, a day after SpaceX aborted the process due to a GPS problem. This time, the Dragon cargo ship made a "perfect approach to the capture point," a NASA commentator said, and was grabbed by the station's robotic arm at 5:44 am (1044 GMT). Astronauts Thomas Pesquet o ... more Spacex To Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond The Moon Next Year Sounding Rocket Flies in Alaska to Study Auroras Energia to make 2 modifications of Federatsiya spaceship |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 Opportunity is located on the rim of Endeavour crater, about to leave the rim and get back on the plains of Meridiani. The rover is not leaving the crater, just setting up for faster progress south along the rim toward the next major scientific objective, the gully now less than a kilometer away. Opportunity completed the last in-situ (contact) measurements on Sol 4638 (Feb. 9, 2017) ... more NASA mulls putting astronauts on deep space test flight More Earth-like than moon-like Scientists say Mars valley was flooded with water not long ago |
Beijing (XNA) Feb 21, 2017 China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday. The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST. An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... more Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April China looks to Mars, Jupiter exploration China's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
Singapore (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 Kacific Broadband Satellites Pte Ltd (Kacific) has ordered its Kacific-1 satellite from The Boeing Company (Boeing) based on the 702 satellite platform. This condominium satellite will be shared with JCSAT-18, ordered by SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation. Kacific closed a US$147 million financing round in late 2016 with a mix of equity, debt and customer prepayments which covers the purchase of ... more ESA affirms Open Access policy for images, videos and data Iridium Announces Target Date for Second Launch of Iridium NEXT Italy, Russia working closely on Mars exploration, Earth monitoring satellites |
Philadelphia PA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science was a graduate student, his advisor gathered together everyone in his lab to "throw down the gauntlet" on a new challenge in the field. Someone had predicted that if one could grow colloidal crystals that had the same structure as carbon atom ... more NASA team develops modular avionics systems for small missions Raytheon gets contract for Silent Knight radar systems Kelvin Hughes to provide SharpEye radars for U.K. OPVs |
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Pluto has long been viewed as a distant, cold and mostly dead world, but the first spacecraft to pass by it last year revealed many surprises about this distant dwarf planet. Data from the New Horizons flyby finished downloading to Earth in October, and while it will take many years for scientists to complete their inventory and model the results, early studies offer intriguing hints of its comp ... more Evidence of Star Wars-like Planetary System From Rocks, Evidence of a 'Chaotic Solar System' Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2017 NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission. This will allow Juno to accomplish its science goals, while avoiding the risk of a previously-planned engine firing that would have reduced the spacecraft's orbital period to 14 days. "Juno is healthy, its science instrum ... more Europa Flyby Mission Moves into Design Phase NASA receives science report on Europa lander concept New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby |
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Boston MA (SPX) Feb 22, 2017 Incentive-based solutions offer significant hope for addressing the myriad environmental challenges facing the world's oceans - that's the central message a leading marine ecologist delivered in Boston during a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Jane Lubchenco, a distinguished professor in the Oregon State University College of Sc ... more Basking sharks seek out winter sun Small ponds have outsized impact on global warming: study Cash-strapped Rio de Janeiro to privatize water utility |
Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2017 A prefecture in China's restive Xinjiang region has ordered all vehicles to be equipped with GPS-like tracking software, police and media reports said Tuesday, as authorities step up an "anti-terrorism" campaign. All drivers in the Bayingol Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture must install a China-developed satellite navigation system called Beidou "to prevent theft, but also primarily to maintai ... more GLONASS station in India to expedite 'space centric' warfare command Australia and Lockheed field 2nd-Gen sat-based augmentation system UK may lose access to EU Galileo GPS system after Brexit |
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New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 17, 2017 ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface. India Space Research Organization (ISRO) has selected Russian company JSC Isotope for supply of Radionuclide curium-244 (Cm-244) that enables sources to determine chemical composition of any rocks and soils. "Supplied by JSC Isotope sourc ... more Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for Billennia Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017 LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water deposits |
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Surprising images from the Rosetta spacecraft show the presence of dune-like patterns on the surface of comet Chury. Researchers at the Laboratoire de Physique et Mecanique des Milieux Heterogenes (CNRS/ESPCI Paris/UPMC/Universite Paris Diderot) studied the available images and modeled the outgassing of vapor to try to explain the phenomenon. They show that the strong pressure difference b ... more Dawn discovers evidence for organic material on Ceres Origin of spooky meteor noises reappraised by researchers New data about 2 distant asteroids give a clue to the possible 'Planet Nine' |
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Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 The Earth's core consists mostly of a huge ball of liquid metal lying at 3000 km beneath its surface, surrounded by a mantle of hot rock. Notably, at such great depths, both the core and mantle are subject to extremely high pressures and temperatures. Furthermore, research indicates that the slow creeping flow of hot buoyant rocks - moving several centimeters per year - carries heat away f ... more MDA to Acquire DigitalGlobe Sentinel-2B satellite ready for launch from Kourou NASA to launch sequel to successful Lightning Study Mission |
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 The National Science Foundation to provide critical funding to nationwide eclipse data-gathering effort. The Citizen Continental America Telescopic Eclipse project, or Citizen CATE for short, will be deploying at least 56 identical telescopes across the path of totality thanks to the financial backing of the National Science Foundation. The NSF is providing the largest contribution for the ... more Rare 'Ring of Fire' eclipse to cross Southern Hemisphere Setting Sun on Space Station Solar research What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago? |
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Madison WI (SPX) Feb 24, 2017 Plumbing a 90 million-year-old layer cake of sedimentary rock in Colorado, a team of scientists from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Northwestern University has found evidence confirming a critical theory of how the planets in our solar system behave in their orbits around the sun. The finding, published Feb. 23, 2017 in the journal Nature, is important because it provides the firs ... more NASA to blast James Webb Space Telescope with 'earsplitting' noise Dawn of a New Era for Supernova 1987A Experiments call origin of Earth's iron into question |
Sheffield UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2017 Astronomers based at the University of Sheffield have found evidence that stars are ripped apart by supermassive black holes 100 times more often than previously thought. Until now, such stellar cannibalism - known as tidal disruption events, or TDEs - had only been found in surveys which observed many thousands of galaxies, leading astronomers to believe they were exceptionally rare: only ... more First trace of differences between matter and 'ordinary' antimatter Changes of supermassive black hole in the center of NGC 2617 galaxy Why it will take supercomputers, AI to solve time travel conundrum |
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