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NASA's CYGNSS Satellite Constellation Enters Science Operations Phase Washington DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2017 NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) - a constellation of eight microsatellites that will take detailed measurement of windspeeds inside hurricanes - successfully completed the development and on-orbit commissioning phases of its mission on March 23 and moved into the science operations phase. The spacecraft have now begun their science instrument calibration and validation and are on track to deliver the first science data in May, just in time for the start of the 2017 Atlan ... read more |
Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Our sun is a chaotic place, simmering with magnetic energy and constantly spewing out particles. Sometimes the sun releases solar flares and coronal mass ejections - huge eruptions of charged partic ... more Rochester NY (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Research conducted by scientists at Rochester Institute of Technology rules out a challenge to the accepted standard model of the universe and theory of how galaxies form by shedding new light on a ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Of all the varieties of exploding stars, the ones called Type Ia are perhaps the most intriguing. Their predictable brightness lets astronomers measure the expansion of the universe, which led to th ... more Hilo, HI (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 A team led by researchers from Osaka Sangyo University, with members from Tohoku University, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and others, has used the Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope to ... more |
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Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Plasma, the ionised state of matter found in stars, is still not fully understood, largely due to its instability. Astrophysicists have long-since sought to develop models that can account for the t ... more Houston TX (SPX) Apr 03, 2017 240 miles above Earth, traveling 12 times the speed of a bullet, a cloth blanket gets away during a spacewalk and immediately drifts out of reach, into space, away from the space station, forever. I ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 In a first, ISRO, India's space research agency, has hired a private company to build two large satellites for India's navigation system. The private firm will initially undergo a rigorous developme ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 First flight of the Russian next-generation Federation spacecraft will be unmanned, the space vehicle will be guided by a robot named Fedor, Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation said Friday. ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 Flight tests of Russia's new medium-class carrier rocket, Phoenix, from the Angara launch pad at Vostochny may start in 2034, the documentation also indicates. Angara-A5V, being developed by R ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 Russia's Voronezh Mechanical Plant will overhaul nearly all the recalled engines for the Proton launch vehicles this and next year, the head of Russia's Energomash space and rocket engine manufactur ... more |
Kremlin Believes Russia Can Compete With Private Firms Like SpaceX in Space Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the "habitable zone," the region around a star wher ... more Houston TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 To stand up to the heat and pressure of next-generation rocket engines, the composite fibers used to make them should be fuzzy. The Rice University laboratory of materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan, ... more Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Every so often the Sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems. When clouds of high-speed charged pa ... more Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Earlier this month, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) reached an important milestone by opening its "second eye on the sky" - a new instrument called the "APOGEE South spectrograph." This new inst ... more |
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough and Flight Engineer Peggy Whitson of NASA concluded their spacewalk at 2:33 p.m. EDT. During the spacewalk, which lasted just over seven hours, the two astronauts successfully reconnected cables and electrical connections on the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3. PMA-3 will provide the pressurized interface between the station and the second of two intern ... more Robot Fedor to Guide Russia's Federation Spacecraft in Maiden Flight - Roscosmos CRESST Signs $87M Cooperative Agreement with NASA Goddard Mission Control Team Finds Answers During Spacewalk |
Paris (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Arianespace shareholders voted unanimously to convert the launch operator and subsidiary of Airbus Safran Launchers to an SAS (simplified joint-stock company) at the company's Annual General Meeting, held in Paris on Monday, March 27. The modification aims to streamline and modernize Arianespace's governance to achieve greater responsiveness, facilitate relationships with industrial prime ... more 'Fuzzy' fibers can take rockets' heat SpaceX hails 'revolution' after recycled rocket launch, landing Flight Tests of Super-Heavy Angara-A5V Carrier Rocket May Start in 2027 |
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Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft led by the University of Colorado Boulder. "We've determined that most of the gas ever present in ... more Potential Mars Airplane Resumes Flight Prolific Mars Orbiter Completes 50,000 Orbits Final two ExoMars landing sites chosen |
Nanjing (XNA) Mar 31, 2017 Yuanwang space tracking ships, which follows the progress of satellites and other space-bound craft, will carry out 19 maritime space monitoring missions in 2017, according to the maritime satellite measurement and control authority on Wednesday. Yuanwang-5 left port Wednesday and Yuanwang-6 started its journey Monday. Yuanwang-7 and the rocket transporting fleet will set sail in Apr ... more China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
Hanoi (XNA) Mar 27, 2017 Vietnam targets to self-develop Lotusat-2 by 2022 when its technical facilities for satellite research, assembly, integration and testing are ready to operate, according to the Vietnam National Satellite Center (VNSC). Pham Anh Tuan, director of VNSC, was quoted by local Nhan Dan (People) newspaper as saying on Friday that after developing one-kilogram PicoDragon, the first Vietnamese self ... more Globalsat Sky and Space Global sign MoU for testing and offering satellite service in Latin America OneWeb Satellites breaks ground on high-volume satellite manufacturing facility Start-Ups at the Final Frontier |
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 The idea is intriguing: if only a single atom or small molecule was needed for a single unit of data (a zero or a one in the case of binary digital technology), massive volumes of data could be stored in the tiniest amount of space. This is theoretically possible, because certain atoms can be magnetised in only one of two possible directions: "spin up" or "spin down". Information could then be s ... more Atomic 're-packing' behind metallic glass mystery Modern alchemy creates luminescent iron molecules The beginning of the end of order |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water is most likely to exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Other potentially habitable worlds have also been discovered in recent years, leaving many people wondering: How do we find out ... more Sun's UV Light Helped Spark Life Viruses in the oceanic basement Astronomers identify purest, most massive brown dwarf |
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 27, 2017 The Australian National University (ANU) is launching a search for a new major planet within our solar system, inviting anyone around the world with access to the Internet to help make the historic discovery. Anyone who helps find the so-called Planet X will work with ANU astronomers to validate the discovery through the International Astronomical Union. ANU astrophysicist Dr. Brad T ... more Juno Spacecraft Set for Fifth Jupiter Flyby Scientists make the case to restore Pluto's planet status ESA's Jupiter mission moves off the drawing board |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2017 NASA pulled off a scientific double play in Hawaii this winter, using the same instruments and aircraft to study both volcanoes and coral reefs. Besides helping scientists understand these two unique environments better, the data will be used to evaluate the possibility of preparing a potential future NASA satellite that would monitor ecosystem changes and natural hazards. The advantages o ... more Melting sea ice may lead to more life in the sea Blockbuster nature series catches dynamite fishermen on film 'Weather whiplash' triggered by changing climate will degrade Midwest's drinking water |
New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 03, 2017 In a first, ISRO, India's space research agency, has hired a private company to build two large satellites for India's navigation system. The private firm will initially undergo a rigorous development process under ISRO for at least six months. Alpha Design Technologies, the private company which will build the satellites, is an INR 4 billion defense equipment supplier. This is part ... more Satnavs 'switch off' parts of the brain Technology can reduce GPS outages from Northern Lights, researchers say DevOps process reduces GPS OCX development time for Raytheon |
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Providence RI (SPX) Mar 30, 2017 While orbiting the Moon in 1971, the crew of Apollo 15 photographed a strange geological feature - a bumpy, D-shaped depression about two miles long and a mile wide - that has fascinated planetary scientists ever since. Some have suggested that the feature, known as Ina, is evidence of a volcanic eruption Moon within the past 100 million years - a billion years or so after most volcanic activity ... more Surviving the long dark night of the Moon Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor |
London, Canada (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the sun has been playing a cosmic game of chicken with giant Jupiter and with about 6,000 other asteroids sharing the giant planet's space, says a report published in the latest issue of Nature. The asteroid, nicknamed Bee-Zed, is the only one in this solar system that's known both to have an opposite, retrograde orb ... more A Trojan in Retreat ExoTerra to become first privately owned space company to fly to an asteroid OSIRIS-REx asteroid search tests instruments, science team |
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Durham NC (SPX) Mar 29, 2017 Drought and reduced seasonal flooding of wetlands and farm fields threaten a globally important stopover site for tens of thousands of migratory shorebirds in California's Sacramento Valley, a new Duke University-led study shows. The researchers' analysis of historical biweekly NASA Landsat satellite images of the valley reveals that flooded habitat near the peak time of spring migration h ... more Japan counts down to cherry blossom fever Humans likely influence giant airstreams NASA spacecraft investigate clues in radiation belts |
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Every so often the Sun emits an explosive burst of charged particles that makes its way to Earth and wreaks havoc on power grids, aircraft and satellite systems. When clouds of high-speed charged particles come racing off the Sun, they can bathe spacecraft, astronauts and planetary surfaces in damaging radiation. Understanding why the Sun occasionally emits these high-energy particles can help s ... more Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting Planetary waves, first found on Earth, are discovered on sun Sunrise 2: A Second Look At The Sun |
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London, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Enigmatic dark energy, thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according to a Hungarian-American team. The researchers believe that standard models of the universe fail to take account of its changing structure, but that once this is done the need for dark energy disappears. The team publish their results in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... more Reading between the lines of highly turbulent plasmas Seeing the Whole Galaxy with a 'Second Eye on the Sky' Shadow of Gas Cloud Detected in Ancient Proto-Supercluster |
Norwich, UK (SPX) Mar 31, 2017 Scientists have discovered a new mechanism involved in the creation of paired light particles, which could have significant impact on the study of quantum physics. Researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have shown that when photons - the fundamental particles of light - are created in pairs, they can emerge from different, rather than the same, location. The ground-breaki ... more NIST physicists show ion pairs perform enhanced 'spooky action' Scientists recreate space particle collisions inside Large Hadron Collider In a quantum race everyone is both a winner and a loser |
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