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  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation reports that it will invest approximately 11 billion yen to construct a new facility for the production of satellites at company's Kamakura Works in Kamakura, Japan. Together with existing facilities, Mitsubishi Electric's production capacity will increase to 18 satellites in parallel, up from 10 in parallel at present, which will enable the company to satisfy growing demand for governmental satellites in Japan and commercial communication satellites worldwide. Mits ... read more |
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Dream Chaser to use Europe's next-generation docking systemParis (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe's International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dr ... more  
No Roscosmos plans to send space tourists to ISS before 2020Rio De Janeiro (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 Russia's Roscosmos state corporation has no plans to send space tourists to the country's segment of the International Space Station (ISS) before 2020, Roscosmos deputy director general for internat ... more 
BRICS States Want to Expand Cooperation to Space ScienceColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 Secretary-General of China's National Space Administration Yulong Tian said that the BRICS countries are interested in broadening the space cooperation to space science mission and telecommunication ... more 
Ukraine in talks with ESA to become memberColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 Ukraine's State Space Agency is currently in accession discussions with the European Space Agency (ESA) to become its member, Chairman Yuriy Radchenko told Sputnik on the margins of the Space Sympos ... more |
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Mitsubishi Electric Chosen as Prime Contractor of Japanese Government's Engineering Test Satellite 9Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has been chosen by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the prime contractor for the Engineering Test Satellite 9 (ETS-9) scheduled to launch in 2021. ... more 
Horizon 2020 European funded DEMOCRITOS project concludes work with some key outcomesBrussels, Belgium (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The Horizon 2020 European funded DEMOCRITOS project concluded its work 6th April 2017 with some key outcomes reported in a workshop at the Delegation of the European Union to the Russian Federation ... more  
CDC Relies on Intelsat Network for African Field OfficesMcLean VA (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has operations in more than 50 countries, but in recent years, Africa has emerged as a central area of focus following efforts to contain the West African ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne achieves 3-D printing milestoneSacramento CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD) has successfully hot-fire tested a full-scale, additively manufactured thrust chamber assembly for the RL10 rocket e ... more 
China Considering Cooperation With Russia on Space DebrisColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 China is contemplating developing cooperation with Russia with respect to space debris, China's National Space Administration Secretary-General Yulong Tian told Sputnik. "As for future coopera ... more  
SES Shapes the Inflight Connectivity MarketLuxembourg (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 SES is delivering tailored services to the increasingly demanding requirements for inflight connectivity (IFC). The SES approach and the future of IFC are described in the new SES White Paper "Conne ... more |
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 SES and Luxembourg Government Extend SATMED E-Health Contract 
Gogo and SES to meet surging inflight connectivity demand in North AmericaLuxembourg (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 SES has announced new satellite capacity deals with Gogo to meet the growing demand for high-speed inflight connectivity services on travel routes over the US and Canada. The new contracts with Gogo ... more 
Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from EsrangeSweden, Kiruna (SPX) Apr 10, 2017 MAXUS 9, Europe's largest sounding rocket for experiments in micro�gravity, successfully lifted off from SSC's (Swedish Space Corporation's) launch facility Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. ... more  
Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlightParis (ESA) Apr 10, 2017 Europe's Galileo satnav network does more than let us find our way - it is also helping to save lives. Today sees a spotlight cast on Galileo's Search and Rescue service, which pinpoints people in d ... more  
Asteroid to fly safely past Earth on April 19Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times ... more |
  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 
NASA announced that Astronaut Jack Fischer and Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin are heading to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations to join the International Space Station with an April 20 flight atop a Soyuz rocket.
US Astronaut Jack Fischer and Russian Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin are heading to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations to join the In ... more Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017US astronaut John Glenn is buried with military honors  Rio De Janeiro (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017No Roscosmos plans to send space tourists to ISS before 2020  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017Russia, Europe, US Should Work Together on Space Exploration - German Agency |
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ESA and a team of European industrial contractors led by QinetiQ have finalised an agreement with Sierra Nevada Corporation for the use of Europe's International Berthing Docking Mechanism on the Dream Chaser spaceplane.
The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Dream Chaser is being developed as a reusable, lifting-body, multimission spacecraft capable of landing at commercial airports or space ... more Washington (AFP) April 6, 2017Bezos sells $1 bn in Amazon stock yearly to pay for rocket firm  Sweden, Kiruna (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Europe's largest sounding rocket launched from Esrange  Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017US-Russia Venture Hopes to Sell More RD-180 Rocket Engines to US |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2017 
Russia is a fundamental partner in the joint project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos space corporation ExoMars, Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Roberto Battiston told Sputnik.
ExoMars is the first project in the history of collaboration between the European Union and Russia that aims to search for life on Mars. The project started with the launch of a Ru ... more Estacion Yungay, Chile (AFP) April 6, 2017Chile desert combed for clues to life on Mars  Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 31, 2017New MAVEN findings reveal how Mars' atmosphere was lost to space  Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Potential Mars Airplane Resumes Flight |
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 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 Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 13, 2017China Develops Spaceship Capable of Moon Landing  Wenchang, China (XNA) Mar 13, 2017Long March-7 Y2 ready for launch of China's first cargo spacecraft  Beijing (Sputnik) Mar 09, 2017China Seeks Space Rockets Launched from Airplanes |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017 
Ukraine's State Space Agency is currently in accession discussions with the European Space Agency (ESA) to become its member, Chairman Yuriy Radchenko told Sputnik on the margins of the Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
Last Tuesday, Radchenko said during the symposium that Ukraine was actively cooperating with the ESA with a goal to become a member of the agency.
When asked wheth ... more Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2017BRICS States Want to Expand Cooperation to Space Science  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Mitsubishi Electric to Build New Satellite Production Facility  Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Horizon 2020 European funded DEMOCRITOS project concludes work with some key outcomes |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 
A team of researchers from Binghamton University, State University of New York and MIT have identified some bottlenecks in 3D printers, that, if improved, could speed up the entire process.
A research team led by Professor John Hart from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and including Bin ... more Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Apr 06, 2017A self-healing, water-repellant coating that's ultra durable  Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017Norway joins US Strategic Command space data sharing program  Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017Citizen scientist photographs space station space debris from Earth |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017 
Vast Arctic landscapes may appear to be desolate, barren places, but take a look through a microscope and you'll see thriving ecosystems. The top few meters of ice are home to an estimated hundred million billion trillion (or 10 to the power of 29) microorganisms.
That's why Joseph Cook, a researcher at the University of Sheffield in the U.K., describes it as a frozen rainforest. "I thi ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 07, 2017Exoplanet mission gets ticket to ride  Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017Atmosphere around super-earth detected  Mountain View CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2017Possible Venus twin discovered around dim star |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2017 
During April 2017 Jupiter is in opposition: it is at its closest to Earth and the hemisphere facing Earth is fully illuminated by the Sun. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope used this special configuration to capture an image of what is by far the largest planet in the Solar System. This image adds to many others made in the past, and together they allow astronomers to study changes in the atmo ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2017Neptune's movement from the inner to the outer solar system was smooth and calm  Canberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Four unknown objects being investigated in Planet X  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2017New Horizons Halfway from Pluto to Next Flyby Target |
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 Manchester, UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention as promising candidates for new filtration technologies. Now the much sought-after development of making membranes capable of sieving common salts has been achieved. New research demonstrates the real-world potential of providing clean drinking water for millions of people who struggle to access adequate clean water sources.
Th ... more Sydney (AFP) April 10, 2017'Zero recovery' for corals in back-to-back Australia bleaching  Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 10, 2017UBC invention uses bacteria to purify water  Edinburgh, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2017Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed |
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Europe's Galileo satnav network does more than let us find our way - it is also helping to save lives. Today sees a spotlight cast on Galileo's Search and Rescue service, which pinpoints people in distress on land or sea.
The service is Europe's contribution to the Cospas-Sarsat international satellite-based locating system that has helped to rescue more than 42 000 people since 1982 - the ... more Managua (AFP) April 7, 2017Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua  Washington (UPI) Apr 7, 2017Northrop Grumman, Honeywell receive EGI-M contracts  Beijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2017China's BeiDou system to expand cooperation to SE Asia |
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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 Paris (ESA) Mar 27, 2017Surviving the long dark night of the Moon  Bengaluru, India (IANS) Mar 17, 2017Team Indus To Send Seven Experiments To The Moon Including Three From India  Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 13, 2017Sun Devils working for a chance to induce photosynthesis on our lunar neighbor |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 10, 2017 
A relatively large near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three years ago will fly safely past Earth on April 19 at a distance of about 1.1 million miles (1.8 million kilometers), or about 4.6 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Although there is no possibility for the asteroid to collide with our planet, this will be a very close approach for an asteroid of this size.
The asteroid, ... more Paris (ESA) Apr 07, 2017Rosetta's intimate portrait of a comet: read all about it  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2017Ceres' temporary atmosphere linked to solar activity  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 03, 2017Comet That Took a Century to Confirm Passes by Earth |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 
Spaceflight Industries has launched BlackSky Spectra, its on-demand satellite imagery service which enables customers to discover archive images and task new images from 13 high-resolution imaging spacecraft, all from one convenient web platform.
BlackSky Spectra enables customers to easily look at the planet across every spectrum, from visual imagery to multi-spectral data including synth ... more Washington (UPI) Apr 6, 2017As CO2 levels increase, airplane rides get bumpier  Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Monitoring pollen using an aircraft  Paris (AFP) April 4, 2017How Britain became an island |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 04, 2017 
Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it should. Now researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Germany's Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics have discovered a source of the speed-up in ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2017Waves on sun give NASA new insight into space weather forecasting  Boston MA (SPX) Mar 31, 2017Next Stop: A Trip Inside the Sun's Atmosphere  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Mar 28, 2017Sunrise 2: A Second Look At The Sun |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 
A unique and powerful telescope capable of mapping the sky at submillimeter and millimeter wavelengths is headed to South America. With a slated completion date of 2021, the 6-meter aperture telescope, Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime (CCAT-p), will be located near the summit of Cerro Chajnantor in the Atacama Desert in Chile. It will give unprecedented insights into how stars and galaxi ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious cosmic explosion puzzles astronomers  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Hubble's double galaxy gaze: Leda and NGC 4424  Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2017Mysterious bursts of energy do come from outer space |
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 Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 06, 2017 
A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the silence before being replaced by a distinct buzz. The buzzing grows louder, then abruptly drops back into silence. Twenty-eight Lego figurines shift slightly - they survive. But one unlucky companion lies on his back, toppled by an invisible force.
The culprit of this miniature disaster? Target ... more Boston MA (SPX) Apr 06, 2017Seeing Black Holes and Beyond  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 06, 2017The inner lives of molecules  Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 06, 2017Ready for the new kelvin |
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