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  Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2017 DARPA has selected The Boeing Company to complete advanced design work for the Agency's Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to build and fly the first of an entirely new class of hypersonic aircraft that would bolster national security by providing short-notice, low-cost access to space. The program aims to achieve a capability well out of reach today-launches to low Earth orbit in days, as compared to the months or years of preparation currently needed to get a single satellite on ... read more |
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NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal AsteroidPasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2017 Psyche, NASA's Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 - four years e ... more  
Schiaparelli landing investigation completedParis (ESA) May 25, 2017 The inquiry into the crash-landing of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module has concluded that conflicting information in the onboard computer caused the descent sequence to end prematurely. The Sch ... more  
Successful launch puts New Zealand in space raceWellington (AFP) May 25, 2017 New Zealand joined the exclusive space-race club on Thursday with the successful launch of a Rocket Lab test craft named Electron. ... more  
Robots help shed light on how humans walkBoston MA (SPX) May 25, 2017 Learning how to walk is difficult for toddlers to master; it's even harder for adults who are recovering from a stroke, traumatic brain injury, or other condition, requiring months of intensive, oft ... more |
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Mouse sperm survives in space, but could human babies?Miami (AFP) May 24, 2017 Freeze-dried mouse sperm that spent nine months in space has been used to produce healthy rodent offspring back on Earth, Japanese researchers said this week. ... more  
SES-14 integrates NASA ultraviolet space spectrographLuxembourg (SPX) May 24, 2017 SES report the successful integration of NASA's Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) hosted payload with SES-14. GOLD will employ an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph to measur ... more 
Russia to create new Super-Heavy Class rocket after 2025Sochi (Sputnik) May 24, 2017 Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin posed the task before Roscosmos to speed up creating a super-heavy class rocket. Russian President Vla ... more  
CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar PhysicsHuntsville AL (SPX) May 24, 2017 A team of NASA scientists and international partners used data from the the high-precision science instrument CLASP - the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter - to provide the first-ever po ... more  
Biggest Ever Simulations Help Uncover the History of the GalaxyLondon, UK (SPX) May 25, 2017 Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of gala ... more 
Measured for the first time: Direction of light waves changed by quantum effectVienna, Austria (SPX) May 25, 2017 A light wave sent through empty space always oscillates in the same direction. However, certain materials can be used to rotate the direction in which the light is oscillating when placed in a magne ... more |
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NASA's CYGNSS Satellite Constellation Begins Public Data ReleaseWashington DC (SPX) May 25, 2017 On May 22, NASA's Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) began regular production of its science data products - measurements of ocean surface wind speed and roughness - with public rel ... more  
Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar ExplorersWashington DC (SPX) May 25, 2017 Tenacity and drive are hallmarks of Cornell University's Cislunar Explorers Team. But there is another key factor in building and testing their spacecraft: Just add water. "The core concept be ... more 
CAST project places new limitations on dark matterFreiburg im Breisgau, Germany (SPX) May 24, 2017 Axions are particles whose hypothetical existence was introduced in 1977 by Roberto Peccei and Helen Quinn. The particles have been the talk of the town lately because their existence could largely ... more  
Large volcanic eruption may have caused the first mass extinctionSendai, Japan (SPX) May 23, 2017 Researchers in the USA and Japan say they may have found the cause of the first mass extinction of life. There have been five mass extinctions since the divergent evolution of early animals 60 ... more |
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  Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2017  DARPA has selected The Boeing Company to complete advanced design work for the Agency's Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program, which aims to build and fly the first of an entirely new class of hypersonic aircraft that would bolster national security by providing short-notice, low-cost access to space.
The program aims to achieve a capability well out of reach today-launches to low Earth o ... more Logan, UT (SPX) May 24, 2017SDL-Supported SmallSat Launched from International Space Station  Miami (AFP) May 23, 2017'Victory' for US astronauts on critical spacewalk to replace power box  Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2017NASA Acting Administrator Statement on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2017 
Plasma propulsion is an important and efficient technology used to control spacecraft for Earth observation, communications and fundamental exploration of outer space.
Plasma propulsion systems use electric power to ionize propellant gas and transform it into the fourth state of matter, known as plasma. Electrically charged ions and electrons are accelerated in an exhaust beam to generate ... moreWellington (AFP) May 25, 2017Successful launch puts New Zealand in space race Sochi (Sputnik) May 24, 2017Russia to create new Super-Heavy Class rocket after 2025 Seattle WA (SPX) May 18, 2017Spaceflight buys Electron Rocket from Rocket Lab |
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The inquiry into the crash-landing of the ExoMars Schiaparelli module has concluded that conflicting information in the onboard computer caused the descent sequence to end prematurely.
The Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing demonstrator module separated from its mothership, the Trace Gas Orbiter, as planned on 16 October last year, and coasted towards Mars for three days.
Much o ... more Honolulu HI (SPX) May 22, 2017HI-SEAS Mission V Mars simulation marks midway point  Washington DC (SPX) May 19, 2017Deciphering the fluid floorplan of a planet  Washington DC (SPX) May 17, 2017How hard did it rain on Mars |
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A woman in the US state of California was arrested Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to smuggle space communications technology to China, the US Department of Justice said in a press release.
"A Pomona woman was arrested this morning on federal charges that accuse her of conspiring to procure and illegally export sensitive space communications technology to her native China," the release st ... more Beijing (XNA) May 12, 2017A cabin on the moon? China hones the lunar lifestyle  Beijing (AFP) May 11, 2017China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission  Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2017China to conduct several manned space flights around 2020 |
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Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) achieved critical milestone of the AsiaSat 9 program with the successful conclusion of the Satellite Pre-Ship Review (SPSR) meeting with Space Systems Loral (SSL) on 7 April 2017. Both AsiaSat and SSL agreed that AsiaSat 9 is ready for shipment to the launch site as soon as required.
During the meeting, performance data of the spa ... more Luxembourg (SPX) May 22, 2017SES Networks offers new hybrid resiliency service  Boston, MA (SPX) May 08, 2017Allied Minds' portfolio company BridgeSat raises $6 million in Series A financing  Arlington, VA (SPX) May 09, 2017AIA report outlines policies needed to boost the US Space Industry competitiveness |
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Irish company Arralis, world leaders in building technology and products that are the future of global radar and wireless communications, are announcing the launch of their new Leonis Ka band chipset, which will complement their growing millimetre wave communications product portfolio.
Ka band antennas are 400% smaller than their Ku band rivals which opens up the consumer and connected veh ... more Cologne, Germany (SPX) May 25, 2017Physicists discover mechanism behind granular capillary effect  Berkeley CA (SPX) May 23, 2017HPC4MfG paper manufacturing project yields first results  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 22, 2017Unfolding the folding mechanism of ladybug wings |
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 Davis CA (SPX) May 22, 2017 
There's something new to look for in the heavens, and it's called a "synestia," according to planetary scientists Simon Lock at Harvard University and Sarah Stewart at the University of California, Davis. A synestia, they propose, would be a huge, spinning, donut-shaped mass of hot, vaporized rock, formed as planet-sized objects smash into each other.
And at one point early in its history, ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 24, 2017NASA Scientist Parlays Experience to Build Ocean Worlds Instrument  Seattle WA (SPX) May 22, 2017Kepler Telescope Spies Details of Trappist-1's Outermost Planet  Pasadena CA (JPL) May 22, 2017Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1h |
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The combined power of three space observatories, including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has helped astronomers uncover a moon orbiting the third largest dwarf planet, catalogued as 2007 OR10. The pair resides in the frigid outskirts of our solar system called the Kuiper Belt, a realm of icy debris left over from our solar system's formation 4.6 billion years ago.
With this discovery, mos ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 18, 2017NASA asks science community for Europa Lander Instruments ideas  Berkeley CA (SPX) May 11, 2017Waves of lava seen in Io's largest volcanic crater  Washington DC (Sputnik) May 08, 2017Not So Great Anymore: Jupiter's Red Spot Shrinks to Smallest Size Ever |
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Over the week of May 15, extreme rainfall drenched northeastern Australia and NASA data provided a look at the record totals.
The rainfall was the heaviest rainfall in that area since tropical cyclone Debbie hit Queensland Australia in late March. Much of the recent extremely heavy rainfall was due to storms associated with a trough or elongated area of low pressure slowly moving over nort ... more Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 25, 2017Water is surprisingly ordered on the nanoscale  Paris (ESA) May 25, 2017Sentinel-2 captures coral bleaching of Great Barrier Reef  Sydney, Australia (SPX) May 22, 2017Heat on for Australia's Great Barrier Reef as temperatures rise |
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 Schriever AFB CO (SPX) Apr 26, 2017 
At 25-years old, Global Positioning System Satellite Vehicle Number 27 completed its time in orbit before the 2nd Space Operations Squadron said goodbye via final command and disposal here April 18. SVN 27 was launched in 1992, meaning it performed more than triple its design life of 7.5 years.
"The most interesting thing about this process for me, was the ability to do some experimentatio ... more Houston TX (SPX) Apr 18, 2017Researchers working toward indoor location detection  Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlight  Managua (AFP) April 7, 2017Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua |
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Tenacity and drive are hallmarks of Cornell University's Cislunar Explorers Team. But there is another key factor in building and testing their spacecraft: Just add water.
"The core concept behind our work is using water as rocket fuel," said project manager Kyle Patrick Doyle. "It's something that we've been looking at for a long time, and it's exciting to have a chance to test our techno ... more Paris (ESA) May 12, 2017Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon  Paris (ESA) May 04, 2017Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun's heat  Tempe AZ (SPX) May 02, 2017NASA selects ASU's ShadowCam for moon mission |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2017 
Psyche, NASA's Discovery Mission to a unique metal asteroid, has been moved up one year with launch in the summer of 2022, and with a planned arrival at the main belt asteroid in 2026 - four years earlier than the original timeline.
"We challenged the mission design team to explore if an earlier launch date could provide a more efficient trajectory to the asteroid Psyche, and they came thr ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 17, 2017Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 16, 2017Twisting an Asteroid  Ithaca NY (SPX) May 15, 2017Oldest buckthorn fossilized flowers found in Argentina |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) May 24, 2017 
SES report the successful integration of NASA's Global-Scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) hosted payload with SES-14.
GOLD will employ an ultraviolet imaging spectrograph to measure densities and temperatures in the Earth's thermosphere and ionosphere in response to Sun-Earth interaction.
It is aimed at revolutionizing scientists' understanding of this part of the space e ... moreWashington DC (SPX) May 25, 2017NASA's CYGNSS Satellite Constellation Begins Public Data Release  Addis Ababa (XNA) May 25, 2017AU-EU joint space-based initiative calls for proposals  New Delhi (Sputnik) May 24, 2017GSLV to launch US-India NISAR EO Satellite |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) May 24, 2017 
A team of NASA scientists and international partners used data from the the high-precision science instrument CLASP - the Chromospheric Lyman-Alpha Spectro-Polarimeter - to provide the first-ever polarization measurements of ultraviolet light emitted from the sun's outer atmosphere. Previous polarization measurements were restricted to visible light that is emitted from the sun's surface.
... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 19, 2017UV Spectropolarimetry Opens a New Window for Solar Physics Research  Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 18, 2017Space weather events linked to human activity Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 18, 2017First direct exploration of magnetic fields in the upper solar atmosphere |
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 Canbera, Australia (SPX) May 22, 2017 
A CSIRO telescope in Western Australia has found its first 'fast radio burst' from space after less than four days of searching.
The discovery came so quickly that the telescope, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) near Geraldton in Western Australia, looks set to become a world champion in this fiercely competitive area of astronomy.
The new fast radio burst fin ... moreLondon, UK (SPX) May 25, 2017Biggest Ever Simulations Help Uncover the History of the Galaxy  Washington DC (SPX) May 24, 2017How tornado-shaped flow in a dynamo strengthens the magnetic field Vienna, Austria (SPX) May 25, 2017Measured for the first time: Direction of light waves changed by quantum effect |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) May 24, 2017 
Pointing the Very Large Array (VLA) at a famous galaxy for the first time in two decades, a team of astronomers got a big surprise, finding that a bright new object had appeared near the galaxy's core. The object, the scientists concluded, is either a very rare type of supernova explosion or, more likely, an outburst from a second supermassive black hole closely orbiting the galaxy's primary, ce ... more Washington DC (UPI) May 22, 2017Model predicts presence of naked singularity in 4D space  Baltimore, MD (SPX) May 22, 2017Astronomers make the largest map of the Universe yet  Helsinki, Finland (SPX) May 19, 2017Destruction of a quantum monopole observed |
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