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Dragon Spacecraft Prepared to Resupply International Space Station byy Bob Granath for KSC News Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 31, 2017 The International Space Station brings together science, technology and human innovation, demonstrating new technologies and research breakthroughs not possible on Earth. A resupply line of unpiloted spacecraft keeps this work going, supporting efforts to enable human and robotic exploration of destinations well beyond low-Earth orbit. The next mission to the Earth-orbiting laboratory will be the eleventh commercial resupply services flight for SpaceX. L ... read more |
Halos discovered on Mars widen time frame for potential life Los Alamos NM (SPX) May 31, 2017 Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica--called "halos"--has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much lo ... more New York NY (SPX) May 31, 2017 Global law firm Reed Smith LLP has announced the formation of a new area of focus for the firm- Aviation and Aerospace Finance and Commercial Space Business - with the addition of two attorneys: par ... more Beijing (XNA) May 30, 2017 Many black holes and neutron stars are thought to be hidden in the Milky Way. Since they don't emit visible light, or are covered by dust, only X-ray telescopes can find them. China will soon ... more Cambridge, Canada (SPX) May 31, 2017 exactEarth Ltd ("exactEarth" or the "Company") (TSX: XCT), a leading provider of Satellite AIS data services announces the launch of exactView RT powered by Harris ("exactView RT") - the world's fir ... more |
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A 3-D look at the 2015 El Nino Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017 El Nino is a recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Two back-to-back 3-D visualizations track the changes in ocean temperatures an ... more Washington (UPI) May 30, 2017 Venus is the most the Earth-like planet in our solar system. But, surprisingly, it doesn't host much volcanic activity. Until now, scientists weren't sure why. ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2017 Saturn's icy, ocean-bearing moon Enceladus may have tipped over in the distant past, according to recent research from NASA's Cassini mission. Researchers with the mission found evidence that the mo ... more Upton NY (SPX) May 31, 2017 By teasing out signatures of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists smashing atoms at the R ... more Washington (UPI) May 25, 2017 Israel's Elbit Systems Ltd has been awarded a contract to deliver Direct Infrared Counter-Measures to an unidentified international organization. ... more Bristol, UK (SPX) May 30, 2017 A team of scientists led by the University of Bristol has provided new insights into the origins of the Archaea, the group of simple cellular organisms that are the ancestors of all complex life. Th ... more |
Disaster risk management: Science helps save lives Strathclyde, UK (SPX) May 30, 2017 The world's highest gain high power laser amplifier - by many orders of magnitude - has been developed in research led at the University of Strathclyde. The researchers demonstrated the feasibility ... more Onna, Japan (SPX) May 30, 2017 The quantum world is both elegant and mysterious. It is a sphere of existence where the laws of physics experienced in everyday life are broken--particles can exist in two places at once, they can r ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2017 Materials exposed to neutron radiation tend to experience significant damage, leading to the containment challenges involved in immobilizing nuclear waste or nuclear plant confinements. At the nanos ... more Houston TX (SPX) May 30, 2017 Rice University scientists have created a rechargeable lithium metal battery with three times the capacity of commercial lithium-ion batteries by resolving something that has long stumped researcher ... more |
Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2017 Halfway into its planned two-year demonstration attached to the International Space Station, the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, is showing that soft materials can perform as well as rigid materials for habitation volumes in space. The BEAM was launched and attached to station through a partnership between NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems Division (AES) and Bigelow Aerospace, hea ... more NASA honors Kennedy's space vision on 100th birthday Conch shells may inspire better helmets, body armor MIT researchers engineer shape-shifting food |
Sparks NV (SPX) May 29, 2017 Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) successfully passed the third integration milestone for the Dream Chaser program under the NASA Commercial Resupply Services (CRS2) program, bringing it a major step closer to providing resupply services to the International Space Station (ISS). CRS2 Integration Review #3 (IR3) confirmed SNC's Dream Chaser Cargo System design meets NASA's key requirements an ... more Dragon Spacecraft Prepared to Resupply International Space Station NASA's Space Launch System Engine Testing Heats Up Successful launch puts New Zealand in space race |
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Los Alamos NM (SPX) May 31, 2017 Lighter-toned bedrock that surrounds fractures and comprises high concentrations of silica--called "halos"--has been found in Gale crater on Mars, indicating that the planet had liquid water much longer than previously believed. The new finding is reported in a paper published this week in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union. "The concentration of sili ... more Student-Made Mars Rover Concepts Lift Off Illinois Company Among Hundreds Supporting NASA Mission to Mars Preparations Continue Before Driving into 'Perseverance Valley' |
Washington DC (Sputnik) May 24, 2017 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 A cabin on the moon? China hones the lunar lifestyle China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission China to conduct several manned space flights around 2020 |
New York NY (SPX) May 31, 2017 Global law firm Reed Smith LLP has announced the formation of a new area of focus for the firm- Aviation and Aerospace Finance and Commercial Space Business - with the addition of two attorneys: partner Elizabeth (Liz) Evans joins the firm's New York office and senior counsel Delbert (Del) D. Smith, PhD will be resident in the firm's Tysons office. Both attorneys were most recently with Dentons, ... more New Horizons for Alexander Gerst Government space program spending reaches 62B dollars in 2016 New Target Date for Second Iridium NEXT Launch |
Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2017 On Oct.13, 2014 something very strange happened to the camera aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC), which normally produces beautifully clear images of the lunar surface, produced an image that was wild and jittery. From the sudden and jagged pattern apparent in the image, the LROC team determined that the camera must have been hit by a ... more Strathclyde-led research develops world's highest gain high-power laser amplifier Atomic structure of irradiated materials is more akin to liquid than glass Using light to rearrange macroscopic structures |
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Moscow (Sputnik) May 30, 2017 The discovery of viable spores and DNA fragments of Earth-based microorganisms resistant to unfavorable conditions 250 miles above the Earth's surface substantiates the proposal to expand the boundaries of its biosphere, Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos said Monday. Roscosmos cosmonauts had collected 19 samples of cosmic dust from the surface of the International Space Station (I ... more Russia thinks microorganisms may be living outside the space station The race to trace TRAPPIST-1h Water forms superstructure around DNA, new study shows |
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017 arly science results from NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter portray the largest planet in our solar system as a complex, gigantic, turbulent world, with Earth-sized polar cyclones, plunging storm systems that travel deep into the heart of the gas giant, and a mammoth, lumpy magnetic field that may indicate it was generated closer to the planet's surface than previously thought. "We are excite ... more First results from Juno show cyclones and massive magnetism Jupiters complex transient auroras NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017 El Nino is a recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific. Two back-to-back 3-D visualizations track the changes in ocean temperatures and currents, respectively, throughout the life cycle of the 2015-2016 El Nino event, chronicling its inception in early 2015 to its dissipation by April 2016. Blue regions represent colder and red regi ... more Researchers untangle causes of differences in East Coast sea level rise LA lawns use 70 billion gallons of water a year Great Barrier Reef bleaching worse than first thought |
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 Researchers working toward indoor location detection Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlight Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua |
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Washington 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 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 Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun's heat NASA selects ASU's ShadowCam for moon mission |
London, Canada (SPX) May 29, 2017 Almost two billion years ago, a 10-kilometre-wide chunk of space slammed down into rock near what is now the city of Sudbury. Now, scientists from Western University and the University of Portsmouth are marrying details of that meteorite impact with technology that measures surrounding crystal fragments as a way to date other ancient meteorite strikes. The pioneering technique is helping a ... more NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun Twisting an Asteroid |
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Cambridge, Canada (SPX) May 31, 2017 exactEarth Ltd ("exactEarth" or the "Company") (TSX: XCT), a leading provider of Satellite AIS data services announces the launch of exactView RT powered by Harris ("exactView RT") - the world's first global, persistent real-time Satellite AIS service. This revolutionary capability is expected to enable a wide variety of new service capabilities for the global maritime community and to con ... more Earth is a jewel, says astronaut after six months away SES-14 integrates NASA ultraviolet space spectrograph NASA's CYGNSS Satellite Constellation Begins Public Data Release |
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 UV Spectropolarimetry Opens a New Window for Solar Physics Research Space weather events linked to human activity First direct exploration of magnetic fields in the upper solar atmosphere |
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Raleigh NC (SPX) May 29, 2017 Researchers from North Carolina State University have discovered a technique for controlling light with electric fields. "Our method is similar to the technique used to provide the computing capabilities of computers," says Linyou Cao, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at NC State and corresponding author of a paper on the work. "In computers, an electric field is ... more First Stone Ceremony for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope Understanding Star Formation in the Nucleus of Galaxy IC 342 New NASA Mission to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars, Aid in Deep Space Navigation |
Upton NY (SPX) May 31, 2017 By teasing out signatures of particles that decay just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists smashing atoms at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are revealing new details about the fundamental particles that make up our world. Particle collisions at RHIC - a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of ... more Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole Unveiling the quantum necklace Large Hadron Collider data to be translated for the piano |
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