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May 31, 2017
ROCKET SCIENCE
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

MARSDAILY
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
SPACEMART
Leading Global Air And Space Law Group Joins Reed Smith
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
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
China's space telescope to survey Milky Way
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
EARTH OBSERVATION
exactEarth Launches Revolutionary Global Real-Time Maritime Tracking and Information Service
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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WATER WORLD
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
VENUSIAN HEAT
Scientists explain why Venus hosts so few volcanoes
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
SATURN DAILY
Cassini Finds Saturn Moon May Have Tipped Over
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
TIME AND SPACE
Heavy particles get caught up in the flow
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
MISSILE DEFENSE
Elbit supplying unidentified customer with missile defense system
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
EARLY EARTH
New insights into the ancestors of all complex life
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

TECH SPACE
Strathclyde-led research develops world's highest gain high-power laser amplifier
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
TIME AND SPACE
Unveiling the quantum necklace
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
TECH SPACE
Atomic structure of irradiated materials is more akin to liquid than glass
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
ENERGY TECH
Graphene-nanotube hybrid boosts lithium metal batteries
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


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First Year of BEAM Demo Offers Valuable Data on Expandable Habitats
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
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2017
NASA honors Kennedy's space vision on 100th birthday
Boston MA (SPX) May 29, 2017
Conch shells may inspire better helmets, body armor
Boston MA (SPX) May 29, 2017
MIT researchers engineer shape-shifting food
Dream Chaser Spacecraft Passes Major Milestone
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
byy Bob Granath for KSC News
Dragon Spacecraft Prepared to Resupply International Space Station
Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) May 28, 2017
NASA's Space Launch System Engine Testing Heats Up
Wellington (AFP) May 25, 2017
Successful launch puts New Zealand in space race


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 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
Hampton VA (SPX) May 28, 2017
Student-Made Mars Rover Concepts Lift Off
Rockford IL (VOA) May 29, 2017
Illinois Company Among Hundreds Supporting NASA Mission to Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017
Preparations Continue Before Driving into 'Perseverance Valley'
California Woman Charged for Trying to Hand Over Sensitive Space Tech to China
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
Beijing (XNA) May 12, 2017
A cabin on the moon? China hones the lunar lifestyle
Beijing (AFP) May 11, 2017
China tests 'Lunar Palace' as it eyes moon mission
Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2017
China to conduct several manned space flights around 2020
Leading Global Air And Space Law Group Joins Reed Smith
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
Paris (ESA) May 30, 2017
New Horizons for Alexander Gerst
Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 30, 2017
Government space program spending reaches 62B dollars in 2016
McLean VA (SPX) May 30, 2017
New Target Date for Second Iridium NEXT Launch
Camera on NASA's Lunar Orbiter survived 2014 meteoroid hit
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, UK (SPX) May 30, 2017
Strathclyde-led research develops world's highest gain high-power laser amplifier
Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2017
Atomic structure of irradiated materials is more akin to liquid than glass
Onna, Japan (SPX) May 30, 2017
Using light to rearrange macroscopic structures


Viable Spores, DNA Fragments Discovery at ISS Justifies Biosphere's Expansion
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
Washington (UPI) May 26, 2017
Russia thinks microorganisms may be living outside the space station
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) May 29, 2017
The race to trace TRAPPIST-1h
Washington (UPI) May 25, 2017
Water forms superstructure around DNA, new study shows
A whole new Jupiter with first science results from Juno
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
Washington DC (SPX) May 26, 2017
First results from Juno show cyclones and massive magnetism
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 26, 2017
Jupiters complex transient auroras
Miami (AFP) May 25, 2017
NASA's Juno probe forces 'rethink' on Jupiter


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 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
New York NY (SPX) May 28, 2017
Researchers untangle causes of differences in East Coast sea level rise
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) May 28, 2017
LA lawns use 70 billion gallons of water a year
Sydney (AFP) May 29, 2017
Great Barrier Reef bleaching worse than first thought
2 SOPS says goodbye to GPS satellite
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, 2017
Researchers working toward indoor location detection
Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2017
Galileo's search and rescue service in the spotlight
Managua (AFP) April 7, 2017
Russia inaugurates GPS-type satellite station in Nicaragua


Cube Quest Challenge Team Spotlight: Cislunar Explorers
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
Paris (ESA) May 12, 2017
Winning plans for CubeSats to the Moon
Paris (ESA) May 04, 2017
Printing bricks from moondust using the Sun's heat
Tempe AZ (SPX) May 02, 2017
NASA selects ASU's ShadowCam for moon mission
'Tiny clocks' crystallize understanding of meteorite crashes
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
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2017
NASA Moves Up Launch of Psyche Mission to a Metal Asteroid
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 17, 2017
Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 16, 2017
Twisting an Asteroid


exactEarth Launches Revolutionary Global Real-Time Maritime Tracking and Information Service
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
Paris (AFP) May 30, 2017
Earth is a jewel, says astronaut after six months away
Luxembourg (SPX) May 30, 2017
SES-14 integrates NASA ultraviolet space spectrograph
Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2017
NASA's CYGNSS Satellite Constellation Begins Public Data Release
CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics
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, 2017
UV Spectropolarimetry Opens a New Window for Solar Physics Research
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 18, 2017
Space weather events linked to human activity
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 18, 2017
First direct exploration of magnetic fields in the upper solar atmosphere


Researchers find new way to control light with electric fields
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
Paranal Observatory, Chile (SPX) May 29, 2017
First Stone Ceremony for ESO's Extremely Large Telescope
Columbia MD (SPX) May 28, 2017
Understanding Star Formation in the Nucleus of Galaxy IC 342
Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2017
New NASA Mission to Study Mysterious Neutron Stars, Aid in Deep Space Navigation
Heavy particles get caught up in the flow
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
Baltimore MD (SPX) May 28, 2017
Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black Hole
Onna, Japan (SPX) May 30, 2017
Unveiling the quantum necklace
Washington (UPI) May 30, 2017
Large Hadron Collider data to be translated for the piano
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