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Lightning strike postpones SpaceX launch until Saturday Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Jun 02, 2017 A lightning strike near Cape Canaveral forced SpaceX to delay until Saturday its first-ever cargo delivery to the astronauts living in orbit using a vessel that has already flown to space once before, NASA said Thursday. The lightning did not hit any of SpaceX's equipment but happened within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the launch pad. The strike happened about 25 minutes before the scheduled launch at 5:55 pm (2155 GMT). "The lightning flight rule requires 30 minutes for you to clear t ... read more |
Colossal rocket-launching plane rolls toward testing San Francisco (AFP) June 1, 2017 A colossal aircraft capable of launching satellite-toting rockets into space is closer to testing, having been rolled out of a hangar in the desert, its creators said on Wednesday. ... more Tokyo (AFP) June 1, 2017 Japan successfully launched a satellite Thursday as part of a broader effort to build a homegrown geolocation system that boosts the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres. ... more Sydney (AFP) May 31, 2017 The growing amount of fast-moving space debris orbiting the Earth could lead to catastrophic collisions with satellites, hurting economies, researchers warned Wednesday ahead of a summit to coordinate efforts to remove the junk. ... more Miami (AFP) May 31, 2017 A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more |
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NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker Washington DC (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 NASA has renamed the Solar Probe Plus spacecraft - humanity's first mission to a star, which will launch in 2018 - as the Parker Solar Probe in honor of astrophysicist Eugene Parker. The announcemen ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) May 26, 2017 A new NASA study finds that during Greenland's hottest summers on record, 2010 and 2012, the ice in Rink Glacier on the island's west coast didn't just melt faster than usual, it slid through the gl ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2017 On May 25, 2017, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, saw a partial solar eclipse in space when it caught the moon passing in front of the sun. The lunar transit lasted almost an hour, between ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 According to The Space Report, the global space economy grew by 9 percent in 2014, reaching a total of $330 billion worldwide. In response to the industry boom and expanded roles of both Unive ... more Coventry UK (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 A giant gas planet [or brown dwarf] - up to fifty times the mass of Jupiter, encircled by a ring of dust - is likely hurtling around a star more than a thousand light-years away from Earth, accordin ... more Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 e-GEOS, a firm made up by Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%), has entered into a 7.5-million- euro framework contract with the European Union Satellite Centre (SATCEN) for the suppl ... more |
Scientists detect light-matter interaction in single layer of atoms Washington (UPI) May 24, 2017 General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems has received a $40.8 million modification to an existing contract for production of the MK 82/MK 200 Missile Fire Control System director controller equipment. ... more Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) May 30, 2017 Sedimentary layers record the history of the Earth. They contain stratigraphic cycles and patterns that precisely reveal the succession of climatic and tectonic conditions that have occurred over mi ... more Washington DC (SPX) May 30, 2017 Although computer models of archaeological sites are ideal software tools for managing spatially referenced data and commonly used to yield insights which contribute to the protection of heritage ma ... more Shanghai (XNA) May 30, 2017 From shared bicycles to bank cards and unmanned patrol vehicles, China's home-grown BeiDou navigation system has increasing numbers of applications linked to the everyday life. Precise positio ... 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 |
Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Jun 02, 2017 A lightning strike near Cape Canaveral forced SpaceX to delay until Saturday its first-ever cargo delivery to the astronauts living in orbit using a vessel that has already flown to space once before, NASA said Thursday. The lightning did not hit any of SpaceX's equipment but happened within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of the launch pad. The strike happened about 25 minutes before the s ... more Colossal rocket-launching plane rolls toward testing Dream Chaser Spacecraft Passes Major Milestone Dragon Spacecraft Prepared to Resupply International Space Station |
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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 |
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 01, 2017 According to The Space Report, the global space economy grew by 9 percent in 2014, reaching a total of $330 billion worldwide. In response to the industry boom and expanded roles of both University of Colorado Boulder and the state of Colorado in space exploration and space-developed technology, the university launched an undergraduate space minor in the 2016-17 academic year. The Sp ... more Leading Global Air And Space Law Group Joins Reed Smith New Horizons for Alexander Gerst Government space program spending reaches 62B dollars in 2016 |
Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) May 30, 2017 Materials classified as "nanoporous" have structures (or "frameworks") with pores up to 100 nm in diameter. These include diverse materials used in different fields from gas separation, catalysis, and even medicine (e.g. activated charcoal). The performance of nanoporous materials depends on both their chemical composition and the shape of their pores, but the latter is very difficult to quantif ... more Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies New Zealand company partners with U.S. Army for engineered skin New method allows real-time monitoring of irradiated materials |
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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 Giant Ringed Planet Likely Cause of Mysterious Eclipses |
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 Sea level as a metronome of Earth's history Report: China plans underwater monitoring system Bacteria may supercharge the future of wastewater treatment |
Tokyo (AFP) June 1, 2017 Japan successfully launched a satellite Thursday as part of a broader effort to build a homegrown geolocation system that boosts the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres. An H-IIA rocket blasted off Thursday morning from the Tanegashima space centre in southern Japan carrying the "Michibiki" No.2 satellite, which was later released into orbit. "The ... more Chinese firms develop BeiDou navigation applications GIS is a powerful tool that should be used with caution 2 SOPS says goodbye to GPS satellite |
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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 |
Miami (AFP) May 31, 2017 A new NASA mission aims to brush by the sun, coming closer than any spacecraft in history to its scorching heat and radiation in order to reveal how stars are made, the US space agency said Wednesday. After liftoff from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2018, the Parker Solar Probe will become the first to fly directly into the sun's atmosphere, known as the corona. The plan for th ... more NASA's SDO sees partial eclipse in space NASA renames Solar mission to honor Eugene Parker CLASP Sounding Rocket Mission Opens New Research Window in Solar Physics |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 29, 2017 A new NASA mission is headed for the International Space Station next month to observe one of the strangest observable objects in the universe. Launching June 1, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) will be installed aboard the space station as the first mission dedicated to studying neutron stars, a type of collapsed star that is so dense scientists are unsure how matter ... more Scientists detect light-matter interaction in single layer of atoms China's space telescope to survey Milky Way China's space telescope to observe "big eaters" in universe |
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 Quantum states reveal themselves with measurable 'fingerprint' A network of crystals for long-distance quantum communication |
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