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NASA listens in as electrons whistle while they work Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves unlike anything we experience on Earth. In regions laced with magnetic fields, such as the space environment surrounding our planet, particles are continually tossed to and fro by the motion of various electromagnetic waves known as plasma waves. These plasma waves, like the roaring ocean surf, create a rhythmic cacophony that ... read more |
ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 ASTROSCALE completed a Series C round and raised $53 million in total to date. Private companies, ANA Holdings Inc. (ANA - parent company of ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS Co., Ltd.) and OSG Corporation, join r ... more Washington (AFP) July 14, 2017 US lawmakers on Friday advanced a defense bill that includes a provision to establish a new branch of the military - dubbed "Space Corps" - that would focus on space operations. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017 Computer hard drives, documents and other materials of Korea Aerospace Industries have been seized by state prosecutors in a corruption probe, officials announced last weekend. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017 Scientists are utilizing the International Space Station's microgravity in the search for improved antidotes for chemical agents like sarin and VX. ... more |
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Norway Launches Microsatellites built by Toronto's Space Flight Laboratory Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 The Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has announced the successful launch of two Norwegian microsatellites developed and built by SFL for the Norwegian Space Centre with support from the Norwegian Coast ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 NASA's new Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission to study the densest observable objects in the universe has begun science operations. Launched June 3 on an 18-month baseline mi ... more Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 18, 2017 Current budget constraints mean that NASA has had to revise its plans to reach Mars in the 2030s, but the target remains feasible with more funding, Professor John Logsdon of George Washington Unive ... more Washington DC (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 NASA has awarded a contract to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland, for support of mission operations systems at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Mission S ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 18, 2017 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully designed and developed a ship-borne transportable antenna terminal to fulfill the telemetry tracking and command requirements for all s ... more Hong Kong (AFP) July 13, 2017 Pilotless aircraft, flying electric vehicles and bespoke air cabins are the future of flight, Airbus said Thursday. ... more |
Russia launches 73 satellites into orbit Washington (UPI) Jul 14, 2017 The House passed the $696 billion 2018 National Defense Authorization Act on Friday with a bipartisan vote of 344 to 81. ... more Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017 An advance GPS anti-jam navigation system is to be jointly developed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries and Honeywell Aerospace, the companies announced on Monday. ... more Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 The Greenland ice sheet is often seen as a pristine environment, but new research has revealed that may not be the case. A Danish-led study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, ... more Eugene OR (SPX) Jul 12, 2017 Volcanic eruptions such as Mount St. Helens' in 1980 show the explosiveness of magma moving through the Earth's crust. Now geologists are excited about what uplifted granite bodies such as Yosemite' ... more |
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 NASA has awarded a contract to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, Inc., of Greenbelt, Maryland, for support of mission operations systems at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. The Mission Systems Operations Contract (MSOC) is a cost-plus-award-fee contract with core work, indefinite-delivery-indefinite-quantity, and level-of-effort components. The contract includes a two-year base ... more Counting calories in space NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington As the world embraces space, the 50 year old Outer Space Treaty needs adaptation |
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 18, 2017 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully designed and developed a ship-borne transportable antenna terminal to fulfill the telemetry tracking and command requirements for all satellites and launch vehicle missions. ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (ISTRAC)'s 4.6-meter ship-borne antenna system has been built indigenously and consists of three-axis Antenna ... more Hypersonic Travel Possibility Heats Up Massively After New Material Discovery Aerojet Rocketdyne tests Advanced Electric Propulsion System After two delays, SpaceX launches broadband satellite for IntelSat |
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Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 18, 2017 Current budget constraints mean that NASA has had to revise its plans to reach Mars in the 2030s, but the target remains feasible with more funding, Professor John Logsdon of George Washington University told Radio Sputnik. NASA can't afford to send humans to Mars on its current budget, NASA's head of human spaceflight William Gerstenmaier said earlier this week. "I can't put a date on hum ... more Curiosity Mars Rover Begins Study of Ridge Destination For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun Tributes to wetter times on Mars |
Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2017 China has a clear plan to provide sea launches for commercial payloads to be carried by Long March rockets, according to an aerospace official. Tang Yagang, vice head of the aerospace division of the No.1 institute of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC), said that the technology is not difficult and a sea launch platform can be built based on modifying 10,000-ton ... more Chinese satellite Zhongxing-9A enters preset orbit Chinese Space Program: From Setback, to Manned Flights, to the Moon Chinese Rocket Fizzles Out, Puts Other Launches on Hold |
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 ASTROSCALE completed a Series C round and raised $53 million in total to date. Private companies, ANA Holdings Inc. (ANA - parent company of ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS Co., Ltd.) and OSG Corporation, join recurring venture capital investors (Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, JAFCO Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital) alongside new financier aSTART Co., Ltd. The successful completion of Se ... more Korean Aerospace offices raided in anti-corruption probe LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll Iridium Poised to Make Global Maritime Distress and Safety System History |
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 Noise is low-frequency random fluctuation that occurs in many systems, including electronics, environments, and organisms. Noise can obscure signals, so it is often removed from electronics and radio transmissions. The origin of noise in nanoscale electronics is currently of much interest, and devices that operate using noise have been proposed. Materials with a high surface-to-volume rati ... more Long Duration Experiments Reach 1,000th Day Spacepath Communications Announces Innovative Frequency Converter Systems Sorting complicated knots |
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Garching, Germany (SPX) Jul 14, 2017 For the first time, an international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) has observed a molecular outflow being launched from beyond the disk surrounding a young stellar object. Outflows carry away excess angular momentum and it has been proposed that these disk winds should be launched from a wide region in the protoplanetary disk. The re ... more Hidden Stars May Make Planets Appear Smaller Astronomers Track the Birth of a 'Super-Earth' Big, shape-shifting animals from the dawn of time |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 12, 2017 NASA's Juno mission completed a close flyby of Jupiter and its Great Red Spot on July 10, during its sixth science orbit. All of Juno's science instruments and the spacecraft's JunoCam were operating during the flyby, collecting data that are now being returned to Earth. Juno's next close flyby of Jupiter will occur on Sept. 1. Raw images from the spacecraft's latest flyby will be posted i ... more Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis |
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Jerusalem (AFP) July 13, 2017 US President Donald Trump's Middle East peace envoy said Thursday Israel would supply the Palestinians with millions of cubic metres of water annually, as Washington seeks to build confidence for fresh negotiations. Jason Greenblatt hailed an "important step forward" in a wider regional water deal, as Israel announced it would provide more than 32 million cubic metres of water to the Palesti ... more Climate change deepens threat to Pacific island wildlife Report: High seas in high danger as ecological tipping point nears Big Muddy Missouri river needs a plan |
Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017 An advance GPS anti-jam navigation system is to be jointly developed and manufactured by Israel Aerospace Industries and Honeywell Aerospace, the companies announced on Monday. The technology, covered under a recent memorandum of understanding between the two companies, will combine IAI's existing ADA GPS Anti-Jamming system together with Honeywell's embedded GPS Inertial Navigation Sys ... more India Plans to Roll Out National GPS Next Year Orbital Alliance Techsystems receives contract for GPS artillery Europe's Galileo satnav identifies problems behind failing clocks |
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Paris (ESA) Jul 07, 2017 During a simulated space mission underwater last week, ESA tested an ingenious concept to bring astronauts safely back to base if they are incapacitated during lunar exploration. Four 'aquanauts', including ESA astronaut Pedro Duque and NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, took part in NASA's 22nd Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO-22) mission, spending 10 days in the Aquarius habitat ... more Japanese Space Agency Proposes Plan to Send Astronauts to Moon Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030 Russian aerospace firm to cooperate with China on Lunar exploration missions |
Tucson, AZ (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 Pitted terrains inside fresh complex craters on Ceres are similar to terrains seen Mars and Vesta, and are likely formed through the rapid evaporation of subsurface H2O, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Hanna G. Sizemore says. "Pitted terrains may be common morphological markers of volatile-rich near-surface material in the asteroid belt," Sizemore said. ... more Bizarro comet challenging researchers NASA'S First Asteroid Deflection Mission Enters Next Design Phase Are asteroids humanity's 'greatest challenge'? |
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Palo Alto CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2017 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. reports that its subsidiary Space Systems Loral (SSL) was selected to provide a next-generation satellite constellation for high-resolution Earth imaging to DigitalGlobe, the global leader in Earth imagery and information about our changing planet. Called WorldView Legion, the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites will more than double DigitalGlobe's hig ... more Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows Quantum mechanics inside Earth's core Computer vision techniques shed light on urban change |
Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2017 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, a space probe dedicated to the study of the sun, has captured footage of a sunspot rotating towards Earth. Sunsports are patches on the surface of the sun that appear darker than their surroundings due to the loss of surface tension caused by magnetic flux, an intense concentration of complex magnetic fields. Sunspots are relatively common, but ... more Improved representation of solar variability in climate models Musical Sun Reduces Range of Magnetic Activity Scientists uncover origins of the Sun's swirling spicules |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 NASA's new Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) mission to study the densest observable objects in the universe has begun science operations. Launched June 3 on an 18-month baseline mission, NICER will help scientists understand the nature of the densest stable form of matter located deep in the cores of neutron stars using X-ray measurements. NICER operates around the clock ... more Scientists discovered one of the brightest galaxies known Vast new super cluster of galaxies named Saraswati Shedding light on galaxies' rotation secrets |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 18, 2017 Space is not empty, nor is it silent. While technically a vacuum, space nonetheless contains energetic charged particles, governed by magnetic and electric fields, and it behaves unlike anything we experience on Earth. In regions laced with magnetic fields, such as the space environment surrounding our planet, particles are continually tossed to and fro by the motion of various electromagnetic w ... more Coupling a nano-trumpet with a quantum dot enables precise position determination Scientists create first laboratory generation of astrophysical shock waves Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium |
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