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Weightlessness affects health of cosmonauts at molecular level Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 A team of scientists from Russia and Canada has analyzed the effect of space conditions on the protein composition in blood samples of 18 Russian cosmonauts. The results indicated many significant changes in the human body caused by space flight. These changes are intended to help the body adapt and take place in all the major types of human cells, tissues, and organs. The results of the research have been published in the prestigious scientific journal Nature Scientific Reports. Skoltech and MIPT ... read more |
Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A team of astronomers has observed the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light-years from Earth. The galaxy is the most distant in which a coherent magnetic field has been observed and provide ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will use its infrared capabilities to study the "ocean worlds" of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, adding to observations previously made by NASA' ... more Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A team of Dutch astronomers, led by Thomas Wijnen (Radboud University), has managed to tilt and shrink gaseous discs, in which planets form, in a virtual wind tunnel. The research helps for example ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashvi ... more |
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VLA reveals distant galaxy's magnetic field Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a pro ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2017 Scientists from three major Russian research institutes have made an important breakthrough in the field of muon tomography, creating tracking devices which allow geologists to 'see through' objects ... more Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 As of today, exactEarth, in partnership with Harris Corporation, is bringing five more satellites from our ever-growing real-time (RT) constellation into service. These additional satellites will ra ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights. Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, ... more Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 Beijing and Moscow may sign an agreement this October on joint space exploration, to be carried out in 2018-2022, Chinese media reported. The deal would cover five areas, including lunar and d ... more |
Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft London, UK (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 The Seven Sisters, as they were known to the ancient Greeks, are now known to modern astronomers as the Pleiades star cluster - a set of stars which are visible to the naked eye and have been studie ... more Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 NASA is making progress and awarding prizes in its competition to build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration. The agency has awarded first place and a prize of $250,000 to Team Fos ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2017 The U.S. Army announced today it has concluded it's Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology program after a series of tests and demonstrations over the last week. ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 To perpetuate the pace of innovation and progress in microelectronics technology over the past half-century, it will take an enormous village rife with innovators. This week, about 100 of those inno ... more |
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 A representative from the Mission Control Center told Sputnik that the International Space Station has increased its average altitude by about 1,970 feet after an orbit adjustment maneuver. The International Space Station (ISS) has increased its average altitude by about 1,970 feet after an orbit adjustment maneuver using Progress MS-06 cargo spacecraft engines, a representative from the M ... more Setting the Spaceplane Stage Forty years on, Voyager still hurtles through space NASA should continue large strategic missions to maintain leadership in space |
Los Angeles CA (AFP) Aug 25, 2017 SpaceX on Thursday launched the first satellite designed and built entirely in Taiwan, a spacecraft that aims to boost disaster forecasts and mapping, environmental observation and space research. The satellite, called FORMOSAT-5, weighs nearly 1,000 pounds (450 kilograms) and blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 11:51 am (1851 GMT). "Falcon 9 has lifted off," SpaceX engineer Lauren ... more Wind Tunnel Test of Deep Space Rocket Calls For New Coat of Paint Falcon 9 launches from Vandenberg SpaceX unveils peek at sleek new spacesuit |
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Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for exploring the Red Planet. For the first time ever, deep-space ground stations from ESA, NASA and Russia's Roscosmos joined together, on 13 August, to receive ultra-faint signals from ESA's ExoMa ... more Opportunity staying put for a bit to image valley NASA's Next Mars Mission to Investigate Interior of Red Planet For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 Beijing and Moscow may sign an agreement this October on joint space exploration, to be carried out in 2018-2022, Chinese media reported. The deal would cover five areas, including lunar and deep space exploration, satellite systems, space debris research and Earth remote sensing, CGTN broadcaster reported on Sunday. Xu Yansong, the head of the International Cooperation Department of ... more ESA and Chinese astronauts train together To boldly go where no startup has gone before China's satellite sends unbreakable cipher from space |
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 LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll Bids for government funding prove strong interest in LaunchUK Blue Sky Network Reaffirms Commitment to Brazilian Market |
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 NASA is making progress and awarding prizes in its competition to build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space exploration. The agency has awarded first place and a prize of $250,000 to Team Foster + Partners | Branch Technology of Chattanooga, Tennessee, for successfully completing Phase 2: Level 3 of NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge, a NASA's Centennial Challenges prize competition. Pen ... more The breaking point Full Circle: NASA to Demonstrate Refabricator to Recycle, Reuse, Repeat Lockheed receives contract for Marine Corps AN/TPS-59A(V)3 radars |
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Arecibo PR (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 The National Science Foundation's Arecibo Observatory and the Planetary Habitability Laboratory of the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo joined the Red Dots project using the ESO's exoplanet-hunter in the search for new planets around our nearest stars. This new collaboration will simultaneously observe in both the optical and radio spectrum Barnard's Star, a popular star in the science ... more Gulf of Mexico tube worm is one of the longest-living animals in the world Molecular Outflow Launched Beyond Disk Around Young Star Scientists take first snapshots of a molecular propeller that runs at 100 degrees Celsius |
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017 In July 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sent home the first close-up pictures of Pluto and its moons - amazing imagery that inspired many to wonder what a flight over the distant worlds' icy terrain might be like. Wonder no more. Using actual New Horizons data and digital elevation models of Pluto and its largest moon Charon, mission scientists have created flyover movies that offer s ... more Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot New evidence in support of the Planet Nine hypothesis Scientists probe Neptune's depths to reveal secrets of icy planets |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2017 The Navy announced Monday it is developing technology for the wireless underwater recharging of unmanned undersea vehicles at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. Current UUVs used for reconnaissance, mine hunting, and other tasks need to be recharged manually at either port or ship. Underwater charging stations would allow the craft to stay on station for much longer per ... more Decoding coral DNA could help save reefs from extinction Oil and water can mix under the right conditions, scientists say Caspian Sea evaporating as temperatures rise |
Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 As of today, exactEarth, in partnership with Harris Corporation, is bringing five more satellites from our ever-growing real-time (RT) constellation into service. These additional satellites will raise the total to nine in our real-time system that have been successfully incorporated into exactEarth services. Combined with our first-generation satellites, we are proud to be operating the l ... more India to launch satellite next week to fix malfunctioning navigation system IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system Japan launches satellite for better GPS system |
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Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the science community in Europe to propose ideas for research that could be performed on the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicinity. The Deep Space Gateway is a strategic platform that is being prepared by the International Space Station partner agencies to be humanity's next step beyond Low-Earth Orbit and out into the S ... more Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 28, 2017 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft fired its thrusters to position itself on the correct course for its upcoming Earth flyby. The spacecraft, which is on a two-year outbound journey to asteroid Bennu, successfully performed a precision course adjustment on Wednesday to prepare for the gravity slingshot on Sept. 22. This trajectory correction maneuver was the first to use the spacecraft's Attitud ... more Phoenicid meteor shower from dead comet arises again after 58 years Dino-killing asteroid could have thrust Earth into 2 years of darkness Large asteroid to safely pass Earth on September 1 |
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Keith Koehler for Wallops News Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Aug 24, 2017 A NASA rocket mission to study disturbances in the upper atmosphere that interfere with communication and technology systems will form night-time white artificial clouds visible by residents of the Republic of the Marshall Islands during two rocket flights to occur between August 29 and September 9. The Waves and Instabilities from a Neutral Dynamo, o ... more Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth Man-made fossil methane emission levels larger than previously believed Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows |
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee. As LRO crossed the lunar south pole heading north at 3,579 mph (1,600 meters per second), the shadow of the Moon was racing across the United States at 1,500 mph (670 meters per ... more Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space ESA's Proba-3 will create artificial solar eclipses |
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Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology - the nature and origin of the magnetic fields that play an important role in how galaxies develop over time. The scientists used the National Science Foundati ... more Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel Proposed Astrophysics Mission to Conduct the First Infrared Spectral Survey of the Entire Sky Best ever image of a star's surface and atmosphere |
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 A long-standing but unproven assumption about the X-ray spectra of black holes in space has been contradicted by hands-on experiments performed at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine. Z, the most energetic laboratory X-ray source on Earth, can duplicate the X-rays surrounding black holes that otherwise can be watched only from a great distance and then theorized about. "Of course, em ... more Record-breaking galaxy 5 billion light-years away shows we live in a magnetic universe Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios NICER and LISA to Confirm or Disprove Predictions of General Relativity |
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