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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 4, 2017 SpaceX has completed testing of all three first-stage cores on its Falcon Heavy rocket. The company is preparing for the rocket's first flight test, scheduled for early November. "Falcon Heavy's 3 first stage cores have all completed testing at our rocket development facility in McGregor, TX," the aerospace company announced on Twitter. Falcon Heavy's 3 first stage cores have all completed testing at our rocket development facility in McGregor, ... read more |
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ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricaneParis (ESA) Sep 05, 2017 Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and NASA astronauts Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson returned to Earth this morning after their stay on the International Space Station, landing in the steppes of K ... more 
Pentagon Will Have to Rely on Russian Rocket Engines Until Mid-2020sMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017 The US Defense Department's technical and funding challenges will result in Pentagon using the Russian RD-180 rocket engines until mid-2020s which is longer than it had initially been expected, loca ... more  
NASA Team Passes Major Technological Milestone for Characterizing ExoplanetsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA researchers say they have passed a major milestone in their quest to mature more powerful tools for directly detecting and analyzing the atmospheres of giant planets outside the solar system - ... more  
GomSpace partners with Airbus Defence and Space to enhance space-based aircraft surveillanceParis (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 omSpace A/S ("GomSpace") a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB (publ) (the "Company") has entered a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") with Airbus Defence and Space. At Paris Airshow Airbus ... more |
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Juno Scientists Prepare for Seventh Science Pass of JupiterWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Friday, Sept. 1, at 2:49 p.m. PDT (5:49 p.m. EDT and 21:49 UTC). At the time of perijove (defined a ... more  
NASA Invites CubeSat Launch Initiative ApplicationsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 NASA has invited accredited education institutions, nonprofit organizations, and NASA centers to submit applications for the agency's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI). Applicants must submit proposa ... more  
Cassini's 21st dive is overPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2017 The heavens often seem vast and unchanging as seen from Earth, but movement in the skies is the norm. The relative motions of both Cassini and Enceladus over a 15-minute period create the movement s ... more  
Airbus Perlan Mission II Soars Into History, Sets New World Record for Glider AltitudeEl Calafate, Argentina (SPX) Sep 05, 2017 Airbus Perlan Mission II, the world's first initiative to send an engineless aircraft to the edge of space, made history yesterday in the Patagonia region of Argentina by soaring to over 52,000 feet ... more 
What's hot and what's not at Berlin's IFA tech fairBerlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017 Berlin's IFA technology fair, Europe's largest and a bellwether for the Christmas season, draws to a close Wednesday. Here is a quick overview of what's hot and what's not in the aisles. ... more  
Equatorial jet in Venusian atmosphere discovered by AkatsukiSapporo, Japan (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 Observations by Japan's Venus climate orbiter Akatsuki have revealed an equatorial jet in the lower to middle cloud layer of the planet's atmosphere, a finding that could be pivotal to unraveling a ... more |
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Kacific selects SpaceX to provide launch servicePort Vila, Vanuatu (SPX) Sep 05, 2017 Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific) has selected SpaceX as the launch provider for its Kacific-1 satellite, which is being built by The Boeing Company. Kacific-1 will be launched on a ... more  
S.Korea, US to deploy more anti-missile defences: SeoulSeoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 South Korea and the United States will deploy more of the anti-missile defences hated by China in response to Sunday's nuclear test by North Korea, Seoul's defence ministry said Monday. ... more  
Big Bang Theory for North Korea's NukesSydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 North Korea has previously boasted of possessing thermonuclear weapons, or H-Bombs. Their claims were not taken seriously by most boffins in the past. North Korea has demonstrated the ability to bui ... more  
Europe's biggest X-ray laser begins operationsWashington (UPI) Sep 1, 2017 The European XFEL, Europe's largest X-ray laser, begins operations on Friday. The laser's official unveiling will be streamed live online. ... more |
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  Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017  Berlin's IFA technology fair, Europe's largest and a bellwether for the Christmas season, draws to a close Wednesday. Here is a quick overview of what's hot and what's not in the aisles.
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- Tablets: the fever that greeted Apple's launch of the iPad in 2010 has long dissipated. Smartphones boast increasingly large screens and high performance in a handier package than the no ... moreParis (ESA) Sep 05, 2017ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricane  Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2017Record-breaking NASA astronaut comes back to Earth  Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Voyager Spacecraft: 40 Years of Solar System Discoveries |
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The US Defense Department's technical and funding challenges will result in Pentagon using the Russian RD-180 rocket engines until mid-2020s which is longer than it had initially been expected, local media reported on Monday.
The US Wall Street Journal newspaper reported that the US Air Force and Pentagon leadership initially said that the replacement of the Russian engines with the US dom ... more Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 4, 2017SpaceX tests first stage of 'world's most powerful rocket' Port Vila, Vanuatu (SPX) Sep 05, 2017Kacific selects SpaceX to provide launch service |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017  Opportunity is exploring "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater as mission planners prepare to park the rover for a winter layover.
Winter substainally constrains the energy levels of the rover, such that the program has been exercising the strategy of driving the rover from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next.
These lily pads are locations where the terrai ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2017Citizen scientists spot Martian 'spiders' in unexpected places  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017Tributes to wetter times on Mars |
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China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration  Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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 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 Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll  London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Bids for government funding prove strong interest in LaunchUK  San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Blue Sky Network Reaffirms Commitment to Brazilian Market |
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Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have for the first time shown that neural networks - a form of artificial intelligence - can accurately analyze the complex distortions in spacetime known as gravitational lenses 10 million times faster than traditional methods.
"Analyses that typically take weeks to months to complete, ... moreWashington (UPI) Sep 1, 2017Europe's biggest X-ray laser begins operations  Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Bit data goes anti-skyrmions  Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2017Clamping down on causality by probing laser cavities |
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In everyday life, ultraviolet, or UV, light earns a bad reputation for being responsible for sunburns and other harmful effects on humans. However, research suggests that UV light may have played a critical role in the emergence of life on Earth and could be a key for where to look for life elsewhere in the universe.
A new study by Sukrit Ranjan of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrop ... moreGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA Team Passes Major Technological Milestone for Characterizing Exoplanets  Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 01, 2017Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets  Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2017X-ray footprinting solves mystery of metal-breathing protein |
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NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Friday, Sept. 1, at 2:49 p.m. PDT (5:49 p.m. EDT and 21:49 UTC). At the time of perijove (defined as the point in Juno's orbit when it is closest to the planet's center), the spacecraft will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops.
Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, ... more Cincinnati, OH (SPX) Sep 04, 2017To Pluto and beyond  Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 
Earth is 70 percent water, but only a tiny portion - 0.007 percent - is available to drink.
As potable water sources dwindle, global population increases every year. One potential solution to quenching the planet's thirst is through desalinization - the process of removing salt from seawater. While tantalizing, this approach has always been too expensive and energy intensive for large-scal ... more Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Sep 04, 2017New research delivers hope for reef fish living in a high CO2 world  Apia, Samoa (AFP) Sept 4, 2017Pacific leaders to turn up heat on climate change  Norwich UK (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Anglers' delight as algal blooms breakthrough highlights innovative science |
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 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 Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2017IAI, Honeywell Aerospace team for GPS anti-jam system  New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2017India to launch satellite next week to fix malfunctioning navigation system  Tokyo (AFP) Aug 19, 2017Japan 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 San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project  New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
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NASA's asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer), will pass about 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) above Earth just before 12:52 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 22. Using Earth as a slingshot, the spacecraft will receive an assist to complete its journey to the asteroid Bennu.
OSIRIS-REx is undertaking ... more Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Close encounters of the stellar kind  Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 31, 2017House-Sized Near-Earth Objects Rarer Than We Thought  Miami (AFP) Aug 30, 2017Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1 |
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 Essex, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 
eledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion euro contract by OHB System AG to supply customised Charge Coupled Device (CCD) image sensors for the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) satellite mission, under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The FLEX mission, which is the eighth in ESA's Earth Explorer programme, is scheduled to launch in 2022. For the first time, it wi ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Pinpointing the sources of trans-Pacific dust  Washington (UPI) Jul 13, 2017Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows  Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2017Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth |
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 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 Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month  Joint Base Charleston SC (AFNS) Aug 28, 2017Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon"  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2017NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space |
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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 Madison WI (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Magnetic fields in distant galaxy are new piece of cosmic puzzle  Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel  Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2017ALMA finds huge hidden reservoirs of turbulent gas in distant galaxies |
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 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 provides important insight into how magnetism in the Universe formed and evolved.
The observation shows a magnetic field of a similar strength and configuration to that seen in our own Milky Way Galaxy ... more Iowa City IA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light  Albuquerque NM (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia's Z machine  Birmingham UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2017Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios |
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