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January 16, 2018
EARTH OBSERVATION
Earth-i launches prototype of world's first full-colour, full-motion video satellite constellation



London, UK (SPX) Jan 16, 2018
British 'New Space' pioneer Earth-i has confirmed that the pre-production prototype satellite of its upcoming satellite constellation was successfully launched late last week. The new commercial constellation - which the company announced is called Vivid-i - will be the first of its kind to provide full-colour video; and the first European-owned constellation able to provide both video and still images. The multiple satellites within the Vivid-i Constellation will significantly increase the ... read more

SPACEMART
SES-15 Enters Commercial Service to Serve the Americas
Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 16, 2018
SES reports that the new SES-15 spacecraft has been operational at the 129 degrees West orbital position since 1 January. As planned, the all-electric satellite took six months to reach its orbital ... more
DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Astrosat and DroneSAR form partnership to enhance Search and Rescue capabilities
Musselburgh UK (SPX) Jan 16, 2018
Astrosat, one of the leading businesses in Europe's space exploitation industry, has formed a partnership with Irish start-up DroneSAR- Search and Rescue, to incorporate drone software with Astrosat ... more
EXO WORLDS
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion Nebula
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolve
Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Scientists have solved a cosmic mystery by finding evidence that supermassive black holes prevent stars forming in some smaller galaxies. These giant black holes are over a million times more ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY
What Stars Will Hatch from the Tarantula Nebula?
Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
To have a full picture of the lives of massive stars, researchers need to study them in all stages - from when they're a mass of unformed gas and dust, to their often dynamic end-of-life explosions. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
China approves advanced radio telescope project
Urumqi, China (XNA) Jan 15, 2018
China is to have a new radio telescope to "listen" to the universe. Proposed by the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, the world's largest fully steerable single-dish radio telescope will be b ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018
An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stret ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Hubble probes the archeology of our Milky Way's ancient hub
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
For many years, astronomers had a simple view of our Milky Way's central hub, or bulge, as a quiescent place composed of old stars, the earliest homesteaders of our galaxy. However, because th ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
GBT detection unlocks exploration of 'aromatic' interstellar chemistry
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
Astronomers had a mystery on their hands. No matter where they looked, from inside the Milky Way to distant galaxies, they observed a puzzling glow of infrared light. This faint cosmic light, which ... more
UAV NEWS
Russia's army warns of 'terrorist' drones after attacks
Moscow (AFP) Jan 11, 2018
Russia's defence ministry on Thursday said it was concerned about the threat of drones used "for terrorist purposes" following recent attacks on Moscow's bases in Syria. ... more
UAV NEWS
Boeing unveils UAV prototype for cargo, logistics use
Washington (UPI) Jan 11, 2018
Boeing has unveiled a new unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing, or eVTOL, cargo air vehicle prototype that it plans to use to test and evolve future autonomous technology. ... more


Lockheed Martin demonstrates next generation Aegis Ashore Solution

TECH SPACE
3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungs
London, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018
A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs. Imperial College London researchers have deve ... more
WATER WORLD
The ocean is losing its breath - here's the global scope
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018
In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased mo ... more
CAR TECH
Beyond the car: how tech firms are exploring the future of transport
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
Carless commuting is cruising in the fast lane at the Consumer Electronics Show, with companies showing off electric bicycles, scooters, skateboards and more aimed at making the internal combustion engine a thing of the past. ... more

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TECH SPACE
Room-temperature multiferroic thin films and their properties
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2018
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tohoku University have developed high-quality GFO epitaxial films and systematically investigated their ferroelectric and ferromagnetic p ... more
ROBO SPACE
Old dog, new tricks: Sony unleashes 'intelligent' robot pet
Tokyo (AFP) Jan 11, 2018
As Japan celebrates the year of the dog, electronics giant Sony on Thursday unleashed its new robot canine companion, packed with artificial intelligence and internet connectivity. ... more
ENERGY TECH
The LECs now an efficient and bright device
Umea, Sweden (SPX) Jan 11, 2018
Researchers from Umea University and Linkoping University in Sweden have developed light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) that emit strong light at high efficiency. As such, the thin, flexible ... more
ROBO SPACE
Digital assistants duel for dominance at major electronics show
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 9, 2018
Virtual aides battled to rule "smart homes" on the eve of the official opening of the Consumer Electronics show gadget gala here. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NanoRacks Begins Third International Space Station External Platform Mission In Extreme Space Environment
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
This morning, the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) was reinstalled on the outside of the International Space Station, initiating the commercial platform's third customer mission. The External Plat ... more
MARSDAILY
Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars
Miami (AFP) Jan 11, 2018
Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday. ... more
MARSDAILY
Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery test
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018
Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. After some deliberatio ... more


Possible Lava Tube Skylights Discovered Near the North Pole of the Moon

MICROSAT BLITZ
Champagne box-sized satellite launched to probe distant planet
Paris (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
France launched a champagne box-sized mini satellite into Earth orbit on Friday to study a mysterious, juvenile planet system in our Milky Way galaxy, mission controllers said. ... more
VSAT NEWS
CETel to provide fibre-like connectivity via SES Networks' MEO fleet
Cologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
CETel, a leading German service provider of global managed end-to-end communications solutions, has signed a five-year contract with SES Networks to connect new exploration and production sites in A ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
NASA fosters STEM education through CubeSat classes
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
NASA is on a mission to inspire young minds to become the next generation of critical thinkers. By engaging students in space exploration at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... more

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NanoRacks Begins Third International Space Station External Platform Mission In Extreme Space Environment
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
This morning, the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) was reinstalled on the outside of the International Space Station, initiating the commercial platform's third customer mission. The External Platform, self-funded by NanoRacks, is the leading commercial gateway to the extreme environment of space. Customers can experience the microgravity, atomic oxygen, radiation and other harsh elements nati ... more
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
Top takeaways from Consumers Electronics Show
Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018
Gadgets for kids still big at tech show despite concerns
Update from Mojave: VSS Unity successfully completes high speed glide flight
Mojave CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
January blues? Not a problem in Mojave as VSS Unity successfully completed her seventh glide flight! It's been a few months since our last flight, during which we worked through a planned period of focused ground time. This involved extensive analysis, testing and small modifications to ensure vehicle readiness for the higher loads and forces of powered test flight. [Today] we tested ... more
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 12, 2018
India launches country's 100th satellite and 30 microsats
Sacramento CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports ULA Launch in Support of National Security
Washington DC (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018
Blue Origin tests rocket engine as US seeks to replace Russian RD-180


Deep, buried glaciers spotted on Mars
Miami (AFP) Jan 11, 2018
Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday. Although ice has long been known to exist on Mars, a better understanding of its depth and location could be vital to future human explorers, said the report in the US journal Science. "Astronauts could essentially just ... more
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2018
Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice
Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mystery
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018
Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery test
Scientist reveals what is so special about Chines's next moon mission
Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 08, 2018
China is poised to begin a comprehensive lunar exploration program which is expected to kick off with the launch of the Long March 5 rocket in June. Professor Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, explained during an interview with Radio Sputnik why this mission is so important. Radio Sputnik: Please tell us about your radio telescope, which you are plan ... more
Wuhan, China (XNA) Jan 02, 2018
China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket scheduled to launch in first half of 2018
Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017
Nation 'leads world' in remote sensing technology
Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017
China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040
SES-15 Enters Commercial Service to Serve the Americas
Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 16, 2018
SES reports that the new SES-15 spacecraft has been operational at the 129 degrees West orbital position since 1 January. As planned, the all-electric satellite took six months to reach its orbital position and to successfully complete its testing. SES-15 carries a hybrid payload, comprising Ku-band wide beams and Ku-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) capability, with connectivity to gat ... more
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2018
Aerospace Workforce Training - National Mandate for 2018
Evry, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Intelsat signs contract with Arianespace for two launches
London, UK (SPX) Jan 02, 2018
Nationwide search begins for young space entrepreneurs
3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungs
London, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018
A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs. Imperial College London researchers have developed a new method for creating 3D structures using cryogenics (freezing) and 3D printing techniques. This builds on previous research, but is the first to create structures that are soft enough ... more
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2018
Room-temperature multiferroic thin films and their properties
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
NASA team first to demonstrate x-ray navigation in space
Lemont IL (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
Breaking bad metals with neutrons


Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion Nebula
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf companions, but also three giant planets. They ... more
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Citizen scientists discover five-planet system
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018
Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Iron-Rich Stars Host Shorter-Period Planets
New Year 2019 offers new horizons at MU69 flyby
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018
In just under a year - shortly after midnight Eastern Time on Jan. 1, 2019 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will buzz by the most primitive and most distant object ever explored. New Horizons' encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, which orbits a billion miles beyond Pluto, will offer the first close-up look at such a pristine building block of the solar system - and will be performed in a ... more
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017
Study explains why Jupiter's jet stream reverses course on a predictable schedule
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017
New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017
Does New Horizons' Next Target Have a Moon?


The ocean is losing its breath - here's the global scope
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018
In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as Earth warms. To halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrien ... more
The Hague (AFP) Jan 13, 2018
Sea levels off Dutch coast highest ever recorded in 2017
Cairo (AFP) Jan 15, 2018
Sisi vows to protect Egypt's water supply
Phnom Penh (AFP) Jan 11, 2018
China lavishes cash on ally Cambodia with eyes on the Mekong
China sends twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space
Xichang, China (XNA) Jan 15, 2018
China on Friday sent twin satellites into space on a single carrier rocket to help its BeiDou system provide navigation and positioning services to countries along the Belt and Road by late 2018. The Long March-3B carrier rocket took off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan at 7:18 a.m. The twin satellites are coded as the 26th and 27th satelli ... more
Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
18 satellites in exactEarth's real-time constellation now in service
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018
'Quantum radio' may aid communications and mapping indoors, underground and underwater
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017
Raytheon to provide GPS-guided artillery shells


Possible Lava Tube Skylights Discovered Near the North Pole of the Moon
Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes. The pits were identified through analysis of imaging data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). If water ice is present, these potential lava tube entrances or "skylights" might allow futu ... more
New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018
Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar team
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018
Astronauts: Trump's proposed Lunar mission will take time
Beijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2018
China Prepares for Breakthrough Chang'e 4 Moon Landing in 2018
NASA's newly renamed Swift mission spies a comet slowdown
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak - 41P for short - was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telesc ... more
Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017
NASA image showcases Ceres mountain named for Kwanzaa
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 27, 2017
Development on muon beam analysis of organic matter in samples from space
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 27, 2017
Arecibo radar returns with asteroid Phaethon images


Earth-i launches prototype of world's first full-colour, full-motion video satellite constellation
London, UK (SPX) Jan 16, 2018
British 'New Space' pioneer Earth-i has confirmed that the pre-production prototype satellite of its upcoming satellite constellation was successfully launched late last week. The new commercial constellation - which the company announced is called Vivid-i - will be the first of its kind to provide full-colour video; and the first European-owned constellation able to provide both video and ... more
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 11, 2018
Scientists examine how aerosol types influence cloud formation
Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
Jet stream changes since 1960s linked to more extreme weather
Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 15, 2018
Frequent growth events and fast growth rates of fine aerosol particles in Beijing
Magnetic coil springs accelerate particles on the Sun
Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source. In April and July 2014, the Sun emitted three jets of energetic particles into space, that were quite exceptional: the particle streams contained such high amounts of iron and helium-3, a rare variety of helium, as have been obser ... more
Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Sounding rockets study space x-ray emissions and create polar mesospheric cloud
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2018
Eclipse megamovie projects seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos
Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2018
Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect


Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018
An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and amplified by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. The embryonic galaxy named SPT0615-JD existed when the universe was just 500 million years old. Though a few other primitive gala ... more
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars
Batavia IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of data
Green Bank WV (SPX) Jan 11, 2018
Swarm of hydrogen clouds flying away from center of our galaxy
Astronomers detect 'whirlpool' movement in earliest galaxies
Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the universe. These 'newborns' - observed as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago - spun like a whirlpool, similar to our own Milky Way. This is the first time that it has been possible to detect movement in galaxies at such an early point in th ... more
Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolve
Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2018
Researchers catch supermassive black hole burping
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018
Two Astronomers, 100 Years Apart, Use Stars to Measure the Universe
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