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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 |
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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20 Top takeaways from Consumers Electronics Show 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 India launches country's 100th satellite and 30 microsats Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports ULA Launch in Support of National Security Blue Origin tests rocket engine as US seeks to replace Russian RD-180 |
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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 Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mystery 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 China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket scheduled to launch in first half of 2018 Nation 'leads world' in remote sensing technology 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 Aerospace Workforce Training - National Mandate for 2018 Intelsat signs contract with Arianespace for two launches 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 Room-temperature multiferroic thin films and their properties NASA team first to demonstrate x-ray navigation in space Breaking bad metals with neutrons |
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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 Citizen scientists discover five-planet system Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth 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 Study explains why Jupiter's jet stream reverses course on a predictable schedule New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt Does New Horizons' Next Target Have a Moon? |
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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 Sea levels off Dutch coast highest ever recorded in 2017 Sisi vows to protect Egypt's water supply 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 18 satellites in exactEarth's real-time constellation now in service 'Quantum radio' may aid communications and mapping indoors, underground and underwater Raytheon to provide GPS-guided artillery shells |
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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 Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar team Astronauts: Trump's proposed Lunar mission will take time 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 NASA image showcases Ceres mountain named for Kwanzaa Development on muon beam analysis of organic matter in samples from space Arecibo radar returns with asteroid Phaethon images |
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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 Scientists examine how aerosol types influence cloud formation Jet stream changes since 1960s linked to more extreme weather 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 Sounding rockets study space x-ray emissions and create polar mesospheric cloud Eclipse megamovie projects seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect |
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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 ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of data 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 Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolve Researchers catch supermassive black hole burping Two Astronomers, 100 Years Apart, Use Stars to Measure the Universe |
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