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  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 GomSpace has purchased a launch for several nanosatellites onboard a LauncherOne rocket from the California based company Virgin Orbit. The flight, which is bound for a low-inclination orbit, is scheduled to occur in early 2019. GomSpace will use the launch to further build out a constellation of small satellites that will use Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and Automatic Identification System (AIS) signal monitoring to track civilian aircraft and ocean-going vessels. This ... read more |
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Space Traffic ManagementBethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Those familiar with air traffic management architectures understand the constraints of aircraft flying in the atmosphere, vehicle dynamics and command and control techniques. Unfortunately, space tr ... more  
Redshift space distortions measured by quasars in scientific firstBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 The Extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS), the world's largest galaxy survey, is part of Phase IV of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a major multi-spectral imaging and spectr ... more  
JUICE ground control gets green light to start developmentParis (ESA) Jan 17, 2018 ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of ... more  
Study identifies processes of rock formed by meteors or nuclear blastsSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Coesite is a polymorph of silica that only forms under extremely high pressure - 10,000 times more on average than normal atmospheric pressure. The presence of this rock at a site indicates either t ... more |
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Russian company declassifies 1973 report on Lunokhod-2 lunar roverMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 17, 2018 Space equipment manufacturer Russian Space Systems declassified on Tuesday a report on unmanned lunar rover Lunokhod-2 and its 1973 Moon landing mission. The document describes all aspects of ... more  
Astronomers Measure More Black Holes, Farther AwayBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Today, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) announced new measurements of the masses of a large sample of supermassive black holes far beyond the local universe. The results, b ... more  
NASA study shows disk patterns can self-generateGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 When exoplanet scientists first spotted patterns in disks of dust and gas around young stars, they thought newly formed planets might be the cause. But a recent NASA study cautions that there may be ... more 
Black hole spin cranks-up radio volumeTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Statistical analysis of supermassive black holes suggests that the spin of the black hole may play a role in the generation of powerful high-speed jets blasting radio waves and other radiation acros ... more 
Hubble weighs in on mass of three million billion sunsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 In 2014, astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope found that this enormous galaxy cluster contains the mass of a staggering three million billion suns - so it's little wonder that it ha ... more 
How massive can neutron stars beFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 Since their discovery in the 1960s, scientists have sought to answer an important question: How massive can neutron stars actually become? By contrast to black holes, these stars cannot gain in mass ... more 
Xenesis and ATLAS partner to develop global optical networkLisle, US (SPX) Jan 17, 2018 ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. and Xenesis, Inc. have announced a partnership to develop a state-of-the-art global optical communications network, designed for high data flow from space. This partners ... more |
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 Novel 3-D printing technique yields high-performance composites 
Gyroscopes lead scientists to unusual state of matter in a disorganized structureChicago IL (SPX) Jan 16, 2018 You don't have to be perfectly organized to pull off a wave, according to University of Chicago scientists. Using a set of gyroscopes linked together, physicists explored the behavior of a mat ... more  
Potential brain-machine interface for hand paralysisWashington DC (SPX) Jan 16, 2018 A brain-machine interface that combines brain stimulation with a robotic device controlling hand movement increases the output of pathways connecting the brain and spinal cord, according to a study ... more  
Earliest fossil evidence of butterflies and mothsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Researchers working in Germany have unearthed the earliest known fossil evidence of insects from the order Lepidoptera, which includes butterflies and moths. The fossils, mostly wing scales, provide ... more |
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Jet stream changes since 1960s linked to more extreme weatherTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 Increased fluctuations in the path of the North Atlantic jet stream since the 1960s coincide with more extreme weather events in Europe such as heat waves, droughts, wildfires and flooding, reports ... more  
Machine learning predicts new details of geothermal heat flux beneath the Greenland Ice SheetLawrence KS (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 A paper appearing in Geophysical Research Letters uses machine learning to craft an improved model for understanding geothermal heat flux - heat emanating from the Earth's interior - below the Green ... more  
Tracing how disaster impacts escalate will improve emergency responsesLondon UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 Mapping common pathways along which the effects of natural and man-made disasters travel allows more flexible and resilient responses in the future, according to UCL researchers. Naturally occ ... more  
Fiber OLEDs, thinner than a hairSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 Professor Kyung Cheol Choi from the School of Electrical Engineering and his team succeeded in fabricating highly efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) on an ultra-thin fiber. The te ... more 
SES-15 Enters Commercial Service to Serve the AmericasLuxembourg (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 
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion NebulaBaltimore 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 
Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolvePortsmouth 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? 
China approves advanced radio telescope projectUrumqi, 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 
Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant GalaxyPasadena 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 
Hubble probes the archeology of our Milky Way's ancient hubBaltimore 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 |
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 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.
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 17, 2018 
ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer - JUICE - passed an important milestone, the ground segment requirements review, with flying colours, demonstrating that the teams are on track in the preparation of the spacecraft operations needed to achieve the mission's ambitious science goals.
Planned to launch in 2022, JUICE will embark on a 7.5-year long journey through the Solar System before arrivi ... more |
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