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  Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 GOMX-4 is a demonstration mission which includes two 6Usatellites: The GOMX-4A mission involves north area monitoring and the GOMX-4B mission is for innovative payload demonstrations. It will monitor and demonstrate Satellite Communication between Nanosatellites, and the in-orbit results and experiences gained from the GOMX-4 experiences will provide knowledge, information and experience for scaling to more advanced communication schemes required by larger nanosatellite constellations. GOMX-4 are ... read more |
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PLD Space wins ESA backing for a Small Satellite Orbital LauncherParis (ESA) Feb 02, 2018 PLD Space (PR): The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded the project "Study on Launch Service Making Use of a Microlauncher" to the Spanish company PLD Space. The microlauncher study, a par ... more  
Russia to start offering spacewalks for touristsMoscow (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Russia is planning to send paying tourists on the International Space Station out on spacewalks for the first time, an official from the country's space industry said Thursday. ... more  
NASA's small spacecraft produces first 883-gigahertz global ice-cloud mapGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for st ... more  
NASA Twins Study confirms preliminary findingsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 The Twin Study propelled NASA into the genomics era of space travel. It was a ground-breaking study comparing what happened to astronaut Scott Kelly, in space, to his identical twin brother, Mark, w ... more |
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New research suggests toward end of Ice Age, human beings witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killersLawrence KS (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated. Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This ... more  
Mount Sharp 'Photobombs' Mars Curiosity RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2018 A new self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover is the start of a cla ... more  
U.S., U.K. to upgrade ballistic missile guidance systemWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2018 Charles Stark Draper Laboratory was awarded a contract for submarine-launched Trident nuclear missile guidance systems. ... more  
Test of US-Japanese missile interceptor fails againWashington (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 A test of a US missile interceptor failed in Hawaii on Wednesday, a defense official said, marking the second such unsuccessful attempt in less than a year. ... more  
Lockheed Martin Miniature Hit-to-Kill Missile Demonstrates Increased Agility and AffordabilityWhite Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Lockheed Martin's Miniature Hit-to-Kill (MHTK) missile successfully conducted a controlled flight test to demonstrate the interceptor's increased agility, and to validate the performance of its airf ... more |
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Scientists get better numbers on what happens when electrons get wetChicago IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 There's a particular set of chemical reactions that governs many of the processes around us--everything from bridges corroding in water to your breakfast breaking down in your gut. One crucial part ... more  |
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Pearly material for bendable heating elementsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The iridescent shimmer of a string of pearls may one day be more than pretty adornment. Scientists now report in ACS Applied Nano Materials a hybrid material consisting of imitation pearl combined w ... more  
Let the good tubes rollRichland WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Materials scientists, led by a team at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, designed a tiny tube that rolls up and zips closed. These hollow nanotubes are thousand ... more  
New metal-semiconductor interface for brain-inspired computingGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 One of the big challenges in computer architecture is integrating storage, memory and processing in one unit. This would make computers faster and more energy efficient. University of Groningen phys ... more 
Russia launches 11 space satellites 'without glitch'Moscow (AFP) Feb 1, 2018 Russia on Thursday successfully launched 11 satellites from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in the third rocket liftoff from the new spaceport, the space agency said. ... more 
Putting down roots in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Plants grow just about everywhere on Earth, and are able to adapt to extreme conditions ranging from drought to disease. Spaceflight, however, exposes plants to stresses not found anywhere on their ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
On January 24, 2018, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) met to exchange their views on space exploration. The agencies signed a joint statement affirming their strong mutual interest in continued future cooperation in space exploration.
Both agencies have established a strong and committed partnership throughout the many y ... more |
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 Vostochny Cosmodrome (Sputnik) (Sputnik) Feb 02, 2018 
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on the creation of a new Russian super heavy-lift launch vehicle (SHLLV), which is supposed to be used for missions to the Moon and Mars, Roscosmos Director General Igor Komarov told journalists on Thursday.
"As for the super heavy-lift launch vehicle, there is one good piece of news - this week, the Russian president has signed a decree ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 
A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings.
The view from "Vera Rubin Ridge" on the north flank of Mount Sharp encompasses much of the 11-mile (18-kilometer) route the rover has driven from its 2012 landing site, all inside Gale Crater. One hil ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 29, 2018 
China has accomplished its first successful Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), with a 1.2-meter telescope laser ranging system.
Based on the signals of laser pulses reflected by the lunar retro-reflector planted by the U.S. manned mission Apollo 15, the applied astronomy group from the Yunnan Observatories measured the distance between the Apollo 15 retro-reflector and the Yunnan Observatories gro ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 29, 2018 
The EU formally decided on Wednesday to move a satellite monitoring base from Britain to Spain after Brexit to "preserve security".
The back-up site for the bloc's Galileo satnav system in Swanwick, southern England, is set to move to Madrid, where it will reportedly employ dozens of people.
It is a third major loss for Britain after the EU decided last year to shift its medicines agency ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
After an amateur astronomer recorded observations of a satellite in high Earth orbit on Jan. 20, 2018, his initial research suggested it was the Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration (IMAGE) - a NASA mission launched into orbit around Earth on March 25, 2000.
Seeking to ascertain whether the signal indeed came from IMAGE, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Mary ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
A new national facility at ESO's La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars. ExTrA's novel design allows for much improved sensitivity compared to previous searches. Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to help in the search for potentially habitable worlds.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.
Nelson was the lead author of a laboratory study of the photopolarimetric properties of bright particles that explain unusual negative polarization behavior at low phase angles observed for decades in association wi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 
ERAPSCO has been awarded a contract for engineering support for the Navy's underwater active sonobuoys.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $9.6 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery and is a modification on a previously awarded contract.
The contract taps ERAPSCO for the procurement of engineering support service ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as the prime contractor to develop EGNOS V3, the next generation of the European Satellite Based Augmentation System (SBAS) planned to provide the aviation community with advanced Safety of Life services and new services to Maritime and Land users.
Developed by ESA on behalf of the European Commission and the European GNSS Agency ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 25, 2018 
Imagine sending a spacecraft the size of an airline cabin bag to the Moon - what would you have it do? ESA issued that challenge to European teams last year, and two winners have now been chosen.
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Orbiter, or Lumio for short, would circle over the far side of the Moon to detect bright impact flashes during the lunar night, mapping meteoroid bombardments as they oc ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated.
Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 
A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth's climate.
IceCube - the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017- has demonstrated-in-space a commercial 883 ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system). The data on so-called "magnetic reconnection" came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
A team of scientists, led by Boy Lankhaar at Chalmers University of Technology, has solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic fields in space using methanol, the simplest form of alcohol. Their results, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, give astronomers a new way of investigating how massive stars are born.
Over the last half-century, many molecules hav ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
There's a particular set of chemical reactions that governs many of the processes around us--everything from bridges corroding in water to your breakfast breaking down in your gut. One crucial part of that reaction involves electrons striking water, and despite how commonplace this reaction is, scientists still have to use ballpark numbers for certain parts of the equation when they use computer ... more |
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