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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 The Sun will rise on NASA's solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revelations about the Red Planet. "Five thousand sols after the start of our 90-sol mission, this amazing rover is still showing us surprises on Mars," said Opportunity Project Manager John Callas, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. A Martian "sol" lasts about 40 minutes longer t ... read more |
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Mars Rover Opportunity Reaches 5000 Sols On MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible "rock stripes." The ground texture seen in recent images f ... more  
Trump's Privatized ISS 'Not Impossible,' but Would Require 'Renegotiation'Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2018 US President Donald Trump wants to privatize the International Space Station, looking to turn the station into an orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry. Rad ... more  
140 successful tests and several "firsts" for Vinci, the engine for Ariane 6Vernon, France (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 The re-ignitable Vinci, engine, which will power the upper stage of the Ariane 6 launcher, has now successfully completed its last two subsystems qualification campaigns (M6 and M7) with 140 engine ... more  
Launch Reservation with Open CosmosTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 Vector, a nanosatellite launch company comprised of new-space and enterprise software industry veterans from SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, McDonnell Douglas, Boeing, Sea Launch and VMware and Open Cosmos ... more |
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Tricking photons leads to first-of-its-kind laser breakthroughOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 A team of optics researchers from the University of Central Florida has demonstrated the first-ever nonmagnetic topological insulator laser, a finding that has the potential to substantially improve ... more 
Last NASA Communications Satellite of its Kind Joins FleetGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 NASA has begun operating the last satellite of its kind in the network that provides communications and tracking services to more than 40 NASA missions, including critical, real-time communication w ... more  
Kepler Scientists Discover Almost 100 New ExoplanetsCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 Based on data from NASA's K2 mission an international team of scientists have just confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets, planets located outside our solar system. This brings the total number of new ... more 
University Holds Tenth Annual Space Horizons WorkshopProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 This past weekend, students, faculty and aerospace professionals gathered in Barus and Holley to participate in the tenth annual Space Horizons workshop. The event focused on the industry's shift to ... more  
Repetition key to self-healing, flexible medical devicesUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Medical devices powered by synthetic proteins created from repeated sequences of proteins may be possible, according to materials science and biotechnology experts, who looked at material inspired b ... more |
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Scientists make first direct observation of electron frolicTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 The shower of electrons bouncing across Earth's magnetosphere - commonly known as the Northern Lights - has been directly observed for the first time by an international team of scientists. While th ... more  |
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Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular supportTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a way to mount gold nanoparticles on a molecular support known as a polyoxometalate (POM). They successfully applied this to realize nea ... more  
Turning background room temperature heat into energyTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Every time we convert energy from one form to another, part of that energy is lost in the form of heat. Trying to efficiently get that energy back is very difficult once it is lost to the environmen ... more  
Researchers help robots think and plan in the abstractProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Researchers from Brown University and MIT have developed a method for helping robots plan for multi-step tasks by constructing abstract representations of the world around them. Their study, publish ... more  
NASA's longest running survey of ice shattered records in 2017Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Last year was a record-breaking one for Operation IceBridge, NASA's aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap bet ... more  
General Atomics enlists Boeing for its MQ-25 Stingray proposalWashington (UPI) Feb 14, 2018 General Atomics has announced their collaboration with Boeing, among other companies, to develop and build the MQ-25 Stingray carrier-based tanker drone for the U.S. Navy. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 16, 2018 
US President Donald Trump wants to privatize the International Space Station, looking to turn the station into an orbiting real estate venture run not by the government, but by private industry. Radio Sputnik discussed plans to privatize the space station with Frans von der Dunk, professor of space law at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
According to the Washington Post report, Trump wa ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 
Russia on Tuesday launched an unmanned Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station after a glitch led officials to postpone the planned liftoff two days earlier.
The Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress ship took off from the snow-covered Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:15 am Moscow time (0815 GMT) and reached its designated orbit several minutes later, the Russian space a ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover has moved along the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down the valley. Greatly improved energy levels from dust cleaning of the solar arrays has allowed the rover to be active longer each day and occasionally overnight.
On Sol 4986 (Feb. 1, 2018), the robo ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Feb 15, 2018 
The Long March-3B rocket launched Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province marked the seventh successful mission of the Long March rocket series since the beginning of 2018.
The year 2018 will be an ambitious year for China's space program, with the largest number of Long March rocket launches.
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
Thirty-four years ago, Spacelab was placed in orbit, paving the way for Europe's human spaceflight programme. It began a legacy of pioneering technology that includes the ATVs, Columbus and the Orion European Service Module.
Spacelab's launch on 28 November 1983 was the first of 22 Spacelab missions involving cutting-edge scientific experiments in fields such as new materials, processing o ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
NASA has begun operating the last satellite of its kind in the network that provides communications and tracking services to more than 40 NASA missions, including critical, real-time communication with the International Space Station. Following its August launch and a five-month period of in-orbit testing, the third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS), referred to as TDRS-M until ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
Based on data from NASA's K2 mission an international team of scientists have just confirmed nearly 100 new exoplanets, planets located outside our solar system. This brings the total number of new exoplanets found with the K2 mission up to almost 300. The new results are to be published in the Astronomical Journal.
"We started out analyzing 275 candidates of which 149 were validated as re ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Maputo (AFP) Feb 14, 2018 
Mozambique authorities on Wednesday introduced water rationing to more than a million residents in the capital Maputo due to a severe drought.
The city is cutting the water supply to consumers to just 40 percent of normal levels, Casimiro Abreu, deputy director of the National Emergency Centre said in a statement.
About 1.3 million people in Maputo and its surroundings are affected by th ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 
The Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry have launched 'Urban Navigation Challenge', a startup competition to create advanced 'counter-terror' navigation systems which don't use GPS. The project makes no mention of officially designated US "rivals" like Russia or China, but according to Russian experts, it would make no difference even if it did.
The project, officially dubbed the Combat ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from home at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour (8.5 kilometers per second).
Earth is the largest, brightest spot in the center ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 
A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning of Feb. 15, 2013.
The house-sized asteroid entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk at over eleven miles per second and blew apart 14 miles above the ground. The explosion released the energy equ ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
Climatologists are often asked, "Is climate change making hurricanes stronger?" but they can't give a definitive answer because the global hurricane record only goes back to the dawn of the satellite era. But now, an intersection of disciplines - seismology, atmospheric sciences, and oceanography - offers an untapped data source: the continuous seismic record, which dates back to the early 20th ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 12, 2018 
Living near a star is risky business, and positioning a spacecraft near the Sun is a very good way to observe rapidly changing solar activity and deliver early warning of possibly harmful space weather. ESA is now looking at doing just that. On most days, our normally calm Sun goes about its business, delivering a steady and predictable amount of heat and light that keeps planet Earth and its hu ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
Sharing alarm voiced by other scientists, leaders of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are expressing grave concern over the administration's proposed cuts to NASA's astrophysics budget and the abrupt cancellation of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
"We cannot accept termination of WFIRST, which was the highest-priority space-astronomy mission in the most recent dec ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
The shower of electrons bouncing across Earth's magnetosphere - commonly known as the Northern Lights - has been directly observed for the first time by an international team of scientists. While the cause of these colorful auroras has long been hypothesized, researchers had never directly observed the underlying mechanism until now.
The spectacle of these subatomic showers is legendary. G ... more |
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