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  Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has confirmed its next launch will be the company's first fully commercial flight. Two Lemur-2 cubesats for launch customer Spire Global will be on board the upcoming launch, with the full manifest to be confirmed in coming weeks. The flight's name was put to a vote on social media, with "It's Business Time" coming out as a clear fan favourite and a continuation of company's previous flight names, "It's a Test" and "Still Testing". Rocket Lab founder and ... read more |
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NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2018 Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change. NASA ... more  
Trump pushes for new 'space force'Washington (AFP) March 13, 2018 President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants the US military to create a new "space force," adding to the Pentagon's current ground, navy and air forces. ... more  
Intelsat EpicNG helping redefine capabilities of airborne applicationsMcLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 Our first Intelsat EpicNG satellite has been in space a little over two years now, and we have launched four more since then. With five of these high-throughput satellites (HTS) in orbit and being u ... more  
Mystery of purple lights in sky solved with help from citizen scientistsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 Notanee Bourassa knew that what he was seeing in the night sky was not normal. Bourassa, an IT technician in Regina, Canada, trekked outside of his home on July 25, 2016, around midnight with his tw ... more |
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Studies prove superior performance of HTS for government customersMcLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 High-throughput satellite (HTS) constellations have quickly become transformative technology for satellite communications, far surpassing the bandwidth speed and throughput possible with existing sa ... more  
Astronomers discover galaxies spin like clockworkPerth, Australia (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are. The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a comple ... more  
BridgeSat and NASA Sign Space Act Agreement for Laser CommunicationsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 BridgeSat has announced an industry-first agreement with NASA designed to develop a commercialized laser-based free space optical communication system that could support the agency's future missions ... more 
Helium ions open whole new world of materialsBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 They have illustrated their findings with the creation of nano 'sieves' that can help separate molecules down to an unprecedented size 10,000 times finer than a human hair. The research, Super ... more  
Big steps toward control of production of tiny building blocksPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 Nanoparticles, superstrong and flexible structures such as carbon nanotubes that are measured in billionths of a meter - a diameter thousands of times thinner than a human hair - are used in everyth ... more |
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 DeepMind boss admits 'risks' of AI  
Researchers find algorithm for large-scale brain simulationsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 An international group of researchers has made a decisive step towards creating the technology to achieve simulations of brain-scale networks on future supercomputers of the exascale class. The brea ... more  |
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Stephen Hawking: a brief history of geniusLondon (AFP) March 14, 2018 Stephen Hawking, who has died aged 76, was Britain's most famous modern day scientist, a genius who dedicated his life to unlocking the secrets of the Universe. ... more  
New Horizons Chooses Nickname for 'Ultimate' Flyby TargetWashington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 As NASA's New Horizons mission continues exploring the unknown, the mission team has selected a highly appropriate nickname for its next flyby target in the outer reaches of the solar system. ... more  
Next NASA Mars Rover Reaches Key Manufacturing MilestonePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 14, 2018 NASA's Mars 2020 mission has begun the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase of its development, on track for a July 2020 launch to Mars. The first planned ATLO activities will inv ... more 
Asteroids and comets shower Mars with organicsAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 Asteroids and comets appear to be a much more important suppliers of organic molecules on Mars than expected. Until now, astronomers assumed that the organics on Mars mainly came from dust particles ... more  
'Luna City 2175' will take audience to a future community grappling with how to be civilizedTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A good book can transport the reader into a faraway universe filled with rich detail. The ASU Emerge event will do the same thing this weekend, but the audience actually will be able to touch, see a ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
NASA has selected 128 proposals from American small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase II of its 2017 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. These selections support NASA's future space exploration missions, while also benefiting the U.S. economy.
"We look forward to working with these promising small businesses to further advance NASA's missions," said Jim ... more |
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 Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 
US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has confirmed its next launch will be the company's first fully commercial flight. Two Lemur-2 cubesats for launch customer Spire Global will be on board the upcoming launch, with the full manifest to be confirmed in coming weeks.
The flight's name was put to a vote on social media, with "It's Business Time" coming out as a clear fan favourite and a co ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valley. Opportunity is continuing the imaging survey at each rover location within the valley. In addition to both Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas, targeted Pancam multi-s ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Iridum has announced the next wave of Iridium Certus service providers selected to deliver this next-generation satellite broadband solution for land-mobile applications. This group of six world-class service providers includes, Globalsat, IEC Telecom, Marlink, McQ, Pivotel and Tesam Argentina S.A. ("Tesacom"). Together, these companies further expand the footprint for Iridium Certus land-mobile ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
BridgeSat has announced an industry-first agreement with NASA designed to develop a commercialized laser-based free space optical communication system that could support the agency's future missions as they transition to optical communications.
The reimbursable agreement is the latest milestone in BridgeSat's mission to revolutionize global communications with a free-space optical network ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O takes more than mixing hydrogen and oxygen. It requires the special conditions found deep within frigid molecular clouds, where dust shields against destructive ultraviolet light and aids chemical reactions. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into these cosmic reservoirs to gain new insights into the origin and ev ... more |
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 Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
Three papers published tomorrow in Nature answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet?
The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Yohai Kaspi led this research in which measurements from NASA's Juno spacecraft were analyzed to ... more |
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 Gloucester Point, VA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Researchers at William and Mary's Virginia Institute of Marine Science are launching new web-based "report cards" to monitor and forecast changes in sea level at 32 localities along the U.S. coastline from Maine to Alaska. They plan to update the report cards in January of each year, with projections out to the year 2050.
The lead on the project, VIMS emeritus professor John Boon, says the ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 
Indra has been awarded a contract for implementing four new Uplink Stations (ULS), thus expanding the ground segment of the European global positioning system, Galileo. Awarded by the company Thales Alenia Space (France), this contract also includes maintenance and upgrades for all Uplink stations.
The new stations will join the ten uplink stations that Indra has already put into service a ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
A good book can transport the reader into a faraway universe filled with rich detail. The ASU Emerge event will do the same thing this weekend, but the audience actually will be able to touch, see and interact with the newly created world.
"Luna City: 2175," the title of the seventh annual ASU Emerge, will be a combined art, theater and museum experience that's based on real research about ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
A large team of Russian researchers from Rosatom, joined by three MIPT physicists, has modeled the impact of a nuclear explosion on an Earth-threatening asteroid. They manufactured miniature asteroids and blasted them with a laser.
The modeling technique developed in this study is a way of experimentally evaluating asteroid destruction criteria such as the explosion energy needed to elimin ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2018 
Two recent expeditions that took scientists 26 000 km across the Atlantic Ocean have returned critical information to make sure that the Copernicus Sentinel satellites are delivering accurate data about the state of our oceans.
Information from the Sentinels is used in a myriad of ways to make lives easier and businesses more efficient.
For example, ocean forecasting is important for ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
The more solar observatories, the merrier: Scientists have developed new models to see how shocks associated with coronal mass ejections, or CMEs, propagate from the Sun - an effort made possible only by combining data from three NASA satellites to produce a much more robust mapping of a CME than any one could do alone.
Much the way ships form bow waves as they move through water, CMEs set ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 
Scientists report the existence of 15 new planets - including one 'super-Earth' that could harbor liquid water - orbiting small, cool stars near our solar system. These stars, known as red dwarfs[1], are of enormous interest for studies of planetary formation and evolution.
A research team led by Teruyuki Hirano of Tokyo Institute of Technology's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 
Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields. This so-called dynamo effect creates cosmic magnetic fields, like those found on planets, moons and even asteroids. Over the coming years, a globally unique experiment, in which a steel drum containing several tons of liquid sodium rotates around two axes, is intended to demonstrate this effect.
It will be carried out in the new DRESDYN f ... more |
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