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  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018. In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was driven from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to nearby Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. From there, it was flown by the United States Air Force's 436th Airlift Wing to Space Coast Regional Airport in Titusville, Florida, where it arrived at 10:40 a.m. EDT. It was then transported ... read more |
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Air Force establishes Pentagon-based AFSPC vice commander positionWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Lt. Gen. David D. Thompson assumed the newly-created Air Force Space Command Vice Commander position on April 4, after pinning on his third star. In this new Pentagon-based role, Thompson will ... more  
UAH gets NASA early-stage funding for "Marsbees" conceptHuntsville AL (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 A proposal on Marsbees submitted by Dr. Chang-kwon Kang, an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), was one of only 25 selected ... more  
SES reaches 351 million homes worldwideLuxembourg (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 The number of video households served by SES has continued to increase, reaching 351 million TV homes in 2017 according to SES's annual market research, Satellite Monitor. This substantial technical ... more  
Japan's vaunted alert system runs up against limitsTokyo (AFP) April 8, 2018 On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming. ... more |
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ExoMars poised to start science missionParis (ESA) Apr 10, 2018 The ExoMars orbiter will soon begin its search for gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on the Red Planet. The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit aft ... more  
Artificial intelligence helps to predict likelihood of life on other worldsLiverpool UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets, according to new work by a team based at Plymouth University. The study uses artificial ... more  
Hunting for dark matter in the smallest galaxies in the universeSurrey UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 Astrophysicists from the University of Surrey and the University of Edinburgh have created a new method to measure the amount of dark matter at the centre of tiny "dwarf" galaxies. Dark matter ... more  
NASA Selects Lockheed Martin Skunk Works to Build X-PlanePalmdale CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 Supersonic commercial travel is on the horizon. NASA awarded Lockheed Martin Skunk Works a contract to design, build and flight test the Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator, an X-plane designed to make sup ... more  
Research shows first land plants were parasitized by microbesCambridge UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 By studying liverworts - which diverged from other land plants early in the history of plant evolution - researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge have found that the ... more |
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NASA Scientist Collects Bits of the Solar System from an Antarctic GlacierGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 On rare calm days, the most striking thing you notice at an altitude of more than 8,000 feet on an Antarctic glacier is the silence. "There was just no sound; no air handling equipment, no leaves ru ... more  |
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Next-generation electronics one leap closer to realitySalt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 In 1991, University of Utah chemist Joel Miller developed the first magnet with carbon-based, or organic, components that was stable at room temperature. It was a great advance in magnetics, and he' ... more  
A different spin on superconductivityCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 When you plug in an appliance or flip on a light switch, electricity seems to flow instantly through wires in the wall. But in fact, the electricity is carried by tiny particles called electrons tha ... more 
NREL research overcomes major technical obstacles in magnesium-metal batteriesGolden CO (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Scientists at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery. A proof-o ... more  
New 4-D printer could reshape the world we live inNew Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 From moon landings to mobile phones, many of the farfetched visions of science fiction have transformed into reality. In the latest example of this trend, scientists report that they have developed ... more 
Giant solar tornadoes put researchers in a spinLiverpool UK (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Despite their appearance solar tornadoes are not rotating after all, according to a European team of scientists. A new analysis of these gigantic structures, each one several times the size of the E ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018  Virgin Galactic successfully launched and landed its Unity spacecraft by rocket power, completing its first powered flight in almost four years.
Richard Branson's space company shared a photo of the SpaceShipTwo model spacecraft as it blasted into the air above the Mojave Air and Space Port before going supersonic and landing safely.
"VSS Unity completed her first supersonic, roc ... more |
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 Huntington Beach CA (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has confirmed it will open a 14-day launch window this month to conduct the company's first fully commercial launch. The mission, named 'It's Business Time', includes manifested payloads for Spire Global and GeoOptics Inc., built by Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems.
The 14-day 'It's Business Time' launch window will open on Friday April 20, 2018 NZT. Durin ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 10, 2018 
The ExoMars orbiter will soon begin its search for gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on the Red Planet.
The Trace Gas Orbiter has reached its final orbit after a year of 'aerobraking' that ended in February. This exciting operation saw the craft skimming through the very top of the upper atmosphere, using drag on its solar wings to transform its initial h ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 
The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 03, 2018 
ESA's observatory to monitor electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere is on its way to the International Space Station. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is riding in the Dragon cargo vehicle that lifted off at 20:30 GMT (16:40 local time) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
A suite of instruments will search for high-altitude electrical discharges associated with storm ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2018 
Humanity has grown accustomed to autonomous cleaning robots since the Roomba's debut in 2002. Now, we might have an upgrade: scientists have sent a prototype satellite equipped with a net and harpoon to the International Space Station to be tested. If successful, RemoveDEBRIS will lead to technology that will clean up Earth's space junk for us.
It's been 61 years since the first launch of ... more |
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 Liverpool UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 
Intense radiation could strip away the ozone layer of Earth-like planets around other stars and render them uninhabitable, according to a new study led by Dr Eike Guenther of the Thueringer Observatory in Germany.
Dr Guenther sets out the work in a presentation on 3rd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science in Liverpool.
Astronomers now know of around 4000 planets i ... more |
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 Palo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
SSL has been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and build critical equipment for a spacecraft that will explore Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. The award reflects SSL's leadership role in the space industry as a valued contractor supporting NASA mission needs and long-term commitment to accelerating innovation for the new space economy.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft, se ... more |
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 Brisbane, Australia (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
Marine animals such as mantis shrimp and squid have inspired a new mode of underwater navigation that allows for greater accuracy.
University of Queensland Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) scientists are part of a group of researchers who have developed the technique using imaging equipment that was sensitive to polarising light.
The researchers built polarisation sensors that were a ... more |
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is purpose-built for GIS mapping applications with Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation used to enhance the precision of position data derived from satellite-based positioning systems. This uni ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in mainstream science news, such as Science Daily and Outer Places.
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
After years of searching, scientists are confident they're finally closing in on the location of the crater left by a meteorite that struck Australasia 800,000 years ago.
When the 12-mile-wide meteor struck Earth, debris was exploded in the sky and deposited across the region. The fragments have not been hard to come by, and yet, scientists have failed to locate the crater.
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 East Boothbay ME (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences researchers have developed a statistical method to quantify important ocean measurements from satellite data, publishing their findings in the journal Global Biogeochemical Cycles. The study was made available online in December 2017, ahead of publication in January 2018.
Their research remedies a problem that has plagued scientists for decades: ocean- ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018.
In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was driven from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to nearby Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. From there, it was flown by the United States Air Force's 436th Airlift Wing to Space Co ... more |
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 Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
The H.E.S.S. telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way for the past 15 years searching for sources of gamma radiation. The H.E.S.S. collaboration includes scientists of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Tubingen led by Professor Andrea Santangelo and Dr. Gerd Puhlhofer.
They are interested in sources of very high energy gamma radiation in the TeV energy range, i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
Physicists have achieved the most precise measurement of antimatter yet.
And yet, the cosmos' biggest mystery remains unsolved: why do we exist?
As part of the ALPHA experiment, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research synthesized and measured the spectral properties of 15,000 atoms of antihydrogen. Each antihydrogen particle is made up of an antiproton orbite ... more |
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