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  Toulouse, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Airbus and Planet have entered into a partnership to facilitate access to each other's data and the co-development of new geospatial solutions, by establishing a framework agreement to explore opportunities for joint cooperation in new and existing markets, product offerings, sales and marketing efforts. Both partners aim at providing a comprehensive suite of global satellite data at multiple temporal and spatial resolutions, and developing new analytic products for a wide range of applications to ... read more |
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NASA Tests Solar Sail for CubeSat that Will Study Near-Earth AsteroidsHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Missi ... more  
Waystation to the Solar SystemBethesda, MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 It seems like everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Others want to go to an asteroid. Others just want to go som ... more 
India's Domestic SatNav System Hits Major Roadblock Ahead of Commercial ReleaseNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jul 03, 2018 The Navigation with Indian Constellation (NavIC) - India's indigenous navigation and positioning system - has confronted unforeseen challenges ahead of its commercial rollout slated for the next few ... more  
Dawn's latest orbit reveals dramatic new views of Occator craterPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2018 NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other data. The flight team maneuvere ... more |
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Study reveals secret origins of asteroids and meteoritesGainesville FL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Most asteroids and meteorites originate from the splintering of a handful of minor planets formed during the infancy of our solar system, a new study shows. A study appearing online in Nature ... more  
New Infrared Instrument Searches for Habitable PlanetsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 A new instrument to search for potentially habitable/inhabited planets has started operation at the Subaru Telescope. This instrument, IRD (InfraRed Doppler), will look for habitable planets around ... more 
NASA should update policies that protect planets and other solar system bodiesWashington DC (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 The current process for planetary protection policy development is inadequate to respond to increasingly complex solar system exploration missions, says a new report from the National Academies of S ... more 
Researchers see beam of light from first confirmed neutron star merger emerge from behind sunWarwick UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first of confirmed neutron star merger to remerge from behind the glare of the sun. ... more 
Detecting the Boiling Atmosphere of the Hottest Known ExoplanetHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 Astronomers have found that the atmosphere of the hottest known exoplanet, the hot Jupiter-like planet KELT-9b, is "boiling off," with the escaping gas being captured by the host star. Using the CAR ... more |
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'Flying brain' blasts off on cargo ship toward space stationTampa (AFP) June 29, 2018 A ball-shaped artificial intelligence robot nicknamed the "flying brain" because it is trained to follow and interact with a German astronaut blasted off Friday toward the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship. ... more  |
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China Rising as Major Space PowerBeijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2018 China is fast becoming a major space power as both its technology and launching frequency of satellites are improving at a rapid rate. China became the world's fifth country to send a satellit ... more  
Mars valleys traced back to precipitationZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 The surface of Mars bears imprints of structures that resemble fluvial steam networks on Earth. Scientists therefore assume that there must have been once enough water on the red planet to feed wate ... more  
Continental microbes helped seed ancient seas with nitrogenTempe AZ (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 Like our oceans, today's continents are brimming with life. Yet billions of years ago, before the advent of plants, continents would have appeared barren. These apparently vacant land forms were bel ... more 
Dragon delivers some ICEParis (ESA) Jul 02, 2018 The newly installed International Commercial Experiments service - ICE Cubes for short - facility providing commercial access to microgravity will soon receive the first experiment cubes after the s ... more 
Maverick entrepreneur's space rocket fails at blast offTokyo (AFP) June 30, 2018 A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Early this morning, Dragon, the spacecraft from the fifteenth SpaceX contracted resupply mission, berthed with the International Space Station carrying one of NanoRacks' largest educational missions to date. In addition to launching 40 student experiments, NanoRacks has also introduced a new commercial company and ongoing professional research into the commercial low-Earth orbit ecosystem.
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 03, 2018 
China aims to develop a new series of small, medium, large and heavy-lift Long March carrier rockets by 2030 to meet the demands of its space operations, according to an expert.
The capacity of Chinese rockets would reach 140 tonnes for low-Earth orbit, 44 tonnes for Earth-Mars transfer orbit, 50 tonnes for Earth-Moon transfer orbit and 66 tonnes for geosynchronous transfer orbit in 2030, ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is challenging teams of citizen inventors to push the state of the art of additive construction to design and build sustainable shelters for humans to live on Mars. Previous levels of the challenge have resulted in advanced habitat concepts, material compositions and printing technologies.
The current stage (Phase 3: Level 1) of the multi-level contest c ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2018 
China is fast becoming a major space power as both its technology and launching frequency of satellites are improving at a rapid rate.
China became the world's fifth country to send a satellite into space in 1970. So far, a total of 400 satellites have been launched and over 200 are currently in service.
A large family of satellites has been formed in China, covering the fields of co ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
The Australian Space Agency commenced operations on July 1 2018 with the ambition of tripling the Australian space economy by 2030.
But with the Australian government investment of A$41 million, we should not expect anything like NASA (which has a budget more than 2,000 times greater).
On the contrary, the impetus for growth must come from the Australian space industry itself - and t ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 
An electrically conductive hydrogel that takes stretchability, self-healing and strain sensitivity to new limits has been developed at KAUST. "Our material outperforms all previously reported hydrogels and introduces new functionalities," says Husam Alshareef, professor of materials science and engineering.
Smart materials that flex, sense and stretch like skin have many applications in wh ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
A research team led by astronomers at the University of Warwick had to wait over 100 days for the sight of the first of confirmed neutron star merger to remerge from behind the glare of the sun.
They were rewarded with the first confirmed visual sighting of a jet of material that was still streaming out from merged star exactly 110 days after that initial cataclysmic merger event was first ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the most ambitious and complex space observatory ever built, will use its unparalleled infrared capabilities to study Jupiter's Great Red Spot, shedding new light on the enigmatic storm and building upon data returned from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories.
Jupiter's iconic storm is on the Webb telescope's list of targets chosen by gua ... more |
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 Aboard The Uss Ronald Reagan, Philippines (AFP) June 26, 2018 
A US aircraft carrier visited the Philippines on Tuesday, the third such call in four months, as its commander cited America's "enduring presence" in a region where China's military aims have raised tensions.
The nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan docked in Manila after sailing through the disputed South China Sea as part of a mission intended to reassure Washington's allies in the area.
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's Near-Earth Asteroid Scout, a small satellite designed to study asteroids close to Earth, performed a successful deployment test June 28 of the solar sail that will launch on Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1). The test was performed in an indoor clean room at the NeXolve facility in Huntsville, Alabama.
NEA Scout is a six-unit CubeSat that relies on an innovative solar sail for propulsion ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
It seems like everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Others want to go to an asteroid. Others just want to go someplace.
So, what is the easiest way to go anywhere in the Solar System? Well, most people don't know this, but the answer is to do it in stages. One smart way is to first go from the Earth's sur ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other data.
The flight team maneuvered the spacecraft into an orbit that dives 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the surface of Ceres and viewed Occator Crater, site of the famous bright deposits, and other intriguing regions. In more than ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Airbus and Planet have entered into a partnership to facilitate access to each other's data and the co-development of new geospatial solutions, by establishing a framework agreement to explore opportunities for joint cooperation in new and existing markets, product offerings, sales and marketing efforts.
Both partners aim at providing a comprehensive suite of global satellite data at multi ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 
A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosphere and chromosphere, is now being installed beside the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at NJIT's California-based Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO).
The telescope, SOLIS (Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun), c ... more |
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 Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 
In 2014, astrophysicists discovered a spectral line in observational data from the Herschel Space Telescope and tentatively assigned it to the amide ion. It would have been the first proof of the existence of this molecule in space. Physicists within the group of Roland Wester from the Institute of Ion Physics and Applied Physics at the University of Innsbruck have now shown this assumption to b ... more |
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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2018 
It is the "drosophila" of modern physics: the uniform electron gas. Just as the fruit fly is used to describe the principles of genetics this model of a gas can be used to investigate important characteristics of electrons.
This model also known as jellium describes the properties of electrons in metals, in molecules and in clusters of atoms. Further, electrons determine the behavior of st ... more |
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