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  Moscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 NASA chief Jim Bridenstine on Friday praised the Russian space programme and said he expected a new crew to go to the International Space Station in December despite a rocket failure. "I fully anticipate that we will fly again on a Soyuz rocket and I have no reason to believe at this point that it will not be on schedule," he told reporters. The NASA administrator spoke to reporters at the US embassy in Moscow a day after a Soyuz rocket failure forced Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US as ... read more |
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Practising for BepiColombo's epic escape to MercuryParis (ESA) Oct 15, 2018 The international BepiColombo spacecraft will soon take flight, on a complex journey to the innermost planet of the Solar System, Mercury. Encompassing nine planetary flybys and travelling a total d ... more  
NASA continues fall series of RS-25 engine testsStennis Space Centre MS (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 The arrival of fall in south Mississippi means billowing clouds of steam exhaust is in the air as NASA continues a series of RS-25 engine tests at Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis. A team of ... more  
First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the MoonMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 The Apollo 11 lunar landing was the first time humans stepped on another celestial body, and the events leading up to that historic moment - which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year - are dep ... more  
Efforts to communicate with Opportunity continuePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, values are typical for storm-free conditions this time of year. No si ... more |
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Aborted launch astronauts to go to space next spring: RussiaMoscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are likely to go into space in the spring after their flight was suddenly aborted, the head of the Russian space agency said Friday. ... more 
The forgotten age of spaceWest Lafayette IND (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 In 1990, Michael Smith had been living in Moscow for four months, rooming with a Russian family and conducting research in the city's libraries and archives, when he witnessed the slow collapse of t ... more 
NASA photo shows International Space Station transiting the sunWashington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018 The International Space Station orbits the Earth once every 93 minutes. The satellite's orbital path regularly takes ISS across the face of the moon and sun. ... more 
Russia creates group to consider temporary shutdown of ISS after Soyuz incidentMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2018 The Russian state commission, established after the failed liftoff of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle on Thursday, has set up a subcommission to consider the options for further exploitation of the Inte ... more  
MASCOT's zigzag course across the dust-free Asteroid RyuguBonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Six minutes of free fall, a gentle impact on the asteroid and then 11 minutes of rebounding until coming to rest. That is how, in the early hours of 3 October 2018, the journey of the MASCOT asteroi ... more |
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 Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th THAAD Interceptor  
Pentagon grounds global fleet of F-35s after crashWashington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 The Pentagon grounded the global fleet of F-35 stealth fighters Thursday so that engineers could conduct urgent inspections following the first ever crash of the costliest plane in history. ... more  |
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Russian firm mulls sending duplicate 3D Bioprinter to ISS after Soyuz failureMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2018 The Russian 3D Bioprinting Solutions company is preparing to send the duplicate equipment for experiments at the International Space Station (ISS) in the near future, the company's co-founder and ma ... more 
Army research lights the way for new materialsAdelphi MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 What happens when gold and silver just don't cut it anymore? You turn to metallic alloys, which are what Army researchers are using to develop new designer materials with a broad range of capabiliti ... more  
After two long careers, QuikSCAT rings down the curtainPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 Launched in June 1999 for an intended two-year mission, NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT spacecraft was turned off on Oct. 2 in accordance with its end-of-mission plan. QuikS ... more  
ESA selects Satconsult to design new approach to scheduling secure satcom resourcesToulouse, France (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 SATConsult, a leading satellite engineering consultancy and member of Euroconsult Group, has been selected by ESA to lead a consortium, composed of RHEA Group, Airbus and Space Hellas, to help devel ... more  
How Max Polyakov from Zaporozhie develops the Ukrainian space industryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 Despite the fact that only state organizations have the right to develop the space industry in Ukraine, Max Polyakov supports the sphere in the country. He and his Noosphere organize the events concerning the field's theme. ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Special Aerospace Services (SAS) has announced the offering of expanded Spaceflight Safety Products and Services that now include support for deep space and lunar missions. SAS developed the expanded line of engineering services to cover the next phase of human spaceflight that will be initiated by inaugural test launches and first human launches in the coming year.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2018 
The Russian state commission, established after the failed liftoff of the Soyuz-FG launch vehicle on Thursday, has set up a subcommission to consider the options for further exploitation of the International Space Station (ISS), including the possibility of its temporary shutdown, a source in the rocket and space industry told Sputnik on Saturday.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 
The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, values are typical for storm-free conditions this time of year.
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). As stated previously, it is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
The French Ambassador to the UAE announced that the universe being the limit for the developing partnership between the two countries, i.e. the UAE and France. This statement was made, immediately after the inauguration of an office in Abu Dhabi by the French Space Agency.
The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) became the first foreign space agency that introduced a representation o ... more |
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 Blacksburg VA (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
Computers used to take up entire rooms. Today, a two-pound laptop can slide effortlessly into a backpack. But that wouldn't have been possible without the creation of new, smaller processors - which are only possible with the innovation of new materials.
But how do materials scientists actually invent new materials? Through experimentation, explains Sanket Deshmukh, an assistant professor ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
To advance the search for life in the universe, NASA should support research on a broader range of biosignatures and environments, and incorporate the field of astrobiology into all stages of future exploratory missions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution, distributi ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
A location often earmarked as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life could prove to be a tricky place for spacecraft to land, new research has revealed.
A team led by scientists from Cardiff University has predicted that fields of sharp ice growing to almost 15 metres tall could be scattered across the equatorial regions of Jupiter's moon, Europa.
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
Ancient inhabitants of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) maintained a society of thousands by utilizing coastal groundwater discharge as their main source of "freshwater," according to new research from a team of archaeologists including faculty at Binghamton University, State University at New York.
The team, which included Binghamton University Professor of Anthropology Carl Lipo, measured the sa ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a novel algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where GPS is unavailable.
According to ARL researchers Gunjan Verma and Dr. Fikadu Dagefu, the Army needs to be able to localize agents operating in physically complex, unknown and infrastructure-poor environments.
"This capability is critical to he ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019.
SpaceIL said Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, whose rockets are set to carry the unmanned probe into space, had informed it of "a delay of a number of weeks to the beginning of 2019."
SpaceIL stressed that the delay was SpaceX's decision, not ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
Six minutes of free fall, a gentle impact on the asteroid and then 11 minutes of rebounding until coming to rest. That is how, in the early hours of 3 October 2018, the journey of the MASCOT asteroid lander began on Asteroid Ryugu - a land full of wonder, mystery and challenges.
Some 17 hours of scientific exploration followed this first 'stroll' on the almost 900-metre diameter asteroid. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 
Launched in June 1999 for an intended two-year mission, NASA's SeaWinds scatterometer instrument on the QuikSCAT spacecraft was turned off on Oct. 2 in accordance with its end-of-mission plan. QuikSCAT spent its first decade creating an unprecedented record of the speed and direction of winds at the ocean surface. Then, for another nine years, it served as the gold standard of accuracy against w ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 
On Oct. 3, 2018, Parker Solar Probe performed the first significant celestial maneuver of its seven-year mission. As the orbits of the spacecraft and Venus converged toward the same point, Parker Solar Probe slipped in front of the planet, allowing Venus' gravity - relatively small by celestial standards - to twist its path and change its speed. This maneuver, called a gravity assist, reduced Pa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
NASA continues to work toward resuming science operations of the Hubble Space Telescope after the spacecraft entered safe mode due to a failed gyroscope (gyro) on Friday, Oct. 5.
Following the gyro failure, the Hubble operations team turned on a backup gyro on the spacecraft. However, that gyro did not perform as expected, reporting rotation rates that are orders of magnitude higher than t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
One of the most enduring "Holy Grail" experiments in science has been attempts to directly observe atomic motions during structural changes. This prospect underpins the entire field of chemistry because a chemical process occurs during a transition state - the point of no return separating the reactant configuration from the product configuration.
What does that transition state look like ... more |
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