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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 16, 2018 Russian experts understand what caused the failure of a Soyuz rocket booster that aborted this Thursday's launch of a manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the head of the mission to the station's Russian segment said on Sunday. "We are quite clear about what happened. A series of measures are needed to avert such incidents in the future. We will continue flying," cosmonaut Vladimir Solovyov, who also serves as first deputy general designer at Russia's Rocket and Space Corporati ... read more |
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Jeff Bezos to invest more than $1 bn in Blue Origin in 2019San Francisco (AFP) Oct 15, 2018 The world's richest man, billionaire entrepreneur and Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, said Monday that he is planning to boost his annual investment in Blue Origin, the aerospace company he launched in 2000. ... more  
Scientists to debate landing site for next Mars roverPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2018 Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA ... more  
Spacebit brings EOS blockchain to the final frontierBremen, Germany - October 5th , 2018. It was announced at the International Astronautical Congress 2018 (IAC18) that LinkX, the new decentralised ground station scheduling system, is now in beta testing on the EOSIO platform. LinkX, whi ... more 
Space Launch System Intertank completes functional testingNew Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 The intertank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1 as part of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, has completed its avionics functional testing, at the Michoud Assembly Center in New ... more |
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Study explains optical illusion at the center of the Milky WayWashington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018 Scientists in Sweden think the mysterious presence of exotic elements at the center of the Milky Way isn't a mystery at all, but an optical illusion. ... more 
Dying star emits a whisperPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 A Caltech-led team of researchers has observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading supernova. These observations suggest that the star has a ... more  
A break from the buzz: bees go silent during total solar eclipseAnnapolis, MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines on August 21, 2017, to witness a total solar eclipse, they might not have noticed a similar phenomenon happening nearby: In the pat ... more 
Update on the Hubble Space Telescope Safe ModeGreenbelt 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 ... more  
NASA says will use Russia's Soyuz despite rocket failureMoscow (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. ... more |
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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  |
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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  
Teaching machines common sense reasoningWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 Today's machine learning systems are more advanced than ever, capable of automating increasingly complex tasks and serving as a critical tool for human operators. Despite recent advances, however, a ... 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 
World's fastest camera freezes time at 10 trillion frames per secondQuebec City, Canada (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 What happens when a new technology is so precise that it operates on a scale beyond our characterization capabilities? For example, the lasers used at INRS produce ultrashort pulses in the femtoseco ... more  
China developing new sub-killing satelliteBeijing (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2018 As China develops cutting-edge deep-sea surveillance, the nation's navy is concurrently designing a satellite-mounted laser to locate and destroy enemy submarines. The satellite, which will be ... 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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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 
The intertank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1 as part of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, has completed its avionics functional testing, at the Michoud Assembly Center in New Orleans.
The avionics, shown here inside the intertank structure, guide the vehicle and direct its power during flight. The intertank houses critical electronics that "talk to" the flight comput ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2018 
Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA's next Red Planet rover - Mars 2020. The three-day workshop is the fourth and final in a series designed to ensure NASA receives the broadest range of data and opinion from the scientific community b ... 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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 Moscow (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 managing partner, Yousef Hesuani, said.
"Organ.Aut and cosmonauts have a duplicate [of the printer], it will be ready to fly to the ISS in the near future. We will work out a separate cycle graph ... more |
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 London, Canada (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such a voyage, the Western University graduate student has done the next best thing. He's gone and found one.
Teamed with Paul Wiegert, Graduate Program Director at Western's renowned Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX), Fox discovered the exoplanet - provisionally known as K ... 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.
Previous space missions have ... more |
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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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 Melbourne, 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 depicted in the new movie First Man, out in cinemas today.
Director Damien Chazelle has delivered an intense film about astronaut Neil Armstrong, who made those iconic first steps.
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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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 Annapolis, MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines on August 21, 2017, to witness a total solar eclipse, they might not have noticed a similar phenomenon happening nearby: In the path of totality, bees took a break from their daily routines, too.
In an unprecedented study of a solar eclipse's influence on bee behavior, researchers at the University of Missouri organized a c ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
A Caltech-led team of researchers has observed the peculiar death of a massive star that exploded in a surprisingly faint and rapidly fading supernova. These observations suggest that the star has an unseen companion, gravitationally siphoning away the star's mass to leave behind a stripped star that exploded in a quick supernova.
The explosion is believed to have resulted in a dead neutro ... more |
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 Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Oct 15, 2018 
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)--operators of the world's largest particle physics lab - near Geneva, Switzerland, is said to be the largest particle accelerator in the world.
The accelerator lies in a tunnel 27 kilometers in circumference, as deep as 175 meters beneath the French-Swiss border. This, by the way, has helped scientists ... more |
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