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  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 NASA has officially committed to a development timeline that will lead to the first flight of its X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) aircraft in just three years. This critical milestone comes after a rigorous review, Key Decision Point-C (KDP-C), that confirmed NASA's continued support of the X-59, in terms of funding, and established an achievable development timeline for NASA's first piloted, full-size X-plane in more than three decades. "This aircraft has the potential to transfor ... read more |
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UK Space Agency funds new experiments onboard the International Space StationLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 UK science will be launched into space to help tackle the effects of ageing, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency, the Science Minister Sam Gyimah has announced. The minister unveiled cl ... more  
DLR is developing a reusable rocket engine for launching small satellitesBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 Whether alone or in a constellation, small satellites weighing from just a few kilograms (nanosatellites) up to several hundred kilograms (micro- and minisatellites) are becoming increasingly techno ... more 
Portugal builds spaceport in the AzoresParis (ESA) Nov 20, 2018 One of the islands of the Azores archipelago, Santa Maria, may soon become a base for launching small satellites, unique in Europe (the spaceport will deal with launching only small satellites, unli ... more 
Russian space freighter docks with ISS in automatic modeMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2018 The Progress MS-10 space freighter docked on Sunday with the International Space Stations (ISS) in an automatic mode, the Mission Control Center said. On Friday, the Russian Soyuz-FG launch ve ... more |
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With each rocket launch, 'I have three heart attacks'Wallops Flight Facility, United States (AFP) Nov 19, 2018 Kurt Eberly has hardly any hair and keeps losing more. His job is to launch, two times per year, a metallic cylinder packed with several tons of supplies, at high speeds toward the International Space Station, 250 miles (400 kilometers) above the Earth. ... more  
NASA picks ancient Martian river delta for 2020 rover touchdownPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 NASA has picked an ancient river delta as the landing site for its uncrewed Mars 2020 rover, to hunt for evidence of past life on Earth's neighboring planet, officials said Monday. ... more  
App to the MoonParis (ESA) Nov 19, 2018 It is magnificently quiet at the rim of the lunar crater. Nearly 400 000 km away from Earth, the silence and vastness of the unknown terrain can be overwhelming. Yet our moonwalker does not feel alo ... more  
New database to archive amateur astronomer exoplanet dataBoston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 At its annual meeting at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, the American Association of Variable Star Observers announced a new exoplanet database that will archive long-term follow-up inform ... more  
Doomed star in Milky Way threatens rare gamma-ray burstSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in our galaxy. The scientists believe one of the stars - about 8000 ligh ... more |
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Zero G Kitchen prepares to launch its first appliance to SpaceNew York NY (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 Zero G Kitchen LLC, a venture co-founded by Ian and Jordana Fichtenbaum, has announced the specifications and timing of the first appliance of its planned 'kitchen in space,' an open platform for fo ... more  |
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NASA OSIRIS-REx flexes its "arm" before arriving at Asteroid BennuDenver CO (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 TAGSAM, or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, completed a successful practice deployment in space on Nov. 14-an important milestone in the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu. TAGSAM is ... more 
How NASA will know when InSight touches down on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 What's the sound of a touchdown on Mars? If you're at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sounds like winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering. But in the minutes before ... more 
When not seeing is believing as Oumuamua mystery continuesGroningen. Netherlands (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 A year ago, astronomers identified the first interstellar visitor to our solar system. 'Oumuamua was studied by nearly every telescope available, including the ultra-sensitive Spitzer infrared space ... more 
SPARC Research awarded contract for hypersonic airbreathing weapon propulsionWarrenton, VA (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 SPARC Research has announced that they have received a contract from Draper to provide propulsion design and analysis support for a future hypersonic interceptor weapon. The concept is based o ... more  
Finland summons Russian ambassador over GPS blocking claimsHelsinki (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 Finland has summoned Russia's ambassador to answer allegations that Moscow was behind the jamming of GPS signals in Lapland during recent NATO exercises, the foreign ministry in Helsinki confirmed Saturday. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2018 
Windy weather pushed back until Saturday the planned launch of a US cargo ship loaded with supplies for astronauts living at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday.
The delay to 4:01 am (0901 GMT) on November 17 from Wallops Island, Virginia marks the second time launch managers have postponed the mission from its initial flight plan of Thursday.
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 20, 2018 
ESA's Neosat platform developed with Airbus - Eurostar Neo - has found its first mission; supplying two satellites for a role currently being performed by three.
Eurostar Neo's first home in space will be at 13E on the geostationary arc, where two of its platforms will host identical Eutelsat HOTBIRD payloads, and help them broadcast more than a thousand television channels into homes acro ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
Today, most of the water on Mars is locked away in frozen ice caps. But billions of years ago it flowed freely across the surface, forming rushing rivers that emptied into craters, forming lakes and seas. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found evidence that sometimes the lakes would take on so much water that they overflowed and burst from the sides of their basins, crea ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
AST and Science, after an intensive competitive process, has announced the selection of Midland, Texas, as the location for its new high-volume North American satellite manufacturing plant and corporate headquarters.
The space technology company's new 85,000 sq. ft. facility is located within the Space Port Business Park located at the Midland International Air and Space Port, the first co ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 16, 2018 
What do astronauts, Pokemon, wildlife park rangers and surgeons all have in common? The answer is virtual and augmented reality, or VR and AR.
Usually associated with video games, this ultra-immersive technology is quickly being recognised for its real-world potential.
VR is a computer-generated environment that simulates physical presence and interaction, artificially creating senso ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74's staff, led by Frank Drake, and with the help of the astronomer and famed science communicator Carl Sagan. It contained information about the human race and was intended to be our intergalactic calling card.
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 14, 2018 
A letter authored by SETI Institute scientist Oliver White was published by Nature Astronomy today. Co-authors included researchers Jeff Moore, Tanguy Bertrand and Kimberly Ennico at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
The letter "Washboard and Fluted Terrains on Pluto as Evidence for Ancient Glaciation" focuses on these distinctive landscapes that border the vast nitrogen ice p ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Nov 19, 2018 
Providing hotel guests real-time feedback on the power they use in the shower sharply curbs the amount of energy consumed even though they do not pay for it, according to new research released Monday.
The team behind the study, based on the installation of smart meters in showers at six hotels in Switzerland, said it showed that financial incentives alone don't dictate how much energy we use ... more |
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 Helsinki (AFP) Nov 17, 2018 
Finland has summoned Russia's ambassador to answer allegations that Moscow was behind the jamming of GPS signals in Lapland during recent NATO exercises, the foreign ministry in Helsinki confirmed Saturday.
Ambassador Pavel Kuznetsov "has been invited to the ministry on Monday to discuss the GPS issue," spokeswoman Hanna Paivarinta told AFP.
Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said th ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Nov 17, 2018 
A potential mission to the moon in 2028 was presented Thursday to the US National Space Council's (NSC) Users' Advisory Group in response to US President Donald Trump's idea of going to the Moon.
The NSC Users' Advisory Group - a group of government and NASA officials headed by Vice President Mike Pence - was presented with a timeline for reaching and settling the moon in the late 2020s, V ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Nov 17, 2018 
On Nov. 14, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft stretched out its robotic sampling arm for the first time in space. The arm, more formally known as the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM), is key to the spacecraft achieving the primary goal of the mission: returning a sample from asteroid Bennu in 2023.
As planned, engineers at Lockheed Martin commanded the spacecraft to move the a ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Research published in the respected journal Science presents observations made by NASA's four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) satellites in the Earth's magnetotail. Two scientists from the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) in Uppsala are co-authors of the article. The lead author is from the University of New Hampshire in USA.
Magnetic reconnection is an energy conversion process im ... more |
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 San Antonio CA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
Analyzing data from NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission, a team led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has found that the small regions in the Earth's magnetosphere that energize the polar aurora are remarkably calm and nonturbulent.
The new observations, which also revealed intense electron jets associated with the regions where magnetic reconnection occurs, were outlined i ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 
University of Sydney astronomers, working with international colleagues, have found a star system like none seen before in our galaxy.
The scientists believe one of the stars - about 8000 light years from Earth - is the first known candidate in the Milky Way to produce a dangerous gamma-ray burst, among the most energetic events in the universe, when it explodes and dies.
The system, ... more |
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 Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 
A research team from ITMO University and the Australian National University has discovered that different metasurfaces exhibit the same behavior provided a symmetry breaking is introduced to their unit cells "meta-atoms". Asymmetry of meta-atoms results in high-quality (high Q) resonances in the transmittance spectra of metasurfaces.
Such resonances are capable of multiple amplification of ... more |
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