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  Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation. This premier edition of the report provides a deep-dive analysis of the current Chinese space ecosystem and future expected e ... read more |
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SpaceX's Elon Musk renames his big rocket "Starship"Washington (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has announced he is changing the name of his monster rocket BFR, aimed at carrying people to the Moon and possibly one day to Mars, to "Starship." ... more 
Probing the PlumeWashington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 Mounted on a rotating arm in a space simulation vacuum chamber, two probes collect data from the exhaust plume of a Hall Effect Thruster that will be operated for over 5,000 hours. Wrapped in ... more  
Robotic arm links cargo craft to International Space StationWashington (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 A robotic arm successfully docked the Cygnus cargo craft to the International Space Station on Monday, the second shipment of supplies in less than 24 hours. ... more 
NASA probes 'drug-free' policies, safety at SpaceX, BoeingWashington (AFP) Nov 20, 2018 The US space agency has ordered a sweeping safety review of operations and workplace culture, including drug-free policies, at Boeing and SpaceX, two companies working to send astronauts to space, US media said Tuesday. ... more |
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China sends 5 satellites into orbit via single rocketJiuquan (XNA) Nov 21, 2018 China launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday. ... more  
Researchers Are Perfecting Technology to Look for Signs of Alien LifeKamuela HI (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 Astronomers have gleaned some of the best data yet on the composition of a planet known as HR 8799c - a young giant gas planet about 7 times the mass of Jupiter that orbits its star every 200 years. ... more  
NanoRacks provides historic triple-altitude delivery for customers in single Space Station launchHouston TX (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 Early this morning, Cygnus, the spacecraft from the tenth contracted cargo resupply mission for Northrop Grumman (previously Orbital ATK), berthed with the International Space Station carrying yet a ... more  
China launches twin BeiDou navigation satellitesXichang (XNA) Nov 20, 2018 China sent two new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 2:07 a.m. M ... more  
Smart data enhances atomic force microscopyBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 Since its invention in 1986, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has emerged as a powerful tool to probe materials, structures, and devices at the nanoscale. In recent years, empowered by advanced data ac ... more |
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Solution for next generation nanochips comes out of thin airMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 Researchers at RMIT University have engineered a new type of transistor, the building block for all electronics. Instead of sending electrical currents through silicon, these transistors send electr ... more  |
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Scientists engineer a functional optical lens out of 2D materialsSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 16, 2018 In optics, the era of glass lenses may be waning. In recent years, physicists and engineers have been designing, constructing and testing different types of ultrathin materials that could replace th ... more  
XpressSAR selects IAI's TECSAR technology for Its high-resolution X-Band satellite constellationArlington, VA (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 XpressSAR Inc. of Arlington, Virginia and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to purchase from IAI a constellation of up to four TecSAR synthetic apertu ... more  
Navy nanosatellite launch delayed for further inspectionWashington (UPI) Nov 19, 2018 A U.S. Navy ultra-high frequency nanosatellite designed for polar communications scheduled for launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base was delayed Monday for further inspection, SpaceX said. ... more  
Odd bodies, rapid spins keep cosmic rings closeIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea - small objects deep in our solar system - can be credited for forming and maintaining their o ... more  
NASA mobilizes to aid California fires responsePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2018 For the past two weeks NASA scientists and satellite data analysts have been working every day producing maps and damage assessments that can be used by disaster managers battling the Woolsey Fire n ... more |
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 London, 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 close to 3 million pounds of new funding for the experiments, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday 20 November.
Due to launch in 2021, two of the exper ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 19, 2018 
Access to space was in the spotlight at this week's F event which followed an ESA-hosted workshop on Europe's emerging microlaunch services held in Paris, France for industry, investors and institutions.
After a presentation at this workshop on ESA's vision and roadmap, five companies - PLD Space, Deimos, Avio, ArianeGroup and MT Aerospace - each shared the findings of their ESA-funded fea ... more |
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 Providence, RI (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact.
The research, published in Planetary and Space Science, uses computer models to simulate the movement of debris from Stickney crater, a huge gash on one end of Phobos' oblong body. The models show that boulders r ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 21, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
Airbus has been selected by Eutelsat, one of the world's leading satellites operators, to build two HOTBIRD new generation telecommunication satellites that will replace the current spacecraft and enhance capacity at Eutelsat's premium broadcasting position 13 degrees East.
The two satellites will deliver improved performances over the European and Middle-Eastern footprint, reinforced by a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 
Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated a new nonmechanical chip-based beam steering technology that offers an alternative to costly, cumbersome and often unreliable and inefficient mechanical gimbal-style laser scanners.
The chip, known as a steerable electro-evanescent optical refractor, or SEEOR, takes laser light in the mid-wavelength infrared (MWIR) ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate models for the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.
The work also could help astronomers more effectively study planets around stars unlike our Sun, and better use the limited, expensive resou ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
Astrophysicists of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the Swiss NCCR PlanetS show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result suggests that such potentially habitable worlds are much more abundant in the universe than previously thought. The unprecedentedly complex computer simulations were performed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano.
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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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 Xichang (XNA) Nov 20, 2018 
China sent two new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 2:07 a.m. Monday.
The satellites entered a medium earth orbit more than three hours later and will work with 17 other BDS-3 satellites already in space. They are also the 42nd and 43rd satellites of the BD ... more |
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 Paris (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 alone.
Tablet on his wrist, the astronaut snaps a 360 degree picture and marks it with some arrows to highlight geologically interesting areas. Just as he is about to start taking samples, a voice ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea - small objects deep in our solar system - can be credited for forming and maintaining their own rings, according new research in Nature Astronomy.
"Rings appear around Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, but scientists found rings around Chariklo and Haumea within the last few years. C ... more |
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 Halle, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 
Which plant species grow where, alongside which others - and why? The diversity of global vegetation can be described based on only a few traits from each species. This has been revealed by a research team led by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig.
In a new study published in the scientific j ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 16, 2018 
Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space.
"An instability is a physical process whereby the energy output can essentially grow very quickly without limits," Colin Forsyth, physicist at the University College London's, told UPI in an email.
When a clean swell breaks and crashes on the beach, or when a pile of sand sud ... more |
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 Durham NC (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 
Engineers at Duke University have demonstrated a device that can direct photons of light around sharp corners with virtually no losses due to backscattering, a key property that will be needed if electronics are ever to be replaced with light-based devices.
The result was achieved with photonic crystals built on the concept of topological insulators, which won its discoverers a Nobel Prize ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
The black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, has been visualised in virtual reality for the first time. The details are described in an article published in the open access journal Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Scientists at Radboud University, The Netherlands and Goethe University, Germany used recent astrophysical models of Sagittarius A* to create a series of ... more |
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