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  Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Dec 04, 2018 SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said. The launch was initially set for Tuesday. The new time is 1:16 pm (1816 GMT) Wednesday. "The launch was moved to Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a rodent investigation prior to handover to SpaceX," NASA said in a statement late Monday. "Teams will use the extra day to replace the food ... read more |
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UK will build its own satellite-navigation system after BrexitLondon, UK (Sputnik) Dec 03, 2018 UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that Britain would explore the possibility of building its own satellite navigation system instead of relying on the EU's Galileo, compelling another minister ... more  
Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to highest accuracy yetParis (ESA) Dec 04, 2018 Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - already serving users globally - has now provided a historic service to the physics community worldwide, enabling the most accurate measurement ever ma ... more  
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid BennuWashington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx,) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the as ... more  
Portsmouth researchers make vital contribution to new gravitational wave discoveriesPortsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend (1 December). The new results ... more |
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Radiance Technologies tapped for U.S. Army laser researchWashington (UPI) Nov 30, 2018 The U.S. Army is contracting Radiance Technologies for high energy laser lethality research, assessment and support in the amount of $28.2 million. ... more 
A golden age for particle analysisNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Process engineers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have developed a method which allows the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions to be determined considerably qui ... more  
NATO exercises cyber defences as threat growsTartu, Estonia (AFP) Nov 30, 2018 In a nondescript brick building on the snowy edge of Estonia's second city Tartu, soldiers in camouflage tap silently at computers. They are troops manning the 21st century's front line. ... more  
Roscosmos Targeted by Info Attack to Hamper Revival of Space Industry in RussiaMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2018 Roscosmos has been targeted by an information attack launched by forces in Russia and abroad to create an image of a state corporation "devouring" federal funds and to prevent the country from regai ... more  
Millennium Space Systems Completes Successful ALTAIR Pathfinder MissionEl Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Millennium Space Systems completed the final phase of its highly successful ALTAIR Pathfinder satellite mission Nov. 17. After 548 days operating the satellite from the ALTAIR mission operations cen ... more |
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 India's First Fully Private Satellite Placed in Orbit by SpaceX  
ESEO student satellite successfully launched to spaceParis (ESA) Dec 04, 2018 This week, ESEO, the European Student Earth Orbiter by ESA, was successfully launched into space, and teams from ten European universities are eagerly waiting for their exciting space mission to sta ... more  |
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Researchers rise to challenge of predicting hail, tornadoes three weeks in advanceFort Collins CO (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 People living in Kansas, Nebraska and other states in the Plains are no strangers to tornadoes and hail storms - among the most costly and dangerous severe weather threats in the United States. ... more  
Study unlocks full potential of 'supermaterial' grapheneMelbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 New research reveals why the "supermaterial" graphene has not transformed electronics as promised, and shows how to double its performance and finally harness its extraordinary potential. Grap ... more 
Artificial magnetic field produces exotic behavior in graphene sheetsSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 A simple sheet of graphene has noteworthy properties due to a quantum phenomenon in its electron structure named Dirac cones in honor of British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), who was ... more  
Soyuz arrives at ISS on first manned mission since October failureBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, following the first manned launch since a failed launch in October. ... more 
NASA's first asteroid sample-collector arrives at target, BennuTampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... more |
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 Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 3, 2018  A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit on Monday, the first manned mission since a failed launch in October. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency blasted off for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station on schedule at 1131 GMT. ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Dec 04, 2018 
SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said.
The launch was initially set for Tuesday. The new time is 1:16 pm (1816 GMT) Wednesday.
"The launch was moved to Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a rodent investigation prior to hand ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2018 
Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free level of 0.8.
Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 359 recovery commands have been radiated including on both polarizations. No signal from Opportunity has been heard.
Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault.
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 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 ed ... more |
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 Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Fleet Space Technologies' second Centauri nanosatellite was successfully launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 SSO-A mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California.
This is the fourth commercial satellite launched by the Adelaide-based IoT startup in the past month, after Centauri I was launched aboard Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) PSLV-C43 mission on Thursday 29 November ... more |
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 El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Millennium Space Systems completed the final phase of its highly successful ALTAIR Pathfinder satellite mission Nov. 17. After 548 days operating the satellite from the ALTAIR mission operations center at Millennium's headquarters in El Segundo, and amassing more than 13,000 hours of performance to reduce technology risk, the ALTAIR Pathfinder operations team decommissioned the satellite and pre ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets (here after, exoplanets) in only three months. These planets are quite diverse and expected to play a large role in developing the research field of exoplanets and life in the universe.
Exoplanets, planets that revolve around stars other than the Sun, ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a cacophony of such sounds and all you need to hear them for yourself is a box the size of a DVD player.
The universe is full of radio emissions. Many objects in space emit radio waves, and scientis ... more |
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 Manhattan KS (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
Along with a warming climate and intensified human activities, recent water storage in global landlocked basins has undergone a widespread decline. A new study reveals this decline has aggravated local water stress and caused potential sea level rise.
The study, "Recent Global Decline in Endorheic Basin Water Storage," was carried out by a team of scientists from six countries and appears ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Dec 03, 2018 
UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that Britain would explore the possibility of building its own satellite navigation system instead of relying on the EU's Galileo, compelling another minister in her Cabinet to resign.
May announced on Friday that the UK was pulling out of the EU's satellite navigation system which was designed to compete with the US GPS system and is due to be launc ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018  Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars.
These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The $800 million unmanned mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, made a rendez-vous with the asteroid at around 12:10 pm (1710 GMT), firing its engines a final time.
"We have arrived," said Javier Ce ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
It has been difficult to simultaneously obtain micro- and macroscopic information in outer space. Global images of distant astrophysical phenomena provide macroscopic information; however, local information is inaccessible.
In contrast, in situ observations with spacecrafts provide microscopic information of phenomena such as the Earth's magnetosphere, but it is difficult to obtain global ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 26, 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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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
In a galaxy far away, an old star exploded and became a supernova. About 170 million years later on Feb. 4, 2018, the light emanating from the explosion was received by an arsenal of high-powered telescopes.
NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the unfurling light of SN 2018oh, as it has been labeled. The first ground-based facility to identify the signal was with the All-Sky Automated S ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times larger than the Sun - and from another three black-hole mergers.
The Australian National University (ANU) is playing a lead role in Australia's involvement with the gravitational wave discovery thr ... more |
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