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  Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 SpaceX on Wednesday blasted off its unmanned Dragon cargo ship, loaded with supplies, science experiments and food for the astronauts living at the International Space Station but failed to successfully land its booster afterwards. "We have had a great liftoff," said SpaceX commentator John Insprucker, as the Falcon 9 rocket soared into the sunny, blue sky over Cape Canaveral, Florida at 1:16 pm (1816 GMT), carrying 5,600 pounds (2,500 kilograms) of gear. But the tall portion of the rocket missed its goal of securing an upright landing on solid ground at Cape Canaveral's Landing Zone 1. ... read more |
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Arianespace Orbits GSAT-11 and Geo-Kompsat-2A for India and South KoreaKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Dec 04, 2018 Arianespace has successfully orbited two satellites: GSAT-11 for ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), and GEO-KOMPSAT-2A for KARI (Korea Aerospace Research Institute). With this mission dedica ... more  
China Will Launch First Probe to Moon's Far Side Later This WeekBeijing (Sputnik) Dec 05, 2018 On December 8, China's space agency will launch the Chang'e-4 probe, the first to visit the surface of the far side of the moon. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been setting ... more  
Space makes you a different person reflects Russian cosmonaut Oleg ArtemyevAthens (Sputnik) Dec 05, 2018 These days Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is rehabilitating in Greece. After two space missions and a total time of 365 days, 23 hours and 5 minutes spent in space, the Russian cosmonaut has chosen ... more  
Radio Search for Artificial Emissions from 'OumuamuaMountain View CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 It's the first time a visitor from another star system has been seen nearby. But what is it? An asteroid, a comet ... or an alien artifact? Scientists at the SETI Institute have attempted to a ... more |
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US Air Force Academy and Texas AM University leverage Zero-G's weightless lab ahead of SpaceX launchOrlando, FL (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 Zero Gravity Corporation's Weightless Lab served as a valuable testing ground for the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), supported in part by Texas A and M University (TAMU) Construction Scien ... more  
Earth's polar regions communicate via oceanic 'postcards,' atmospheric 'text messages'Corvallis OR (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Scientists have documented a two-part climatic connection between the North Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica, a fast atmospheric channel and a much slower oceanic one, that caused rapid changes in clim ... more  
Greenhouse gas detergent recycles itself in atmosphereGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 A simple molecule in the atmosphere that acts as a "detergent" to breakdown methane and other greenhouse gases has been found to recycle itself to maintain a steady global presence in the face of ri ... more  
Climate from space art competitionParis (ESA) Dec 04, 2018 Are you an artist with an interest in Earth observation and the climate? Do you fancy a three-month visiting artist post at ESA's establishment in the UK? Then here's your chance: enter the Climate ... more 
Fossil algae reveal 500 million years of climate changeAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Earth scientists are able to travel far back in time to reconstruct the geological past and paleoclimate to make better predictions about future climate conditions. Scientists at the Netherlands Ins ... more |
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A new way to provide cooling without powerBoston MA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 MIT researchers have devised a new way of providing cooling on a hot sunny day, using inexpensive materials and requiring no fossil fuel-generated power. The passive system, which could be used to s ... more  |
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A big step toward the practical application of 3D holography with powerful computersChiba, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Japanese computer scientists have succeeded in developing a special purpose computer that can project high-quality three-dimensional (3D) holography as a video. The research team led by Tomoyoshi It ... more  
A new light on significantly faster computer memory devicesTempe AZ (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 A team of scientists from Arizona State University's School of Molecular Sciences and Germany have published in Science Advances online an explanation of how a particular phase-change memory (PCM) m ... more 
Moldy mouse food postpones SpaceX launchKennedy 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 ... more  
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 |
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 Athens (Sputnik) Dec 05, 2018 
These days Russian Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev is rehabilitating in Greece. After two space missions and a total time of 365 days, 23 hours and 5 minutes spent in space, the Russian cosmonaut has chosen Greece to get back to "earthly rhythms".
Artemyev is a great lover of the country. "Long live the friendship of Russia and Greece" was the message in the autograph that he gave to Sputnik Greek ... 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.
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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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 Chiba, Japan (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Japanese computer scientists have succeeded in developing a special purpose computer that can project high-quality three-dimensional (3D) holography as a video. The research team led by Tomoyoshi Ito, who is a professor at the Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, has been working to increase the speed of the holographic projections by developing new hardware.
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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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
The micronutrient iron (Fe) is recognized as a key factor in controlling oceanic primary productivity, and subsequently impacting the carbon cycle and marine ecosystem. The high-latitude area of the North Pacific is one of the three main high-nutrient and low-chlorophyll (HNLC) regions on Earth.
Also, the growth of phytoplankton is limited by the availability of Fe. Climate change, human a ... 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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 Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 05, 2018 
On December 8, China's space agency will launch the Chang'e-4 probe, the first to visit the surface of the far side of the moon.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been setting the stage for a number of remote lunar operations, launching the Queqiao communications satellite to an orbit on the far side of the moon this past May and planning out its new Long March 9 heavy lif ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 
A simple molecule in the atmosphere that acts as a "detergent" to breakdown methane and other greenhouse gases has been found to recycle itself to maintain a steady global presence in the face of rising emissions, according to new NASA research. Understanding its role in the atmosphere is critical for determining the lifetime of methane, a powerful contributor to climate change.
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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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 Oxford UK (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 
Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses 'negative mass'. If you were to push a negative mass, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago.
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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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