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Opportunity team performs more frequent communication attempts throughout each day![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2018 Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free range around 1.0. No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault. Since the loss of signal, the team has been listening for the rover over a broad range of times, frequencies and polarizations using the Deep Space Network (DSN) Radio Science Receiver. They have been commanding "sweep and beeps" ... read more |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2018 The decision of UK OneWeb company to scale back the constellation of its communications satellites will not affect the number of Russia's Soyuz carrier rockets contracted by the company for the laun ... more ![]() ![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2018 The Russian Progress MS-11 cargo spacecraft will for the second time fly to the International Space Station (ISS) under the three-hour scheme, circling Earth twice, in March 2019, a source in the ae ... more ![]() ![]() Promontory UT (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Northrop Grumman along with NASA and Lockheed Martin performed a ground firing test of the abort motor for NASA's Orion spacecraft Launch Abort System (LAS) at Northrop Grumman's facility in Promont ... more ![]() ![]() New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, moved the largest piece of structural test hardware for America's new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, from the factory to ... more |
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![]() Menlo Park CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Magnetic field lines tangled like spaghetti in a bowl might be behind the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe. That's the result of a new computational study by researchers from the ... more ![]() ![]() Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Fishermen would be puzzled if they netted only big and little fish, but few medium-sized fish. Astronomers likewise have been perplexed in conducting a census of star-hugging extrasolar planets. The ... more ![]() ![]() Munich, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the bi ... more ![]() ![]() Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Before electrical power became available, water fountains worked by relying on gravity to channel water from a higher elevation to a lower one. This water could then be redirected to shoot out of th ... more ![]() ![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 A new NASA-led study has determined that an increase in snowfall accumulation over Antarctica during the 20th century mitigated sea level rise by 0.4 inches. However, Antarctica's additional ice mas ... more |
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![]() ![]() NASA finds Asian glaciers slowed by ice loss ![]() ![]() Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 Cobalt deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of Earth's largest cobalt-mining regions, are 150 million years younger than previously thought, according to a new study by University of Al ... more ![]() |
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![]() Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 Thanks in part to their distinct electronic, optical and chemical properties, nanomaterials are utilized in an array of diverse applications from chemical production to medicine and light-emitting d ... more ![]() ![]() West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 New "classification models" sense how well humans trust intelligent machines they collaborate with, a step toward improving the quality of interactions and teamwork. The long-term goal of the ... more ![]() ![]() Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) a ... more ![]() ![]() Washington (UPI) Dec 13, 2018 Some 252 million years ago, nearly all live on Earth vanished. The fossil record suggests some 96 percent of all marine life disappeared, and scientists suspect the magnitude of losses on land was similar. ... more ![]() ![]() Goleta CA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 A special visitor is crossing the sky this December: Comet 46P/Wirtanen, sighted with telescopes and binoculars in recent weeks, is on the way to its closest approach to Earth this weekend, when it ... more |
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Four NASA-sponsored experiments set to launch on Virgin Galactic spacecraft Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Largest piece of SLS rocket test hardware moved for testing New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NASA's InSight takes its first selfie Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe enters lunar orbit Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Scaled back OneWeb constellation Not to affect number of Soyuz boosters Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 17, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Radiation experiment flies on record-setting SpaceX launch dedicated entirely to small satellites Nashville TN (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Where did the hot Neptunes go Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NASA's Juno mission halfway to Jupiter science Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Research unlocks secrets of iron storage in algae East Boothbay ME (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Lockheed Martin prepares GPS III satellite for SpaceX launch Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems to land astronauts on Moon Washington DC (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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GMV leads the system that "drives" the HERA mission for planetary defence Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Brazil keeps eye on Amazon deforestation with satellites Sao Jose Dos Campos, Brazil (AFP) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Research provides insights into Sun's past, future San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Astronomers find that dark matter dominates across cosmic time Austin TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Cosmic fountain powered by giant black hole Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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