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  Evanston IL (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Microbes stranded in the International Space Station (ISS) are just trying to survive, man. A new Northwestern University study has found that - despite its seemingly harsh conditions - the ISS is not causing bacteria to mutate into dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs. While the team found that the bacteria isolated from the ISS did contain different genes than their Earthling counterparts, those genes did not make the bacteria more detrimental to human health. The bacteria are instead ... read more |
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Small-satellite launch service revenues to pass $69B by 2030London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Frost and Sullivan forecasts an estimated launch demand for 11,746 small satellites for new constellation installations and replacement missions by 2030. Such demand would take the small-satellite l ... more  
GPS-denied navigation on small unmanned helicoptersMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Drone usage is expected to soar over the next several years. As legal regulations evolve, many industries will embrace drones for a multitude of tasks from infrastructure inspections to commercial f ... more  
Orbital Data Network provides emergency telecom services using UHP VSAT systemColumbia MO (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Orbital Data Network has announced an enhancement of their solutions and services for restoring communication infrastructure to public safety networks, based on the latest VSAT technology from Canad ... more 
Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for lifeBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars may be bone dry and lifeless, according to a new study using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble). Water and organic compounds, essential ... more |
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Citizen scientists find unusual exoplanet among Kepler dataWashington (UPI) Jan 8, 2019 Citizen scientists have discovered an exoplanet twice the size of Earth located 226 light-years from Earth. The exoplanet's signature was discovered among data collected by NASA's Kepler space telescope. ... more  
SDSS: Science in the LibraryBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Want to learn everything there is to know about a subject? Go to the library. Want to learn everything there is to know about stars? Go to the stellar library. This week, astronomers from the ... more 
Scientists orchestrate a symphony of the starsPortsmouth UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 A new stellar library has been created by UK and US scientists to, for the first time, give us a window of understanding on to our and other galaxies. Astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Su ... more 
Dark Energy Survey Completes Six-Year MissionBatavia IL (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Scientists' effort to map a portion of the sky in unprecedented detail is coming to an end, but their work to learn more about the expansion of the universe has just begun. After scanning in d ... more  
Hyundai shows off walking car projectLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 8, 2019 South Korean car maker Hyundai on Monday gave a look at work it is doing on a vehicle with robotic legs to let it walk or crawl over treacherous terrain. ... more |
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Machine learning and quantum mechanics team up to understand water at the atomic levelBerne, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 The building blocks of most observable matters are electrons and nuclei. Following the laws of quantum mechanics, their behavior can be described in terms of their wave function, sort of a diffuse c ... more  |
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Quantum scientists demonstrate world-first 3D atomic-scale quantum chip architectureSydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 UNSW researchers at the Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T) have shown for the first time that they can build atomic precision qubits in a 3D device - a ... more  
CubeSats joining Hera mission to asteroid systemParis (ESA) Jan 08, 2019 When ESA's planned Hera mission journeys to its target binary asteroid system, it will not be alone. The spacecraft will carry two tiny CubeSats for deployment around - and eventual landing on - the ... more  
45 OG Det 3 prepares for human spaceflight returnCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 When space shuttle Atlantis' STS-135 mission lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on July 8, 2011, emotions were high. A history book, penned by NASA, spanning 30-years of manned space shuttles was ... more  
Space Flag prepares Airmen for a real fightPeterson AFB CO (SPX) Jan 06, 2019 Air Force Space Command concluded its fourth iteration of the Department of Defense's premier space exercise last month in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Space Flag 19-1 took place over the cours ... more 
New nano-satellite system yields high-res imagery at lower costWashington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 Constellations of nano-satellites can produce high-resolution images for less money, according to new research. The imaging techniques developed by scientists at Ben-Gurion University in Israel could also be used to improve the observations of ground-telescope arrays. ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 9, 2019 
London is Europe's most attractive city for technology start-ups, despite a sharp slowdown last year, a study showed Wednesday.
With Brexit looming, the Mayor's promotional agency London & Partners said that Pounds 1.8 billion ($2.3 billion, 2.0 billion euros) was invested in fledgling tech businesses in 2018.
That represented a near 30-percent slump on 2017 and was the first slowdown in six y ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 
Frost and Sullivan forecasts an estimated launch demand for 11,746 small satellites for new constellation installations and replacement missions by 2030. Such demand would take the small-satellite launch services market past the $69 billion mark and present significant growth opportunities throughout the industry.
In order to keep up with market demand, Frost and Sullivan anticipates innov ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day.
New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to a k ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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 Goonhilly UK (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
The Satellite Applications Catapult and Infostellar have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide UK businesses with enhanced access to the Satellite Applications Catapult's ground station in Goonhilly, Cornwall.
The Catapult's ground station is the primary ground location for its In Orbit Demonstration (IOD) programme - a unique service which supports UK business to achieve t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract to Elbit Systems of America for the Two Color Laser System, a surveillance system element onboard military aircraft.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release on Elbit Systems' website, but the U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli company said the contract would be carried out in 2019. The Two Color Laser System serves the Multi-Spec ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual American Astronomical Society winter meeting in Seattle.
The new planet, named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light-years away, in the constellation Reticulum, and appears to have the longest orbital period of ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily.
"The first exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any world in history is now history, but almost all of the data analysis lies in the future," said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boul ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Chilly reminders of a centuries-long cold snap can be found deep within the Pacific, a new study finds.
According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures indicates that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the surface cooling that occurred during the Little Ice Age, which began nearly 1,000 years ago.
The common-era climate anomaly known as the L ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 
Drone usage is expected to soar over the next several years. As legal regulations evolve, many industries will embrace drones for a multitude of tasks from infrastructure inspections to commercial fishing and beyond. And despite the potential for enormous growth, this revolutionary technology has an Achilles heel that is rarely mentioned- it is fully dependent on Global Navigation Satellite Syst ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 
A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people".
The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown of the Chang'e-4 probe, the agency said.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters - and broke a space exploration record. The spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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 Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
How far have we come in achieving the UN's sustainable development goals that we are committed to nationally and internationally? Yes, it can be difficult to make a global assessment of poverty and poor economic conditions, but with an eye in the sky, researchers are able to give us a very good hint of the living conditions of populations in the world's poor countries.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
The sun defies conventional scientific understanding. Its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, is many millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Astrophysicists are keen to learn why the corona is so hot, and scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed research that may advance the search.
The scientists found that form ... more |
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 SAntiago, Chile (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
The paper was published in the last 2018 issue (Dec 20) of the Astrophysical Journal and was led by the astronomer of the University of Chile and researcher of the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies CATA, Luis Campusano.
Fritz Zwicky, famous American astronomer of Swiss origin, arrived in 1933 at the astonishing conclusion that even though galaxies are the si ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
Lia Medeiros, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, is developing mathematical models that will allow researchers to pit Einstein's general theory of relativity against the most powerful monsters of nature: supermassive black holes such as Sgr A*, which lurks at the center of the Milky Way.
Medeiros has developed a diagnostic tool that astronomers can use to compare upcoming obs ... more |
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