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  Houston TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Throughout NASA's history, the agency has worked with industry and academia to explore and utilize the space frontier. Contractors built rockets, satellites and spacecraft. Colleges and universities have worked with NASA scientists and engineers to develop technology to support investigations leading to discoveries. As the 30-year Space Shuttle Program was drawing to a close, NASA again began plans to reach beyond low-Earth orbit. To allow a focus on exploration to the Moon and Mars, NASA has ente ... read more |
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First Emirati set to head to space in September: UAEDubai (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 The United Arab Emirates announced Monday that the first astronaut from the Gulf country will blast off on a mission to the International Space Station on September 25. ... more  
Signs of ancient flowing water on MarsParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2019 These images from ESA's Mars Express satellite show a branching, desiccated system of trenches and valleys, signs of ancient water flow that hint at a warmer, wetter past for the Red Planet. W ... more  
Firefly Aerospace Announces Mass Production Facility and Cape Canaveral Launch SiteExploration Park FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Firefly) has announced the execution of a binding term sheet with Space Florida, under which Firefly will establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, includin ... more 
Company's 10th cargo supply mission featured expanded commercial capabilities for Cygnus spacecraftDulles, VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Northrop Grumman reports that the company successfully completed its 10th cargo supply mission to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-1) contract. During ... more |
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Astronomers use new technique to find extrasolar planetsIrvine CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 Astronomers from institutions including the University of California, Irvine have begun routine science operations with the Habitable Planet Finder, a new high-precision spectrograph to help detect ... more  
Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photonsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 In the global quest to develop practical computing and communications devices based on the principles of quantum physics, one potentially useful component has proved elusive: a source of individual ... more  
Bid by 'enemies' to sabotage missiles foiled: Iran GuardsTehran (AFP) Feb 24, 2019 The Revolutionary Guards on Sunday accused "enemies" of Iran of trying to sabotage the country's missiles so that they would "explode mid-air" but said the bid was foiled. ... more  
Half-a-billion-year-old weird wonder worm finally gets its place in the tree of lifeBristol UK (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Amiskwia was originally described by the famous palaeontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) in 1911 who compared it to the modern arrow worms (chaetognaths) - a group of ocean-dwelling wor ... more 
Scientists find tanner crabs feeding on seafloor methane ventWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2019 Marine biologists have discovered a group of tanner crabs feeding vigorously on a seafloor methane seep located off the coast of British Columbia. ... more |
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 A volcanic binge and its frosty hangover  
Superconduction: Why does it have to be so cold?Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Why does it always have to be so cold? We now know of a whole range of materials that - under certain conditions - conduct electrical current entirely without resistance. We call this phenomenon sup ... more  |
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Aquatic microorganism could inspire soft robots able to move fast in narrow spacesRome, Italy (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Over three centuries ago, microscopy pioneer Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was marvelled by the tiny creatures he found in a drop of water from a nearby pond. He was particularly struck by the behaviour of ... more 
More flexible nanomaterials can make fuel cell cars cheaperLaurel MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 A new method of increasing the reactivity of ultrathin nanosheets, just a few atoms thick, can someday make fuel cells for hydrogen cars cheaper, finds a new Johns Hopkins study. A report of t ... more  
Captured carbon dioxide converts into oxalic acid to process rare earth elementsHoughton MI (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Until now, carbon dioxide has been dumped in oceans or buried underground. Industry has been reluctant to implement carbon dioxide scrubbers in facilities due to cost and footprint. What if we ... more 
Were dinosaurs killed off by asteroid or volcanoes? It's complicatedWashington (AFP) Feb 21, 2019 Every school child knows the dinosaurs were killed off by an asteroid smashing into the Earth some 66 million years ago. ... more 
NASA greenlights SpaceX crew capsule test to ISSWashington (AFP) Feb 23, 2019 NASA on Friday gave SpaceX the green light to test a new crew capsule by first sending an unmanned craft with a life-sized mannequin to the International Space Station. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 
Europe's Columbus laboratory enters its eleventh year in space with steady operations, a few upgrades and several experiments in full swing.
The physical behaviour of particles, liquids and cells in microgravity was the focus of ESA's activities on the International Space Station during the first weeks of February.
The three astronauts from Expedition 58 living in space worked on e ... more |
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 Exploration Park FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
Firefly Aerospace, Inc. (Firefly) has announced the execution of a binding term sheet with Space Florida, under which Firefly will establish business operations at Cape Canaveral Spaceport, including launch operations at historic Space Launch Complex 20 and manufacturing facilities at Exploration Park, Florida.
Firefly's announcement is concurrent with its receipt of a Statement of Capabil ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2019 
Curiosity is taking a hiatus from its scientific mission, according to the rover's most recent Twitter update.
Last week, its computer rebooted without warning. Now, NASA engineers are trying to figure out what caused the unprompted restart.
During the reboot, a glitch caused the spacecraft's computer to go into safe mode. Scientists have since awoken the rover from safe mode, bu ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
The Long ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 22, 2019 
The launch of the first test satellites of the UK's OneWeb constellation into orbit from the Kourou spaceport using the Soyuz-ST carrier rocket may be postponed due to an emergency situation during the launch of Egyptian Egyptsat-A satellite on board a Soyuz-2.1b rocket on Thursday, a Russian space industry source told Sputnik.
The long-awaited OneWeb satellite launch has been recently res ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
When vacationers buy a stake in a beachfront timeshare, they decide in advance who gets to use the property when. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) institute a similar plan for when commercial wireless providers and the U.S. Navy attempt to share a desirable 150-megahertz (MHz)-wide section of the radio frequency (RF) ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2019 
Marine biologists have discovered a group of tanner crabs feeding vigorously on a seafloor methane seep located off the coast of British Columbia.
Tanner crabs are a genus of crabs sometimes referred to as queen crabs or spider crabs. All seven species of the Chionoecetes genus are often marketed as "snow crabs" in seafood markets. The discovery marks the first time a commercially harve ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
The mission team called it a "stretch goal" - just before closest approach, precisely point the cameras on NASA's New Horizons spacecraft to snap the sharpest possible pics of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, its New Year's flyby target and the farthest object ever explored.
Now that New Horizons has sent those stored flyby images back to Earth, the team can enthusiastically ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
precipitation change under global warming is essential. However, current climate models exhibit large uncertainty on the projection of Sahel precipitation.
A group of scientists from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences found that the projection uncertainty of Sahel summer precipitation among the climate models is closely related to the historical precipitation sim ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
Norway's foreign intelligence unit on Monday expressed renewed concerns that its GPS signals in the country's Far North were being jammed, as Oslo again blamed Russia for the "unacceptable" acts.
In its annual national risk assessment report, the intelligence service said that in repeated incidents since 2017, GPS signals have been blocked from Russian territory in Norwegian regions near the ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
An unmanned rocket took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, aiming to make history twice: as the first private-sector landing on the Moon, and the first from the Jewish state.
The 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) Beresheet, which means "Genesis" in Hebrew, lifted off at 8:45 pm (0145 GMT Friday) atop a Falcon 9 rocket from the private US-bas ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 21, 2019 
ESA's proposed Hera mission will already visit two asteroids: the Didymos binary pair. The Hera team hopes to boost that number by performing a flyby of another asteroid during the mission's three-year flight.
The opportunity arises because Hera will be flying out to match Didymos' 770-day orbit, which circles from less than 10 million km from Earth to out beyond Mars, at more than double ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
KBR, Inc. reports that its global government services business, KBRwyle, has been awarded a $19 million contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to support flight operations for its satellite.
The Landsat 7 satellite is part of the Landsat program, a joint initiative of the USGS and NASA. Landsat satellites provide space-based images of the Earth's land surface, collecting valuable ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
NASA has selected a new mission that will help scientists understand and, ultimately, forecast the vast space weather system around our planet. Space weather is important because it can have profound impacts - affecting technology and astronauts in space, disrupting radio communications and, at its most severe, overwhelming power grids.
The new experiment will, for the first time, obtain g ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
A revolutionary and world-first approach to space imaging led by Western Sydney University's International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) will be demonstrated for the first time publicly at this year's Avalon Airshow. The Astrosite, a mobile space situational awareness (SSA) module, is set to have game-changing impacts on a number of fields, including defence.
Using biologically-in ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
Rutgers and other physicists have discovered an exotic form of electrons that spin like planets and could lead to advances in lighting, solar cells, lasers and electronic displays.
It's called a "chiral surface exciton," and it consists of particles and anti-particles bound together and swirling around each other on the surface of solids, according to a study in the Proceedings of the Nati ... more |
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