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  Dresden, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 After 7 years of tireless development at the tu dresden, the spin-off, Morpheus Space has successfully ignited the world's smallest ion beam thruster on the "UWE-4" nano-satellite. Four of the thumb-sized thrusters are located on UWE-4, the 1 kg nano-satellite of the University of Wurzburg. This enabled the Germany-based company to operate the first electric thruster in this satellite size in space. The primary objective of the satellite mission is to test the propulsion system in orbit in order t ... read more |
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Cobham SATCOM extends partnership with Inmarsat for L-band ground components for I-6 satellitesCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 Cobham SATCOM, the leading global provider of satellite communications solutions, has announced that it would provide L-band ground infrastructure for Inmarsat's I-6 constellation, currently set for ... more  
Goonhilly Partners with the Australian Space Agency to Drive New Opportunities WorldwideCornwall UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 Satellite communications innovator and space gateway Goonhilly Earth Station has announced that it has inked a partnership agreement with the Australian Space Agency to collaborate and create new op ... more 
Innovative communications satellite built by Maxar's SSL for PSN performing post-launch maneuversPalo Alto, CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 SSL reports that the Nusantara Satu communications satellite, built for Indonesian satellite operator PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according t ... more  
Chinese engineers look to graphene to drive deep space explorationBeijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2019 A two-dimensional form of carbon known as graphene might one day help power space exploration into the unknown universe, say Chinese space engineers. Graphene, which is just one atom thick, co ... more |
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Minister Pedro Duque opens up PLD Space facilities at the Teruel AirportTeruel, Spain (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 The Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Mr. Pedro Duque Duque, the first astronaut in the history of Spain, has unveiled the PLD Space Propulsion facilities located at Teruel Airport. ... more  
Complete world map of tree diversityLeipzig, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 The biodiversity of our planet is one of our most precious resources. However, for most places in the world, we only have a tiny picture of what this diversity actually is. Researchers at the German ... more  
Australia Designs Local Infrastructure for World's Largest TelescopeSydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 A team of Australian engineers and scientists has designed the local infrastructure for the world's largest radio telescope - the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - taking the billion-dollar global proj ... more  
NASA Selects Mission to Study Space Weather from Space StationWashington 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 profoun ... more 
World-first technology to revolutionise space imagingSydney, 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 ... more |
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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  |
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The holy grail of nanowire productionLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystallin ... more 
Graphite offers up new quantum surpriseManchester UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Researchers at The University of Manchester in the UK, led by Dr Artem Mishchenko, Prof Volodya Fal'ko and Prof Andre Geim, have discovered the quantum Hall effect in bulk graphite - a layered cryst ... more 
Laser 'drill' sets a new world record in laser-driven electron accelerationBerkeley CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 Combining a first laser pulse to heat up and "drill" through a plasma, and another to accelerate electrons to incredibly high energies in just tens of centimeters, scientists have nearly doubled the ... more  
NASA-funded research creates DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien lifeMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 In a research breakthrough funded by NASA, scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This unprecedented feat suggests there could be an alter ... more 
ALMA differentiates two birth cries from a single starTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 Astronomers have unveiled the enigmatic origins of two different gas streams from a baby star. Using ALMA, they found that the slow outflow and the high speed jet from a protostar have misaligned ax ... more |
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 Dulles, 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 the mission, the "S.S. John Young" Cygnus met the needs of multiple customers throughout this flight to the International Space Station. The spacecraft removed more than 5,500 pounds (2,500 kilograms) ... 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.
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 Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
SSL reports that the Nusantara Satu communications satellite, built for Indonesian satellite operator PT Pasifik Satelit Nusantara (PSN), is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan.
It launched last night aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the SpaceX launch base in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and deployed its solar arrays on schedule. Tomorrow its main thruster will begin to p ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 
Cobham SATCOM, the leading global provider of satellite communications solutions, has announced that it would provide L-band ground infrastructure for Inmarsat's I-6 constellation, currently set for first launch in 2020.
Cobham SATCOM's next generation radio access network (RAN) leverages scalable technologies to deliver a more flexible, digital system, enabling Inmarsat customers to keep ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
A NASA telescope that will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find as many as 1,400 new planets outside Earth's solar system, new research suggests.
The new telescope paves the way for a more accurate, more focused search for extraterrestrial life, according to researchers.
The study, by a team of astronomers at T ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2019 
Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.
Astrobiologist Laurie Barge and her team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working to recognize life on other planets by ... 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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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
A Japanese probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid 300 million kilometres away for clues about the origin of life and the solar system landed successfully on Friday, scientists said.
Hayabusa2 touched down briefly on the Ryugu asteroid, fired a bullet into the surface to puff up dust for collection and blasted back to its holding position, said officials from the Japan Aerospace Explo ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
Work has begun on a new CubeSat mission that will demonstrate for the first time a new, highly promising technique for measuring soil moisture from space - data important for early flood and drought warnings as well as crop-yield forecasts.
The technology-demonstration mission, SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, will validate a remote-sensing technique called signals of opportun ... 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.
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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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