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  Washington (AFP) March 8, 2019 The SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday after more than six days in space, completing its demonstration mission for US space agency NASA. Launched on Saturday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to demonstrate that it could carry astronauts to the International Space Station, Dragon docked at the station the following day before detaching early Friday for its return to Earth. Live footage from NASA showed the capsule's four main parachutes opened without a hitch, and it splashed down at 8:45 am (1345 GMT). ... read more |
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Stanford lab wants to make the environment of outer space work for usStanford CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 When explorers venture into the great unknown of outer space, they must bring along everything they need. This adds expense and complexity to an already ambitious endeavor - and limits where spacecr ... more 
XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator completes inaugural flightWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 The XQ-58A Valkyrie demonstrator, a long-range, high subsonic unmanned air vehicle completed its inaugural flight March 5, 2019 at Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona. The Air Force Research Laboratory pa ... more 
X-60A hypersonic flight research vehicle program completes critical design reviewWright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Aerospace Systems Directorate, High Speed Systems Division, in partnership with Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc., is developing the X-60A vehicle. It ... more 
Raytheon awarded $63.3M for hypersonic weapons system researchWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 Raytheon was awarded a $63.3 million contract to further develop the Tactical Boost Glide hypersonic weapons program. ... more |
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SpaceX CEO Musk on Russia's Rocket Engineering, Engines: 'Excellent'Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 08, 2019 Elon Musk, the CEO of US private aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, called Russia's rocket engineering "excellent" and said the country's rocket engines are the best currently flying, also suggesting th ... more  
What Does the Milky Way Weigh? Hubble and Gaia InvestigateBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 We can't put the whole Milky Way on a scale, but astronomers have been able to come up with one of the most accurate measurements yet of our galaxy's mass, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and th ... more  
China's lunar rover studies stones on moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2019 China's lunar rover has conducted scientific detection on some stones on the far side of the moon, which might help scientists find out whether they are from outer space or native to the moon. ... more  
Chances for Life Expand When Binary Stars Push TogetherLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 CAPTION A NASA graphic showing an Earth-sized planet inside, within, and outside of the habitable zone around a star. Credit: NASA Planetary systems can be harsh environments in their early hi ... more  
Effects of spaceflight on heart cell formation from stem cellsNew Rochelle NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Researchers used time-lapse imaging to show that mouse induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) grown during spaceflight differentiated into cardiomyocytes significantly faster than similar cells grow ... more |
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Scientists levitate particles with sound to find out how they cluster togetherChicago IL (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of Bath used sound waves to levitate particles, revealing new insights about how materials cluster together in the absence of gravity - p ... more  |
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Scientists track deep history of planets' motions, and effects on Earth's climateNew York NY (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Scientists have long posited that periodic swings in Earth's climate are driven by cyclic changes in the distribution of sunlight reaching our surface. This is due to cyclic changes in how our plane ... more  
Magnonic devices can replace electronics without much noiseRiverside CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Electronic devices such as transistors are getting smaller and will soon hit the limits of conventional performance based on electrical currents. Devices based on magnonic currents - quasi-par ... more  
Step right up for bigger 2D sheetsHouston TX (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 Very small steps make a big difference to researchers who want to create large wafers of two-dimensional material. Atom-sized steps in a substrate provide the means for 2D crystals growing in ... more 
Out of This World Auction Sponsored by ARISSWashington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 The ARISS-US team (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) will auction two very unusual items in its first-ever auction! Picture yourself as the winning bidder and proud owner of a unique ... more 
The science circling above us on the Space StationParis (ESA) Mar 08, 2019 The International Space Station orbits Earth, 400 km above our heads, running scientific experiments that cannot be done anywhere else. Read on for our bi-weekly update on European science in space. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
The ARISS-US team (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) will auction two very unusual items in its first-ever auction! Picture yourself as the winning bidder and proud owner of a unique JVC Kenwood TS-890S signed by astronauts! Or, you could be top bidder on a special astronaut-signed 6-volume boxed set 2019 ARRL Handbook!
Bidding starts April 8th at 12:00 UTC and ends April 1 ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 7, 2019 
A North Korean long-range rocket launch site appears to have resumed "normal operation status," US experts said Thursday, calling it an "affront" to President Donald Trump's strategy of diplomatic engagement with Pyongyang.
The specialized website 38 North and the Center for Strategic and International Studies used commercial satellite imagery to track construction at the site - which they ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Missions carrying humans to Mars will require on-site resources, and a project led by Planetary Science Institute (PSI) scientists Nathaniel Putzig and Gareth Morgan is mapping the availability of potential shallow water-ice sources across the surface of the Red Planet.
Two teams led by Putzig and Morgan were contracted by NASA to pursue separate mapping efforts of subsurface ice deposits ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2019 
China's lunar rover has conducted scientific detection on some stones on the far side of the moon, which might help scientists find out whether they are from outer space or native to the moon.
The rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, was sent to the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. 3 in the Chang'e-4 mission.
Currently, the rover h ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 08, 2019 
Hundreds of space companies in Europe and Canada-ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to international consortia-have boosted their business by partnering with ESA.
ESA's programme of Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) provides co-funding, multi-disciplinary expertise, business knowledge and opportunities for a wide range of companies producing anything from ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
Very small steps make a big difference to researchers who want to create large wafers of two-dimensional material.
Atom-sized steps in a substrate provide the means for 2D crystals growing in a chemical vapor furnace to come together in perfect rank. Scientists have recently observed this phenomenon, and now a Rice University group has an idea why it works.
Rice materials theorist Bo ... more |
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CAPTION A NASA graphic showing an Earth-sized planet inside, within, and outside of the habitable zone around a star. Credit: NASA
Planetary systems can be harsh environments in their early history. The young worlds orbit suns in stellar nurseries, clusters of stars where violent encounters are commonplace. None of this makes it easy for life to get going, but now astronomers at the Univer ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2019  Cross your eyes and break out the 3D glasses! NASA's New Horizons team has created new stereo views of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule - the target of the New Horizons spacecraft's historic New Year's 2019 flyby, four billion miles from Earth - and the images are as cool and captivating as they are scientifically valuable.
The 3D effects come from pairing or combining images ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 07, 2019 
Vegetation biomass on grasslands increases in response to elevated carbon dioxide levels, but less than expected. Vegetation on grasslands with a wet spring season has the greatest increase. This has been demonstrated in a new study published in the scientific journal Nature Plants.
An important, but uncertain, factor in climate research is the extent to which all ecosystems can accumulate ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2019 
Israel Aerospace Industries has unveiled an upgrade to its satellite operational navigation systems, which it says repels attempts at jamming.
While most navigation, communication and electronic warfare systems rely on continuous availability of multiple satellites for navigation, the majority of worldwide avionics systems are vulnerable to localized, low-power jamming emitters.
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 Tokyo (AFP) March 6, 2019 
Toyota is teaming up with Japan's space agency on a planned mission to the Moon, with the Japanese auto giant expected to develop a lunar rover, officials and local media said Wednesday.
It will be the car manufacturer's first full-fledged entry into space exploration, after the company jointly developed a small robot sent to the International Space Station.
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 6, 2019 
Japan's space agency, JAXA, released a video this week showcasing Hayabusa-2's successful asteroid touchdown.
Last month, the probe skimmed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. A review of the landing data by JAXA scientists confirmed the touchdown sequence happened as expected.
"Data analysis from Hayabusa-2 confirms that the sequence of operation proceeded, including shooting a p ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
Methane is a very special molecule. It is the main component of natural gas and we heat our apartments with it, but when reaching the atmosphere it is a potent greenhouse gas.
It is also central in microbiology: In the absence of oxygen, a special group of microorganisms, the so-called methanogenic archaea, can produce methane. Other microorganisms - archaea living in symbiosis with bacter ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
The four Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft are flying out of their element. The spacecraft have just completed a short detour from their routine science - looking at processes within Earth's magnetic environment - and instead ventured outside it, studying something they were not originally designed for.
For three weeks, MMS studied the solar wind - the stream of supersonic charged parti ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
The 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope 4MOST will be the largest spectroscopic survey facility of its kind in the Southern hemisphere and address today's most pressing astronomical questions in the fields of galactic archaeology, high-energy astrophysics, galaxy evolution, and cosmology.
With the publication of 13 papers, the consortium introduces 4MOST to the scientific communit ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2019 
Physicists have used a seven-qubit quantum computer to simulate the scrambling of information inside a black hole, heralding a future in which entangled quantum bits might be used to probe the mysterious interiors of these bizarre objects.
Scrambling is what happens when matter disappears inside a black hole. The information attached to that matter - the identities of all its constituents, ... more |
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