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  Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 Airbus is bringing another experimental system to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of the photobioreactor (PBR). The PBR, developed by the University of Stuttgart and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), is designed to convert part of the CO2 extracted by the 'LSR' Life Support Rack on board the ISS into oxygen and biomass, which could help to save valuable resources during future long-term missions into space. ... read more |
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What's on the far side of the Moon?Columbus OH (The Conversation) Apr 29, 2019 Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lig ... more  
China uses US-made satellites for internal security: reportWashington (AFP) April 23, 2019 A fleet of US-made satellites helps China's government police its people and supports its military despite growing wariness in Washington over Beijing's power, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. ... more  
Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energyPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy ... more  
Asteroid HS2 swings past EarthMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019 HS2 has been described as a new Near-Earth Object, with NEOs known to zip in Earth's direction, coming "close" to the planetary surface - at least speaking astronomical terms. An asteroid code ... more |
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Navy executes successful test of AEGIS Virtual Twin software in missile testWashington (UPI) Apr 24, 2019 The U.S. Navy successfully executed a live-fire drill controlled by the AEGIS Virtual Twin, a prototype software upgrade for the AEGIS weapon system, the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command said. ... more  
Researchers calculate decades of 'scary' Greenland ice meltingWashington (AFP) April 22, 2019 Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 - thanks to satellites, weather stations and sophisticated climate models. ... more  
Researchers observe slowest atom decay ever measuredZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 Around 1500 meters deep in the Italian Gran Sasso mountains is the underground laboratory LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), in which scientists search for dark matter particles in a lab se ... more  
Snake-inspired robot slithers even better than predecessorBoston MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Bad news for ophiophobes: Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster an ... more 
Researchers report high performance solid-state sodium-ion batteryHouston TX (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Solid-state sodium-ion batteries are far safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which pose a risk of fire and explosions, but their performance has been too weak to offset the safety advanta ... more |
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Elemental old-timer makes the universe look like a toddlerHouston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 In terms of longevity, the universe has nothing on xenon 124. Theory predicts the isotope's radioactive decay has a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe "by many orders of magnitude," bu ... more  |
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SpaceX, NASA tight-lipped on cause of crew capsule incidentWashington (AFP) April 25, 2019 NASA and SpaceX remained tight-lipped Thursday about what caused a mysterious but apparently serious incident last weekend during engine tests on the Crew Dragon capsule designed to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. ... more 
FEDOR Space Rescuer: Roscosmos 'Trains' Anthropomorphic Robot for Manned MissionMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have received FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) anthropomorphic robot for its potential use ... more 
SOFIA uncovers ones of the building blocks of the early UniverseBonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2019 The helium hydride ion, to give HeH+ its full name, once posed something of a dilemma for science. Although its existence has been known from laboratory studies for almost 100 years, it had not been ... more 
Hermes to Bring Asteroid Research to the ISSHouston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 Asteroid researchers on Earth will soon gain a powerful new way to remotely conduct experiments aboard the International Space Station. The device, called the Hermes Facility, is an experiment ... more 
New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expectedBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say. ... more |
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 Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
Airbus is bringing another experimental system to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of the photobioreactor (PBR). The PBR, developed by the University of Stuttgart and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), is designed to convert part of the CO2 extracted by the 'LSR' Life Support Rack on board the ISS into oxyge ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 25, 2019 
NASA and SpaceX remained tight-lipped Thursday about what caused a mysterious but apparently serious incident last weekend during engine tests on the Crew Dragon capsule designed to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
SpaceX said that an "anomaly" had occurred during Saturday's ground tests at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
A photo on the Florida Tod ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2019 
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.
China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January.
It now plans to build a scientific researc ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019 
In the San Augustine Plains of central New Mexico, 27 radio telescopes stand tall, operating nearly 24 hours, 7 days a week capturing extremely weak signals emitted from all over the Universe. This flat and vast land, once a seabed, sits at an altitude of 7,000 feet and is surrounded by 360 degrees of mountains. Despite the ideal conditions of this location, "listening" to these faint radio emis ... more |
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 Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Scientists from TPU, Germany, and the United States have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise known as 'white graphene', i.e. hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), without destroying it or changing its properties. Thanks to the new method, the researchers synthesized a 'polymer nano carpet' with strong covalent bond on the samples.
Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research Sch ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science.
Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely lost early in the lifetime of the pl ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation.
A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2019 
Hydroid was awarded a $23.1 million contract for production support of the MK 18 family of unmanned submersibles for the U.S. Navy.
With four option years, the cumulative contract could be worth up to $47.9 million, the Defense Department announced Wednesday.
Work will be performed at Hydroid's plant in Pocasset, Mass., with an expected completion date by April 2020 and with opti ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 
China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 10:41 p.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 44th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the first BDS-3 satellite in inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit.
After in-orbit tests, the satellite will work wi ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019 
China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in "about 10 years" in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China National Space Administration (CSNA), Zhang Kejian.
The aim is quite a departure from what NASA attained as a result of its six successful Apollo missions that landed in close proximity to the M ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 29, 2019 
For the first time, ESA will cover a major international asteroid impact exercise live via social media, highlighting the the actions that might be taken by scientists, space agencies and civil protection organisations.
Every two years, asteroid experts from across the globe come together to simulate a fictional but plausible imminent asteroid impact on Earth. During the week-long scenario ... more |
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 Lesbos Island, Greece (AFP) April 22, 2019 
Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea.
Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to determine if seaborne litter can be detected with EU satellites and drones.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according to new research. In a new study, scientists found STEVE's source region in space and identified two mechanisms that cause it.
Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Ty ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have crossed an important threshold in revealing a discrepancy between the two key techniques for measuring the universe's expansion rate. The recent study strengthens the case that new theories may be needed to explain the forces that have shaped the cosmos.
A brief recap: The universe is getting bigger every second. The space betwe ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Around 1500 meters deep in the Italian Gran Sasso mountains is the underground laboratory LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), in which scientists search for dark matter particles in a lab sealed off from any radioactivity interference.
Their tool is the XENON1T detector, the central part of which consists of a cylindrical tank of about one meter in length filled with 3200 kilograms ... more |
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