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  Paris (AFP) Sept 3, 2019 The European Space Agency said Tuesday it had altered the trajectory of one of its observation satellites to avoid a possible collision with a craft operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX. "@ESA 's #Aeolus Earth observation satellite fired its thrusters, moving it off a collision course with a @SpaceX satellite in their #Starlink constellation," the agency's official Twitter account said. It said its scientists decided that the safest plan of action was to boost the altitude of the craft, adding that ... read more |
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Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflectionParis (ESA) Sep 04, 2019 Asteroid researchers and spacecraft engineers from the US, Europe and around the world will gather in Rome next week to discuss the latest progress in their common goal: an ambitious double-spacecra ... more  
General Atomics Orbital Test Bed Satellite Payload Commissioning UnderwaySan Diego, CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that commissioning of NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, ... more 
Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiberInnsbruck, Austria (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 The quantum internet promises absolutely tap-proof communication and powerful distributed sensor networks for new science and technology. However, because quantum information cannot be copied, it is ... more  
US Sanctions Iran's Space Agency, Space Research Centre Days After Failed Satellite LaunchMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 04, 2019 Iran stated on 29 August that a rocket had exploded at its Imam Khomeini Space Centre due to a malfunction during testing, rejecting claims that the incident had been "manipulated" from outside. ... more |
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Psychosensory electronic skin technology for future AI and humanoid developmentDaegu, South Korea (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 DGIST announced on Wednesday, August 21 that Professor Jae Eun Jang's team in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering developed electronic skin technology that can detect "prick" ... more  
Melatonin is a potential drug for the prevention of bone loss during space flightKanazawa, Japan (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 For proper and healthy metabolism of bone, appropriate stimuli are necessary. In outer space with microgravity, calcium is lost from bone and bone mass is reduced. Measurement of the bone density of ... more  
Space Flag holds first exercise with coalition partnersColorado Springs CO (AFNS) Aug 28, 2019 Coalition partners from Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States recently participated in Space Flag, a coalition exercise, for the first time at Aerospace Corporation's facility, Aug. ... more  
MDA test of remote-fired THAAD missile interceptor a successWashington (UPI) Aug 30, 2019 The first test of a remotely-launched Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor missile was called a success on Friday by the Missile Defense Agency. ... more  
Philippine Airborne Campaign Targets Weather, Climate ScienceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a ... more |
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 Landsat Illustrates Five Decades of Change to Greenland Glaciers  
A battery-free sensor for underwater explorationBoston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface - an underwater "internet o ... more  |
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Deep snow cover in the Arctic region intensifies heat waves in EurasiaSapporo, Japan (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 Persistent abnormally hot weather can cause negative impacts on human health, agriculture, and natural environments. A heat wave - a spell of hot days with the mercury rising much higher than the av ... more 
Maxar Technologies to supply US Govt with on-demand access to mission-ready satellite imageryWestminster CO (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, has announced that it has been awarded a new, four-year contract with the U.S. National Geospatial ... more  
Europe Unlikely to Abandon Soyuz Once US Revives Space Shuttles - German Space CenterMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 Andrei Savenkov - European countries are unlikely to completely stop using Russian Soyuz spacecraft for manned flights since options for transportation to outer space should be diversified, Prof. Dr ... more  
NASA Selects Proposals to Advance Understanding of Space WeatherWashington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth. The proposa ... more  
Study Reveals 'Radical' Wrinkle in Forming Complex Carbon Molecules in SpaceBerkeley CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 A team of scientists has discovered a new possible pathway toward forming carbon structures in space using a specialized chemical exploration technique at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkele ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 
The creators of the space hotel will offer luxury cruise-liner levels of comfort, artificial gravity, earthly cuisine and hot showers. And they say they can have it up and running a mere six years from today.
A company named Gateway Foundation unveiled its design for a "space hotel" they say will be operational by 2025. Named "The Von Braun Space Station," the hotel is a ring-shaped struct ... more |
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 Plesetsk, Russia (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 
Russia's Space Forces have launched a Rokot carrier rocket with a military spacecraft from the Plesetsk space centre in the north of the country, the Defence Ministry said.
"All pre-launch operations and the launch of the Rokot space rocket were successful. The ground assets of the Space Forces carried out control over the launch and the flight of the launch vehicle", the ministry said. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 
The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface of the Red Planet.
The European Space Agency's Director General Jan Woerner said he had spoken to Russia's Roscosmos during MAKS-2019 to ensure all issues on the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars-202 ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 McLean CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced Thales as the newest Iridium Certus aviation service provider. While already developing the Iridium Certus-based FlytLINK terminal and antenna, Thales will now be able to offer both Iridium Certus terminals and Iridium Certus connectivity services to business jets, commercial aircraft, rotorcraft, general aviation and UAVs.
Iridium Certus is the on ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2019  Russia on Monday said radioactive isotopes were released in a recent accident at an Arctic missile test site that caused widespread alarm as authorities kept details under wraps.
The August 8 blast killed five scientists and caused a spike in radiation levels but for several days Russia did not admit nuclear materials were involved.
The accident released swiftly decaying radioactive isot ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 
A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun - reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth are intimately linked to our planet's motion in space relative to the Sun. In fact, we mostly live our lives to the rhythm of these astronomical cycles.
The same goes for climate cycles. The cycle ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 
With water scarcity a growing problem worldwide, University of California, Berkeley, researchers are close to producing a microwave-sized water harvester that will allow you to pull all the water you need directly from the air - even in the hot, dry desert.
In a paper appearing this week in ACS Central Science, a journal of the American Chemical Society, UC Berkeley's Omar Yaghi and his co ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force's second next-generation GPS III satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, is responding to commands, under control and now using its own internal propulsion system to get to orbit following its successful launch this morning.
At 11:01 a.m. ET, Air Force and Lockheed Martin engineers at Lockheed Martin's Launch and Checkout Facility near Denver declared they had full control ... more |
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 New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 
There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but not impossible.
Scientists have come up with an interesting twist on the old concept of space lift, which should, in theory, significantly cut the cost of future Lunar missions, The Daily Star re ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 
This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), an instrument contributed by the Canadian Space Agency.
It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 
NASA has selected three proposals for concept studies of missions that could help us better understand the dynamic space weather system driven by the Sun that manifests near Earth.
The proposals examine what drives different parts of that system and ultimately could help us predict and mitigate its effects on spacecraft and astronauts, as NASA's Artemis program looks to send the first woma ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019  Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 San Diego, CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2019 
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that commissioning of NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, is now underway. GA-EMS' OTB was successfully launched at 2:30 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2019 on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
"Our OTB spacecraft is operating nominally and we have successfu ... more |
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