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  Washington DC (UPI) Oct 09, 2019 An exploratory division of U.S. aviation giant Boeing will make a $20 million investment for a stake in space tourism company Virgin Galactic, officials said Tuesday. Boeing's venture arm HorizonX will make the investment, which gives the Chicago-based company a minority stake in Virgin Galactic and will boost the latter's valuation to $1.5 billion. "This investment brings together two companies with extensive experience in the space industry," Boeing said in a statement. "Virgin Galactic is ... read more |
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Pentagon requests $10.6 billion in funding for Space Development AgencyWashington DC (Sputnik) Oct 07, 2019 Despite consistent bipartisan pushback and international criticism, the US Department of Defense's newest space agency may see drastic budget increases in the coming years as it looks to deploy some ... more  
Russia to deploy over 10 space monitoring centres by 2022Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 07, 2019 Russia will deploy more than 10 new laser-optical and radio-technical space monitoring stations on its territory by 2022, the Russian Defence Ministry said. "It is planned to deploy over 10 ne ... more 
Sea Launch platform stripped of foreign equipment, ready to leave US for RussiaLos Angeles CA (Sputnik) Oct 09, 2019 The mobile maritime space port, designed to launch commercial payloads using specially-made rockets from near the equator, remains moored off California despite being purchased by a major Russian ai ... more  
Astronauts grow 'space meat' but admit taste 'needs to be improved'Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 09, 2019 As global consumption of meat is projected to rise by 88 percent between 2010 and 2050 by the World Resources Institute, science is seeking less resource-intensive ways of producing it, with in vitr ... more |
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China launches HD observation satelliteTaiyuan (XNA) Oct 07, 2019 China sent its observation satellite into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province at 2:51 a.m. Saturday (Beijing Time). The satellite, Gaofen-10, was la ... more 
Putin: Russia is helping China with missile defense systemWashington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 Russia is aiding China in building a missile defense system able to counter ballistic and cruise missiles, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed. ... more  
UK space skills support sustainable developmentLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 UK satellite-enabled data technology, delivered through UK Aid, is improving the life chances of people around the world, while boosting the UK economy. Satellite technology and data can impro ... more  
Scientists identify molecule that could have helped cells thrive on early EarthLa Jolla CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 To truly understand how the body works and improve human health, researchers need to tease apart the building blocks of our cells. But as scientists continue to make major breakthroughs in cellular ... more  
MOSAiC expedition selects ice floe for drift through Arctic OceanWashington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 Researchers with the MOSAiC expedition have found an ice floe to anchor the German research icebreaker Polarstern to for a year-long. ... more |
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NASA's Curiosity Rover finds an ancient oasis on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 08, 2019 If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA's Curiosity rover. Imagine ponds dotting the floor of Gale C ... more  |
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Was Venus once warm and wet, new study of lava flow suggests notHouston, TX (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 A new study of the Ovda Fluctus lava flow on Venus indicates that it is made of basaltic lava. This discovery weakens the notion that Venus might once have been Earth-like with an ancient ocean of l ... more 
Curiosity findings suggest Mars once featured dozens of shallow briny pondsWashington (UPI) Oct 7, 2019 Data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover suggests Mars once hosted dozens of shallow briny ponds that periodically overflowed and then dried. ... more  
Not long ago, the center of the Milky Way explodedCanberra, Australia (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way just 3.5 million years ago, sending a cone-shaped burst of radiation through both ... more 
Raytheon to help Jet Propulsion Lab explore the universeDulles VA (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 Raytheon will develop new space systems and flight software, and provide engineering, training and operations support for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech, under a five-year, $15 ... more  
Draconid meteor shower to light up the skiesWashington DC (UPI) Oct 08, 2019 Get ready for a modest midweek meteor shower. That's what the Draconids promise to deliver. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 09, 2019 
As global consumption of meat is projected to rise by 88 percent between 2010 and 2050 by the World Resources Institute, science is seeking less resource-intensive ways of producing it, with in vitro cultivation of animal cells offering a possible solution.
Israeli food startup Aleph Farms announced on 7 October that it had successfully grown meat in space.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 
Virgin Orbit, a private company planning launches of orbital satellites, announced that a Royal Air Force pilot will join its team.
Flight Lt. Mathew Stannard will join the Virgin Orbit program in a three-year contract. He will be one of the company's pilots in the trials of Boeing 747-400 aircraft from which satellites will be launched. The announcement was made on Thursday in Californ ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 7, 2019 
Data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover suggests Mars once hosted dozens of shallow briny ponds that periodically overflowed and then dried.
Scientists on the Curiosity mission described their interpretation of the rover's Gale Crater observations - and of the ancient Martian landscape - in a new paper published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience.
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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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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 
UK satellite-enabled data technology, delivered through UK Aid, is improving the life chances of people around the world, while boosting the UK economy.
Satellite technology and data can improve how we tackle global issues such as deforestation, sustainable food production and disaster response, new analysis shows.
Three new reports, published during World Space Week, which runs from ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 08, 2019 
A study co-written by a Southwest Research Institute scientist describes a new algorithm that combines the capabilities of two spacecraft instruments, which could result in lower cost and higher efficiency space missions. The virtual "super instrument," is a computer algorithm that utilizes deep learning to analyze ultraviolet images of the Sun, taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, and me ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2019 
Scientists have captured images of individual viruses forming, gaining insights into the mechanics of viral assembly.
"Structural biology has been able to resolve the structure of viruses with amazing resolution, down to every atom in every protein," Vinothan Manoharan, a professor of physics and chemical engineering at the Harvard University, said in a news release. "But we still didn' ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Kyparissia, Greece (AFP) Oct 9, 2019 
Freed from its eggshell by a volunteer, the tiny turtle hatchling clambers across a pebble-strewn sandy Greek beach in a race to the sea, the start of a hazardous journey that only one in 1,000 will survive.
Kira Schirrmacher, 22, donning black gloves to gently ease the newborn loggerhead turtle on its way, grins at suggestions that she's a kind of "midwife".
"Yes, I do that all day," s ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 02, 2019 
Navigating to within three inches of your destination is made possible by algorithms and software developed by NASA. These power a NASA system that augments the raw navigation signals provided by the U.S. Air Force's GPS satellites to support airplane navigation around the world, direct emergency responders and, soon, guide self-driving cars.
The Air Force began launching global positionin ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 
When the first woman and next man step foot on the Moon in 2024, they will be wearing the next generation of spacesuits designed to give astronauts enhanced mobility to accomplish their exploration tasks on the lunar surface. NASA is currently designing and developing a new spacesuit system, called the Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit or xEMU, for use during Artemis missions at the Moon ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 09, 2019 
Scientists have discovered how water molecules can be regenerated on asteroids moving through space, in an exciting breakthrough that could extend to other bodies such as the Moon.
Published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the new research shows water can be replenished on the surface of asteroids if both solar wind and impacting meteoroids come together at very low temperatures.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 07, 2019 
The Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), the third in a U.S.-European series of satellite missions designed to measure sea surface height, successfully ended its science mission on Oct. 1. NASA and its mission partners made the decision to end the mission after detecting deterioration in the spacecraft's power system.
Jason-2/OSTM, a joint NASA mission with the French space age ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
A NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) team has shown that by using deep learning, it is possible to virtually monitor the Sun's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance, which is a key driver of space weather. The Sun is vital for survival, but solar flares, which typically occur a few times a year, have the potential to cause severe disruptions in space and on Earth.
These disruptions can imp ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 07, 2019 
Joe Nuth loves dust. Among astronomers, that puts him in a minority.
"The traditional astronomers - the people looking at galaxies and stars - they hate dust," said Nuth, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "It's the stuff that's in their way."
Like the Earthly dust that gathers under your bed, cosmic dust is hard to avoid. "It's about ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
Energy is a quantity that must always be positive - at least that's what our intuition tells us. If every single particle is removed from a certain volume until there is nothing left that could possibly carry energy, then a limit has been reached. Or has it? Is it still possible to extract energy even from empty space?
Quantum physics has shown time and again that it contradicts our intuit ... more |
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