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  Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Boeing's decision to break up tests of its Starliner space capsule flight software into segments was a major reason the craft failed to reach the International Space Station in December, company Vice president John Mulholland said Friday. Boeing made the ill-fated decision to skip end-to-end software tests for the entire length of its Starliner space capsule flight to the International Space, breaking the flight into segments for testing instead. One of the tests ended at the point where ... read more |
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Iron 'whiskers' found covering Itokawa asteroid samplesWashington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Scientists have found iron "whiskers" on particles from the asteroid samples returned by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa mission. ... more  
US professor charged with hiding link to China on NASA-funded projectWashington (AFP) Feb 28, 2020 US authorities on Thursday charged a professor at a university in Tennessee with fraud and false statements, saying he hid his link to a Chinese institution while taking funding from NASA. ... more  
Russia successfully test fires Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missileWashington DC (UPI) Feb 28, 2020 Russia has successfully test-launched its Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from a ship for the first time and is planning more tests from nuclear submarines. The missile was fired from the fr ... more 
Air Force Announces Vanguard PEOSWashington DC (AFNS) Feb 27, 2020 The Air Force recently announced the Vanguard Program as part of its transformational science and technology portfolio identified in the 2030 strategy for the next decade. Vanguard programs wi ... more |
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Scientists 'film' a quantum measurementStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Quantum physics describes the inner world of individual atoms, a world very different from our everyday experience. One of the many strange yet fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics is the role o ... more  
Quantum researchers able to split one photon into threeWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of i ... more  
Stanford research maps a faster, easier way to build diamondStanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 It sounds like alchemy: take a clump of white dust, squeeze it in a diamond-studded pressure chamber, then blast it with a laser. Open the chamber and find a new microscopic speck of pure diamond in ... more  
Simple self-charging battery offers power solutions for devicesWashington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 A new type of battery combines negative capacitance and negative resistance within the same cell, allowing the cell to self-charge without losing energy, which has important implications for long-te ... more  
Gemini Telescope Images "Minimoon" Orbiting EarthHilo HI (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Astronomers using the international Gemini Observatory, on Hawaii's Maunakea, have imaged a very small object in orbit around the Earth, thought to be only a few meters across. According to Grigori ... more |
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Trembling Mars gives up more seismic secretsParis (AFP) Feb 24, 2020 Mars is a constantly tremoring "living" body, researchers said Monday as they unveiled measurements of seismic activity on the red planet showing similar tremble rates to Earth or the Moon. ... more  |
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Large Exoplanet Could Have the Right Conditions for LifeCambridge UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune. ... more  
Book Review: Alcohol in Space - Past, Present and FutureColorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 This book is a genuine treasure, focused on the making and consumption of alcohol throughout history...with a new upshot - the growing role of alcohol production in low Earth orbit (LEO) - or should ... more  
Suited up for gravityParis (ESA) Feb 28, 2020 When it comes to grasping an object, our eyes, ears and hands are intimately connected. Our brain draws information from different senses, such as sight, sound and touch, to coordinate hand movement ... more 
Astronomy student discovers 17 new planets, including Earth-sized worldVancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 University of British Columbia astronomy student Michelle Kunimoto has discovered 17 new planets, including a potentially habitable, Earth-sized world, by combing through data gathered by NASA's Kep ... more 
Joining forces to solve the neutrino mass puzzleMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 Among the most exciting challenges in modern physics is the identification of the neutrino mass ordering. Physicists from the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JG ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
This book is a genuine treasure, focused on the making and consumption of alcohol throughout history...with a new upshot - the growing role of alcohol production in low Earth orbit (LEO) - or should it be libation Earth orbit? - and beyond!
Featuring 7 chapters, this volume includes a brief history of alcohol and society, booze in science fiction, retro-flections of drinking in space, spac ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 
Boeing's decision to break up tests of its Starliner space capsule flight software into segments was a major reason the craft failed to reach the International Space Station in December, company Vice president John Mulholland said Friday.
Boeing made the ill-fated decision to skip end-to-end software tests for the entire length of its Starliner space capsule flight to the International ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 
After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will ke ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
Europlanet has launched a 10 million Euro project, the Europlanet 2024 Research Infrastructure (RI), to provide open access to the world's largest collection of planetary simulation and analysis facilities, as well as a global network of small telescopes, data services, and community support activities. Europlanet 2024 RI aims to widen participation in planetary science and provides the infrastr ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 20, 2020 
Exotrail, a French company dedicated to providing innovative on-orbit transportation solutions for the small satellite market have signed a contract with AAC Clyde Space, Europe's leading nanosatellite solutions specialist.
Exotrail will equip them with cutting-edge propulsion solutions for their customers, including global satellite telecommunications leader Eutelsat for its ELO 3 and ELO ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
A team from the University of Cambridge used the mass, radius, and atmospheric data of the exoplanet K2-18b and determined that it's possible for the planet to host liquid water at habitable condi ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, JUICE will spend at least three years making detailed observations in the Jovian system before going ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) Feb 29, 2020 
Ethiopia on Saturday expressed "disappointment" with the latest push by the United States to resolve a long-running dispute over a massive dam on the Nile River, suggesting a deal could still be far off.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa, has been a source of tension between Addis Ababa and Cairo since Ethiopia broke ground on it in 201 ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 29, 2020 
US regulators moved to impose fines Friday against the nation's four major wireless carriers for selling location data of customers without their consent.
The Federal Communications Commission proposed fining T-Mobile more than $91 million; AT&T some $57 million; Verizon $48 million, and Sprint $12 million.
The wireless firms were accused of having disclosed mobile network user location ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile robot that will look for water ice at one of the Moon's poles.
During its mission, VIPER will roam several miles and use its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample vario ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020  Scientists have found iron "whiskers" on particles from the asteroid samples returned by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa mission.
In 2005, JAXA's Hayabusa probe hunted down and landed on the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Five years later, the spacecraft returned to Earth with soil samples collected from the asteroid's surface - something that had never been done before.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. This radiation balance is a key factor in determining our climate: if Earth absorbs more heat than it emits, it warms up; if it emits more than it ... more |
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of subatomic particles produced by the collisions. But as one might expect, these grand-scale experiments don't come cheap.
In a paper recently accepted by Physical Review Letters, an international te ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Quantum physics describes the inner world of individual atoms, a world very different from our everyday experience. One of the many strange yet fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics is the role of the observer - measuring the state of a quantum system causes it to change. Despite the importance of the measurement process within the theory, it still holds unanswered questions: Does a quantum s ... more |
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