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  Paris (ESA) Mar 04, 2020 The 3D-printed thrust chamber assembly of the methane-fuelled M10 rocket engine has passed its first series of hot firing tests. The M10 engine will power the upper stage of future Vega evolutions from 2025. "These test results are encouraging, confirming that our propulsion teams are right on track along the development path identified for such novel technology for Vega evolutions," commented Giorgio Tumino, managing ESA's Vega and Space Rider development programmes. M10 will improve propul ... read more |
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Interference testing for Orion spacecraft beginsParis (ESA) Mar 04, 2020 Testing one, two and now, three. Radio frequency testing has begun on the first Orion spacecraft that will fly around the Moon for the Artemis 1 mission, just two weeks after thermal and environment ... more  
Australia developing satellite to predict bushfire danger zonesSydney (AFP) March 4, 2020 Australian scientists are developing the country's first satellite designed to predict where bushfires are likely to start, following months of devastating fires. ... more  
Hydrogen energy at the root of lifeDuesseldorf, Germany (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Since the discovery of submarine hydrothermal vents around 40 years ago, these natural chemical reactors have been a focus for evolutionary researchers searching for the origin of life. The vents em ... more  
Tracking down the mystery of matterVilligen, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have measured a property of the neutron more precisely than ever before. In the process they found out that the elementary particle has a significantly ... more |
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Robots autonomously navigate underground in DARPA challengeWashington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Whether robots are exploring caves on other planets or disaster areas here on Earth, autonomy enables them to navigate extreme environments without human guidance or access to GPS. The Subterr ... more  
Barrett highlights space, modernization, alliances, people as pressing prioritiesOrlando FL (AFNS) Mar 03, 2020 Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett said Feb. 27 that successfully launching the Space Force while also modernizing the Air Force, strengthening ties with allies and partners and ensuring ... more 
Satellite design applied to superyachtAmsterdam, The Netherlands (ESA) Mar 04, 2020 Dutch shipbuilder Royal Huisman applied the same concurrent engineering process developed by ESA for space missions to the design of superyacht Sea Eagle II, due to become the world's largest alumin ... more 
Gen. Thompson makes case for U.S. Space Force, encourages campaign to educate publicOrlando FL (AFNS) Mar 03, 2020 Invoking history and a vivid recent example, Lt. Gen. David D. Thompson, the vice commander of the newly created U.S. Space Force, presented the case Feb. 27 for the new service and how its developm ... more  
US trying to catch up with Russia, China in hypersonicsWashington (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2020 The United States finds itself behind both Russia and China after the two countries transitioned from hypersonic technologies to working weapon systems, something the Pentagon has yet to accomplish, ... more |
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Airbus now 'foaming' on board the International Space StationFriedrichshafen, Germany (ESA) Mar 04, 2020 Airbus has sent a new fluid experiment, FOAM-C, to the International Space Station (ISS). FOAM-C, which was developed and manufactured for the European Space Agency (ESA), is scheduled to be activat ... more  |
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New study explains why superconductivity takes place in grapheneEspoo, Finland (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Graphene, a single sheet of carbon atoms, has many extreme electrical and mechanical properties. Two years ago, researchers showed how two sheets laid on top of each other and twisted at just the ri ... more 
Magnetic whirls in future data storage devicesHalle-Wittenberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 Magnetic (anti)skyrmions are microscopically small whirls that are found in special classes of magnetic materials. These nano-objects could be used to host digital data by their presence or absence ... more  
An iron-clad asteroidJena, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Itokawa would normally be a fairly average near-Earth asteroid - a rocky mass measuring only a few hundred metres in diameter, which orbits the sun amid countless other celestial bodies and repeated ... more 
Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New Sussex study sheds lightSussex UK (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 Scientists at the University of Sussex have measured a property of the neutron - a fundamental particle in the universe - more precisely than ever before. Their research is part of an investigation ... more 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx students catch unexpected glimpse of newly discovered black holeTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light years away. Last fall, the student-bu ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
Hydrogen has been used as a fuel for things like city buses for a while now, but the problem has been that it's simply too expensive to use a main source of energy. This will likely change. Hydrogen technologies could provide 20 percent of the world's CO2 abatement needs by 2050.
NASA a href="https://www.nasa.gov/content/space-applications-of-hydrogen-and-fuel-cells"> font color="#0000FF" ... more |
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The United States finds itself behind both Russia and China after the two countries transitioned from hypersonic technologies to working weapon systems, something the Pentagon has yet to accomplish, two officials in charge of the US Department of Defence program told reporters.
"In past decades we have been world leaders in hypersonic technology, but we have consistently made the decision ... more |
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 Paris (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.
For 15 months NASA's InSight robot craft scoured the surface of Earth's neighbour, and measured hundreds of so-called "Marsquakes".
These included several tremors that contained the same frequency pa ... 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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 Lumajang, Indonesia (AFP) March 3, 2020 
Workers snap the miniature rocket's wings into place as Indonesia's little-known space agency readies its latest launch on barren scrubland in East Java.
With a 3,2,1 blast off, the two-metre-long projectile belches a trail of fire and then soars a few hundred metres before crashing in a heap - earning a thumbs up from scientists who declared the test a success.
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 Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Magnetic (anti)skyrmions are microscopically small whirls that are found in special classes of magnetic materials. These nano-objects could be used to host digital data by their presence or absence in a sequence along a magnetic stripe.
A team of scientists from the Max Planck institutes (MPI) of Microstructure Physics in Halle and for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden and the Martin L ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) project has passed a critical programmatic and technical milestone, giving the mission the official green light to begin hardware development and testing.
The WFIRST space telescope will have a viewing area 100 times larger than that of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which will enable it to detect faint infrared signals from across the c ... 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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 Champaign IL (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
A study that relied on citizen scientists to monitor the health of corals on Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean from 2012 to 2018 found that 35 key coral species remained resilient during a 2014-17 global coral-bleaching event that harmed coral reefs around the world. Even corals that experienced bleaching quickly recovered, the researchers found. Some corals appeared healthier in 2017 th ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
We're celebrating our 20th year of continuous presence aboard the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit this year, and we're on the verge of sending the first women and next men to the Moon as part of our Artemis lunar exploration program so we can prepare for human missions to Mars.
It's an incredible time in human spaceflight! Often the dream to be an astronaut is the spark that ... 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 (AFP) March 2, 2020 
NASA satellite images show a dramatic fall in pollution over China that is "partly related" to the economic slowdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, the space agency said.
The reduction in nitrogen dioxide (NO2) pollution was first noticed near Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, but eventually spread across China, according to NASA scientists who examined data collected by their and Euro ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2020 
Astronomers have pondered for years why our galaxy, the Milky Way, is warped. Data from ESA's star-mapping satellite Gaia suggest the distortion might be caused by an ongoing collision with another, smaller, galaxy, which sends ripples through the galactic disc like a rock thrown into water.
Astronomers have known since the late 1950s that the Milky Way's disc - where most of its hundreds ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 03, 2020 
University students and researchers working on a NASA mission orbiting a near-Earth asteroid have made an unexpected detection of a phenomenon 30 thousand light years away. Last fall, the student-built Regolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) onboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft detected a newly flaring black hole in the constellation Columba while making observations off the limb of asteroid ... more |
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