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  Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 Astronauts awaiting a space mission are banned from leaving Star City training centre outside Moscow due to the novel coronavirus and will skip traditional pre-launch rituals, the centre's head said Thursday. The next launch to the International Space Station is due to blast off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on April 9 with Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on board. Pavel Vlasov, the head of Star City, where all astronauts prepare for missions, ... read more |
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Aerojet Rocketdyne installs rocket motor casting bell as Camden rocket motor facility nears completionCamden AR (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne has installed a steel casting bell to support production of large solid rocket motors, marking an important milestone for completion of its Engineering, Manufacturing and Developm ... more  
Europe-Russia delay mission to find life on MarsMoscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues. ... more  
NASA selects first science instruments to send to Lunar GatewayWashington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 NASA has selected the first two scientific investigations to fly aboard the Gateway, an orbital outpost which will support Artemis lunar operations while demonstrating the technologies necessary to ... more  
Puzzle about nitrogen solved thanks to cometary analoguesBern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Comets and asteroids are objects in our solar system that have not developed much since the planets were formed. As a result, they are in a sense the archives of the solar system, and determining th ... more |
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Barrett points to recent activities as a clear example for why the US Space Force is neededWashington DC (AFNS) Mar 12, 2020 Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett asserted March 10 that a Russian satellite "actively maneuvering suspiciously near" a U.S. "security satellite" is the clearest sign of space's changing na ... more  
Kleos finalises launch preparations at launch siteLuxembourg (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Kleos Space has told SapceDaily.com that the mission team will be travelling to the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Chennai, India from the 18th March, to carry out the final preparation steps prior t ... more  
Chinese smartphone-maker debuts device with embedded ISRO navigation systemNew Delhi (Sputnik) In October 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) developed an Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System - equivalent to the US Global Positioning System (GPS). The operational name o ... more  
Continued Gravitational-Wave Discoveries from Public DataHannover, Germanyw/dd Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover together with international colleagues have published their second Open Gravitational ... more  
Terahertz radiation technique opens a new door for studying atomic behaviorStanford CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a promising new advance for the lab's high-speed "electron camera" that could allow them to "film" tiny, ul ... more |
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 The ink of the future in printed electronics  
A flexible brain for AIOsaka, Japan (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Scientists at Osaka University built a new computing device from field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) that can be customized by the user for maximum efficiency in artificial intelligence applicatio ... more  |
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Longest microwave quantum linkZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Collaboration is everything - also in the quantum world. To build powerful quantum computers in the future, it will be necessary to connect several smaller computers to form a kind of cluster or loc ... more  
Water, carbon and nitrogen were not immediately supplied to EarthCologne, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Spearheaded by earth scientists of the University of Cologne, an international team of geologists has found evidence that a large proportion of the elements that are important for the formation of o ... more 
ExoMars to take off for the Red Planet in 2022Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2020 The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022. The joint ESA-Roscosmos p ... more  
Observed: An exoplanet where it rains ironSan Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 This exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 Celsius, sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. Its nights, with strong wind ... more  
US military plans portable mini nuclear power plantsWashington (AFP) March 9, 2020 The US military said Monday they are planning to deploy a miniature nuclear generator that can be carried in a freight truck and could power a remote base indefinitely. ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
Astronauts awaiting a space mission are banned from leaving Star City training centre outside Moscow due to the novel coronavirus and will skip traditional pre-launch rituals, the centre's head said Thursday.
The next launch to the International Space Station is due to blast off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on April 9 with Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronau ... more |
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 Camden AR (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 
Aerojet Rocketdyne has installed a steel casting bell to support production of large solid rocket motors, marking an important milestone for completion of its Engineering, Manufacturing and Development (EMD) facility in Camden.
The vacuum chamber casting bell was relocated from Aerojet Rocketdyne's Sacramento, California, facility, where it was used to produce large rocket boosters for the ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues.
The unmanned ExoMars, whose mission is to land a robot on the Red Planet to seek out signs of life, was scheduled to launch later this year after experiencing several delays. But even that ... 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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 Washington (AFP) March 10, 2020 
SpaceX founder Elon Musk on Monday dismissed scientists' concerns that his company's Starlink constellation of internet satellites would obscure the view of the night sky, predicting the network "will not cause any impact whatsoever in astronomical discoveries."
Musk is trying to seize control of the future internet space market and has already sent about 300 Starlink satellites into orbit - ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 
Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have made a promising new advance for the lab's high-speed "electron camera" that could allow them to "film" tiny, ultrafast motions of protons and electrons in chemical reactions that have never been seen before. Such "movies" could eventually help scientists design more efficient chemical processes, invent next-ge ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 
Researchers using ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have observed an extreme planet where they suspect it rains iron. The ultra-hot giant exoplanet has a day side where temperatures climb above 2400 degrees Celsius, high enough to vaporise metals. Strong winds carry iron vapour to the cooler night side where it condenses into iron droplets.
"One could say that this planet gets rainy in the ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 
Using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES), researchers have found more than 300 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), minor planets located in the far reaches of the solar system, including more than 100 new discoveries. Published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, the study also describes a new approach for finding similar types of objects and could aid future searches for the hypothe ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
A study published Tuesday in Scientific Reports shows that stony corals, which provide food and shelter for almost a quarter of all ocean species, are preparing for a major extinction event.
The research team - which includes scientists from The Graduate Center, CUNY; Baruch College; Scripps Institution of Oceanography; University of Haifa; University of Leeds; and GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) 
In October 2019, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) developed an Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System - equivalent to the US Global Positioning System (GPS). The operational name of the Indian geo-navigation network is NavIC.
On Thursday, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi launched its latest mobile device series - the Redmi Note 9 - in India, priced between $175 - $215 appr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 
NASA has selected the first two scientific investigations to fly aboard the Gateway, an orbital outpost which will support Artemis lunar operations while demonstrating the technologies necessary to conduct a historic human mission to Mars. The instruments selected for Gateway will observe space weather and monitor the Sun's radiation environment.
"Building the Gateway with our commercial a ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 
Comets and asteroids are objects in our solar system that have not developed much since the planets were formed. As a result, they are in a sense the archives of the solar system, and determining their composition could also contribute to a better understanding of the formation of the planets.
One way to determine the composition of asteroids and comets is to study the sunlight reflected b ... more |
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
Second attempt - the German-Russian International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) experiment, which is installed on the International Space Station (ISS), will be put into operation on 10 March 2020. Originally planned for July 2019, the start of the experiment was postponed due to a technical malfunction.
This joint project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos a ... 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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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
An international research team led by members of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) has obtained new measurements of how big neutron stars are. To do so, they combined a general first-principles description of the unknown behavior of neutron star matter with multi-messenger observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817.
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 Ulsan, South Korea (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization cooling of muons. Regarded as a major step in being able to create the world's most powerful particle accelerator, this new muon accelerator is expected to provide a better understanding of the fundamental constituents of matter.
This breakthrough has been carried ou ... more |
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