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  Washington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2020 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday that Moscow is open to holding talks with the United States on the development of advanced weapons, including hypersonic missiles. He said any discussions on the matter would include talks about the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and on weapons in outer space. "We are willing to engage in talks about new types of weapons, including hypersonic weapons, within the context of taking into account ... all the factors that have a bearing u ... read more |
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Russia tests direct-ascent anti-satellite missilePeterson AFB CO (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 US Space Command is aware and tracking Russia's direct-ascent anti-satellite (DA-ASAT) missile test April 15. "Russia's DA-ASAT test provides yet another example that the threats to U.S. and a ... more  
Scientific machine learning paves way for rapid rocket engine designAustin TX (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 "It's not rocket science" may be a tired cliche, but that doesn't mean designing rockets is any less complicated. Time, cost and safety prohibit testing the stability of a test rocket using a physic ... more  
Moon dust and 3D printing will be standard for future lunar operationsMilan, Italy (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Can 3D Printers support extra-terrestrial colonisation in Space? One of the major challenges related to space exploration is the development of production technologies capable of exploiting the few ... more  
Earth-Size, Habitable Zone Planet Found Hidden in Early NASA Kepler DataMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star whe ... more |
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A journey into the northern lightsSolna, Sweden (SPX) Apr 10, 2020 Late February, close to midnight, a blast successfully sent off the one-stage rocket experiment Spider-2 from Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden. All previous attempts had been cancelled due to ... more  
Earliest humans in the Amazon created thousands of 'forest islands' as they tamed wild plantsExeter UK (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 The earliest human inhabitants of the Amazon created thousands of artificial forest islands as they tamed wild plants to grow food, a new study shows. The discovery of the mounds is the latest evide ... more  
New clues to predict the risks astronauts will face from space radiation on long missionsFort Collins CO (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA, aims to send human missions to Mars in the 2030s. But scientists are still trying to learn more about the potential cancer risks for astronau ... more  
CIMON-2 makes its successful debut on the ISSFriedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 CIMON-2, the updated version of the CIMON astronaut assistant, developed and built by Airbus for the German Aerospace Center Space Administration (DLR), has now demonstrated its capabilities during ... more  
ThinKom Aero Satellite Antennas Fully Comply with International Non-Interference RulesHawthorne CA (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 ThinKom Solutions, Inc., has announced that its phased-array satellite antennas are in full compliance with the latest rules from international regulatory bodies governing evolving interference thre ... more |
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 Water-balloon physics is high-impact science  
The combined power of remote earth observations aboard ISSHouston TX (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Understanding how Earth's climate behaves is a significant, but important, challenge that NASA supports through data collection. When scientists better comprehend and monitor water and energy cycles ... more  |
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NASA Reports Arctic Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Hit Record Low in MarchGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Ozone levels above the Arctic reached a record low for March, NASA researchers report. An analysis of satellite observations show that ozone levels reached their lowest point on March 12 at 205 Dobs ... more 
Sen4CAP - new solution on CREODIAS EU to support satellite crop monitoringWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Modern agriculture requires support from new technologies. In order to meet these needs, CloudFerro has brought the new solution Sen4CAP to the CREODIAS.EU platform. It is dedicated to agricultural ... more  
Mapping Chernobyl fires from spaceParis (ESA) Apr 17, 2020 With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service has been activated and the Copernicus Sentinel-2 ... more  
NewSpace Philosophies: Who, How, What?Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 The world is enthusiastically watching the development of the space industry. Alpha launches from Firefly Aerospace and Orion are in the works, as well as Crew Dragon lift-offs with space tourists. ... more  
ESO telescope sees star dance around supermassive black hole, proves Einstein rightMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed for the first time that a star orbiting the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way moves just as predicted by Ei ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2020 
NASA is prepared to plant new varieties and bigger quantities of food in gardens on the International Space Station as part of its planned Moon to Mars program.
While astronauts in orbit harvest and sample leafy greens grown in space, scientists on the ground in Florida develop new space crops using the same equipment.
Growing food in space has become part of NASA's planned Artem ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2020 
The head of Russia's space agency on Saturday accused Elon Musk's SpaceX of predatory pricing for space launches, which is pushing Russia to cut its own prices.
"Instead of honest competition on the market for space launches, they are lobbying for sanctions against us and use price dumping with impunity," Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin wrote on Twitter.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2020 
For people who are able to work remotely during this time of social distancing, video conferences and emails have helped bridge the gap. The same holds true for the team behind NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. They're dealing with the same challenges of so many remote workers - quieting the dog, sharing space with partners and family, remembering to step away from the desk from time to time - but wi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020  The world is enthusiastically watching the development of the space industry. Alpha launches from Firefly Aerospace and Orion are in the works, as well as Crew Dragon lift-offs with space tourists.
Max Polyakov, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk are constantly investing money and resources into space exploration. They each espouse a different ideology and purpose - from the colonization of the Moon an ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces such as doorknobs could instantly kill them off?
Purdue University engineers have created a laser treatment method that could potentially turn any metal surface into a rapid bacteria killer - just by giving the metal's surface a different texture.
In a study published in the journal Advanced Materi ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
A team of transatlantic scientists, using reanalyzed data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, has discovered an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting in its star's habitable zone, the area around a star where a rocky planet could support liquid water.
Scientists discovered this planet, called Kepler-1649c, when looking through old observations from Kepler, which the agency retired in 2018. While p ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
New Horizons is healthy and performing perfectly as it flies deeper and deeper into the Kuiper Belt! Recently we conducted an engineering review of the spacecraft to "trend" how it was working compared to when it was launched. The result was amazing: Every system and science instrument aboard New Horizons is working as well as it did when we lifted off, more than 14 years and almost 5 billion mi ... more |
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 Beirut (AFP) April 15, 2020 
Some 74 million people in the water-scarce Arab region are at greater risk of catching the novel coronavirus because they lack a sink or soap at home, the United Nations said Wednesday.
This includes 31 million people in Sudan, more than 14 million in war-torn Yemen and 9.9 million in Egypt, a UN report said.
"While it has been agreed worldwide that hand-washing with soap and water is th ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) April 15, 2020 
Apple has launched a new website that shows with striking graphs how the coronavirus pandemic has slammed the brakes on life around the world.
The tool visualises the movement of people in dozens of major cities and countries around the world based on the number of requests made for directions on Apple Maps since January 13.
It shows the dramatic drop in the number of users driving, walk ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2020 
If someone had been watching as Apollo 15's Falcon Lunar Module headed down beside the Moon's Appenine mountains in 1971, then this is what they would have seen. ESA researchers, working with UK company Timelab Technologies, are recreating historic missions to the Moon in high-definition 360 virtual reality, as a way of gaining new insights from vintage instrument data - as well as helping plan ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 15, 2020 
Since March 2017, ESA's NELIOTA project has been regularly looking out for 'lunar flashes' on the Moon, to help us better understand the threat posed by small asteroid impacts. The project detects the flash of light produced when an asteroid collides energetically with the lunar surface, and recently recorded its 100th impact. But this time, it was not the only one watching.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
On Sept. 16, 1987, policymakers and scientists from around the world gathered at the International Civil Aviation Organization's headquarters in Montreal, preparing to take action on the day's most urgent topic: Depletion of the Earth's protective ozone layer.
Two years before, researchers from the British Antarctic Survey had stunned the world with the first paper demonstrating that atmos ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
On behalf of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), NASA has awarded the Space Weather Follow-On Lagrange 1 (SWFO-L1) Magnetometer contract to Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) based in San Antonio, Texas.
This is a cost-plus, fixed-fee contract with a total value of $12,862,664. The period of performance is 75 months.
SwRI will design, analyze, develop, fabric ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside, reports tiny satellite galaxies of the Milky Way can be used to test fundamental properties of "dark matter" - nonluminous material thought to constitute 85% of matter in the universe.
Using sophisticated simulations, the researchers show a theory called self-interacting dark matter, or SIDM, can compellingly exp ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
We live in a world of matter - because matter overtook antimatter, though they were both created in equal amounts by the Big Bang when our universe began. As featured on the cover of Nature on 16 April 2020, neutrinos and the associated antimatter particles, antineutrinos, are reported to have a high likelihood of differing behaviour that offers a promising path to explaining the asymmetry betwe ... more |
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