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  Beijing (AFP) May 06, 2020 A cargo capsule that was part of a key test in China's space programme experienced an "anomaly" Wednesday during its return trip, the space authority said. The cargo capsule was launched Tuesday aboard a new type of carrier rocket along with a prototype spacecraft, and the latter is expected to return to Earth on Friday. The launch is a major test of China's ambitions to operate a permanent space station and send astronauts to the Moon. But "an anomaly occurred today during the return" ... read more |
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China says launch of key new space rocket 'successful'Beijing (AFP) May 5, 2020 China on Tuesday successfully launched a new rocket and prototype spacecraft, state media said, in a major test of the country's ambitions to operate a permanent space station and send astronauts to the Moon. ... more  
NASA to demonstrate first-of-its-kind in-space manufacturing technique for telescope mirrorsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 06, 2020 Large telescopes that could be used for detecting and analyzing Earth-like planets in orbit around other stars or for peering back in time to observe the very early universe may not necessarily have ... more  
Study: Life might survive, and thrive, in a hydrogen worldBoston MA (SPX) May 05, 2020 As new and more powerful telescopes blink on in the next few years, astronomers will be able to aim the megascopes at nearby exoplanets, peering into their atmospheres to decipher their composition ... more  
Toys that inspired NASA innovationsWashington DC (SPX) May 06, 2020 "Scientists go through their toy bins all the time for inspiration." Phil West, NASA spokesman, 2000 Baby toys and Martian landers may not be connected thoughts for most people, but toys have ... more |
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SkyTraq launches small multi-band RTK receiverHsinchu, Taiwan (SPX) May 06, 2020 SkyTraq has announced a 12mm x 16mm size PX1122R multi-band RTK receiver for centimeter-level accuracy positioning applications. It works with GPS/QZSS L1/L2C, Galileo E1/E5b, GLONASS L1/L2, and Bei ... more  
Mind-controlled arm prostheses that 'feel' are now a part of everyday lifeGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Apr 30, 2020 For the first time, people with arm amputations can experience sensations of touch in a mind-controlled arm prosthesis that they use in everyday life. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine ... more  
In search of the lighting material of the futureVilligen, Switzerland (SPX) May 04, 2020 At the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, researchers have gained insights into a promising material for organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The substance enables high light yields and would be inexpen ... more 
Astroscale and Northumbria Uni to advance standardization of end-of-life satellite practicesTokyo, Japan (SPX) May 06, 2020 Astroscale Holdings Inc., the market-leader in developing technology and services to remove space debris and secure long-term orbital sustainability, reports it has signed a Memorandum of Understand ... more  
Gravitational waves could prove the existence of the quark-gluon plasmaFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2020 Neutron stars are among the densest objects in the universe. If our Sun, with its radius of 700,000 kilometres were a neutron star, its mass would be condensed into an almost perfect sphere with a r ... more |
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Ultrasound for space offers remote diagnosis to patients on EarthParis (ESA) May 06, 2020 Radiologists are investigating people's medical conditions and pregnancies remotely thanks to an ESA-backed robotic technology. The set-up enables medics to care for some patients at a distanc ... more  |
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Shrinking snowcaps fuel harmful algal blooms in Arabian SeaNew York NY (SPX) May 05, 2020 A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years ago has been proliferating and spreading at an alarming pace, forming thick, malodorous green swirls and filaments that a ... more 
Study reveals how spaceflight affects risk of blood clots in female astronautsLondon, UK (SPX) May 06, 2020 A study of female astronauts has assessed the risk of blood clots associated with spaceflight. The study, published in Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance, in collaboration with King's College ... more  
How catastrophic outburst floods may have carved Greenland's 'grand canyon'Amherst MD (SPX) May 01, 2020 For years, geologists have debated how and when a network of canyons under the Greenland Ice Sheet formed, especially one that is so deep and long it's called 'Greenland's Grand Canyon.' Its shape s ... more 
Microorganisms in parched regions extract needed water from colonized rocksIrvine CA (SPX) May 05, 2020 In Northern Chile's Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, microorganisms are able to eke out an existence by extracting water from the very rocks they colonize. Through work in th ... more 
Age of NGC 6652 globular cluster specifiedKazan, Russia (SPX) May 06, 2020 Senior Research Associate Margarita Sharina (Special Astrophysical Observatory) and Associate Professor Vladislav Shimansky (Kazan Federal University) studied the globular cluster NGC 6652.4.05957 a ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 06, 2020 
Airbus and Xenesis have signed a contract for a payload slot on the International Space Station (ISS) Bartolomeo platform for the demonstration of their Xen-Hub optical communication space terminal.
The Xen-Hub is a greater than 10 gigabyte per second optical communications terminal. The terminal was enabled with a technology transfer from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is designed ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2020 
On April 17, NASA and SpaceX announced that the upcoming flight test of the new Crew Dragon spacecraft with our astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley is now scheduled for lift off no earlier than 4:32 p.m. EDT on Monday, May 27. The launch of the Demo-2 mission will take place from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Have no doubt about it: I am looking forward to the launch. It will b ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2020 
When it launches this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will have the most advanced pair of "eyes" ever sent to the Red Planet's surface: Its Mastcam-Z instrument packs a next-gen zoom capability that will help the mission make 3D imagery more easily. Rover operators, who carefully plan out each driving route and each movement of a rover's robotic arm, view these stereo images through 3D goggles ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 06, 2020  A cargo capsule that was part of a key test in China's space programme experienced an "anomaly" Wednesday during its return trip, the space authority said.
The cargo capsule was launched Tuesday aboard a new type of carrier rocket along with a prototype spacecraft, and the latter is expected to return to Earth on Friday.
The launch is a major test of China's ambitions to operate a pe ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 05, 2020 
During these unprecedented times of the COVID-19 lockdown, trying to work poses huge challenges for us all. For those that can, remote working is now pretty much the norm, but this is obviously not possible for everybody. One might assume that like many industries, the construction and testing of satellites has been put on hold, but engineers and scientists are finding ways of continuing to prep ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 06, 2020 
Astroscale Holdings Inc., the market-leader in developing technology and services to remove space debris and secure long-term orbital sustainability, reports it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Professor Chris Newman, Professor of Space Law and Policy at Northumbria University, Newcastle, to collaborate on investigating end-of-life standards and practices from various industries, su ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 05, 2020 
By studying how the tiniest organisms in the Atacama Desert of Chile, one of the driest places on Earth, extract water from rocks, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University, University of California, Irvine, and U.C. Riverside revealed how, against all odds, life can exist in extreme environments.
A report of the findings published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences show ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 04, 2020 
The surface of Jupiter's moon Europa features a widely varied landscape, including ridges, bands, small rounded domes and disrupted spaces that geologists call "chaos terrain." Three newly reprocessed images, taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s, reveal details in diverse surface features on Europa.
Although the data captured by Galileo is more than two decades old, scienti ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) May 05, 2020 
A uniquely resilient organism all but unheard of in the Arabian Sea 20 years ago has been proliferating and spreading at an alarming pace, forming thick, malodorous green swirls and filaments that are visible even from space. This unusual organism is Noctiluca scintillans--a millimeter-size planktonic organism with an extraordinary capacity to survive, thrive and force out diatoms, the photosynt ... more |
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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Apr 28, 2020 
The Global Positioning System, better known as GPS, marks its 25th year of operation Apr. 27, 2020.
On this date in 1995, the system reached full operational capability, meaning the system met all performance requirements. U.S. Air Force Space Command formally announced the milestone three months later.
"This is a major milestone," Gen. Thomas S. Moorman Jr., former Air Force Vice Ch ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) May 05, 2020 
Shirley Dyke doesn't see the moon as a crater-filled sphere. She expects lunar dwellings to begin emerging in a decade, helping reach out to further space habitation.
And she wants her research to help bridge that gap.
Dyke, head of Purdue University's RETH (Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats) Institute, says her research focuses on enabling the future.
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 04, 2020 
The last supermoon of 2020, May's so-called "Flower Moon," will be visible in the night skies this week, and its brightness will likely obscure the yearly Eta Aquarids meteor showers, according to NASA.
The Flower Moon, named after blooming May flowers, reaches its closest point to Earth's orbit at 6:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, but will be best viewed Wednesday evening when it rises at 7:10 p ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 05, 2020 
Russia will launch its first Arktika-M satellite for monitoring the Arctic climate and environment at the end of the year, General Director of the Lavochkin aerospace company Vladimir Kolmykov said.
"As of now, the number one Arktika-M spacecraft has been developed and is undergoing radio-electronic testing ... the launch is planned for the end of 2020", Kolmykov said, adding that the seco ... more |
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 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) May 01, 2020 
The extent to which solar activity (and thus the number of sunspots and the solar brightness) varies can be reconstructed using various methods - at least for a certain period of time.
Since 1610, for example, there have been reliable records of sunspots covering the Sun; the distribution of radioactive varieties of carbon and beryllium in tree rings and ice cores allows us to draw conclus ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) May 05, 2020 
Dark matter has so far defied every type of detector designed to find it. Because of its huge gravitational footprint in space, we know dark matter must make up about 85 percent of the total mass of the universe, but we don't yet know what it's made of.
Several large experiments that hunt for dark matter have searched for signs of dark matter particles knocking into atomic nuclei via a pro ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) May 04, 2020 
The first step in many light-driven chemical reactions, like the ones that power photosynthesis and human vision, is a shift in the arrangement of a molecule's electrons as they absorb the light's energy. This subtle rearrangement paves the way for everything that follows and determines how the reaction proceeds.
Now scientists have seen this first step directly for the first time, observi ... more |
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