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  Washington (AFP) May 31, 2020 NASA astronauts entered the International Space Station on Sunday after a landmark 19-hour journey on the first crewed US spacecraft in nearly a decade, a triumph for SpaceX and private enterprise. The arrival completed the first leg of the trip, designed to test the capabilities of the Crew Dragon capsule. But the mission will only be declared a success when the astronauts return safely to Earth in a few months' time. The spaceship's hatch opened at 1:02 pm Eastern Time (1702 GMT) as Bob Behnke ... read more |
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Moscow bemused at US space 'hysteria' as Musk taunts RussiaMoscow (AFP) May 31, 2020 Moscow space officials on Sunday said they were puzzled by "hysteria" around the successful SpaceX flight as Elon Musk taunted Russia and US President Donald Trump vowed to beat it to Mars. ... more 
For Russia, SpaceX success is 'wakeup call'Moscow (AFP) May 31, 2020 Russia has lost its long-held monopoly as the only country able to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station following the flawless manned launch by US company SpaceX. ... more 
Russia plans rocket tests, lunar programme resumptionMoscow (AFP) May 31, 2020 Russia on Sunday put a brave face on the loss of its space travel monopoly, saying it planned to test two new rockets this year and resume its lunar programme in 2021. ... more  
US Space Force debuts new recruiting ad entitled 'Make History'Arlington VA (AFNS) May 29, 2020 The U.S. Space Force is releasing a new recruiting ad May 28 designed to encourage people to join the newly-formed military service while also framing the service's ... more |
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DARPA Selects Teams to Increase Security of Semiconductor Supply ChainWashington DC (SPX) May 29, 2020 As Internet of Things (IoT) devices rapidly increase in popularity and deployment, economic attackers and nation-states alike are shifting their attention to the vulnerabilities of digital integrate ... more  
Surrey reveals its implantable biosensor that operates without batteriesSurrey UK (SPX) May 22, 2020 Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed their new biodegradable motion sensor - paving the way for implanted nanotechnology that could help future sports professionals better monitor ... more  
Kyoto scientists announce a 'nuclear' periodic tableKyoto, Japan (SPX) May 28, 2020 A staple in every science classroom is the periodic table of elements, and for many it is their first introduction to the vast mysteries of the natural world. Now physicists from Kyoto Univers ... more  
The concept of creating brain-on-chip revealedNizhny Novgorod, Russia (SPX) May 29, 2020 Lobachevsky University scientists in collaboration with their colleagues from Russia, Italy, China and the United States have proposed the concept of a memristive neurohybrid chip to be used in comp ... more 
SpaceX rocket lifts off on historic private crewed flightKennedy Space Center, United States (AFP) May 30, 2020 A SpaceX rocket carrying two veteran NASA astronauts was headed for the International Space Station on Saturday on the first ever crewed flight by a private company, ushering in a new era in space travel. ... more |
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Nanosatellite with global mission tested for spaceParis (ESA) May 29, 2020 ESA's largest antenna test facility remains operational despite the COVID-19 pandemic, performing pre-flight testing for the latest satellite in a constellation to serve the internet of things. ... more  |
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Will US Attempt to Introduce New Moon Mining Rules Trigger New Space Race?New Delhi (Sputnik) May 29, 2020 The US announced the Artemis Accord on 15 May and asked countries to join the treaty to explore the Moon with a new framework, while opposing the 1979 Moon Agreement. The US claimed that the new agr ... more  
In Planet Formation, It's Location, Location, LocationBaltimore MD (SPX) May 29, 2020 Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope are finding that planets have a tough time forming in the rough-and-tumble central region of the massive, crowded star cluster Westerlund 2. Located 2 ... more 
ESPRESSO confirms the presence of an Earth around the nearest starGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) May 29, 2020 The existence of a planet the size of Earth around the closest star in the solar system, Proxima Centauri, has been confirmed by an international team of scientists including researchers from the Un ... more 
SpaceX astronaut launch: here's the rocket science it must get rightBirmingham UK (The Conversation) May 28, 2020 Two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, will make history by travelling to the International Space Station in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon ... more  
Doug Liman to direct Tom Cruise film shot in spaceWashington DC (UPI) May 29, 2020 Doug Liman will direct Tom Cruise in the first narrative feature film to be shot in space. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Tuesday that Liman, 54, will direct Cruise, 57, in the new movie fil ... more |
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 Merritt Island, United States (AFP) May 27, 2020 
NASA begged tourists to watch the SpaceX launch online, but space fans are still showing up in Florida. It would have been pretty good news for Brenda Mulberry - if she'd had some SpaceX T-shirts to sell them.
"We can't sell SpaceX because they're a private company," said Mulberry, the owner of Space Shirts.
Her store is located on the main road in Merritt Island, the Florida peninsula ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (The Conversation) May 28, 2020 
Two NASA astronauts, Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, will make history by travelling to the International Space Station in a privately funded spacecraft, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule. But the launch, which was due to take place on May 27, has been aborted due to bad weather, and will instead take place on May 30 at 3:22 pm EDT.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2020 
Five years after NASA's MAVEN spacecraft entered into orbit around Mars, data from the mission has led to the creation of a map of electric current systems in the Martian atmosphere.
"These currents play a fundamental role in the atmospheric loss that transformed Mars from a world that could have supported life into an inhospitable desert," said experimental physicist Robin Ramstad of the ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) May 25, 2020 
China is targeting a July launch for its ambitious plans for a Mars mission which will include landing a remote-controlled robot on the surface of the red planet, the company in charge of the project has said.
Beijing has invested billions of dollars in its space programme in an effort to catch up with its rival the United States and affirm its status as a major world power.
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 London, UK (SPX) May 26, 2020 
Four UK-based companies have announced a plan to their complementary skills and expertise to enhance further the country's space industry capabilities to deliver prosperity and security.
Athena is the UK's new national team in space, formed by Serco, Inmarsat, CGI UK and Lockheed Martin UK. The four companies are world leaders in providing technology and services across defence, space, com ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 21, 2020 
For engineers developing new materials or protective coatings, there are billions of different possibilities to sort through. Lab tests or even detailed computer simulations to determine their exact properties, such as toughness, can take hours, days, or more for each variation. Now, a new artificial intelligence-based approach developed at MIT could reduce that to a matter of milliseconds, maki ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2020 
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope was used to conduct a three-year study of the crowded, massive and young star cluster Westerlund 2. The research found that the material encircling stars near the cluster's centre is mysteriously devoid of the large, dense clouds of dust that would be expected to become planets in a few million years.
Their absence is caused by the cluster's most massive ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 14, 2020 
When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world in the distant solar system has a hazy atmosphere. Now, new data helps explain how Pluto's haze is formed from the faint light of the Sun 3.7 billion miles away as it moves through an unusual orbit.
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 Leuven, Belgium (SPX) May 29, 2020 
Hydropower plants can support solar and wind power, rather unpredictable by nature, in a climate-friendly manner. A new study in the scientific journal Nature Sustainability has now mapped the potential for such "solar-wind-water" strategies for West Africa: an important region where the power sector is still under development, and where generation capacity and power grids will be greatly expand ... more |
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 Prague, Czech Republic (SPX) May 25, 2020 
Over the past two decades, satellite-based positioning has become an indispensable, every-day technology that we constantly rely on - often even without being aware of it. With the relentless expansion of applications and use cases, driven largely by falling cost of ownership and improvements in positioning accuracy, there will soon be one GNSS receiver in operation for every person on the plane ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) May 28, 2020 
NASA has awarded Southwest Research Institute $3 million to develop a lunar version of its Laser Absorption Spectrometer for Volatiles and Evolved Gas (LASVEGAS) instrument. This spectrometer can precisely measure the volatile compounds present in planetary atmospheres and surfaces - critical information for space science and exploration.
"LASVEGAS is about half the size of a paper towel r ... more |
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 Paruis, France (SPX) May 28, 2020 
What is the origin of the asteroids Bennu and Ryugu, and of their spinning-top shape? An international research team led by Patrick Michel, a CNRS researcher at the Laboratoire Lagrange and Ronald-Louis Ballouz from the University of Arizona, proposes an answer to this question in an article published in Nature Communications on May 27, 2020.
Numerical simulations of large asteroid disrupt ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 26, 2020 
As part of ESA's continuing commitment to realise cutting-edge satellite missions to advance the scientific understanding of our planet and to show how new technologies can be used in space, a new Call for Earth Explorer mission ideas has been released.
The Call invites scientists working in Earth observation to submit ideas for ESA's 11th Earth Explorer mission.
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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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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 26, 2020 
Astronomers have captured an image of a super-rare type of galaxy - described as a "cosmic ring of fire" - as it existed 11 billion years ago. The galaxy, which has roughly the mass of the Milky Way, is circular with a hole in the middle, rather like a titanic doughnut. Its discovery, announced in the journal Nature Astronomy, is set to shake up theories about the earliest formation of galactic ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (The Conversation) May 28, 2020 
In the late 1990s, cosmologists made a prediction about how much ordinary matter there should be in the universe. About 5%, they estimated, should be regular stuff with the rest a mixture of dark matter and dark energy. But when cosmologists counted up everything they could see or measure at the time, they came up short. By a lot.
The sum of all the ordinary matter that cosmologists measur ... more |
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