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  Manchester UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein's theory of general relativity, 'the universality of free fall', The new research shows that the theory holds for strongly self-gravitating objects such as neutron stars. Using a radio telescope, scientists can very accurately observe the signal produced by pulsars, a type of neutron star and test the validity of Einstein's theory of gravity for these extreme obj ... read more |
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Winds scrub Rocket Lab launch from New ZealandWashington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2020 Winds have scrubbed a rocket launch planned in New Zealand early Thursday morning is to propel five small satellites into orbit, including a Boston University experiment to measure solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere. A new target launch date has not been announced. ... more 
Kids are building rockets from their bedroomsWellington NZ (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 Peoply, the brainchild of 21-year-old Wellingtonian, Matt Strawbridge, has partnered with Rocket Lab to offer a rocket and space themed online program for kids ages 7-12. Each week, kids delve into ... more  
Marine Corps satellite communications system exceeding performance expectationsQuantico VA (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Marine Corps Systems Command is updating its tactical satellite system that provides increased communication on the battlefield. Based on field user evaluations, the upgraded technology is per ... more  
Speed of space storms key to protecting astronauts and satellites from radiationReading UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 Space weather forecasters need to predict the speed of solar eruptions, as much as their size, to protect satellites and the health of astronauts, scientists have found. Scientists at the Univ ... more |
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Long-range communications without large, power-hungry antennasWashington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Establishing long-range tactical communications for U.S. troops in remote locations currently requires giant parabolic dishes, tall pole-mounted antennas, large antenna domes, and high-power amplifi ... more  
Testing for Ireland's first satelliteParis (ESA) Jun 11, 2020 Preparatory testing for Ireland's first space mission, EIRSAT-1, seen taking place at ESA's Hertz antenna test chamber. Educational Irish Research Satellite 1, or EIRSAT-1 for short, is being ... more  
China's BeiDou navigation enables smarter agricultural productionBeijing (XNA) Jun 11, 2020 China-developed BeiDou navigation technology has made agricultural production smarter and more precise. Nanjing Agricultural University has developed the BeiDou-tech-supported unmanned wheat ... more 
Lightning fast algorithms can lighten the load of 3D hologram generationTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 08, 2020 Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new way of calculating simple holograms for heads-up displays (HUDs) and near-eye displays (NEDs). The method is up to 56 times faster ... more  
Silicon 'neurons' may add a new dimension to computer processorsSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 08, 2020 When it fires, a neuron consumes significantly more energy than an equivalent computer operation. And yet, a network of coupled neurons can continuously learn, sense and perform complex tasks at ene ... more |
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First Arab mission to Mars designed to inspire youthDubai (AFP) June 9, 2020 The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to study the Red Planet's atmosphere, is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said Tuesday. ... more  |
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Mysterious interstellar visitor was probably a 'dark hydrogen iceberg,' not aliensChicago IL (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 The aliens came on Oct. 19, 2017. That was the day telescopes picked up a strange object with an odd, elongated shape that moved like a comet-but had no apparent tail. The object, which baffled astr ... more  
First global map of rockfalls on the MoonZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, snow-covered block with a volume of more than 1500 cubic meters suddenly detached from the sum ... more  
OSIRIS-REx finds heat, cold fracturing rocks on Asteroid BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Close-up observations of asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contain the first evidence of thermal fracturing of rocks on an airless body, a Nature Communications paper by Planetary Scien ... more  
A method has been developed to study the 'traces' of coronal mass ejections at the Sun.Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria) developed an autom ... more  
Space Force sees 8,000 volunteer to transfer into new serviceArlington VA (AFNS) Jun 10, 2020 During the month of May, more than 8,500 active-duty Airmen within 13 eligible officer and enlisted career fields volunteered to build the ranks of the newly-created U.S. Space Force. "I am in ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) June 9, 2020 
Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station played chess against an Earth-bound grandmaster on Tuesday, in a celebration of the first such game half a century ago.
Equipped with an electronic chessboard, cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner played in zero gravity against 30-year-old Russian former child prodigy Sergei Karyakin.
The game was broadcast live and en ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2020  Winds have scrubbed a rocket launch planned in New Zealand early Thursday morning is to propel five small satellites into orbit, including a Boston University experiment to measure solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere. A new target launch date has not been announced. California-based Rocket Labs, which owns the New Zealand launch site, is scheduled to send the satellites into orbit aboard the company's Electron rocket at 12:43 a.m. EDT from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. The launch was set for 2:32 a.m. if delays happen. ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) June 9, 2020  The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to study the Red Planet's atmosphere, is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said Tuesday.
The unmanned probe Al-Amal - Hope in Arabic - is to blast off from a Japanese space centre on July 15, with preparations now in their final stages.
The project is the next giant ste ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
In its latest research titled "China Space Industry Report," Euroconsult provides in depth analysis of how commercialization is driving both growth and technology advances in the Chinese space sector, with oversubscribed IPOs and a wave of private investment.
China Satcom is now the world's highest valued pure satellite operator with a market cap of US$11 billion as of May 2020, while Chin ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 09, 2020 
Earlier this month, the Indian government allowed the participation of private sector firms in the space industry, which includes satellites, launches, and space-based services. Currently, foreign direct investment (FDI) up to 100 percent is allowed in satellite-establishment and operation with certain conditions.
Global satellite makers and communication service providers have reached out ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
Russia's state corporation responsible for space flights and cosmonautic programs, Roscosmos, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalization leader Zyfra to collaborate on implementing the Russian space industry's digital transformation strategy, which runs up to 2025, and its adoption of digital technologies.
The document was signed by the Dire ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 
The aliens came on Oct. 19, 2017. That was the day telescopes picked up a strange object with an odd, elongated shape that moved like a comet-but had no apparent tail. The object, which baffled astronomers and led some to claim it could be a spacecraft sent by intelligent life, was named 'Oumuamua, which means "messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian. But a new theory proposed by Univers ... 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.
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA's teles ... more |
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 Khartoum (AFP) June 9, 2020 
Sudan on Tuesday said it would hold "daily meetings" with Egypt and Ethiopia to ease tensions over a mega-dam being built on the Nile after a war or words between Cairo and Addis Ababa.
"It was agreed to continue daily meetings, except on Friday and Sunday, to reach consensus on the remaining points," Sudanese Irrigation Minister Yasser Abbas said.
He spoke in Khartoum after a five-hour ... more |
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 Xi'an, China (XNA) Jun 10, 2020 
The Xi'an Satellite Control Center's tests have shown links among the satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) are stable to ensure that the constellation can be completed as scheduled.
The tests showed that the inter-satellite links meet the demands of the construction of the global system, said Yuan Yong, a senior engineer from the control center.
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 
In October 2015, a spectacular rockfall occurred in the Swiss Alps: in the late morning hours, a large, snow-covered block with a volume of more than 1500 cubic meters suddenly detached from the summit of Mel de la Niva. It fell apart on its way downslope, but a number of boulders continued their journey into the valley. One of the large boulders came to a halt at the foot of the summit next to ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
Asteroids don't just sit there doing nothing as they orbit the Sun. They get bombarded by meteoroids, blasted by space radiation, and now, for the first time, scientists are seeing evidence that even a little sunshine can wear them down.
Rocks on asteroid Bennu appear to be cracking as sunlight heats them up during the day and they cool down at night, according to images from NASA's OSIRIS ... more |
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 Bellevue WA (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
EagleView has achieved a key milestone when it processed its 100 millionth image so far this year. During 2019, EagleView processed 45,341,999 images. EagleView has more than doubled that figure in just the first six months of 2020.
"This represents a 95% increase in the number of images processed year-to-date compared to 2019," said Jay Martin, COO of EagleView.
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 
Scientists at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (skoltech), together with colleagues from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and the Kanzelhoehe Observatory (Austria) developed an automatic method for detecting "coronal dimmings", or "traces" of coronal mass ejections at the Sun, and also proved that they are reliable indicators of the early diagnosis of powerful emissions of energy ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
High-resolution observations of a young star forming system clearly unveil a pair of proto-stars at their earliest stages of evolution deeply embedded within the source IRAS 16293-2422 in the Ophiuchus molecular cloud.
The team led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics used the ALMA interferometer not only to pin down the source configuration, but also to measure the gas ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 
Researchers from Russia, Germany, Finland and the U.S. have studied more than 300 quasars - spinning black holes that produce beams of plasma. The team has found that the shape of these so-called astrophysical jets changes from parabolic to conical at some distance from the black hole, reminiscent of the iconic flared jeans of the '70s.
By effectively measuring these "cosmic pants," the re ... more |
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