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  London, UK (SPX) Jan 16, 2018 British 'New Space' pioneer Earth-i has confirmed that the pre-production prototype satellite of its upcoming satellite constellation was successfully launched late last week. The new commercial constellation - which the company announced is called Vivid-i - will be the first of its kind to provide full-colour video; and the first European-owned constellation able to provide both video and still images. The multiple satellites within the Vivid-i Constellation will significantly increase the ... read more |
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SES-15 Enters Commercial Service to Serve the AmericasLuxembourg (SPX) Jan 16, 2018 SES reports that the new SES-15 spacecraft has been operational at the 129 degrees West orbital position since 1 January. As planned, the all-electric satellite took six months to reach its orbital ... more  
Astrosat and DroneSAR form partnership to enhance Search and Rescue capabilitiesMusselburgh UK (SPX) Jan 16, 2018 Astrosat, one of the leading businesses in Europe's space exploitation industry, has formed a partnership with Irish start-up DroneSAR- Search and Rescue, to incorporate drone software with Astrosat ... more  
Hubble finds substellar objects in the Orion NebulaBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population ... more  
Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolvePortsmouth UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2018 Scientists have solved a cosmic mystery by finding evidence that supermassive black holes prevent stars forming in some smaller galaxies. These giant black holes are over a million times more ... more |
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What Stars Will Hatch from the Tarantula Nebula?Moffett Field, CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 To have a full picture of the lives of massive stars, researchers need to study them in all stages - from when they're a mass of unformed gas and dust, to their often dynamic end-of-life explosions. ... more 
China approves advanced radio telescope projectUrumqi, China (XNA) Jan 15, 2018 China is to have a new radio telescope to "listen" to the universe. Proposed by the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, the world's largest fully steerable single-dish radio telescope will be b ... more 
Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant GalaxyPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018 An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stret ... more 
Hubble probes the archeology of our Milky Way's ancient hubBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 For many years, astronomers had a simple view of our Milky Way's central hub, or bulge, as a quiescent place composed of old stars, the earliest homesteaders of our galaxy. However, because th ... more 
GBT detection unlocks exploration of 'aromatic' interstellar chemistryCharlottesville VA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 Astronomers had a mystery on their hands. No matter where they looked, from inside the Milky Way to distant galaxies, they observed a puzzling glow of infrared light. This faint cosmic light, which ... more  
Russia's army warns of 'terrorist' drones after attacksMoscow (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 Russia's defence ministry on Thursday said it was concerned about the threat of drones used "for terrorist purposes" following recent attacks on Moscow's bases in Syria. ... more 
Boeing unveils UAV prototype for cargo, logistics useWashington (UPI) Jan 11, 2018 Boeing has unveiled a new unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing, or eVTOL, cargo air vehicle prototype that it plans to use to test and evolve future autonomous technology. ... more |
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3-D printing creates super soft structures that replicate brain and lungsLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs. Imperial College London researchers have deve ... more  
The ocean is losing its breath - here's the global scopeSan Diego CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased mo ... more  
Beyond the car: how tech firms are exploring the future of transportLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018 Carless commuting is cruising in the fast lane at the Consumer Electronics Show, with companies showing off electric bicycles, scooters, skateboards and more aimed at making the internal combustion engine a thing of the past. ... more |
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Room-temperature multiferroic thin films and their propertiesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) and Tohoku University have developed high-quality GFO epitaxial films and systematically investigated their ferroelectric and ferromagnetic p ... more  
Old dog, new tricks: Sony unleashes 'intelligent' robot petTokyo (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 As Japan celebrates the year of the dog, electronics giant Sony on Thursday unleashed its new robot canine companion, packed with artificial intelligence and internet connectivity. ... more  
The LECs now an efficient and bright deviceUmea, Sweden (SPX) Jan 11, 2018 Researchers from Umea University and Linkoping University in Sweden have developed light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs) that emit strong light at high efficiency. As such, the thin, flexible ... more 
Digital assistants duel for dominance at major electronics showLas Vegas (AFP) Jan 9, 2018 Virtual aides battled to rule "smart homes" on the eve of the official opening of the Consumer Electronics show gadget gala here. ... more  
NanoRacks Begins Third International Space Station External Platform Mission In Extreme Space EnvironmentHouston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 This morning, the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) was reinstalled on the outside of the International Space Station, initiating the commercial platform's third customer mission. The External Plat ... more  
Deep, buried glaciers spotted on MarsMiami (AFP) Jan 11, 2018 Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday. ... more 
Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery testPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. After some deliberatio ... more |
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Champagne box-sized satellite launched to probe distant planetParis (AFP) Jan 12, 2018 France launched a champagne box-sized mini satellite into Earth orbit on Friday to study a mysterious, juvenile planet system in our Milky Way galaxy, mission controllers said. ... more  
CETel to provide fibre-like connectivity via SES Networks' MEO fleetCologne, Germany (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 CETel, a leading German service provider of global managed end-to-end communications solutions, has signed a five-year contract with SES Networks to connect new exploration and production sites in A ... more 
NASA fosters STEM education through CubeSat classesHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 NASA is on a mission to inspire young minds to become the next generation of critical thinkers. By engaging students in space exploration at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, ... more |
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This morning, the NanoRacks External Platform (NREP) was reinstalled on the outside of the International Space Station, initiating the commercial platform's third customer mission. The External Platform, self-funded by NanoRacks, is the leading commercial gateway to the extreme environment of space. Customers can experience the microgravity, atomic oxygen, radiation and other harsh elements nati ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Life-saving NASA Communications System Turns 20  Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018Top takeaways from Consumers Electronics Show  Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 12, 2018Gadgets for kids still big at tech show despite concerns |
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January blues? Not a problem in Mojave as VSS Unity successfully completed her seventh glide flight!
It's been a few months since our last flight, during which we worked through a planned period of focused ground time. This involved extensive analysis, testing and small modifications to ensure vehicle readiness for the higher loads and forces of powered test flight.
[Today] we tested ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 12, 2018India launches country's 100th satellite and 30 microsats  Sacramento CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports ULA Launch in Support of National Security  Washington DC (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018Blue Origin tests rocket engine as US seeks to replace Russian RD-180 |
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Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday.
Although ice has long been known to exist on Mars, a better understanding of its depth and location could be vital to future human explorers, said the report in the US journal Science.
"Astronauts could essentially just ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2018Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice  Dallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mystery Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery test |
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China is poised to begin a comprehensive lunar exploration program which is expected to kick off with the launch of the Long March 5 rocket in June. Professor Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radboud University in the Netherlands, explained during an interview with Radio Sputnik why this mission is so important.
Radio Sputnik: Please tell us about your radio telescope, which you are plan ... more Wuhan, China (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China's Kuaizhou-11 rocket scheduled to launch in first half of 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017Nation 'leads world' in remote sensing technology  Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 |
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SES reports that the new SES-15 spacecraft has been operational at the 129 degrees West orbital position since 1 January. As planned, the all-electric satellite took six months to reach its orbital position and to successfully complete its testing.
SES-15 carries a hybrid payload, comprising Ku-band wide beams and Ku-band High Throughput Satellite (HTS) capability, with connectivity to gat ... more Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Aerospace Workforce Training - National Mandate for 2018  Evry, France (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Intelsat signs contract with Arianespace for two launches  London, UK (SPX) Jan 02, 2018Nationwide search begins for young space entrepreneurs |
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A new 3D printing technique allows researchers to replicate biological structures, which could be used for tissue regeneration and replica organs.
Imperial College London researchers have developed a new method for creating 3D structures using cryogenics (freezing) and 3D printing techniques.
This builds on previous research, but is the first to create structures that are soft enough ... moreTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2018Room-temperature multiferroic thin films and their properties  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2018NASA team first to demonstrate x-ray navigation in space  Lemont IL (SPX) Jan 15, 2018Breaking bad metals with neutrons |
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In an unprecedented deep survey for small, faint objects in the Orion Nebula, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble) have uncovered the largest known population of brown dwarfs sprinkled among newborn stars. Looking in the vicinity of the survey stars, researchers not only found several very-low-mass brown dwarf companions, but also three giant planets. They ... more Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Citizen scientists discover five-planet system  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Ingredients for life revealed in meteorites that fell to Earth  Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Iron-Rich Stars Host Shorter-Period Planets |
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In just under a year - shortly after midnight Eastern Time on Jan. 1, 2019 - NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will buzz by the most primitive and most distant object ever explored. New Horizons' encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, which orbits a billion miles beyond Pluto, will offer the first close-up look at such a pristine building block of the solar system - and will be performed in a ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2017Study explains why Jupiter's jet stream reverses course on a predictable schedule  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt  Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2017Does New Horizons' Next Target Have a Moon? |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 
In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as Earth warms.
To halt the decline, the world needs to rein in both climate change and nutrien ... more The Hague (AFP) Jan 13, 2018Sea levels off Dutch coast highest ever recorded in 2017  Cairo (AFP) Jan 15, 2018Sisi vows to protect Egypt's water supply  Phnom Penh (AFP) Jan 11, 2018China lavishes cash on ally Cambodia with eyes on the Mekong |
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China on Friday sent twin satellites into space on a single carrier rocket to help its BeiDou system provide navigation and positioning services to countries along the Belt and Road by late 2018.
The Long March-3B carrier rocket took off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan at 7:18 a.m.
The twin satellites are coded as the 26th and 27th satelli ... more Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 201818 satellites in exactEarth's real-time constellation now in service  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 03, 2018'Quantum radio' may aid communications and mapping indoors, underground and underwater  Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017Raytheon to provide GPS-guided artillery shells |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 
The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes. The pits were identified through analysis of imaging data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). If water ice is present, these potential lava tube entrances or "skylights" might allow futu ... more New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar team  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 05, 2018Astronauts: Trump's proposed Lunar mission will take time  Beijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2018China Prepares for Breakthrough Chang'e 4 Moon Landing in 2018 |
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Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission's late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak - 41P for short - was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telesc ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 28, 2017NASA image showcases Ceres mountain named for Kwanzaa  Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Development on muon beam analysis of organic matter in samples from space  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 27, 2017Arecibo radar returns with asteroid Phaethon images |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 16, 2018 
British 'New Space' pioneer Earth-i has confirmed that the pre-production prototype satellite of its upcoming satellite constellation was successfully launched late last week.
The new commercial constellation - which the company announced is called Vivid-i - will be the first of its kind to provide full-colour video; and the first European-owned constellation able to provide both video and ... more Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Scientists examine how aerosol types influence cloud formation  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2018Jet stream changes since 1960s linked to more extreme weather  Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 15, 2018Frequent growth events and fast growth rates of fine aerosol particles in Beijing |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 
Why does the Sun sometimes accelerate preferentially helium-3 and iron into space? Researchers have for the first time observed helical solar flares as a source.
In April and July 2014, the Sun emitted three jets of energetic particles into space, that were quite exceptional: the particle streams contained such high amounts of iron and helium-3, a rare variety of helium, as have been obser ... more Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Sounding rockets study space x-ray emissions and create polar mesospheric cloud  Berkeley CA (SPX) Jan 08, 2018Eclipse megamovie projects seeks public's help analyzing 50,000 photos  Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2018Special star is a Rosetta Stone for understanding the sun's variability and climate effect |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 12, 2018 
An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and amplified by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.
The embryonic galaxy named SPT0615-JD existed when the universe was just 500 million years old. Though a few other primitive gala ... more Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 12, 2018ASU astronomers to build space telescope to explore nearby stars  Batavia IL (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Dark energy survey publicly releases first three years of data  Green Bank WV (SPX) Jan 11, 2018Swarm of hydrogen clouds flying away from center of our galaxy |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have formed in the universe. These 'newborns' - observed as they appeared nearly 13 billion years ago - spun like a whirlpool, similar to our own Milky Way. This is the first time that it has been possible to detect movement in galaxies at such an early point in th ... morePortsmouth UK (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Black hole research could aid understanding of how small galaxies evolve  Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2018Researchers catch supermassive black hole burping  Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 10, 2018Two Astronomers, 100 Years Apart, Use Stars to Measure the Universe |
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