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  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history. The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - making it, for a time, the farthest image ever made from Earth. New Horizons was even farther from home ... read more |
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NASA leverages proven technologies to build agency's first planetary wind lidarGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 NASA scientists have found a way to adapt a handful of recently developed technologies to build a new instrument that could give them what they have yet to obtain: never-before-revealed details abou ... more  
ESA and Airbus sign partnership agreement for new ISS commercial payload platform BartolomeoNoordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 The European Space Agency (ESA) and Airbus have signed a commercial partnership (PPP) agreement for construction, launch and operations of the commercial "Bartolomeo" platform. Airbus' new external ... more  
Iridium Announces First Land-Mobile Service Providers for Iridium CertusMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 Iridium Communications Inc. announced Wednesday the first Iridium Certus service providers for land-mobile applications, planned for commercial availability in mid-2018. This initial group of six wo ... more 
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter capatures images of splitting slope streaksPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2018 This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows streaks forming on slopes when dust cascades downhill. The dark streak is an area of less dust compared to the brighter and reddish sur ... more |
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A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission RecoveryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, spacecraft was re-discovered in January 2018 after more than twelve years of silence. A powerhouse of magnetosphere and aurora res ... more  
Army researchers develop new algorithms to train robotsAberdeen Proving Ground, MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Researchers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin have developed new techniques for robots or computer programs to learn how to perform tasks by interacting with ... more  
Chinese taikonauts maintain indomitable spirit in space exploration: senior officerBeijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday. Zhang made the ... more  
Lockheed contracted for support of Trident D5 missileWashington (UPI) Feb 7, 2018 Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for Trident II D5 missile deployed system support. ... more  
Rainforest collapse 307 million years ago impacted the evolution of early land vertebratesBirmingham UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some gro ... more |
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 Giant viruses may play an intriguing role in evolution of life on Earth 
Ancient geographic and genomic history of cockroach traced back to last supercontinentOxford UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Cockroaches are so hardy, a popular joke goes, that they've occupied the Earth long before humans first appeared ---and will probably even outlast us long after we have annihilated each other by nuc ... more  |
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Ozone at lower latitudes not recovering, despite ozone hole healingLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 The ozone layer - which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation - is recovering at the poles, but unexpected decreases in part of the atmosphere may be preventing recovery at lower latitudes. ... more  
Have we misunderstood how Earth's solid center formed?Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 It is widely accepted that the Earth's inner core formed about a billion years ago when a solid, super-hot iron nugget spontaneously began to crystallize inside a 4,200-mile-wide ball of liquid meta ... more  
Is hydrogen the fuel of the future?Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 As the race to find energy sources to replace our dwindling fossil fuel supplies continues apace, hydrogen is likely to play a crucial role in the future. Japan has already announced its inten ... more  
What's next for SpaceX?Washington (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 In successfully sending the world's most powerful rocket into space, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has pulled off yet another spectacular gamble. ... more  
UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for WaterOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 UCF's Phil Metzger and Julie Brisset from the Florida Space Institute recently landed a contract to develop a model to mine the moon for water. Data suggests the moon has water locked away in ... more |
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 Turin, Italy (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
NanoRacks reports that Thales Alenia Space has been chosen as the latest partner in its commercial airlock program.
Thales Alenia Space will produce and test the critical pressure shell for NanoRacks' Airlock Module, which is targeting to be launched to the International Space Station late 2019, and will be used to deploy commercial and government payloads. Thales Alenia Space will also ma ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Feb 6, 2018 
From cars to rockets, Elon Musk dreams big.
On Tuesday, the South African-born entrepreneur combined both of those passions, blasting one of his Tesla electric cars into space aboard his own rocket.
It was the latest feat for the 46-year-old Silicon Valley billionaire who has been hailed as a leading innovator and visionary.
Born in Pretoria, on June 28, 1971, the son of an engineer ... more |
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 Hong Kong (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features such as dried river channels and dried lake beds that hint at a warmer, wetter, more earthlike climate in the past.
However, Dr Joseph Michalski of the Department of Earth Sciences and Laboratory f ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 
Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday.
Zhang made the remarks at a seminar while listening to reports delivered by Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang and Deng Qingming about their work over the years.
The Taikonaut Corps of the People's Libe ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
Iridium Communications Inc. announced Wednesday the first Iridium Certus service providers for land-mobile applications, planned for commercial availability in mid-2018. This initial group of six world-class land-mobile service providers play a pivotal role in bringing Iridium Certus to market.
Enabled by the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation, Iridium Certus will deliver reliable, globa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, spacecraft was re-discovered in January 2018 after more than twelve years of silence. A powerhouse of magnetosphere and aurora research, the IMAGE mission was a key driver of studies of the Sun-Earth connection from its launch on March 25, 2000, until its last contact on Dec. 18, 2005.
Now a watchful citizen scientist, NAS ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
An international team of astronomers has used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to look for atmospheres around four Earth-sized planets orbiting within or near TRAPPIST-1's habitable zone. The new results further support the terrestrial and potentially habitable nature of three of the studied planets. The results are published in Nature Astronomy.
Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the ultr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
Building a submarine gets tricky when the temperature drops to -300 Fahrenheit and the ocean is made of methane and ethane.
Washington State University researchers are working with NASA to determine how a submarine might work on Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons and the second largest in the solar system. The space agency plans to launch a real submarine into Titan seas in the next ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 06, 2018 
The Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe's rival to the United States' GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday.
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there.
Initial services offered only a weak sig ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon gradually distanced itself from the Earth.
The research sets parameters on how quickly the Moon could have receded from the Earth and suggests that the nascent planet's hydrosphere was either no ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018 
Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week.
The first of this week's close-approaching asteroids - discovered by CSS on Feb. 4 - is designated asteroid 2018 CC. Its close approach to Earth came Tuesday (Feb. 6) at 12:10 p.m. PST (3:10 p.m. EST) at a ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 
The ozone layer - which protects us from harmful ultraviolet radiation - is recovering at the poles, but unexpected decreases in part of the atmosphere may be preventing recovery at lower latitudes.
Global ozone has been declining since the 1970s owing to certain man-made chemicals. Since these were banned, parts of the layer have been recovering, particularly at the poles.
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 Madison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system). The data on so-called "magnetic reconnection" came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2018 
For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that a stable frequency reference can be reliably transmitted more than 300 kilometers over a standard fiber optic telecommunications network and used to synchronize two radio telescopes. Stable frequency references, which are used to calibrate clocks and instruments that make ultraprecise measurements, are usually only accessible at facilities t ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 09, 2018  In a 17-mile circular tunnel underneath the border between France and Switzerland, an international collaboration of scientists runs experiments using the world's most advanced scientific instrument, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). By smashing together protons that travel close to light speed, particle physicists analyze these collisions and learn more about the fundamental makeup of all matter ... more |
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