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  Miami (AFP) March 1, 2018 A new US satellite that offers speedy, high-resolution images of storms and may save lives by making forecasts more accurate blasted off Thursday from a NASA launchpad. "Three, two, one and liftoff!" said a NASA commentator as the Atlas V rocket rumbled into the blue sky at 5:02 pm (2202 GMT) over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S (GOES-S). GOES-S is the latest in a series of advanced weather satellites owned by the Nati ... read more |
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Watch an asteroid pass between Earth and the moon on FridayWashington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 A small asteroid will pass within 70,000 miles of Earth's surface on Friday - a close but safe encounter. ... more  
Tesla in space could carry bacteria from EarthWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 A red Tesla convertible hitched a ride to space with a SpaceX rocket in early February, bringing with it what may be the largest load of earthly bacteria to ever enter space. NASA's Office of ... more  
Japan's H2-A launches new spy satelliteTokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Feb 28, 2018 Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on Tuesday successfully launched a H2-A rocket with a new reconnaissance satellite from the space center in the prefecture of Kagoshima. The rocket ... more  
The PI's Perspective: Why Didn't Voyager Explore the Kuiper Belt?Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 New Horizons is in good health and cruising closer each day to our next encounter, an end-of-the-year flyby of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) 2014 MU69 (or "MU69" for short). Currently, the spac ... more |
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Russia's Energomash tests RD-180 engine made for US Atlas rocketMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2018 Tests of a Russian RD-180 liquid-fuel rocket engine have been carried out in the Science and Test Complex of Russia's NPO Energomash, the company said Wednesday in a statement. "According to t ... more  
The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestiaDavis CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the U ... more  
NASA InSight mission to Mars arrives at launch siteVandenberg AFB CA (JPL) Feb 28, 2018 NASA's InSight spacecraft has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California to begin final preparations for a launch this May. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space, Den ... more 
Curiosity tests a new way to drill on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018 NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on the Red Planet since its drill stopped working reliably. This early test produced a hole about a half-in ... more  
A quadrillionth of a second in slow motionMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Many chemical processes run so fast that they are only roughly understood. To clarify these processes, a team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a methodology with a res ... more |
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Latest updates from NASA on IMAGE RecoveryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018 On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that ... more  |
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Iridium Certus readies for takeoff with aviation service providersMcLean VA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Iridium Communications Inc. reports that Honeywell Aerospace, SKYTRAC, Avitek and Navicom Aviation are the first Iridium Certus service providers to be selected for the aviation industry. As I ... more  
Robotic crystals that walk n' rollTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 Scientists at Waseda University may have come a step closer to innovating soft robots to care for people. Its material, however, is something you may have never expected. They have developed r ... more  
US sees Russia as most significant threat, N Korea as most uncertain - STRATCOMWashington DC (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2018 The United States considers Russia the major threat to the country and sees North Korea as the most uncertain danger, commander of US Strategic Command Gen. John Hyten said on Wednesday. "I th ... more 
NASA space laser completes 2,000-mile road tripGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Once in orbit after it launches this fall, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite will travel at speeds faster than 15,000 miles per hour. Last week, the satellite's instrument began its journey toward space rid ... more  
New computation help identify new solid oxide fuel cell materialsMadison WI (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 Using advanced computational methods, University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists have discovered new materials that could bring widespread commercial use of solid oxide fuel cells closer t ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 
Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit.
Vande Hei, Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 9:31 p.m. EST (8:31 a.m. Feb. 28 in Kazakhstan) sout ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2018 
Tests of a Russian RD-180 liquid-fuel rocket engine have been carried out in the Science and Test Complex of Russia's NPO Energomash, the company said Wednesday in a statement.
"According to the head of the complex Andrey Ushkov, the tests went routinely, the test program has been fully implemented," the statement reads.
The reliable and relatively cheap RD-180 engine is developed an ... more |
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 Pullman WA (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
For the first time, researchers have seen life rebounding in the world's driest desert, demonstrating that it could also be lurking in the soils of Mars. Led by Washington State University planetary scientist Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an international team studied the driest corner of South America's Atacama Desert, where decades pass without any rain.
Scientists have long wondered whether micr ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 26, 2018 
China will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday.
"The Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites," said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stage architect of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
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 McLean VA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
Iridium Communications Inc. reports that Honeywell Aerospace, SKYTRAC, Avitek and Navicom Aviation are the first Iridium Certus service providers to be selected for the aviation industry.
As Iridium Certus service providers, each company will be able to offer the new, best-in-class broadband satellite connectivity to its customers. Ideal for commercial airliner flight deck communications, ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018
On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 27, 2018 
Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn's moons said Tuesday.
The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as archaeans found in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, they reported in the science journal Nature Communications.
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2018 
Last year, ESA's Gaia mission helped astronomers make unique observations of Neptune's largest moon, Triton, as it passed in front of a distant star. This is a preview of the superb quality and versatility of the Gaia data that will be released in April.
When a small Solar System body such as a moon or an asteroid passes in front of a star and temporarily blocks its light, the occultation ... more |
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 Abuja (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 
It sounds like something from Wakanda, the futuristic African kingdom of the hit movie "Black Panther".
But "Transaqua" is a very real proposal for a very real problem - how to replenish the shrinking waters of Lake Chad.
It imagines a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) canal from the Democratic Republic of Congo across the Central African Republic to meet the Chari River that feeds into the freshw ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 
The Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry have launched 'Urban Navigation Challenge', a startup competition to create advanced 'counter-terror' navigation systems which don't use GPS. The project makes no mention of officially designated US "rivals" like Russia or China, but according to Russian experts, it would make no difference even if it did.
The project, officially dubbed the Combat ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon's water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water appears to be present day and night, though it's not necessarily easily accessible.
The findings could help researchers understand the origin of the Moon's water and how easy it would be to use ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2018 
A small asteroid will pass within 70,000 miles of Earth's surface on Friday - a close but safe encounter.
They flyby will be streamed live online by the Virtual Telescope Project. Asteroid 2018 DV1 will reach its closest point to Earth at approximately 12:54 p.m. ET.
The flyby will mark the 18th time an asteroid has passed between Earth and the moon in 2018. It's possible others ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
Once in orbit after it launches this fall, NASA's ICESat-2 satellite will travel at speeds faster than 15,000 miles per hour. Last week, the satellite's instrument began its journey toward space riding a truck from Maryland to Arizona, never exceeding 65 mph.
ICESat-2, or the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2, is slated to launch in September to measure the height of Earth's surfac ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2018  A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun's surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun's magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth.
The scientists, led by Tahar Amari, an astrophysicist at the Center for Theoretical Physics at th ... more |
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 Charlottesville, VA (SPX) Feb 27, 2018 
Space weather emitted by Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun, may make that system rather inhospitable to life after all. Using data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a team of astronomers discovered that a powerful stellar flare erupted from Proxima Centauri last March.
This finding, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, raises questions abo ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 
Long ago, about 400,000 years after the beginning of the universe (the Big Bang), the universe was dark. There were no stars or galaxies, and the universe was filled primarily with neutral hydrogen gas.
Then, for the next 50-100 million years, gravity slowly pulled the densest regions of gas together until ultimately the gas collapsed in some places to form the first stars.
What were ... more |
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