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  Tampa (AFP) April 19, 2018 NASA on Wednesday blasted off its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS, a $337 million satellite that aims to scan 85 percent of the skies for cosmic bodies where life may exist. "Three, two, one and liftoff!" said NASA commentator Mike Curie as the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) soared into the cloudless, blue sky atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:51 pm (2251 GMT). The washing machine-sized spacecraft is built to search outside the solar system, sca ... read more |
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New research seeks to optimize space travel efficiencyChicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Sending a human into space and doing it efficiently presents a galaxy of challenges. Koki Ho, University of Illinois assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and his graduate ... more 
New DARPA Challenge Seeks Flexible and Responsive Launch SolutionsWashington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 DARPA announced the DARPA Launch Challenge, designed to promote rapid access to space within days, not years. Our nation's space architecture is currently built around a limited number of exquisite ... more 
India, France Join Hands for Ambitious Inter-Planetary MissionsNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 The Indian space research agency ISRO and CNES of France have announced ambitious collaborations on inter-planetary missions like those to Mars, Venus and certain asteroids. The collaboration ... more 
European Space Agency Hopes Skripal Case Won't Affect Work With RussiaColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes that the Skripal case will not affect the agency's cooperation with Russia, ESA Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik. "In our case, our relation with ... more |
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Open Geospatial Consortium announces the European Space Agency's upgrade to Strategic MembershipWashington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency (ESA) has raised its membership level from Technical to Strategic - OGC's highest level of membership. As ... more  
CubeSat to Test Instrument for Crystal Clear Data CollectionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 When the validation mission for a satellite the size of a cereal box launches in May, it will test a small component in space that could have big benefits for future NASA satellite missions. R ... more  
Inactivity bigger threat to muscles in space than low oxygen, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Apr 18, 2018 In experiments designed to measure the impacts of spaceflight on human muscle health and performance, researchers were surprised to find inactivity had a greater negative effect than hypoxia. ... more  
Surrey creates new tool to speed up the design of wearable techSurrey UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 In a new paper published by Nano Energy, experts from the Advanced Technology Institute (ATI) at the University of Surrey detail a new methodology that allows designers of smart-wearables to better ... more  
'Candy cane' polymer weave could power functional fabrics and devicesNew Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 If scientists are ever going to deliver on the promise of implantable artificial organs or clothing that dries itself, they'll first need to solve the problem of inflexible batteries that run out of ... more |
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SoCal astronomers team up to commission most advanced camera in the worldSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Somewhere in the vastness of the universe another habitable planet likely exists. And it may not be that far - astronomically speaking - from our own solar system. Distinguishing that planet's ... more  |
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First global carbon dioxide maps produced by Chinese observation satelliteBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 An Earth observation satellite, called TanSat, has produced its first global carbon dioxide maps. TanSat was launched by a collaborative team of researchers in China, and these maps are the first st ... more 
Plants fix UV damage to DNA with robust repair systemWashington (UPI) Apr 17, 2018 Scientists have detailed the ability of plants to repair DNA damaged by the sun's ultraviolet rays. ... more  
Orbital ATK-Designed Satellites Demonstrate Affordable Access to Space for U.S. Air ForceDulles, VA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Orbital ATK has designed the EAGLE (ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment) experimental satellite for the U.S. Air Force's AFSPC-11 mission that successfully launched on United Launch A ... more 
NASA's world tour of the atmosphere reveals surprises along the wayGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Two thirds of Earth's surface are covered by water - and two thirds of Earth's atmosphere reside over the oceans, far from land and the traditional ways that people measure the gases and pollutants ... more  
First global CO2 maps published using China's TanSat dataWashington DC (UPI) Apr 16, 2018 Scientists have published the first global CO2 maps compiled using data collected by China's TanSat. ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 
The European Space Agency (ESA) hopes that the Skripal case will not affect the agency's cooperation with Russia, ESA Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"In our case, our relation with Russia is not at all effected so far," Woerner said. "We are doing space activities and therefore, we try to keep out of all these discussions. I hope that space can also in the future bridge earthly ... more |
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 Sacramento CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
The upcoming launch of the U.S. Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-11 satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, will benefit from just over 1.74 million pounds of added thrust from five AJ-60A solid rocket boosters supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne. The mission marks the eighth flight of the Atlas V 551 configuration, the most powerful Atl ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
The public is invited to a free talk called "Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater," with Dr. Scott Guzewich in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on April 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Guzewich is a speaker in the 2018 NASA Goddard Lectures Series at the Library of Congress. Guzewich is a research astrophysicis ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 
Talk about a trade war, as intra-solar-system transport of silk - one of the world's most popular commodities - could be made on the moon, and imported to earth.
Just because China's upcoming moon mission is unmanned doesn't mean it will be unoccupied, as - in an effort to test possible self-sustaining biospheres that could lead to larger projects - cohabitating flora and fauna will be tra ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
The SES-12 all-electric communications satellite, built by Airbus for SES, has been shipped from the Airbus Defence and Space facilities in Toulouse, France, to Cape Canaveral, Florida.
SES-12 is the largest and most powerful all electric satellite ever produced. It is based on the highly reliable Eurostar platform in its E3000e variant, which uses electric propulsion for orbit raising (EO ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics. Described in the April 12 issue of Nature, the experimental technique surpasses all previous methods for ensuring the unpredictability of its random numbers and may enhance security and trust in cryptographic systems.
The new ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have helped discover the first subglacial lakes ever found in the Canadian High Arctic.
The two new lakes are a potential habitat for microbial life and may assist scientists in the search for life beyond Earth. The findings, published in the April 13 edition of Science Advances, were made possible by airborne radar d ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The names were proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for na ... more |
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 Townsville, Australia (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A new study published online in Nature shows that corals on the northern Great Barrier Reef experienced a catastrophic die-off following the extended marine heatwave of 2016.
"When corals bleach from a heatwave, they can either survive and regain their colour slowly as the temperature drops, or they can die. Averaged across the whole Great Barrier Reef, we lost 30 per cent of the corals in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is pleased to announce that the European Space Agency (ESA) has raised its membership level from Technical to Strategic - OGC's highest level of membership.
As a Strategic Member, ESA will participate in OGC's Planning Committee to provide leadership through the exploration of market and technology trends to ensure that OGC's activities remain effective and ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 18, 2018 
It's one of the deepest 'swimming pools' in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA's Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre has been the site of the 'Moondive' study, using specially weighted spacesuits to simulate lunar gravity, which is just one sixth that of Earth.
The three-year study took place in the Centre's ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 
With just a few hours' notice, a relatively large asteroid whipped through the Earth-moon orbit over the weekend. You may have missed it though; humanity only learned of the asteroid hours before the flyby.
A "Tunguska-class" asteroid was first spotted by the Catalina Sky Survey out of the University of Arizona on April 14. The asteroid, 2018 GE3, flew by just hours later. Austrian amateur ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 17, 2018  An Earth observation satellite, called TanSat, has produced its first global carbon dioxide maps. TanSat was launched by a collaborative team of researchers in China, and these maps are the first steps for the satellite to provide global carbon dioxide measurements for future climate change research.
The researchers published the maps, based on data collected in April and July 2017, in the ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 
How the sun looks through the lens of a telescope depends on which frequency is being observed. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory is capable of imaging the sun in a wide range of frequencies.
In a new composite image, shared this week by NASA, the sun is showcased in three different extreme ultraviolet wavelengths. As evidenced by the image, each frequency reveals different structures a ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Somewhere in the vastness of the universe another habitable planet likely exists. And it may not be that far - astronomically speaking - from our own solar system.
Distinguishing that planet's light from its star, however, can be problematic. But an international team led by UC Santa Barbara physicist Benjamin Mazin has developed a new instrument to detect planets around the nearest stars. ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
One of the most fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity is the existence of black holes. In spite of the recent detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes by LIGO, direct evidence using electromagnetic waves remains elusive and astronomers are looking for it with radio telescopes.
For the first time, collaborators in the ERC funded project BlackHoleCam, inc ... more |
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