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  Seattle WA (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 For those of us who increasingly feel like there is no place on Earth to be free of prying eyes, a new announcement from some deep-pockets tech investors appears to ensure humanity that global surveillance from orbit is coming, and soon. On Wednesday, EarthNow - a startup that hopes to provide satellite imagery and live video in real time using a constellation of satellites orbiting the Earth - announced its decision to become a commercial business. Investors include AirBus, the SoftBank Group, Bi ... read more |
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The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon BaseWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 As the space race heats up, the first contracts for the manufacture of key components for humanity's Gateway orbital lunar base will be awarded in 2019, according to NASA. Expected to begin ne ... more  
China strengthens international space cooperationBeijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 China will continue to strengthen international cooperation in peaceful exploration and utilization of outer space, said Li Guoping, a spokesman of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), Th ... more  
'After Venus We Can't Exclude Possibility of Other Planets Hosting Life'Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 Scientists led by Sanjay Limaye have found out that the atmosphere of Venus could be host to extraterrestrial life. The authors noted that the moderate temperatures and pressures, along with the che ... more 
NASA Takes First 3-D Microscopic Image on the Space StationCleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgr ... more |
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NRL Names Sandhoo as Superintendent for Spacecraft EngineeringWashington DC (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 On April 1, 2018, Dr. Gurpartap "GP" Sandhoo was selected for appointment to the Senior Executive Service at the US Naval Research Laboratory and for assignment as the Superintendent for Spacecraft ... more  
Lockheed Martin Submits Proposal for U.S. Air Force's GPS 3F ProgramDenver CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 ockheed Martin has submitted a competitive and fully compliant proposal for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III Follow On (GPS IIIF) program, which will add enhanced capabilities to the most advanced GPS s ... more  
Arianespace to launch BSAT-4b; marking the 10th satellite launch for B-SATEvry, France (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Arianespace reports that it will launch BSAT-4b, under the term of a turnkey contract between B-SAT and Maxar's SSL. BSAT-4b will be launched by an Ariane 5 in 2020 from the Guiana Space Cente ... more  
Clear as mud: Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on MarsBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer focus. In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, w ... more 
Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has claimed that it has saved $120 million in public money in the upcoming moon mission "Chandrayaan-2," which is expected to be launched in October-Nov ... more |
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 Russia, China Develop Capabilities to Disable US Satellites, USAF Secretary Says 
Airbus adds extra precision to Sentinel-3 satellite altimetryMadrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 A new highly precise MicroWave Radiometer (MWR) built by Airbus is ready to start operations after the launch of the Sentinel-3B satellite built by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor for this p ... more  |
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Russia Launches Heavy Rocket with Military SatelliteBaikonur, Kazakhstan (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 A Russian carrier rocket with a military satellite blasted off early on Thursday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed. "The Proton-M heavy-lift ro ... more  
Virtual contact lenses for radar satellitesMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 Radar satellites supply the data used to map sea level and ocean currents. However, up until now the radar's "eyes" have been blind where the oceans are covered by ice. Researchers at the Technical ... more  
En route to the optical nuclear clockMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 The nucleus of thorium-229 possesses a property that is unique among all known nuclides: It should be possible to excite it with ultraviolet light. To date, little has been known about the low-energ ... more  
US Strategic Command observed Russia, China operating hypersonic missilesColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2018 The States United has observed Russia and China operating hypersonic missiles, US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) commander Gen. John Hyten told reporters. "We observed Russia and China operating ... more 
Army engineers develop technique to make adaptive materialsAberdeen Proving Ground MD (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 Engineers at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and the University of Maryland have developed a technique that causes a composite material to become stiffer and stronger on-demand when exposed to ult ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018  Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgraded microscope, the Light Microscopy Module (LMM), scientists can now see microscopic particles in 3-dimensional images.
On April 12, researchers first viewed the particles, called colloids, in ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 19, 2018  The US Air Force is awarding almost $1 billion to Lockheed Martin to design and develop a hypersonic missile that can be launched from a warplane.
The contract follows repeated warnings from senior defense officials about rapid advances by China and Russia in the field of hypersonic weaponry, where missiles can fly at many times the speed of sound and dodge missile-defense systems.
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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.
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 Tampa (AFP) April 16, 2018  SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said.
The next opportunity to blast off the $337 million satellite - which aims to advance the search for extraterrestrial life by scanning the skies for nearby, Earth-like planets - will be Wednesday. ... 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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 Denver CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 
ockheed Martin has submitted a competitive and fully compliant proposal for the U.S. Air Force's GPS III Follow On (GPS IIIF) program, which will add enhanced capabilities to the most advanced GPS satellites ever designed. The GPS IIIF program intends to produce up to 22 next-generation satellites.
The Air Force's first 10 GPS III satellites, currently in full production at Lockheed Martin ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 
The second major meteor shower of 2018 is set to peak this weekend. The Lyrids will deliver roughly 20 streaking meteors per hour during its peak.
Saturday night will offer sky-watchers the best chance to take in the shooting stars, but Friday and Sunday nights will host a handful of meteors, too.
"The shower will be best viewed after midnight when the radiant is highest in the s ... more |
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 Greenbelt 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 that cycle through the air and around the globe.
While satellites in space measuring the major gases can close some of that gap, it takes an aircraft to find out what's really happening in the c ... 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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 Yokohama, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Collaborative research team of Prof. Jun Takeda and Associate Prof. Ikufumi Katayama in the laboratory of Yokohama National University (YNU) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) successfully observed petahertz (PHz: 1015 of a hertz) electron oscillation. The periodic electron oscillations of 667-383 attoseconds (as: 10-18 of a second) is the fastest that has ever been measured in the direct ... 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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