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April 26, 2018
MOON DAILY
NASA continues to discuss co-op on Lunar orbital platform with other countries



Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 25, 2018
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is continuing to discuss working with other partner countries on the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway program, the US space agency told Sputnik. "NASA is still gathering information for Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway development," a NASA communications official told Sputnik on Monday. "This includes continuing to discuss potential International Space Station partner contributions to the gateway." Earlier, a space industry source told Spu ... read more

EXO WORLDS
Molecular evolution: How the building blocks of life may form in space
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2018
In a laboratory experiment that mimics astrophysical conditions, with cryogenic temperatures in an ultrahigh vacuum, scientists used an electron gun to irradiate thin sheets of ice covered in basic ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Seventh Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 25, 2018
The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was launched today, joining its identical twin Sentinel-3A in orbit. This pairing of satellites increases coverage and data delivery for the ... more
MARSDAILY
Opportuity Mars rover looking for a path of less resistance
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 25, 2018
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater, pursuing several scientific hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is posi ... more
TECH SPACE
India recalls GSAT-11 satellite from launch site for more tests
New Delhi (IANS) Apr 26, 2018
The Indian space agency has recalled its communication satellite GSAT-11 from Arianespace's rocket port in Kourou in French Guiana, said Arianespace. "Due to additional technical checks with t ... more
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IRON AND ICE
Projectile cannon experiments show how asteroids can deliver water
Providence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018
Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown Univer ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
2020 Decadal Survey Missions: At a Glance
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2018
Any telescope that reaches the launch pad in the 2030s likely will look much different than the concepts four teams are currently studying to inform the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics, but the ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
NASA upgrades Space Station emergency communications ground stations
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2018
Since the launch of the International Space Station's first component in 1998, communications infrastructure has been critical to the station's success and crew safety. NASA is currently implementin ... more
MOON DAILY
Moon village already exists in contracts, Says ESA Chief
Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018
Moon village - a product of international collaboration among spacefaring nations - already exists in contracts and remains an open concept, European Space Agency (ESA) Director-General Jan Woerner ... more
DRAGON SPACE
Across China: Rocket launch brings back fortune to locals
Haikou, China (XNA) Apr 23, 2018
Battery carts carry tourists around Wenchang space launch center on the Chinese island province of Hainan. A 130 yuan (20.7 U.S. dollars) ticket allows them to view the launch and operation control ... more
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DRAGON SPACE
China unveils underwater astronaut training suit
Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018
A domestically designed underwater training suit for China's astronauts was shown to the press in Beijing Friday. The Astronaut Center of China (ACC) unveiled the suit during a summit on aeros ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
To see the first-born stars of the universe
Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 26, 2018
About 200 to 400 million years after the Big Bang created the universe, the first stars began to appear. Ordinarily stars lying at such a great distance in space and time would be out of reach even ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy - and beyond
Paris (ESA) Apr 26, 2018
ESA's Gaia mission has produced the richest star catalogue to date, including high-precision measurements of nearly 1.7 billion stars and revealing previously unseen details of our home Galaxy. ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Proving what can't be seen
Miami FL (SPX) Apr 17, 2018
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics Department, Cappelluti is intrigued by the cosmic phenomena of super massive black holes, th ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Technology used to map Mars now measuring effect of treatment on tumors
Manchester UK (SPX) Apr 25, 2018
A machine learning approach for assessing images of the craters and dunes of Mars, which was developed at The University of Manchester, has now been adapted to help scientists measure the effects of ... more


China fights big smog with big air purifier

NANO TECH
Course set to overcome mismatch between lab-designed nanomaterials and nature's complexity
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 22, 2018
Cells and the machinery they encase are soft matter - shape-shifting multicomponent systems with an overwhelming richness of forms. But, these squishy packages are hard targets for potential therape ... more
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TIME AND SPACE
Quantum shift shows itself in coupled light and matter
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 22, 2018
A team led by Rice University scientists used a unique combination of techniques to observe, for the first time, a condensed matter phenomenon about which others have only speculated. The research c ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Individual impurity atoms detectable in graphene
Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018
A team including physicists from the University of Basel has succeeded in using atomic force microscopy to clearly obtain images of individual impurity atoms in graphene ribbons. Thanks to the force ... more
TECH SPACE
Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass
Evanston IL (SPX) Apr 22, 2018
If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under just the ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Simulated Countdown Another Step Toward Exploration Mission-1
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 25, 2018
"NTD you are GO to proceed with the count." With words such as these, NASA Launch Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson will authorize the NASA Test Director, whose call sign is NTD, to proceed with l ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Meet the nuclear-powered spaceships of the future
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018
Spaceships using conventional hydrogen-oxygen fuel will be able to take people to the moon, Mars or Venus. But human exploration of other planets in our solar system, and beyond it, will require the ... more
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NASA Takes First 3-D Microscopic Image on the Space Station
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
+ 2020 Decadal Survey Missions: At a Glance
+ Simulated Countdown Another Step Toward Exploration Mission-1
+ NASA upgrades Space Station emergency communications ground stations
+ Students help NASA researchers decide what plants to grow in space
+ Aerospace explores next steps in space development
+ India, France Join Hands for Ambitious Inter-Planetary Missions
+ China strengthens international space cooperation
Vostochny Cosmodrome preps for first tourist visit
Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018
Foreign tourists interested in checking out the inner workings of Russia's brand new spaceport, or making a selfie against the backdrop of a rocket as it blasts off into space will soon get their chance, with Moscow tour operators working on the excursion details. Representatives from Roscosmos, Russia's space tourism industry and officials from Amur region's tourism ministry have met with ... more
+ Meet the nuclear-powered spaceships of the future
+ Arianespace to launch BSAT-4b; marking the 10th satellite launch for B-SAT
+ US Air Force awards nearly $1 bn for hypersonic missile
+ New DARPA Challenge Seeks Flexible and Responsive Launch Solutions
+ Lockheed awarded $928M for hypersonic strike weapon
+ SpaceX blasts off NASA's new planet-hunter, TESS
+ ULA Atlas V launch to feature full complement of Aerojet Rocketdyne solid rocket boosters


Opportuity Mars rover looking for a path of less resistance
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 25, 2018
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater, pursuing several scientific hypotheses as to the origin of the valley. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley near an apparent flow stream island. Opportunity is finishing up some in-situ (contact) investigations of local outcrops. Howeve ... more
+ SwRI's Martian moons model indicates formation following large impact
+ Clear as mud: Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on Mars
+ US, Russia likely to go to Mars Together, former NASA astronaut says
+ NASA scientist to discuss 'Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater'
+ Trace Gas Orbiter reaches stable Mars orbit, ready to start science mission
+ Mars impact crater or supervolcano?
+ The Rock Outcrop 'Tome' Continues to Garner Interest On Mars
First China Aerospace Conference to be held on April 24
Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018
As part of the events that mark China's Space Day, the first China Aerospace Conference will be held in Harbin in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on April 24, according to an official from China National Space Administration (CNSA). More than 2,000 people have signed up for the conference, which will be attended by aerospace professionals from the government, state-owned and privat ... more
+ Across China: Rocket launch brings back fortune to locals
+ China unveils underwater astronaut training suit
+ China Space Agency chief says he expects visit by Russia's Roscosmos
+ China's Chang'e-4 relay satellite named "Queqiao"
+ The Long Game: China Seeks to Transfer Its Silk Industry to Far Side of the Moon
+ China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket in late 2018
+ Flowers on the Moon? China's Chang'e-4 to launch lunar spring
Aerospace highlights lessons from Public-Private Partnerships in space
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2018
The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released a new publication that explores the growing popularity of public-private partnerships. The policy paper, Public-Private Partnerships: Stimulating Innovation in the Space Sector, outlines a phased approach for strategizing, planning, and implementing such collaborative arrangements for space-based services and how to ... more
+ ESA teams ready for space
+ Airbus has shipped SES-12 highly innovative satellite to launch base
+ Storm hunter launched to International Space Station
+ SpaceX says Iridium satellite payload deployed
+ Spacecom selects SSL to build AMOS-8 comsat with advanced capabilities
+ Relativity Space raises 35M in Series B funding
+ SSL to build direct broadcasting satellite for B-SAT
India recalls GSAT-11 satellite from launch site for more tests
New Delhi (IANS) Apr 26, 2018
The Indian space agency has recalled its communication satellite GSAT-11 from Arianespace's rocket port in Kourou in French Guiana, said Arianespace. "Due to additional technical checks with the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) GSAT-11 satellite, to be conducted from the ISRO Satellite Centre (ISAC) located in Bengaluru, the Ariane 5 launch initially planned for May 25, VA243, h ... more
+ Artificial intelligence accelerates discovery of metallic glass
+ NanoRacks space station airlock "Bishop" completes CDR, moves to fab stage
+ Angola loses first satellite, plans successor
+ Marines 3D-print replacement part for F-35 landing gear door
+ Aerospace offers new solutions for Space Traffic Management
+ Space smash: simulating when satellites collide
+ Spider silk key to new bone-fixing composite


Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea
Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018
We know more about the surface of the moon that we do about the bottom of the ocean. The sea floor is an alien landscape, with crushing pressure, near-total darkness, and fluids wafting from cracks in the Earth's crust. It's also home to some weird animals that scientists are only just getting to know. Case in point: deep-sea expeditions and drones have revealed a giant group of octopuses and th ... more
+ Molecular evolution: How the building blocks of life may form in space
+ Are we alone? NASA's new planet hunter aims to find out
+ We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?
+ Newly discovered salty subglacial lakes could help search for life in solar system
+ SPHERE Reveals Fascinating Zoo of Discs Around Young Stars
+ Scientists blast iron with lasers to study the cores of rocky exoplanets
+ Once upon a time, an exoplanet was discovered
What do Uranus's cloud tops have in common with rotten eggs?
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2018
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope, astronomers uncovered the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops. This result resolves a stubborn, long-standing my ... more
+ Pluto's Largest Moon, Charon, Gets Its First Official Feature Names
+ Pluto's largest moon, Charon, gets its first official feature names
+ Juno Provides Infrared Tour of Jupiter's North Pole
+ SSL to provide of critical capabilities for Europa Flyby Mission
+ Jupiter's turmoil more than skin deep: researchers
+ New Horizons Chooses Nickname for 'Ultimate' Flyby Target
+ Jupiter's Great Red Spot getting taller as it shrinks


Collapse of the Atlantic Ocean heat transport might lead to hot European summers
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Apr 25, 2018
Severe winters combined with heat waves and droughts during summer in Europe. Those were the consequences as the Atlantic Ocean heat transport nearly collapsed 12,000 years ago. The same situation might occur today, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. Record-breaking cold ocean temperatures across the central North Atlantic in recent years suggest that the northwar ... more
+ Moss capable of removing arsenic from drinking water discovered
+ Tiny microenvironments in the ocean hold clues to global nitrogen cycle
+ China Plans Base in South China Sea to Launch Deep-Diving Drones
+ Great Barrier Reef corals can survive global warming for another century
+ Global warming is transforming the Great Barrier Reef
+ UTA expands efforts to develop water recycling technologies
+ China to offer visa-free travel to its own 'Hawaii'
GPS sensor web helps forecasters warn of monsoon flash floods
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 24, 2018
In the American Southwest and in northwestern Mexico, more than half the annual rainfall often comes in the form of the torrential and unpredictable downpours of the North American monsoon. As in monsoon seasons across the tropics, a summertime reversal of winds carries streams of moisture from over the oceans or, in this case, the Gulf of California and Gulf of Mexico, and unceremoniously dumps ... more
+ Open Geospatial Consortium announces the European Space Agency's upgrade to Strategic Membership
+ Chinese willing to support Beidou navigation system
+ Lockheed Martin Submits Proposal for U.S. Air Force's GPS 3F Program
+ China opens first overseas center for BeiDou navigation satellite system in Tunisia
+ PSLV-C41 Successfully Launches IRNSS-1I Navigation Satellite
+ India Resets Navigation Satellite Developed to Replace GPS
+ DT Research introduces new rugged tablet with scientific-grade GNSS


China calls for ideas on design of manned lunar landing
Beijing (XNA) Apr 25, 2018
China on Monday called for submissions from the public with creative approaches for the design of its manned lunar landing and ascent vehicles. According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program, the aim is to find innovative ideas for the design of manned lunar surface landing and ascent vehicles. Submissions should include new concepts, approaches, and techn ... more
+ NASA continues to discuss co-op on Lunar orbital platform with other countries
+ Moon village already exists in contracts, Says ESA Chief
+ The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon Base
+ China to name relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probe
+ Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?
+ Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar mission
+ SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar Missions
Projectile cannon experiments show how asteroids can deliver water
Providence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018
Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown University, could shed light on how water got to the early Earth and help account for some trace water detections on the Moon and elsewhere. "The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is on ... more
+ Four Years of NASA NEOWISE Data
+ Lyrid meteor shower to peak over the weekend
+ Close Call: Giant Asteroid Flies Through the Earth-Moon Orbit
+ Trail of glassy beads helps scientists track down missing crater
+ Here, There and Everywhere: Across the Universe with the Beatles
+ A star disturbed the comets of the solar system in prehistory
+ Russian scientists use lasers to destroy mini asteroids


Seventh Sentinel satellite launched for Copernicus
Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 25, 2018
The second Sentinel-3 satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-3B, was launched today, joining its identical twin Sentinel-3A in orbit. This pairing of satellites increases coverage and data delivery for the European Union's Copernicus environment programme. The 1150 kg Sentinel-3B satellite was carried into orbit on a Rockot launcher from Plesetsk, Russia, at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST; 21:57 local time ... more
+ New camera tech reveals underwater ecosystems from above
+ Satellite imagery sheds light on agricultural water use
+ Eye in the Sky: Bill Gates Backs Real Time Global Satellite Surveillance Network
+ Airbus adds extra precision to Sentinel-3 satellite altimetry
+ NASA satellite spots northern lights from above
+ Sentinel-3B on launch pad
+ Europe poised to launch ocean-monitoring satellite
European Solar Telescope will help us to crack mysteries of Sun
Belfast UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018
A group of international scientists have met at Queen's University Belfast to finalise plans for a next generation telescope which will help to crack the mysteries of the Sun. The revolutionary four-metre telescope is being designed to investigate the Sun at unprecedented resolution. It will allow scientists to identify structures as small as 30km, which is the equivalent to finding a poun ... more
+ Solar Dynamics Observatory serves up the sun, three ways
+ NASA's Mission to Touch the Sun Arrives in the Sunshine State
+ Giant solar tornadoes put researchers in a spin
+ New 3-D measurements improve understanding of geomagnetic storm hazards
+ NASA powers on new instrument staring at the Sun
+ Mystery of purple lights in sky solved with help from citizen scientists
+ Three NASA satellites recreate solar eruption in 3-D


Proving what can't be seen
Miami FL (SPX) Apr 17, 2018
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics Department, Cappelluti is intrigued by the cosmic phenomena of super massive black holes, the nature of dark matter, and active galactic nuclei, which is the very bright light source found at the center of many galaxies. Recently, Cappelluti published findings that could give insight o ... more
+ Galaxies grow bigger and puffier as they age
+ Gaia creates richest star map of our Galaxy - and beyond
+ To see the first-born stars of the universe
+ Structured light and nanomaterials open new ways to tailor light at the nanoscale
+ Atomic Lego guides light below one nanometer
+ Ultrafast electron oscillation and dephasing monitored by attosecond light source
+ SoCal astronomers team up to commission most advanced camera in the world
Quantum shift shows itself in coupled light and matter
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 22, 2018
A team led by Rice University scientists used a unique combination of techniques to observe, for the first time, a condensed matter phenomenon about which others have only speculated. The research could aid in the development of quantum computers. The researchers, led by Rice physicist Junichiro Kono and graduate student Xinwei Li, observed and measured what's known as a Bloch-Siegert shif ... more
+ Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphony
+ Similar charges are attracted to each other
+ Controlled nuclear transition will make clocks hugely more precise than atomic ones
+ Physicists gain control over transitions between different states of matter
+ En route to the optical nuclear clock
+ Can we tell black holes apart to test theories of gravity?
+ Chemical analysis technique gets major upgrade from Russian scientists
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