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  Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2018 If humanity hopes to make it to Mars anytime soon, we need to understand not just technology, but the psychological dynamic of a small group of astronauts trapped in a confined space for months with no escape, according to a paper published in American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association. "Teamwork and collaboration are critical components of all space flights and will be even more important for astronauts during long-duration missions, such as to Mars. The ... read more |
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Chinese relay satellite brakes near moon for entry into desired orbitBeijing (XNA) May 28, 2018 A Chinese relay satellite Friday braked near the Moon, completing a vital step before entering a desired orbit, according to the China National Space Administration. The satellite, Queqiao, br ... more 
Moonwalking astronaut-artist Alan Bean dies at 86Washington (AFP) May 26, 2018 US astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon, has died, his family announced in a statement released by NASA. He was 86 years old. ... more  
Linguists gather in L.A. to ponder the Language of ETLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 28, 2018 As preparation for communicating with intelligent life on other planets, linguists and other researchers gathered in Los Angeles to explore whether language is universal. "We know that the face-to-f ... more  
NASA awards $43M to US Small Businesses for Tech ResearchGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 27, 2018 NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 SmallBusinessInnovationResearch (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small Bus ... more |
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Advanced materials: processing glass like a polymerKarlsruhe, Germany (SPX) May 24, 2018 Pure quartz glass is highly transparent and resistant to thermal, physical, and chemical impacts. These are optimum prerequisites for use in optics, data technology or medical engineering. For effic ... more  
China to launch two BeiDou-2 backup satellitesHarbin (XNA) May 28, 2018 China will launch two backup satellites for BeiDou-2 in next two years to improve its performance. Backup satellites ensure the continuous stable operations of the system, said Ran Chengqi of ... more  
Lockheed to provide ballistic tracking radar to U.S., foreign countriesWashington (UPI) May 24, 2018 The U.S. government and multiple foreign countries are set to receive phased array radar for intercepting ballistic missiles. ... more  
Torch Technologies tapped to support Space and Missile Defense CommandWashington (UPI) May 24, 2018 Torch Technologies Inc. has been awarded a contract by the Defense Department for services in support of the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command. ... more  
Vanderbilt prof cracks code to cheap, small carbon nanotubesNashville TN (SPX) May 25, 2018 Imagine a box you plug into the wall that cleans your toxic air and pays you cash. That's essentially what Vanderbilt University researchers produced after discovering the blueprint for turnin ... more |
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Cold production of new seafloorKiel, Germany (SPX) May 25, 2018 A mountain range with a total length of 65,000 kilometers runs through all the oceans. It marks the boundaries of tectonic plates. Through the gap between the plates material from the Earth's interi ... more  |
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Hurricanes: A bit stronger, a bit slower, and a lot wetter in a warmer climateBoulder CO (SPX) May 25, 2018 Scientists have published a detailed analysis of how 22 recent hurricanes would change if they instead formed near the end of this century. While each storm's transformation would be unique, on bala ... more  
Tunable diamond string may hold key to quantum memoryBoston MA (SPX) May 24, 2018 A quantum internet promises completely secure communication. But using quantum bits or qubits to carry information requires a radically new piece of hardware - a quantum memory. This atomic-scale de ... more  
Atomic-scale manufacturing now a realityEdmonton, Canada (SPX) May 25, 2018 Scientists at the University of Alberta have applied a machine learning technique using artificial intelligence to perfect and automate atomic-scale manufacturing, something which has never been don ... more 
Take a Virtual Trip to a Strange New World with NASAPasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2018 Are you looking for an exotic destination to visit this summer? Why not take a virtual trip to an Earth-size planet beyond our solar system with NASA's interactive Exoplanet Travel Bureau? We ... more 
Phase Four Signs Contract with NASA to Vet its Propulsion System for Upcoming Small Satellite MissionsEl Segundo CA (SPX) May 25, 2018 Phase Four, a provider of electric radio frequency (RF) thrusters for in-space propulsion, has announced that NASA has purchased one of Phase Four's second-generation RF thrusters to vet its capabil ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 25, 2018 
The following is a statement from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine on Thursday's signing of Space Policy Directive-2 by President Donald Trump:
"NASA is pleased with the White House's continued commitment to advancing America's leadership in space. Space Policy Directive-2 (SPD-2) is another step towards bolstering our nation's dedication to uncovering new knowledge, protecting our natio ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFP) May 22, 2018 
A SpaceX rocket Tuesday blasted off a duo of sports car-sized satellites built by the US and Germany to reveal changes in sea level rise, ice melt and drought on Earth.
"Three, two, one, liftoff!" said a SpaceX commentator as the Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:47 pm Pacific time (1947 GMT).
The $521 million payload, called the Gravity Reco ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 25, 2018 
An international team of scientists has created a tiny chemistry lab for a rover that will drill beneath the Martian surface looking for signs of past or present life. The toaster oven-sized lab, called the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer or MOMA, is a key instrument on the ExoMars Rover, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Russian space agency Roscosmos, with a significant ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) May 22, 2018 
The relay satellite, launched Monday for China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, is carrying the largest communication antenna ever used in deep space exploration, according to Chinese experts.
The launch of the satellite Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge, is a key step for China to realize its goal of sending the Chang'e-4 lunar probe to soft-land on the far side of the Moon.
Queqiao, developed by C ... more |
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 Glasgow (AFP) May 23, 2018  A shipbuilding hub since the days of the British empire, the Scottish city of Glasgow is now reaching for the stars with a growing space satellite industry.
Glasgow builds more satellites than any city outside of the United States, according to space industry experts, specialising in small "CubeSats" that can be used for anything from weather forecasting to global positioning.
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 Turku, Finland (SPX) May 23, 2018 
UV radiation is known to cause many skin and eye diseases such as cancer. Therefore, it is essential to have a simple method for detecting the quantity and quality of UV radiation from, for example, the Sun.
This is currently achieved by using mainly organic molecules that change colour under UV radiation. The downside of using these molecules, however, is their poor durability which is du ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 25, 2018 
Are you looking for an exotic destination to visit this summer? Why not take a virtual trip to an Earth-size planet beyond our solar system with NASA's interactive Exoplanet Travel Bureau?
We live in a universe teeming with exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Unfortunately, even the nearest exoplanets are light-years away, so sending spacecraft and humans to these intriguing w ... more |
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 Kenley UK (SPX) May 24, 2018 
Optical Surfaces Ltd. (OSL) announces selection by Hensoldt Optronics GmbH, formerly Airbus (Oberkochen, Germany) to supply key precision optics for optical testing the Ganymede Laser Altimeter (GALA), one of 10 scientific instruments on-board the JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer) mission.
The JUICE mission is part of the European Space Agency (ESA) cosmic vision programme and its objectiv ... more |
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 Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) May 24, 2018 
A joint U.S./German space mission to track the continuous movement of water and other changes in Earth's mass on and beneath the planet's surface successfully launched at 12:47 p.m. PDT Tuesday from the California coast.
The twin spacecraft of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO), a joint NASA/German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) mission, lifted off on a ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) May 28, 2018 
China will launch two backup satellites for BeiDou-2 in next two years to improve its performance.
Backup satellites ensure the continuous stable operations of the system, said Ran Chengqi of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, at the Ninth China Satellite Navigation Conference in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
BeiDou-2 has been in use for five and a half ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 24, 2018 
About 50 people from various countries have shown interest in an experiment simulating the flight to an orbital station near the Moon, a representative of the Institute of Medicobiological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences told Sputnik.
The experiment is part of international SIRIUS missions, which serve to help finish preparations for deep space flights, including flights to pla ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) May 23, 2018 
Asteroid 2015 BZ509 is the very first object in the Solar System shown to have an extrasolar origin. This remarkable discovery was made by CNRS researcher Fathi Namouni and her Brazilian colleague Helena Morais, and is published on 21 May 2018 in MNRAS.
Could some bodies in our Solar System come from the vicinity of other stars? Astronomers are in disagreement about comets, with some argui ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 24, 2018 
Despite reports that improperly recycled refrigerators in China could explain a recent uptick in chlorofluorocarbon emissions, NOAA scientist Steve Montzka suggests the new mystery source of CFC-11 remains unaccounted for.
Earlier this month, Montzka and his colleagues identified rising levels of CFC-11, a common chlorofluorocarbon, in air samples collected in Hawaii. Emissions had been ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 17, 2018 
As we develop more and more powerful tools to peer beyond our solar system, we learn more about the seemingly endless sea of faraway stars and their curious casts of orbiting planets. But there's only one star we can travel to directly and observe up close - and that's our own: the Sun.
Two upcoming missions will soon take us closer to the Sun than we've ever been before, providing our bes ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) May 23, 2018 
he OPERA experiment, located at the Gran Sasso Laboratory of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), was designed to conclusively prove that muon-neutrinos can convert to tau-neutrinos, through a process called neutrino oscillation, whose discovery was awarded the 2015 Nobel Physics Prize.
In a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters, the OPERA collaborati ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 25, 2018 
Astronomers are trying to take a picture of the shadow of a black hole, and they're getting closer thanks to the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment radio telescope, also known as APEX.
Five years ago, astronomers outfitted APEX with the equipment needed to be integrated into a global network of antennas known as Event Horizon Telescope. The addition of APEX allowed EHT to collect the most de ... more |
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