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June 25, 2018
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX's new rocket scores big satellite launch contract



Washington (Sputnik) Jun 25, 2018
lon Musk's SpaceX just won a major $130 million contract to launch a US Air Force satellite into orbit, the military branch announced Friday. The contract, which is the fifth awarded under the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program, will put an Air Force Space Command (AFSPC)-52 satellite into orbit in fiscal year 2020, Los Angeles Air Force Base announced Thursday. Further details about the satellite remain classified. The Falcon Heavy rocket that will carry the payload will launch from ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
Air Force contracts SpaceX for satellite launch
Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Hague, Ovchinin talk ISS mission during presser
Houston TX (AFNS) Jun 25, 2018
Surrounded by media representatives and audience members, Col. Nick Hague, NASA astronaut, and Alexey Ovchinin, Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut, discussed their upcoming trip to space during a news conf ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA will seek partnership with US Industry to develop lunar gateway
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
As part of the agency's Exploration Campaign, NASA's Gateway will become the orbital outpost for robotic and human exploration operations in deep space. Built with commercial and international partn ... more
MARSDAILY
Opportunity sleeps during a planet-encircling dust storm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018
The dust storm on Mars is now a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE). It shows no indication of receding at this time. Since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is l ... more
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IRON AND ICE
Rosetta image archive complete
Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018
All high-resolution images and the underpinning data from Rosetta's pioneering mission at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko are now available in ESA's archives, with the last release including the ico ... more
MOON DAILY
Queqiao satellite the bridge to China's lunar exploration
Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2018
If all goes to plan, China will soon make history as the first country to put a lander and a rover on the far side of the moon. Information gleaned from such a mission may answer questions about the ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
Precise gravitation lens test confirms general relativity
Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018
The theory of general relativity states that objects and their gravitational pull distort the spacetime around them. The phenomenon explains the gravitational lens effect, the bending of light in a lens-like shape around large galaxies and cosmic structures. ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Charon at 40: four decades of discovery on Pluto's largest moon
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
The largest of Pluto's five moons, Charon, was discovered 40 years ago today by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona - only about six miles from wh ... more
EXO WORLDS
Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time
Boston MA (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have analyzed data from K2, the follow-up mission to NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, and have discovered a trove of possible exoplanets amid some 50,000 stars. I ... more
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TIME AND SPACE
Einstein proved right in another galaxy
Portsmouth UK (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
An international team of astronomers have made the most precise test of gravity outside our own solar system. By combining data taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the European Southe ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Old star clusters could have been the birthplace of supermassive stars
Surrey UK (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
A team of international astrophysicists may have found a solution to a problem that has perplexed scientists for more than 50 years: why are the stars in globular clusters made of material different ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
The Rosetta stone of active galactic nuclei deciphered
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
A galaxy with at least one active supermassive black hole - named OJ 287 - has caused many irritations and questions in the past. The emitted radiation of this object spans a wide range - from the r ... more
TECH SPACE
Space objects will still be hard to protect despite new policy
West Lafayette, IN (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
A new space traffic management policy signed by President Donald Trump could help prevent thousands of space objects from colliding, but sufficient technical solutions are lacking, says Carolin Frue ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
VLT makes most precise test of Einstein's general relativity outside Milky Way
Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO's VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in the UK first calculated the mass of ESO 325-G004 by measuring the movement of stars within ... more


Prolific sea-observing satellite Jason-2 turns 10

ICE WORLD
OMG, the water's warm! NASA study solves glacier puzzle
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
A new NASA study explains why the Tracy and Heilprin glaciers, which flow side by side into Inglefield Gulf in northwest Greenland, are melting at radically different rates. Using ocean data f ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
Copernicus 20 years on
Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018
This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data ev ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Lockheed tapped for Aegis combat system development, support
Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract for the Defense Department to exercise options to support Aegis combat system. ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Japan says halting missile drills after Trump-Kim summit
Tokyo (AFP) June 22, 2018
Japan is suspending evacuation drills simulating a North Korean missile attack after historic talks between Washington and Pyongyang, its top government spokesman said Friday. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Deep space navigation: tool tested as emergency navigation device
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 22, 2018
A tool that has helped guide sailors across oceans for centuries is now being tested aboard the International Space Station as a potential emergency navigation tool for guiding future spacecraft acr ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Researchers Find Last of the Universe's Missing Ordinary Matter
Boulder CO (SPX) Jun 21, 2018
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have helped to find the last reservoir of ordinary matter hiding in the universe. Ordinary matter, or "baryons," make up all physical objects ... more
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Astronaut Sally Ride's legacy of encouraging young women to embrace science and engineering
College Station TX (SPX) Jun 20, 2018
On June 18, 1983, 35 years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman to launch into space, riding the Space Shuttle STS-7 flight with four other crew members. Only five years earlier, in 1978, she had been selected to the first class of 35 astronauts - including six women - who would fly on the Space Shuttle. Much has happened in the intervening years. During the span of three decade ... more
+ Space tourism not far off, rocket maker says
+ Five NASA innovations that could change the way we live and explore
+ Deep space navigation: tool tested as emergency navigation device
+ NASA Administrator Statement on Space Policy Directive-3
+ Hague, Ovchinin talk ISS mission during presser
+ ESA celebrates Unispace+50
+ ASRC Federal subsidiary awarded $1B NASA contract for advanced computing services
Air Force contracts SpaceX for satellite launch
Washington (UPI) Jun 21, 2018
Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, will send a satellite into orbit atop its Falcon Heavy rocket in 2020, the U.S. Air Force announced on Thursday. The massive rocket will deliver a secretive military satellite, known as AFSPC-52, into space, in a $130 million fixed-price contract. Two proposals for the launch were offered to the Air Force, from SpaceX and United La ... more
+ SpaceX's new rocket scores big satellite launch contract
+ S7 space mulls restoring production of heavy rocket engines in Russia
+ Russia to deliver US new rocket engines
+ Arianegroup tests innovative technology for next generation upper stage rocket engine
+ ESA Council commits to Ariane 6 and transition from Ariane 5
+ Re-generatively cooled RL10 Thrust Chamber Assembly test validates 3D printing process
+ Sample Return Technology Successfully Tested on Xodiac Rocket


Opportunity sleeps during a planet-encircling dust storm
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018
The dust storm on Mars is now a Planet-encircling Dust Event (PEDE). It shows no indication of receding at this time. Since the last contact with the rover on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), it is likely that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault, putting herself to sleep only to wake when the skies eventually clear. If the atmospheric opacity or the solar array dust factor has got ... more
+ Martian Dust Storm Grows Global; Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze
+ Explosive volcanoes spawned mysterious Martian rock formation
+ Unique microbe could thrive on Mars, help future manned missions
+ NASA spacecraft studying massive Martian dust storm
+ Opportunity rover sends transmission amid Martian dust storm
+ NASA encounters the perfect storm for science on Mars
+ Martian dust storm silences NASA's rover, Opportunity
China confirms reception of data from Gaofen-6 satellite
Beijing (XNA) Jun 07, 2018
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) confirmed that one of its institutes Monday successfully tracked and received imaging data from the newly-launched Earth observation satellite Gaofen-6. The Aerospace Information Research Institute said the Miyun station of China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station received the first batch of observation data from the Gaofen-6 satellite. There was ... more
+ Experts Explain How China Is Opening International Space Cooperation
+ Beijing welcomes use of Chinese space station by all UN Nations
+ China upgrades spacecraft reentry and descent technology
+ China develops wireless systems for rockets
+ China's Queqiao satellite carries "large umbrella" into deep space
+ Russia May Help China Create International Cosmonauts Rehabilitation Center
+ Sunrise for China's commercial space industry?
Forget Galileo - UK space sector should look to young stars instead
London, UK (SPX) Jun 19, 2018
"British security firms could be BANNED from helping EU with Galileo satellite project," the Mail Forget Galileo - UK space sector should look to young stars instead screamed. "Brexit to 'force work on Galileo sat-nav system out of UK'," said the BBC. Then Airbus offered to build a new UK system - "BREXIT REVENGE," said the Express. Scepticism followed - "Brexit Britain's space ambit ... more
+ A milestone in securing ESA's future role in the global exploration of space
+ GomSpace and Aerial Maritime Ltd enter MOU for delivery and operation of a global constellation
+ US FCC expands market access for SES O3b MEO constellation
+ Liftoff as Alexander Gerst returns to space
+ Lockheed Martin Announces $100 Million Venture Fund Increase
+ Iridium Continues to Attract World Class Maritime Service Providers for Iridium CertusS
+ The European Space Agency welcomes European Commission's proposal on space activities
Futuristic data storage
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 20, 2018
The magnetisation of nanometric square material is not fixed. It moves around in a helical motion. This is caused by the electron whose degree of freedom, referred to as spin, which follows a precession motion centred on the middle of a square nano-magnet. To study the magnetisation of such material, physicists can rely on two-dimensional arrays of square nanomagnets. In a paper published ... more
+ Space objects will still be hard to protect despite new policy
+ The right chemistry, fast: employing AI and Automation to map out and make molecules
+ Game-changing finding pushes 3D-printing to the molecular limit
+ From face recognition to phase recognition
+ Electronic skin stretched to new limits
+ Cementless fly ash binder makes concrete 'green'
+ Rutgers physicists create new class of 2D artificial materials


Hunting molecules to find new planets
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 22, 2018
Each exoplanet revolves around a star, like the Earth around the Sun. This is why it is generally impossible to obtain images of an exoplanet, so dazzling is the light of its star. However, a team of astronomers, led by a researcher from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and member of NCCR PlanetS, had the idea of detecting certain molecules that are present in the planet's atmosphere in order to ... more
+ Nearly 80 exoplanet candidates identified in record time
+ Distant moons may harbor life
+ ALMA discovers trio of infant planets around newborn star
+ New and improved way to find baby planets
+ Study reveals simple chemical process that may have led to the origin of life on Earth
+ Astronomers identify 121 giant planets likely to host habitable moons
+ Hawking plea 'to save planet' beamed to black hole
Charon at 40: four decades of discovery on Pluto's largest moon
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
The largest of Pluto's five moons, Charon, was discovered 40 years ago today by James Christy and Robert Harrington at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona - only about six miles from where Pluto itself was discovered at Lowell Observatory. They weren't even looking for satellites of Pluto - Christy was trying to refine Pluto's orbit around the Sun. Before NASA's New Horizons s ... more
+ A dark and stormy Jupiter
+ NASA shares more Pluto images from New Horizons
+ Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning
+ NASA Re-plans Juno's Jupiter Mission
+ New Horizons Wakes for Historic Kuiper Belt Flyby
+ Collective gravity, not Planet Nine, may explain the orbits of 'detached objects'
+ Scientists reveal the secrets behind Pluto's dunes


Prolific sea-observing satellite Jason-2 turns 10
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2018
An international oceanography satellite that is tracking the ongoing rise in global sea level marks its 10th year in orbit today. Designed for a three-to-five-year mission, the joint U.S./European Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM) on the Jason-2 satellite has now made more than 47,000 trips around our home planet, measuring sea level change across the globe, observing ocean currents, ... more
+ NASA, NSF plunge into ocean twilight zone to explore ecosystem carbon flow
+ Marine reserves are essential, but increasingly stressed
+ Malaysian PM revives age-old water row with Singapore
+ Metron contracted for undersea unmanned vehicle payloads
+ Deep-sea marine sponges may hold key to antibiotic drug resistance
+ Australia failing to protect Great Barrier Reef: activists
+ Australia and Vanuatu to negotiate security pact
Russia launches Soyuz-21b with Glonass-M navigation satellite
Moscow (Sputnik) Jun 19, 2018
Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a Glonass-M satellite, the Russian Defense Ministry said. "On Sunday, at 00:46 Moscow time [21:46 GMT]... the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a middle-class Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a navigation Glonass-M spacecraft," the ministry said in a statement. Hours later t ... more
+ China's Beidou system helps livestock water supply in remote pastoral areas
+ UK says shut out of EU's Galileo sat-nav contracts
+ Woman drowns in Prague drains playing GPS treasure hunt
+ What exclusion from Galileo could mean for UK
+ GMV competing to develop the Galileo Ground Control Segment in brand new premises
+ Research shows how 'navigational hazards' in metro maps confuse travelers
+ UK set to demand EU repayment in Brexit satellite row


Queqiao satellite the bridge to China's lunar exploration
Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2018
If all goes to plan, China will soon make history as the first country to put a lander and a rover on the far side of the moon. Information gleaned from such a mission may answer questions about the universe that we have not even thought to ask yet. It was for this reason that I found myself talking to Zheng Yongchun at Beijing Planetarium. Zheng is an animated interviewee, but that's not ... more
+ Chinese satellite could link world to Moon's far side: space expert
+ NASA will seek partnership with US Industry to develop lunar gateway
+ Micro satellite developed by Chinese university starts to work around Moon
+ Long suspected theory about the moon holds water
+ Relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probe enters planned orbit
+ Thank the moon for Earth's lengthening day
+ SpaceX delays plans to send tourists around Moon: report
NASA, federal agencies aim to be better prepared for near-Earth objects
Washington (UPI) Jun 20, 2018
The federal government wants to be better prepared for a possible asteroid impact. A new interagency report offers plans for improving the government's ability to detect, predict, plan for and respond to a near-Earth object impact. "The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan" outlines opportunities for improvements to NASA's NEO detection, tracking, and ... more
+ Rosetta image archive complete
+ Hayabusa2 and MASCOT lander nearing Ryugu
+ What prevents space companies from mining asteroids for rare minerals
+ Organics on Ceres may be more abundant than originally thought
+ What it takes to discover small rocks in space
+ Tiny asteroid first discovered Saturday disintegrates over Africa
+ NEOWISE Thermal Data Reveal Surface Properties of Over 100 Asteroids


Copernicus 20 years on
Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2018
This week marks 20 years since the manifesto was signed that gave rise to Europe's Copernicus environmental programme. With seven Sentinel satellites already in orbit delivering terabytes of data every day, Copernicus is the biggest provider of Earth observation data in the world. To mark this 20-year milestone, reflect on the programme's achievements and to look to the future, EU commissi ... more
+ Sentinel-3 flies tandem
+ New NASA instrument on ISS to track plant water use on Earth
+ New method makes weather forecasts right as rain
+ UCI scientists find new teleconnection for early and accurate precipitation prediction
+ Thailand to buy Airbus satellite as junta chief visits France
+ MOF material offers selective, reversible and repeatable capture of toxic atmospheric gas
+ Ammonia distribution in Earth's upper atmosphere explained
Sounding rocket takes a second look at the sun
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 20, 2018
Tom Woods knows about space gunk. As the principal investigator for the Extreme Ultraviolet Variability Experiment, or EVE, instrument aboard NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, he's all too familiar with the ways that exposure to the harsh space environment can lead to a spacecraft instrument's degradation. "Since its launch in 2010, EVE's sensitivity has degraded by about 70 percent at so ... more
+ Revised launch date targeted for Parker Solar Probe
+ The true power of the solar wind
+ How solar prominences vibrate
+ Expedition Measures Solar Motions Seen During Last Summer's Total Eclipse
+ As Solar Wind Blows, Our Heliosphere Balloons
+ NASA's Hi-C Launches to Study Sun's Corona
+ Study shows how Earth slows the solar wind to a gentle breeze


The Rosetta stone of active galactic nuclei deciphered
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018
A galaxy with at least one active supermassive black hole - named OJ 287 - has caused many irritations and questions in the past. The emitted radiation of this object spans a wide range - from the radio up to the highest energies in the TeV regime. The potential periodicity in the variable optical emission made this galaxy a candidate for hosting a supermassive binary black hole in its centre. ... more
+ Old star clusters could have been the birthplace of supermassive stars
+ Gaia confirms extra-tidal stars around globular cluster
+ Mysterious IceCube event may be caused by a tau neutrino
+ Research shows short gamma-ray bursts do follow binary neutron star mergers
+ Proof of dark matter in dwarf galaxies is refuted
+ Exploring planetary plasma environments from your laptop
+ NASA awards the short wave infra-red sensor chip assembly for WFIRST
Study offers best evidence yet of an intermediate-mass black hole
Washington (UPI) Jun 18, 2018
New data discovered by astronomers at the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center offers the best evidence yet of the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, or IMBHs. Astronomers finally caught the elusive object devouring a star that drifted too close. Researchers imaged the consumption event using three different X-ray observatories, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory an ... more
+ Einstein proved right in another galaxy
+ Researchers Find Last of the Universe's Missing Ordinary Matter
+ UNH researcher captures best ever evidence of rare black hole
+ Kiel physicists achieve hitherto most accurate description of highly excited electrons
+ With supercomputing power, scientists solve a next-generation physics problem
+ Discovery for grouping atoms invokes Pasteur
+ Study develops a model enhancing particle beam efficiency
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