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  Denver CO (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 Lockheed Martin has embraced a 3-D printed titanium dome for satellite fuel tanks so big you can't even put your arms around it. The 46-inch- (1.16-meter-) diameter vessel completed final rounds of quality testing this month, ending a multi-year development program to create giant, high-pressure tanks that carry fuel on board satellites. The titanium tank consists of three parts welded together: two 3-D printed domes that serve as caps, plus a variable-length, traditionally-manufactured titanium c ... read more |
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Scientists Discover "Ghost Dunes" On MarsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 Scientists have discovered hundreds of crescent-shaped pits on Mars where sand dunes the size of the US Capitol stood billions of years ago. The curves of these ancient dune impressions record the d ... more  
Love navigated by BeidouBeijing (XNA) Jul 12, 2018 They provide positioning and navigation to vehicles, ships, shared bicycles and drones, as well as tracking wild animals, and China's Beidou satellites have also guided a young couple to love. ... more  
NASA's Webb Space Telescope to Inspect Atmospheres of Gas Giant ExoplanetsBaltimore MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main goal is to locate Earth-sized planets and larger "super-Earths" orbiting nearby stars for further study. One o ... more 
TESS Spacecraft Continues Testing Prior to First ObservationsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 After a successful launch on April 18, 2018, NASA's newest planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is currently undergoing a series of commissioning tests before it begins searchin ... more |
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Centenary of cosmological constant lambdaWashington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 Physicists are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cosmological constant. On this occasion, two papers recently published in EPJ H highlight its role in modern physics and cosmology. ... more  
Could Gravitational Waves Reveal How Fast Our Universe Is Expanding?Boston MA (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 ince it first exploded into existence 13.8 billion years ago, the universe has been expanding, dragging along with it hundreds of billions of galaxies and stars, much like raisins in a rapidly risin ... more  
Tesla unveils Shanghai factory plans amid US-China trade rowShanghai (AFP) July 10, 2018 Tesla unveiled plans on Tuesday to build a factory in Shanghai to dramatically increase its production capacity, with boss Elon Musk making his electric-car company's biggest overseas move yet just as a US-China trade battle heats up. ... more  
Lockheed contracted for Aegis missile defense developmentWashington (UPI) Jul 10, 2018 Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems Division has been awarded a contract modification for continued development of the next iteration of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. ... more  
New microscopy works at extreme heat, sheds light on alloys for nuclear reactorsRaleigh NC (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 A new microscopy technique allows researchers to track microstructural changes in real time, even when a material is exposed to extreme heat and stress. Recently, researchers show that a stainless s ... more |
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Stone tools age Asia's first Homo presenceParis (AFP) July 11, 2018 The remains of crudely fashioned stone tools unearthed in China advances the presence of human ancestors in Asia by around 200 millennia to 2.1 million years ago, scientists said Wednesday. ... more  |
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Chinese foam industry responsible for rise in CFC-11 emissionsWashington (UPI) Jul 10, 2018 An investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency suggests the Chinese foam industry is responsible for a sudden rise in CFC-11, an ozone eating chemical. ... more 
Putting a quantum gas through its phasesZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 As a physical system undergoes a phase transition, it typically becomes more - or, less - ordered. For instance, when a piece of iron is heated to above the Curie temperature, the strong ferromagnet ... more  
Finding the right balance for catalysts in the hydrogen evolution reactionTsukuba, Japan (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 Hydrogen produced from water by the hydrogen evolution reaction is an attractive clean fuel source. Production of hydrogen on a large scale at low cost is necessary to realize its viability as an al ... more  
Experimental Spaceplane Program Successfully Completes Engine Test SeriesWashington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XSP) advances toward its goal for rapid turnaround and on-demand launch with the completion of a test series that put the spaceplane's AR-22 Experimental Spaceplane ... more 
Rocky planet neighbor looks familiar, but is not Earth's twinPasadena, CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 Last autumn, the world was excited by the discovery of an exoplanet called Ross 128 b, which is just 11 light years away from Earth. New work from a team led by Diogo Souto of Brazil's Observatorio ... more |
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 Sacramento CA (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently passed a key milestone in preparation for the Ascent Abort Test (AA-2) next year with the successful casting of the Jettison Motor for the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS).
AA-2 is a full-stress test of NASA's Orion LAS, which includes the Jettison Motor built by Aerojet Rocketdyne. The Orion Jettison Motor is used to separate the LA ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 
DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane (XSP) advances toward its goal for rapid turnaround and on-demand launch with the completion of a test series that put the spaceplane's AR-22 Experimental Spaceplane Main Engine through a rigorous campaign. In the two weeks preceding the campaign, the engine ran twice to establish initial performance characteristics and turnaround processes.
Then, starting J ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 
Scientists have discovered hundreds of crescent-shaped pits on Mars where sand dunes the size of the US Capitol stood billions of years ago. The curves of these ancient dune impressions record the direction of prevailing winds on the Red Planet, providing potential clues to Mars's past climate, and may hold evidence of ancient life, according to a new study detailing the findings in the Journal ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 10, 2018 
China is accelerating its timetable for a space station, with the core capsule expected to be launched in 2020, says Yang Liwei, director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office and the country's first astronaut.
Yang told Chinese media recently that the two experiment modules of the space station will be sent into space in 2021 and 2022. Three or four manned missions and several carg ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 11, 2018 
oday Ambroise Fayolle, Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB), welcomed Jan Worner, Director General of ESA, to sign a Joint Statement on behalf of the two organisations.
The Joint Statement puts forth the intention of the two organisations to cooperate on supporting increased investment in the European space sector, thus helping create a level playing field for European comp ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 09, 2018 
A station was unsuccessfully launched as a part of the USSR's space exploration program and has been orbiting the Earth ever since, but the station's deterioration is bringing its "homecoming" closer with each passing year.
The Kosmos 482 interplanetary station, which was unsuccessfully sent towards Venus in 1972 by the USSR, may crash land on Earth between 2023 and 2025, astronomer and co ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 
In April 2018, NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Its main goal is to locate Earth-sized planets and larger "super-Earths" orbiting nearby stars for further study. One of the most powerful tools that will examine the atmospheres of some planets that TESS discovers will be NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. Since observing small exoplanets with thin atmospheres like E ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jul 11, 2018 
Until 2015, it was not known whether icy Pluto or its largest moon, Charon, had mountains, valleys or even impact craters. After the spectacular success of New Horizons in July 2015, scientists were amazed at the towering peaks and deep valleys that were revealed in the returned data.
Now, thanks to the efforts of the New Horizons team, the first official validated global map and topograph ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) July 10, 2018  China is planning a summit of Pacific island leaders in November, Papua New Guinea has revealed, as New Zealand warned Tuesday Beijing was attempting to fill a "vacuum" in the long-neglected region.
President Xi Jinping wants to hold the meeting ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Port Moresby from November 12-18.
"(I) invite you to attend a Pacific Island lead ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 12, 2018 
They provide positioning and navigation to vehicles, ships, shared bicycles and drones, as well as tracking wild animals, and China's Beidou satellites have also guided a young couple to love.
Ten years ago, Cui Bo, a designer for the Beidou power system, wrote a poem lauding those dedicated to space exploration to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the China Academy of Space Tec ... more |
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 Yehud, Israel (AFP) July 10, 2018 
An Israeli organisation announced plans Tuesday to launch the country's first spacecraft to the moon in December, with hopes of burnishing Israel's reputation as a small nation with otherworldly high-tech ambitions.
The unmanned spacecraft, shaped like a pod and weighing some 585 kilogrammes (1,300 pounds) at launch, will land on the moon on February 13, 2019 if all goes according to plan, o ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 
A technical breakthrough was achieved in the source determination of very small carbon samples at the Accelerator Laboratory and the Laboratory of Chronology of the University of Helsinki. The development work is essential in climate research as it facilitates disentangling the origin of, for instance, black carbon particles.
The ratio of modern biomass vs. fossil material present in any c ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 12, 2018 
Following months of tests and careful evaluation, the first data on air pollutants from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite have been released. These first maps show a range of trace gases that affect air quality such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone.
Launched on 13 October 2017, Sentinel-5P is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It is part ... more |
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 Williamstown MA (SPX) Jul 09, 2018 
Solar eclipses will occur at opposite ends of the Earth this summer, 2018. Both will be merely partial solar eclipses as seen from the Earth's surface, not as dramatic as last summer's total solar eclipse whose path of totality crossed the United States, with partial eclipses being seen from as far north as Canada and as far south as northern South America.
Prof. Jay Pasachoff, Chair of th ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Jul 10, 2018 
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have made an image revealing tantalizing details of a quasar nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth - an object that may provide important clues about the physical processes at work in the Universe's first galaxies.
The scientists studied a quasar called PSO J352.4034-15.3373 (P352-15), an unusually brigh ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2018 
Physicists are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the cosmological constant. On this occasion, two papers recently published in EPJ H highlight its role in modern physics and cosmology.
Although the term was first introduced when the universe was thought to be static, today the cosmological constant has become the main candidate for representing the physical essence believed to be re ... more |
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