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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found - 11 "normal" outer moons, and one that they're calling an "oddball." This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79 - the most of any planet in our solar system. A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant solar system objects as part of the hunt for a possible massive planet far beyond Pluto. In 2014, this same team found the object wit ... read more |
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Focus on the future of space transportation: ESA's call for ideasParis (ESA) Jul 17, 2018 ESA is calling for ideas that will shape the future of space transportation services - to space, in space and returning from space. "The changing world we live in requires a space agency to an ... more  
NanoRacks completes external Cygnus deployment, 6 more cubesats in orbitDulles VA (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 esterday evening, NanoRacks successfully deployed six CubeSats from the Company's CubeSat deployer mounted on the outside of the Cygnus spacecraft. This brings the overall count to 223 small satelli ... more  
New satellite constellations will soon fill the skyBethesda MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 A new generation of space entrepreneurs is backing several satellite constellations of low-orbiting satellites that will provide broadband service to all areas of the world. In fact, billions of dol ... more 
GomSpace and AISTECH sign new agreementAalborg, Denmark (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 GomSpace A/S - a subsidiary of GomSpace Group AB and the Spanish company AISTECH have signed a contract for a total value of approx. 1.4 milion EUR. The first part of the contract, for 6 stand ... more |
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Dusk for Dawn: Mission of many firsts to gather more data in home stretchPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2018 As NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to wrap up its groundbreaking 11-year mission, which has included two successful extended missions at Ceres, it will continue to explore - collecting images and ot ... more  
Theorists publish highest-precision prediction of muon magnetic anomalyUpton NY (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 Theoretical physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have just released the most precise prediction of how subatomic particles cal ... more  
Astronomers find a famous exoplanet's doppelgangerHonolulu HI (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppel ... more  
Elon Musk's latest outburst raises doubts on leadershipWashington (AFP) July 17, 2018 Elon Musk has had a series of angry social media dust-ups with Wall Street analysts, journalists, employees and others. ... more  
Reducing the Data Demands of Smart MachinesWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 Machine learning (ML) systems today learn by example, ingesting tons of data that has been individually labeled by human analysts to generate a desired output. As these systems have progressed, deep ... more |
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Scientists discover Earth's youngest banded iron formation in western ChinaEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 The banded iron formation, located in western China, has been conclusively dated as Cambrian in age. Approximately 527 million years old, this formation is young by comparison to the majority of dis ... more  |
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What does global climate have to do with erosion rates?Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 For the last several decades, Geoscientists have been intrigued by a potential link between erosion rates at the Earth's surface and changes in global climate. What was the cause and what the effect ... more  
Evolution does repeat itself after allKonstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 For every two species of mammal there is one species of cichlid fish, which goes to show that biodiversity is distributed rather unevenly among animals. But why? And to what extent can evolution be ... more  
Generating electrical power from waste heatAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 Directly converting electrical power to heat is easy. It regularly happens in your toaster, that is, if you make toast regularly. The opposite, converting heat into electrical power, isn't so easy. ... more 
Qubits as valves: Controlling quantum heat enginesHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 Researchers from Aalto University are designing nano-sized quantum heat engines to explore whether they may be able to outperform classical heat engines in terms of power and efficiency. In th ... more 
Space Launch Complex 17 demolitionCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 With a final farewell and the push of a plunger, Brig. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing Commander, demolished the nearly 200-foot-tall towers at 7 a.m. July 12 at Space Launch Complex 17, Cape C ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 16, 2018 
According to a new study, scientists have cracked one of most challenging obstacles to deep space travel: how to ensure that astronauts have enough fuel, air and water for the trip. Their proposed method involves "photo catalysts" that can split or recombine water molecules.
The emptiness of space and the vast distances between locations pose huge and unique challenges to space travel. One ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jul 17, 2018 
The latest hot firing of the P120C solid-propellant motor at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana proves its flight-worthiness for use on Vega-C next year and on Ariane 6 from 2020.
This marks an important milestone in the development schedule of Europe's new-generation launchers, designed to boost our autonomy in the space arena, and maintain Europe's global competitiveness.
The test ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 13, 2018 
While the existence of native carbon-based organic compounds on the Red Planet was confirmed only in 2014, some suggest that the discovery could have been made a long time ago.
Back in 1976, NASA's twin Viking landers touched down on Mars to find out if life could survive on Mars and whether there was organic matter in the Martian soil. Researchers were puzzled as no evidence for organic m ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 
China launched two satellites for Pakistan on a Long March-2C rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 11:56 a.m. Monday.
The PRSS-1 is China's first optical remote sensing satellite sold to Pakistan and the 17th satellite developed by the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) for an overseas buyer.
After entering orbit, the PRSS-1 is in good condition ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 
A new generation of space entrepreneurs is backing several satellite constellations of low-orbiting satellites that will provide broadband service to all areas of the world. In fact, billions of dollars are being spent in order to complete these networks in the next few years.
One of the technological advantages, not available in the late 1990s when Iridium and other large telephony conste ... more |
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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 tog ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 
When it comes to extrasolar planets, appearances can be deceiving. Astronomers have imaged a new planet, and it appears nearly identical to one of the best studied gas-giant planets. But this doppelganger differs in one very important way: its origin.
"We have found a gas-giant planet that is a virtual twin of a previously known planet, but it looks like the two objects formed in different ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2018 
Twelve new moons orbiting Jupiter have been found - 11 "normal" outer moons, and one that they're calling an "oddball." This brings Jupiter's total number of known moons to a whopping 79 - the most of any planet in our solar system.
A team led by Carnegie's Scott S. Sheppard first spotted the moons in the spring of 2017 while they were looking for very distant solar system objects as part ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) July 17, 2018 
In the waters of the Arabian Sea, a vast "dead zone" the size of Scotland is expanding and scientists say climate change may be to blame.
In his lab in Abu Dhabi, Zouhair Lachkar is labouring over a colourful computer model of the Gulf of Oman, showing changing temperatures, sea levels and oxygen concentrations.
His models and new research unveiled earlier this year show a worrying trend ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2018 
New observations by three of the world's largest radio telescopes have revealed that an asteroid discovered last year is actually two objects, each about 3,000 feet (900 meters) in size, orbiting each other.
Near-Earth asteroid 2017 YE5 was discovered with observations provided by the Morocco Oukaimeden Sky Survey on Dec. 21, 2017, but no details about the asteroid's physical properties we ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 
For the last several decades, Geoscientists have been intrigued by a potential link between erosion rates at the Earth's surface and changes in global climate. What was the cause and what the effect remained unclear. However, a new study now calls into question the link itself.
A team of researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam, the University Potsdam, Uni ... more |
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 Kolkata, India (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 
The Sun's activity waxes and wanes periodically and holds sway over our space environment. Sunspots, strongly magnetized blotches on the solar surface, sometimes release fierce storms in space that severely impact our satellite based communication and navigational systems and occasionally, render satellites useless.
However, a complete understanding of all aspects of the sunspot activity c ... more |
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Jul 16, 2018 
An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter - constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth.
Dark matter - nonluminous material in space - is understood to constitute 85 percent of the matter in the universe. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2018 
For the first time ever, scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found the source of a high-energy neutrino from outside our galaxy. This neutrino traveled 3.7 billion years at almost the speed of light before being detected on Earth. This is farther than any other neutrino whose origin scientists can identify.
High-energy neutrinos are hard-to-catch particles that sci ... more |
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