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  Washington (UPI) Aug 31, 2018 Boeing has received a ceiling price $805 million contract to provide the design, development, construction, testing and support of four MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker drones. Work on the contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, will be performed in St. Louis, Mo., Indianapolis, Ind., Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Quebec, Canada, Palm Bay, Fla., as well as other locations inside and outside the continental United States. Work is expected to be completed by August 2024. Navy fisca ... read more |
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UAE announces first astronauts to go to spaceDubai (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 The United Arab Emirates has selected its first two astronauts to go on a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai's ruler said Monday. ... more  
US developing cheap, disposable spy satellites from civilian techWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2018 The US Defense Department is looking at a new generation of light, cheap, disposable satellites to help cut costs and keep its space assets up to date. If all goes as planned, it could shave costs p ... more  
The potential harbingers of new physics just don't want to disappearWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Sep 04, 2018 For some time now, in the data coming in from the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, several anomalies have been seen in the decays of beauty mesons. Are they more than just statistical f ... more 
Raytheon receives contract for MQ-4 Trition sensor systemsWashington (UPI) Aug 28, 2018 Raytheon has received a $9.4 million for order for engineering support of the Triton multi-spectral targeting system on the Navy MQ-4C's Triton drone. ... more |
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Reigniting a dead starCharleston SC (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 Occasionally a star or other celestial object may have the misfortune of passing too close to a neighboring black hole, resulting in the object being ripped apart by the black hole's extreme tidal f ... more  
Ironing out the difficulties of moving fluids in spaceHouston TX (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 Fluid flows downhill - at least it does on Earth. Fluid movement becomes much more complicated in space, and that creates challenges for systems that rely on pumping fluids around for thermal contro ... more  
UB scientists await launch of NASA ice-monitoring satelliteBuffalo NY (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 As the Sept. 15 launch date for NASA's new ice-monitoring satellite approaches, University at Buffalo scientists are among many worldwide who are counting down the days. They're excited, but n ... more  
Water worlds could support life, study saysChicago IL (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could be habitable, according to a new pap ... more 
Friction loss at first contact: The material does not forgiveKarlsruher, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 Wear has major impacts on economic efficiency or health. All movable parts are affected, examples being the bearing of a wind power plant or an artificial hip joint. However, the exact cause of wear ... more |
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Access to 3D printing is changing the work in research labsHamilton, Canada (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 A small, black box developed in a McMaster University lab could change the way scientists search for new antibiotics. The Printed Fluorescence Imaging Box - or PFIbox, for short - is capable o ... more  |
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NASA, SpaceX Agree on Plans for Crew Launch Day OperationsWashington DC (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 NASA's Commercial Crew Program and SpaceX are finalizing plans for launch day operations as they prepare for the company's first flight test with astronauts on board. The teams are working toward a ... more 
Russia to Stop Transporting US Astronauts to ISS in April 2019Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 03, 2018 Russia's contractual obligations to the United States to transport US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) will expire in April 2019, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Borisov said. "T ... more  
NASA Launching Mars Lander Parachute Test from Wallops Sep 7Wallops Island, VA (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 NASA will conduct the third in a series of parachute tests for possible future missions to Mars during the flight of a Terrier-Black Brant IX suborbital sounding rocket in the morning on Sep. 7, 201 ... more 
How an LWO and his team guided a Minotaur IV rocket out of the labyrinthCape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 What does a rocket never before launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, unfavorable weather conditions and a launch pad with a dry spell of over 15 years have in common? A seven-man weather ... more  
Touchdown! NASA's Football Stadium-sized Scientific Balloon Takes FlightWallops Island VA (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 NASA successfully launched a football stadium-sized scientific balloon, dubbed the "Big 60," on Friday, Aug. 17, from Fort Sumner, New Mexico, for the first time in more than 15 years. A second test ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Sept 3, 2018 
The United Arab Emirates has selected its first two astronauts to go on a mission to the International Space Station, Dubai's ruler said Monday.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed al-Maktou named the new astronauts as Hazza al-Mansouri, 34, and 37-year-old Sultan al-Neyadi.
Writing on Twitter, he said the duo "raise the bar of ambitions for future Emirati generations".
Sheikh Mohammed, the U ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
What does a rocket never before launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, unfavorable weather conditions and a launch pad with a dry spell of over 15 years have in common? A seven-man weather team from the 45th Space Wing, led by Mr. David Craft, launch weather officer and retired airman.
The preparation, problem-solving and teamwork, which led to the launch on Aug. 26, 2017 of Orbit ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2018 
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). The dust storm on Mars continues its decay with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site decreasing.
It is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault and perhaps, a mission clock fault and then, an up-loss timer fault.
The project is continuing to listen for the rover either during the exp ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Engineers have successfully tested the propulsion system of China's planned space station lab capsules, a key step in its space station program.
Weighing 66 tonnes, the space station will comprise a core module and two lab capsules. The propulsion system will determine whether lab capsules can move in space.
Engineers designed 36 engines for the propulsion system with four to adjust ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 31, 2018 
The European Space Talks initiative will give you, as a member of the European space community, the opportunity to join other space professionals, researchers and enthusiasts in presenting your latest research, activities or interests in space.
During November 2018, a series of grassroots talks and events will sweep across ESA Member States, promoting space among the general public. From l ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Researchers have developed a compact imaging system that can measure the shape and light-reflection properties of objects with high speed and accuracy. This 5D hyperspectral imaging system - so-called because it captures multiple wavelengths of light plus spatial coordinates as a function of time - could benefit a variety of applications including optical-based sorting of products and identifyin ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 03, 2018 
The conditions for life surviving on planets entirely covered in water are more fluid than previously thought, opening up the possibility that water worlds could be habitable, according to a new paper from the University of Chicago and Pennsylvania State University.
The scientific community has largely assumed that planets covered in a deep ocean would not support the cycling of minerals a ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Mission team members were thrilled - if not a little surprised - that New Horizons' telescopic Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) was able to see the small, dim object while still more than 100 million miles away, and against a dense background of stars.
Taken Aug. 16 and transmitted home through NASA's Deep Space Network over the following days, the set of 48 images marked the team' ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2018 
Keeping an eye on our waters is more important than ever, as widespread drought continues to sweep Europe this summer.
Earth's changing sea levels are crucial indicators of how our environment is fairing, but monitoring it manually can be a labour-intensive, expensive, and at times even dangerous task.
Coastal areas provide additional complications, as shifting seabeds and currents m ... more |
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 London (AFP) Aug 29, 2018  Britain will invest in the possible creation of its own satellite-navigation system, the UK government announced Wednesday, after being excluded from the EU's Galileo programme because of Brexit. At the same time, London said it was continuing to negotiate with the European Union about remaining in the Galileo programme. Britain will invest 92 million pounds ($119 million, 102 million euros), ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) found the first direct evidence of surface-exposed water ice in permanently shaded regions (PSRs) on the Moon.
"We found that the distribution of ice on the lunar surface is very patchy, which is very different from other planetary bodies such as Mercury a ... more |
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 Andalusia, Spain (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
There is just over two months to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night of Halloween, an occasion which astronomers did not pass up to study its characteristics. This dark object measures between 625 and 700 metres, its rotation period is around three hours and, in certain lighting conditions, it resembles a human skull.
An asteroi ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
As the Sept. 15 launch date for NASA's new ice-monitoring satellite approaches, University at Buffalo scientists are among many worldwide who are counting down the days.
They're excited, but nervous, too. That's what happens when your future research is reliant on equipment that's going to be hurled, atop a flaming rocket, into the harsh environs of outer space. Or when - as in the case of ... more |
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 Durham NH (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
As the saying goes, everything old is new again. While the common phrase often refers to fashion, design, or technology, scientists at the University of New Hampshire have found there is some truth to this mantra even when it comes to research.
Revisiting some older data, the researchers discovered new information about the shape of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) - large-scale eruptions of ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2018 
The Carina Nebula, one of the largest and brightest nebulae in the night sky, has been beautifully imaged by ESO's VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile. By observing in infrared light, VISTA has peered through the hot gas and dark dust enshrouding the nebula to show us myriad stars, both newborn and in their death throes.
About 7500 light-years away, in the constellation of ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (The Conversation) Aug 30, 2018 
Philosophers have debated the nature of "nothing" for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about it? In an interview with The Conversation, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Emeritus Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge, explains that when physicists talk about nothing, they mean empty space (vacuum).
This may sound straightforward, b ... more |
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