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  Ottawa (AFP) Sept 21, 2018 Astronauts traveling through space on the long trip to Mars will not have the usual backup from mission control on Earth and will need to think of themselves as Martians to survive, Canada's most famous spaceman half-jokingly said Friday. Current predictions are that humans will reach Mars - up to 400 million kilometers (250 million miles) from Earth - in the coming decades. But the vast distance means communications with mission control would be delayed by up to 22 minutes. As a result, ... read more |
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Japan space robots start asteroid surveyTokyo (AFP) Sept 22, 2018 A pair of robot rovers have landed on an asteroid and begun a survey, Japan's space agency said Saturday, as it conducts a mission aiming to shed light on the origins of the solar system. ... more 
Japanese robot Hayabusa2 lands on Asteroid RyuguTokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2018 After patiently waiting for their target asteroid to complete its rotation scientists monitoring the progress of a Japanese spacecraft confirmed that two small robots have successfully reached the s ... more 
NASA's MAVEN Selfie Marks Four Years in Orbit at MarsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 Today, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft celebrates four years in orbit studying the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet and how it interacts with the Sun and the solar wind. To mark the occasion, the team has ... more  
European Planetary Mapping: A Historical View of Our Solar SystemBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 A catalogue that provides a complete overview of over 2,200 planetary maps produced worldwide between 1600 and 2018 were presented at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin. T ... more |
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Space-related start-up technology companies create synergistic innovationNew Rochelle, NY (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 Researchers have developed innovative business models underlying the successful launch of space-related start-up technology companies in Costa Rica. A fascinating article describes how the company D ... more  
Three NASA Missions Return 1st-Light DataGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 NASA's continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three key missions proving not only that they are up and running, but that their scie ... more 
European Space Talks: sharing our passion for spaceParis (ESA) Sep 24, 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 late ... more  
Study links natural climate oscillations in north Atlantic to Greenland ice sheet meltCape Cod MA (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Scientists have known for years that warming global climate is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice sheet in the world. A new study from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ( ... more 
More ships and more clouds mean cooling in the ArcticStorrs CT (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 With sea ice in the Arctic melting at an alarming rate, opportunities for trans-Arctic shipping are opening up, and by mid-century ships will be able to sail right over the North Pole - something no ... more |
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Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animalCanberra, Australia (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) and overseas have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that live ... more  |
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Light provides spinNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have proven that incoming light causes the electrons in warm perovskites to rotate thus influencing the direction of the flow of ... more  
Searching for errors in the quantum worldZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 There is likely no other scientific theory that is as well supported as quantum mechanics. For nearly 100 years now, it has repeatedly been confirmed with highly precise experiments, yet physicists ... more  
BAE to provide data analysis, support for Janus programsWashington (UPI) Sep 20, 2018 The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has issued contracts worth up to $1.52 billion to BAE Systems for information services and to improve real-time access to data collected by the agency from satellite data. ... more 
ScanMars demonstrates water detection device for astronauts on MarsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 Analogue astronauts have successfully trialed a radar that could help future Mars explorers identify where to dig for water. ScanMars is an Italian experiment that was used to identify subsurface wa ... more  
NASA balloon mission captures electric blue cloudsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 21, 2018 On the cusp of our atmosphere live a thin group of seasonal electric blue clouds. Forming 50 miles above the poles in summer, these clouds are known as noctilucent clouds or polar mesospheric clouds ... more |
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 Tanegashima, Japan (SPX) Sep 22, 2018 
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s H-IIB rocket launched at 1:52 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 22 (2:52 a.m. Sept. 23 Japan standard time) from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. At the time of launch, the space station was 254 miles over the southwest Pacific, west of Chile.
A little more than 15 minutes after launch, the unpiloted H-II Transfer Vehicle-7 (HTV-7) car ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 21, 2018 
China plans to launch the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-9 in 2028, said an official of China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 on Tuesday.
Li Guoping, director of the Department of System Engineering of the CNSA, said that the length of the Long March-9 will exceed 90 meters, and the rocket would have a core stage with a diameter o ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 
Today, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft celebrates four years in orbit studying the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet and how it interacts with the Sun and the solar wind. To mark the occasion, the team has released a selfie image of the spacecraft at Mars.
"MAVEN has been a tremendous success," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from the University of Colorado, Boulder. "The spacecr ... 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) Sep 24, 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 24, 2018 
NASA's continued quest to explore our solar system and beyond received a boost of new information this week with three key missions proving not only that they are up and running, but that their science potential is exceptional.
On Sept. 17, 2018, TESS - the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - shared its first science observations. Later in the week, the latest two missions to join NASA ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
NASA's interdisciplinary Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) project has awarded Rice University $7.7 million for a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional research program aimed at finding many different recipes nature might follow to produce rocky planets capable of supporting life.
As any cook knows, it takes the right recipe and getting the right ingredients to make a tasty dish, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2018 
Jupiter's "brown barge" feature is the subject of a new photograph snapped by Juno's camera.
Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the brown barge is shaped by cyclone-like weather patterns in the gas giant's atmosphere. But unlike the red spot, which is round, the barge is longer and boxier.
The brown barge isn't always easy to pick out. Its colors often blend relatively seamlessly wit ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
A study simulating the final stages of terrestrial planet formation shows that 'hit-and-run' encounters play a significant role in the acquisition of water by large protoplanets, like those that grew into Mars and Earth. The results will be presented by Christoph Burger at the European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) 2018 in Berlin.
Four and a half billion years ago, the inner solar syst ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Sep 21, 2018 
China on Wednesday evening successfully sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a single carrier rocket.
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 10:07 p.m. It was the 285th mission of the Long March rocket series.
The twin satellites are the 37th and 38th editions of the BeiDou navigation system. After a series of tests a ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2018 
Russian space agency Roscosmos told Sputnik on Friday that the corporation will continue participating in the international Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway project.
Russia was offered to build an airlock module for discharging cosmonauts on the platform. In April, a source told Sputnik that the Russian side was forced to build the unit under the US standards that ensure the use of only US s ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2018 
After patiently waiting for their target asteroid to complete its rotation scientists monitoring the progress of a Japanese spacecraft confirmed that two small robots have successfully reached the surface of asteroid Ryugu and are now sending back images of their new home.
Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe was launched in December 2014, and arrived in orbit around asteroid 162173 'Ryugu' in June. T ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2018 
NASA's ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured new imagery of variations in surface-temperature patterns in Los Angeles County. The first of its kind to be taken by the agency's newest Earth-observing mission, it is more detailed than previous imagery and, unlike prior imagery, was acquired at different times of the day.
ECOSTRESS measures s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations - while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun - show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun's electric and magnetic fields, particle ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 20, 2018 
ESA's star mapping mission, Gaia, has shown our Milky Way galaxy is still enduring the effects of a near collision that set millions of stars moving like ripples on a pond.
The close encounter likely took place sometime in the past 300-900 million years. It was discovered because of the pattern of movement it has given to stars in the Milky Way disc - one of the major components of our Gal ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
The Earth's magnetosphere contains plasma, an ionized gas composed of positive ions and negative electrons. The motion of these charged plasma particles is controlled by electromagnetic fields. The energy transfer processes that occur in this collisionless space plasma are believed to be based on wave-particle interactions such as particle acceleration by plasma waves and spontaneous wave genera ... more |
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