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  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 12, 2018 Russian investigators have launched a probe into why a Soyuz rocket failed shortly after blast-off, in a major setback for Russia's beleaguered space industry. US astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin were forced to make an emergency landing after the incident on Thursday, but were rescued without injury in Kazakhstan. Russian officials said they were launching a criminal investigation into the accident, the first such incident on a manned flight in the country's post-Sovie ... read more |
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Virgin Group suspends Saudi talks for billion dollar space investmentLondon, UK (Sputnik) Oct 12, 2018 Tycoon Richard Branson has halted negotiations with the Saudi government's Sovereign Wealth Fund about planned multimillion dollar investments in Virgin's space program, The Financial Times reported ... more 
No more taxi service to Space Station after Soyuz fiascoWashington (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 The taxi service to the orbiting International Space Station is taking no passengers until further notice. ... more  
Test Launch of Russia's New Unmanned Space Vehicle Could Be PostponedMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 12, 2018 The first test launch of the unmanned version of Russia's new Federation spacecraft atop the new Soyuz-5 rocket has been suggested to be rescheduled from 2022 to 2023 after two test launches of the ... more 
Rocket bound for ISS fails, crew survives emergency landingBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 An American and a Russian bound for the International Space Station were forced to make an emergency landing when their Soyuz rocket failed shortly after blast-off on Thursday, in a major setback for Russia's space industry. ... more |
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Icy warning for space missions to Jupiter's moonCardiff UK (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 A location often earmarked as a potential habitat for extra-terrestrial life could prove to be a tricky place for spacecraft to land, new research has revealed. A team led by scientists from C ... more  
Life-long space buff and Western graduate student discovers exoplanetLondon, Canada (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 Ever since Chris Fox was a young boy, he wanted to visit alien planets. With no immediate plans for such a voyage, the Western University graduate student has done the next best thing. He's gone and ... more  
Galactic archaeologyCanary Islands, Spain (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 The star Pristine 221.8781+9.7844 is one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way. We know this because of its atmosphere. Just after the Big Bang the universe was full of hydrogen and helium with very ... more  
AeroVironment contracted for Raven drones, spares, trainingWashington (UPI) Oct 11, 2018 AeroVironment has received a $13 million contract for Raven RQ-11B small unmanned aircraft systems. ... more  
Army researchers' technique locates robots, soldiers in GPS-challenged areasAdelphi MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a novel algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where GPS is unavailable. According to ARL researchers ... more |
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French Space Agency opens new office in the UAEAbu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 The French Ambassador to the UAE announced that the universe being the limit for the developing partnership between the two countries, i.e. the UAE and France. This statement was made, immediately a ... more  |
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Source reveals timing of OneWeb satellites' debut launch on SoyuzMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 12, 2018 The first-ever test launch of OneWeb satellites on a Russian-made Soyuz-ST carrier rocket from the Kourou space center in French Guiana is preliminarily scheduled for February 7, 2019, a source in t ... more  
Siberian paleontologists discovered the oldest macro-skeleton remainsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 The oldest skeleton remains known to fossil chronicle of the Earth belonged to the microorganisms that lived 700-650 million years ago. International research team proved that a larger organisms of ... more  
Abrikosov vortices help scientists explain inconsistencies in 'dirty' superconductors theoryMoscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 International team of physicists explained anomalous low temperature behavior of 'dirty' superconductors. These materials possess various non-trivial properties which make them necessary for quantum ... more  
New half-light half-matter particles may hold the key to a computing revolutionExeter UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 Scientists have discovered new particles that could lie at the heart of a future technological revolution based on photonic circuitry, leading to superfast, light-based computing. Current comp ... more 
Research on light-matter interaction could improve electronic and optoelectronic devicesTroy NY (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 A paper published in Nature Communications by Sufei Shi, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, increases our understanding of how light interacts with atomically ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 12, 2018 
Special Aerospace Services (SAS) has announced the offering of expanded Spaceflight Safety Products and Services that now include support for deep space and lunar missions. SAS developed the expanded line of engineering services to cover the next phase of human spaceflight that will be initiated by inaugural test launches and first human launches in the coming year.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 12, 2018 
The first test launch of the unmanned version of Russia's new Federation spacecraft atop the new Soyuz-5 rocket has been suggested to be rescheduled from 2022 to 2023 after two test launches of the rocket with other spacecraft are held, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputnik Thursday.
The unmanned version of Federation was initially set to be launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmod ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 10, 2018 
When John Campanella's friend wanted his beloved Ferrari painted, he knew exactly who to call. After all, Campanella had been painting, pinstriping and even airbrushing flames on to cars, motorcycles, airplanes, 18-wheelers and guitars in his spare time for decades.
But that's not why the Ferrari driver came to Campanella. He turned to him because John Campanella has been painting spacecra ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Bangkok, Thailand (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
James Yenbamroong revealed today his bold plan to establish a venture unit in 2019 in a move to go international and to create opportunities other than satellite communications.
Yenbamroong, a satellite and space tech entrepreneur from Thailand, said that the planned venture unit will be set up next year in partnership with private investors to provide funds to startups and medium-sized co ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
NUST MISIS scientists have proposed a technology that can double the strength of composites obtained by 3D printing from aluminum powder, and advance the characteristics of these products to the quality of titanium alloys: titanium's strength is about six times higher than that of aluminum, but the density of titanium is 1.7 times higher.
The developed modifiers for 3D printing can be used ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
To advance the search for life in the universe, NASA should support research on a broader range of biosignatures and environments, and incorporate the field of astrobiology into all stages of future exploratory missions, says a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Astrobiology, the study of the origin, evolution, distributi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 4, 2018 
While searching for signs of Planet X, scientists have discovered a new dwarf planet candidate beyond Pluto. Astronomers dubbed the object "the Goblin."
The dwarf planet's lengthy orbit is extremely oblong, sending the Goblin far away from Earth for most its 40,000-year-long trek around the sun.
Scientists first spotted the dwarf planet, officially named 2015 TG387, around Hallow ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
Global sustainability is important now more than ever due to increasing urban populations and the resulting stress it can have on natural resources. But increased populations in cities may lead to greater efficiency, as a team of Penn State researchers discovered when they analyzed the water footprint of 65 mid- to large-sized U.S. cities.
"Human life on the planet has never been more comp ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory have developed a novel algorithm that enables localization of humans and robots in areas where GPS is unavailable.
According to ARL researchers Gunjan Verma and Dr. Fikadu Dagefu, the Army needs to be able to localize agents operating in physically complex, unknown and infrastructure-poor environments.
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018 
The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019.
SpaceIL said Elon Musk's SpaceX firm, whose rockets are set to carry the unmanned probe into space, had informed it of "a delay of a number of weeks to the beginning of 2019."
SpaceIL stressed that the delay was SpaceX's decision, not ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 10, 2018 
The astrophysicists Mattia Galiazzo and Rudolf Dvorak from the University of Vienna, in collaboration with Elizabeth A. Silber (Brown University, USA) investigated the long-term path development of Centaurs (solar system minor bodies which originally have orbits between Jupiter and Neptune).
These researchers have estimated the number of close encounters and impacts with the terrestrial pl ... more |
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 Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 
Researchers in Canada, the United States and Europe have developed a new way to remotely measure Earth's magnetic field - by zapping a layer of sodium atoms floating 100 kilometres above the planet with lasers on the ground.
The technique, documented this week in Nature Communications, fills a gap between measurements made at the Earth's surface and at much higher altitude by orbiting sate ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 
On Oct. 3, 2018, Parker Solar Probe performed the first significant celestial maneuver of its seven-year mission. As the orbits of the spacecraft and Venus converged toward the same point, Parker Solar Probe slipped in front of the planet, allowing Venus' gravity - relatively small by celestial standards - to twist its path and change its speed. This maneuver, called a gravity assist, reduced Pa ... more |
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 Troy NY (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
A paper published in Nature Communications by Sufei Shi, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer, increases our understanding of how light interacts with atomically thin semiconductors and creates unique excitonic complex particles, multiple electrons, and holes strongly bound together.
These particles possess a new quantum degree of freedom, called "valley ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Oct 11, 2018 
Scientists have discovered new particles that could lie at the heart of a future technological revolution based on photonic circuitry, leading to superfast, light-based computing.
Current computing technology is based on electronics, where electrons are used to encode and transport information.
Due to some fundamental limitations, such as energy-loss through resistive heating, it is ... more |
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