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  Moscow (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Russia hopes to launch three crew for the International Space Station on December 3, the first manned blast-off since an accident this month, the Roscosmos space agency said Wednesday. Russia, the only country able to ferry astronauts to the orbiting science lab, suspended all launches after a rocket failed on October 11 just minutes after blast-off -- the first such incident in the history of post-Soviet space travel. Roscosmos executive director Sergei Krikalyov told the RIA Novosti state news agency: "The industry is now making significant efforts to move forward the launch to December 3." ... read more |
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OSIRIS-REx captures 'super-resolution' view of BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 This "super-resolution" view of asteroid Bennu was created using eight images obtained by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Oct. 29, 2018, from a distance of about 205 miles (330 km). The spacec ... more 
Fleet Space Technologies joins Rocket Lab manifest for It's Business Time missionLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 US orbital launch provider Rocket Lab has signed a contract with fast-growing Internet of Things (IoT) start-up Fleet Space Technologies to launch two satellites that will form the foundation of a g ... more  
NASA looking to tiny technology for big payoffsHampton VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 NASA is advancing technology that could use large amounts of nanoscale materials to launch lighter rockets and spacecraft than ever before. The Super-lightweight Aerospace Composites (SAC) project s ... more  
NASA researchers teach machines to "see"Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 Your credit card company contacts you asking if you've purchased something from a retailer you don't normally patronize or spent more than usual. A human didn't identify the atypical transaction. A ... more |
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Neil Armstrong's huge souvenir collection to be auctionedNew York (AFP) Oct 31, 2018 Talk about a pack rat: thousands of things that Neil Armstrong saved over the course of a career that saw him become the first man to walk on the moon will be auctioned off this week. ... more  
NASA retires Kepler Space Telescope, passes planet-hunting torchMoffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets - more planets even than stars - NASA's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel n ... more  
Synchronized telescope dance puts limits on mysterious flashes in the skyPerth, Australia (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 Two outback radio telescopes synchronised to observe the same point of sky have discovered more about one of the universe's most mysterious events in new research published this week. The Curt ... more 
First results from lucky spectroscopy, an equivalent technique to lucky imagingMadrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 The Galactic O-Star Spectroscopic Survey (GOSSS) is acquiring blue-violet spectroscopy of all optically accessible O stars in the Galaxy at resolution ~2500 and signal-to-noise ratio S/N > 200. To d ... more  
Aerojet Rocketdyne propulsion critical to successful intercept test for SM-3 Block IIA MissileSacramento CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 Aerojet Rocketdyne announced reports that its propulsion systems supported a key intercept test of Raytheon's Standard Missile-3 Block IIA guided missile. During the FTM-45 flight test, conduc ... more |
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US imposes restrictions on Chinese tech firmWashington (AFP) Oct 29, 2018 The US Commerce Department on Monday targeted a Chinese tech company with restrictions to cut off access to US technology, saying the firm could harm US security. ... more  |
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Kymeta demonstrates hybrid data backhaul on cellular and satellite networksRedmond WA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 In September 2018, Kymeta-the communications company making good on the promise of global, mobile connectivity-conducted a series of field trials with United States federal agents to successfully de ... more  
Caltech engineers create an optical gyroscope smaller than a grain of riceWashington DC (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 Gyroscopes are devices that help vehicles, drones, and wearable and handheld electronic devices know their orientation in three-dimensional space. They are commonplace in just about every bit of tec ... more  
How Max Polyakov from Zaporozhie develops the Ukrainian space industryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Despite the fact that only state organizations have the right to develop the space industry in Ukraine, Max Polyakov supports the sphere in the country. He and his Noosphere organize the events concerning the field's theme. ... more 
Artificial intelligence controls quantum computersMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 Quantum computers could solve complex tasks that are beyond the capabilities of conventional computers. However, the quantum states are extremely sensitive to constant interference from their enviro ... more 
Russia tests nuclear propulsion spacecraft's key elementMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 30, 2018 The cooling system, which is the most important element of the Russian space transport and energy unit developed on the basis of megawatt-class nuclear electric propulsion, has been successfully tes ... more |
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 Redmond WA (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed qualification testing for the enhanced reaction control thruster system for NASA's Orion crew vehicle, helping to clear the way for the Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft's second test flight, and first mission to cislunar space, called Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
The reaction control system, or RCS, is the only means of guiding the Orion crew module a ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 31, 2018 
Experts at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan will dismantle the four strap-on boosters of the Soyuz-FG carrier rocket, which is scheduled for next launch in November, and re-inspect them in order to avoid launch failures similar to October 11 incident, a Baikonur source told Sputnik.
The rocket is expected to orbit the Progress MS-10 space freighter with supplies for the Internationa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2018 
NASA has a new mission to Mars, and it's taking podcast listeners along for the ride.
Launching this week, the eight-episode series "On a Mission" follows the InSight lander as it travels hundreds of millions of miles and attempts to land on Mars on Nov. 26. "On a Mission" will be the first JPL podcast to track a mission during flight, through interviews with the InSight team at NASA's Jet ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2018 
When German scientists were conducting micro-gravity experiments on China's recoverable satellite in the 1980s, Chinese space engineer Tang Bochang was busy solving technical problems, while carefully keeping Chinese secrets.
Tang joined the China Academy of Space Technology in 1970, the same year China launched its first satellite. He has participated in the development of returnable sate ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 29, 2018 
European ministers in charge of space activities met this week at ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid, Spain, to preview ESA's vision for the future of Europe in space.
Called the Intermediate Ministerial Meeting, this was a milestone on the road to ESA's next Ministerial Council, called 'Space19+', which will be held in November 2019. This week, the ministers from ESA Member ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 29, 2018 
Two vastly different NASA spacecraft are about to run out of fuel: The Kepler spacecraft, which spent nine years in deep space collecting data that detected thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system, and the Dawn spacecraft, which spent 11 years orbiting and studying the main asteroid belt's two largest objects, Vesta and Ceres.
However, the two record-setting missions h ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
After nine years in deep space collecting data that indicate our sky to be filled with billions of hidden planets - more planets even than stars - NASA's Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel needed for further science operations. NASA has decided to retire the spacecraft within its current, safe orbit, away from Earth. Kepler leaves a legacy of more than 2,600 planet discoveries from outsi ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
A Southwest Research Institute team using internal research funds has made several discoveries that expand the range and value of a future Pluto orbiter mission. The breakthroughs define a fuel-saving orbital tour and demonstrate that an orbiter can continue exploration in the Kuiper Belt after surveying Pluto. These and other results from the study will be reported this week at a workshop on fu ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 31, 2018 
A large-scale, long-term experiment on kelp forests off Southern California brings new insight to how the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems could be impacted over time as a changing climate potentially increases the frequency of ocean storms.
Researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of California, Santa Barbara experimentally mimicked the loss of undersea giant kelp fo ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Oct 16, 2018 
China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, at 12:23 p.m. Monday.
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system, and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family.
The launch was the 287th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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 New York (AFP) Oct 31, 2018  Talk about a pack rat: thousands of things that Neil Armstrong saved over the course of a career that saw him become the first man to walk on the moon will be auctioned off this week.
Nobody really knew the extent of the stuff Armstrong amassed during his 82 years on earth, not even the children of the man who made history with his feat on July 20, 1969. Some of the mementos are from his spa ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 
A team of Hungarian astronomers and physicists may have confirmed two elusive clouds of dust, in semi-stable points just 400,000 kilometres from Earth.
The clouds, first reported by and named for Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in 1961, are exceptionally faint, so their existence is controversial. The new work appears in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ... more |
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 Kanazawa, Japan (SPX) Oct 29, 2018 
New-particle formation in the atmosphere provides the nucleation centres required for the formation of clouds, making it an important process for understanding climate. Efforts to investigate the complex balance of chemistry and physics that leads to new-particle formation have resulted in the acquisition of very large data sets.
A team of researchers based at a number of centers, includin ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2018 
Parker Solar Probe now holds the record for closest approach to the Sun by a human-made object. The spacecraft passed the current record of 26.55 million miles from the Sun's surface on Oct. 29, 2018, at about 1:04 p.m. EDT, as calculated by the Parker Solar Probe team.
The previous record for closest solar approach was set by the German-American Helios 2 spacecraft in April 1976. As the P ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 26, 2018 
Researchers from the Borexino collaboration have published the hitherto most comprehensive analysis of neutrinos from the Sun's core processes. The results confirm previous assumptions about the processes inside the sun.
According to the standard solar model, around 99 percent of the Sun's energy stems from a sequence of fusion processes in which hydrogen is converted to helium. It begins ... more |
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 Hertfordshire UK (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
New research, published Wednesday, 24 October, in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, has found evidence for a large number of double supermassive black holes, likely precursors of gigantic black hole merging events. This confirms the current understanding of cosmological evolution - that galaxies and their associated black holes merge over time, forming bigger and big ... more |
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