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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 27, 2018 NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed the signals, which were received on Earth at about 5:30 p.m. PST (8:30 p.m. EST). Solar array deployment ensures the spacecraft can recharge its batteries each day. Odyssey also relayed a pair of images showing InSight's landing site. "The InSight team can rest a little easier tonight now that we know the spacecraft solar arrays are ... read more |
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Mars InSight lands on Red PlanetPasadena, United States (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture. ... more 
Marsquakes' Mission Successfully Lands On Red PlanetLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 A mission to Mars, supported by the UK Space Agency, has successfully landed and will soon begin the first study of the heart of the planet. The NASA InSight mission landed at 19:53 GMT on Monday, 2 ... more  
Jan. 7 date set for first SpaceX unmanned capsule to International Space Station(UPI) Nov 24, 2018 NASA has set a Jan. 7 dated for an sending an unmmanned SpaceX capsule on its maiden voyage to the International Space Station. ... more  
ISS Toilet Swarmed By 'Space Bugs' That Could Infect Astronauts - ResearchHouston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 Analysis has shown that all five strains of the mysterious bacterium found on the space station belonged to one species, called Enterobacter bugandensis. They resembled the genomes that infected new ... more |
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Roscosmos to Enter Internet of Things With Marathon Satellite SystemMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 Russian state space corporation Roscosmos plans to create a new satellite system, dubbed Marathon, within the Sphere global satellite constellation in order to enter the Internet of things market, a ... more  
Bacteria Likely to Soon Infect ISS Crew Found to Be Antibiotic-ResistantHouston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 Although the newly researched strains bear a striking similarity to ones typically found on Earth, specifically in intensive care units in hospitals, the discovery is a wake-up call given the no-gra ... more  
Computational chemistry supports research on new semiconductor technologiesMunich, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 As new methods have become available for understanding and manipulating matter at its most fundamental levels, researchers working in the interdisciplinary field of materials science have been incre ... more  
The shape of things to come: Flexible, foldable supercapacitors for energy storageLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 A team of researchers from the Plasma Physics Research Centre, Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, have discovered a way of making paper supercapacitors for elect ... more 
New Climate Models of TRAPPIST-1's Seven Intriguing WorldsSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate mod ... more |
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Supersonic commercial travel begins to take shape at Lockheed Martin Skunk WorksPalmdale CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Lockheed Martin Skunk Works began manufacturing the first part for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, marking a milestone to bring supersonic commercial travel over land one step closer ... more  |
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From gamma rays to x-raysParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 Based on a new theoretical model, a team of scientists explored the rich data archive of ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra space observatories to find pulsating X-ray emission from three sources. ... more 
Quantum artificial life created on the cloudBilbao, Spain (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 A scenario of artificial intelligence could see the emergence of circumstances in which models of simple organisms could be capable of experiencing the various phases of life in a controlled virtual ... more  
Auroras help scientists study energy instabilities in spaceWashington (UPI) Nov 26, 2018 Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space. ... more 
Hubble captures stars across generationsBaltimore MD (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Star clusters are common structures throughout the universe, each made up of hundreds of thousands of stars all bound together by gravity. This star-filled image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Spac ... more 
Exoplanet mission launch slot announcedParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, will target 15 October to 14 November 2019 for launch. Cheops will lift off on a Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe's spaceport in ... more |
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 Houston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 
Analysis has shown that all five strains of the mysterious bacterium found on the space station belonged to one species, called Enterobacter bugandensis. They resembled the genomes that infected newborn babies on our planet, raising concerns that they could also threaten the astronauts' health.
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are coexisting with a colony of "space bugs" ... more |
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 Alicante, Spain (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
MIURA 1, the suborbital rocket developed by PLD Space, will be launched from "El Arenosillo" Experimentation Center (CEDEA), of INTA, during the third quarter of 2019. This technological demonstrator, whose development began in 2011, is designed to provide scientific and commercial access to space from Spain.
A year ahead for this great milestone in the history of PLD Space, INTA and the a ... more |
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 Providence, RI (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 
A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact.
The research, published in Planetary and Space Science, uses computer models to simulate the movement of debris from Stickney crater, a huge gash on one end of Phobos' oblong body. The models show that boulders r ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Kleos Space S.A. reports the signing of a commercial agreement with UK headquartered Intelligence Management Support Services Ltd (IMSL) for them to purchase Kleos Scouting Mission Data as a Service and to integrate and sell the Kleos data with related analytics services to government and industry customers around the world.
Through its offices in UK, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and th ... more |
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 Backnang, Germany (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Sentinel-1C will be ESA's 8th satellite of its Copernicus program. Despite monitoring arctic sea-ice, mapping and surveilling marine environment, Sentinel-1C will support in monitoring and mapping land-surface as well as forest, water and soil and support humanitarian aid in crisis situations.
As well as its predecessors, Sentinel 1A and B and 2A and B, it will also be equipped with a stan ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate models for the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.
The work also could help astronomers more effectively study planets around stars unlike our Sun, and better use the limited, expensive resou ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Astrophysicists of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the Swiss NCCR PlanetS show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result suggests that such potentially habitable worlds are much more abundant in the universe than previously thought. The unprecedentedly complex computer simulations were performed at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano.
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
A simple device that can capture its own weight in water from fresh air and then release that water when warmed by sunlight could provide a secure new source of drinking water in remote arid regions, new research from KAUST suggests.
Globally, Earth's air contains almost 13 trillion tons of water, a vast renewable reservoir of clean drinking water. Trials of many materials and devices deve ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 26, 2018 
China will expand the application of its home-grown BeiDou navigation system to cover all transportation fields, according to an official from the Ministry of Transport (MOT).
Over the past few years, over 6.17 million domestic vehicles nationwide and 35,000 vehicles of postal services or courier companies have installed or become compatible with the BeiDou navigation system, according to ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2018 
Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation and NASA will work on the concept of a lunar orbital station that may be built with the fully-fledged participation of Russia, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
"Today NASA is highly interested in the full-fledged Russian participation [in development of a lunar station], and I hope that together we will shape the full architecture of ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea - small objects deep in our solar system - can be credited for forming and maintaining their own rings, according new research in Nature Astronomy.
"Rings appear around Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, but scientists found rings around Chariklo and Haumea within the last few years. C ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 
Dust storms, raging bushfires, gale-force winds, heatwaves, thunder and snow, flash flooding and driving rain - Australia is enduring a bout of wild weather that's hit all parts of the vast continent in recent days.
Varied weather is not uncommon during spring in the southern hemisphere nation as summer beckons.
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 26, 2018 
Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space.
"An instability is a physical process whereby the energy output can essentially grow very quickly without limits," Colin Forsyth, physicist at the University College London's, told UPI in an email.
When a clean swell breaks and crashes on the beach, or when a pile of sand sud ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 
In order to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of the dark Universe, ESA's pioneering Euclid mission will require state-of-the-art optics. The first optical element to be delivered, the telescope's primary mirror (M1), has arrived at the premises of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse.
Euclid's optical design is based on a Korsch-type telescope with an aperture ... more |
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 Porto, Portugal (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
They are massive, they are very small, and they are extremely rare, but may hold the secrets of how galaxies form and evolve. A new study[1] lifts the tip of the veil over the timid life of the massive ultra-compact galaxies. It was published on the 16th of November in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and was carried out by an international team led by Fernando Buitrago, of Instituto de As ... more |
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