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December 04, 2018
ROCKET SCIENCE
Moldy mouse food postpones SpaceX launch



Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Dec 04, 2018
SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said. The launch was initially set for Tuesday. The new time is 1:16 pm (1816 GMT) Wednesday. "The launch was moved to Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a rodent investigation prior to handover to SpaceX," NASA said in a statement late Monday. "Teams will use the extra day to replace the food ... read more

GPS NEWS
UK will build its own satellite-navigation system after Brexit
London, UK (Sputnik) Dec 03, 2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that Britain would explore the possibility of building its own satellite navigation system instead of relying on the EU's Galileo, compelling another minister ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to highest accuracy yet
Paris (ESA) Dec 04, 2018
Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system - already serving users globally - has now provided a historic service to the physics community worldwide, enabling the most accurate measurement ever ma ... more
IRON AND ICE
OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx,) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the as ... more
PHYSICS NEWS
Portsmouth researchers make vital contribution to new gravitational wave discoveries
Portsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend (1 December). The new results ... more
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OUTER PLANETS
Radio JOVE From NASA: Tuning In to Your Local Celestial Radio Show
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a ca ... more
SPACEMART
Fleet Space Technologies' Centauri launched aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
Fleet Space Technologies' second Centauri nanosatellite was successfully launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 SSO-A mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California. This is the fourth comme ... more
ENERGY TECH
A step closer to fusion energy
Swansea UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
Harnessing nuclear fusion, which powers the sun and stars, to help meet earth's energy needs, is a step closer after researchers showed that using two types of imaging can help them assess the safet ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Monitoring climate change from space
Paris (ESA) Dec 04, 2018
Rising global temperatures and the effects of climate change are huge and environmental challenges. Satellites provide unequivocal evidence of the changes taking place and provide decision-makers wi ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Double Trouble: A White Dwarf Surprises Astronomers
Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A combination of X-ray and optical data indicate t ... more
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RAY GUNS
Radiance Technologies tapped for U.S. Army laser research
Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2018
The U.S. Army is contracting Radiance Technologies for high energy laser lethality research, assessment and support in the amount of $28.2 million. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
A golden age for particle analysis
Nuremberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
Process engineers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have developed a method which allows the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions to be determined considerably qui ... more
CYBER WARS
NATO exercises cyber defences as threat grows
Tartu, Estonia (AFP) Nov 30, 2018
In a nondescript brick building on the snowy edge of Estonia's second city Tartu, soldiers in camouflage tap silently at computers. They are troops manning the 21st century's front line. ... more
SPACEMART
Roscosmos Targeted by Info Attack to Hamper Revival of Space Industry in Russia
Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2018
Roscosmos has been targeted by an information attack launched by forces in Russia and abroad to create an image of a state corporation "devouring" federal funds and to prevent the country from regai ... more
TECH SPACE
Millennium Space Systems Completes Successful ALTAIR Pathfinder Mission
El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
Millennium Space Systems completed the final phase of its highly successful ALTAIR Pathfinder satellite mission Nov. 17. After 548 days operating the satellite from the ALTAIR mission operations cen ... more


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MICROSAT BLITZ
ESEO student satellite successfully launched to space
Paris (ESA) Dec 04, 2018
This week, ESEO, the European Student Earth Orbiter by ESA, was successfully launched into space, and teams from ten European universities are eagerly waiting for their exciting space mission to sta ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION
Researchers rise to challenge of predicting hail, tornadoes three weeks in advance
Fort Collins CO (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
People living in Kansas, Nebraska and other states in the Plains are no strangers to tornadoes and hail storms - among the most costly and dangerous severe weather threats in the United States. ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Study unlocks full potential of 'supermaterial' graphene
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
New research reveals why the "supermaterial" graphene has not transformed electronics as promised, and shows how to double its performance and finally harness its extraordinary potential. Grap ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Artificial magnetic field produces exotic behavior in graphene sheets
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
A simple sheet of graphene has noteworthy properties due to a quantum phenomenon in its electron structure named Dirac cones in honor of British theoretical physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), who was ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Soyuz arrives at ISS on first manned mission since October failure
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 3, 2018
A Soyuz spacecraft carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, following the first manned launch since a failed launch in October. ... more
IRON AND ICE
NASA's first asteroid sample-collector arrives at target, Bennu
Tampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. ... more
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First manned space mission since Soyuz failure launched
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 3, 2018
A Soyuz rocket carrying Russian, American and Canadian astronauts took off from Kazakhstan and reached orbit on Monday, the first manned mission since a failed launch in October. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency blasted off for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station on schedule at 1131 GMT. ... more
+ Ascent Trajectories and Gravity Turns
+ Soyuz arrives at ISS on first manned mission since October failure
+ ISS Toilet Swarmed By 'Space Bugs' That Could Infect Astronauts - Research
+ Russia space agency targeted over "stolen" billions
+ NASA probes 'drug-free' policies, safety at SpaceX, Boeing
+ Robotic arm links cargo craft to International Space Station
+ UK Space Agency funds new experiments onboard the International Space Station
Moldy mouse food postpones SpaceX launch
Kennedy Space Center FL (AFP) Dec 04, 2018
SpaceX has postponed its cargo launch to the International Space Station until Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a mouse experiment bound for the orbiting outpost, NASA said. The launch was initially set for Tuesday. The new time is 1:16 pm (1816 GMT) Wednesday. "The launch was moved to Wednesday after mold was found on food bars for a rodent investigation prior to hand ... more
+ SPACE-SI selects Arianespace to launch the NEMO-HD microsat on VEGA
+ SpaceX's Falcon 9 launches 64 satellites into space
+ SpaceX to carry more than 20 new experiments to ISS
+ Arianespace to launch Indian and Korean GEO satellites
+ NASA chief says Elon Musk won't be smoking joints publicly again
+ S. Korea successfully tests space rocket engine
+ Focus on Vega developments


Over Five Months Without Word From Opportunity
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 03, 2018
Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free level of 0.8. Since loss of signal on Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), 359 recovery commands have been radiated including on both polarizations. No signal from Opportunity has been heard. Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault. The project has been lis ... more
+ Life at home on Mars in a Big Sandbox
+ SpaceBok robotic hopper being tested at ESA's Mars Yard
+ Safely on Mars, InSight unfolds its arrays and snaps some pics
+ Mars Mole HP3 Arrives at the Red Planet
+ With InSight on Mars, Scientists Feel Earthly Relief, Get to Work
+ Mars InSight lands on Red Planet
+ Marsquakes' Mission Successfully Lands On Red Planet
Evolving Chinese Space Ecosystem To Foster Innovative Environment
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. This premier ed ... more
+ China sends 5 satellites into orbit via single rocket
+ China releases smart solution for verifying reliability of space equipment components
+ China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered
+ China's space programs open up to world
+ China's commercial aerospace companies flourishing
+ China launches Centispace-1-s1 satellite
+ China tests propulsion system of space station's lab capsules
Fleet Space Technologies' Centauri launched aboard SpaceX Falcon 9
Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
Fleet Space Technologies' second Centauri nanosatellite was successfully launched aboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 SSO-A mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in California. This is the fourth commercial satellite launched by the Adelaide-based IoT startup in the past month, after Centauri I was launched aboard Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) PSLV-C43 mission on Thursday 29 November ... more
+ Roscosmos Targeted by Info Attack to Hamper Revival of Space Industry in Russia
+ SAS Signs Distribution Agreement with GlobalSat Group
+ SpaceX launches pioneering UK maritime communications satellite
+ ESA's 25 years of telecom: today's challenges and opportunities
+ Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin Team to Make Downlinking Satellite Data Easier and Less Expensive
+ Kleos Space signs channel partner agreement with IMSL
+ Airbus to build new generation broadcast satellites to renew Eutelsat HOTBIRD fleet
Millennium Space Systems Completes Successful ALTAIR Pathfinder Mission
El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
Millennium Space Systems completed the final phase of its highly successful ALTAIR Pathfinder satellite mission Nov. 17. After 548 days operating the satellite from the ALTAIR mission operations center at Millennium's headquarters in El Segundo, and amassing more than 13,000 hours of performance to reduce technology risk, the ALTAIR Pathfinder operations team decommissioned the satellite and pre ... more
+ GEDI scientists share space laser excitement
+ The countries that have the most junk in Space
+ Easy to use 3D bioprinting technique creates lifelike tissues from natural materials
+ Virtual reality could serve as powerful environmental education tool
+ A big step toward the practical application of 3D holography with powerful computers
+ What happens when materials take tiny hits
+ SUTD researchers discover new black silver nanomaterial


Telescopes Reveal More Than 100 Exoplanets
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
An international team of astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets (here after, exoplanets) in only three months. These planets are quite diverse and expected to play a large role in developing the research field of exoplanets and life in the universe. Exoplanets, planets that revolve around stars other than the Sun, ... more
+ Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years ago
+ Exoplanet mission launch slot announced
+ New Climate Models of TRAPPIST-1's Seven Intriguing Worlds
+ Bacteria Likely to Soon Infect ISS Crew Found to Be Antibiotic-Resistant
+ Jumping genes shed light on how advanced life may have emerged
+ Researchers Are Perfecting Technology to Look for Signs of Alien Life
+ Study reveals one of universe's secret ingredients for life
Radio JOVE From NASA: Tuning In to Your Local Celestial Radio Show
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a cacophony of such sounds and all you need to hear them for yourself is a box the size of a DVD player. The universe is full of radio emissions. Many objects in space emit radio waves, and scientis ... more
+ The PI's Perspective: Share the News - The Farthest Exploration of Worlds in History is Beginning
+ Encouraging prospects for moon hunters
+ Evidence for ancient glaciation on Pluto
+ SwRI team makes breakthroughs studying Pluto orbiter mission
+ ALMA maps temperature of Jupiter's icy moon Europa
+ NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains
+ WorldWide Telescope looks ahead to New Horizons' Ultima Thule glyby


Scientists reveal substantial water loss in global landlocked regions
Manhattan KS (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
Along with a warming climate and intensified human activities, recent water storage in global landlocked basins has undergone a widespread decline. A new study reveals this decline has aggravated local water stress and caused potential sea level rise. The study, "Recent Global Decline in Endorheic Basin Water Storage," was carried out by a team of scientists from six countries and appears ... more
+ Tracing iron in the North Pacific
+ Thriving reef fisheries continue to provide food despite coral bleaching
+ US groundwater in peril: Potable supply less than thought
+ Current efforts to save coral reefs are insufficient, report finds
+ UK will have 'completely safe' water after Brexit
+ Biggest coral reseeding project launches on Great Barrier Reef
+ Over one third of Indonesia's coral reefs in bad state: study
UK will build its own satellite-navigation system after Brexit
London, UK (Sputnik) Dec 03, 2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that Britain would explore the possibility of building its own satellite navigation system instead of relying on the EU's Galileo, compelling another minister in her Cabinet to resign. May announced on Friday that the UK was pulling out of the EU's satellite navigation system which was designed to compete with the US GPS system and is due to be launc ... more
+ Beijing's space navigation BeiDou program seeks to dethrone US-owned GPS platform
+ China expands use of BeiDou navigation system in transportation
+ China launches twin BeiDou navigation satellites
+ Finland summons Russian ambassador over GPS blocking claims
+ Russia blocked GPS data during NATO exercises: Norway
+ Finnish PM: Jammed GPS signals may be work of Russia
+ Air Force taps Rockwell for jam-resistant GPS navigation systems


NASA Announces New Partnerships for Commercial Lunar Payload Delivery Services
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 30, 2018
Nine U.S. companies now are eligible to bid on NASA delivery services to the lunar surface through Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) contracts, as one of the first steps toward long-term scientific study and human exploration of the Moon and eventually Mars. These companies will be able to bid on delivering science and technology payloads for NASA, including payload integration and ... more
+ Lockheed Martin Selected for NASA's Commercial Lunar Lander Payload Services Contract
+ Construction of Russian Lunar Orbital Station May Be Launched in 2025
+ NASA chooses nine companies to bid on flying to Moon
+ Roscosmos, NASA to work together on concept of Lunar orbital station
+ 2028 moon mission pitched at US National Space Council meeting
+ App to the Moon
+ Lunar Outpost unveils lunar resource prospecting rover
NASA's first asteroid sample-collector arrives at target, Bennu
Tampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The $800 million unmanned mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, made a rendez-vous with the asteroid at around 12:10 pm (1710 GMT), firing its engines a final time. "We have arrived," said Javier Ce ... more
+ OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid Bennu
+ Taking the Measure of an Asteroid
+ NASA provides live coverage of OSIRIS-REx arrival at Asteroid Bennu
+ Detective mission to characterize and trace the history of a new African meteorite
+ Odd bodies, rapid spins keep cosmic rings close
+ NASA's Lucy in the Sky with... Asteroids?
+ NASA OSIRIS-REx flexes its "arm" before arriving at Asteroid Bennu


Macroscopic phenomena governed by microscopic physics
Osaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
It has been difficult to simultaneously obtain micro- and macroscopic information in outer space. Global images of distant astrophysical phenomena provide macroscopic information; however, local information is inaccessible. In contrast, in situ observations with spacecrafts provide microscopic information of phenomena such as the Earth's magnetosphere, but it is difficult to obtain global ... more
+ To image leaky atmosphere, NASA rocket team heads north
+ Monitoring climate change from space
+ Researchers rise to challenge of predicting hail, tornadoes three weeks in advance
+ India launches modern earth observation satellite
+ Extreme weather 'major' issue for Tokyo 2020
+ New insight into ocean-atmosphere interaction and subsequent cloud formation
+ SSTL releases first images from S-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite, NovaSAR-1
Auroras help scientists study energy instabilities in space
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
+ NASA retires prolific solar observatory after 16 years
+ Scientists map magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetotail
+ Auroras Unlock the Physics of Energetic Processes in Space
+ Windy with a chance of magnetic storms - space weather science with cluster
+ A stellar achievement: Magnetized space winds in the laboratory
+ ESA rocks space weather
+ Parker Solar Probe Reports Good Status After Close Solar Approach


Kepler's supernova experiment captures first moments of dying star
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
In a galaxy far away, an old star exploded and became a supernova. About 170 million years later on Feb. 4, 2018, the light emanating from the explosion was received by an arsenal of high-powered telescopes. NASA's Kepler space telescope detected the unfurling light of SN 2018oh, as it has been labeled. The first ground-based facility to identify the signal was with the All-Sky Automated S ... more
+ Newly discovered supernova may rewrite exploding star origin theories
+ Double Trouble: A White Dwarf Surprises Astronomers
+ IAU astronomers show exceptional involvement in outreach activities
+ Newly discovered supernova complicates origin story theories
+ Atomic jet - the first lens for extreme-ultraviolet light developed
+ Powerful Telescope to Explore 'Cosmic Dawn' from Chilean Peak
+ Fermi Traces the History of Starlight Across the Cosmos
Scientists Detect Biggest Known Black-Hole Collision
Canberra, Australia (SPX) Dec 03, 2018
An international team of scientists have detected ripples in space and time, known as gravitational waves, from the biggest known black-hole collision that formed a new black hole about 80 times larger than the Sun - and from another three black-hole mergers. The Australian National University (ANU) is playing a lead role in Australia's involvement with the gravitational wave discovery thr ... more
+ Four New Gravitational Wave Events from Black Hole Mergers
+ A golden age for particle analysis
+ Galileo satellites prove Einstein's Relativity Theory to highest accuracy yet
+ Black hole 'donuts' are actually 'fountains'
+ A Close-up Look at the Whirlpool Around a Gigantic Black Hole
+ Gas Clouds Whirling Around Black Hole in Distant Quasar
+ Clemson scientists measure all of the starlight ever produced by the observable universe
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