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  Melbourne, FL (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 Harris Corporation has launched and communicated with its first small satellite from India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle - showcasing the company's ability to provide complete end-to-end mission solutions for the fast-growing smallsat market. Harris Satellite (HSAT) is a briefcase-size 6U cubesat that provides an affordable solution for defense and commercial customers with very high-speed satellite communications requirements. Designed to fly in low Earth orbit, it features a persistent, resil ... read more |
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China puts 2 Saudi satellites into orbitBeijing (Sputnik) Dec 10, 2018 China has successfully put into orbit two Saudi Arabia's satellites - SaudiSat 5A and SauditSat 5B, China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said in a statement. The Long Marc ... more  
exactEarth AIS Payload on the PAZ Radar Satellite is Now LiveCambridge, Canada (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 exactEarth Ltd. reports that its advanced AIS payload onboard the Spanish radar satellite, PAZ, has completed its commissioning phase and is now fully-operational. The PAZ satellite is owned and ope ... more 
Tesla CEO Elon Musk taunts US financial regulatory agencyWashington (AFP) Dec 10, 2018 Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, openly derided the US Securities and Exchange Commission in an interview aired Sunday, having settled fraud charges with the regulatory agency over an errant tweet. ... more 
Dragon attached to Station, returns to Earth in JanuaryHouston TX (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 Three days after its launch from Florida, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was installed on the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station's Harmony module at 10:36 a.m. EST. The 1 ... more |
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Ball Aerospace delivers pollution monitoring instrument to NASABoulder CO (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 Ball Aerospace has delivered the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer to NASA after a successful final acceptance review. Once launched, TEMPO will be a space-based u ... more 
Experiments at PPPL show remarkable agreement with satellite sightingsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 As on Earth, so in space. A four-satellite mission that is studying magnetic reconnection - the breaking apart and explosive reconnection of the magnetic field lines in plasma that occurs throughout ... more  
Wintertime Arctic Sea Ice Growth Slows Long-term Decline: NASAGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 New NASA research has found that increases in the rate at which Arctic sea ice grows in the winter may have partially slowed down the decline of the Arctic sea ice cover. As temperatures in th ... more 
NASA Science Shows Human Impact of Clean Air PoliciesWashington DC (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 As local, federal, and international policies targeting the quality of the air we breathe continue to evolve, questions arise of how effective existing policies have been in improving human health. ... more  
NASA's InSight lander 'hears' wind on MarsTampa (AFP) Dec 7, 2018 Humans can now hear the haunting, low rumble of wind on Mars for the first time, after NASA's InSight lander captured vibrations from the breeze on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Friday. ... more |
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Get ready to greet the Geminid MeteorsBoston MA (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 If it's clear the nights of Thursday and Friday, December 13th and 14th, step outside and look up - you may very well see streaks of light across the sky from the annual Geminid meteor shower. ... more  |
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CAT rules in favour of Ofcom's EAN authorisation decisionLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London has handed down its judgment dealing with ViaSat's challenge to Ofcom's January 2018 authorisation of Inmarsat's UK complementary ground component (CG ... more  
Science: High pressure orders electronsKarlsruher, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 High-temperature superconductors can transport electrical energy without resistance. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have carried out high-resolution inelastic x-ray scatterin ... more 
On the trail of the Higgs BosonBologna, Italy (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 For the physics community, the discovery of new particles like the Higgs Boson has paved the way for a host of exciting potential experiments. Yet, when it comes to such an elusive particle as the H ... more  
Learning from lunar lightsParis (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA's 'NELIOTA' project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface - the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rock ... more  
Record Setting Course-Correction Puts New Horizons on Track to Kuiper Belt FlybyLaurel MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 With just 29 days to go before making space exploration history, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performed a short but record-setting course-correction maneuver on Dec. 2 that refined its path toward ... more |
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 Washington DC (The Conversation) Dec 07, 2018 
On July 20, 1989, the 20th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, President George H. W. Bush stood on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. and, backed by the Apollo 11 crew, announced his new Space Exploration Initiative (SEI). He believed that this new program would put America on a track to return to the moon and make an eventual push to Mars.
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 10, 2018 
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, openly derided the US Securities and Exchange Commission in an interview aired Sunday, having settled fraud charges with the regulatory agency over an errant tweet.
"I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC - I do not respect them" he said in an interview on the CBS network news program "60 Minutes."
Musk had to resign as Tesla chairman under a September ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018 
NASA's newest Mars lander InSight is slowly readying itself for its scientific mission. The newest images captured by the lander's camera, and shared by NASA, showcase the spacecraft's robotic arm.
The robotic arm can be seen in a flexed position, poised to deploy some of InSight's instruments in the coming days.
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 Beijing (AFP) Dec 7, 2018  China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower, state media said.
The Chang'e-4 lunar probe mission - named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology - launched on a Long March 3B rocket from the southwestern Xichang launch centre at 2:23 am (1823 GMT), according to the o ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
The Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) in London has handed down its judgment dealing with ViaSat's challenge to Ofcom's January 2018 authorisation of Inmarsat's UK complementary ground component (CGC) forming part of Inmarsat's European Aviation Network (EAN).
The Tribunal comprehensively found in favour of Ofcom and Inmarsat and determined that all of ViaSat's arguments failed. On that ba ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
The world's smallest wearable, battery-free device has been developed by Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering scientists to measure exposure to light across multiple wavelengths, from the ultra violet (UV), to visible and even infrared parts of the solar spectrum. It can record up to three separate wavelengths of light at one time.
The device's underlyin ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
Although helium is a rare element on Earth, it is ubiquitous in the Universe. It is, after hydrogen, the main component of stars and gaseous giant planets. Despite its abundance, helium was only detected recently in the atmosphere of a gaseous giant by an international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland.
The team, this time led by Genevan research ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
With just 29 days to go before making space exploration history, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft performed a short but record-setting course-correction maneuver on Dec. 2 that refined its path toward Ultima Thule, the Kuiper Belt object it will fly by on Jan. 1.
Just as the exploration of Ultima Thule will be the farthest-ever flyby of a planetary body, Sunday's maneuver was the most distan ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 
The jury is still out as to whether climate change will lead to stronger El Nino events, but while representatives from around 200 countries at the COP24 conference are working to breathe life into the 2105 Paris Agreement, there is a 75-80% chance that a fully-fledged event could be with us in the next couple of months.
El Nino and its cooler cousin, La Nina, are complex naturally occurri ... more |
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 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 |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 10, 2018 
Every few hours observing the Moon, ESA's 'NELIOTA' project discovers a brilliant flash of light across its surface - the result of an object hurtling through space and striking our unprotected rocky neighbour at vast speed. Based at the Kryoneri telescope of the National Observatory of Athens, this important project is now being extended to January 2021.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 07, 2018 
On Dec. 3, after traveling billions of kilometers from Earth, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft reached its target, Bennu, and kicked off a nearly two-year, up-close investigation of the asteroid. It will inspect nearly every square inch of this ancient clump of rubble left over from the formation of our solar system. Ultimately, the spacecraft will pick up a sample of pebbles and dust from Bennu's s ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
Ball Aerospace has delivered the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) spectrometer to NASA after a successful final acceptance review. Once launched, TEMPO will be a space-based ultraviolet/visible light air quality spectrometer in geostationary orbit over greater North America.
"Ball Aerospace has more than 30 years of innovation in advanced spectrometers and expertise ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
Andres Munoz-Jaramillo and Jose Manuel Vaquero, from Southwest Research Institute and University of Extremadura, respectively, have developed a new technique for looking at historic solar data to distinguish trustworthy observations from those that should be used with care. This work is critical to understanding the Sun's past and future as well as whether solar activity plays a role in climate ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 10, 2018 
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope requires a primary mirror so large that it would not fit inside any existing rockets as one single, large mirror. Because of this, Webb is equipped with a revolutionary set of 18 hexagonal mirror segments that are able to fold to fit inside the rocket fairing.
Their honeycomb like arrangement allows for Webb to have the largest possible reflective surface ... more |
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 Oxford UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
It's embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe. The remaining 95% is famously made up almost entirely of invisible, unknown material dubbed dark energy and dark matter. So even though there are a billion trillion stars in the observable universe, they are actually extremely rare.
The two mysterious dark subst ... more |
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