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  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for astronauts to land on the lunar surface. The agency is planning to test new human-class landers on the Moon beginning in 2024, with the goal of sending crew to the surface in 2028. Through upcoming multi-phased lunar exploration partnerships, NASA will ask American companies to study the best approach ... read more |
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No drill traces detected on photos of damaged Soyuz protection platesMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 14, 2018 Earlier, cosmonauts sent to earth photos of the meteoroid protection plates which were cut off from the holed Soyuz spacecraft to be checked for the traces of a drill, a source in the space industry ... more 
Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo reaches space for first timeLos Angeles (AFP) Dec 14, 2018 Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo flew higher than it ever has before, surpassing what the US Air Force considers the boundary of space, and marking the first manned flight to space from US soil since ... more  
Planetary scientists assist in capturing image of Insight from orbitLondon, Canada (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 Houston, there is no problem here. Eric Pilles assisted in capturing - for the first-time ever - extraordinary and highly significant scientific images of the NASA InSight robotic lander using HiRIS ... more  
Watch Comet 46P Wirtanen as it nears EarthMadison WI (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 On Dec. 16, you can get your best look yet at a comet - with a mouthful of a name - that has been hurtling toward Earth all month. When you do, you'll be taking in the sight of a comet discove ... more |
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Did supernovae kill off large ocean animals at dawn of PleistoceneLawrence KS (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 About 2.6 million years ago, an oddly bright light arrived in the prehistoric sky and lingered there for weeks or months. It was a supernova some 150 light years away from Earth. ithin a few h ... more  
UNLV study unlocks clues to how planets formLas Vegas NV (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us much, there is still a great deal we do not know about t ... more  
Preparing for discovery with NASA's Parker Solar ProbeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 Weeks after Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever approach to a star, the science data from the first solar encounter is just making its way into the hands of the mission's scientists. It's a mom ... more  
Webb Telescope will provide census of fledgling stars in stellar nurseryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 The dazzling glow of young stars dominates images of the giant stellar nursery NGC 346, in the neighboring dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud. But this photogenic beauty is more than jus ... more 
Astronomers find that dark matter dominates across cosmic timeAustin TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 In findings published in The Astrophysical Journal, University of Texas at Austin astronomers report that they have stumbled on an extraordinary galaxy that may corroborate a recently contested theo ... more |
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Shape-shifting origami could help antenna systems adapt on the flyAtlanta GA (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have devised a method for using an origami-based structure to create radio frequency filters that have adjustable dimensions, enabling the devices ... more  |
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Mini-detectors for the giganticDresden, Germany (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 The gravitational waves created by black holes or neutron stars in the depths of space indeed reach Earth. Their effects, however, are so small that they could only be observed so far using kilomete ... more  
Harnessing the power of 'spin orbit' coupling in silicon: Scaling up quantum computationSydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 12, 2018 Australian scientists have investigated new directions to scale up qubits - utilising the spin-orbit coupling of atom qubits - adding a new suite of tools to the armory. Spin-orbit coupling, t ... more 
ETRI exchanged quantum information on daylight in a free-space quantum key distributionSeoiul, South Korea (SPX) Dec 11, 2018 The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has reported a successful free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) in daylight with the self-developed polarization encoding chip fo ... more 
Tangled magnetic fields power cosmic particle acceleratorsMenlo Park CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 Magnetic field lines tangled like spaghetti in a bowl might be behind the most powerful particle accelerators in the universe. That's the result of a new computational study by researchers from the ... more 
Dancing with the enemyMunich, Germany (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 While testing a new subsystem on the SPHERE planet-hunting instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers were able to capture dramatic details of the turbulent stellar relationship in the bi ... more |
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 Edwards AFB CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
A winged spacecraft will soon take off with four NASA-supported technology experiments onboard. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo will separate from the WhiteKnightTwo twin-fuselage carrier aircraft and continue its rocket-powered test flight.
The flight, scheduled for no earlier than Dec. 13, is Virgin Galactic's first mission for NASA. The agency's Flight Opportunities program helped the fo ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 13, 2018 
Russian space agency Roscosmos will submit the project of the creation of a super-heavy rocket for an unmanned mission around the Moon for the government consideration by January 15, two sources in the aerospace industry told Sputnik, adding that the project was tentatively estimated at 1.5 trillion rubles ($22.6 billion).
"An internal memo of Roscosmos stipulates that the project under th ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 12, 2018 
NASA's InSight lander isn't camera-shy. The spacecraft used a camera on its robotic arm to take its first selfie - a mosaic made up of 11 images. This is the same imaging process used by NASA's Curiosity rover mission, in which many overlapping pictures are taken and later stitched together. Visible in the selfie are the lander's solar panel and its entire deck, including its science instruments ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 13, 2018 
China's Chang'e-4 probe decelerated and entered the lunar orbit Wednesday, completing a vital step on its way to make the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced.
After flying about 110 hours from earth, an engine on the probe was ignited when it was 129 km above the surface of the moon, in line with instructions sent fr ... 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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 Nashville TN (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
The record-setting SpaceX rocket launch yesterday carried a Vanderbilt space radiation experiment aboard CubeSat Fox-1Cliff. Actually, it's a spare.
The original payload is aboard CubeSat AO-85 , launched in 2015 and still in low-Earth orbit. After deployment, Fox1-Cliff received its official designation, AO-95. A third Vanderbilt payload has been up one year this month on AO-91, and there ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
"But where did the hot Neptunes go?" This is the question astronomers have been asking for a long time, faced with the mysterious absence of planets the size of Neptunes very close to their star. A team of researchers, led by astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, has just discovered that one of these planets is losing its atmosphere at a frantic pace.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 13, 2018 
On Dec. 21, at 8:49:48 a.m. PST (11:49:48 a.m. EST) NASA's Juno spacecraft will be 3,140 miles (5,053 kilometers) above Jupiter's cloud tops and hurtling by at a healthy clip of 128,802 mph (207,287 kilometers per hour). This will be the 16th science pass of the gas giant and will mark the solar-powered spacecraft's halfway point in data collection during its prime mission.
Juno is in a hi ... more |
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 East Boothbay ME (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
New research shows that phytoplankton iron storage strategies may determine which species thrive in changing oceans and impact marine food webs, according to a recent paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research examined two primary methods of iron storage and found that one makes species more resilient against shortages of the rare and essential element.
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 12, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force's first GPS III satellite has been encapsulated for its planned Dec. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on a SpaceX Falcon 9 satellite-delivery vehicle.
The GPS III Space Vehicle 01 has undergone pre-launch processing, fueling and other services in Titusville, Fla. The GPS III SV01 was loaded in its launch cartridge in anticipation of its coming la ... 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.
Impact flashes are referred to as ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
The technological multinational GMV leads an international consortium entrusted with designing the analysis of the HERA mission and developing its Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) System. The HERA mission is run by the European Space Agency (ESA) and led by OHB-System AG.
Based on the heritage of the Asteroid Impact Mission (AIM) project, HERA aims to be the first interplanetary miss ... more |
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 Kazan, Russia (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
There are only a few so-called "heaters" in the world - special facilities which create artificial plasma processes in the upper atmosphere by heating them.
Senior Research Associate of the Near Space Research Lab Vladimir Frolov explains, "There are currently three heating stands in the world. One is in Russia, it's called SURA; another, EISCAT-Heater, is near Tromso in Norway; and the th ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
Weeks after Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever approach to a star, the science data from the first solar encounter is just making its way into the hands of the mission's scientists. It's a moment many in the field have been anticipating for years, thinking about what they'll do with such never-before-seen data, which has the potential to shed new light on the physics of our star, the Sun. ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2018 
In findings published in The Astrophysical Journal, University of Texas at Austin astronomers report that they have stumbled on an extraordinary galaxy that may corroborate a recently contested theory about dark matter.
Dark matter is matter that does not give off any light, but is detectable by its gravitational pull on other matter. It was first discovered in the 1970s in studies of spir ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 14, 2018 
Before electrical power became available, water fountains worked by relying on gravity to channel water from a higher elevation to a lower one. This water could then be redirected to shoot out of the fountain and create a centerpiece for people to admire.
In space, awesome gaseous fountains have been discovered in the centers of galaxy clusters. One such fountain is in the cluster Abell 25 ... more |
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