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  Tampa (AFP) Dec 31, 2018 A NASA spaceship is zooming toward the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever photographed by humankind, a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away. The US space agency will ring in the New Year with a live online broadcast to mark historic flyby of the mysterious object in a dark and frigid region of space known as the Kuiper Belt at 12:33 am January 1 (0533 GMT Tuesday). A guitar anthem recorded by legendary Queen guitaris ... read more |
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Cabinet approves 'Gaganyaan programme' for manned flight to spaceNew Delhi (IANS) Dec 31, 2018 In major boost to India's ambitious programme to send astronauts to space, the Union Cabinet has approved Rs 10,000-crore "Gaganyaan Programme" that envisages two unmanned and one manned flights to ... more 
Clearing the air for deep space travelTempe AZ (SPX) Dec 31, 2018 Matthew D. Green, an assistant professor of chemical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, wants to help space travelers breathe easier. Astronau ... more  
Turkey sets up first space agency in hopes of boosting indigenous defense industryIstanbul (XNA) Dec 28, 2018 With an eye to becoming a top player in global space technology, Turkey took a big step last week toward achieving its dream by establishing the country's first national space agency. The Turk ... more  
South Africa announces successful launch of Africa's most advanced nanosatelliteCape Town (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 Africa's most advanced nanosatellite, developed by South Africa, was successfully launched on Thursday, the South African Department of Science and Technology said. "[Today] marks another hist ... more |
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Difficulties in Planned Soyuz Launches Preparation to Emerge in 2020 - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 The preparation and holding of planned launches of the Russian Soyuz-2 carrier rockets at Baikonur Cosmodrome will face technical difficulties in 2020, a source in the aerospace industry told Sputni ... more 
India Approves $1.4Bln for First Manned Spaceflight to be Launched in 2022New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed and demonstrated most of the baseline technologies essential for undertaking a human spaceflight mission. Prior to the actual launch, two ... more 
China's first private rocket production base begins operationHangzhou (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 China's first private carrier rocket production base has started operation in Huzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, according to the Beijing-based rocket maker LandSpace. The company told Xi ... more 
US Aims for Space Supremacy Pose Potential Threats to Russia, China - AmbassadorMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 27, 2018 Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov commented on the issues of the US military space aspirations, Chinese President Xi Jinping visit to Russia and China-US trade tensions. Washington's ... more  
Discovery could lead to munitions that go further, much fasterAdelphi MD (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 Researchers from the U.S. Army and top universities discovered a new way to get more energy out of energetic materials containing aluminum, common in battlefield systems, by igniting aluminum micron ... more |
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The idiosyncratic mammalian diversification after extinction of the dinosaursSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 Mass extinction typically conjures up a picture of a meteor falling to Earth and decimating the dinosaurs along with everything else. However, this is not exactly what happened. Different groups of ... more  |
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Chemists create new quasicrystal material from nanoparticle building blocksProvidence RI (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 The strange class of materials known as quasicrystals has a new member. In a paper published on Thursday, Dec. 20, in Science, researchers from Brown University describe a quasicrystalline superlatt ... more  
Quantum Maxwell's demon 'teleports' entropy out of a qubitMoscow, Russia (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, ETH Zurich, and Argonne National Laboratory, U.S, have described an extended quantum Maxwell's demon, a device locally violating the ... more 
MIT researchers develop novel 3D printing method for transparent glassNew Rochelle, NY (SPX) Dec 28, 2018 A novel additive manufacturing platform was used for the digital fabrication of transparent glass at industrial scale. The G3DP2 platform, developed by MIT scientists and used to turn molten glass i ... more 
Two Soyuz Launches With UK Satellites Planned For 1st Quarter of 2019 - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 Two launches of Russian carrier rockets Soyuz-ST with UK satellites are planned to be held at the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in the first quarter of 2019, a source in the aerospace industry t ... more  
Women Will Make Up to Half of Russia-US Moon Flight Simulation CrewMoscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 Women will account for up to half of the crew that will be engaged in the second stage of a joint Russia-US project SIRIUS, which is designed to simulate the conditions of a flight to the Moon, Mark ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has developed and demonstrated most of the baseline technologies essential for undertaking a human spaceflight mission. Prior to the actual launch, two unmanned flights in full complement will be carried out to gain confidence on the technology and mission management aspects.
The Indian government has approved a fund of around $1.4 billion for ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Dec 27, 2018 
Russia touted Thursday a new hypersonic missile said to hit speeds of more than 30,000 kilometres per hour, amid heightened tension with the US over arms control.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday tracked final tests of a hypersonic missile dubbed "Avangard," which he says would defeat all existing missile defence systems.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 24, 2018 
Mars atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site remains at a storm-free range around 1.0.
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018). Opportunity likely experienced a low-power fault, a mission clock fault and an up-loss timer fault.
Since the loss of signal, the team has been listening for the rover over a broad range of times, frequencies and polari ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 
China successfully launched the No. 3 telecommunication technology test satellite on Tuesday.
The satellite was launched at 0:53 a.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3C carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite was developed and produced by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
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 Chennai, India (IANS) Dec 24, 2018 
The year 2018 could be termed as one of several new beginnings for the Indian space agency: the political sanction for a manned Gaganyaan mission, operationlisation of the heaviest rocket, steps to licence out lithium ion battery technology, introduction of new technologies in rockets and satellites and the decision to go ahead with the Indian Data Relay Satellite System (IDRSS), among others. A ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Dec 27, 2018 
ZIF glasses, a new family of glass, could combine the transparency of silicate glass with the nonbrittle quality of metallic glass, according to researchers at Penn State and Cambridge University in the U.K.
"We are sure of the transparency," said John Mauro, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State. "We'll have to wait until larger samples can be made to know if it has ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Dec 24, 2018 
A massive stellar flare on a baby star has been spotted by University of Warwick astronomers, shedding light on the origins of potentially habitable exoplanets.
One of the largest ever seen on a star of its type, the huge explosion of energy and plasma is around 10,000 times bigger than the largest solar flare ever recorded from our own Sun.
The discovery is detailed in a paper for t ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Dec 28, 2018 
NASA's unmanned New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on its historic New Year's flyby target, the most distant world ever studied, a frozen relic of the solar system some four billion miles (6.4 billion kilometers) away.
The cosmic object, known as Ultima Thule, is about the size of the US capital, Washington, and orbits in the dark and frigid Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond the dw ... more |
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 Miandoab, Iran (AFP) Dec 30, 2018 
It is one of the worst ecological disasters of recent decades, but the shrinking of Iran's great Lake Urmia finally appears to be stabilising and officials see the start of a revival.
A rusty cargo ship and a row of colourful pedal boats lying untouched on the bone-dry basin are a sign of the devastating loss of water in what was once the largest lake in the Middle East.
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 26, 2018 
The first of a next-generation global positioning satellite, offering security, longer life and greater connectivity, was successfully launched this week and is preparing to take its place among the current GPS constellation.
The GPS III SV01 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Sunday. Once operational it will join 31 other satellites ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 31, 2018 
Women will account for up to half of the crew that will be engaged in the second stage of a joint Russia-US project SIRIUS, which is designed to simulate the conditions of a flight to the Moon, Mark Belakovsky, a representative of the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBMP RAS), said.
"On 9-10 January [2019], there will be a medical commission that will s ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 24, 2018 
The December 2018 close approach by the large, near-Earth asteroid 2003 SD220 has provided astronomers an outstanding opportunity to obtain detailed radar images of the surface and shape of the object and to improve the understanding of its orbit.
The asteroid will fly safely past Earth on Saturday, Dec. 22, at a distance of about 1.8 million miles (2.9 million kilometers). This will be th ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 
China successfully sent six atmospheric environment research satellites and a test communication satellite into orbit Saturday.
They were launched by a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 4:00 p.m.
The six Yunhai-2 satellites will be used to study atmospheric environment, monitor space environment, prevent and reduce disasters, and cond ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Dec 24, 2018 
The sun defies conventional scientific understanding. Its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, is many millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Astrophysicists are keen to learn why the corona is so hot, and scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed research that may advance the search.
The scientists found that form ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 21, 2018 
Before moving NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and to assure that it's kept clean and safe, Webb got a very special wrapping treatment. The wrapping acts as a "mobile clean room," safeguarding the technological marvel from contaminants.
All satellites and observatories are created in clean rooms. Clean rooms filter out harmful contaminants, as even a speck of dust or a fingerprint could ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Dec 31, 2018 
Uppsala University researchers have devised a new model for the Universe - one that may solve the enigma of dark energy. Their new article, published in Physical Review Letters, proposes a new structural concept, including dark energy, for a universe that rides on an expanding bubble in an additional dimension.
We have known for the past 20 years that the Universe is expanding at an ever a ... more |
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