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  Boston MA (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 There are more than 3,900 confirmed planets beyond our solar system. Most of them have been detected because of their "transits" - instances when a planet crosses its star, momentarily blocking its light. These dips in starlight can tell astronomers a bit about a planet's size and its distance from its star. But knowing more about the planet, including whether it harbors oxygen, water, and other signs of life, requires far more powerful tools. Ideally, these would be much bigger telescopes in spac ... read more |
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Eating your veggies, even in spaceOslo, Norway (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 Fresh food is so attractive to astronauts that they toasted with salad when they were able to cultivate a few lettuce heads on the International Space Station three years ago. In 2021, beans a ... more  
In space, the US sees a rival in ChinaWashington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists. ... more 
NASA reveals reason behind Roscosmos Head's cancelled visit: SputnikMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 07, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he had rescinded an invitation to Dmitry Rogozin, the head of the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, to visit the United States because he wanted to a ... more  
New nanosatellite system captures better imagery at lower costBeer-Sheva, Israel (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new satellite imaging system that could revolutionize the economics and imagery available from space-based cameras and even earth-based telescopes. ... more |
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Cold reminders of Earth's last great cold snap revealed in the deep PacificWashington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 Chilly reminders of a centuries-long cold snap can be found deep within the Pacific, a new study finds. According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures in ... more 
Roscosmos Expects NASA to Explain Position on Rogozin's Visit to USMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 06, 2019 The planned visit by Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos, to the United States may not just be postponed but cancelled, a source in the rocket and s ... more 
Russia demands explanation over US snub to space chiefMoscow (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 Russia's space agency on Saturday demanded an explanation after NASA put off a planned visit to the United States by Russia's controversial space chief. ... more  
Breathtaking 12 minutes for Chang'e-4's landingBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2019 Over about 12 dramatic minutes, China's Chang'e-4 probe descended and softly touched down on a crater on the far side of the moon on Thursday. Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar explor ... more 
India's second moon mission postponed again - reportsMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 04, 2019 India's first moon mission, named Chandrayaan-1, took place back in 2008. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was scheduled to be launched on Thursday but has reportedly been postponed. India's second m ... more |
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ISRO planning to 32 space missions in 2019New Delhi (IANS) Jan 04, 2019 India is planning to launch 32 space missions in 2019, a top space official said in Bengaluru. The year 2019 promises to be challenging to the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) communi ... more  |
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New Ultima Thule Discoveries from NASA's New HorizonsLaurel MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily. "The first exploration of a small Kuiper B ... more  
Galaxy collision could send solar system flyingDurham UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 A nearby galaxy is hurtling towards the Milky Way on a collision course that could fling our solar system into interstellar space. New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, ... more 
Chang'e-4 lands on largest crater in solar systemBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe has made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon. Experts believe that the precise landing will help prepare the country for its following lunar explora ... more 
Swedish instrument has landed on the moonKiruna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 On January 3, 03:26 Swedish time, the Chinese Chang'E-4 spacecraft landed successfully on the far side of the Moon. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) has developed one of the scientific i ... more  
Poor timing to diminish intensity of Quadrantid meteor shower in U.S.Washington (UPI) Jan 3, 2019 The Quadrantids arrive in the skies each year in the first week of January. The shower often produces an abundance of shooting stars, as many as a 100 per hour during its peak. ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 5, 2019 
Russia's space agency on Saturday demanded an explanation after NASA put off a planned visit to the United States by Russia's controversial space chief.
Dmitry Rogozin, a firebrand nationalist politician known for his anti-Western rhetoric, was set to visit the US in February but NASA said Friday that it was postponing his visit indefinitely.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 03, 2019 
Scientists from Russia and around the world see plasma rocket technology as a crucial possible ingredient for speedy missions to Mars and beyond.
Physicists from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk are preparing another round of experiments aimed at successfully harnessing the power of thermonuclear plasma for use ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2019 
As Dr Dartnell pointed out, at this point it is unclear whether life actually exists on Mars; and if it does exist, it remains to be seen how similar this life may be to that on Earth.
While NASA's InSight spacecraft successfully landed on Mars and began studying its surface, Dr Lewis Dartnell, an astrobiologist and researcher at the University of Westminster, said that another upcoming mi ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
Recently, the satellite data industry welcomed its newest player: Amazon. Amazon is teaming up with with defense industry veteran Lockheed Martin to create the new AWS Ground Station Service - which will eventually have 12 global antenna ground stations. These stations will provide customers on the ground with satellite communication and associated access to data.
As you probably already k ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 4, 2019 
Raytheon has been awarded a contract to Elbit Systems of America for the Two Color Laser System, a surveillance system element onboard military aircraft.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed in a news release on Elbit Systems' website, but the U.S. subsidiary of the Israeli company said the contract would be carried out in 2019. The Two Color Laser System serves the Multi-Spec ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
A nearby galaxy is hurtling towards the Milky Way on a collision course that could fling our solar system into interstellar space.
New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, predicts that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could hit the Milky Way in two billion years' time. The collision could occur much earlier than the predicted impact between the Milky Way and another n ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily.
"The first exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any world in history is now history, but almost all of the data analysis lies in the future," said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boul ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Chilly reminders of a centuries-long cold snap can be found deep within the Pacific, a new study finds.
According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures indicates that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the surface cooling that occurred during the Little Ice Age, which began nearly 1,000 years ago.
The common-era climate anomaly known as the L ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 31, 2018 
China on Thursday announced that the primary system of BeiDou-3 has been established and started to provide global services, meaning its home-grown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) officially went global.
The BDS has been performing well in the Asia-Pacific region and it goes global with cutting-edge technology and high-quality service.
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 
A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people".
The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown of the Chang'e-4 probe, the agency said.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters - and broke a space exploration record. The spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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 Beer-Sheva, Israel (SPX) Jan 07, 2019 
Ben-Gurion University researchers have developed a new satellite imaging system that could revolutionize the economics and imagery available from space-based cameras and even earth-based telescopes.
"This is an invention that completely changes the costs of space exploration, astronomy, aerial photography, and more," says Angika Bulbul, a BGU Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Prof. ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
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) Jan 02, 2019 
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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 Ames IA (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
A team of experimentalists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and theoreticians at University of Alabama Birmingham discovered a remarkably long-lived new state of matter in an iron pnictide superconductor, which reveals a laser-induced formation of collective behaviors that compete with superconductivity.
"Superconductivity is a strange state of matter, in which the pairin ... more |
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