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  Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 The space revolution is underway. The excitement in the industry is palpable, and new staggering achievements are being accomplished at almost a daily rate. There is also a rapidly increasing tempo of new company announcements, new players who want to serve existing space markets or create new ones. New space companies are creating significant value, but how can anyone see through the hype to know which companies will be successful? For someone who wants to invest in these companies, it can be qui ... read more |
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Iran satellite in US row fails to reach orbit: state mediaTehran (AFP) Jan 15, 2019 Iran launched a satellite criticised by the United States on Tuesday but it failed to reach orbit, state television quoted the telecommunications minister as saying. ... more  
Maxar's SSL selected to define small satellite requirements for Environmental Defense FundPalo Alto CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 SSL, a Maxar Technologies company, and a leading provider of innovative satellites and spacecraft systems, announced today that it is leveraging Maxar's combined capabilities for a contract to defin ... more 
D-Orbit awarded with ESA GSTP contract for the development of a precise in-orbit CubeSat deployerFino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded D-Orbit SpA with the General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) contract n 4000126167 titled "Development of a Precise In-Orbit CubeSat Deployer." The ... more  
Competition for Young Space Entrepreneurs launchedLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2019 The UK Space Agency is offering young people expert advice and a share of 50,000 pounds for their ideas of how satellites could improve life on Earth. The SatelLife Competition, now in its th ... more |
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China envisions moon base after far-side successBeijing (AFP) Jan 14, 2019 China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said Monday, weeks after landing a rover on the moon's far side. ... more  
Large asteroid skims past EarthMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 15, 2019 The celestial body known as AG3 was first mapped in December. Scientists then prepared to keep track of it, as it was projected to pass in the Earth's vicinity two weeks into the new year. A h ... more 
Chang'e-4 to measure lunar temperatures during freezing nightBeijing (XNA) Jan 15, 2019 The night on the moon is dark and cold, yet Chinese scientists don't know exactly how cold it can be. The Chang'e-4 probe, which made the first-ever soft-landing on the far side of the moon, will he ... more 
China unveils follow-up lunar exploration missionsBeijing (XNA) Jan 15, 2019 China will launch the Chang'e-5 probe by the end of this year to bring moon samples back to Earth, a senior official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced Monday. The Cha ... more 
China's new lunar rover faces challenges on moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Jan 15, 2019 China's second lunar rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), which is also the first-ever rover to drive on the moon's far side, will face great challenges brought by complicated terrains in its future explor ... more |
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 Astronomers find signatures of a 'messy' star that made its companion go supernova  
Birth of a black hole or neutron star captured for the first timeMaunakea HI (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 A Northwestern University-led international team of astronomers is getting closer to understanding the mysterious bright object that burst in the northern sky this summer, dubbed AT2018cow or 'The C ... more  |
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New technique more precisely determines the ages of starsDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 How old are each of the stars in our roughly 13-billion-year-old galaxy? A new technique for understanding the star-forming history of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail makes it possible to dete ... more  
Artificial bug eyesWashington DC (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 Single lens eyes, like those in humans and many other animals, can create sharp images, but the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans have an edge when it comes to peripheral vision, light sensit ... more  
Spintronics 'miracle material' put to the testSalt Lake City UT (SPX) Jan 11, 2019 When German mineralogist Gustav Rose stood on the slopes of Russia's Ural Mountains in 1839 and picked up a piece of a previously undiscovered mineral, he had never heard of transistors or diodes or ... more  
Dragon Back on Earth as Crew Revs Up Station ScienceHouston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is back on Earth after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean Sunday night loaded with critical space research and International Space Station hardware. Four spaceships re ... more 
Space dreams: Alum Frank Bunger's quest to make space tourism a realityBerkeley CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 Frank Bunger, MBA 18, dreamed of space as a child. Today, he's pursuing that dream as co-founder and CEO of Orion Span, a startup that plans to build the Aurora Space Station to launch travelers int ... more |
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 Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 11, 2019 
India will send its first manned mission into space by December 2021, the head of the country's space agency said on Friday.
The three-person mission would make the Asian giant the fourth country after Russia, the United States and China to put people in space.
"We are planning to have the first unmanned mission by December 2020, the second by July 2021, and the manned mission by Decembe ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 
The space revolution is underway. The excitement in the industry is palpable, and new staggering achievements are being accomplished at almost a daily rate. There is also a rapidly increasing tempo of new company announcements, new players who want to serve existing space markets or create new ones. New space companies are creating significant value, but how can anyone see through the hype to kn ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day.
New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to a k ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 14, 2019 
As the Chang'e-4 probe made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, a senior Chinese space expert said China will deepen its lunar exploration and venture further into the unknown.
China's current lunar program includes three phases: orbiting, landing, and returning. The first two phases have been accomplished, and the next step is to launch the Chang'e-5 probe to collect ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jan 14, 2019 
Aireon has announced a successful eighth and final launch and deployment of the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation hosting the Aireon space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) payloads. At 7:31:33 AM PST (15:31:33 UTC) a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and placed the final 10 Iridium NEXT satellites into low earth orbit (LEO). ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 11, 2019 
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. was awarded an $86.2 million contract by the U.S. Army in support of the Starlite radar system.
The contract, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is a hybrid fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee agreement.
The AN/ZPY-1 STARLite radar system is a small radar unit used on tactical aerial reconnaissance missions that include moving target d ... more |
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 Villanova PA (SPX) Jan 11, 2019 
Barnard b (or GJ 699 b) is a recently discovered Super-Earth planet orbiting Barnard's Star, making it the second nearest star system to the Earth. Although likely cold (-170 degrees centigrade), it could still have the potential to harbor primitive life if it has a large, hot iron/nickel core and enhanced geothermal activity.
That was a conclusion announced by Villanova University Astroph ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 
On Jan. 2, the New Horizons spacecraft made the most distant flyby ever attempted, successfully returning images of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule. While the world is agog at the so-called "snowman" shape of this icy asteroid, the concept is nothing new to PSI scientist and artist, Bill Hartmann.
The figure shows paintings that Hartmann made from 1978 to 1996, to illustrate the possib ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 
Sea level rise puts coastal areas at the forefront of the impacts of climate change, but new research shows they face other climate-related threats as well. In a study published January 14 in Nature Communications, researchers report that the energy of ocean waves has been growing globally, and they found a direct association between ocean warming and the increase in wave energy.
A wide ra ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Jan 11, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin the GPS Control Segment Sustainment II (GCS II) contract to continue to sustain and further modernize the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation's ground control system through 2025. This is the follow-on contract to Lockheed Martin's current GCS contract awarded in 2013.
Under the GCS II contract, the continued upgrade of the GPS ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 14, 2019  China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said Monday, weeks after landing a rover on the moon's far side.
The agency said four more lunar missions are planned, confirming the launch of a probe by the end of the year to bring back samples from the moon.
The future launches will cul ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 15, 2019 
The celestial body known as AG3 was first mapped in December. Scientists then prepared to keep track of it, as it was projected to pass in the Earth's vicinity two weeks into the new year.
A huge asteroid tracked by radars only a month ago passed just a short distance away from our planet in the early hours of Monday, The Express quoted the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as saying. The sp ... more |
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 Harwell UK (SPX) Jan 11, 2019 
SIAP, the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food - part of the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture (SAGARPA) - has signed a declaration of intent with the UK Space Agency to provide historic, statistical and satellite data to support Rezatec's development of a crop yield optimisation tool for Mexican farmers and other supply chain stakeholders.
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 Syracuse NY (SPX) Jan 10, 2019 
This month's rare total eclipse will be the last one visible from the United States until 2022.
Walter Freeman is an assistant teaching professor in the Physics Department at Syracuse University. Freeman answers five questions about the upcoming eclipse.
Freeman says: What should those in the viewing area of the Jan. 20-21 total lunar eclipse expect to see?
"Viewers will see a ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Jan 14, 2019 
Russia has lost control of its only space radio telescope but officials are working to re-establish communication, the country's beleaguered space agency said Monday.
The incident is the latest setback for Russia's debt-laden space industry, which in recent years has suffered the loss of spacecraft, satellites, and a failed manned launch.
Roscosmos said a US observatory detected signals ... more |
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 Bethlehem PA (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 
The leading theory about how the universe began is the Big Bang, which says that 14 billion years ago the universe existed as a singularity, a one-dimensional point, with a vast array of fundamental particles contained within it. Extremely high heat and energy caused it to inflate and then expand into the cosmos as we know it?and, the expansion continues to this day.
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