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  Buenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 Satellogic, the world's first vertically integrated geospatial analytics company, has announced a Multiple Launch Services Agreement (MLA) with China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC). CGWIC will launch 90 of Satellogic's spacecraft from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center. The first launch - scheduled for later this year - will deliver a dedicated payload of 13 of Satellogic's spacecraft to Low Earth Orbit on a Long March-6 (LM-6) rocket. Satellogic's team of world-class data scientists is ... read more |
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Evidence of Changing Seasons, Rain on Titan's North PoleWashington DC (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 An image from the international Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of ... more  
US says satellite attempt shows Iran threatWashington (AFP) Jan 15, 2019 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused Iran of posing a missile threat after Tehran defied his warnings and tried to put a satellite into orbit, albeit unsuccessfully. ... more 
France looks to beef up military space capabilitiesParis (Sputnik) Jan 16, 2019 The development of space industry has become France's priority, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall told Sputnik, commenting on the government's effort to increase investment in the sector. However, th ... more 
China takes lead in some military tech: PentagonWashington (AFP) Jan 15, 2019 China is on the cusp of fielding some of the world's most advanced weapons systems - and in some cases already has surpassed its rivals, a Pentagon assessment released Tuesday found. ... more |
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Team selected by Canadian Space Agency to study Mars mineralsLondon, Canada (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 In the coming years, new rovers will explore Mars with better scientific instruments, as capable as those that exist in labs here on Earth today. Roberta Flemming from Western University's Departmen ... more  
WSU smart home tests first elder care robotPullman WA (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 A robot created by Washington State University scientists could help elderly people with dementia and other limitations live independently in their own homes. The Robot Activity Support System ... more  
From volcanoes on Mars to scarps on Mercury - how places on other worlds get their namesLondon, UK (The Conversation) Jan 16, 2019 The New Horizons spacecraft, which flew past Pluto in 2015, successfully completed a flyby of "Ultima Thule", an object in the Kuiper belt of bodies beyond Neptune on January 1, 2019. The name Ultim ... more 
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 to resume operationsBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 NASA has moved closer to conducting science operations again with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, which suspended operations on Tuesday, Jan. 8. Today, Jan. 15, the inst ... more  
Double star system flips planet-forming disk into pole positionWarwick UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the o ... more |
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Nuclear arms treaty faces collapse after failed US-Russia talksGeneva (AFP) Jan 15, 2019 The survival of a key nuclear arms control treaty was cast further in doubt Tuesday after the US and Russia blamed each other for pushing the agreement to the brink of collapse. ... more  |
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Kiel physicists discover new effect in the interaction of plasmas with solidsKiel, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 Plasmas - hot gases consisting of chaotically-moving electrons, ions, atoms and molecules - can be found inside of stars, but they are also artificially created using special equipment in the labora ... more 
Using light to achieve computational logicTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 For the first time, researchers performed logic operations - the basis of computation - with a chemical device using electric fields and ultraviolet light. The device and the pioneering methods used ... more 
Nebraska leads $11 million study to develop radiation exposure drugsLincoln NE (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 The U.S. Department of Defense has turned to the University of Nebraska to jumpstart the development of drug therapies to protect military service members from the effects of radiation exposure. ... more  
BAE signs $79.8M contract with Navy for Pacific comms supportWashington (UPI) Jan 15, 2019 BAE Systems has signed a five-year, $79.8 million contract to assist the U.S. Navy in maintaining and operating electronic, communication and computing platforms across the Pacific and Indian Oceans. ... more 
Penn engineers 3D print smart objects with 'embodied logic'Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 Even without a brain or a nervous system, the Venus flytrap appears to make sophisticated decisions about when to snap shut on potential prey, as well as to open when it has accidentally caught some ... more |
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 Oslo (XNA) Jan 16, 2019 
Having successfully harvested fresh lettuce in space in 2015, astronauts are expected to see beans on their menu by 2021 thanks to high-tech planters developed by Norwegian researchers.
A technical workshop at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) developed the model of the planter box for producing food in space, said Silje Wolff, a plant physiologist at the Center for ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 16, 2019 
The largest piece of structural test hardware for America's new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, was loaded into Test Stand 4693 at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Jan. 14, 2019.
The liquid hydrogen tank is part of the rocket's core stage that is more than 200 feet tall with a diameter of 27.6 feet, and stores cryogenic liquid hydrogen and liquid oxyge ... more |
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 London, Canada (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
In the coming years, new rovers will explore Mars with better scientific instruments, as capable as those that exist in labs here on Earth today. Roberta Flemming from Western University's Department of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration is leading a team of researchers to develop a compact instrument that could be deployed to analyze mineral and rock structures ... 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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 Kiel, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
Plasmas - hot gases consisting of chaotically-moving electrons, ions, atoms and molecules - can be found inside of stars, but they are also artificially created using special equipment in the laboratory.
If a plasma comes in contact with a solid, such as the wall of the lab equipment, under certain circumstances the wall is changed fundamentally and permanently: atoms and molecules from th ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars. The international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) to obtain high-resolution images of the Asteroid belt-sized disc.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 16, 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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 Paris (AFP) Jan 14, 2019  More than 16,000 desalination plants scattered across the globe produce far more toxic sludge than fresh water, according to a first global assessment of the sector's industrial waste, published Monday.
For every litre of fresh water extracted from the sea or brackish waterways, a litre-and-a-half of salty slurry, called brine, is dumped directly back into the ocean or the ground.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 14, 2019 
Magnetic North is shifting rapidly, throwing off the World Magnetic Model that powers a variety of global navigational systems.
Scientists were originally scheduled to release an updated model this week - a fix for the accumulating anomalies - but due to the government shutdown, the update's release has been delayed until the end of the month.
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 Hong Kong, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) proudly supported the nation's current lunar exploration, Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which successfully performed the historic landing on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019.
Adopted by Chang'e-4 mission was PolyU's advanced technologies, namely the design and development of an advanced Camera Pointing System, and an innovative lunar topograp ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 17, 2019 
According to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), researchers have so far detected around 18,000 hazardous objects in space, 99 percent of which are asteroids.
The presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences agreed upon developing a national program to research the issues and methods of countering hazards from space, such as asteroids, comets and space debris, Scientific Director of the ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 17, 2019  Fluvial landscapes and the availability of water are of paramount importance for human safety and socioeconomic growth. Hydrologists know that identifying the boundaries of floodplains is often the first crucial step for any urban development or environmental protection plan.
Floodplain zoning is usually performed using complex hydrodynamic models, but modeling results can vary widely acro ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash.
The accomplishment, detailed in the journal Nature Astronomy, sets the s ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
NASA has moved closer to conducting science operations again with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, which suspended operations on Tuesday, Jan. 8. Today, Jan. 15, the instrument was brought back to its operations mode.
Shortly after noon EST on Jan. 8, software installed on the Wide Field Camera 3 detected that some voltage levels within the instrument were out o ... more |
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 Bethlehem PA (SPX) Jan 16, 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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