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  Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2019 World powers are vying to develop so-called "hypersonic" weapons that travel several times the speed of sound, with France the latest to join a field led so far by Russia and China. Hypersonics are like missiles that travel at over five times the speed of sound (Mach 5) but are able to manoeuvre in mid-flight, making them much harder to track and intercept than traditional projectiles. France is the fourth of the five permanent UN Security Council members to join the so-called "stealth by speed" ... read more |
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To Catch a Wave, Rocket Launches From Top of WorldGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 On Jan. 4, 2019, at 4:37 a.m. EST the CAPER-2 mission launched from the Andoya Space Center in Andenes, Norway, on a 4-stage Black Brant XII sounding rocket. Reaching an apogee of 480 miles high bef ... more  
Russia positions its Moon program as alternative to US Lunar-orbit stationMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 29, 2019 The United States has presented a project for an international lunar-orbit station. Participants of the International Space Station, including Russia, are invited to participate in its construction. ... more  
Luxembourg and Belgium join forces to develop space resourcesLuxembourg (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence of the Kingdom of Belgium, and Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of the Grand Duch ... more  
Curiosity Says Farewell to Mars' Vera Rubin RidgePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2019 NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp. The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover's home for more than a yea ... more |
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This Galaxy Is No Match for a Hungry ClusterNew Haven CT (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 A new study led by Yale University astronomers tells the story of a galaxy that ran out of gas. It's a story as old as the universe itself: A galaxy is born, brimming with new stars, its spira ... more  
NATO says no progress in Russia talks on arms treatyBrussels (AFP) Jan 25, 2019 Senior NATO and Russian officials failed to make a breakthrough Friday in talks on saving the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, raising the spectre of a renewed arms race in Europe. ... more  
Harris receives $72M contract for Air Force space and missile systemsWashington DC (UPI) Jan 25, 2019 Harris Corp. Space and Intelligence Systems was awarded a $72 million contract for combat missions systems support, according to the Department of Defense. ... more  
Russia registering massive movement of US' GSSAP military satellitesMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2019 The Russian track means are registering massive movement of the US Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program (GSSAP) military satellites in the geostationary orbit, the Russian Astro Space ... more 
What if they don't come in peace?Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 28, 2019 What will happen if we encounter extraterrestrials? What consequences will it have for humanity and how can we prepare for that? Sputnik has spoken to Michael Schetsche, co-author of "The Alien Soci ... more |
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'GO dough' makes graphene easy to shape and moldEvanston IL (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 A Northwestern University team is reshaping the world of graphene - literally. The team has turned graphene oxide (GO) into a soft, moldable and kneadable play dough that can be shaped and res ... more  |
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Do microbes control the formation of giant copper deposits?Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 28, 2019 One of the major issues when studying ore deposits formed in surficial or near-surface environments is the relationship between ore-forming processes and bacteria. At a first glance, these environme ... more  
Information theory holds surprises for machine learningSanta Fe NM (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 New research challenges a popular conception of how machine learning algorithms "think" about certain tasks. The conception goes something like this: because of their ability to discard useles ... more  
Materials that open in the heat of the momentKyoto, Japan (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 Kyoto University researchers have designed a temperature-controllable copper-based material for sieving or storing different kinds of gases. The rationale used to design the material, described in t ... more  
Is the world ready for the 'digital transformation'?Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 The annual business rendezvous in Davos is a hothouse of insider tech jargon, but this year's buzzword of "digital transformation" could translate into profound and painful changes for companies and workers. ... more 
ISRO successfully puts Kalamsat, Microsat-R satellites into orbitNew Delhi (IANS) Jan 28, 2019 India on Thursday night opened the year's space campaign by putting into orbit defence imaging satellite "Microsat R" for the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and students-built ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 22, 2019  Blue Origin, the rocket company headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is poised to launch the 10th test flight of its unmanned New Shepard rocket on Wednesday as it competes with Virgin Galactic to become the first to carry tourists on brief visits to space.
The liftoff is scheduled for 8:50 am Central time (1450 GMT) from a Texas launchpad. The rocket will be carrying several science experim ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 28, 2019 
World powers are vying to develop so-called "hypersonic" weapons that travel several times the speed of sound, with France the latest to join a field led so far by Russia and China.
Hypersonics are like missiles that travel at over five times the speed of sound (Mach 5) but are able to manoeuvre in mid-flight, making them much harder to track and intercept than traditional projectiles.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2019 
NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp.
The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover's home for more than a year, providing scientists with new samples - and new questions - to puzzle over.
On Dec. 15, Curiosity drilled its 19th sample at a location on the ridge called Rock Hall.
On Jan. 15, the sp ... 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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 Cannes, France (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
Thales Alenia Space and SSL/Maxar have completed an important milestone for the Telesat LEO constellation. The success of the consortium's System Requirements Review (SRR) demonstrates increasing momentum for Telesat's global communications system design and was highlighted by three satellite industry leaders agreeing on key innovations that will enable Telesat LEO to deliver breakthrough perfor ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 28, 2019  Meet Helga and Zohar, the dummies destined for a pioneering lunar flyby to help protect space travelers from cosmic rays and energetic solar storms.
These two female phantoms will occupy the passenger seats during Orion's first mission around the Moon, going further than any human has flown before.
Fitted with more than 5600 sensors, the pair will measure the amount of radiation astr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
"Can moons have moons?" This simple question - asked by the four-year-old son of Carnegie's Juna Kollmeier - started it all. Not long after this initial bedtime query, Kollmeier was coordinating a program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) on the Milky Way while her one-time college classmate Sean Raymond of Universite de Bordeaux was attending a parallel KITP program on the d ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
The wonders - and mysteries - of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply as NASA's New Horizons spacecraft beams home new images of its New Year's Day 2019 flyby target.
This image, taken during the historic Jan. 1 flyby of what's informally known as Ultima Thule, is the clearest view yet of this remarkable, ancient object in the far reaches of the solar system - and the first sm ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Jan 29, 2019 
"Hundreds of thousands" of fish have died in drought-stricken Australia in the last few days and more mass deaths are likely to occur, the authorities warned Tuesday.
Locals around the Darling River were confronted with a sea of white, as dead fish carpeted the waters near the southeastern Outback town of Menindee.
Just weeks after up to a million were killed - with scientists pointing ... more |
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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.
Scientists with the British Geolog ... more |
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 Lanzarote, Spain (ESA) Jan 25, 2019 
Developing the most efficient and safest way to return to the Moon starts on Earth. European astronauts and spacewalk experts are getting ready for the future of Moon exploration with electronic aids, upgraded geological tools from the Apollo era and improved scientific protocols.
In November, ESA conducted a moonwalk simulation in Lanzarote, Spain as part of Pangaea-X, a test campaign tha ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
Didier Reynders, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence of the Kingdom of Belgium, and Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, signed a joint declaration at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels on 23 January 2019 in which the two countries commit to collaborate on the development of an international framework for ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 21, 2019 
The first Russian satellite for weather forecasting and monitoring climate and environment in the Arctic region, Arktika-M, is planned to be sent to near-earth orbit in June 2019, a source in the Russian space industry told Sputnik on Sunday.
"The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle from the Baikonur cosmodrome with Fregat booster and the first hydrometeorological satellite Arktika-M i ... more |
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 Bergen, Norway (SPX) Jan 25, 2019 
For many years, scientists assumed the aurora seen around the north pole was identical to the aurora seen around the south pole. The poles are connected by magnetic field lines, and auroral displays are caused by charged particles streaming along these field lines. Because the charged particles follow these field lines, it would make sense that the auroras would be mirror images of each other. ... more |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, in conjunction with the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), is releasing the second edition of data from Pan-STARRS - the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System - the world's largest digital sky survey.
This second release contains over 1.6 petabytes [1] of data, making it the largest volume ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 29, 2019 
Investigating the history of our cosmos with a large sample of distant 'active' galaxies observed by ESA's XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers found there might be more to the early expansion of the Universe than predicted by the standard model of cosmology.
According to the leading scenario, our Universe contains only a few percent of ordinary matter. One quarter of the cosmos is made of th ... more |
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