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  Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 "Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original. But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuster in its own right. Lunar landings date back to the 1960s. The United States landed 12 people on six sep ... read more |
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Capella Space Selects Phase Four for Maxwell On-Orbit Propulsion SystemEl Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Phase Four, a best in class provider of electric radio frequency (RF) thrusters for in-space propulsion, announced that Capella Space, an aerospace and information services company providing Earth o ... more  
Earth-i Updates Satellite Map of Queensland, AustraliaLondon, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 New Space pioneer Earth-i has announced that it has completed the third annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland. The map covers the whole of Queensland's 1.9 million km2 ... more  
The Arch Mission Foundation and SpaceChain Create Orbital LibraryLos Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 The Arch Mission Foundation has announced that they had successfully placed the first archive in space in partnership with SpaceChain, a community-based space platform that combines space and blockc ... more  
BeiDou achieves real-time transmission of deep-sea dataQingdao (XNA) Feb 04, 2019 China has achieved real-time transmission of deep-sea data at 6,000-meter depth through its self-developed BeiDou satellites for the first time, a move essential to more secure, independent and reli ... more |
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Chang'e-4 finds moon's far side colder than expected during nightBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 probe, having made the first-ever soft landing on moon's far side, found that the temperature of the lunar surface dropped to as low as minus 190 degrees centigrade, colder than ex ... more  
Space Operators provide TACPs tactical space trainingPeterson AFB CO (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 Deployed Tactical Air Control Party Airmen expect space effects to work; otherwise pilots get shot down, bombs miss targets, and soldiers die. TACPs may not know ... more  
Lockheed awarded $559.6M for Trident II D5 missiles, system supportWashington (UPI) Jan 31, 2019 Lockheed Martin Space was awarded a $559.6 million contract for production and system support of submarine-launched Trident II D5 missiles. ... more 
The 'stuff' of the universe keeps changingColumbus OH (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 The composition of the universe - the elements that are the building blocks for every bit of matter - is ever-changing and ever-evolving, thanks to the lives and deaths of stars. An outline of ... more  
Large, stable pieces of graphene produced with unique edge patternNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Graphene is a promising material for use in nanoelectronics. Its electronic properties depend greatly, however, on how the edges of the carbon layer are formed. Zigzag patterns are particularly inte ... more |
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 'Rocket C': Space Industry Source Unveils Tech Details of Russia Lunar Mission 
Fluid-inspired material self-heals before your eyesChicago IL (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 It's hard to believe that a tiny crack could take down a gigantic metal structure. But sometimes bridges collapse, pipelines rupture and fuselages detach from airplanes due to hard-to-detect corrosi ... more  |
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New quantum system could help design better spintronicsWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 Researchers have created a new testing ground for quantum systems in which they can literally turn certain particle interactions on and off, potentially paving the way for advances in spintronics. ... more 
Graphene crinkles can be used as molecular zippersProvidence RI (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 A decade ago, scientists noticed something very strange happening when buckyballs - soccer ball shaped carbon molecules - were dumped onto a certain type of multilayer graphene, a flat carbon nanoma ... more  
Innovative GEDI Instrument Now Gathering Forest DataGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 NASA instrument scientist Bryan Blair had just finished writing the flight software for the agency's Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, or MOLA, when he was invited in 1991 to fly a lidar instrument aboa ... more  
Simulating meteorite impacts in the labHamburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 A US-German research team has simulated meteorite impacts in the lab and followed the resulting structural changes in two feldspar minerals with X-rays as they happened. The results of the experimen ... more  
Sodium, Not Heat, Reveals Volcanic Activity on Jupiter's Moon IoTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said. "These results highlight the growin ... more |
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 Bengaluru, India (IANS) Feb 01, 2019 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said on Thursday that it has launched a Human Space Flight Centre here.
"Human Space Flight Centre is operational now... The facility is next to ISRO headquarters," the city-based space agency tweeted.
The Centre is dedicated to developing critical technologies for human space missions.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 04, 2019 
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos has finally approved the design of the Yenisei super-heavy class launch vehicle for future lunar missions, it will use the RD-180 and RD-171MB engines, a Russian space industry source told Sputnik.
"Only one version of the super-heavy class rocket is being considered now. It has been proposed by the Samara-based Progress rocket space center and com ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
The density of rock layers on the terrain that climbs from the base of Mars' Gale Crater to Mount Sharp is less dense than expected, according to the latest report on the Red Planet's geology from a team of scientists including Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison. Their work is published in Science.
Scientists still aren't sure how this mountain grew inside of the crater, which has been a longstan ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2019 
China is going to send more than 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches this year, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Tuesday.
The major missions include the third Long March-5 large carrier rocket to be launched in July, said Yang Baohua, vice president of the CASC, at a press conference.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 01, 2019 
The launch of OneWeb communications satellites from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana, planned for February 20, has been delayed due to problems with the equipment from the Russian carrier, Greg Wyler, the chairman of OneWeb, said.
"It's true, there is an anomaly on the rocket which will cause us to push out the launch. Our satellites are fine and ready to go"! Wyler tweeted.
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
The composition of the universe - the elements that are the building blocks for every bit of matter - is ever-changing and ever-evolving, thanks to the lives and deaths of stars.
An outline of how those elements form as stars grow and explode and fade and merge is detailed in a review article published Jan. 31 is the journal Science.
"The universe went through some very interesting c ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass that's between that of Neptune and Saturn, and its location beyond the "snow line" of its host star, an alien world of this scale was supposed to be rare.
Aparna Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), le ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said.
"These results highlight the growing body of evidence that the traditional way of monitoring Io's volcanism - by looking for temperature changes on its surface caused by hot lava - is not able to reliably find these large gas release e ... more |
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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 1, 2019  A week after a dam storing mining waste collapsed in southeast Brazil, the human cost is clear, with 110 killed and 238 missing, presumed dead, but the environmental impact is still being evaluated.
Authorities fear the mineral-laced slurry released by the collapse could eventually pollute the Sao Francisco River, the second-longest in Brazil, which hosts various species of fish and has many ... more |
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 Qingdao (XNA) Feb 04, 2019 
China has achieved real-time transmission of deep-sea data at 6,000-meter depth through its self-developed BeiDou satellites for the first time, a move essential to more secure, independent and reliable deep-sea data transmission.
China's most sophisticated research vessel Kexue (Science) returned to the eastern port city of Qingdao on Thursday after wrapping up a 74-day, 12,000-nautical m ... more |
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 Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 
"Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original.
But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuste ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 31, 2019 
Place names for locations on the surface of Ryugu were discussed by Division F (Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (hereafter IAU WG) and approved in December 2018. We will introduce the place names in this article and the background to their selection.
As the appearance of Ryugu gradually became ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 
New Space pioneer Earth-i has announced that it has completed the third annual update of the satellite map of the state of Queensland.
The map covers the whole of Queensland's 1.9 million km2 and was created by Earth-i for the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME). The first map was produced in 2016 with Earth-i reappointed for updates in both 2017 and 2018.
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
On Jan. 19, 2019, just 161 days after its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, NASA's Parker Solar Probe completed its first orbit of the Sun, reaching the point in its orbit farthest from our star, called aphelion. The spacecraft has now begun the second of 24 planned orbits, on track for its second perihelion, or closest approach to the Sun, on April 4, 2019.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study some of the oldest and faintest stars in the globular cluster NGC 6752 have made an unexpected finding. They discovered a dwarf galaxy in our cosmic backyard, only 30 million light-years away. The finding is reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters.
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
According to one of the most fundamental principles in physics, an observer on a moving train uses the same laws to describe a ball on the platform as an observer standing on the platform - physical laws are independent on the choice of a reference frame. Reference frames such as the train and the platform are physical systems and ultimately follow quantum-mechanical rules.
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