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  Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 Mark Stucky fought in the Iraq war, once buzzed a Soviet warplane over the Sea of Japan and has flown all sorts of experimental aircraft. Now, his dream is a taste of routine and repetition: to make the same trip as often as possible, in the same aircraft, ferrying six wealthy passengers into space. "Forger", as he is nicknamed, is a test pilot for the space travel company Virgin Galactic, founded by British billionaire Richard Branson. Flying an aircraft called SpaceShipTwo, for a few minu ... read more |
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Why a Department of the Space Force?Bethesda, MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 Over the last 20 years several issues regarding the National Security Space (NSS) organization and management have been reviewed and assessed. Both the Rumsfeld Commission in 2001 and the Allard Com ... more  
NASA seeks US partners to develop reusable systems for lunar missionsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 As the next major step to return astronauts to the Moon under Space Policy Directive-1, NASA announced plans on Dec. 13 to work with American companies to design and develop new reusable systems for ... more  
Study shows unusual microbes hold clues to early lifeEast Boothbay ME (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 A new study has revealed how a group of deep-sea microbes provides clues to the evolution of life on Earth, according to a recent paper in The ISME Journal. Researchers used cutting-edge molecular m ... more  
Bezos, world's richest man, shows won't be pushed aroundSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 He built one of the world's most valuable companies from scratch, becoming the richest person on the planet. ... more |
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Evidence for a new fundamental constant of the sunNewcastle UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the Sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed. Their findings have been reported in the latest edi ... more 
Defending Against Adversarial Artificial IntelligenceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 Today, machine learning (ML) is coming into its own, ready to serve mankind in a diverse array of applications - from highly efficient manufacturing, medicine and massive information analysis to sel ... more  
Science on a plane - ESA's next parabolic flight campaignParis (ESA) Feb 08, 2019 In May engineers, pilots, researchers and scientists will convene in Bordeaux, France, for ESA's 71st parabolic flight campaign. Over the course of three days they will fly on a specially-fitted com ... more  
UC Riverside physicists create exotic electron liquidRiverside CA (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 By bombarding an ultrathin semiconductor sandwich with powerful laser pulses, physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have created the first "electron liquid" at room temperature. ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne's affordability and efficiency drive achieves successEl Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 Nearly four years into an aggressive five-year affordability drive, Aerojet Rocketdyne reports that it has already achieved its top major milestones - including relocation of manufacturing capabilit ... more |
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Faster than allowed by quantum computing?Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 04, 2019 Computers are an integral part of our daily lives. What has once been science fiction is now real technology in our pockets. But computers are physical objects. And as quantum computation has taught ... more  |
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Nano-infused ceramic could report on its own healthHouston TX (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 A ceramic that becomes more electrically conductive under elastic strain and less conductive under plastic strain could lead to a new generation of sensors embedded into structures like buildings, b ... more  
Self-driving cars and geospatial data: Who holds the keys?Hanover NH (SPX) Feb 06, 2019 As self-driving cars continue to develop, there will be plenty of data amassed through cars' navigational technologies. Questions regarding privacy, ownership, cybersecurity and public safety arise, ... more 
Argonne researchers develop new method to reduce quantum noiseLemont IL (SPX) Feb 05, 2019 In a recent issue of Physical Review A, Argonne researchers reported a new method for alleviating the effects of "noise" in quantum information systems, a challenge scientists around the globe are w ... more 
A revolution in a sentence - the future of human spaceflight in AmericaColumbus OH (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 "This year, American astronauts will go back to space in American rockets." This one sentence from the 2019 State of the Union address may have escaped your notice. It ended a paragraph in whi ... more 
Refabricator to recycle, reuse plastic installed on Space StationHouston TX (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 The first integrated recycler and 3D printer was successfully installed onboard the International Space Station into the station's experiment racks. This technology demonstration, called a Refabrica ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 8, 2019  British billionaire Richard Branson plans to travel to space within the next four or five months aboard his own Virgin Galactic spaceship, he told AFP Thursday.
"My wish is to go up on the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, that's what we're working on," the head of the Virgin group said on the sidelines of an event to honor Virgin Galactic at the Air and Space Museum in Washington.
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 05, 2019 
Arianespace has successfully orbited two telecommunications satellites: the Saudi Geostationary Satellite 1/Hellas Sat 4 condosat for operators KACST and Hellas Sat; and GSAT-31 for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
Arianespace's first launch of the year took place on Tuesday, February 5 at 6:01 p.m. (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's Spaceport in French ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 11, 2019 
After exploring Mars' Vera Rubin Ridge for more than a year, NASA's Curiosity rover (https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl) recently moved on. But a new 360-video lets the public visit Curiosity's final drill site on the ridge, an area nicknamed "Rock Hall." The video was created from a panorama taken by the rover on Dec. 19. It includes images of its next destination - an area the team has been calling ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 05, 2019 
An experiment that saw the first-ever plant sprouting on the moon last month was born in a natural disaster that devastated China's cotton-industry almost three decades ago.
Li Fuguang was one of the Chinese agricultural scientists whose years of hard work might one day help lead to a base and long-term human residence on the moon.
He was on the team that developed the cotton seeds c ... more |
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 Human and Robotic Exploration 
Paris (ESA) Feb 07, 2019
Science is everywhere but opportunities to carry out research in space can be limited. To combat this, ESA works with institutes across Europe to maintain a network of ground-based facilities that recreate aspects of spaceflight.
From radiation to weightlessness, isolation and a lack of Earthly comforts, astronauts and robots on missions far from home face many ch ... more |
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 Santa Clara CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
Momentus, provider of in-space transportation services, has announced that they are taking orders for their Vigoride and Vigoride Extended services (orbital repositioning for satellites with masses up to 250kg) and have signed their first customer: EXOLAUNCH, in a contract worth more than $6M. EXOLAUNCH (formerly ECM Launch Services), is a leading European launch services provider and cluster in ... more |
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 East Boothbay ME (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 
A new study has revealed how a group of deep-sea microbes provides clues to the evolution of life on Earth, according to a recent paper in The ISME Journal. Researchers used cutting-edge molecular methods to study these microbes, which thrive in the hot, oxygen-free fluids that flow through Earth's crust.
Called Hydrothermarchaeota, this group of microbes lives in such an extreme environme ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
An evocative new image sequence from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft offers a departing view of the Kuiper Belt object (KBO) nicknamed Ultima Thule - the target of its New Year's 2019 flyby and the most distant world ever explored.
These aren't the last Ultima Thule images New Horizons will send back to Earth - in fact, many more are to come - but they are the final views New Horizons captu ... more |
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 Tallahassee FL (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
Toward the end of every year, the Northeast Indian Monsoon (NEM) batters southern India with torrents of driving rain, but climatologists have never precisely defined when the monsoon begins and ends.
Now, FSU Professor of Meteorology Vasu Misra has used detailed surface temperature analyses to identify the start and end dates of the NEM season. His work provides an objective and reliable ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 5, 2019 
The position of the Earth's magnetic North Pole - used in navigation systems such as smartphones - is moving far faster than it has, sending scientists scrambling to put out a new model this week.
The magnetic North is the point at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically down.
The World Magnetic Model is critical to sea and military navigation - as well as our ubiquitous s ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 07, 2019 
Russian Roscosmos space corporation and the Academy of Sciences think that it is time to start preparing lawyers for the territorial disputes over the Moon, their joint resolution, obtained by Sputnik, read.
This recommendation has been made following the meeting between Roscosmos and the Academy of Sciences on the development of the National program for exploration and colonization of the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 
Astronomers have discovered an asteroid looping through the inner solar system on an exotic orbit. The unusual object is among the first asteroids ever found whose orbit is confined almost entirely within the orbit of Venus. The asteroid's existence hints at potentially significant numbers of space rocks arcing unseen in uncharted regions nearer to the sun.
A state-of-the-art sky-surveying ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 11, 2019 
Since it was first measured in 1831, we have known that the magnetic north is constantly on the move. However, its tendency to slowly roam has stepped up a pace recently - so much so that the World Magnetic Model has had to be updated urgently with the pole's new location, vital for navigation on smartphones, for example. ESA's magnetic field Swarm mission has been key for this update.
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 Newcastle UK (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 
New research undertaken at Northumbria University, Newcastle shows that the Sun's magnetic waves behave differently than currently believed.
Their findings have been reported in the latest edition of the prominent journal, Nature Astronomy.
After examining data gathered over a 10-year period, the team from Northumbria's Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering fo ... more |
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 Seattle, WA (SPX) Feb 08, 2019
Casual stargazers may look at the black area among stars and think that there's nothing there except empty space. But the night sky hides many secrets invisible to the naked eye.
Less than a year into its mission, a sky-survey camera in Southern California shows just how full the sky is. The Zwicky Transient Facility, based at the Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, has identified ove ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2019 
A new physical effect has been demonstrated at the University of Bath after 40 years of pursuit by physicists around the world, which could lead to advancements in chemical manufacturing efficiency, miniaturisation and quality control in personalised pharmaceuticals.
For the first time ever the research team in the Department of Physics was able to use a physical effect - specifically the ... more |
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