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  West Lafayette IN (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 A startup that plans to use high-altitude balloons to deploy rockets has successfully fired a test launch, moving closer to its goal of helping end the backlog of microsatellites that wait months or longer to "hitch" a ride on larger rockets. Leo Aerospace LLC, a Purdue University-affiliated startup based in Los Angeles, launched its first "rockoon," a high-power rocket from a reusable balloon platform, from the Mojave Desert in southern California in December. "It was thrilling to see that ... read more |
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Arianespace to launch satellite deployment solution from Open CosmosKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 13, 2019 Arianespace and Open Cosmos report that they have signed a contract for the launch of an innovative CubeSat deployment solution. Launched from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana using a ... more  
Hughes satellite modems power beyond-line-of-sight comms for UAVsGermantown MD (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite networks and services, has announced the first shipments of its specialized, multiband HM400 SATCOM modems to General A ... more  
NASA to make final attempt to contact Mars Opportunity RoverWashington (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 US space agency NASA will make one final attempt to contact its Opportunity Rover on Mars late Tuesday, eight months after it last made contact. ... more  
NASA is Everywhere: Farming Tech with Roots in SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 Growing plants can be tough, whether you're on a spaceship or Earth. A special fertilizer made it easier for astronauts on the International Space Station and farmers down below, resulting in just o ... more |
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Better to dry a rocky planet before useBern, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 Earth's solid surface and clement climate may be in part due to a massive star in the birth environment of the Sun. Without its radioactive elements injected into the early solar system, our home pl ... more  
Raptor engine beats Russian RD-180 record in combustion chamber pressure says MuskMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2019 The new methane-fueled Raptor engine developed by US SpaceX aerospace company for its Starship interplanetary craft has outperformed the Russian RD-180 rocket engine in terms of pressure level in th ... more  
China improves Long March-6 rocket for growing commercial launchesBeijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity. The improved medium-left carrier rock ... more  
US to extend use of Russia's Soyuz for ISS missions until April 2020Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2019 The United States will extend the use of Russian Soyuz spacecraft to bring NASA astronauts to the International Space Station and ensure their return to Earth until April 2020, a Russian space indus ... more  
Ultima Thule is more pancake than snowman, NASA scientists discoverWashington (UPI) Feb 11, 2019 Ultima Thule is flatter than scientists originally thought. ... more |
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 ESA satellite spots "Island Love"  
Russian satellite registers unknown physical phenomena in Earth's atmosphereMoscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2019 An ultraviolet telescope installed on the Russian satellite Lomonosov has registered light "explosions" in the planet's atmosphere, whose physical nature has not been explained so far, the director ... more  |
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US vows to remain 'relentless' to deter Iran missile programWashington (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 The United States on Thursday vowed to remain "relentless" in pressuring Iran to deter its missile program after the Islamic Republic unveiled a new ballistic weapon days after testing a cruise missile. ... more  
Scientists discover new type of magnetNew York NY (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 A team of scientists has discovered the first robust example of a new type of magnet - one that holds promise for enhancing the performance of data storage technologies. This "singlet-based" m ... more 
New fabric automatically cools or insulates depending on conditionsCollege Park MD (SPX) Feb 08, 2019 Despite decades of innovation in fabrics with high-tech thermal properties that keep marathon runners cool or alpine hikers warm, there has never been a material that changes its insulating properti ... more 
Five future astronauts and a teacher you need to knowWashington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 All five of the women in NASA's latest class of astronaut candidates followed a passion for adventure and science to get where they are today and are inspirations for the next generation of NASA sci ... more 
New study suggests possibility of recent underground volcanism on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 A study published last year in the journal Science suggested liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. Now, a new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters argues ... more |
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 Columbus 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 which the president paid tribute to astronaut Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo 11 mission to mark the the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing. From that point, the speech transitioned to increasing the s ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2019 
The new methane-fueled Raptor engine developed by US SpaceX aerospace company for its Starship interplanetary craft has outperformed the Russian RD-180 rocket engine in terms of pressure level in the combustion chamber, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Monday.
"Raptor reached 268.9 bar [approximately 274.2 kilograms of power per square centimeter], exceeding prior record held by the awesome Ru ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 13, 2019 
US space agency NASA will make one final attempt to contact its Opportunity Rover on Mars late Tuesday, eight months after it last made contact.
The agency also said it would hold a briefing Wednesday, during which it will likely officially declare the end of the mission.
Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and covered 28 miles (45 kilometers) on the planet, securing its place in history ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
The Long ... more |
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 Doha, Qatar (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
A separate conference for heads of Arab states' space agencies will be held within the Global Space Congress, slated for March, to discuss space industry development in the Arab world, the press service of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Space Agency told Sputnik late on Monday.
The UAE Space Agency will host the Global Space Congress in the UAE capital of Abu Dhabi on 19-21 March.
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
Optical circuits are set to revolutionize the performance of many devices. Not only are they 10-100 times faster than electronic circuits, but they also consume a lot less power. Within these circuits, light waves are controlled by extremely thin surfaces called metasurfaces that concentrate the waves and guide them as needed. The metasurfaces contain regularly spaced nanoparticles that can modu ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
Ancient fossils of the first ever organisms to exhibit movement have been discovered by an international team of scientists.
Discovered in rocks in Gabon and dating back approximately 2.1 billion years, the fossils suggest the existence of a cluster of single cells that came together to form a slug-like multicellular organism that moved through the mud in search of a more favourable enviro ... 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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 Kisumu, Kenya (AFP) Feb 8, 2019 
With nets piled onto wooden boats, a group of fishermen joke while gazing out across Lake Victoria and the vast green weed clogging up the waterway. But their laughter has a worried edge as the sun sets.
The thick green carpet of water hyacinth is again choking Kisumu bay, floating on the surface and blocking Kenya's main entry to the largest body of water in Africa.
Leggy egrets are del ... more |
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 Oslo (AFP) Feb 11, 2019 
Norway's foreign intelligence unit on Monday expressed renewed concerns that its GPS signals in the country's Far North were being jammed, as Oslo again blamed Russia for the "unacceptable" acts.
In its annual national risk assessment report, the intelligence service said that in repeated incidents since 2017, GPS signals have been blocked from Russian territory in Norwegian regions near the ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Feb 13, 2019 
Last week, NASA released unique satellite reconnaissance photos of the landing site of the Chinese lunar mission, which made history last month by achieving humanity's first-ever successful soft landing on the far side of the Moon.
China's Chang'e-4 spacecraft and its Yutu-2 lunar rover have entered sleep mode to wait out the cold lunar night, during which temperatures can plunge to as low ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
A recent NASA mission to the dwarf planet Ceres found brilliant, white spots of salts on its surface. New research led by The University of Texas at Austin in partnership with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) delved into the factors that influenced the volcanic activity that formed the distinctive spots and that could play a key role in mixing the ingredients for life on other worlds.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 13, 2019 
Space isn't silent. In fact, an entire orchestra of instruments fills our near-Earth environment with eerie sounds. Scientists have long known about space phenomena involving electromagnetic waves travelling around Earth that resonate like string instruments and whistle like wind instruments. Now, new research published in Nature Communications has added a percussive member to the cosmic ensembl ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
Auroras, also known as Northern or Southern lights depending on whether they occur near the North or South Pole, are natural displays of light in the Earth's sky. Typically these lights are dimly present at night. However, sometimes these otherwise faint features explode in brightness and can even break up into separate glowing hallmarks, appearing as spectacular bursts of luminous manifestation ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 12, 2019 
Earth's solid surface and moderate climate may be due, in part, to a massive star in the birth environment of the Sun, according to new computer simulations of planet formation.
Without the star's radioactive elements injected into the early solar system, our home planet could be a hostile ocean world covered in global ice sheets.
"The results of our simulations suggest that there ar ... more |
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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Feb 11, 2019 
Lightning was the main electromagnetic presence in the Earth's atmosphere long before the invention of electricity. There are some 2,000 thunderstorms active at any given time, so humans and other organisms have been bathed in extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields for billions of years.
These electromagnetic fields - the result of global lightning activity known as Schumann ... more |
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