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  Paris (ESA) Feb 21, 2019 ESA's proposed Hera mission will already visit two asteroids: the Didymos binary pair. The Hera team hopes to boost that number by performing a flyby of another asteroid during the mission's three-year flight. The opportunity arises because Hera will be flying out to match Didymos' 770-day orbit, which circles from less than 10 million km from Earth to out beyond Mars, at more than double Earth's distance from the Sun. In the process Hera will pass both multiple near-Earth asteroids and the ... read more |
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SpaceIL teams with SpaceX for first first private moon lander missionWashington (UPI) Feb 20, 2019 The world's first private moon lander mission is scheduled to be carried into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Friday. ... more  
United Launch Services, SpaceX awarded satellite contractsWashington (UPI) Feb 20, 2019 United Launch Services was awarded a $441.7 million contract to launch military satellites to orbit, the U.S. Defense Department announced. ... more  
Interactive space simulation for nanosatellitesParis (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies. Through an innovati ... more  
Earth's atmosphere stretches out to the Moon - and beyondParis (ESA) Feb 21, 2019 The outermost part of our planet's atmosphere extends well beyond the lunar orbit - almost twice the distance to the Moon. A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and He ... more |
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NIST 'Astrocomb' Opens New Horizons for Planet-Hunting TelescopeWashington DC (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a National Institute of Standards and Tech ... more  
In Colliding Galaxies, a Pipsqueak Shines BrightPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 21, 2019 In the nearby Whirlpool galaxy and its companion galaxy, M51b, two supermassive black holes heat up and devour surrounding material. These two monsters should be the most luminous X-ray sources in s ... more  
Solar tadpole-like jets seen with IRIS add new clue to age-old mysteryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 Scientists have discovered tadpole-shaped jets coming out of regions with intense magnetic fields on the Sun. Unlike those living on Earth, these "tadpoles" - formally called pseudo-shocks - are mad ... more  
Teaching AI systems to adapt to dynamic environmentsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 Current AI systems excel at tasks defined by rigid rules - such as mastering the board games Go and chess with proficiency surpassing world-class human players. However, AI systems aren't very ... more  
Solid-state catalysis: Fluctuations clear the wayMunich, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 The use of efficient catalytic agents is what makes many technical procedures feasible in the first place. Indeed, synthesis of more than 80% of the products generated in the chemical industry requi ... more |
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Interactive space simulation for nanosatellitesParis (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 Pioneer partner Open Cosmos are taking mission development to a new dimension, using a virtual reality-like simulation that replicates life in orbit for space technologies. Through an innovati ... more  |
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NASA set to demonstrate x-ray communications in spaceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring. Currently, NASA relies on radio waves to send in ... more 
ASU astronomer helps research team zero in on puzzling astrophysical objectTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 A volunteer working with the NASA-led Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has found the oldest and coldest known white dwarf - an old Earth-sized remnant of a sun-like star that has died - ringed by d ... more 
Arianespace to orbit the first six satellites of the OneWeb constellationKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 For its second mission of the year - and the initial flight in 2019 with the Soyuz medium launcher - Arianespace will perform the first launch for the OneWeb constellation. By operating this m ... more 
Citizen scientists invited to join quest for new worldsTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 The Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project re-launches this week, with a call to volunteer citizen scientists to join the search for cold worlds near the Sun. With its newly revamped online interface and ... more  
Russia Completes Engine Tests of Soyuz Rocket's 2nd Stage Using New FuelBengaluru, India (Sputnik) Feb 21, 2019 The engine for the second stage of the Soyuz-2 rocket using the new naphthyl rocket fuel instead of kerosene was successfully tested, a spokesperson for the United Engine Corporation told Sputnik on ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2019 
Europe's Columbus laboratory enters its eleventh year in space with steady operations, a few upgrades and several experiments in full swing.
The physical behaviour of particles, liquids and cells in microgravity was the focus of ESA's activities on the International Space Station during the first weeks of February.
The three astronauts from Expedition 58 living in space worked on e ... more |
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 Bengaluru, India (Sputnik) Feb 21, 2019 
The engine for the second stage of the Soyuz-2 rocket using the new naphthyl rocket fuel instead of kerosene was successfully tested, a spokesperson for the United Engine Corporation told Sputnik on the sidelines of the Aero India exhibition in the Indian city of Bengaluru on Wednesday.
"On February 12, 2019,... the first 'marketable' RD-108A liquid rocket engine of the central bloc of the ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
If you're planning a trip to Elysium Planitia on Mars, pack a sweater.
Starting this week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will provide daily weather reports for Mars, courtesy of the red planet's newest robotic resident, InSight.
"The InSight lander is close to the Martian equator - just north of the equator - so it is experiencing Martian winter," said Cornell's Don Banfield, the ... 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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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2019 
United Launch Services was awarded a $441.7 million contract to launch military satellites to orbit, the U.S. Defense Department announced.
The Space and Missile Systems Center of the U.S. Air Force, in partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office, made the award for Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle launch services. Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, also re ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
A new experimental type of deep space communications technology is scheduled to be demonstrated on the International Space Station this spring.
Currently, NASA relies on radio waves to send information between spacecraft and Earth. Emerging laser communications technology offers higher data rates that let spacecraft transmit more data at a time. This demonstration involves X-ray communicat ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
The hunt for Earth-like planets, and perhaps extraterrestrial life, just got more precise, thanks to record-setting starlight measurements made possible by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) "astrocomb."
NIST's custom-made frequency comb-which precisely measures frequencies, or colors, of light-ensures the precision of starlight analysis by an instrument called a spect ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2019 
Astronomers call it "the moon that shouldn't be there."
After several years of analysis, a team of planetary scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has at last come up with an explanation for a mysterious moon around Neptune that they discovered with Hubble in 2013.
The tiny moon, named Hippocamp, is unusually close to a much larger Neptunian moon called Proteus. Normally, a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 
Goliath grouper, black sea bass, and snapping shrimp, along with bioluminescent plankton and other microorganisms, are set to be the unlikely heroes of DARPA's Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program.
Five teams of researchers are developing new types of sensor systems that detect and record the behaviors of these marine organisms and interpret them to identify, characterize, and ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 18, 2019 
Russia is planning to offer the United States to deliver supplies to the future international lunar orbital station with the use of the modernized Progress-L cargo spacecraft, a Russian space industry source has told Sputnik.
It was reported earlier that NASA, together with other countries, plans to build a manned LOP-G station (Lunar Orbital Platform - Gateway) in lunar orbit in the 2020s ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 19, 2019 
Feeling stressed? You're not alone. ESA's Rosetta mission has revealed that geological stress arising from the shape of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been a key process in sculpting the comet's surface and interior following its formation.
Small, icy comets with two distinct lobes seem to be commonplace in the Solar System, with one possible mode of formation a slow collision of two ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 21, 2019 
The outermost part of our planet's atmosphere extends well beyond the lunar orbit - almost twice the distance to the Moon.
A recent discovery based on observations by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, SOHO, shows that the gaseous layer that wraps around Earth reaches up to 630 000 km away, or 50 times the diameter of our planet.
"The Moon flies through Earth's atmosphe ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 20, 2019 
An international team of scientists led by a researcher from Trinity College Dublin and University of Helsinki announced a major discovery on the very nature of solar storms in the journal Nature Astronomy.
The team showed that solar storms can accelerate particles simultaneously in several locations by combining data from the Low Frequency Array, LOFAR, with images from NASA, NOAA and ESA ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Feb 18, 2019 
In the course of their life, open star clusters continuously lose stars to their surroundings. The resulting swath of tidal tails provides a glimpse into the evolution and dissolution of a star cluster. Thus far only tidal tails of massive globular clusters and dwarf galaxies have been discovered in the Milky Way system.
In open clusters, this phenomenon existed only in theory. Researchers ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 15, 2019 
Astronomers have spent decades looking for something that sounds like it would be hard to miss: about a third of the "normal" matter in the Universe. New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory may have helped them locate this elusive expanse of missing matter.
From independent, well-established observations, scientists have confidently calculated how much normal matter - meaning hyd ... more |
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