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  Washington (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 SpaceX will try to send a dummy to the International Space Station this weekend in a key test for resuming manned US space flights, perhaps this year if all goes well. Since the shuttle Atlantis returned to earth on July 21, 2011, no American astronaut has blasted off from US soil for a tour in space. NASA pays Russia to get its people up to the orbiting research facility at a cost of 82 million dollars a head, round trip. In 2014, the US space agency awarded contracts to SpaceX and Boeing f ... read more |
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Creating a More Resilient Space ArchitectureBethesda, MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 Fred Kennedy, head of DARPA's Tactical Technology Office (TTO) has been tasked to help organize a new organization focused on space technology development, a Space Development Agency (SDA). Th ... more  
Astronauts Assemble Tools to Test Space TechGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Technology drives exploration for future human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. For spacecraft to journey farther and live longer, we'll need to store and transfer super-cold liquids used for ... more 
Historic investments in Canada's space program to create jobs and new industriesSaint-Hubert, Canada (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 From pioneering satellite communications technologies to building the 'Canadarm' and space-based radar systems, Canada has made key contributions to space science and technology for close to six dec ... more 
Arianespace Reveals Launch Date of O3b Satellites Atop Russia's Soyuz RocketMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 01, 2019 The next launch of the Russian Soyuz carrier rocket from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou is scheduled for 29 March, Arianespace launch service provider's CEO Stephane Israel said, adding that the ... more |
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Cluster Spacecraft Reveal Insights into Earth's Natural Particle AcceleratorKiruna, Sweden (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 A new study performed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and other groups, uses data from the European Space Agency's Cluster spa ... more  
Dark matter may be hitting the right note in small galaxiesTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Dark matter may scatter against each other only when they hit the right energy, say researchers in Japan, Germany, and Austria in a new study. Their idea helps explain why galaxies from the smallest ... more 
OneWeb Makes History as First Launch Mission Is a SuccessLondon, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 OneWeb, a global communications company with a mission to bring connectivity to everyone, everywhere, today announced the successful launch of its first six broadband satellites aboard a Soyuz launc ... more  
Team Vandenberg Hosts Combined Space Operations Coalition SummitVandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 The Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC) hosted a Combined Space Operation Coalition Summit with more than 120 defense personnel from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, a ... more  
Stratcom commander: Nuclear triad updates essential for defenseWashington (UPI) Feb 27, 2019 Modernizing the United States' nuclear strike capability is critical to the country's defense, the U.S. Strategic Command's commander told a Senate committee this week. ... more |
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NASA-funded research creates DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien lifeMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 In a research breakthrough funded by NASA, scientists have synthesized a molecular system that, like DNA, can store and transmit information. This unprecedented feat suggests there could be an alter ... more  |
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NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean FloorPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2019 Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and ... more  
Life on Mars: my 15 amazing years with Oppy, NASA's record-breaking roverStirling UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 "It's getting dark, my batteries are running low." With this final poignant message, the most successful mission to Mars - originally planned to last 90 days - ended after 15 years, in a dust storm ... more  
Forsway announces hybrid satellite broadband solutions to connect MEASADubai UAE (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 Forsway, a leading provider of innovative solutions tapping satellite and existing terrestrial technologies to enable cost-efficient broadband, announced it will showcase the Forsway Xtend complete ... more  
SwRI-led New Horizons research indicates small Kuiper Belt objects are surprisingly rareSan Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 Using New Horizons data from the Pluto-Charon flyby in 2015, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists have indirectly discovered a distinct and surprising lack of very small objects in ... more 
Exiled planet linked to stellar flyby 3 million years agoBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 Some of the peculiar aspects of our solar system - an enveloping cloud of comets, dwarf planets in weird orbits and, if it truly exists, a possible Planet Nine far from the sun - have been linked to ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Feb 25, 2019 
The United Arab Emirates announced Monday that the first astronaut from the Gulf country will blast off on a mission to the International Space Station on September 25.
The oil-rich state has two astronauts in training, selected from more than 4,000 applicants, as it looks to get an ambitious space programme aimed at exploring Mars off the ground.
The authorities said a decision on whi ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 
McDermott International, Inc. reports it was awarded a sizeable* contract by Precision Mechanical, Inc. for a double wall liquid hydrogen sphere at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The scope of the contract includes the engineering, procurement and construction of the sphere, which will be the largest ever built for NASA.
"McDermott's CB and I Storage Tank Solut ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2019 
Curiosity is taking a hiatus from its scientific mission, according to the rover's most recent Twitter update.
Last week, its computer rebooted without warning. Now, NASA engineers are trying to figure out what caused the unprompted restart.
During the reboot, a glitch caused the spacecraft's computer to go into safe mode. Scientists have since awoken the rover from safe mode, bu ... 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.
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Feb 28, 2019 
Flight VS21 - Arianespace's second launch of the year - took place on Wednesday, February 27, at 6:37 p.m., (Kourou time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG), Europe's spaceport in French Guiana (South America).
By operating this maiden flight, the first of 21 launches contracted by OneWeb in 2015, Arianespace contributes to the fulfilment of its customer's ultimate ambition: providing Inte ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Technology drives exploration for future human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. For spacecraft to journey farther and live longer, we'll need to store and transfer super-cold liquids used for fuel and life support systems in space. In December 2018, the Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3) launched to the International Space Station to do just that - transfer and store cryogenic fuel in spac ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
A NASA telescope that will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find as many as 1,400 new planets outside Earth's solar system, new research suggests.
The new telescope paves the way for a more accurate, more focused search for extraterrestrial life, according to researchers.
The study, by a team of astronomers at T ... more |
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 Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Seeing is believing, but when it comes to Planet Nine, complex calculations of space objects' behavior, careful observation of orbital anomalies, and watchful observation of the region beyond Neptune will have to do for now.
"The strongest argument in favor of Planet Nine is that independent lines of evidence can all be explained by a proposed new planet with the same properties. In other ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 27, 2019 
Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results of the new study offer clues to how life started on Earth and where else in the cosmos we might find it.
Astrobiologist Laurie Barge and her team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, are working to recognize life on other planets by ... more |
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 Portsmouth, UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
Global leader in emergency readiness and response, Orolia, is pleased to announce that its McMurdo FastFind 220 and Kannad SafeLink Solo Personal Location Beacons now operate with the Galileo GNSS system.
Continuing Orolia's innovation and leadership role in Safety Electronics, the PLBs have been upgraded to include Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), the European Union's gl ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation - and the Moon has the scars to prove it.
Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS mission - short for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun - suggests how the solar wind and the Moon's crustal magnetic fields work together to gi ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
A Japanese probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid 300 million kilometres away for clues about the origin of life and the solar system landed successfully on Friday, scientists said.
Hayabusa2 touched down briefly on the Ryugu asteroid, fired a bullet into the surface to puff up dust for collection and blasted back to its holding position, said officials from the Japan Aerospace Explo ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
Work has begun on a new CubeSat mission that will demonstrate for the first time a new, highly promising technique for measuring soil moisture from space - data important for early flood and drought warnings as well as crop-yield forecasts.
The technology-demonstration mission, SigNals of Opportunity: P-band Investigation, will validate a remote-sensing technique called signals of opportun ... more |
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 Kiruna, Sweden (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
A new study performed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Uppsala, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield and other groups, uses data from the European Space Agency's Cluster spacecraft to reveal new insights into the inner workings of the bow shock when it becomes non-stationary and its structure starts to break down.
The Sun continuously ejects a stream of charged par ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
A revolutionary and world-first approach to space imaging led by Western Sydney University's International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) will be demonstrated for the first time publicly at this year's Avalon Airshow. The Astrosite, a mobile space situational awareness (SSA) module, is set to have game-changing impacts on a number of fields, including defence.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
For the first time, scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have succeeded in losslessly guiding positrons, the antiparticles of electrons, into a magnetic field trap.
This is an important step towards creating a matter-antimatter plasma of electrons and positrons, like the plasmas believed to occur near neutron stars a ... more |
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