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March 02, 2019
ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX astronaut capsule launched on ISS Demo-1 mission



Cape Canaveral (AFP) Mar 02, 2019
NASA and SpaceX celebrated the successful launch Saturday of a new astronaut capsule on a week-long round trip to the International Space Station - a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil after an eight-year break. This time around, the only occupant on board SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule was a dummy named Ripley - but NASA plans to put two astronauts aboard later this year. The new capsule blasted off aboard the Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX - run by billionaire Elon Musk - at 2:49 am (0749 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, lighting up the coastline. ... read more

SPACE TRAVEL
NASA, Roscosmos reach consensus on Dragon unmanned flight to ISS
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 02, 2019
NASA has received the concurrence of Russian space agency Roscosmos on the planned first unmanned test flight of the US Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), Joel Montalbano, ... more
SPACEMART
ISRO to Launch Nearly 30 Satellites in March on New PSLV Rocket
New Delhi (IANS) Mar 01, 2019
In a special mission in March, the Indian space agency will launch an electronic intelligence satellite Emisat for the DRDO, 28 third party satellites and also demonstrate its new technologies like ... more
MARSDAILY
InSight's "Mole" Starts Hammering into the Martian Soil
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
On 28 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a fi ... more
SPACEWAR
Pentagon submits Space Force proposal to Congress
Washington (AFP) March 1, 2019
The Pentagon has submitted a proposal to Congress that, if approved, would see the creation of a new "Space Force," officials said Friday. ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE
Lockheed Martin awarded $830M for THAAD system development
Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $850 million modification to an existing contract for element development and support services for a key part of the military's ballistic missile defense system the Missile Defense Agency. ... more
MISSILE DEFENSE
Lockheed awarded $680M for PAC-3 missiles for foreign militaries
Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019
The U.S. Defense Department this week awarded separate contracts to Lockheed Martin and Raytheon for Patriot missile support for several ally nations. ... more
EPIDEMICS
2015-2016 El Nino Triggered Disease Outbreaks Across Globe
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
The 2015-2016 El Nino event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the p ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Diving into Earth's interior helps scientists unravel secrets of diamond formation
Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 27, 2019
It's the reason why the Earth has a clement stable climate and a low carbon dioxide atmosphere compared to that of Venus, for instance, which is in a runaway greenhouse state with high surface tempe ... more
EARLY EARTH
500-million-year old worm 'superhighway' discovered in Canada
Saskatoon, Canada (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
Prehistoric worms populated the sea bed 500 million years ago - evidence that life was active in an environment thought uninhabitable until now, research by the University of Saskatchewan (USask) sh ... more
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EARLY EARTH
Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expected
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
Brazilian researchers have reconstructed the evolutionary history of amoebae and demonstrated that at the end of the Precambrian period, at least 750 million years ago, life on Earth was much more d ... more
SHAKE AND BLOW
The biggest volcanic eruption of sulfur dioxide in 2018
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
The Manaro Voui volcano on the island of Ambae in the nation of Vanuatu in the South Pacific Ocean made the 2018 record books. A NASA-NOAA satellite confirmed Manaro Voui had the largest eruption of ... more
CIVIL NUCLEAR
IEA: Nuclear energy set for risky, significant decline
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
Nuclear power is set for a significant decline by 2040 and will create energy security challenges unless policies are put in place to help promote investment, the International Energy Agency said We ... more
CAR TECH
Amazon steers further toward autos, hires GM executive
New York (AFP) Feb 28, 2019
Amazon has hired a top General Motors executive, a source familiar with the move said Thursday, in a further sign of the technology giant's likely expansion into autonomous vehicles. ... more
CHIP TECH
Taking the Next Step in Quantum Information Processing
Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
Universal quantum computers with millions of quantum bits, or qubits - which can represent a one, a zero, or a coherent linear combination of one and zero - would revolutionize information processin ... more


Researchers move closer to practical photonic quantum computing

CHIP TECH
Physicists get thousands of semiconductor nuclei to do 'quantum dances' in unison
Cambridge UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory device. Quantum dots are crystals made up of ... more
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TECH SPACE
UCF researchers develop first sypersymmetric laser array
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
A team of University of Central Florida researchers has overcome a long-standing problem in laser science, and the findings could have applications in surgery, drilling and 3D laser mapping. U ... more
SPACEMART
Creating a More Resilient Space Architecture
Bethesda, 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
TECH SPACE
Astronauts Assemble Tools to Test Space Tech
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 ... more
SPACEMART
Historic investments in Canada's space program to create jobs and new industries
Saint-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
ROCKET SCIENCE
Arianespace Reveals Launch Date of O3b Satellites Atop Russia's Soyuz Rocket
Moscow (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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NASA, Roscosmos reach consensus on Dragon unmanned flight to ISS
Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 02, 2019
NASA has received the concurrence of Russian space agency Roscosmos on the planned first unmanned test flight of the US Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), Joel Montalbano, NASA's deputy ISS Program manager, said, adding that the sides agreed on the protocol of the vehicle's approach to the station. "We agreed with Roscosmos yesterday on a protocol of the approach ... more
+ Russia to Invest Over $450,000 in Development of Backpack Vacuum Cleaner for ISS
+ First Emirati set to head to space in September: UAE
+ Company's 10th cargo supply mission featured expanded commercial capabilities for Cygnus spacecraft
+ Virgin Galactic takes crew of three to altitude of 55 miles
+ Astronauts optimistic for ISS launch after botched flight
+ Space behaviour focus of Expedition 58
+ Technology developed in Brazil will be part of ISS
McDermott awarded EPC Contract for largest hydrogen cryogenic sphere ever built for NASA
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
+ SpaceX astronaut capsule launched on ISS Demo-1 mission
+ Arianespace Reveals Launch Date of O3b Satellites Atop Russia's Soyuz Rocket
+ Minister Pedro Duque opens up PLD Space facilities at the Teruel Airport
+ Global Space Propulsion System Market forecast to exceed $10 billion by 2023
+ Russia Completes Engine Tests of Soyuz Rocket's 2nd Stage Using New Fuel
+ Morpheus Space qualifies the world's smallest satellite propulsion system in orbit
+ Countdown as SpaceX, NASA prepare to test new astronaut capsule


InSight's "Mole" Starts Hammering into the Martian Soil
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
On 28 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4,000 hammer blows over a period of four hours. "On its way into the depths, the Mole seems to have hi ... more
+ NASA engineers are investigating Curiosity probe's computer reset
+ First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars
+ So Fit For Mars It's Like Being There
+ Clues to Martian Life Found in Chilean Desert
+ Prototype Mars Rover Gets Workout Controlled from 6,000 Miles Away
+ Life on Mars: my 15 amazing years with Oppy, NASA's record-breaking rover
+ Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars
China improves Long March-6 rocket for growing commercial launches
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
+ Seed of moon's first sprout: Chinese scientists' endeavor
+ China to send over 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches in 2019
+ China to deepen lunar exploration: space expert
+ China launches Zhongxing-2D satellite
+ China welcomes world's scientists to collaborate in lunar exploration
+ In space, the US sees a rival in China
+ China launches telecommunication technology test satellite
Arianespace launches first batch of OneWeb satellites
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
+ OneWeb Makes History as First Launch Mission Is a Success
+ Goonhilly Partners with the Australian Space Agency to Drive New Opportunities Worldwide
+ ISRO to Launch Nearly 30 Satellites in March on New PSLV Rocket
+ Historic investments in Canada's space program to create jobs and new industries
+ Creating a More Resilient Space Architecture
+ Innovative communications satellite built by Maxar's SSL for PSN performing post-launch maneuvers
+ Arianespace to orbit the first six satellites of the OneWeb constellation
UCF researchers develop first sypersymmetric laser array
Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 01, 2019
A team of University of Central Florida researchers has overcome a long-standing problem in laser science, and the findings could have applications in surgery, drilling and 3D laser mapping. Using the principle of supersymmetry, they have developed the first supersymmetric laser array. Their findings were published recently in the journal Science. Supersymmetry is a conjecture in phy ... more
+ Astronauts Assemble Tools to Test Space Tech
+ Navy completes tests on mine-hunting sonar system
+ Cobham SATCOM extends partnership with Inmarsat for L-band ground components for I-6 satellites
+ Squid could provide an eco-friendly alternative to plastics
+ Egypt to host Huawei's first MENA cloud platform: Cairo
+ A quantum magnet with a topological twist
+ JILA researchers make coldest quantum gas of molecules


New NASA mission could find more than 1,000 planets
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
+ Exiled planet linked to stellar flyby 3 million years ago
+ NASA-funded research creates DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life
+ Researchers discover a flipping crab feeding on methane seeps
+ Astronomers use new technique to find extrasolar planets
+ Discovery of Planets Around Cool Stars Enabled with Hobby-Eberly Telescope
+ NIST 'Astrocomb' Opens New Horizons for Planet-Hunting Telescope
+ NASA Selects New Mission to Explore Origins of Universe
Astronomers Optimistic About Planet Nine's Existence
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
+ SwRI-led New Horizons research indicates small Kuiper Belt objects are surprisingly rare
+ New Horizons Spacecraft Returns Its Sharpest Views of Ultima Thule
+ Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon
+ Ultima Thule is more pancake than snowman, NASA scientists discover
+ New Horizons' evocative farewell glance at Ultima Thule
+ Sodium, Not Heat, Reveals Volcanic Activity on Jupiter's Moon Io
+ New Horizons' Newest and Best-Yet View of Ultima Thule


NASA Study Reproduces Origins of Life on Ocean Floor
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
+ Unprecedented biological changes in the global ocean
+ Can we address climate change without sacrificing water quality?
+ Cool adaptations to the cold
+ Reduced salinity of seawater wreaks havoc on coral chemistry
+ High-powered fuel cell boosts electric-powered submersibles, drones
+ Risk remains low despite rise in global shark attacks
+ Warm seas scatter fish
Orolia launches the world's first Galileo enabled PLB
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
+ Angry Norway says Russia jamming GPS signals again
+ Kite-blown Antarctic explorers make most southerly Galileo positioning fix
+ Magnetic north pole leaves Canada, on fast new path
+ NOAA releases early update for World Magnetic Model
+ BeiDou achieves real-time transmission of deep-sea data
+ China to launch 10 BeiDou satellites in 2019
+ Magnetic North's erratic behavior forces update to global navigation system


NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn'
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
+ Canada 'going to the Moon': Trudeau
+ Five Teams Win NASA DALI Awards to Advance Future Lunar Missions
+ Ingredients for water could be made on surface of moon, a chemical factory
+ Israel's first Moon mission blasts off from Florida
+ NASA is aboard first private moon landing attempt
+ NASA selects experiments for possible lunar flights in 2019
+ SpaceIL teams with SpaceX for first first private moon lander mission
Touchdown: Japan probe Hayabusa2 lands on distant asteroid
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
+ Close encounters: planning for extra Hera flyby
+ Meteorite source in asteroid belt not a single debris field
+ Rosetta's comet sculpted by stress
+ Insulating crust kept cryomagma liquid for millions of years on nearby dwarf planet
+ From Chelyabinsk to Cuba: The Meteor Connection
+ Possible second impact crater found under Greenland ice
+ Asteroid from 'Rare Species' Sighted in the Cosmic Wild


SNoOPI: A flying ace for soil moisture and snow measurements
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
+ On its 5th Anniversary, GPM Still Right as Rain
+ D-Orbit Signs Contract for launch and deployment services with Planet Labs
+ KBRwyle Awarded $19M to Perform Flight Ops for USGS Satellite
+ Earth's atmosphere stretches out to the Moon - and beyond
+ exactEarth's real-time maritime tracking system now fully-deployed
+ Astronaut photography benefiting the planet
+ Van Allen Probes begin final phase exploring Earth's radiation belts
Cluster Spacecraft Reveal Insights into Earth's Natural Particle Accelerator
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
+ NASA Selects Mission to Study Space Weather from Space Station
+ Space weather kicks up a social storm
+ LOFAR radio telescope reveals secrets of solar storms
+ Solar tadpole-like jets seen with IRIS add new clue to age-old mystery
+ Scientists use spacecraft's measurements to study solar wind heating
+ Spacecraft measurements reveal mechanism of solar wind heating
+ Shedding light on the science of auroral breakups


World-first technology to revolutionise space imaging
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. Using biologically-in ... more
+ Dark matter may be hitting the right note in small galaxies
+ Stellar wind of old stars reveals existence of a partner
+ ALMA differentiates two birth cries from a single star
+ Australia Designs Local Infrastructure for World's Largest Telescope
+ Discovery of Many New Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies in Clusters
+ Quantum dots can spit out clone-like photons
+ Entangling photons of different colors
A trap for positrons
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
+ Exotic spiraling electrons discovered by physicists
+ Philosophy: What exactly is a black hole?
+ Where is the Universe Hiding its Missing Mass?
+ Lightning's electromagnetic fields may have protective properties
+ New physical effect demonstrated by University of Bath scientists after 40 year search
+ Scientists simulate a black hole in a water tank
+ How does a quantum particle see the world
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