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  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 |
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NASA, Roscosmos reach consensus on Dragon unmanned flight to ISSMoscow (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  
ISRO to Launch Nearly 30 Satellites in March on New PSLV RocketNew 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  
InSight's "Mole" Starts Hammering into the Martian SoilBonn, 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  
Pentagon submits Space Force proposal to CongressWashington (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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Amoebae diversified at least 750 million years ago, far earlier than expectedSao 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  
The biggest volcanic eruption of sulfur dioxide in 2018Greenbelt 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  
IEA: Nuclear energy set for risky, significant declineWashington 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  
Amazon steers further toward autos, hires GM executiveNew 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  
Taking the Next Step in Quantum Information ProcessingWashington 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 |
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Physicists get thousands of semiconductor nuclei to do 'quantum dances' in unisonCambridge 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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UCF researchers develop first sypersymmetric laser arrayOrlando 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 
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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 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.
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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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 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 |
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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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 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 |
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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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