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  Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 The discovery of new construction at North Korea's Tongchang-Ri launch site has stunned observers. Last year, North Korea had announced that it would disassemble a rocket engine test stand at the site as a gesture of peace, and satellite imagery showed some progress toward this goal. At the time, some pundits (correctly) speculated that North Korea was planning some sort of a rebuild, but the actions did briefly provide some degree of hope for successful peace negotiations. Reports of the ne ... read more |
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Raytheon awarded $63.3M for hypersonic weapons system researchWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 Raytheon was awarded a $63.3 million contract to further develop the Tactical Boost Glide hypersonic weapons program. ... more  
China preparing for space station missionsBeijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2019 The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday that the core module of the country's space station, the Long March-5B carrier rocket and its payloads will be sent to the launch s ... more  
ESA approves SMILE mission with the Chinese Academy of SciencesWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 The European Space Agency have given the go-ahead to the SMILE mission, a joint effort with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to study to sun-Earth connection. ... more  
Millennium Engineering awarded $340M for Space Vehicles Directorate workWashington (UPI) Mar 4, 2019 Millennium Engineering and Integration Co. received a $340 million contract from the U.S. Air Force contract for space research, the Defense Department announced. ... more |
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NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study an Iconic SupernovaBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 In February 1987, light from an exploding star arrived at Earth after traveling across 160,000 light-years of space. It was the closest supernova humanity had seen in centuries. Thirty-two years lat ... more 
Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom?Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2019 Three images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show pairs of galaxies on the cusp of cosmic consolidations. Though the galaxies appear separate now, gravity is pulling them together, and soon they ... more 
Researchers Tackle Mysteries of Dark Matter, Dark EnergyLawrence KS (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Can't find your house keys? Frustrated by that sock that seemed to disappear during laundry? Don't feel so bad. It turns out scientists have a hard time detecting some 95 percent of the matter ... more 
Putin suspends INF arms treaty with USMoscow (AFP) March 4, 2019 President Vladimir Putin on Monday officially suspended Russia's participation in a key Cold War-era arms treaty, after the US first moved to ditch the INF deal. ... more  
Scientists discover how surfaces may have helped early life on Earth beginBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 04, 2019 On early earth, a series of spontaneous events needed to happen in order for life as we know it to begin. One of those phenomena is the formation of compartments enclosed by lipid membranes. N ... more |
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Assembly in the air: Using sound to defy gravityBath UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 Scientists at the University of Bath have levitated particles using sound in an experiment which could have applications in so-called "soft robotics" and help reveal how planets start to form. ... more  |
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Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflipBoston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 MIT's new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals a champion gymnast. The four-legged powerpack can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk ... more  
Taking the Next Step in Quantum Information ProcessingWashington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 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  
Superconductivity is heating upWashington DC (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 There are 5.5 million miles of power lines in this country - each one is losing energy right now. This ongoing 2 to 4 percent overhead loss could be reduced or eliminated if a lower resistance trans ... more  
Engineers published material standards for simulated asteroid surfacesWashington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 Scientists have created the world's first material standards for simulating asteroid regolith and cobble surfaces. ... more  
More support for Planet NinePasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 Corresponding with the three-year anniversary of their announcement hypothesizing the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system, Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin are publishing a pa ... more |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
The first human to fly in space was Yuri Gagarin, a Russian cosmonaut who was born on March 9, 1934, near Moscow, Russia. He flew aboard the Vostok spacecraft in April 1961 and orbited the Earth once on this 108-minute historic flight. Unfortunately, Gagarin was killed in a plane crash in 1968. The second human to enter space was Alan Shepard, an American astronaut who was born on November 18, 1 ... more |
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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
March 4th, 2019: D-Orbit S.p.A., an Italian service provider of the New Space sector, signed a multi-year framework agreement with US-based launch operator Firefly Aerospace Inc. (Firefly) to purchase launch capacity of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.
The agreement grants D-Orbit the status of a preferred launch aggregation partner for the European market, allowing D-Orbit to purchase, m ... 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) Mar 06, 2019 
The China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday that the core module of the country's space station, the Long March-5B carrier rocket and its payloads will be sent to the launch site in the second half of this year, to make preparations for the space station missions.
China is scheduled to complete the construction of the space station around 2022. It will be the country ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 
The European Space Agency have given the go-ahead to the SMILE mission, a joint effort with the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to study to sun-Earth connection.
The mission will focus the interactions between solar particles and electromagnetic forces inside Earth's magnetosphere.
SMILE evolved out of a pair of workshops organized to encourage increased collaboration between resear ... 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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 New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration - their orbits seem to have been pushed apart by a powerful unknown mechanism. Yale researchers say they've found a possible answer, and it implies that the planets' poles are majorly tilted.
The finding could have a big impact on how researchers estimate t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
Corresponding with the three-year anniversary of their announcement hypothesizing the existence of a ninth planet in the solar system, Caltech's Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin are publishing a pair of papers analyzing the evidence for Planet Nine's existence.
The papers offer new details about the suspected nature and location of the planet, which has been the subject of an intense inte ... more |
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 Beirut (AFP) March 4, 2019 
Demonstrators staged a protest outside World Bank offices in Lebanon's capital Monday over its key role in financing a controversial dam project that environmentalists say will destroy a valley rich in biodiversity.
"Bisri Dam = Destruction, Pollution, Earthquakes" and "Save The Bisri Valley", read banners and posters carried by the dozens of demonstrators gathered in downtown Beirut.
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 Portsmouth, UK (SPX) Mar 04, 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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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2019 
The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work after "sleeping" during their second lunar night on the far side of the moon.
The lander woke up at 7:52 a.m. last Friday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at about 10:51 a.m. last Thursday. Both of them are in normal condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Spa ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 5, 2019 
Scientists have created the world's first material standards for simulating asteroid regolith and cobble surfaces.
The new standards will help engineers prepare for off-world colony building by more precisely simulating extraterrestrial surfaces.
"I'm firmly convinced that by the end of the century there will be more economic activity off planet Earth than on planet Earth," lead ... more |
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 Bremen, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
Methane is a very special molecule. It is the main component of natural gas and we heat our apartments with it, but when reaching the atmosphere it is a potent greenhouse gas.
It is also central in microbiology: In the absence of oxygen, a special group of microorganisms, the so-called methanogenic archaea, can produce methane. Other microorganisms - archaea living in symbiosis with bacter ... 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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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
For the first time, it has been possible to test laser measurement technology for LISA in laboratories almost under mission conditions. A team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universitat in Hannover, Germany, achieved the breakthrough with a novel experiment.
The work ties up with the LISA Pathf ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 06, 2019 
Astronomers have detected a stealthy black hole from its effects on an interstellar gas cloud. This intermediate mass black hole is one of over 100 million quiet black holes expected to be lurking in our Galaxy. These results provide a new method to search for other hidden black holes and help us understand the growth and evolution of black holes.
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