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  Washington (AFP) March 26, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday that the United States intends to send astronauts back to the Moon within five years, with a woman first in line to set foot on the lunar surface. "It is the stated policy of this administration and the United States of America to return American astronauts to the Moon, within the next five years," Pence said in a speech in Huntsville, Alabama. "Let me be clear, the first woman and the next man on the Moon will both be American astronauts launched by A ... read more |
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Spaceflight Prepares to Send 21 Rideshare Satellites Aboard PSLV C45Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 Spaceflight, the leading satellite rideshare and mission management provider, reports it will launch 21 spacecraft on a rideshare mission from India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) at India' ... more  
Inmarsat agrees to $3.4 bn takeover from consortiumLondon (AFP) March 25, 2019 British satellite operator Inmarsat on Monday agreed to a $3.4 billion cash takeover from a consortium of investment funds. ... more  
Boeing awarded $4.1B for missile defense system developmentWashington (UPI) Mar 25, 2019 Boeing was awarded a $4.1 billion contract to provide development services on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system. ... more  
Russian S7 space firm to cancel deal with Ukraine's rocket makerMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 26, 2019 Russia's privately-owned S7 Space company will scrap a contract it has with a Ukrainian state rocket maker, Yuzhmash, on the production of 12 Zenit launch vehicles, the Russian firm's co-owner told ... more |
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Russia's Sarmat ICBM Can 'Rip Any Missile Defence System to Shreds'Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 24, 2019 The Sarmat, a new intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of up to 11,000 km, is a strategic weapon of last resort capable of carrying up to 24 nuclear-armed independently targetable reentry ... more 
U.S., Israel announce successful test of 'David's Sling'Washington (UPI) Mar 20, 2019 The United States and Israel announced the successful completion of testing of an advanced missile interception system known as "David's Sling." ... more  
DARPA taps BAE for autonomous air mission planning softwareWashington (UPI) Mar 21, 2019 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a new contract for its work on an autonomous air mission planning system for the U.S. military. ... more 
In the sky and on the ground, collaboration vital to DARPA's CODE for successWashington DC (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 On a brisk February morning in the Yuma, Arizona, desert, a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with DARPA's Collaborative Operations in Denied Environment system, or CODE, successfully carri ... more 
Percepto launches Drone-in-a-Box SolutionSouthampton UK (SPX) Mar 22, 2019 Percepto has announced that it will attend ISC West, to share the surveillance and operational benefits of incorporating the industrial-grade Percepto Solution into security and safety operations. ... more |
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New compute cluster to find and interpret gravitational wavesPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 While the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors prepare for their upcoming observing run, the Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity Division at the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam is ... more  |
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Arizona: Student-Led CatSat Mission Selected for Flight by NASATucson AZ (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 An inflatable space antenna designed by University of Arizona students is one of 16 small research satellites from 10 states NASA has selected to fly as auxiliary payloads aboard space missions plan ... more  
Simulating nature's cosmic laboratory, one helium droplet at a timeHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 Two astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and from the University of Jena have found an elegant new method to measure the energy of simple chemical reactions, under similar conditi ... more 
Hubble Captures Birth of Giant Storm on NeptuneWashington DC (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope document the formation of a Great Dark Spot on Neptune for the first time, report researchers in a new study. Like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, Neptune' ... more  
Laser blasts show asteroid bombardment, hydrogen make great recipe for life on MarsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life if the Martian atmosphere was rich in hydrogen. An early hydrogen-rich atmosphere on Mars could also ... more  
Vector's GalacticSky GSky-1 satellite ready for launch later this yearSan Jose CA (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 Vector, the space access company, has announced its GalacticSky division, which has been in stealth mode since 2016. Led by veterans from VMWare and Citrix, as well as satellite innovators, Galactic ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 24, 2019 
Did you know that up to 80% of the water on the International Space Station is recycled? Astronauts living and working 400 km above our planet might prefer not to think about it, but the water they drink is recycled from their colleague's sweat and exhaled breath - collected as condensation on the Space Station's walls.
Water is precious on Earth but even more so in space where all drinkab ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Mar 26, 2019 
As part of a global industry research project, combustion experts from the University of Sydney's School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering are one step closer to developing a more efficient and cost-effective access to space platform for satellite launches.
As part of the University's Clean Combustion Group, Associate Professor Matthew Cleary, Associate Professor Ben Tho ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 26, 2019  A new study reveals asteroid impacts on ancient Mars could have produced key ingredients for life if the Martian atmosphere was rich in hydrogen. An early hydrogen-rich atmosphere on Mars could also explain how the planet remained habitable after its atmosphere thinned. The study used data from NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars and was conducted by researchers on Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 12, 2019 
Chinese scientists are designing what is expected to be the world's most powerful rocket, according to a senior researcher.
Li Hong, deputy general manager at China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, said the Long March 9 super heavy-lift carrier rocket will be capable of lifting 140 metric tons of payload into a low-Earth orbit, or a 50-ton spacecraft to a lunar transfer orbit. The gi ... more |
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 London (AFP) March 25, 2019 
British satellite operator Inmarsat on Monday agreed to a $3.4 billion cash takeover from a consortium of investment funds.
The bid for the London-listed telecommunications group was pitched at $7.21 per share, consortium bid-vehicle Triton Bidco said in a statement.
"Triton Bidco believes that the satellite sector is attractive," said a statement from the consortium, which comprises pri ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 
In the blockbuster Terminator movie franchise, an evil robot morphs into different human forms and objects and oozes through narrow openings, thanks to its "liquid-metal" composition.
Although current robots don't have these capabilities, the technology is getting closer with the development of new liquid metals that can be manipulated in 3D space with magnets. Reported in ACS Applied Mate ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 14, 2019 
To find out how planets form astrophysicists run complicated and time consuming computer calculations. Members of the NCCR PlanetS at the University of Bern have now developed a totally novel approach to speed up this process dramatically. They use deep learning based on artificial neural networks, a method that is well known in image recognition.
Planets grow in stellar disks accreting so ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 
It is known that gas giants around other stars are often located very near their sun. According to accepted theory, these gas planets were formed far away and subsequently migrated to an orbit closer to the star.
Now researchers from Lund University and other institutions have used advanced computer simulations to learn more about Jupiter's journey through our own solar system approximatel ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2019  An array of underwater listening lines that detect passing giant Atlantic bluefin tuna previously caught and tagged by scientists has created a new system to monitor these enormous, fast, powerful and lucrative fish in the open ocean.
A 10-year research project using the technology sheds light on the species' natural mortality as well as migration, important information for sustainable man ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral AFS FL (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force's Space and Missile Systems Center's Global Positioning Systems Directorate achieved another major program milestone March 19, successfully delivering the second GPS III Space Vehicle to Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida to begin satellite launch processing.
"The shipment of this second GPS III satellite is once again an excellent representation of the co ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 26, 2019 
Vice President Mike Pence announced Tuesday that the United States intends to send astronauts back to the Moon within five years, with a woman first in line to set foot on the lunar surface.
"It is the stated policy of this administration and the United States of America to return American astronauts to the Moon, within the next five years," Pence said in a speech in Huntsville, Alabama.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 24, 2019 
On Dec. 18, 2018, a large "fireball" - the term used for exceptionally bright meteors that are visible over a wide area - exploded about 16 miles (26 kilometers) above the Bering Sea. The explosion unleashed an estimated 173 kilotons of energy, or more than 10 times the energy of the atomic bomb blast over Hiroshima during World War II.
Two NASA instruments aboard the Terra satellite captu ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2019 
Maps that show where sharks and tunas roam in the eastern Pacific Ocean, and where fishing vessels travel in this vast expanse, could help ocean managers to identify regions of the high seas where vulnerable species may be at risk.
Researchers at Stanford University have created such a map by analyzing the habitats occupied by more than 800 sharks and tunas and 900 industrial fishing vesse ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Mar 24, 2019 
The ongoing climate changes make it increasingly difficult to predict certain aspects of weather, according to a new study from Stockholm University. The study, focusing on weather forecasts in the northern hemisphere spanning 3- 10 days ahead, concludes that the greatest uncertainty increase will be regarding summer downfalls, of critical importance when it comes to our ability to predict and p ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Mar 15, 2019 
Polymers are regularly used as thermal insulators for everything from keeping beverages hot to keeping sensitive electronics cool. In some cases, polymers can even be used as thermal conductors to enable efficient heating or cooling.
In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have designed and demonstrated a novel type of polymer demonstrating a switchabl ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Mar 21, 2019 
We all mark days with clocks and calendars, but perhaps no timepiece is more immediate than a mirror. The changes we notice over the years vividly illustrate science's "arrow of time" - the likely progression from order to disorder. We cannot reverse this arrow any more than we can erase all our wrinkles or restore a shattered teacup to its original form.
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