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  Washington (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2019 he US armed forces are planning five test programs on hypersonic weapons systems in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, Army Space and Missile Command chief Lieutenant General James Dickinson said in congressional testimony on Wednesday. "There are currently five active hypersonic test programs in various stages of planning at RTS [the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defence Test Site]," Dickinson told the House Armed Services Strategic Subcommittee. The RTS is located at the ... read more |
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US Air Force and Raytheon collaborate to modernize space command and control systemColorado Springs, C0 (SPX) Apr 04, 2019 The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center and a consortium of tech firms led by Raytheon are modernizing and simplifying the legacy Space Defense Operations Center, a 1990s-era system that tra ... more  
More Delays Ahead for Boeing's New Space Capsule for AstronautsCape Canaveral FL (VOA) Apr 05, 2019 Boeing's new space capsule for astronauts faces more launch delays. The Starliner capsule was supposed to make its debut this month, after a series of postponements. But the first test flight is now ... more 
Russia launches cargo ship with food, supplies for ISSWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019 Russia's space agency launched a cargo ship into space on Thursday morning. The express delivery was successfully received by space station crew just a few hours later. ... more 
Arianespace completes deployment of O3b constellationKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 05, 2019 Arianespace has orbited the final four latest satellites in the first phase of SES's O3b constellation. The launch took place on Thursday, April 4, at 2:03 pm (local time) from the Guiana Spac ... more |
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SpaceIL lunar lander in orbit around moon ahead of touchdownWashington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019 Next week's record-setting lunar landing was dependent on the success of this week's entry into orbit. ... more  
AD alloyed nanoantennas for temperature-feedback identification of viruses and explosivesVladivostok, Russia (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), ITMO University and Swinburne University of Tec ... more  
Fullerenes bridge conductive gap in organic photovoltaicsWashington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2019 Organic photovoltaics have achieved remarkably high efficiencies, but finding optimum combinations of materials for high-performance organic solar cells, which are also economically competitive, sti ... more  
Low-loss, all-fiber system for strong and efficient coupling between distant atomsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 02, 2019 A team of scientists from Waseda University, the Japan Science and Technology Agency, and the University of Auckland developed an integrated, all-fiber coupled-cavities quantum electrodynamics (QED) ... more  
New methodology enable solid state lighting to measure and self-adjust based on conditionsCardiff UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2019 An article published in the SPIE journal Optical Engineering, "Arbitrary spectral matching using multi-LED lighting systems," marks a substantial advance in lighting science and technology. In ... more |
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 A Decade of Exploring Alaska's Mountain Glaciers 
Teaching computers to intelligently design 'billions' of possible materialsColumbia MO (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 Discovering how atoms - such as a single layer of carbon atoms found in graphene, one of the world's strongest materials - work to create a solid material is currently a major research topic in the ... more  |
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Shape shifting mirror opens a vista for the futureOsaka, Japan (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 A team of researchers from JTEC Corporation and Osaka University developed a bimorph deformable mirror that allows for precise shape modification and usage under vacuum, a world first. Because ... more 
NASA Achieves Rocket Engine Test Milestone Needed for Moon MissionsBay St. Louis MS (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 NASA is a step closer to returning astronauts to the Moon in the next five years following a successful engine test on Thursday at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The ... more  
OSIRIS-REx Captures Laser 3D View of BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 This three-dimensional view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency, on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. From Feb. 12 throu ... more  
Galaxies Lacking Dark Matter Do in Fact ExistKamuela HI (SPX) Apr 04, 2019 After drawing both praise and skepticism, the team of astronomers who discovered NGC 1052-DF2 - the very first known galaxy to contain little to no dark matter - are back with stronger evidence abou ... more 
Subaru Telescope helps find dark matter is not made up of tiny black holesSan Francisco CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2019 An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and their results have ruled out the possibility that primordial black ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (VOA) Apr 05, 2019 
Boeing's new space capsule for astronauts faces more launch delays. The Starliner capsule was supposed to make its debut this month, after a series of postponements. But the first test flight is now off until August. And the second test flight, with astronauts, won't occur until late in the year.
NASA announced the revised lineup Wednesday. At the same time, officials said the first Starli ... more |
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 Bay St. Louis MS (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
NASA is a step closer to returning astronauts to the Moon in the next five years following a successful engine test on Thursday at NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The latest "hot fire" was the culmination of four-plus years of testing for the RS-25 engines that will send the first four Space Launch System (SLS) rockets into space.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
According to NASA, scientists are in agreement that there is no life on Mars. However, they continue to assess whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting microbial life.
Now, researchers from Hungary have discovered embedded organic material in a Martian meteorite found in the late 1970s. The scientists were able to determine the presence of organic matter in mineralised fo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 01, 2019 
China sent a new data relay satellite into orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province late Sunday night.
The Tianlian II-01 satellite was launched at 11:51 p.m. Beijing Time by a Long March-3B carrier rocket.
As the first satellite to constitute China's second-generation data relay satellite network, the Tianlian II-01 will provide data relay ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) April 4, 2019 
Amazon on Thursday confirmed it is working on a project to deploy a network of satellites for high-speed internet service in underserved parts of the world.
Project Kuiper was first reported by tech news website GeekWire, which cited US regulatory filings disclosing the satellite project that could cost billions of dollars to complete.
"Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a cons ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 1, 2019 
The head of NASA on Monday branded India's destruction of one of its satellites a "terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard the International Space Station.
Jim Bridenstine was addressing employees of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration five days after India shot down a low-orbiting satellite in a missile test to ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019  Scientists have discovered the world's first organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not perform photosynthesis.
The unprecedented animal is called a corallicolid because it is found in 70 percent of the planet's corals.
"This is the second most abundant cohabitant of coral on the planet and it hasn't been seen until now," Patrick Keeling, a botanist at the University of B ... more |
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 Hampton, VA (SPX) Apr 01, 2019 
It probably goes without saying, but this isn't your everyday satellite dish.
In fact, it's not a satellite dish at all. It's a high-gain antenna (HGA), and a future version of it will send and receive signals to and from Earth from a looping orbit around Jupiter.
The antenna will take that long journey aboard NASA's Europa Clipper, a spacecraft that will conduct detailed reconnaissa ... more |
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 Freetown (AFP) April 1, 2019 
Sierra Leone has banned industrial fishing in its territorial waters for a month from Monday in a move to try to shore up stocks that was applauded by environmental activists.
The government also decreed an April 1-30 halt to exports by major fishing companies "to protect our fish stock from depletion", said a statement from the fisheries ministry.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
The four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft recently broke the world record for navigating with GPS signals farther from Earth than ever before. MMS' success indicates that NASA spacecraft may soon be able to navigate via GPS as far away as the Moon, which will prove important to the Gateway, a planned space station in lunar orbit.
After navigation maneuvers conducted this February ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 4, 2019  Next week's record-setting lunar landing was dependent on the success of this week's entry into orbit.
On Thursday, the first privately funded lunar lander, a small Israeli spacecraft named Beresheet, successfully inserted itself into orbit around the moon.
Engineers on the first-of-its-kind mission watched the spacecraft's vitals with anticipation as Beresheet executed six-minut ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
This three-dimensional view of asteroid Bennu was created by the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), contributed by the Canadian Space Agency, on NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.
From Feb. 12 through 17, OLA made more than 11 million measurements of the distance between OSIRIS-REx and Bennu's surface as the spacecraft flew less than 1.2 miles (2 km) above the surface - the closest orbit ever ac ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 
A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, shows that the recent intensification of the equatorial Pacific wind system, known as Walker Circulation, is unrelated to human influences and can be explained by natural processes. This result ends a long-standing debate on the drivers of an unprecedented atmospheric trend, which contributed to a three-fold acceleration of s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
When Simone Di Matteo first saw the patterns in his data, it seemed too good to be true. "It's too perfect!" Di Matteo, a space physics Ph.D. student at the University of L'Aquila in Italy, recalled thinking. "It can't be real." And it wasn't, he'd soon find out.
Di Matteo was looking for long trains of massive blobs - like a lava lamp's otherworldly bubbles, but anywhere from 50 to 500 ti ... more |
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 Coventry, UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2019 
Astronomers from University of Warwick detected the small body orbiting a white dwarf 'closer than we would expect to find anything still alive'; Planetesimal orbits with a 'comet-like tail' of gas, creating a ring within the debris disc; Offers a hint as to the future of our solar system, 6 billion years from now; Artist's impression available, see below. **
A fragment of a planet that ha ... more |
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 Cologne, Germany (SPX) Apr 02, 2019 
A team of physicists at the University of Cologne has, for the first time, seen a particularly exotic behaviour of electrons on an atomic scale. Electrons normally move almost freely through three-dimensional space. However, when they are forced to move in only one dimension - i.e. in a chain of atoms - they begin to act rather strangely.
The Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid theory predicted this ... more |
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