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  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 12, 2019 The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is planning to buy a Soyuz spacecraft and launch services from Russia to send two domestic astronauts to orbit on one mission. The flight will be possible in two years, Sergey Krikalev, director of manned spaceflight at Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos, said in an interview with Sputnik. "Within the framework of the future flight program, the UAE plans a specialized manned mission for which a spacecraft is required. They consider buying a Soyuz spacecraft fr ... read more |
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SpaceX carries out first commercial launch of Falcon HeavyCape Canaveral (AFP) April 11, 2019 SpaceX carried out its first commercial launch on Thursday with its Falcon Heavy rocket easing a Saudi telecoms satellite into orbit. ... more  
Shanahan, Wilson, Goldfein offer views for ensuring U.S. superiority in spaceColorado Springs CO (AFNS) Apr 10, 2019 The top echelon of the United States' civilian and military leadership offered unflinching assurances April 9, that America's superiority in space will endure even as competition - and the stakes - ... more  
Curiosity Tastes First Sample in 'Clay-Bearing Unit'Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2019 Scientists working with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover have been excited to explore a region called "the clay-bearing unit" since before the spacecraft launched. Now, the rover has finally tasted its f ... more  
Indian Satellite's Pieces Unlikely to Collide With ISS - Russian Space AgencyMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 12, 2019 The likelihood of a collision between pieces of a destroyed Indian satellite and the International Space Station (ISS) is not high but some of these parts are small and hard to track, Sergey Krikale ... more |
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ExoMars carrier module prepares for final pre-launch testingParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations. The module, along with electrical ground s ... more  
Industry collaboration on avionics paves the way for GAINS navigation demonstration flightsLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA ... more 
It's a one-way street for sound waves in this new technologyNew Haven CT (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Imagine being able to hear people whispering in the next room, while the raucous party in your own room is inaudible to the whisperers. Yale researchers have found a way to do just that - make sound ... more 
Ridding space of old satellites and debrisColorado Springs (AFP) April 11, 2019 With constellations of thousands of telecommunication mini satellites expected to orbit Earth in the near future, the risk of space-debris collisions will grow. For Nobu Okada, it's an opportunity. ... more  
AiTelecom launches first DVB-S2X network in Mexico utilizing VT iDirect's iQ remotesHerndon VA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 VT iDirect, a company of VT Systems, has announced that AiTelecom has launched the first iDirect DVB-S2X network in Mexico. Utilizing VT iDirect's iQ Series of remotes, this next-generation DVB-S2X ... more |
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 India looks to expand space weaponry after satellite-killer test 
US satellites reported to have approached Russian, Chinese GEO satellitesMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 09, 2019 Following the launch of the first geosynchronous surveillance satellites by the US in 2014, little was known about their operation, as Washington kept a veil of secrecy around them. But a recent rep ... more  |
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Trump's Space Force collides with skeptical CongressWashington (AFP) April 11, 2019 The Space Force that President Donald Trump wants to launch ran headlong on Thursday into skeptical lawmakers who questioned the need for a stand-alone military wing. ... more  
US to Move Fast on Hypersonic Weapons Like China, Russia - Stratcom ChiefColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 10, 2019 Last week, Army Space and Missile Command chief Lieutenant General James Dickinson said in congressional testimony that the US armed forces were planning five test programs on hypersonic weapons sys ... more  
The oldest ice on Earth may be able to solve the puzzle of the planet's climate historyBern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 As part of the EU project "Beyond EPICA - Oldest Ice", experts from 14 institutions located in 10 European countries have spent three years combing the Antarctic ice sheet to find the ideal location ... more  
Squeezed nanocrystal model predicts their shape when blanketed under grapheneAmes IA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 In a collaboration between the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and Northeastern University, scientists have developed a model for predicting the shape of metal nanocrystals or "islands" ... more  
Measurement of semiconductor material quality is now 100,000 times more sensitiveAustin TX (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 The enhanced power of the new measuring technique to characterize materials at scales much smaller than any current technologies will accelerate the discovery and investigation of 2D, micro- and nan ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
Music has long been known to affect people's mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music may improve human performance in one of the most stressful and alien environments we know - space.
Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive effect on us: oxytocin, end ... more |
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 Auburn AL (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
It's rocket science-one NASA project is revolutionizing how liquid rocket engines are made. Additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, combined with advanced composite technology could help rocket engines be lighter, cheaper and easier to make.
Engineers at NASA tested a 2,400 lbf thrust 3D-printed copper rocket thrust chamber with composite overwrap to see if the uniquely made h ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations.
The module, along with electrical ground support equipment, shipped from OHB System in Bremen, Germany, arrived on 2 April at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy.
The mission is the second in the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars programme th ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2019 
China's first carrier rocket for commercial use, the Smart Dragon-1 (SD-1), has finished its engine test, paving way for its maiden flight in the first half of 2019, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
The rocket is the first member of the Dragon series commercial carrier rockets family to be produced by CALT. It has a total length of 19.5 meters, a diameter ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 12, 2019 
The Canadian Space Agency considers the cooperation with Russia on space science as a promising area of growth, agency's President Sylvain Laporte told Sputnik.
"We are getting into a lot of science missions, for example. And I do know that our researchers both in Canada and in Russia collaborate a lot on writing different types of papers [...] So the collaboration is there. But the founda ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
Satellites are among the most complex machines ever designed, but in key respects they are still hand-made. A set of ESA-approved training schools train and certify the best solderers in Europe, to ensure they have sufficient ability to work on electronic hardware for space missions.
More than a thousand operators and inspectors take the courses annually. The resulting highly-skilled perso ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
Brown dwarfs fill the "gap" between stars and the much smaller planets - two very different types of astronomical objects. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers from Heidelberg University may now be able to answer that question. They discovered that the star Zeta Ophiuchi in the Milky Way is being orbited by two brown dwarfs, which in all probability formed along with ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published by The Planetary Society today, Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist who helped discover 2007 OR10, announced a campaign inviting the public to pick the best name to submit t ... more |
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 Baghdad (AFP) April 9, 2019 
Iraq's water ministry sought on Tuesday to quell fears that dams could collapse, as the country's main water reservoirs reach or near capacity after a very wet winter.
"We are in control of the dams and reservoir levels", said water ministry spokesman Aoun Diab.
"We are not worried about their safety or stability," he told AFP.
Weeks of rain - compounded by melting snowcaps in nei ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together to clear the way for existing avionics to be used.
GAINS - General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by th ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 
Bridgestone Corporation has announced that it will take part in an international space exploration mission together with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and Toyota Motor Corporation. Recently announced by JAXA and Toyota, the goals of this mission are to expand the domain of human activity and develop intellectual property on space exploration. Bridgestone's mission assignment is t ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the asteroid.
This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investi ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Earth observation satellites play a key role in weather forecasting, climate research, monitoring of the planet's surface and the detection of forest fires. These tasks require satellites to transmit very large amounts of data to the ground for analysis. Today's radio systems are reaching their limits in this area.
Optical transmission methods, however, offer the possibility of sending dat ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
A new, first-of-its-kind space weather model reliably predicts space storms of high-energy particles that are harmful to many satellites and spacecraft orbiting in the Earth's outer radiation belt.
A paper recently published in the journal Space Weather details how the model can accurately give a one-day warning prior to a space storm of ultra-high-speed electrons, often referred to as "ki ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they can also make it travel backward.
The results were published recently in the journal Nature Communications.
This achievement is a major step in research that could one day lead to more efficient optical communication, as the ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) operates a planet-scale array of eight ground-based radio telescopes that are linked together. The Black Hole Cam (BHC) Team, led by astrophysicists from Goethe University in Frankfurt, the Max-Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn and the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, are part of this collaboration.
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