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  Long Beach CA (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Virgin Orbit, Sir Richard Branson's small satellite launch company, announced that the Pacific island of Guam will become an additional launch site for the company's LauncherOne service. With its remote location and close proximity to the equator, Guam serves as an excellent base of operations from which the company's unique, 747-launched rocket can efficiently serve all inclinations, a boon to the rapidly expanding small satellite market. Most excitingly, the new location enables LauncherOne to d ... read more |
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World's largest plane makes first test flightWashington (AFP) April 13, 2019 The world's largest airplane - a Stratolaunch behemoth with two fuselages and six Boeing 747 engines - made its first test flight on Saturday in California. ... more  
UAE Names First Astronaut to Fly to ISS on Board Russian Soyuz VehicleMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 The United Arab Emirates' Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) said that Hazzaa AlMansoori will be the country's first astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Russ ... more  
Canadian Space Agency Sees Science Cooperation With Russia as Area of GrowthColorado 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 s ... more 
Roscosmos, S7 Group Mull Developing Reusable Commercial Space VehicleMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos and S7 Group are planning to develop the Soyuz-5 Light reusable launch vehicle based on the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket, Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogoz ... more |
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Samara scientists research how building material for planets appears in the universeSamara, Russia (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 The international team of scientists proposed a sequence of transformations starting from a chemical compound - a triphenylene molecule - to graphene nanoparticles, soot, and carbon dust, which are ... more  
NATO to use THAAD in Romania this summerWashington (UPI) Apr 11, 2019 The United States will temporarily deploy its THAAD anti-missile protection system in Romania this summer, U.S. European Command said Thursday. ... more  
Senate committee recognizes importance of space while offering divergent views on Space ForceWashington (AFNS) Apr 12, 2019 The Senate Armed Services Committee acknowledged April 11 that maintaining U.S. superiority in space is a national imperative but expressed skepticism that creating a Space Force as a new, sixth bra ... more 
Erdogan says Russian S-400s delivery could be earlierAnkara (AFP) April 10, 2019 President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the delivery of Turkey's disputed Russian S-400 missile defence systems could be earlier than initially planned, Hurriyet daily reported on Wednesday. ... more 
Battle for space more stealth than Star WarsColorado Springs (AFP) April 10, 2019 At tens of thousands of kilometers above the Earth, a Russian satellite slowly approached the French-Italian satellite Athena-Fidus in October 2017, a move France later denounced as "an act of espionage." ... more |
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Planned US Moon Landing Could Be Cover Up to Test Military Tech - Roscosmos HeadMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 12, 2019 US President Donald Trump earlier ordered speeding up the programme to take American astronauts back to the Moon, setting 2024 as the new deadline. Vice President Mike Pence has called the new lunar ... more  |
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ESA oversees teaching of Europe's next top solderersParis (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 ... more  
OSM Aviation Academy places order for 60 all-electric planesOslo, Norway (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 OSM Aviation, a leading provider of air crew for the international airline industry, has announced that it has placed an order for 60 all-electric planes from Colorado- based aircraft manufacturer B ... more  
Ushering in ultrafast cluster electronicsSapporo, Japan (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 A new computational method can help fast track the development of tiny, ultrafast electronic devices made from small clusters of molecules. Hokkaido University researchers have developed a com ... more 
Drop test proves technologies for reusable microlauncherMadrid (ESA) Apr 15, 2019 Spain's PLD Space, supported by ESA, has demonstrated the technologies for a reusable first stage of their orbital microlauncher, Miura 5. Miura 5 (formerly Arion 2) is aimed to provide dedica ... more  
10 Things You Should Know About Planetary DefenseWashington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 Why do asteroids and meteoroids collide with Earth? These objects orbit the Sun just like the planets, as they have been doing for billions of years, but small effects ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 
The United Arab Emirates' Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) said that Hazzaa AlMansoori will be the country's first astronaut to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Russian Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft.
"@MBRSpaceCentre announces that it has selected Hazzaa AlMansoori as the prime astronaut and Sultan AlNeyadi as the backup astronaut for the International Space Stati ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 
Russia's State Space Corporation Roscosmos and S7 Group are planning to develop the Soyuz-5 Light reusable launch vehicle based on the Soyuz-5 carrier rocket, Roscosmos General Director Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik.
"They [S7 Group] will be very useful to us from the point of view of developing Soyuz-5 Light, a lightweight commercial version of the [Soyuz-5] rocket [...] We want to advance ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Apr 15, 2019 
ESA aims to harness a new resource for future space activities: ideas from European researchers, businesses and the general public. Through its new Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP), anyone is welcome to respond to space-related challenges.
The Agency's new Open Space Innovation Platform website is a streamlined entry point for novel ideas, both in response to specific problems and ope ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2019  An El Nino that began to form last fall has matured and is now fully entrenched across the Pacific Ocean. Changes in sea surface temperatures (SSTs) brought about by an El Nino affect the atmosphere, resulting in distinctive changes in the rainfall pattern across the Pacific Basin. These changes show up as anomalies or deviations in NASA's analysis of climatological rainfall.
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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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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 15, 2019 
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on Friday, with the rover traveling an accumulated 178.9 meters on the far side of the moon.
The rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, is expected to awaken again on April 28, and the lander to awaken the following day, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Spa ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 12, 2019  Why do asteroids and meteoroids collide with Earth? These objects orbit the Sun just like the planets, as they have been doing for billions of years, but small effects such as gravitational nudges from the planets can jostle the orbits, making them gradually shift over million-year timescales or abruptly reposition if there is a close planetary encounter. Over time ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
In the 1950s and early '60s, with the Cold War at its peak, the United States flew U2 spy planes across Europe, the Middle East, and central eastern Asia, taking images of interesting military targets. Though the missions typically connected Point A to Point B, say an air field and an important city, in many cases the camera kept recording between those spots, capturing thousands of photos of th ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 12, 2019 
To observe objects in the distant cosmos, and to do science that's never been done before, NASA's James Webb Space Telescopes' scientific instruments need to be cooled down to a temperature so cold, it would freeze the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere solid.
Intentionally chilling the telescope mirrors and instruments with innovative technologies and intelligent spacecraft design allows them t ... 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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