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  Washington (UPI) Apr 22, 2019 The "anomaly" experienced by SpaceX's Crew Dragon over the weekend won't affect the company's planned space station resupply mission. According to NASA officials, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is still scheduled to launch the company's Dragon cargo spacecraft on April 30. "The NASA and SpaceX teams are still assessing the anomaly that occurred, but I can tell you we are still tracking, as of today, for Tuesday, April 30, and that launch will be at 4:22 a.m. Eastern time," NASA public affairs ... read more |
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The Third Installment of the SpaceFund Reality (SFR) ratingLos Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 The third installment of our SpaceFund Reality (SFR) rating is focused on space habitats. With this rating we begin to move into areas that are more obviously related to the SpaceFund mission of sup ... more  
China opens Chang'e-6 for international payloads, asteroids nextBeijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 China announced the cooperation plan for its future Chang'e-6 mission, offering to carry a total of 20-kg solicited payloads, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Thursday. ... more  
Debris of Satellite Destroyed by India May Threaten ISS - Russian MoDMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2019 When India tested its anti-satellite weapons, more than 100 fragments of destroyed spacecraft were created; in the future, these fragments could pose a threat to the ISS, the Russian Defence Ministr ... more  
New concept for novel fire extinguisher in spaceToyohashi, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed new concept of fire extinguisher optimized for space-use; named Vacuum Extinguish Meth ... more |
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US says N.Korean test not a ballistic missileWashington (AFP) April 18, 2019 A weapons test announced by North Korea was not of a ballistic missile, the US defense chief said Thursday, adding that US forces have not changed their posture in response. ... more 
N.Korea's Kim oversees test of new weapon with 'powerful warhead'Seoul (AFP) April 18, 2019 North Korea's Kim Jong Un has supervised the test-firing of a new tactical weapon with a "powerful warhead", state media reported Thursday, in the first test of its kind since nuclear negotiations with Washington stalled. ... more  
Gen Goldfein hosts inaugural space conference for US, partner nationsColorado Springs CO (AFNS) Apr 18, 2019 Surrounded by air chiefs from 11 other nations, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David L. Goldfein plunged deep into discussion April 11 about the changing nature of space. The daylong meeting at ... more 
Russian astronomers spot new manoeuvring satellite in Earth orbitMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2019 The satellite is said to be operating in geostationary orbit, in the same area where the vast majority of Earth's communications and television broadcasting satellites are situated. Astronomer ... more 
Final Military Satellite Launch From Baikonur Rescheduled for JulyMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 16, 2019 The launch of the final military telecommunications satellite of Russia's Blagovest constellation from the Baikonur Cosmodrome has been put off from May to July, a source in the space industry told ... more |
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Evolution from water to land led to better parentingBath UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 The evolution of aquatic creatures to start living on land made them into more attentive parents, says new research on frogs led by the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath. A ... more  |
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Illuminating Gases in The Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse GasesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Whether they're idyllic floating cotton balls on an otherwise blue sky or ominous grey swirls that block the sun, clouds all begin as an invisible dot of water vapor. This elusive gas has been trick ... more  
Infinite number of quantum particles gives clues to big-picture behavior at large scaleWashington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 In quantum mechanics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle prevents an external observer from measuring both the position and speed (referred to as momentum) of a particle at the same time. Th ... more  
Fast and selective optical heating for functional nanomagnetic metamaterialsUsurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows ... more 
NASA accelerates pace of Core Stage production with new toolNew Orleans LA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 The boat-tail structure, a fairing-like cover designed to protect the bottom end of the core stage and the RS-25 engines, has been joined to one of the most complicated and intricate parts of NASA's ... more  
Bolivian Space Agency takes broadband internet to new heightsSint-Niklaas, Belgium (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Newtec, a specialist in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for satellite communications, has announced that it has deployed a Newtec Dialog hub for the Agencia Boliviana Espacia (A ... more |
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 Toyohashi, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed new concept of fire extinguisher optimized for space-use; named Vacuum Extinguish Method (VEM).
VEM is based on the completely "reverse" operation of widely-used fire extinguisher, namely, spraying extinguisher agent(s) into the firing point. VEM is sucking the flame as well as c ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 21, 2019 
A mysterious but apparently serious incident occurred Saturday in Cape Canaveral, Florida involving the SpaceX capsule intended to carry American astronauts into space late this year, the private company and NASA announced.
"Earlier today, SpaceX conducted a series of engine tests on a Crew Dragon test vehicle on our test stand at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral, Florida," a SpaceX spokesm ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
NASA has named a University of Colorado Boulder team a finalist in a competition to design a greenhouse for use on Mars.
The annual NASA BIG Idea Challenge is set for April 23-24 in Hampton, Virginia; it calls on student groups at universities across the country to develop solutions to vexing space problems. The event changes each year, and the 2019 contest is seeking innovative ideas for ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 
China announced the cooperation plan for its future Chang'e-6 mission, offering to carry a total of 20-kg solicited payloads, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Thursday.
The orbiter and lander of the Chang'e-6 mission will each reserve 10 kg for payloads, which will be selected from both domestic colleges, universities, private enterprises and foreign scientifi ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
The third installment of our SpaceFund Reality (SFR) rating is focused on space habitats. With this rating we begin to move into areas that are more obviously related to the SpaceFund mission of supporting "frontier enabling" technologies. While the launch database showed a field that is over crowded, many other critical sectors of the space economy are not, and some are frankly, wide open.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2019 
When India tested its anti-satellite weapons, more than 100 fragments of destroyed spacecraft were created; in the future, these fragments could pose a threat to the ISS, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
"On 27 March, India successfully tested anti-satellite weapons, as a result of the destruction of the spacecraft, more than 100 fragments were formed in the altitude range from 100 to 1, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019 
Scientists have discovered oil-eating bacteria in the planet's deepest oceanic trench, the Mariana Trench.
An international team of researchers, including scientists from Britain, China and Russia, used a submersible to collect microbial samples from the trench, which bottoms out at 6.8 miles below sea level. For reference, the peak of Mount Everest is 5.5 miles above sea level.
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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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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
How exactly does the ocean - the Earth's largest carbon sink - capture and store carbon? The answer to this question will become increasingly important as the planet warms and as we try to get ahead of a runaway climate scenario.
That's according to UC Santa Barbara oceanographer Dave Siegel. "The whole number is about 10 petagrams of carbon per year," he said of the amount of carbon trans ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 
China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 10:41 p.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 44th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the first BDS-3 satellite in inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit.
After in-orbit tests, the satellite will work wi ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Dust can be a nuisance - on Earth and the Moon. Astronauts exploring the Moon's South Pole will need a way to help keep pesky lunar dust out of hard to reach places.
A team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida may have the solution. The technology launched to the space station April 17, 2019, from Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia as part of the Materials Intern ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 23, 2019 
Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped a copper projectile at very high speed in an attempt to form a crater on asteroid Ryugu. A much bigger asteroid impact is planned for the coming decade, involving an international double-spacecraft mission.
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 Paris (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Synspective and Arianespace have signed a contract to launch the satellite StriX-a, Synspective's first SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) demonstrator satellite.
On April 18, 2019, Arianespace announced the signing of a launch service contract with Synspective for the launch of the satellite StriX-a (with a liftoff mass of approximately 150 kg.) into a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) in 2020.
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 Pune, India (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
The Sun is the brightest object in the sky which is probably the most studied object. Surprisingly, it still hosts mysteries which scientists have been trying to unravel for decades, for example, the origin of coronal mass ejections which can potentially affect the Earth. Led by Dr. Divya Oberoi and his Ph.D. students, Atul Mohan and Surajit Mondal, a team of scientists at the National Centre fo ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and cost-effective technology that allows increasing the speed of the automated microscopes (AM) by 10-100 times.
The microscopes' speed growth will help scientists in many fields: medicine, nuclea ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist: tunnels in curved space-time, connecting two distant places, through which travel is possible.
But don't pack your bags for a trip to other side of the galaxy yet; although it's theoretically possible, it's not useful for humans to travel through, said the author of the study, Daniel Jafferis, from Harvard University, written in colla ... more |
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