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April 29, 2019
SPACE TRAVEL
Photobioreactor: oxygen and a source of nutrition for astronauts



Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2019
Airbus is bringing another experimental system to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of the photobioreactor (PBR). The PBR, developed by the University of Stuttgart and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), is designed to convert part of the CO2 extracted by the 'LSR' Life Support Rack on board the ISS into oxygen and biomass, which could help to save valuable resources during future long-term missions into space. ... read more

MOON DAILY
What's on the far side of the Moon?
Columbus OH (The Conversation) Apr 29, 2019
Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lig ... more
SPACEWAR
China uses US-made satellites for internal security: report
Washington (AFP) April 23, 2019
A fleet of US-made satellites helps China's government police its people and supports its military despite growing wariness in Washington over Beijing's power, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. ... more
ENERGY TECH
Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energy
Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 23, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy ... more
IRON AND ICE
Asteroid HS2 swings past Earth
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019
HS2 has been described as a new Near-Earth Object, with NEOs known to zip in Earth's direction, coming "close" to the planetary surface - at least speaking astronomical terms. An asteroid code ... more
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TECH SPACE
NASA Funds Development of Novel Diffractive Solar Sails
Rochester NY (SPX) Apr 29, 2019
Scientists have been floating designs for solar sails to propel spacecraft for decades, but a new approach being developed by a Rochester Institute of Technology professor could be the key to helpin ... more
IRON AND ICE
The day the asteroid might hit
Paris (ESA) Apr 29, 2019
For the first time, ESA will cover a major international asteroid impact exercise live via social media, highlighting the the actions that might be taken by scientists, space agencies and civil prot ... more
IRON AND ICE
Hayabusa2's Small Carry-on Impactor Made a Crater on Ryugu
Tokyo (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019
The Japanese space agency (JAXA) has confirmed that its probe Hayabusa-2 successfully created an artificial crater on the surface of a distant asteroid, Ryugu, in early April. The operation to creat ... more
SPACEMART
Satellite Constellations and Radio Astronomy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019
In the San Augustine Plains of central New Mexico, 27 radio telescopes stand tall, operating nearly 24 hours, 7 days a week capturing extremely weak signals emitted from all over the Universe. This ... more
MOON DAILY
China Plans to Build Base Near South Pole Outdoing US Apollo Missions
Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019
China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in "about 10 years" in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE
Navy executes successful test of AEGIS Virtual Twin software in missile test
Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2019
The U.S. Navy successfully executed a live-fire drill controlled by the AEGIS Virtual Twin, a prototype software upgrade for the AEGIS weapon system, the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command said. ... more
ICE WORLD
Researchers calculate decades of 'scary' Greenland ice melting
Washington (AFP) April 22, 2019
Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 - thanks to satellites, weather stations and sophisticated climate models. ... more
TIME AND SPACE
Researchers observe slowest atom decay ever measured
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
Around 1500 meters deep in the Italian Gran Sasso mountains is the underground laboratory LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), in which scientists search for dark matter particles in a lab se ... more
ROBO SPACE
Snake-inspired robot slithers even better than predecessor
Boston MA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019
Bad news for ophiophobes: Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new and improved snake-inspired soft robot that is faster an ... more
ENERGY TECH
Researchers report high performance solid-state sodium-ion battery
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 23, 2019
Solid-state sodium-ion batteries are far safer than conventional lithium-ion batteries, which pose a risk of fire and explosions, but their performance has been too weak to offset the safety advanta ... more


Modified 'white graphene' for eco-friendly energy

STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Elemental old-timer makes the universe look like a toddler
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
In terms of longevity, the universe has nothing on xenon 124. Theory predicts the isotope's radioactive decay has a half-life that surpasses the age of the universe "by many orders of magnitude," bu ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE
SpaceX, NASA tight-lipped on cause of crew capsule incident
Washington (AFP) April 25, 2019
NASA and SpaceX remained tight-lipped Thursday about what caused a mysterious but apparently serious incident last weekend during engine tests on the Crew Dragon capsule designed to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. ... more
ROBO SPACE
FEDOR Space Rescuer: Roscosmos 'Trains' Anthropomorphic Robot for Manned Mission
Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have received FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) anthropomorphic robot for its potential use ... more
TIME AND SPACE
SOFIA uncovers ones of the building blocks of the early Universe
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2019
The helium hydride ion, to give HeH+ its full name, once posed something of a dilemma for science. Although its existence has been known from laboratory studies for almost 100 years, it had not been ... more
IRON AND ICE
Hermes to Bring Asteroid Research to the ISS
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
Asteroid researchers on Earth will soon gain a powerful new way to remotely conduct experiments aboard the International Space Station. The device, called the Hermes Facility, is an experiment ... more
TIME AND SPACE
New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expected
Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen shortly after the big bang, astronomers say. ... more
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Photobioreactor: oxygen and a source of nutrition for astronauts
Friedrichshafen, Germany (SPX) Apr 29, 2019
Airbus is bringing another experimental system to the International Space Station (ISS) in the form of the photobioreactor (PBR). The PBR, developed by the University of Stuttgart and built by Airbus on behalf of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), is designed to convert part of the CO2 extracted by the 'LSR' Life Support Rack on board the ISS into oxyge ... more
+ New concept for novel fire extinguisher in space
+ Music for space
+ NASA astronaut to set record for longest spaceflight by a woman
+ Multiple regenerative medicine payloads ready for ISS study
+ Asteroids help scientists measure distant stars
+ Asteroids Help Scientists Measure Diameters of Faraway Stars
+ International Space Station's US Segment Leaked Dozens of Kilograms of Methane
SpaceX, NASA tight-lipped on cause of crew capsule incident
Washington (AFP) April 25, 2019
NASA and SpaceX remained tight-lipped Thursday about what caused a mysterious but apparently serious incident last weekend during engine tests on the Crew Dragon capsule designed to carry US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) later this year. SpaceX said that an "anomaly" had occurred during Saturday's ground tests at Cape Canaveral in Florida. A photo on the Florida Tod ... more
+ Drop test proves technologies for reusable microlauncher
+ Controlling instabilities gives closer look at chemistry from hypersonic vehicles
+ NASA accelerates pace of Core Stage production with new tool
+ Roscosmos, S7 Group Mull Developing Reusable Commercial Space Vehicle
+ SpaceX to launch cargo resupply mission despite Crew Dragon mishap
+ 1st manned flight of Crew Dragon to ISS postponed due to accident
+ SpaceX Crew Dragon test firing results in cloud of smoke, called 'anomaly'


ESA to Lose Member State Support if ExoMars Launch Postponed - Director-General
Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik. "I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry ... more
+ InSight lander captures audio of first likely 'quake' on Mars
+ All-woman engineering team heads to NASA Mars competition
+ A small step for China: Mars base for teens opens in desert
+ Things Are Stacking Up for NASA's Mars 2020 Spacecraft
+ ExoMars carrier module prepares for final pre-launch testing
+ First results from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
+ Curiosity Tastes First Sample in 'Clay-Bearing Unit'
China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'
Beijing (AFP) April 24, 2019
Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official. China aims to achieve space superpower status and took a major step towards that goal when it became the first nation to land a rover on the far side of the moon in January. It now plans to build a scientific researc ... more
+ China to enhance international space cooperation
+ China opens Chang'e-6 for international payloads, asteroids next
+ China's commercial carrier rocket finishes engine test
+ China launches new data relay satellite
+ Super-powerful Long March 9 said to begin missions around 2030
+ China preparing for space station missions
+ China's lunar rover studies stones on moon's far side
Satellite Constellations and Radio Astronomy
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 29, 2019
In the San Augustine Plains of central New Mexico, 27 radio telescopes stand tall, operating nearly 24 hours, 7 days a week capturing extremely weak signals emitted from all over the Universe. This flat and vast land, once a seabed, sits at an altitude of 7,000 feet and is surrounded by 360 degrees of mountains. Despite the ideal conditions of this location, "listening" to these faint radio emis ... more
+ Iridium Awarded Gateway Support and Maintenance Contract by the U.S. Department of Defense
+ The Third Installment of the SpaceFund Reality (SFR) rating
+ ESA opening up to new ideas
+ Canadian Space Agency Sees Science Cooperation With Russia as Area of Growth
+ Forging the future
+ Preserving heritage data at ESA
+ Spacecraft Repo Operations
Modified 'white graphene' for eco-friendly energy
Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Apr 23, 2019
Scientists from TPU, Germany, and the United States have found a new way to functionalize a dielectric, otherwise known as 'white graphene', i.e. hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), without destroying it or changing its properties. Thanks to the new method, the researchers synthesized a 'polymer nano carpet' with strong covalent bond on the samples. Prof Raul Rodriguez from the TPU Research Sch ... more
+ NASA Funds Development of Novel Diffractive Solar Sails
+ UNH scientists find auroral 'speed bumps' are more complicated
+ Debris of Satellite Destroyed by India May Threaten ISS - Russian MoD
+ ESA oversees teaching of Europe's next top solderers
+ Green plastic production made easy
+ Quantum gas turns supersolid
+ Scientists develop low-cost energy-efficient materials


Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young stars
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science. Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely lost early in the lifetime of the pl ... more
+ Slime mold memorizes foreign substances by absorbing them
+ Necrophagy: A means of survival in the Dead Sea
+ Oil-eating bacteria found at the bottom of the ocean
+ Explosion on Jupiter-sized star 10 times more powerful than ever seen on our sun
+ Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system
+ Powerful particles and tugging tides may affect extraterrestrial life
+ TESS discovers its first Earth-sized planet
Next-Generation NASA Instrument Advanced to Study the Atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation. A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer. ... more
+ Public Invited to Help Name Solar System's Largest Unnamed World
+ Europa Clipper High-Gain Antenna Undergoes Testing
+ Scientists to Conduct Largest-Ever Hubble Survey of the Kuiper Belt
+ Jupiter's unknown journey revealed
+ A Prehistoric Mystery in the Kuiper Belt
+ Ultima Thule in 3D
+ SwRI-led New Horizons research indicates small Kuiper Belt objects are surprisingly rare


Hydroid to support production of unmanned underwater vehicles
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 25, 2019
Hydroid was awarded a $23.1 million contract for production support of the MK 18 family of unmanned submersibles for the U.S. Navy. With four option years, the cumulative contract could be worth up to $47.9 million, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. Work will be performed at Hydroid's plant in Pocasset, Mass., with an expected completion date by April 2020 and with opti ... more
+ US Southeast Atlantic coast facing high threat of sea-level rise in the next 10 years
+ Study: Deep-ocean creatures living a 'feast-or-famine' existence because of energy fluxes
+ New view of how ocean 'pumps' impact climate change
+ Lessons learned from the drift analysis of MH370 debris
+ Thousands protest China-backed mega-dam in Myanmar
+ Soft tissue makes coral tougher in the face of climate change
+ Simple sea anemones not so simple after all
China launches new BeiDou satellite
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
+ Industry collaboration on avionics paves the way for GAINS navigation demonstration flights
+ Record-Breaking Satellite Advances NASA's Exploration of High-Altitude GPS
+ China, Arab states eye closer cooperation on satellite navigation to build "Space Silk Road"
+ Second GPS III satellite arrives at Cape Canaveral ahead of July launch
+ GPS 3 space vehicle 02 "Magellan" arrives in Florida; prepares for July launch
+ Russia plans to launch Glonass-M satellite in mid-May
+ Earliest known Mariner's Astrolabe published in Guinness Book of Records


China Plans to Build Base Near South Pole Outdoing US Apollo Missions
Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 29, 2019
China has set an ambitious goal of building a scientific research centre on the moon in "about 10 years" in the area of its South Pole, the state agency Xinhua reported citing the head of the China National Space Administration (CSNA), Zhang Kejian. The aim is quite a departure from what NASA attained as a result of its six successful Apollo missions that landed in close proximity to the M ... more
+ What's on the far side of the Moon?
+ Kennedy Scientist Leading Team to Combat Lunar Dust
+ NASA accepts challenge of sending American astronauts to Moon in 2024
+ Moon's South Pole in NASA's Landing Sites
+ Meteoroid strikes eject precious water from moon
+ Lunar gravity 600 kilometres above Earth
+ China's Chang'e-4 probe switches to dormant mode
The day the asteroid might hit
Paris (ESA) Apr 29, 2019
For the first time, ESA will cover a major international asteroid impact exercise live via social media, highlighting the the actions that might be taken by scientists, space agencies and civil protection organisations. Every two years, asteroid experts from across the globe come together to simulate a fictional but plausible imminent asteroid impact on Earth. During the week-long scenario ... more
+ Asteroid HS2 swings past Earth
+ Hermes to Bring Asteroid Research to the ISS
+ Japan creates first artificial crater on asteroid
+ NASA, FEMA, International Partners Plan Asteroid Impact Exercise
+ Hayabusa2's Small Carry-on Impactor Made a Crater on Ryugu
+ Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike back
+ Scientists find the ghost of a new mineral


Greek researchers enlist EU satellite against Aegean sea litter
Lesbos Island, Greece (AFP) April 22, 2019
Knee-deep in water on a picture-postcard Lesbos island beach, a team of Greek university students gently deposits a wall-sized PVC frame on the surface before divers moor it at sea. Holding in plastic bags and bottles, four of the 5 metre-by-5-metre (16 foot-by-16-foot) frames are part of an experiment to determine if seaborne litter can be detected with EU satellites and drones. "This w ... more
+ Arianespace to launch "SAR" satellite StriX-a aboard Vega for Japanese startup company Synspective
+ Geomagnetic jerks finally reproduced and explained
+ How NASA Earth Data Aids America, State by State
+ Illuminating Gases in The Sky: NASA Technology Pinpoints Potent Greenhouse Gases
+ DLR and the UStuttgart test transmission of EO data using laser communications
+ UNH researchers find unusual phenomenon in clouds triggers lightning flash
+ NASA Invites You to 'Picture Earth' for Earth Day
Scientists discover what powers celestial phenomenon STEVE
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
The celestial phenomenon known as STEVE is likely caused by a combination of heating of charged particles in the atmosphere and energetic electrons like those that power the aurora, according to new research. In a new study, scientists found STEVE's source region in space and identified two mechanisms that cause it. Last year, the obscure atmospheric lights became an internet sensation. Ty ... more
+ Indian Scientists Make Deepest Radio Images of the Sun
+ New model accurately predicts harmful space weather
+ NASA launches two rockets studying auroras
+ Jupiter's Atmosphere Heats up under Solar Wind
+ And the Blobs Just Keep on Coming
+ Unexpected rain on Sun links two solar mysteries
+ Climate changes make some aspects of weather forecasting increasingly difficult


Mystery of the universe's expansion rate widens with new Hubble data
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say they have crossed an important threshold in revealing a discrepancy between the two key techniques for measuring the universe's expansion rate. The recent study strengthens the case that new theories may be needed to explain the forces that have shaped the cosmos. A brief recap: The universe is getting bigger every second. The space betwe ... more
+ Astrophysicists Simulate Sounds of Stars to Reveal Their Secrets
+ Dark matter detector observes rarest event ever recorded
+ Elemental old-timer makes the universe look like a toddler
+ Dark matter detector records extremely rare decay of xenon-124
+ "Space Butterfly" Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars
+ Universe's first type of molecule found at last
+ Jellyfish galaxy swims into view of NASA's upcoming Webb Telescope
Researchers observe slowest atom decay ever measured
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 26, 2019
Around 1500 meters deep in the Italian Gran Sasso mountains is the underground laboratory LNGS (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso), in which scientists search for dark matter particles in a lab sealed off from any radioactivity interference. Their tool is the XENON1T detector, the central part of which consists of a cylindrical tank of about one meter in length filled with 3200 kilograms ... more
+ IAS researchers detect evidence of 6 new binary black hole mergers within LVC data
+ Hubble measurements suggest disparity in Hubble constant calculations is not a fluke
+ New Hubble measurements confirm universe is expanding faster than expected
+ SOFIA uncovers ones of the building blocks of the early Universe
+ Physicists make collimated atomic beam smaller, more precise
+ New Super-Accurate Optical Atomic Clocks Pass Critical Test
+ Physicists aim to catch slow-decaying dark particle inside LHC
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