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  Washington DC (UPI) May 16, 2019 Funding for the proposed Space Development Agency could be limited until the Defense Department submits to Congress a detailed plan for the new agency. In a draft of the Defense Department funding bill for fiscal year 2020, released on Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee appropriators would block funding for the SDA until 90 days after the secretary of defense submits a detailed plan for the new agency. The SDA is due to exist under the Department of Defense, but by 2022 will fall un ... read more |
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China's satellite navigation industry sees rapid developmentBeijing (XNA) May 16, 2019 China's satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93 billion US dollars) in 2018, up 18.3 percent than the previous year, acco ... more  
Chang'e 4 mission discovers new secrets from Lunar farsideBeijing, China (SPX) May 16, 2019 A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side o ... more  
NASA's MRO Completes 60,000 Trips Around MarsPasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2019 NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT). On average, MRO takes 112 minutes to circ ... more 
Beresheet Impact Site SpottedWashington DC (SPX) May 16, 2019 The photo above shows the landing site of the Israeli Beresheet spacecraft on a region of the Moon called Sea of Serenity, or Mare Serenitatis in Latin. On April 11, 2019, SpaceIL, a non-profi ... more |
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Arms on Putin's agenda before Pompeo meetingMoscow (AFP) May 13, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to visit a top military flight test centre and inspect new weaponry on Tuesday, hours before he meets US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Kremlin said. ... more  
The 14th Air Force's Priorities for Space WarfightersPeterson AFB CO (SPX) May 15, 2019 14th Air Force hosted a commander's conference to deliver guidance associated with the 14th Air Force strategic plan, key initiatives, and organizational changes designed to support the future stand ... more 
Florida advocates criticize Air Force short list of possible Space Command sitesOrlando FL (UPI) May 15, 2019 Space Florida officials say they don't believe the Air Force is following due process in seeking a location for the U.S. military's Space Command after the state left off a short list for the projec ... more  
Kleos Space appoints Ground Station Service ProviderLuxembourg (SPX) May 16, 2019 Kleos Space S.A, space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, is proud to announce the signing of a ground station service agreement with Norwegian Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT) ... more  
New research accurately predicts Australian wheat yield months before harvestUrbana IL (SPX) May 14, 2019 Topping the list of Australia's major crops, wheat is grown on more than half the country's cropland and is a key export commodity. With so much riding on wheat, accurate yield forecasting is necess ... more |
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'Extreme Crunch' Looming if No Limits Put on Space Mining 'Gold Rush' Washington DC (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 Researchers have been proposing to set a special "tripwire" that would issue a warning once humanity is close to mining one eighth of the solar system, which has been preliminarily estimated to occu ... more  |
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NASA Scientist Receives Patent for Innovative Technique for Measuring Space Weather PhenomenaGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2019 A NASA expert in space-weather phenomena has won a patent for an idea that, if fully implemented, would create the world's largest scientific instrument for detecting a condition that has caused pow ... more 
How the Sun pumps out water from Mars into spaceMoscow, Russia (SPX) May 15, 2019 Russian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the "escape" of hydrogen atoms from the upper Martian atmosphere into outer space ... more  
Mission-Saving NASA Instrument Secures New Flight Opportunity; Slated for Significant UpgradeGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2019 A miniaturized fluxgate magnetometer that helped stop NASA's Dellingr spacecraft from a potentially mission-ending spin has secured a flight aboard a Brazilian CubeSat mission - NASA's first with th ... more 
Reprogrammable satellite takes shapeParis (ESA) May 16, 2019 The payload and platform of the first European satellite that can be completely reprogrammed after launch have been successfully joined together. The assembly of Eutelsat Quantum took place in ... more 
Louisiana-based Geocent's Advanced Aerospace Materials to Fly Aboard International Space StationMetairie LA (SPX) May 16, 2019 Geocent, LLC, a national Information Technology and Engineering firm with its headquarters in Louisiana, was informed by NASA that its innovative materials for radiation shielding and thermal barrie ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 16, 2019 
Funding for the proposed Space Development Agency could be limited until the Defense Department submits to Congress a detailed plan for the new agency.
In a draft of the Defense Department funding bill for fiscal year 2020, released on Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee appropriators would block funding for the SDA until 90 days after the secretary of defense submits a detailed pl ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) May 15, 2019 
SpaceX's Falcon Heavy is set for its third-ever launch June 22, carrying 24 payloads for the U.S. Air Force and other government clients, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
It's the first time the U.S. military will use a Falcon Heavy rocket, and it will reuse the two boosters that launched Falcon Heavy's Arabsat-6A mission in April.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2019 
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT). On average, MRO takes 112 minutes to circle Mars, whipping around at about 2 miles per second (3.4 kilometers per second).
Since entering orbit on March 10, 2006, the spacecraft has been collecting daily science about the planet's surf ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 16, 2019 
China's satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93 billion US dollars) in 2018, up 18.3 percent than the previous year, according to an annual industry report.
The data was published in the White Paper on the Development of China's Satellite Navigation and Location Services Industry (2019), which was released by the ... more |
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 Luxembourg (SPX) May 16, 2019 
Kleos Space S.A, space-powered Radio Frequency Reconnaissance data provider, is proud to announce the signing of a ground station service agreement with Norwegian Kongsberg Satellite Services (KSAT). KSAT is a world leading provider of communication services for spacecraft and launch vehicles with an extensive and uniquely located global ground network, providing advanced monitoring services. ... more |
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 Metairie LA (SPX) May 16, 2019 
Geocent, LLC, a national Information Technology and Engineering firm with its headquarters in Louisiana, was informed by NASA that its innovative materials for radiation shielding and thermal barrier coatings were chosen to fly aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to evaluate their potential applications for lunar habitation, long-term deep space missions such as Mars, and other unspecif ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
The galaxy is littered with planetary systems vastly different from ours. In the solar system, the planet closest to the Sun - Mercury, with an orbit of 88 days - is also the smallest. But NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered thousands of systems full of very large planets - called super-Earths - in very small orbits that zip around their host star several times every 10 days.
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 Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) May 08, 2019 
Discovered in 2004, Haumea is a dwarf planet located beyond Pluto's orbit in a region of the Solar System called the Kuiper Belt. Pluto was demoted from the category of fully fledged planets in 2006 because of the discovery of Haumea and other dwarf planets.
Haumea was officially recognized as a dwarf planet in 2008. Its ellipsoidal shape resembles that of the ball used in rugby or America ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 16, 2019 
As our climate changes, the availability of freshwater is a growing issue for many people around the world. Understanding the water cycle and how the climate and human usage is causing shifts in natural cycling processes is vital to safeguarding supplies. While numerous satellites measure individual components of the water cycle, it has never been described as a whole over a particular region - ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 16, 2019 
As far as we know, Earth's magnetic north has always wandered, but it has recently gained new momentum and is making a dash towards Siberia at a pace not seen before. While this has some practical implications, scientists believe that this sprint is being caused by tussling magnetic blobs deep below our feet.
Unlike our geographic North Pole, which is in a fixed location, magnetic north wa ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) May 16, 2019 
A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side of the moon, and it has collected new evidence from the largest crater in the solar system, clarifying how the moon may have evolved.
A theory emerged in the 1970s that in the moon's infancy, an ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 
Researchers have been proposing to set a special "tripwire" that would issue a warning once humanity is close to mining one eighth of the solar system, which has been preliminarily estimated to occur in just a few hundred years. At that point, there would only be 60 years left to try to offset the detrimental effects.
A team of scientists have come up with a proposal, whereby a so-called " ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) May 08, 2019 
A Yale-led team of scientists may have found a new factor to help explain the ebb and flow of Earth's magnetic field - and it's something familiar to anyone who has made a vinaigrette for their salad.
Earth's magnetic field, produced near the center of the planet, has long acted as a buffer from the harmful radiation of solar winds emanating from the Sun. Without that protection, life on E ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 15, 2019 
A NASA expert in space-weather phenomena has won a patent for an idea that, if fully implemented, would create the world's largest scientific instrument for detecting a condition that has caused power outages in the past.
Antti Pulkkinen, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and his team have started implementing the idea. They've installed scientific s ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
As fascinating as it is mysterious, dark matter is one of the greatest enigmas of astrophysics and cosmology. It is thought to account for 90% of the matter in the Universe, but its existence has been demonstrated only indirectly and recently called into question.
New research conducted by SISSA removes the recent doubts on the presence of dark matter within the galaxies, disproving the em ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) May 09, 2019 
Several hundred million years after the Big Bang, the very first stars flared into the universe as massively bright accumulations of hydrogen and helium gas. Within the cores of these first stars, extreme, thermonuclear reactions forged the first heavier elements, including carbon, iron, and zinc.
These first stars were likely immense, short-lived fireballs, and scientists have assumed tha ... more |
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