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  Washington (AFP) May 24, 2019 SpaceX on Thursday launched a rocket containing the first 60 satellites of its "Starlink" constellation, which is intended to provide internet from space and could one day number 12,000 satellites. One of the company's Falcon 9 rockets took off without incident from Cape Canaveral in Florida around 10:30 pm (0230 GMT). The second stage of the rocket will begin to release them one hour after launch, at an altitude of 270 miles (440 kilometers), and then the satellites will use their thrusters to ... read more |
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NASA unveils schedule for 'Artemis' 2024 Moon missionWashington (AFP) May 23, 2019 NASA on Thursday unveiled the calendar for the "Artemis" program that will return astronauts to the Moon for the first time in half a century, including eight scheduled launches and a mini-station in lunar orbit by 2024. ... more  
India claims new first for world's fastest cruise missileNew Delhi (AFP) May 22, 2019 India said the world's fastest cruise missile passed another key test Wednesday when it successfully hit a land target after being fired from a fighter jet. ... more  
From airport to spaceport as UK targets horizontal spaceflightLondon, UK (SPX) May 23, 2019 Future spaceports can apply for a share of 2 million pounds to support plans for small satellite launch from aircraft and sub-orbital flight from the UK, Science Minister Chris Skidmore announced We ... more  
Massive Martian ice discovery opens a window into red planet's historyAustin TX (SPX) May 23, 2019 Newly discovered layers of ice buried a mile beneath Mars' north pole are the remnants of ancient polar ice sheets and could be one of the largest water reservoirs on the planet, according to scient ... more |
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One billion year old fungi found is Earth's oldestParis (AFP) May 22, 2019 Scientists have unearthed fossilised fungi dating back up to one billion years, in a discovery that could reshape our understanding of how life on land evolved, research showed Wednesday. ... more  
New lidar instruments peer skyward for clues on weather and climateSan Jose CA (SPX) May 22, 2019 Researchers have developed a set of diode-based lidar instruments that could help fill important gaps in meteorological observations and fuel a leap in understanding, modeling and predicting weather ... more  
Comet Provides New Clues to Origins of Earth's OceansMoffett Field CA (SPX) May 24, 2019 The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our "blue marble" to support an astounding array of life, is clearer with new research into comets. Comets are like snowballs of rock, dust, ice, ... more  
Hyperspectral camera captures wealth of data in an instantHouston TX (SPX) May 23, 2019 Standard snapshots from space don't quite show Earth in all its glory. There's so much more to see. To reveal details impossible to observe with the naked eye, Rice University engineers are bu ... more  
Machine learning speeds modeling of experiments aimed at capturing fusion energy on EarthPlainsboro NJ (SPX) May 23, 2019 Machine learning (ML), a form of artificial intelligence that recognizes faces, understands language and navigates self-driving cars, can help bring to Earth the clean fusion energy that lights the ... more |
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 Quantum world-first: researchers reveal accuracy of two-qubit calculations in silicon 
USC Students Win the Collegiate Space RaceLos Angeles CA (SPX) May 21, 2019 USC's undergraduate rocketry group, has announced that their latest vehicle, Traveler IV, crossed the 62-mile high Karman Line into space with 90% certainty. This result, which is the product of a p ... more  |
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NASA Taps 11 American Companies to Advance Human Lunar LandersWashington DC (SPX) May 20, 2019 NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration program. This effort will help put American astronauts - the first woman a ... more 
Mars 'Actually the Only Planet' Humans Can Go to Escape Earth, Professor ClaimsMoscow (Sputnik) May 23, 2019 In recent years, humanity's most brilliant minds have been working to send the first human to the Red Planet. According to physicist Brian Cox, Mars might be the only space travel option for people, ... more  
NASA Invites Public to Help Asteroid Mission Choose Sample SiteTucson AZ (SPX) May 23, 2019 Citizen scientists assemble! NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu needs extra pairs of eyes to help choose its sample collection site on the asteroid - and to look for anything else that ... more 
Water formation on the moon demonstrated by UH Manoa scientistsHonolulu HI (SPX) May 22, 2019 For the first time, a cross-disciplinary study has shown chemical, physical, and material evidence for water formation on the Moon. Two teams from the University of Hawai?i at Manoa collaborated on ... more 
Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosionsProvidence RI (SPX) May 23, 2019 Ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions is the likely source of a strange mineral deposit near the landing site for NASA's next Mars rover, a new study finds. The research, published in the journal ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 23, 2019 
NASA will join an international crew on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean this summer to prepare for future deep space missions during the 10-day NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 23 expedition slated to begin June 10.
NEEMO 23 will focus on both exploration spacewalks and objectives related to space missions such as the International Space Station and future deep space mis ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) May 23, 2019 
Future spaceports can apply for a share of 2 million pounds to support plans for small satellite launch from aircraft and sub-orbital flight from the UK, Science Minister Chris Skidmore announced Wednesday.
Sites such as Newquay in Cornwall, Campbeltown and Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland, and Snowdonia in Wales are already developing their sub-orbital flight, satellite launch and spaceplane ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 22, 2019 
NASA is a step closer to eventually discovering what lies up to 32 feet or 10 meters beneath the surfaces of Mars, the Moon or any airless body in the solar system - a region roughly the length of a three-story building.
Rafael Rincon, an engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and University of Arizona scientist Lynn Carter are using NASA technology-developm ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 17, 2019 
China has developed a number of new-generation carrier rockets to take the country's space industry to the next level.
b>The Long March-7 br> /b>
The Long March-7 is a medium-sized carrier rocket with high reliability and safety. It is designed to launch cargo vehicles during the construction of China's manned space station project and meet the long-term demand for upgrading manned carri ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 24, 2019  SpaceX on Thursday launched a rocket containing the first 60 satellites of its "Starlink" constellation, which is intended to provide internet from space and could one day number 12,000 satellites.
One of the company's Falcon 9 rockets took off without incident from Cape Canaveral in Florida around 10:30 pm (0230 GMT).
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 San Jose CA (SPX) May 22, 2019 
Researchers have developed a set of diode-based lidar instruments that could help fill important gaps in meteorological observations and fuel a leap in understanding, modeling and predicting weather and climate. The instruments are particularly well suited for insights on atmospheric dynamics at the mesoscale, a size range equivalent to the area of a small city up to that of a U.S. state.
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 Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany (SPX) May 23, 2019 
Somewhat more than 4000 planets orbiting stars outside our solar system are known so far. Of these so-called exoplanets, about 96 percent are significantly larger than our Earth, most of them more comparable with the dimensions of the gas giants Neptune or Jupiter. This percentage likely does not reflect the real conditions in space, however, since small planets are much harder to track down tha ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 23, 2019 
Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune's largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, an extraordinary union between carbon monoxide and nitrogen ices. The discovery offers insights into how this volatile mixture can transport material across the moon's surface via geysers, trigger seasonal atmospheric changes, and provide a context for conditions on othe ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 24, 2019 
The mystery of why Earth has so much water, allowing our "blue marble" to support an astounding array of life, is clearer with new research into comets. Comets are like snowballs of rock, dust, ice, and other frozen chemicals that vaporize as they get closer to the Sun, producing the tails seen in images.
A new study reveals that the water in many comets may share a common origin with Eart ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 23, 2019 
The most recent achievements of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) will be displayed and discussed during the tenth China Satellite Navigation Conference that opened in Beijing Wednesday.
The BDS is China's self-developed navigation system and is compatible with other navigation systems.
According to Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigation Office, the constr ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 20, 2019  NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration program. This effort will help put American astronauts - the first woman and next man - on the Moon's south pole by 2024 and establish sustainable missions by 2028.
"To accelerate our return to the Moon, we are challenging our traditional ways of doing business. We wi ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) May 21, 2019 
A Curtin University researcher has solved a nearly 100-year-old riddle by discovering that glass found in the Egyptian desert was created by a meteorite impact, rather than atmospheric airburst, in findings that have implications for understanding the threat posed by asteroids.
Published in leading journal Geology, the research examined tiny grains of the mineral zircon in samples of Libya ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) May 22, 2019 
Industries in northeastern China have spewed large quantities of an ozone-depleting gas into the atmosphere in violation of an international treaty, scientists said Wednesday.
Since 2013, annual emissions from northeastern China of the banned chemical CFC-11 have increased by about 7,000 tonnes, they reported in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
"CFCs are the main culprit in depletion of ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 
One of the strongest magnetic storms in recent years, which began earlier on 14 May and is forecast to continue through the evening, may increase the possibility of spacecraft deorbiting and cause problems in satellite navigation and communication, the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS) said.
"In accordance with the developed scale of magnetic storms, l ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) May 22, 2019 
Curtin University researchers are part of an international project that will use a huge underwater neutrino telescope at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea to help explain some of the most powerful and mysterious events in the universe.
Located at two sites at depths of up to 3,500 meters, the KM3NeT telescope will occupy more than a cubic kilometre of water, and will comprise of hundreds ... more |
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 Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (SPX) May 23, 2019 
Current technologies for information transfer and processing are challenged by fundamental physical limits. The more powerful they become, the more energy they need and more heat is released to the environment. Also, there are physical limits on the smallness and efficiency of communication devices.
The recent discovery by physicists at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and L ... more |
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