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  Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019 The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning. The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation. Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris have fallen on the ground. The investigation has started. ... read more |
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China's satellite navigation industry scale to exceed 400 billion yuan in 2020Beijing (XNA) May 27, 2019 The output value of China's satellite navigation industry is expected to surpass 400 billion yuan (about 57.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020, according to the ongoing 10th China Satellite Navigation ... more  
Viasat Contracted to Deliver the World's First Link 16-Capable Low Earth Orbit (LEO) SpacecraftCarlsbad CA (SPX) May 23, 2019 Viasat Inc has been awarded a contract by the Administrator of the Space Enterprise Consortium, under the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles XVI program, to deliver and test the first-ever ... more  
Close encounters? SpaceX satellites spark Dutch UFO frenzyThe Hague (AFP) May 25, 2019 A Dutch website set up to record UFO sightings was flooded early Saturday with reports after a "train of stars" was spotted crossing the Netherlands' skies, sparking fears of an alien invasion. ... more  
Ovzon and GetSAT to develop mobile satellite terminals for defense, govt and respondersRehovot, Israel (SPX) May 23, 2019 Ovzon, that offers a revolutionary global mobile broadband service via satellite and ultra portable man packs, and GetSAT, the manufacturer of innovative satellite terminals for aerial, maritime and ... more |
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Curtin planetary scientist unravels mystery of Egyptian desert glassPerth, 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 ... more  
NASA Closer to Discovering What Lies Beneath the Surface of Airless Planetary BodiesGreenbelt 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 ... more 
On Mars, sands shift to a different drumTucson AZ (SPX) May 24, 2019 Wind has shaped the face of Mars for millennia, but its exact role in piling up sand dunes, carving out rocky escarpments or filling impact craters has eluded scientists until now. In the most ... more  
NASA Awards Artemis Contract for Lunar Gateway Power, PropulsionWashington DC (SPX) May 23, 2019 In one of the first steps of the agency's Artemis lunar exploration plans, NASA announced on Thursday the selection of Maxar Technologies, formerly SSL, in Westminster, Colorado, to develop and demo ... more  
Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic FieldPasadena CA (JPL) May 21, 2019 NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter made the first definitive detection beyond our world of an internal magnetic field that changes over time, a phenomenon called secular variation. Juno determined the g ... more |
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SpaceX launches first satellites of its internet networkWashington (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. ... more  |
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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 
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  
Wandering Earth: rocket scientist explains how we could move our planetGlasgow UK (The Conversation) May 27, 2019 In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth's orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun - a ... more 
Moon mission leader leaves NASA after 45 daysWashington DC (UPI) May 27, 2019 Just weeks after he was assigned to lead NASA's renewed efforts to explore the moon, special assistant Mark Sirangelo has left the space agency, officials said. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenst ... more |
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 Glasgow UK (The Conversation) May 27, 2019 
In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth's orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun - and prevent a collision with Jupiter.
The scenario may one day come true. In five billion years, the sun will run out of fuel and expand, most likely engulfing the Earth. A more immediate threat ... more |
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 Los 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 publicly available internal analysis, makes Traveler IV the first entirely student-designed-and-built rocket to fly to space, as well as the highest flying such craft (doubling the previous altitude re ... 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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 Taiyuan (XNA) May 27, 2019  The attempt to launch a remote sensing Yaogan-33 satellite carried by a Long March-4C rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province was unsuccessful on Thursday morning.
The first and second stages of the rocket worked normally, while the third stage had abnormal operation.
Based on monitoring data, the third stage of the rocket and satellite debris ... more |
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 The Hague (AFP) May 25, 2019  A Dutch website set up to record UFO sightings was flooded early Saturday with reports after a "train of stars" was spotted crossing the Netherlands' skies, sparking fears of an alien invasion.
But what some thought to be a close encounter of the third kind turned out to be a string of some 60 satellites launched by US-based SpaceX hours earlier as part of its "Starlink" constellation.
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 Riverside CA (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Astronomers believe planets like Jupiter shield us from space objects that would otherwise slam into Earth. Now they're closer to learning whether giant planets act as guardians of solar systems elsewhere in the galaxy.
A UCR-led team has discovered two Jupiter-sized planets about 150 light years away from Earth that could reveal whether life is likely on the smaller planets in other solar ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 23, 2019 
Scientists at Universite de Montreal and McGill University have pioneered and tested a new genomic methodology which reveals a complex bacterial ecosystem at work on the International Space Station.
Until now, relatively little was known about the different types of microbes found on the space station. The new approach enables researchers to identify and map different species inside the IS ... more |
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 Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 21, 2019 
With less than a fifth of the Moon's mass, Pluto can still retain an atmosphere, though a tenuous envelope of gas produced by the periodical sublimation of nitrogen ices. A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost.
This study1 was published in the journal Astronomy and As ... 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 27, 2019 
The output value of China's satellite navigation industry is expected to surpass 400 billion yuan (about 57.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2020, according to the ongoing 10th China Satellite Navigation Conference on Thursday.
"Currently, we have built the complete industry chain which is made up of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) basic products, application terminals and systems, ... 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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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) May 27, 2019 
Scientists from Ireland and France have announced a major new finding about how matter behaves in the extreme conditions of the Sun's atmosphere.
The scientists used large radio telescopes and ultraviolet cameras on a NASA spacecraft to better understand the exotic but poorly understood "fourth state of matter". Known as plasma, this matter could hold the key to developing safe, clean and ... more |
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) May 24, 2019 
Chemical traces in the atmospheres of stars are being used to uncover new information about a galaxy, known as the Gaia Sausage, which was involved in a major collision with the Milky Way billions of years ago.
Astrophysicists at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with colleagues at European institutions in Aarhus, Bologna and Trieste, have been studying evidence of the chemical ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 27, 2019 
The International Space Station will host the most precise clocks ever to leave Earth. Accurate to a second in 300 million years the clocks will push the measurement of time to test the limits of the theory of relativity and our understanding of gravity.
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity predicted that gravity and speed influences time, the faster you travel the more time slow ... more |
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