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NASA opens space station to private astronauts, tourists and more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2019 NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit. This move comes as NASA focuses full speed ahead on its goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, where American companies also will play an essential role in establishing a sustainable presence. NASA officials, including the agency's Chief Financial Officer Jeff DeWit, will discuss details o ... read more |
Trump says NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon Washington (AFP) June 7, 2019 US President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon, which caused confusion since his administration aims to restart Moon landings by 2024. ... more West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 More than 22,000 objects floating in space are currently being tracked by the U.S. Air Force. That number is expected to double within five years, due in large part to increased global demand for sa ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2019 The U.S. Army announced it will test a hypersonic weapon in 2020. ... more Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 Plate tectonics is a key geological process on Earth, shaping its surface, and making it unique among the planets in the Solar System. Yet, how plate tectonics emerged and which factors controlled i ... more |
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Navy removes 'space' from Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2019 The U.S. Navy has removed "space" from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command and added "information" in a rebranding effort that emphasizes information warfare. ... more Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the nature of accretion disks - th ... more Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 NASA is gearing up for a test of the system that will help keep astronauts safe when traveling to the Moon aboard agency's Orion spacecraft. The Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test will put Orion's la ... more Baltimore MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 While we now know of thousands of exoplanets - planets around other stars - the vast majority of our knowledge is indirect. That is, scientists have not actually taken many pictures of exoplanets, a ... more Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2019 The rotation of the Earth is encouraging the mixing of water in Italy's picturesque Lake Garda, according to the findings of a new study. ... more |
Astronomers spot coronal mass ejection on distant star Oxford, United Kingdom (AFP) June 5, 2019 Billed as "one of the most exciting artists of our time", Ai-Da differs from generations of past masters in one inescapable way: she is a robot. ... more |
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Highest CO2 levels in human history recorded in Hawaii Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2019 The highest carbon dioxide concentration levels in human history have been recorded at Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii. ... more Devon UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 The government is ensuring the UK plays a leading role in the New Space Age as part of its modern Industrial Strategy, with new support for domestic satellite launch capability and space weather for ... more Stanford CA (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 A decade ago, while still a PhD student at Cornell University, Zac Manchester imagined building chip-scale satellites that might work together to study Earth or explore space. On June 3, as NASA Ame ... more Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 06, 2019 ESA is working with industry towards the maiden flight of Europe's new Vega-C launch vehicle in 2020 for more launches, with increased performance, to more orbits. Since the previous update on ... more Paris (ESA) Jun 06, 2019 Initially proposed in 2016, ESA's Space Rider reentry vehicle provides a return to Earth and landing capability that compliments the existing launch options of the Ariane and Vega families. Having r ... more |
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NASA opens space station to private astronauts, tourists and more Washington DC (SPX) Jun 08, 2019 NASA is opening the International Space Station for commercial business so U.S. industry innovation and ingenuity can accelerate a thriving commercial economy in low-Earth orbit. This move comes as NASA focuses full speed ahead on its goal of landing the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024, where American companies also will play an essential role in establishing a sustainable pre ... more |
Space Rider: Europe's reusable space transport system Paris (ESA) Jun 06, 2019 Initially proposed in 2016, ESA's Space Rider reentry vehicle provides a return to Earth and landing capability that compliments the existing launch options of the Ariane and Vega families. Having recently completed system and subsystem preliminary design reviews, Space Rider is advancing quickly towards the Critical design review at the end of 2019. Launched on Vega-C, Space Rider will se ... more |
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InSight's Team Tries New Strategy to Help the "Mole" Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2019 Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the mole is a self-hammering spike designed to dig as much as 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface and record temperature. But the mole hasn't been able to dig deeper than about 12 ... more |
Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market. They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
NewSpace could eliminate Sun-Synchronous orbits Bethesda, MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 NewSpace is a recently formed movement and philosophy that encompasses a globally emerging private spaceflight industry. This term is generally used in connection with a global private sector of new aerospace companies and ventures. One primary objective is to develop faster, better and cheaper access to space and spaceflight technologies. This movement is thought to be a major driving for ... more |
Keep the orbital neighborhood clean West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 More than 22,000 objects floating in space are currently being tracked by the U.S. Air Force. That number is expected to double within five years, due in large part to increased global demand for satellite internet services and private companies' launching of more space objects to meet that demand. So, what happens to those floating satellites and other space objects when they have outlive ... more |
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Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial life Lincoln UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln. Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system and up to this point nearly 4,000 have been discovered. Only a small proportion of these are likely to be able to sustain life, existing in w ... more |
On Pluto the Winter is approaching, and the atmosphere is vanishing into frost 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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Earth's rotation is helping mix the water in Italy's Lake Garda Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2019 The rotation of the Earth is encouraging the mixing of water in Italy's picturesque Lake Garda, according to the findings of a new study. Ventilation and water mixing are essential for lake ecosystems. New research, published this week in the journal Scientific Reports, suggests the rotation of the Earth aids water mixing in long, narrow lakes like Lake Garda. Scientists in the N ... more |
China's satellite navigation industry scale to exceed 400 billion yuan in 2020 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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Trump says NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon Washington (AFP) June 7, 2019 US President Donald Trump tweeted on Friday that NASA should stop talking about going back to the Moon, which caused confusion since his administration aims to restart Moon landings by 2024. "For all the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon - We did that 50 years ago," Trump tweeted from Air Force One while returning from a visit to Europe. "They shou ... more |
VLT Observes Passing Double Asteroid Hurtling by Earth Garching, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 The unique capabilities of the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope have enabled it to obtain the sharpest images of a double asteroid as it flew by Earth on 25 May. While this double asteroid was not itself a threatening object, scientists used the opportunity to rehearse the response to a hazardous Near-Earth Object (NEO), proving that ESO's front-line technology could be critical i ... more |
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New mineral classification system captures Earth's complex past Washington DC (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 The first minerals to form in the universe were nanocrystalline diamonds, which condensed from gases ejected when the first generation of stars exploded. Diamonds that crystallize under the extreme pressure and temperature conditions deep inside of Earth are more typically encountered by humanity. What opportunities for knowledge are lost when mineralogists categorize both the cosmic travelers a ... more |
The sun follows the rhythm of the planets Dresden, Germany (SPX) May 30, 2019 One of the big questions in solar physics is why the Sun's activity follows a regular cycle of 11 years. Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), an independent German research institute, now present new findings, indicating that the tidal forces of Venus, Earth and Jupiter influence the solar magnetic field, thus governing the solar cycle. In principle, it is not ... more |
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A New View of Exoplanets With NASA's Upcoming Webb Telescope Baltimore MD (SPX) May 30, 2019 While we now know of thousands of exoplanets - planets around other stars - the vast majority of our knowledge is indirect. That is, scientists have not actually taken many pictures of exoplanets, and because of the limits of current technology, we can only see these worlds as points of light. However, the number of exoplanets that have been directly imaged is growing over time. When NASA's Jame ... more |
Most-detailed-ever simulations of black hole solve longstanding mystery Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the nature of accretion disks - the matter that orbits and eventually falls into a black hole - that have never before been seen. The research will publish on June 5 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ... more |
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