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  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 On May 23rd entrepreneur Elon Musk's company SpaceX launched 60 Starlink communication satellites aboard a single rocket. Within days skywatchers worldwide spotted them flying in formation as they orbited Earth and reflected sunlight from their shiny metal surfaces. Some people, unaware that artificial satellites can be seen moving against the starry background every clear night, reported UFO sightings. Astronomers, on the other hand, knew exactly what they were seeing - and immediately began to w ... read more |
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Mass anomaly detected under the moon's largest craterWaco TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system - the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin - and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed int ... more  
How NASA Prepares Spacecraft for the Harsh Radiation of SpaceGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 11, 2019 In a small, square room walled by four feet of concrete, the air smells as if a lightning storm just passed through - crisp and acrid, like cleaning supplies. Outside, that's the smell of lightning ... more  
Starshade Would Take Formation Flying to ExtremesPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 12, 2019 Anyone who's ever seen aircraft engaged in formation flying can appreciate the feat of staying highly synchronized while airborne. In work sponsored by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program (ExEP), e ... more 
Study Dramatically Narrows Search for Advanced Life in the UniverseRiverside CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 Scientists may need to rethink their estimates for how many planets outside our solar system could host a rich diversity of life. In a new study, a UC Riverside-led team discovered that a buil ... more |
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Big US defense merger touts tech, but Trump has questionsNew York (AFP) June 10, 2019 Executives from United Technologies and Raytheon said Monday their merger would benefit the Pentagon and other customers but the proposed deal garnered immediate skepticism from President Donald Trump. ... more  
Powerful deep-ocean vents fuel phytoplankton blooms off AntarcticaWashington (UPI) Jun 5, 2019 Scientists have discovered a link between seafloor vents and massive phytoplankton blooms on the surface of the Southern Ocean. ... more  
Researchers introduce novel heat transport theory in quest for efficient thermoelectricsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 NCCR MARVEL researchers have developed a novel microscopic theory that is able to describe heat transport in very general ways, and applies equally well to ordered or disordered materials such as cr ... more 
Rockets, evaporating droplets and x-raying metalsParis (ESA) Jun 10, 2019 Years of preparation, and the finale is over in six minutes. This month a sounding rocket will launch two ESA experiments to an altitude of 260 km to provide six minutes of weightlessness as they fr ... more  
Beyond 1 and 0: Engineers boost potential for creating successor to shrinking transistorsDallas TX (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 Computers and similar electronic devices have gotten faster and smaller over the decades as computer-chip makers have learned how to shrink individual transistors, the tiny electrical switches that ... more |
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 Investing in Tech Concepts Aimed at Exploring Lunar Craters, Mining Asteroids  
Mars Helicopter Testing Enters Final PhasePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2019 NASA's Mars Helicopter flight demonstration project has passed a number of key tests with flying colors. In 2021, the small, autonomous helicopter will be the first vehicle in history to attempt to ... more  |
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Robotic arm will raise the support structure and help the Mole hammerBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 11, 2019 There is a new plan to support the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Mars 'Mole' that is part of NASA's InSight mission. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties ... more  
NASA Spacecraft to use 'Green' Fuel for the First TimeEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Jun 11, 2019 A non-toxic, rose-colored liquid could fuel the future in space and propel missions to the Moon or other worlds. NASA will test the fuel and compatible propulsion system in space for the first time ... more 
Alien worlds are less hospitable to complex life than scientists thoughtWashington (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 New research suggests the conditions necessary for complex life forms may be even rarer than planetary scientists previously thought. Researchers determined the buildup of toxic gases in the atmosphere makes most exoplanets uninhabitable. ... more  
Uncovering the Hidden History of a Giant AsteroidTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 A massive 'hit-and-run' collision profoundly impacted the evolutionary history of Vesta, the brightest asteroid visible from Earth. This finding, by a team of researchers from Tokyo Institute of Tec ... more 
Hera asteroid mission's brain to be radiation-hard and failure-proofParis (ESA) Jun 12, 2019 At the heart of ESA's Hera mission to the double Didymos asteroids will be an onboard computer intended to be failure-proof. Designed to operate up to 490 million km away from Earth and withst ... more |
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 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 |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 
NASA is planning to sign its first-ever contract with a private commercial launch site - in Australia's remote Northern Territory.
The space agency said it needs to conduct launches of suborbital sounding rockets in that region for astrophysics science experiments.
"One of the advantages of using sounding rockets for scientific research is the mobility to go where the science is happ ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 11, 2019 
There is a new plan to support the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Mars 'Mole' that is part of NASA's InSight mission. The Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3) Mole is a self-driving penetrator that has hammered itself into the Martian subsurface to a depth of approximately 30 centimetres. Since 28 February 2019, it has no longer been able to m ... more |
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 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 |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 
On May 23rd entrepreneur Elon Musk's company SpaceX launched 60 Starlink communication satellites aboard a single rocket. Within days skywatchers worldwide spotted them flying in formation as they orbited Earth and reflected sunlight from their shiny metal surfaces.
Some people, unaware that artificial satellites can be seen moving against the starry background every clear night, reported ... more |
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 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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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 
Within the framework of its 100th anniversary commemorations, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) is organising the IAU100 NameExoWorlds global campaign that allows any country in the world to give a popular name to a selected exoplanet and its host star.
Nearly 100 countries have already signed up to organise national campaigns that will provide the public with an opportunity to vo ... 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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 Eilat, Israel (AFP) June 11, 2019 
A dozen feet deep in the azure waters of the Red Sea, Israeli marine ecologist Assaf Zvuloni firmly grasped a bright red coral fastened to a metal jetty piling.
The coral and others close by would most likely perish in planned maintenance works at the site, degrading all the benefits they bring to underwater life.
So to save them, Zvuloni and his colleague Assaf Habary have donned scuba ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 
The next step in modernizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation with new technology and capabilities is happening from the ground up!
On May 22, Lockheed Martin delivered the GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) software upgrade to the U.S. Air Force's current GPS ground control system. The upgrade will enable the Air Force to start commanding the new, next-genera ... more |
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 Waco TX (SPX) Jun 12, 2019 
A mysterious large mass of material has been discovered beneath the largest crater in our solar system - the Moon's South Pole-Aitken basin - and may contain metal from the asteroid that crashed into the Moon and formed the crater, according to a Baylor University study.
"Imagine taking a pile of metal five times larger than the Big Island of Hawaii and burying it underground. That's rough ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 10, 2019 
Researchers have located the epicenter of an ancient meteorite impact along the Scottish coast, the largest impact in the British Isles.
Scientists first identified evidence of the impact in 2008, but they were unable to pin down the exact location of the crater. Over the last decade, researchers conducted field studies and analyzed rock samples in the lab. Their findings allowed them t ... more |
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 Munster, Germany (SPX) Jun 10, 2019 
The huge magnetic field which surrounds the Earth, protecting it from radiation and charged particles from space - and which many animals even use for orientation purposes - is changing constantly, which is why geoscientists keep it constantly under surveillance.
The old well-known sources of the Earth's magnetic field are the Earth's core - down to 6,000 kilometres deep down inside the Ea ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
An international team of scientists led by Skoltech professor Tatiana Podladchikova developed a new 3D method for reconstructing space weather phenomena, in particular, shock waves produced by the Sun's energy outbursts. Their findings can help better understand and predict extreme space weather occurrences that affect the operation of engineering systems in space and on Earth. The results of th ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 
Probing magnetic materials with extreme ultraviolet radiation allows to obtain a detailed microscopic picture of how magnetic systems interact with light - the fastest way to manipulate a magnetic material.
A team of researchers led by the Max Born Institute has now provided the experimental and theoretical groundwork to interpret such spectroscopic signals. The results were published in P ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2019 
ESA's Planck satellite has found no new evidence for the puzzling cosmic anomalies that appeared in its temperature map of the universe. The latest study does not rule out the potential relevance of the anomalies but they do mean astronomers must work even harder to understand the origin of these puzzling features.
Planck's latest results come from an analysis of the polarisation of the Co ... more |
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