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  Washington DC (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 Mankind's first steps on the moon a half-century ago were followed by three more years of lunar missions. And then, a standstill. Neither the United States nor any nation on Earth has sent a manned mission to the moon since NASA's Apollo 17 mission left in late 1972. While the space administration has periodically made plans to return, none have reached the operational phase. A large part of the reason is a lack of money and support. The Constellation Program, proposed by George W. Bush's ad ... read more |
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Apollo-era tech built foundation, but private industry now leads space innovationWashington DC (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 Space travel technology may seem to have stalled since the Apollo and space shuttle eras, but private industry is now fueling rapid innovation. Reusable rockets, commercialized by SpaceX and u ... more  
Sri Lanka joins global space age with first cube research satelliteColombo, Sri Lanka (Sputnik) Jun 18, 2019 Raavana-1 satellite was launched by the United States under the "Birds-3 satellite launch to International Space Station project." The project is a UN initiative to help countries launch their first ... more  
House committee includes funding for Space Corps in defense billWashington (UPI) Jun 14, 2019 The House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment for funding in the defense spending bill for a Space Corps. ... more  
Melting a satellite, a piece at a timeParis (ESA) Jun 18, 2019 Researchers took one of the densest parts of an Earth-orbiting satellite, placed it in a plasma wind tunnel then proceeded to melt it into vapour. Their goal was to better understand how satellites ... more |
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Compliant space mechanismsBethesda MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 Compliant mechanisms are flexible devices that transfer input forces and displacements to an output force and displacement at another location through elastic body deformation. In other words, these ... more 
Luxembourg Space Agency approves EUR 1 million grant to Kleos SpaceLuxembourg (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 Kleos Space reports that the Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) has approved an additional EUR euro 1,000,000 financial grant (non-equity) support for data product development. Currently, the Grand ... more 
Supermicro high-performance systems support major scientific discovery and exploration even to distant galaxiesFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, supplies server and storage systems that deliver maximum per ... more  
Globalsat Group granted licence to operate in Argentina by national regulator ENACOMBuenos Aires, Argentina (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 Globalsat Group, the leading pan American consortium providing a complete roster of satellite communications solutions across the western hemisphere, is pleased to announce that its Argentina affili ... more 
Materials informatics reveals new class of super-hard alloysBethlehem PA (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 A new method of discovering materials using data analytics and electron microscopy has found a new class of extremely hard alloys. Such materials could potentially withstand severe impact from proje ... more |
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 Mysterious Majorana quasiparticle is now closer to being controlled for quantum computing 
NASA to Partner with American Industry to Supply Artemis Moon MissionsKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 In the latest step in sending astronauts to the lunar surface within five years, NASA issued a draft solicitation June 14 to industry seeking comments for a future opportunity for American companies ... more  |
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Space agencies come togetherParis (ESA) Jun 17, 2019 On 14 June, President Hiroshi Yamakawa of JAXA was welcomed at the 282nd meeting of the ESA Council - the Agency's governing body - held at ESA's Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. For d ... more  
How an Atomic Clock Will Get Humans to Mars on TimePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2019 NASA navigators are helping build a future where spacecraft could safely and autonomously fly themselves to destinations like the Moon and Mars. Navigators today tell a spacecraft where to go ... more  
The formative years: giant planets vs. brown dwarfsHilo HI (SPX) Jun 13, 2019 Based on preliminary results from a new Gemini Observatory survey of 531 stars with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), it appears more and more likely that large planets and brown dwarfs have very diff ... more 
Womankind's giant leap: who will be the first female moonwalker?Washington (AFP) June 15, 2019 Who will take the giant leap for womankind? ... more 
To the Moon and back: 50 years on, a giant leap into the unknownWashington (AFP) June 14, 2019 The first four days of Apollo 11's journey to the Moon had gone according to plan, but just twenty minutes before landing, the atmosphere grew tense as the crew encountered a series of problems. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) June 13, 2019 
NASA has renamed the street outside its Washington headquarters to honor three black female mathematicians whose pioneering work on the agency's early space program was chronicled in the film "Hidden Figures".
Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson provided pivotal contributions to space flight research from the 1940s through to the 1960s, when the United States first sent men t ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 
A grueling year of intensive testing, planning and hard work has a team of budding rocket scientists over the moon.
Next week, the University of Sydney Rocketry Team will be the first Australian team to attend and compete in the 2019 Spaceport America Cup, an annual university rocketry competition held in New Mexico.
This year's competition has attracted over 100 university teams fro ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 
New research suggests the wispy clouds found 18 miles above the Marian surface are made of icy dust produced by meteors hitting the Red Planet's atmosphere.
The findings - published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience - are a reminder of the connection between space and atmospheric dynamics.
"We're used to thinking of Earth, Mars and other bodies as these really self-contai ... 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 (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 
Space travel technology may seem to have stalled since the Apollo and space shuttle eras, but private industry is now fueling rapid innovation.
Reusable rockets, commercialized by SpaceX and under development by others in the last few years, have dramatically lowered the cost of reaching space, along with other advances. Lessons learned from 135 shuttle missions and almost 20 years at the ... more |
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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 
Super Micro Computer, Inc. (SMCI), a global leader in enterprise computing, storage, networking solutions and green computing technology, supplies server and storage systems that deliver maximum performance to power major breakthroughs in a wide range of HPC applications including scientific research and space exploration.
A recent example is the black hole images taken from a galaxy 55 mi ... more |
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 Hilo HI (SPX) Jun 13, 2019 
Based on preliminary results from a new Gemini Observatory survey of 531 stars with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), it appears more and more likely that large planets and brown dwarfs have very different roots.
The GPI Exoplanet Survey (GPIES), one of the largest and most sensitive direct imaging exoplanet surveys to date, is still ongoing at the Gemini South telescope in Chile. "From our ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 13, 2019 
A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Using a visible-light spectral analysis, planetary scientists at Caltech and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have discovered that the yellow color visible on portions of the surface of Europa is actually sodium chloride, a compound known on Earth as table salt, which is also th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 17, 2019 
At least one species of dinoflagellate plankton uses its bioluminescence for defensive purposes.
Researchers determined the species Lingulodinium polyedra uses its glow-in-the-dark abilities to scare off copepod grazers, the species' primary predator.
According to the new study - published this week in the journal Current Biology - the bioluminescent cells sense low concentrati ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 18, 2019 
Mankind's first steps on the moon a half-century ago were followed by three more years of lunar missions. And then, a standstill.
Neither the United States nor any nation on Earth has sent a manned mission to the moon since NASA's Apollo 17 mission left in late 1972. While the space administration has periodically made plans to return, none have reached the operational phase. A large part ... more |
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 Paris (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 withstanding four years of harsh radiation exposure, Hera's computer must run smoothly without locking up or crashing - on pain of mission failure, while pushing the limits of onboard autonomy.
Develo ... more |
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 Ames IA (SPX) Jun 17, 2019 
Researchers at the University of Iowa and the U.S. Geological Survey have found that data gathered from orbiting satellites can provide more accurate information on the impact of large earthquakes, which, in turn, can help provide more effective emergency response.
The satellite imagery provides detailed information about where the earthquakes occurred, how big the surface deformation was, ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2019 
The Sun is why we're here. It's also why Martians or Venusians are not.
When the Sun was just a baby four billion years ago, it went through violent outbursts of intense radiation, spewing scorching, high-energy clouds and particles across the solar system. These growing pains helped seed life on early Earth by igniting chemical reactions that kept Earth warm and wet. Yet, these solar tant ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jun 13, 2019 
The newly discovered dark dwarf galaxy Antlia 2's collision with the Milky Way may be responsible for our galaxy's characteristic ripples in its outer disc, according to a study led by Rochester Institute of Technology Assistant Professor Sukanya Chakrabarti.
The Antlia 2 dwarf galaxy was discovered from the second data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which aims to cha ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2019 
NASA navigators are helping build a future where spacecraft could safely and autonomously fly themselves to destinations like the Moon and Mars.
Navigators today tell a spacecraft where to go by calculating its position from Earth and sending the location data to space in a two-way relay system that can take anywhere from minutes to hours to deliver directions. This method of navigation me ... more |
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