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  Orlando FL (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 SpaceX announced Monday that the explosion of its Crew Dragon space capsule during an April test in Florida was due to the failure of a titanium valve. The explosion put the schedule for a crewed flight of SpaceX missions to the International Space Station in doubt. Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance for SpaceX, said sending people up in a Dragon capsule this year still was possible, but would require a lot of things to go right in the remaining months. SpaceX and Bo ... read more |
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Speeding up science on near-earth asteroidsPullman WA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research. The WSU scientists improved the software used to track ... more 
ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019Paris (ESA) Jul 17, 2019 Asteroid 2006 QV89, a small object 20 to 50 metres in diameter, was in the news lately because of a very small, 1-in-7000 chance of impact with Earth on 9 September 2019. In the first known ca ... more  
US to Launch Its First Own Spacecraft to ISS After NASA Certification in May 2020 - SourceMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019 The United States is scheduled to send its first US-made spacecraft instead of Russia-made Soyuz to the International Space Station (ISS) upon obtaining NASA certification in May 2020, a source in t ... more  
NASA Chief Explains Why America Hasn't Been Back to the Moon Since the 70sWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019 Late last week, NASA announced that senior officials in charge of the manned space mission portfolio had been reshuffled amid growing impatience from President Donald Trump to hasten the return huma ... more |
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New Measurement of Cosmic Expansion Rate Is "Stuck in the Middle"Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 A team of collaborators from Carnegie and the University of Chicago used red giant stars that were observed by the Hubble Space Telescope to make an entirely new measurement of how fast the universe ... more  
Scientists Piece Together Largest US-Based Dark Matter ExperimentBerkeley CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Most of the remaining components needed to fully assemble an underground dark matter-search experiment called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) arrived at the project's South Dakota home during a rush of deliveries i ... more 
Spectrum X-Gamma Rockets into Space with X-ray VisionWashington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 On July 13, the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos (Roscosmos) launched the world's newest set of X-ray eyes to the cosmos, designed for exploring fundamental questions about the universe's p ... more 
IceCube Antarctic Neutrino Detector to Get $37M UpgradeMadison WI (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 IceCube, the Antarctic neutrino detector that in July of 2018 helped unravel one of the oldest riddles in physics and astronomy - the origin of high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays - is getting an ... more 
Gaia starts mapping our galaxy's barParis (ESA) Jul 17, 2019 The first direct measurement of the bar-shaped collection of stars at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy has been made by combining data from ESA's Gaia mission with complementary observations from ... more |
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eROSITA Launch Heralds New Era for X-ray AstronomyBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 On 21 June 2019 the Spektrum-Rontgen-Gamma (Spektr-RG / SRG) spacecraft will be launched from the Kazakh steppe, marking the start of an exciting journey. SRG will be carrying the German 'extended R ... more  |
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Fuel leak halted blastoff for Indian rocket: reportsSriharikota, India (AFP) July 15, 2019 A fuel leak in the rocket engine forced India to abort the launch of its landmark Moon mission less than one hour before liftoff, media reports said Tuesday. ... more 
NASA chief: 'Moon is the proving ground, Mars is the destination'Washington (UPI) Jul 15, 2019 President Donald Trump has implored NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine to talk less about the moon and more about Mars. On the week of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, it's a tall task, but Bridenstine is trying. ... more 
Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the MoonMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Jul 13, 2019 The Moon has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits for further exploration of our planet's rocky satellite. But we need to establish guidelines to ... more 
Solving combustion instability and saving America's first trips to the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 In May 1961, the fledgling U.S. space program had just 15 minutes of manned spaceflight. Yet the decision on the big goal had already been made: Before 1970, NASA would land a man on the Moon and br ... more 
A Few Things Artemis Will Teach Us About Living and Working on the MoonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Humans have not had much of an opportunity to work on the Moon. The 12 Apollo astronauts who got to explore its surface clocked in 80 hours in total of discovery time. From their brief encounters, a ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019  Russia and Saudi Arabia have discussed the possibility for Russia to send a Saudi astronaut to space for a short-duration flight, the protocol of the meeting of the Russian-Saudi intergovernmental commission read.
"The countries have expressed readiness to continue consultations on the prospects and mutually beneficial areas of bilateral space activities ... a manned space flight and prepa ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Jul 17, 2019  SpaceX announced Monday that the explosion of its Crew Dragon space capsule during an April test in Florida was due to the failure of a titanium valve.
The explosion put the schedule for a crewed flight of SpaceX missions to the International Space Station in doubt.
Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance for SpaceX, said sending people up in a Dragon capsule this year ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, Sagan suggested that vaporizing the northern polar ice caps would "yield ~10 s g cm-2 of atmosphere over the planet, higher global temperatures through the greenhouse effect, and a greatly increased li ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2019 
With eyes bright, Sun Zezhou, chief designer of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, speaks fast but clearly.
"Every time I see the moon, I think how Chinese probes have left permanent footprints on it, especially Chang'e-4, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the far side. As a member of the mission, I'm very proud," said Sun.
Chinese engineers began plans for the Chang'e-1 lunar probe i ... more |
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 Westminster CO (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
Maxar Technologies has begun production on a Legion-class geostationary satellite for Ovzon, a company located in the United States and Sweden dedicated to meeting the demand for increased mobile broadband connectivity in underserved regions.
Ovzon selected Maxar in December 2018 to build its first satellite, Ovzon 3, which will provide extremely versatile mobile broadband communications f ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
NASA has awarded a $73.7 million contract to Made In Space, Inc. of Mountain View, California, to demonstrate the ability of a small spacecraft, called Archinaut One, to manufacture and assemble spacecraft components in low-Earth orbit. The in-space robotic manufacturing and assembly technologies could be important for America's Moon to Mars exploration approach.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. Now, a team of scientists has completed research into waves that travel through this magnetic, electrically charged environment, known as the magnetosphere, deepening understanding of the region and its interaction with our own planet, and opening up new ways to study other planets across the galaxy.
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2019 
New analysis of Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's auroras are powered by alternating current, not direct current.
Jupiter, a the largest planet in the solar system, boasts an aurora with a radiant power of 100 terawatts, or 100 billion kilowatts. It's the brightest aurora in the solar system.
Like Earth's auroras, Jupiter's light shows are centered around its poles. The aurora ... more |
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 Wellington (AFP) July 16, 2019 
The Pacific's low-lying reef islands are likely to change shape in response to climate change, rather than simply sinking beneath rising seas and becoming uninhabitable as previously assumed, new research has found.
Atoll nations such as Tuvalu, Tokelau and Kiribati lie only a few metres above sea level and are considered the world's most vulnerable to global warming, with fears their popula ... more |
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 TITusville FL (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
The GPS satellite constellation is about to get its next heathy dose of new technology and more advanced capabilities. The second next-generation, Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT)-built GPS III satellite - nick-named "Magellan" by the U.S. Air Force - is sealed up and ready for its planned July 25 launch.
On June 26, Lockheed Martin Space and United Launch Alliance (ULA) technicians completed en ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019  Late last week, NASA announced that senior officials in charge of the manned space mission portfolio had been reshuffled amid growing impatience from President Donald Trump to hasten the return human beings to the lunar surface.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has explained why the US suspended its manned lunar program over 40 years ago and what it will take for the US manned space prog ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
Ryugu and other asteroids of the common 'C-class' consist of more porous material than was previously thought. Small fragments of their material are therefore too fragile to survive entry into the atmosphere in the event of a collision with Earth. This has revealed the long-suspected cause of the deficit of this meteorite type in finds on Earth.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center ( ... more |
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 Konstanz, Germany (SPX) Jul 16, 2019 
The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) is a cooperative project between the Russian space agency Roscosmos and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) under the leadership of Martin Wikelski from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz.
With the space-based observation system, scientists want to find out m ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 
Named after a Celtic goddess of the Sun, SULIS is a UK-led solar science mission, designed to answer fundamental questions about the physics of solar storms. The mission consists of a cluster of small satellites and will carefully monitor solar storms using state-of-the-art UK technology, as well as demonstrating new technologies in space. Lead Investigator on the project, Dr. Eamon Scullion of ... more |
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 Dwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
For the first time ionised hydrogen has been detected at the lowest frequency ever towards the centre of our galaxy. The findings originate from a cloud that is both very cold (around -230 degrees Celsius) and also ionised, something that has never been detected before. This discovery may help to explain why stars don't form as quickly as they theoretically could.
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 
A "vacuum" is generally thought to be nothing but empty space. But in fact, a vacuum is filled with "virtual particle-antiparticle pairs" of electrons and positrons that are continuously created and annihilated in unimaginably short time-scales.
The quest for a better understanding of vacuum physics will lead to the elucidation of fundamental questions in modern physics, which is integral ... more |
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