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  Sparks NV (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has selected United Launch Alliance (ULA) as the launch vehicle provider for the Dream Chaser spacecraft's six NASA missions to the International Space Station. The Dream Chaser will launch aboard ULA's Vulcan Centaur rockets for its cargo resupply and return services to the space station, starting in 2021. "Dream Chaser can launch from any conventional rocket so we had great options," said SNC CEO Fatih Ozmen. "SNC selected ULA because of our strong collabora ... read more |
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Does ET exist ponders UVA astronomerCharlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 Many people have a knee-jerk reaction when it comes to extraterrestrial life. Claims of sightings often are immediately dismissed or ridiculed as being crazy. Alternately, some people assume that sc ... more  
NASA Marshall to lead Artemis Program's human lunar lander developmentHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was joined Friday by U.S. Representatives Mo Brooks and Robert Aderholt of Alabama and Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center i ... more 
Robotic tool operations bring in-space refueling closer to realityGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 NASA's Robotic Refueling Mission 3 (RRM3) completed an initial set of tool operations, bringing the idea of using water ice or methane from other worlds as fuel for spacecraft one step closer to rea ... more  
Best of both worlds: asteroids and massive mergersTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 The race is on. Since the construction of technology able to detect the ripples in space and time triggered by collisions from massive objects in the universe, astronomers around the world have been ... more |
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Dark matter may be older than the big bang, study suggestsBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 08, 2019 Dark matter, which researchers believe make up about 80% of the universe's mass, is one of the most elusive mysteries in modern physics. What exactly it is and how it came to be is a mystery, but a ... more 
Astronomers measure mass, energy from high-mass protostar for first timeWashington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 Scientists have precisely measured the mass and energy of a jet driven by a high-mass protostar, a component and process that scientists estimate is a key to part of stellar formation. ... more  
NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA ChallengePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2019 Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, held Aug. 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led ... more  
CRISPR-Cas can now modify hundreds, of genes at onceWashington (UPI) Aug 14, 2019 Scientists have supercharged CRISPR-Cas technology. According to a new study, the method can now be used to modify dozens, even hundreds, of genes. ... more  
Supercapacitors turbocharged by laxativesBristol UK (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 An international team of scientists, including a professor of chemistry from the University of Bristol, has worked out a way to improve energy storage devices called supercapacitors, by designing a ... more |
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 Brain games hosted by Keegan-Michael Key will test perceptions with a live audience 
Stellar Evolution in Real Time Detected in the Old Star T Ursae MajorisBoston MA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 An international team of astronomers succeeded in detecting signs of aging in the red supergiant star T UMi. The star in the Little Bear constellation is currently going through its last nuclear "hi ... more  |
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Secret Russia weapon project: gamechanger or PR stunt?Paris (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 A deadly explosion at a Russian testing site has focused attention on President Vladimir Putin's bid to build a nuclear-powered missile that the Kremlin hopes would give Moscow the edge in a new arms race. ... more  
Solar sail craft could revolutionize space travelWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2019 The mission of the tiny crowdfunded solar-sailing spacecraft started on 25 June. Scientists say this propulsion technology should allow for speeds that would be impossible for traditional fuel-burni ... more 
Bolton says Russia 'stole' US hypersonic technologyWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 16, 2019 The senior White House official made the highly contentious claims while commenting on the recent explosion at a military facility in Russia's Arkhangelsk region involving the testing of an unspecif ... more 
Scientists to use near-Earth object telescope to observe cosmic mergersWashington (UPI) Aug 16, 2019 Scientists have reprogrammed the Catalina Sky Survey's near-Earth object telescopes to look for both asteroids and cosmic mergers. ... more  
Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's CoreBern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 New interior models of Jupiter based on data gathered by NASA's Juno mission suggested that the giant gas planet might not have a small compact core but rather a diluted, "fuzzy" one. Now, an intern ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 15, 2019 
ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano made space (and music) history on 13 August when he broadcast the first DJ music set from orbit, performing to an audience of over 3000 people as part of the BigCityBeats WORLD CLUB DOME Cruise Edition.
The results of his work were beamed to the main stage on board the cruise ship Norwegian Pearl moored at the Spanish island of Ibiza. His set of around 12 minut ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 14, 2019 
A deadly explosion at a Russian testing site has focused attention on President Vladimir Putin's bid to build a nuclear-powered missile that the Kremlin hopes would give Moscow the edge in a new arms race.
Western experts have linked the blast at the Nyonoksa test site on August 8, which caused a sharp spike in local radiation levels, to the 9M730 Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile f ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2019 
The bit carousel - a mechanism that will play a key role in the acquisition, containment and eventual return to Earth of humanity's first samples from another planet - has been incorporated into NASA's Mars 2020 rover.
"The bit carousel is at the heart of the sampling and caching subsystem," said Keith Rosette, Mars 2020 sample handling delivery manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) July 25, 2019 
A Chinese startup successfully launched the country's first commercial rocket capable of carrying satellites into orbit Thursday, as the space race between China and the US heats up.
Beijing-based Interstellar Glory Space Technology - also known as iSpace - said it launched two satellites into orbit around 1:00 pm Beijing time (0500 GMT) from Jiuquan, a state launch facility in the Gobi de ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 
ThinKom Solutions reveals its new innovative solution for efficient and effective land-based gateways designed to accommodate current and next generation low-Earth-orbit (LEO) and medium-Earth-orbit (MEO) satellite constellations.
The new gateway concept, which ThinKom describes as an "array of arrays," will provide a superior alternative to the large "antenna farms" of parabolic dishes cu ... more |
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 Centennial CO (SPX) Aug 13, 2019 
SEAKR Engineering, Inc. (SEAKR) is pleased to announce it has been granted a Canadian patent for an advanced RF processing Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) technology. SEAKR's Canadian patent CA 2,953,837 "Integrated Mixed-Signal ASIC with Analog Digital Converter (ADC), Digital Analog Converter (DAC) and Digital Signal Processing (DSP)" marks the firm's 4th patent received globall ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 
Research articles reporting significant developments, discoveries, and theories about planets, moons, small bodies, and the interactions among them will soon have a new showcase: The Planetary Science Journal (PSJ).
This online publication is being launched by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), the major organization of professional astronomers in North America, in conjunction with t ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 19, 2019 
A colossal, head-on collision between Jupiter and a still-forming planet in the early solar system, about 4.5 billion years ago, could explain surprising readings from NASA's Juno spacecraft, according to a study this week in the journal Nature.
Astronomers from Rice University and China's Sun Yat-sen University say their head-on impact scenario can explain Juno's previously puzzling gravi ... more |
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 Binghamton NY (SPX) Aug 14, 2019 
Today, more than 700 million people around the world drink water from unsafe or untreated sources, such as wells, springs and surface water.
About half of these people live in sub-Saharan Africa. In fact, in more than 30 African countries, fewer than 20% of the people have access to safe drinking water.
Climate change is likely to worsen the situation by making water less available i ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Aug 17, 2019 
A new study from the University of Helsinki using miniaturized satellite-based tags revealed that during drier periods desert bats must fly further and longer to fulfil their nightly needs. According to researchers this signals their struggle in facing dry periods.
Wildlife tracking has revolutionized the study of animal movement and their behavior. Yet, tracking small, flying animals such ... more |
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 New Delhi, India (SPX) Aug 15, 2019 
The final orbit raising manoeuvre of Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was successfully carried out August 14, 2019 at 02:21 am IST. During this maneuver, the spacecraft's liquid engine was fired for about 1203 seconds. With this, Chandrayaan-2 entered the Lunar Transfer Trajectory. Earlier, the spacecraft's orbit was progressively increased five times during July 23 to August 06, 2019.
The health ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2019 
Scientists have reprogrammed the Catalina Sky Survey's near-Earth object telescopes to look for both asteroids and cosmic mergers.
"Catalina Sky Survey has all of this infrastructure for their asteroid survey," Michael Lundquist, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona, said in a news release. "So we have deployed additional software to take gravitational wave alert ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 17, 2019 
The summer heatwave of 2003 triggered a rockfall that shocked both researchers and the general public: 1,500 cubic metres of rock broke away from the Hoernli ridge - a volume roughly equivalent to two houses. The fracture event exposed bare ice on the surface of the steep scarp. Experts soon realised that the record temperatures had warmed the rock down to such a depth that the ice contained in ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 16, 2019 
NASA has selected two proposals to demonstrate small satellite technologies to improve science observations in deep space, which could help NASA develop better models to predict space weather events that can affect astronauts and spacecraft.
"This is the first time that our heliophysics program has funded this kind of technology demonstration," said Peg Luce, deputy director of the Helioph ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 16, 2019  Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the discovery of the most massive star ever known to be destroyed by a supernova explosion, challenging known models of how massive stars die and providing insight into the death of the first stars in the universe.
First noticed in November 2016 by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia satellite, three year ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2019  How do researchers explore nature on its most fundamental level? They build "supermicroscopes" that can resolve atomic and subatomic details. This won't work with visible light, but they can probe the tiniest dimensions of matter with beams of electrons, either by using them directly in particle colliders or by converting their energy into bright X-rays in X-ray lasers. At the heart of such scie ... more |
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