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  Washington (UPI) Aug 21, 2019 A joint concept of operation will allow the new U.S. Space Command and the National Reconnaissance Office to form a unified command structure. Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire outlined the plan during a meeting on Tuesday at the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. Intelligence community assets would be under the operational and tactical control of the military during a conflict if U.S. satellites came under attack, an unprecedented action. "I'm pl ... read more |
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China's satellite tests pulsar navigation for future deep space explorationBeijing (XNA) Aug 23, 2019 Chinese scientists have conducted experiments on pulsar navigation with an X-ray space telescope, and the technology could be used in future deep space exploration and interplanetary or interstellar ... more  
'Game-Changer' for Cosmic Research: NASA Chief Touts Nuclear Powered SpacecraftWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022. Speaking at a National Space Council (N ... more 
Test launches of Boeing's Starliner for ISS mission delayed againMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 The launch of US aerospace corporation Boeing-developed unmanned spacecraft Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed to October 6 from September 17, and the test launch of ma ... more  
NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities for Tech to Study Dark Regions on the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 NASA plans to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program. Before astronauts step on the lunar surface again, new technology instruments will study the surface. NASA is engaging t ... more |
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Monster Asteroid Nearly Twice as Big as London's Shard Tower Heading Toward Earth - ReportWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has previously claimed that the Earth has no defense against giant asteroids approaching the planet, with NASA and SpaceX currently developing systems that would help ... more  
A second planet in the Beta Pictoris SystemParis, France (SPX) Aug 20, 2019 A team of astronomers led by Anne-Marie Lagrange, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (CNRS/Universite Grenoble Alpes), has discovered a second giant pla ... more  
Boosting Space Situational Awareness: SMC awards SBIR Phase 2 contractLos Angeles AFB CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Directorate of Special Programs (DirSP) awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 2 contract to Bluestaq LLC who will develop the ... more  
New Iridium Certus transceiver for faster satellite data now in live testingMcLean VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the first 10 approved beta partners developing new products based on the state-of-the-art Iridium Certus 9770 transceiver. Each partner has received operati ... more  
Pentagon axes troubled $1 bn contract for missile defenseWashington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it is terminating a troubled billion-dollar program to develop a ballistic missile interceptor, citing design problems. ... more |
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GRACE-FO shows the weight of Midwestern floodsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2019 In May 2019, after the wettest 12 months ever recorded in the Mississippi River Basin, the region was bearing the weight of 8 to 12 inches (200 to 300 millimeters) more water than average. New data ... more  |
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Capella Space partners with SpaceNet to expand access to SAR dataSan Francisco CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Capella Space, an information services company that provides on-demand Earth observation imagery, has announced its partnership with SpaceNet, a nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating open ... more  
Boreal forest fires could release deep soil carbonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Increasingly frequent and severe forest fires could burn generations-old carbon stored in the soils of boreal forests, according to results from the Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE) fu ... more  
SolAero to supply solar modules to Maxar for Lunar Gateway Power and Propulsion ElementAlbuquerque, NM (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 SolAero Technologies Corp. (SolAero), has been awarded a contract by Maxar Technologies, a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, to power the Power and Propul ... more  
Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchenMunich, Germany (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 When two neutron stars collide, the matter at their core enters extreme states. An international research team has now studied the properties of matter compressed in such collisions. The HADES long- ... more 
WPI mathematician is helping NASA spacecraft travel faster and fartherWorcester MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 By combining cutting-edge machine learning with 19th-century mathematics, a Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) mathematician is working to make NASA spacecraft lighter and more damage tolerant by ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2019  NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan will conduct a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to install a docking adapter, NASA said on Tuesday.
"NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Andrew Morgan, assigned as flight engineers for Expedition 60 aboard the International Space Station, will begin a planned six-and-a-half-hour s ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 
Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022.
Speaking at a National Space Council (NSC) meeting on Tuesday, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chief Jim Bridenstine specifically praised the potential use of nuclear thermal propulsion in space exploration.
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Scientists have taken an important step towards revealing the mysterious source of methane on Mars, by refining estimates of the gas in the planet's atmosphere.
The methane puffing from a huge crater on Mars could be a sign of life or other non-biological activity under the planet's surface. Gale crater, which is 154 km in diameter and about 3.8 billion years old, is thought by some to con ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019 
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite separated with the carrier rocket a ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Iridium Communications Inc. has announced the first 10 approved beta partners developing new products based on the state-of-the-art Iridium Certus 9770 transceiver. Each partner has received operational beta units, which have been undergoing extensive testing designed to fine-tune both the new transceiver and the first new solutions they will enable in preparation for service activation. Small a ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 
In anticipation of the world's largest astronomical instrument, Beijing is set to construct a permanent regional data hub that will house its Tianhe-2 supercomputer to make sense of reams of data acquired from space.
A recent Xinhua report revealed that China's Tianhe-2, once known as the world's fastest supercomputer, will work on astronomical data following the 2020 construction of the S ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive than Earth itself has. "This is a surprising conclusion", said lead researcher Dr Stephanie Olson, "it shows us that conditions on some exoplanets with favourable ocean circulation patterns could be better suited to support life that is more abundant or more active than life on Earth."
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
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 Koror, Palau (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 
Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu warned Pacific island nations Thursday against "empty promises" of financial aid from China, as the Solomon Islands considers switching diplomatic allegiance from Taipei to Beijing.
Visiting Palau to shore up Taiwan's relations in the Pacific - where six of its 17 diplomatic allies are located - Wu said democratic nations were concerned about Chinese inroa ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Aug 20, 2019 
In March 2018, the European Commission in Brussels confirmed the UK after Brexit was likely to be excluded from some aspects of the Galileo project, especially relating to PRS, despite having invested more than 1 billion pounds in the EU Global Navigation Satellite System.
The UK is reaching out to its "Five Eyes" security allies to enlist their help in building an alternative to the EU's ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
NASA plans to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program. Before astronauts step on the lunar surface again, new technology instruments will study the surface.
NASA is engaging the university community for ideas to help achieve some of these activities through its annual Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, which is asking university teams to submi ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has previously claimed that the Earth has no defense against giant asteroids approaching the planet, with NASA and SpaceX currently developing systems that would help to redirect space rocks from bumping into the Earth.
A monster asteroid larger than the world's largest buildings, including London's the Shard, will be passing near the Earth at a speed of 23,1 ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2019 
In May 2019, after the wettest 12 months ever recorded in the Mississippi River Basin, the region was bearing the weight of 8 to 12 inches (200 to 300 millimeters) more water than average. New data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission, which launched in May 2018, showed that there was an increase in water storage in the river basin, extending east arou ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Neutrinos come in three flavours made up of a mix of three neutrino masses. While the differences between the masses are known, little information was available about the mass of the lightest species until now.
It's important to better understand neutrinos and the processes through which they obtain their mass as they could reveal secrets about astrophysics, including how the universe is h ... more |
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Quantum mechanics boasts all sorts of strange features, one being quantum superposition - the peculiar circumstance in which particles seem to be in two or more places or states at once. Now, an international group of physicists led by Stevens Institute of Technology, University of Vienna and University of Queensland flip that description on its head, showing that particles are not the only obje ... more |
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