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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 27, 2019 New Delhi and Moscow are negotiating the organisation of the India-based production of semi-cryogenic rocket engines using Russian technology for the South Asian country's space programme, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Kailasavadivoo Sivan said in an interview. "Russia is offering its semi-cryogenic rocket engine technology to India under the 'Make-in-India' programme. The rocket engines could be made in India and used in our rockets", Sivan told the news agency IANS. Ac ... read more |
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Spacecraft carrying Russian humanoid robot docks at ISSMoscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 An unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot to be sent into orbit successfully docked at the International Space Station on Tuesday, following a failed attempt over the weekend, Moscow's space agency said. ... more  
Mysterious Cloud 'Absorbers' Seen to Drive Venusian Albedo, ClimateMadison WI (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 As planets in our solar system go, Venus is one for the textbooks. Although about the same size as Earth, Venus is a terrestrial planet with a similar composition to our planet, and has about the sa ... more  
Chandrayaan-2 Captures First Image of Moon Showing Mare Orientale Basin, Apollo CratersNew Delhi (IANS) Aug 27, 2019 Chandrayaan-2 has captured the first image of the Moon, two days after entering the lunar orbit. The picture was taken by Vikram, the spacecraft's lander and shows the Mare Orientale basin and Apoll ... more 
Vegetable cultivation in the Antarctic for the Moon and MarsBremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 Future food production in deserts and cold regions, as well as under the inhospitable conditions of future space missions to the Moon and Mars, is providing the stimulus for research in the Antarcti ... more |
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Putin vows 'symmetric response' to US missile testMoscow (AFP) Aug 23, 2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he has ordered the military to prepare a "symmetric response" after Washington tested a formerly banned missile. ... more  
New Landsat Infrared Instrument Ships from NASAGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 From orbit aboard the Landsat 9 satellite, the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2, or TIRS-2, will measure the temperature of Earth's land surfaces, detecting everything from a smoldering wildfire, to the am ... more  
NASA Helps California Get Ahead of Coastal FloodingSan Diego CA (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 NASA in cooperation with the U.S. Geological Survey is helping emergency planners in Southern California get a more complete picture of the increasing risk of coastal flooding by looking at the high ... more  
NASA's BITSE Solar Scope Is Ready for Balloon Flight Over New MexicoGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 NASA and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, or KASI, are getting ready to test a new way to see the Sun, high over the New Mexico desert. A balloon - large enough to hug a footba ... more  
Studying quantum phenomena in magnetic systems to understand exotic states of matterTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Apart from the states of matter that we are all aware of and accustomed to, which correspond to solids, liquids, and gases, more exotic states can be generated in specific materials under special co ... more |
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Macro-energy systems and the science of the energy transitionStanford CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 What types of electricity storage could have the biggest impact globally for a low-carbon energy future? Can humanity simultaneously de-carbonize energy and extend heat, lighting and transportation ... more  |
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Rise of dinosaurs linked to increasing oxygen levelsBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Scientists have found that increasing oxygen levels are linked to the rise of North American dinosaurs around 215 M years ago. A new technique for measuring oxygen levels in ancient rocks shows that ... more  
Physicists create world's smallest engineDublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion ti ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for ninth lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Aug 27, 2019 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the ninth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 8:10 a ... more  
Arecibo Observatory Gets $19M NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from AsteroidsOrlando FL (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 Knowledge is power, and NASA has just invested $19 million into the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to gain a lot of knowledge about asteroids. NASA awarded the University of Central Florid ... more  
Scientists Explore Outback as Testbed for MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019 This week, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most rem ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2019  An unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot to be sent into orbit successfully docked at the International Space Station on Tuesday, following a failed attempt over the weekend, Moscow's space agency said.
The lifesize robot called Fedor copies human movements and can help astronauts carry out tasks remotely.
"Contact confirmed, capture confirmed," a NASA commentator an ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
On July 27, 2019, a Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station carrying dozens of scientific experiments. Now, Dragon heads home. It brings samples, hardware and data from completed investigations back to Earth on its return trip, with undocking from the station currently scheduled for one month after arrival: August 27.
Here are details on some of the investigation ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, a well-known Mars analogue. The findings are published in Scientific Reports.
Armando Azua-Bustos and colleagues investigated whether microbial life could move across the Atacama Desert using on wind-driven dust part ... 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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 Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
GomSpace and have signed a development contract at a value of EUR 1,425,000 for GomSpace Luxembourg SARL's continued development of the Mega-Constellation Operations Platform (MCOP) product.
The development of MCOP was initiated in 2018 under the first development contract resulting in development of a minimum viable product focusing on scalability which was recently proven through the fir ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Apart from the states of matter that we are all aware of and accustomed to, which correspond to solids, liquids, and gases, more exotic states can be generated in specific materials under special conditions. Such states are of great interest to physicists because they help them gain a deeper understanding of quantum phenomena, which is key for scientists and engineers to innovate state-of-the-ar ... 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."
The discovery of ... more |
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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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 New York (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 
US officials announced a $120 million plan to replace old pipes blamed for high lead levels in a major city, as they moved to defuse a growing water crisis Monday.
Thousands of residents in the predominantly black and Hispanic city of Newark, New Jersey, have been drinking only bottled water this month after a environment agency found lead levels were not safe.
The crisis highlighted cre ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force's second next-generation GPS III satellite, built by Lockheed Martin, is responding to commands, under control and now using its own internal propulsion system to get to orbit following its successful launch this morning.
At 11:01 a.m. ET, Air Force and Lockheed Martin engineers at Lockheed Martin's Launch and Checkout Facility near Denver declared they had full control ... more |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Aug 27, 2019 
Chandrayaan-2 has captured the first image of the Moon, two days after entering the lunar orbit. The picture was taken by Vikram, the spacecraft's lander and shows the Mare Orientale basin and Apollo craters. The image was taken at a height of about 2, 650 km from the lunar surface on August 21.
"Take a look at the first Moon image captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander taken at a height ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.
The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 meters (135 feet ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
From orbit aboard the Landsat 9 satellite, the Thermal Infrared Sensor 2, or TIRS-2, will measure the temperature of Earth's land surfaces, detecting everything from a smoldering wildfire, to the amount of irrigation used on crop fields, to wispy clouds that are all but invisible to other instruments. First, however, it had to survive tests that simulated the harsh environment of space.
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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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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the gravitational field of others or the motion of an electron in a magnetic field are extremely well understood, and predictions can be made with astonishing accuracy.
However, when the quantum character of the particles and fields inv ... more |
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