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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019 Engineers attached NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet, to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover in the High Bay 1 clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The twin-rotor, solar-powered helicopter was connected, along with the Mars Helicopter Delivery System, to a plate on the rover's belly that includes a cover to shield the helicopter from debris during entry, descent and landing. The helicopter will remain encapsulated after l ... read more |
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India not poor, has resources for space program says ISRO chiefNew Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2019 India is comfortably positioned economically to provide funds for its space programme and benefits to people, the country's space organisation chief has said. Addressing students at a universi ... more 
ExoMars rover ready for environment testingParis (ESA) Aug 28, 2019 The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment. The fina ... more  
China's first medium-scale launcher with LOX LCH4 propellants ZQ-2 soliciting payloads worldwideBeijing, China (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 On August 28, Chinese leading commercial launcher developer and launch service provider LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd. (LandSpace) announced during MAKS-2019 that the company is seeking and a ... 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 |
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Raytheon-built space sensor will fly aboard NASA satellite to measure coastal and ocean ecosystemsEl Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 Raytheon will build the Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer, or GLIMR, sensor, under a contract from the University of New Hampshire. GLIMR, NASA's selected Earth Venture Instru ... more 
NASA's ECOSTRESS Detects Amazon Fires from SpacePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019 NASA's Ecosystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS) captured imagery of fires in the Amazon regions of Brazil and Bolivia on Aug. 23, 2019. The red areas in ... 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  
Tokyo: North Korea aims to 'break through' Japan's missile defense zoneWashington DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2019 Japan released more information on the North Korean missile that was launched on Saturday, when Pyongyang tested what it has described as a "super large multiple rocket launcher." Japanese Def ... more  
Hughes partners with startup to extend LTE Coverage using helicopters and UAVsGermantown MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Hughes Network Systems has announced a new joint solutions to extend mobile network connectivity using an integrated combination of VNC's deployable LTE technology with Hughes JUPITER and HM satelli ... more |
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 The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures  
A new lens for life-searching space telescopesTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 The University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory is a world leader in the production of the world's largest telescope mirrors. In fact, it is currently fabricating mirrors for the larges ... more  |
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NASA's Hubble captures image of dynamic star deathWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2019 NASA and the European Space Agency on Friday released an image of a dying star that the agencies said confounded astronomers when they first studied it. ... more 
Gaia untangles the starry strings of the Milky WayParis (ESA) Aug 28, 2019 Rather than leaving home young, as expected, stellar 'siblings' prefer to stick together in long-lasting, string-like groups, finds a new study of data from ESA's Gaia spacecraft. Exploring th ... more  
Physicists' study demonstrates silicon's energy-harvesting powerDallas TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 A University of Texas at Dallas physicist has teamed with Texas Instruments Inc. to design a better way for electronics to convert waste heat into reusable energy. The collaborative project de ... more  
ALMA shows what's inside Jupiter's stormsCharlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms -the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below the clouds? What is causing the many st ... more 
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful beltsBerkeley 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 coordin ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2019 
India is comfortably positioned economically to provide funds for its space programme and benefits to people, the country's space organisation chief has said.
Addressing students at a university convocation ceremony in Bangalore (now Bengaluru), Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman K. Sivan said some people were questioning the need for space technology in a poor country like ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
On August 28, Chinese leading commercial launcher developer and launch service provider LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd. (LandSpace) announced during MAKS-2019 that the company is seeking and accepting payloads from around the world for the maiden launch of its proprietary ZhuQue-2 (ZQ-2) launcher powered by a LOX/LCH4 liquid-propellant rocket engine (LRE).
LandSpace President Zhang L ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2019 
The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment.
The final pieces of the rover's scientific suite of instruments were attached at the Airbus Defence and Space site in Stevenage over the last weeks. The finishing touches included the 'eyes' of the rover: the ... 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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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
The GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt (GSI), the Johannes Gutenberg University and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz are the organizers of this year's TAN conference.
There are currently 118 elements listed in the periodic table. 92 of them occur naturally on Earth. The search for further new elements is conducted using particle accelerators. To produce elements, resea ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 
A new study by McGill University astronomers has found that the temperature on the nightsides of different hot Jupiters - planets that are similar size in to Jupiter, but orbit other stars - is surprisingly uniform, suggesting the dark sides of these massive gaseous planets have clouds made of minerals and rocks.
Using data from the Spitzer Space and the Hubble Space telescopes, the resear ... 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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 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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 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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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2019 
The Trump administration asked the US Congress in May to increase NASA spending next year to accommodate the goal of returning Americans to the surface of the Moon by 2024.
NASA is offering $7 billion to take the first steps for an accelerated US return to the lunar surface within five years, writes Bloomberg Business.
The proposal issued by NASA could be for as long as 15 years and ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 
While many students spent their summer break at the beach or working to earn tuition money, UCF physics student Jennifer Nolau spent her break analyzing thousands and thousands of digital images beamed to her from an asteroid millions of miles from Earth.
Curled up in her favorite pajamas with her laptop in her off-campus apartment, the 25-year-old from South Florida, spent about 10 hours ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
NASA's P-3B science aircraft soared into the skies over the Philippines on Aug. 25 to begin a nearly two-month-long investigation on the impact that smoke from fires and pollution have on clouds, a key factor in improving weather and climate forecasts.
The Cloud, Aerosol, and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex) is the most comprehensive field campaign to date in Maritime Sou ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 
A special kind of streaked aurora has been found to track disturbances in near-Earth space from the ground. Known as structured diffuse aurora, it was recently discovered, with the help of NASA spacecraft and instruments, that these faint lights in the night sky can map the edges of the Van Allen radiation belts - hazardous concentric bands of charged particles encircling Earth.
When the V ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
The Solar wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Link Explorer (SMILE) mission is still four years away from launch, but scientists are already using existing ESA satellites, such as the XMM-Newton X-ray observatory and the Cluster mission studying Earth's magnetosphere, to pave the way for this pioneering venture.
A joint European-Chinese spacecraft, SMILE is currently scheduled for launch in 2023 ... 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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