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China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit. Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short preparation period. The rocket, developed by a company under the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, ... read more |
Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to Luna Guildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019 The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on t ... more Aalborg, Denmark (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 GomSpace has successfully delivered and commissioned the satellite bus for UnseenLabs BRO-1, launched from New Zealand by Rocket Lab on August 19, 2019. The launch and early operations phase w ... more Beijing (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 As China's private rocket enterprises strive to expand their presence in the Chinese space sector, they have also started tapping the international market. LandSpace, a Beijing-based space sta ... more New Orleans LA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section, the lowest portion of the massive core stage for NASA's rocket, is assembled and ready to be mated to the rest of the rocket's core stage. ... more |
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Temperatures of 800 billion degrees in the cosmic kitchen Munich, 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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 On schedule to launch in the mid-2020s, NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission will help uncover some of the biggest mysteries in the cosmos. The state-of-the-art telescope on ... more 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 model ... more Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 05, 2019 Scientists can tell a lot about a star by the light it gives off. The color, for example, reveals its surface temperature and the elements in and around it. Brightness correlates with a star's mass, ... more Colorado Springs CO (AFNS) Aug 28, 2019 Coalition partners from Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States recently participated in Space Flag, a coalition exercise, for the first time at Aerospace Corporation's facility, Aug. ... more |
Bye Aerospace Finalizes Garmin Supplier Agreement to Provide eFlyer 2 Avionics Moscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Russia on Monday said radioactive isotopes were released in a recent accident at an Arctic missile test site that caused widespread alarm as authorities kept details under wraps. ... more |
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Crack in Pacific seafloor caused volcanic chain to go dormant Houston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 From his geology lab at the University of Houston, Jonny Wu has discovered that a chain of volcanoes stretching between Northeast Asia and Russia began a period of silence 50 million years ago, whic ... more 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 ... more Paris (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 The Amazon basin cradles the largest rainforest in the world, and plays an essential role in regulating regional and even global climates. ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Scientists from Russia, China, and the US have drawn the attention of the scientific community to one of the newest and most promising areas in bioprinting - laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT). T ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 Ice fronts have retreated, rocky peaks are more exposed, fewer icebergs drift to the ocean: the branching network of glaciers that empty into Greenland's Sermilik Fjord has changed significantly in ... more |
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India not poor, has resources for space program says ISRO chief 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 |
China's first medium-scale launcher with LOX LCH4 propellants ZQ-2 soliciting payloads worldwide 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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ESA Chief says discussed ExoMars 2020 launch with Roscosmos Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface of the Red Planet. The European Space Agency's Director General Jan Woerner said he had spoken to Russia's Roscosmos during MAKS-2019 to ensure all issues on the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars-202 ... more |
China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit. Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
Cutting-edge Chinese satellite malfunctions after launch Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 The ChinaSat-18 (Zhongxing-18) telecom satellite suffered a technical malfunction immediately after launch, SpaceNews reported on Thursday. The satellite was launched on 19 August from the Xichang Space Centre aboard a Long March 3B rocket. It is the first satellite based on an enhanced version of the Chinese DFH-4 satellite platform. The ChinaSat-18 allegedly experienced a solar arr ... more |
Russia says radioactive isotopes released by missile test blast Moscow (AFP) Aug 26, 2019 Russia on Monday said radioactive isotopes were released in a recent accident at an Arctic missile test site that caused widespread alarm as authorities kept details under wraps. The August 8 blast killed five scientists and caused a spike in radiation levels but for several days Russia did not admit nuclear materials were involved. The accident released swiftly decaying radioactive isot ... more |
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Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument Hilo HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 A cunning new instrument at Gemini Observatory has achieved what was once thought impossible - namely, the characterization of an exoplanet orbiting a binary star and determining which star of the pair it orbits. In an unprecedented feat, an American research team discovered hidden secrets of an elusive exoplanet using a powerful new instrument at the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Maun ... more |
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts 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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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration Boston MA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 To investigate the vastly unexplored oceans covering most our planet, researchers aim to build a submerged network of interconnected sensors that send data to the surface - an underwater "internet of things." But how to supply constant power to scores of sensors designed to stay for long durations in the ocean's deep? MIT researchers have an answer: a battery-free underwater communication ... more |
Second Lockheed Martin-Built Next Generation GPS III Satellite Responding to Commands, Under Self-Propulsion 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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Pull Me to the Moon: Scientists Revolutionize Space Lift Concept to Save Cash on Lunar Missions New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but not impossible. Scientists have come up with an interesting twist on the old concept of space lift, which should, in theory, significantly cut the cost of future Lunar missions, The Daily Star re ... more |
OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), an instrument contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sa ... more |
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Philippine Airborne Campaign Targets Weather, Climate Science 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 |
Streaks in Aurora Found to Map Features in Earth's Radiation Environment 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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Cluster and XMM-Newton Pave the Way for SMILE Mission 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 |
Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory 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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