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  Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Sep 26, 2019 Russia's Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, bringing the next crew - including the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) - to the orbital outpost, a Sputnik correspondent reported from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The approach and docking of the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft, launched aboard a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket earlier in the day, took place in an autonomous regime. After the crew of the Russian Soyuz M ... read more |
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Improving the ductility of ceramic materials for missiles, enginesWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 Something as simple as an electric field could soon make wartime missiles or drinking mugs easier to produce and more resilient for fracture. Items such a ... more  
China launches two new BeiDou satellitesBeijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 5:10 a.m. Monday. Launched on ... more  
Orbital nabs $1.1B contract for Missile Defense targetsWashington (UPI) Sep 23, 2019 Orbital Sciences Corp. received a $1.1 billion contract with the Missile Defense Agency for missile defense targets, the Defense Department announced. ... more 
Stars in its eyes, UAE celebrates its first astronaut in spaceDubai (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 A crowd in Dubai erupted in cheers and applause Wednesday as the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates launched towards the International Space Station, dubbing him a national hero. ... more |
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One species, many originsJena, Germany (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 In a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, a group of researchers argue that our evolutionary past must be understood as the outcome of dynamic changes in connectivity, or gene flow, betw ... more  
Unofficial pathways visible from orbit play role in Detroit redevelopmentAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 As neighborhood and city planners design ways to reuse vacant land in cities like Detroit, a researcher at the University of Michigan is urging them to look at the footpaths of people who already li ... more  
How to predict crucial plasma pressure in future fusion facilitiesPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 A key requirement for future facilities that aim to capture and control on Earth the fusion energy that drives the sun and stars is accurate predictions of the pressure of the plasma - the hot, char ... more 
Paramagnetic spins take electrons for a ride, produce electricity from heatRaleigh NC (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 An international team of researchers has observed that local thermal perturbations of spins in a solid can convert heat to energy even in a paramagnetic material - where spins weren't thought to cor ... more  
Gem-like nanoparticles of precious metals shine as catalystsChicago IL (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method for making highly desirable catalysts from metal nanoparticles that could lead to better fuel cells, among other applications. The ... more |
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NASA in megadeal with Lockheed for moon missionWashington (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 NASA on Monday earmarked almost $3 billion to Lockheed Martin to build three Orion capsules, to allow US astronauts to return to the moon by 2024. ... more  |
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Tunnel 9 personnel provide guidance for hypersonic experimentArnold AFB TX (AFNS) Sep 24, 2019 When those conducting Air Force-sponsored basic science research in hypersonic aerodynamics needed some advice, they relied upon the expertise of engineers and technicians at Arnold Engineering and ... more  
Naming of new interstellar visitor, 2I BorisovGarching, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 A new object from interstellar space has been found within the Solar System, only the second such discovery of its kind. Astronomers are turning their telescopes towards the visitor, which offers a ... more 
Magically exploring 'the Moon' from afarDarmstadt, Germany (ESA) Sep 25, 2019 As Europe sleeps, in the early hours of Wednesday 25 September, a small rover in Canada will explore a mock lunar surface, controlled from ESA's ESOC operations centre in Germany. The live experime ... more  
DLR navigation systems will freeze in place with Polarstern in ArcticMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 The Polarstern research icebreaker, operated by the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), will set sail for the Arctic Ocean on the evening of 20 September 2019. There, it will freeze in the sea ice and d ... more  
Up-close and personal with neuronal networksBoston MA (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 How our brain cells, or neurons, use electrical signals to communicate and coordinate for higher brain function is one of the biggest questions in all of science. For decades, researchers have ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Sept 25, 2019 
A crowd in Dubai erupted in cheers and applause Wednesday as the first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates launched towards the International Space Station, dubbing him a national hero.
Emiratis and school children gathered at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre as Hazzaa al-Mansoori, 35, blasted into space accompanied by Russia's Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jessica Meir onboard ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2019 
The Soyuz rocket and crew capsule are ready to carry three new crew to the International Space Station after the rocket was rolled out to the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The rocket is scheduled for liftoff at 9:57 a.m. EDT Wednesday. The launch will be broadcast live on NASA TV.
After being ferried from its assembly unit to the launch pad on Monday, the g ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 23, 2019 
US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the US space program's efforts to return astronauts to the moon by 2024 as "tremendous," yet outlined that the ultimate goal is Mars.
"We're going to Mars," Trump told reporters after a White House meeting with Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison, marking Mars as a more exciting target than the moon.
"We're stopping at the moon. The m ... more |
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 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 |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Sep 20, 2019 
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced his nation's intention to join the United States' Moon to Mars exploration approach, including NASA's Artemis lunar program.
The announcement took place at a ceremony Saturday at NASA Headquarters in Washington during which NASA Deputy Administrator, Jim Morhard, and Head of the Australian Space Agency, Megan Clark, signed a joint stat ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Sep 24, 2019 
A Northwestern University research team has developed a new method for making highly desirable catalysts from metal nanoparticles that could lead to better fuel cells, among other applications. The researchers also discovered the method can take spent catalysts and recycle them into active catalysts.
Made mainly of precious metals, these coveted catalysts are shaped like gems. Each particl ... more |
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 Lafayette CA (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
The most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth are termed co-orbital objects. An attractive location for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) to locate a probe to observe Earth throughout our deep past are the co-orbital objects. They most recently discovered group of rocky bodies nearby Earth. Co-orbital objects approach Earth very closely every year at distances much shorter th ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 
Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, a large moon of Jupiter, has been erupting on a relatively regular schedule.
The volcano Loki is expected to erupt in mid-September 2019, according to a poster by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun presented this week.
"Loki is the largest and ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2019 
Thousands of them plague our beaches to the horror of holidaymakers who dread their sting, but thanks to man's disruption of the oceans, jellyfish are thriving.
Jellyfish have been on Earth longer than we have - they are believed to have roamed the oceans for nearly 600 million years.
But human activity, from over-fishing to plastic waste and climate change, has created an environment i ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Sep 24, 2019 
China successfully sent two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 5:10 a.m. Monday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the two satellites entered orbit. They are the 47th and 48th satellites of the BDS satellite family.
The new satellites and the carrier rocket were developed by t ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
In January of this year, China's Chang'E-4 - the fourth version of a lunar spacecraft named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon - landed on the far side of the Moon. Due to the location of the landing, Chang'E-4 had to navigate autonomously, without the guidance of scientists on Earth.
Now, a research team, headed by LI Chunlai, corresponding author of this results and a professor of the N ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new study led by a University of Central Florida researcher may fundamentally alter our understanding of how comets arrive from the outskirts of the solar system and are funneled to the inner solar system coming closer to Earth.
In a study to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters this week, scientist Gal Sarid and co-authors describe the discovery of an orbital "gateway" thro ... more |
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 Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
As neighborhood and city planners design ways to reuse vacant land in cities like Detroit, a researcher at the University of Michigan is urging them to look at the footpaths of people who already live there - literally.
In what's believed to be the first comprehensive study of unofficial footpaths in a large urban area, U-M's Joshua Newell and colleague Alec Foster of Illinois State Univer ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
Experimenting at 2.2 million degrees Celsius, physicists at Sandia National Laboratories' Z machine have found that an astronomical model - used for 40 years to predict the sun's behavior as well as the life and death of stars - underestimates the energy blockage caused by free-floating iron atoms, a major player in those processes.
The blockage effect, called opacity, is an element's natu ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2019 
A new object from interstellar space has been found within the Solar System, only the second such discovery of its kind. Astronomers are turning their telescopes towards the visitor, which offers a tantalising glimpse beyond our Solar System and raises some puzzling questions. The object has been given the name 2I/Borisov by the IAU.
On 30 August 2019 the amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
Anna Ijjas, leader of the recently established Lise Meitner Research Group "Gravitational Theory and Cosmology" at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute / AEI) in Hannover, and Paul Steinhardt, Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, receive 1.3 million US-dollars for four years from the Simons Foundation.
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