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  Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor - comet 2I/Borisov - whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our solar system. This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, 2019, is the sharpest view of the comet to date. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which is too small to be seen by Hubble). Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second such interstellar object known to have passed through the solar sys ... read more |
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China's first astronaut expects stepping onto MoonBeijing (XNA) Oct 17, 2019 Chinese first astronaut Yang Liwei said he was looking forward to setting foot on the moon. He made the remarks at the 16th anniversary of his flying into space aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraf ... more  
Virgin Galactic unveils commercial space suitsYonkers, United States (AFP) Oct 17, 2019 The date for the world's first commercial space flight is not even confirmed yet, but future passengers' Star Trek-like outfits are ready and waiting. ... more  
NASA commits to future Artemis missions with more SLS rocket stagesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 NASA has taken the next steps toward building Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stages to support as many as 10 Artemis missions, including the mission that will carry the first woman and next m ... more 
NASA Admin selects Douglas Loverro as next human spaceflight headWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Wednesday named Douglas Loverro as the agency's new associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate. Loverro succeeds former a ... more |
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Heron survey fishes out detail in ghostly galaxy outskirtsLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Astronomers have completed the largest survey to date of the faint outskirts of nearby galaxies, successfully testing a low-cost system for exploring these local stellar systems. R. Michael Rich of ... more 
Awe and fear: how Russian cosmonaut recalled first spacewalkMoscow (AFP) Oct 11, 2019 Alexei Leonov, the first man to do a space walk, died at the age of 85 on Friday. Here AFP republishes an interview with the cosmonaut from 2015, conducted on the 50th anniversary of his extraordinary achievement: ... more 
Soil on moon and Mars likely to support cropsBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Researchers at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands have produced crops in Mars and Moon soil simulant developed by NASA. The research supports the idea that it would not only be po ... more  
ExoMars parachute progressParis (ESA) Oct 16, 2019 Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window. The missio ... more 
U.S. Army to deploy hypersonic missiles by 2023Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 Deployment of a long-range hypersonic weapon system by the U.S. Army is expected by 2023, the Association of the United States Army was told at its annual convention. ... more |
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 NASA unveils flexible, one-size-fits-all space suits 
Orion suit equipped to expect the unexpected on Artemis missionsHouston TX (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 When astronauts are hours away from launching on Artemis missions to the Moon, they'll put on a brightly colored orange spacesuit called the Orion Crew Survival System (OCSS) suit. It is designed fo ... more  |
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Analysis of Galileo's Jupiter entry probe reveals gaps in heat shield modelingWashington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion. As the probe descended from Mach 50 to Mach 1 and generated enough heat to cause plasma re ... more 
New understanding of the evolution of cosmic electromagnetic fieldsOdense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up ... more  
US Space Command general briefs NATO to affirm deterrence missionBrussels (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 he NATO Military Committee's meeting in Brussels on Monday called for a commitment to defense and deterrence in space. U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Scott Kindsvater, deputy chairman of the committe ... more  
Lakes worldwide are experiencing more severe algal bloomsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes, which was conducted by Carnegie's Jeff H ... more 
First all-female spacewalk now later this week, says NASAWashington (AFP) Oct 15, 2019 After an infamous spacesuit flub earlier this year that resulted in accusations of sexism, NASA now plans to carry out the first all-female spacewalk this week, it said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
One day after NASA unveiled prototype spacesuits designed to explore the moon and Mars, Under Armour on Wednesday revealed new equipment it says will be worn by space tourists when Virgin Galactic begins flying beyond the atmosphere.
The uniforms include a spacesuit, training suit, footwear and a jacket. The suits were created specifically for private astronauts, the companies said, and ar ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 
Deployment of a long-range hypersonic weapon system by the U.S. Army is expected by 2023, the Association of the United States Army was told at its annual convention.
Robert Strider, deputy director of Army hypersonic programs on Monday told attendees of the AUSA convention that an experimental prototype, "with residual combat capability," will be fielded by 2023, as announced by the Ar ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2019 
The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently sent home eye-catching views of the agency's InSight lander and its Curiosity rover.
HiRISE has been monitoring InSight's landing site in the Elysium Planitia region of the Red Planet for changes to the surface, such as dust-devil tracks. Taken on Sept. 23, 2019, at an altitude of 169 miles (272 kilometers) above the surface, ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 
China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission.
The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to carry rockets. With a length of 130 meters, a width of 19 meters and a height of 37 meters, the ships have a displacement of 9,000 tonnes.
Each ship is equipped with two 120-tonne cranes that c ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 
As aerospace and defense suppliers from across the country took their seats at Constitution Hall in Washington D.C., a gleaming 18-foot-tall OmegA rocket model on the stage commanded their attention.
The event was the third annual OmegA suppliers conference, and judging from the overall reaction to the 1/12-scale model, the only thing the suppliers would have liked to see more was an actua ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion. As the probe descended from Mach 50 to Mach 1 and generated enough heat to cause plasma reactions on its surface, it relayed data about the burning of its heat shield that differed from the effects predicted in fluid dynamics models. New work examines what might have caused such a discrepa ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) how distinct gaps and ring features in dust, which may be caused by infant planets.
To get more certainty that these gaps are actuall ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
The intensity of summer algal blooms has increased over the past three decades, according to a first-ever global survey of dozens of large, freshwater lakes, which was conducted by Carnegie's Jeff Ho and Anna Michalak and NASA's Nima Pahlevan and published by Nature.
Reports of harmful algal blooms - like the ones that shut down Toledo's water supply in 2014 or led to states of emergency b ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 15, 2019 
India is moving forward towards harnessing space technology for national development and to make it accessible for everyone as they go about their daily lives.
To improve the geo-location capabilities of upcoming mobile phones, automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and US-based chip-maker Qualcomm have developed a new chipset platform. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 17, 2019 
On Tuesday, a Roscosmos source revealed that the Russian space agency might send an anthropomorphic robot to the Moon as soon as three to four years from now, with its design expected to be based on the semi-autonomous robot which was recently deployed aboard the International Space Station.
US-based science news outlet Ars Technica has questioned whether Russia has the capability to land ... more |
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 Krakow Poland (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
For decades, astronomers have speculated that the space between stars may be populated by exosolar minor bodies - comets and asteroids - ejected from their home planetary systems. Studies have also suggested that these bodies may occasionally pass through the Solar System and be identified thanks to their strongly open orbits. The discovery of 'Oumuamua two years ago brought the long-awaited con ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
An interdisciplinary team of four researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, the University of Valencia, and Columbia University has been awarded a 2019 European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant to understand and model the Earth system with machine learning, one of the important approaches of ar ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 03, 2019 
A NASA Frontier Development Lab (FDL) team has shown that by using deep learning, it is possible to virtually monitor the Sun's extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance, which is a key driver of space weather. The Sun is vital for survival, but solar flares, which typically occur a few times a year, have the potential to cause severe disruptions in space and on Earth.
These disruptions can imp ... more |
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 Odense, Denmark (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Next year is the 200 years anniversary of the discovery of electromagnetism by the Danish physicist H.C. Orsted. Even 200 years after its discovery, the existence of electromagnetism still brings up new puzzles pertaining to their origin.
One such mystery is the origin of electro magnetic fields on the very largest scale in the universe.
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 Riverside CA (SPX) Oct 14, 2019 
Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have discovered that powerful winds driven by supermassive black holes in the centers of dwarf galaxies have a significant impact on the evolution of these galaxies by suppressing star formation.
Dwarf galaxies are small galaxies that contain between 100 million to a few billion stars. In contrast, the Milky Way has 200-400 billion st ... more |
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