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  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 A new consortium of international companies, called IRSA Development Group (IDG), was announced October 1, 2019, at DEFSEC Atlantic in Halifax, Canada. IDG consists of international companies with expertise in selected technology domains to bring the world an advanced remote sensing network. Integrated Remote Sensing for the Arctic (IRSA) is a scalable, civilian, all-domain system-of- systems remote sensing solution designed to provide more persistent monitoring of the Arctic. The network co ... read more |
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When Exoplanets CollideMoffett Field (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 A dramatic glimpse of the aftermath of a collision between two exoplanets is giving scientists a view at what can happen when planets crash into each other. A similar event in our own solar system m ... more  
New rocket fairing design offers smoother quieter rideParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2019 Satellites are built to live in the harsh environment of space but engineers must also factor in the rigours of the journey there. ESA has helped RUAG Space Switzerland to develop new rocket fairing ... more  
Automating collision avoidanceParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2019 ESA is preparing to use machine learning to protect satellites from the very real and growing danger of space debris. The Agency is developing a collision avoidance system that will automatica ... more  
Blue Origin's moon deal with Lockheed, other firms, signals new eraWashington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2019 Blue Origin announced Tuesday a new partnership with old-guard aerospace firms Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper to land on the moon - signalling a new era in U.S. space exploration. ... more |
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SpaceX to launch 42,000 satellitesBethesda MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 paceX is developing Starlink, a satellite constellation that uses a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and required user ground transceivers. Services to be provided include new space-based In ... more 
Sounding rocket tech could enable simultaneous, multi-point measurementsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 NASA engineers plan to test a new avionics technology - distributed payload communications - that would give scientists a never-before-offered capability in sounding rocket-based research. Wit ... more 
Launch of the European AGILE 4.0 research projectHamburg, Germany (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 The project 'AGILE 4.0: Towards cyber-physical collaborative aircraft development' has now been launched as part of the EU's Horizon 2020 programme with the aim of conducting research into future ai ... more  
Army inks deal with Blink-182 founder for UFO, weapons researchWashington (UPI) Oct 21, 2019 The U.S. Army and a leading organization of unidentified flying objects researchers agreed to a study of UFO material to improve Army ground vehicles. ... more  
Full-rate production of F-35 maybe delayed for 13 monthsWashington (UPI) Oct 21, 2019 A new delay in testing Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter plane could keep the aircraft from full production status for up to 13 more months, a Pentagon official said. ... more |
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How aerosols affect our climateNew Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 For many, the word "aerosol" might conjure thoughts of hairspray or spray paint. More accurately, though, aerosols are simply particles found in the atmosphere. They can be human-made, like from car ... more  |
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Ozone hole in 2019 is the smallest on record since its discoveryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982, NASA and NO ... more  
Why modified carbon nanotubes can help the reproducibility problemTokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 Our search for sustainable energy generation technology has led researchers to investigate various materials and their combinations in many types of devices. One such synthetic material is called "p ... more  
Flexible, wearable supercapacitors based on porous nanocarbon nanocompositesLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have ... more  
Russia customising Soyuz for tourist tripsMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 A soyuz spaceship will be customised for a tourist trip to the International Space Station (ISS) so that one person may pilot it rather than a three-person crew, Sergei Krikalev, executive director ... more 
Nanoracks signs with Maritime Launch on re-use of C4M stages for in-orbit outpostsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Nanoracks, the world's leading provider of commercial access to space, is pleased to announce that it has signed an agreement with Canada's Maritime Launch Services to work on re-purposing and re-us ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
The International Space Station is a stepping stone for NASA's Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. As the only place for conducting long-duration research on how living in microgravity affects living organisms, especially humans, as well as testing technologies to allow humans to work at the Moon, the space station serves as a unique asset in the effo ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon.
Integration of the RS-25 engines to the recently completed core stage structure is a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its pa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2019 
Don't miss the out-of-this-world opportunity to name NASA's next Mars rover: U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade, attending public, private or home schools, have only through Nov. 1 to propose their name for the rover to be launched to Mars in 2020.
Just think about what it means to have something you named conducting history-making science on the Red Planet - or, if you are o ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 18, 2019 
China is preparing for the upcoming high-density space missions to construct China's space station, and the Long March-5B carrier rocket, set to launch capsules for the space station, is expected to make its maiden flight in 2020.
Zhou Jianping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been appointed the chief designer of China's manned space program, and Gu Yidong, an aca ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
paceX is developing Starlink, a satellite constellation that uses a low-cost, high-performance satellite bus and required user ground transceivers. Services to be provided include new space-based Internet communications.
SpaceX initially planned to deploy nearly 12,000 satellites, but has now increased this number by 30,000, adding up to 42,000 satellites. The initial 12,000 satellites are ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 23, 2019 
ESA is preparing to use machine learning to protect satellites from the very real and growing danger of space debris.
The Agency is developing a collision avoidance system that will automatically assess the risk and likelihood of in-space collisions, improve the decision making process on whether or not a manoeuvre is needed, and may even send the orders to at-risk satellites to get out of ... more |
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 Moffett Field (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
A dramatic glimpse of the aftermath of a collision between two exoplanets is giving scientists a view at what can happen when planets crash into each other. A similar event in our own solar system may have formed our Moon.
Known as BD +20 307, this double-star system is more than 300 light years from Earth with stars that are at least one billion years old. Yet this mature system has shown ... 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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 Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Oct 22, 2019 
Its white flesh is tender and tasty, it can measure up to three meters long and weigh more than 200 kilograms: meet the pirarucu, one of the world's largest freshwater fish, and native to the Amazon.
The enormous animal, once threatened with extinction, is now on dinner plates in Rio de Janeiro's fanciest restaurants, thanks to a number of chefs who have championed the delicacy, and the indi ... 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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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 
NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter's latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said.
The Indian Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was put into lunar orbit on 20 August. During the mission, the Vikra ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
He investigated isotopes of the element boron in the calcareous shells of plankton (foraminifera). According to the findings, there was a sudden impact that led to massive ocean acidification. It took millions of years for the oceans to recover from acidification. "Before the impact event, we could not detect any increasing acidification of the oceans," says Henehan.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982, NASA and NOAA scientists reported this week.
The annual ozone hole reached its peak extent of 6.3 million square miles (16. 4 million square kilometers) on Sept. 8, and then shrank to less than 3.9 million ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
A research team led by the University of Tsukuba combined observations from ancient cuneiform tablets that mention unusual red skies with radioisotope data to identify solar storms that likely occurred around 679 to 655 BCE, prior to any previously datable events. This work may help modern astronomers predict future solar flares or coronal mass ejections that can damage satellite and terrestrial ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
For the first time, a freshly made heavy element, strontium, has been detected in space, in the aftermath of a merger of two neutron stars. This finding was observed by ESO's X-shooter spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and is published in Nature. The detection confirms that the heavier elements in the Universe can form in neutron star mergers, providing a missing piece of the puzzle ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
New measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe, led by astronomers at the University of California, Davis, add to a growing mystery: Estimates of a fundamental constant made with different methods keep giving different results.
"There's a lot of excitement, a lot of mystification and from my point of view it's a lot of fun," said Chris Fassnacht, professor of physics at UC Davis ... more |
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