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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2019 In July 2019, India attempted to be the first country to land a robotic mission at the moon's South Pole. The lunar mission, named 'Chandrayaan 2', failed when engineers lost contact with the "Vikram" lander in September. India is gearing up to launch its third lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-3' by November 2020 as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started preparing for the mission, media reports said on Thursday. The new mission will include only a lander and a rover, as the Chan ... read more |
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China completes Mars lander test ahead of 2020 missionHuailai, China (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 China on Thursday completed a test of its Mars exploration lander ahead of Beijing's first mission to the red planet slated for 2020. ... more  
Thruster for next-generation spacecraft undergoes testing at GlennCleveland OH (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster - Commercial (NEXT-C) fired for the first time recently inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The thruster is undergoing performanc ... more 
SpaceX Completes Crew Dragon Static Fire TestsCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 SpaceX has completed a series of static fire engine tests of the Crew Dragon spacecraft in advance of an in-flight launch escape demonstration, known as the In-Flight Abort Test. The engine te ... more  
NASA sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion to ISSBeer-Sheva, Israel (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States, will be deployed on the first 2020 NASA flight launch to the Inte ... more |
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New approach in hunt for dark matterMainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 A study that takes a novel approach to the search for dark matter has been performed by the BASE Collaboration at CERN working together with a team at the PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence at Johannes G ... more 
New laser opens up large region of the electromagnetic spectrumBoston MA (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 The terahertz frequency range - which sits in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light - offers the potential for high-bandwidth communications, ultrahigh-res ... more 
Two cosmic peacocks show violent history of Magellanic CloudsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 Two peacock-shaped gaseous clouds were revealed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). A team of astronomers found several ... more 
Ground broken on beamline for most advanced neutrino experimentBatavia IL (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 The U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory joined with its international partners this week to break ground on a new beamline that will help scientists learn more about gh ... more  
Behind the scenes with space-age physics at ESAParis (ESA) Nov 14, 2019 Quietly and steadily, fundamental science for better materials on Earth runs on the International Space Station. While European commander Luca Parmitano is busy preparing for a series of complex spa ... more |
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Skull study suggests pre-humans weren't as bright as modern apesWashington (UPI) Nov 13, 2019 New research suggests it wasn't superior intelligence that set our earliest pre-human ancestors, like Australopithecus, apart from apes. ... more  |
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With Mars methane mystery unsolved, Curiosity serves scientists a new one: oxygenGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 13, 2019 For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, t ... more 
At future Mars landing spot, scientists spy mineral that could preserve signs of past lifeProvidence RI (SPX) Nov 13, 2019 Next year, NASA plans to launch a new Mars rover to search for signs of ancient life on the Red Planet. A new study shows that the rover's Jezero crater landing site is home to deposits of hydrated ... more 
SpaceX Crew Dragon releases photos of emergency escape engines testCape Canaveral FL (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2019 SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test in Cape Canaveral, Florida, paving the way for the company to perform a crucial test flight of the ... more  
Study proposes light signature for detecting black hole mergersNew York NY (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 Gravitational wave detectors are finding black hole mergers in the universe at the rate of one per week. If these mergers occur in empty space, researchers cannot see associated light that is needed ... more  
Scientists use 3D climate model to narrow search for habitable exoplanetsWashington (UPI) Nov 14, 2019 For the first time, scientists used a 3D climate model that incorporates photochemistry to study the habitability of exoplanets surrounding M dwarf stars. ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Nov 13, 2019 
Wearing a blue space suit with a UAE flag on one sleeve and a spaceship on the other, the first Emirati astronaut said Tuesday his mission highlighted a crucial issue - climate change.
Witnessing Earth and its beauty from space made him realise the importance of preserving it, said Hazzaa al-Mansoori, a 35-year-old former military pilot who reached the International Space Station in Septemb ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster - Commercial (NEXT-C) fired for the first time recently inside a vacuum chamber at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The thruster is undergoing performance testing to verify it can withstand the extreme launch vibrations and hot and cold temperatures of spaceflight. This photo shows an engineering model firing inside a Glenn vacuum chamber earlier this ... more |
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 Huailai, China (AFP) Nov 14, 2019 
China on Thursday completed a test of its Mars exploration lander ahead of Beijing's first mission to the red planet slated for 2020.
Beijing is pouring billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a crewed space station by 2022.
Thursday's hovering and obstacle-avoidance test, which took place in northern Hebei province, was conducted in a facility that simulated ... more |
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 Huailai, China (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
On November 14, 2019, China National Space Administration invited some foreign embassies and international organizations to witness hovering and obstacle avoidance test for Mars Lander of China's first Mars exploration mission, and visit relevant test facilities in Huailai, Hebei Province. Zhang Kejian, administrator of China National Space Administration, attended the event and delivered a welc ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 14, 2019 
The second series of European Space Talks concluded on 31 October, in a campaign that gave thousands of people, whether enthusiasts or professionals, the chance to share their passion for space.
Space Talks is an awareness campaign run by ESA and partners in Member States to discuss what benefits space brings to European citizens and how it is crucial for all of our futures.
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 14, 2019 
Quietly and steadily, fundamental science for better materials on Earth runs on the International Space Station. While European commander Luca Parmitano is busy preparing for a series of complex spacewalks that take several hours of his working day in orbit, science hums in the background.
On Earth, gravity often leads to unwanted effects when processing materials. Buoyancy, convection and ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2019 
For the first time, scientists used a 3D climate model that incorporates photochemistry to study the habitability of exoplanets surrounding M dwarf stars.
The findings - published Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal - could help planetary scientists know what to look for when surveying potentially habitable exoplanets.
Researchers adopted a 3D climate model, originally develo ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 13, 2019 
Ultima Thule, the farthest cosmic body ever visited by a spacecraft, has been officially renamed Arrokoth, or "sky" in the Native American Powhatan and Algonquian languages, following a significant backlash over the old name's Nazi connotations.
The icy rock, which orbits in the dark and frigid Kuiper Belt about a billion miles beyond Pluto, was visited by the NASA spaceship New Horizons in ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Nov 12, 2019 
A collaboration between researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), Hawai'i Pacific University (HPU) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) revealed for the first time growth rates of deep-sea coral communities and the pattern of colonization by various species.
The scientific team used the UH Mano ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 05, 2019  Russia plans to launch into orbit a spherical glass satellite for measuring Earth's gravity field by the end of December, documents revealed.
The BLITS-M retroreflector satellite will be launched together with three Gonets-M communications satellites using the Rokot carrier rocket, scheduled to take off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on December 25.
The BLITS-M satellite is an improved ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2019 
In July 2019, India attempted to be the first country to land a robotic mission at the moon's South Pole. The lunar mission, named 'Chandrayaan 2', failed when engineers lost contact with the "Vikram" lander in September.
India is gearing up to launch its third lunar mission 'Chandrayaan-3' by November 2020 as the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has started preparing for the miss ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 13, 2019 
Japan's Hayabusa-2 probe will leave its orbit around a distant asteroid and head for Earth on Wednesday after an unprecedented mission, carrying samples that could shed light on the origins of the Solar System.
The long voyage home would begin at 10:05 am (0105 GMT), with the probe expected to drop off its precious samples some time late 2020, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) sa ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2019 
On behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), DLR Space Management has commissioned the continuation and further development of the Copernicus Data and Exploitation Platform Germany (CODE-DE). CloudFerro, one of the leading cloud-computing companies from Europe, has been entrusted, together with its subcontractor Erteco Technologies, with the implementation of ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Nov 08, 2019 
Southwest Research Institute successfully demonstrated a miniature solar observatory on a high-altitude balloon November 1. The SwRI Solar Instrument Pointing Platform (SSIPP) - a reusable, high-precision solar observatory about the size of a mini fridge and weighing 160 pounds - was carried by a stratospheric balloon, collecting 75 minutes of solar images in the proof-of-concept flight.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
The terahertz frequency range - which sits in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum between microwaves and infrared light - offers the potential for high-bandwidth communications, ultrahigh-resolution imaging, precise long-range sensing for radio astronomy, and much more.
But this section of the electromagnetic spectrum has remained out of reach for most applications. That is because ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have found a way to better detect all collisions of stellar-mass black holes in the universe.
Stellar-mass black holes are formed by the gravitational collapse of a star. Their collisions are some of the most violent events in the universe, creating gravitational waves or ripples in space-time. These ripples are miniscule and detected ... more |
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