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  Palo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Tesla, Inc. has announced the successful completion of its previously announced offer to exchange all outstanding shares of common stock of Maxwell Technologies, Inc. ("Maxwell") for 0.0193 of a share of Tesla common stock, together with cash in lieu of any fractional shares of Tesla common stock, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes. The exchange offer expired at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. As of the expiration of the exchange offer, a total of appr ... read more |
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NASA overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars: auditorWashington (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 NASA "overpaid" Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars on a fixed contract to develop a spaceship to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), an audit report has said, compensation it called "unnecessary." ... more 
US has paid Russia 4 billion dollars to transport astronauts to ISSMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 18, 2019 ver the past twenty years, 239 astronauts and cosmonauts have been taken to the ISS during 85 manned flights of Russia's Soyuz and US Space Shuttle. The US government has paid Russia nearly $4 ... 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 
Audit criticizes NASA for payments to Boeing in human spaceflight programOrlando FL (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 A government report on NASA's quest to send people into space again criticizes the agency for making additional and "unnecessary" payments to Boeing Co. of up to $287 million. The report from ... more |
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Making planets in a rocketParis (ESA) Nov 18, 2019 How are celestial bodies created? Aside from philosophical questions, researchers are taking practical steps to investigate the very first moments when planets are born - on a sounding rocket launch ... more  
NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'Dance of Avoidance'Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2019 Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research. Orbital dynamics exp ... more  
China launches new remote-sensing satelliteJiuquan, China (XNA) Nov 14, 2019 China sent a new remote sensing satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Wednesday. The Jilin-1 Gaofen 02A, which belongs to the Jilin-1 sate ... more  
Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to '17 Hiroshimas'London, UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating in a suspected th ... more  
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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 The ways astronauts prep for spaceflight could benefit cancer patients, say researchers  
Multimaterial 3D printing manufactures complex objects, fastBoston MA (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 3D printers are revolutionizing manufacturing by allowing users to create any physical shape they can imagine on-demand. However, most commercial printers are only able to build objects from a singl ... more  |
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Massive photons in an artificial magnetic fieldWarsaw, Poland (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 An international research collaboration from Poland, the UK and Russia has created a two-dimensional system - a thin optical cavity filled with liquid crystal - in which they trapped photons. As the ... more  
Storing energy in hydrogen 20 times more effective using platinum-nickel catalystEindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and ... more  
Mysteries Behind Interstellar Buckyballs Finally AnsweredTucson AZ (SPX) Nov 14, 2019 Scientists have long been puzzled by the existence of so-called "buckyballs" - complex carbon molecules with a soccer-ball-like structure - throughout interstellar space. Now, a team of researchers ... more  
Experts unlock key to photosynthesis, a find that could help us meet food security demandsSheffield UK (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 Scientists have solved the structure of one of the key components of photosynthesis, a discovery that could lead to photosynthesis being 'redesigned' to achieve higher yields and meet urgent food se ... 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 |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 
The Expedition 61 crew is about to kick off a series of complex spacewalks on Friday to repair the International Space Station's cosmic particle detector. They had one more spacewalk review Thursday while continuing advanced biology research.
Spacewalkers Luca Parmitano and Andrew Morgan readied the Quest airlock, their U.S. spacesuits and tools for Friday's excursion set to begin at 7:05 ... more |
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 Taiyuan (XNA) Nov 15, 2019 
Five new remote-sensing satellites were sent into planned orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China's Shanxi Province Wednesday.
The five Ningxia-1 satellites were launched by a Long March-6 carrier rocket at 2:35 p.m. (Beijing Time).
The satellites are part of a commercial satellite project invested by the Ningxia Jingui Information Technology Co., Ltd. and will ... 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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 Palo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2019  Tesla, Inc. has announced the successful completion of its previously announced offer to exchange all outstanding shares of common stock of Maxwell Technologies, Inc. ("Maxwell") for 0.0193 of a share of Tesla common stock, together with cash in lieu of any fractional shares of Tesla common stock, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes.
The exchange offer expired at 11: ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Nov 14, 2019 
Headwall BVBA, Belgium and geo-konzept of Germany announced at Agritechnica 2019 the formation of a Center for Hyperspectral Remote Sensing Europe (CHRSE). Agritechnica is the world's largest trade fair for agricultural technology and geo-konzept is an Agritechnica exhibitor at Hall 15 / Stand J20.
The Headwall CHRSE will be located at geo-konzept's headquarters in Adelschlag, Germany. The ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2019 
How are celestial bodies created? Aside from philosophical questions, researchers are taking practical steps to investigate the very first moments when planets are born - on a sounding rocket launching from Sweden next week.
Astronomers conclude that planets are formed out of cosmic dust and gas from an interstellar cloud around a new-born star, but exactly how dust particles start to asse ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2019 
Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research.
Orbital dynamics experts are calling it a "dance of avoidance" performed by the tiny moons Naiad and Thalassa. The two are true partners, orbiting only about 1,150 miles (1,850 kilometers) apart. But they never get that ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
In an effort to reverse the decline in the health of the world's oceans, the United Nations (UN) has declared 2021 to 2030 to be the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. One key requirement for the scientific initiative is data on existing global ocean conditions. An important trove of data is already available thanks to the Tara Oceans expedition, an international, interdiscipli ... 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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 Luxembourg (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
During a press event at the Museum fur Naturkunde (MfN) in Berlin, a major campaign was launched to support missions designed to increase our knowledge of asteroids and near-Earth objects (NEOs), in particular, the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Hera mission. The campaign "Support Hera" was initiated by the co-founders of Asteroid Day, the global movement to protect the world from dangerous ast ... 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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 Newark NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 
An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star's upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenheit and higher in some regions, temperatures that are vastly hotter than the Sun's surface.
With n ... more |
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 Canberra, Australia (SPX) Nov 14, 2019 
An international study has discovered a star travelling at more than six million km/h through the Milky Way after being flung from the centre of our galaxy by a supermassive black hole.
The eviction occurred about five million years ago, around the time when our ancestors were just learning to walk upright.
Emeritus Professor Gary Da Costa, an astronomer at The Australian National Un ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 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 to determine where they happened. However, a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York (CUNY), su ... more |
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