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  Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to a facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Later in the day it was placed atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station. Boeing's uncrewed flight test, which is targeted for Dec. 17, will provide valuable data on the end-to-end performance of the rocket, spacecraft and ground systems, as well as, in ... read more |
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SpaceX's Starship prototype blows its top during Texas testOrlando FL (UPI) Nov 22, 2019 An early prototype of SpaceX's Starship rocket blew its top during a test Wednesday at the company's construction yard in Boca Chica, Texas. Images captured by two independent videographers fr ... more  
NASA certifies SLS Rocket Laboratory to test flight software for Artemis IHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 To launch the Artemis I Moon mission, NASA's powerful Space Launch System (SLS) rocket must go from 0 to more than 17,000 miles per hour. The rocket's flight software and avionics systems control al ... more  
India's Space Agency to launch three satellites to boost border securityNew Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2019 A third-generation Earth-imaging satellite Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites from the US will be launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Andhra Pradesh. The Indian Space Res ... more  
NASA takes a cue from Silicon Valley to hatch artificial intelligence technologiesGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by partne ... more |
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How to observe a 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomyNashville TN (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Shrouded in mystery since their discovery, the phenomenon of black holes continues to be one of the most mind-boggling enigmas in our universe. In recent years, many researchers have made stri ... more 
Weakened black hole allows its galaxy to awakenBoston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 Astronomers have confirmed the first example of a galaxy cluster where large numbers of stars are being born at its core. Using data from NASA space telescopes and a National Science Foundation radi ... more  
New observations help explain why sun's upper atmosphere is hotter than its surfaceWashington (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 Several observatories, both on Earth's surface and in space, are dedicated to solving the mysteries of the sun's heating mechanisms. ... more 
Images from solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mysteryNewark 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 ... more  
The tera from outer spaceTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic phenomenon known to humankind. Although short-lived, they outshine stars and even galactic quasars. They usually display energies in the region of tens of gig ... more |
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 NASA's Fermi, Swift missions enable a new era in gamma-ray science 
When galaxies rotate, size mattersSpotswood, Australia (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 The direction in which a galaxy spins depends on its mass, researchers have found. A team of astrophysicists analysed 1,418 galaxies and found that small ones are likely to spin on a different ... more  |
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First detection of gamma-ray burst afterglow at highest energiesHeidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 Gamma-ray bursts, extremely energetic flashes following cosmological cataclysms, emit very-high-energy gamma-rays long after the initial burst. This discovery was made in July 2018 by the huge 28-me ... more  
ITU World Radiocommunication Conference adopts new regulatory procedures for non-geostationary satellitesSharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 The 38th ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) has adopted a new innovative milestone-based regulatory approach for the deployment of non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) satellites i ... more  
New Earth mission will track rising oceans into 2030Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2019 Earth's climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of those changes on our future. For the first time, U.S and European agencies are preparing to launch a 10- ... more  
Clean carbon nanotubes with superb propertiesEspoo, Finland (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 Single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) have found many uses in electronics and new touch screen devices. Carbon nanotubes are sheets of one atom-thick layer of graphene rolled up seamlessly into diffe ... more 
A remote control for everything smallVienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 They are reminiscent of the "tractor beam" in Star Trek: special light beams can be used to manipulate molecules or small biological particles. Even viruses or cells can be captured or moved. Howeve ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is transported from NASA's Kennedy Space Center to a facility at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019. Later in the day it was placed atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket ahead of Boeing's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station.
Boeing's uncrewed flight test, which is targeted for Dec. 17, will pr ... more |
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 Evry, France (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 
Arianespace and MEASAT Global Berhad (MEASAT), the leading Malaysian satellite operator, has announced the signature of a launch services contract for MEASAT-3d.
MEASAT-3d, a new multi-mission telecommunications satellite, will be launched into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana (So ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 
During ice ages on Earth, the retreating ice sheets greatly altered the landscape of the continents. Over the past two-and-a-half million years, Central Europe alone has experienced five massive glaciations. Ice from the Arctic spread as far south as Central Europe while at the same time, the kilometre-thick glaciers of the Alps pushed their way north as far as today's Danube.
When the gla ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Nov 22, 2019 
A Chinese company on Wednesday launched a satellite service platform to make satellite resources more accessible for users.
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), the platform's designer, announced the news at the 5th China (International) Commercial Aerospace Forum in Wuhan.
A common satellite operating business focuses on satellites rather than services, which ma ... more |
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 Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 
The 38th ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-19) has adopted a new innovative milestone-based regulatory approach for the deployment of non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) satellites in specific bands and services.
The agreement reached at WRC-19 establishes regulatory procedures for the deployment of non-geostationary satellites, including mega-constellations in low-Earth or ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Nov 22, 2019 
India's ambition to soft-land on the Moon crash-landed when the Chandrayaan-2 failed to touch-down on the lunar surface as planned on 7 September. Its orbiter, however, continued to perform "as per the design providing valuable scientific data".
India's Federal Space Minister Dr Jitendra Singh admitted for the first time that the failure of the Chadrayaan-2 was due to a reduction in veloci ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
"They're out there," goes a saying about extraterrestrials. It would seem more likely to be true in light of a new study on planetary axis tilts. Astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology modeled a theoretical twin of Earth into other star systems called binary systems because they have two stars. They concluded that 87% of exo-Earths one might find in binary systems should have axi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2019 
Forty years ago, a Voyager spacecraft snapped the first closeup images of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. These revealed brownish cracks slicing the moon's icy surface, which give Europa the look of a veiny eyeball. Missions to the outer solar system in the decades since have amassed enough additional information about Europa to make it a high-priority target of investigation in NASA's search ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2019 
Earth's climate is changing, and the study of oceans is vital to understanding the effects of those changes on our future. For the first time, U.S and European agencies are preparing to launch a 10-year satellite mission to continue to study the clearest sign of global warming - rising sea levels. The Sentinel-6/Jason-CS mission (short for Jason-Continuity of Service), will be the longest-runnin ... 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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 Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 20, 2019  The South Pole-Aitken (SPA) is the largest and deepest basin on the Moon, theoretically opening a window into the lunar lower crust and likely into the upper mantle. However, compositional information of the SPA basin was mainly obtained from orbital remote sensing.
Chang'E-4 landed in the SPA Basin, providing a unique chance for in situ probing the composition of the lunar interior. The l ... more |
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 Portsmouth UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2019 
Wolfe Creek Crater, one of the world's largest meteorite craters, is much younger than previously thought.
Wolfe Creek Crater is situated on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in northern Western Australia. It is the second largest crater on Earth from which meteorite fragments have been recovered (the largest is Meteor Crater in Arizona).
It was likely formed by a meteor about 15 me ... more |
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 Bethesda MD (SPX) Nov 12, 2019 
The Earth's magnetic field, or geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from the Earth's interior out into space. This field interacts with the stream of charged particles emanating from the Sun, known as the solar wind.
This magnetic field is sustained by electric currents generated from the motion of convection currents of molten iron in the Earth's outer core. The convectio ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 18, 2019 
Several observatories, both on Earth's surface and in space, are dedicated to solving the mysteries of the sun's heating mechanisms.
One of them is the Big Bear Solar Observatory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and new observations by the observatory have offered fresh insights into source of extreme temperatures measured in the sun's upper atmosphere.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 
Gamma-ray bursts are the most energetic phenomenon known to humankind. Although short-lived, they outshine stars and even galactic quasars. They usually display energies in the region of tens of giga-electron-volts, but for the first time, researchers discovered a gamma-ray burst in the region of a tera-electron-volt. This level of energy has long been theorized, and this study demonstrates thes ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
They are reminiscent of the "tractor beam" in Star Trek: special light beams can be used to manipulate molecules or small biological particles. Even viruses or cells can be captured or moved. However, these optical tweezers only work with objects in empty space or in transparent liquids. Any disturbing environment would deflect the light waves and destroy the effect. This is a problem, in partic ... more |
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