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  Washington DC (UPI) Nov 26, 2019 Can shrinking satellites grow planetary science? NASA thinks so. With a handful of CubeSat and small satellite science and space exploration missions already under its belt - a couple even successfully having made the trip to Mars - NASA is enlisting several new small satellites to study the moon. Often, rockets carrying larger payloads into space aren't at maximum capacity. Until fairly recently, that extra capacity went wasted. But over the last two decades, engineers and scientists have been ab ... read more |
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NASA Shares Mid-Sized Robotic Lunar Lander Concept with IndustryHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 As NASA presses forward with the agency's mission to the Moon, Mars and beyond, the development of top-tier technology is critical to success. With emphasis on lunar exploration and scientific inves ... more  
Lacuna Space and Miromico announce collaborationHarwell UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 Lacuna Space, a provider for connectivity everywhere, and Miromico, a global leader for the design and production of wireless products for the Internet of Things (IoT), have signed a collaboration a ... more  
Reports of Jupiter's Great Red Spot demise greatly exaggeratedSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with photographic evidence from the last decade. However, researchers said there is no evidence the vortex itsel ... more  
ESA see-through security in worldwide serviceParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2019 The odds are high that you have already interacted with one of ESA's most-far-reaching inventions without realising it. Terahertz security cameras - currently employed in 18 countries including many ... more |
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Hi Honey! NASA's Second Astrobee Wakes Up in SpaceMoffett Field CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano performed initial tests of the second Astrobee robot, named Honey, aboard the International Space Station. Astrobee is a free-flying robot system that ... more  
ESA helps to make urban life smarterParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2019 How space can boost smart city life was highlighted at two international conferences held last week. Some 25 000 people from 700 cities in 140 countries attended the events, where ESA showcase ... more  
Aquatic microorganisms offer important window on the history of lifeTempe AZ (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 The air, earth and water of our planet are pulsating with living things. Yet, a vast and diverse web of life exists, about which almost nothing is known. This is the world of flagellates, tiny organ ... more 
NUS researchers create new metallic material for flexible soft robotsSingapore (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 'Origami robots' are state-of-the-art soft and flexible robots that are being tested for use in various applications including drug delivery in human bodies, search and rescue missions in disaster e ... more 
Light-trapping nanocubes drive inexpensive multispectral cameraDurham NC (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 Researchers at Duke University have demonstrated photodetectors that could span an unprecedented range of light frequencies by using on-chip spectral filters created by tailored electromagnetic mate ... more |
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 Carbon soccer ball with extra proton probably most abundant form in space  
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere hit new high in 2018: UNGeneva (AFP) Nov 25, 2019 Greenhouse gases levels in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, hit a record high last year, the UN said Monday, calling for action to safeguard "the future welfare of mankind". ... more  |
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UAE eyes new frontiers with law to regulate space tourism, miningDubai (AFP) Nov 24, 2019 The United Arab Emirates, which sent its first astronaut into space this year and has plans to launch a probe to Mars, is looking at other new frontiers - space tourism and mining. ... more 
Boeing CST-100 Starliner takes next step for orbital flight testKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 25, 2019 The Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft that will launch to the International Space Station on the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has taken a signifi ... more  
A new paradigm of black hole physics leads to a new quantumPescara, Italy (SPX) Nov 25, 2019 A change of paradigm in black hole physics, leading to new perspectives in the role of the quantum in fundamental laws of physics, is finally reaching its most cogent confirmation by the introductio ... more  
Russia opens new fraud cases over cosmodromeMoscow (AFP) Nov 21, 2019 Russian investigators said Thursday they had opened two new fraud probes over the construction of a corruption-tainted space centre in the country's Far East. ... more 
Israel's next attempt at lunar lander within 3 years says SpaceIL founderMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 25, 2019 Although Israel's first privately funded mission to the Moon crashed on the lunar surface in April, Kfir Damari, co-founder of SpaceIL, a startup that developed the spacecraft, isn't giving up. Work ... 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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 Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2019 
How space can boost smart city life was highlighted at two international conferences held last week.
Some 25 000 people from 700 cities in 140 countries attended the events, where ESA showcased the work of dozens of the companies it is working with on smart city projects.
Online shoppers could take delivery of their groceries and other goods via clean and efficient driverless cars th ... 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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 Ames IA (SPX) Nov 20, 2019 
NASA's planet-hunting TESS Mission keeps giving astronomers new realities to examine and explain.
Case in point: astronomers using the tools of asteroseismology - the observations and measurements of a star's oscillations, or starquakes, that appear as changes in brightness - have learned more about two stars bright enough to be visible in a dark sky to the naked eye. These red-giant stars ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2019 
The shrinking of the clouds of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter has been well documented with photographic evidence from the last decade. However, researchers said there is no evidence the vortex itself has changed in size or intensity.
Philip Marcus, from the University of California, Berkeley, will explain why the pictures from astronomers, both professionals and amateur, are not telling th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 25, 2019 
Marine ecosystems are being reshaped by rising ocean water temperatures, according to a new study.
For the new research, scientists analyzed millions of records on thousands of species living in 200 different ecological communities. The effort was the largest yet to examine the effects of rising water temperatures on the mix of species living in the ocean.
The data showed the mix ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 
China launched two satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 8:55 a.m. Saturday.
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket and the Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-1) upper stage attached to the carrier rocket, the two satellites have entered their planned orbits. They are the 50th and 51st satellites of th ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2019 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 12th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night.
The lander woke up at 5:03 p.m. Thursday (Beijing Time), and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 0:51 a.m. the same day. Both are in normal working order, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the ... 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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 Geneva (AFP) Nov 25, 2019 
Greenhouse gases levels in the atmosphere, the main driver of climate change, hit a record high last year, the UN said Monday, calling for action to safeguard "the future welfare of mankind".
"There is no sign of a slowdown, let alone a decline, in greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere despite all the commitments under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change," the head of the World Me ... 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.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 21, 2019 
A pair of distant explosions discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have produced the highest-energy light yet seen from these events, called gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The record-setting detections, made by two different ground-based observatories, provide new insights into the mechanisms driving gamma-ray bursts.
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 Pescara, Italy (SPX) Nov 25, 2019 
A change of paradigm in black hole physics, leading to new perspectives in the role of the quantum in fundamental laws of physics, is finally reaching its most cogent confirmation by the introduction of the "inner engine" originating the GeV emission of GRB 130427A. This is explained in the new article, published 22 November 2019 in The Astrophysical Journal, co-authored by R. Ruffini, R. Moradi ... more |
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