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  Washington (AFP) Jan 22, 2020 Tesla's market value hit $100 billion for the first time Wednesday, triggering a payout plan that could be worth billions for Elon Musk, founder and chief of the electric carmaker. Shares in Tesla rose some six percent in early trade to lift the value of the fast-growing maker of electric vehicles to around $105 billion. Under a compensation plan approved by Telsa's board in 2018, Musk is to be paid in stock awards based on the performance of the company - a payout which could be worth as much ... read more |
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We found the world's oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thawPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 The world's oldest remaining asteroid crater is at a place called Yarrabubba, southeast of the town of Meekatharra in Western Australia. Our new study puts a precise age on the cataclysmic imp ... more 
OSIRIS-REx completes closest flyover of sample site NightingaleGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activiti ... more  
First building blocks of life on Earth was a big messBoston MA (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 When the Earth was born, it was a mess. Meteors and lightning storms likely bombarded the planet's surface where nothing except lifeless chemicals could survive. How life formed in this chemical may ... more  
Indian astronauts to begin training in Russia for country's first manned space missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 India's space agency the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is gearing up for its week-long space mission worth $1.31 billion. Four astronauts have been shortlisted from the Indian Air Force ... more |
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BAE swoops for Raytheon, United assets amid mergerLondon (AFP) Jan 20, 2020 British defence company BAE Systems on Monday said it had agreed to buy key electronic systems from US peers Raytheon and United Technologies whose planned merger has necessitated asset sales. ... more 
NASA awards contract for intelligent systems researchMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 NASA has selected Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies, LLC, a KBRwyle business unit, of Greenbelt, Maryland, for a contract for intelligent systems research and development support services at the agenc ... more  
New SwRI models reveal inner complexity of Saturn moonSan Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 A Southwest Research Institute team developed a new geochemical model that reveals that carbon dioxide (CO2) from within Enceladus, an ocean-harboring moon of Saturn, may be controlled by chemical r ... more 
How the solar system got its 'Great Divide', and why it matters for life on EarthTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 Scientists from Japan and the USA have finally scaled the solar system's equivalent of the Rocky Mountain range. In a study published recently in Nature Astronomy, the researchers unveil the p ... more 
Astronomers find a way to form 'fast and furious' planets around tiny starsPreston UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought. As published in Astronomy and ... more |
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Webb telescope will continue Spitzer's legacyWashington DC (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 As one window to the universe closes, another will open with an even better view. Some of the same planets, stars and galaxies we first saw through the first window will appear in even sharper detai ... more  |
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North Korea says may seek 'new path' of weapons build-upGeneva (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 Pyongyang on Tuesday warned that it could seek a "new path" and accelerate its weapons programme, after Washington imposed fresh sanctions on North Korean companies amid stalled nuclear talks. ... more  
Budget battle hampers EU in spaceBrussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 Space is becoming increasingly militarised and European satellites are under-protected, experts warned Tuesday, voicing dismay at cuts proposed in the EU's draft budget. ... more 
Outbound comets are likely of alien originTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 Astronomers at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have analyzed the paths of two objects heading out of the Solar System forever and determined that they also most likely originat ... more  
EU announces funding for Ariane 6 and other space-techParis (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 The European Union on Tuesday announced 200 million euros ($222 million) of funding for the Ariane 6 rocket launcher and for small and medium-sized space technology companies. ... more  
China's space station core module, manned spacecraft arrive at launch siteWenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rai ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 23, 2020 
India's space agency the ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) is gearing up for its week-long space mission worth $1.31 billion. Four astronauts have been shortlisted from the Indian Air Force after a series of tests conducted in India and Russia.
ISRO Chief K. Sivan said on Wednesday that four shortlisted astronauts would be sent to Russia for an 11-month training program by the end ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Jan 17, 2020 
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $31.9 million contract for the Operational Fires (OpFires) Phase 3 Weapon System Integration program. OpFires seeks to develop and demonstrate an innovative ground-launched system to enable a hypersonic boost glide missile system to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly engage time-sensitive tar ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2020 
Members of the public have an opportunity to vote for their favorite name for NASA's next Mars rover. The nine candidate names were made possible by the "Name the Rover" essay contest, which invited students in kindergarten through 12th grade from across the United States to come up with a fitting name for NASA's Mars 2020 rover (https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020) and write a short essay about it. ... more |
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 Wenchang (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A core module prototype of China's space station and a prototype of China's new-generation manned spacecraft arrived at the launch site in south China's Hainan Province after a week of ocean and rail transport, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) announced Monday.
The core module will take part in joint rehearsals with the Long March-5B carrier rocket at the Wenchang Space La ... more |
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 Brussels (AFP) Jan 21, 2020 
Space is becoming increasingly militarised and European satellites are under-protected, experts warned Tuesday, voicing dismay at cuts proposed in the EU's draft budget.
"The rise in geopolitical tensions we see on Earth is being extended and projected into space," EU diplomatic chief Josep Borrell told the 12th European Space Conference, which groups policymakers, industry and researchers. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2020 
Scientists had expected the levels of HFC-23, a type of hydrofluorocarbon and a potent greenhouse gas, to drop in the latest global survey of greenhouse gas emissions. Instead, atmospheric concentrations of HFC-23 are rising.
HFC-23 is the byproduct of the production of HCFC-22, another hydrofluorocarbon that is commonly used in cooling systems in developing economies. India and China a ... more |
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 Preston UK (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
New astronomy research from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) suggests giant planets could form around small stars much faster than previously thought.
As published in Astronomy and Astrophysics Journal, Dr Anthony Mercer and Dr Dimitris Stamatellos' new planet formation research challenges our understanding of planet formation.
Red dwarfs, the most common type of stars in ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 06, 2020 
Safe to say, 2020 came in more quietly for many members of the New Horizons mission team than did 2019.
A year ago, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past the Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 (now known as Arrokoth) in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in an era of exploration of the enigmatic Kuiper Belt, a region of primordial objects that holds keys to understanding the origins ... more |
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 Miami Beach, United States (AFP) Jan 17, 2020 
Dozens of trucks have started dumping hundreds of thousands of tons of sand on Miami Beach as part of US government measures to protect Florida's tourist destinations against the effects of climate change.
"We have erosion hotspots," said Stephen Leatherman, an expert on beaches and the environment at Florida International University.
"When the beach is critically narrow, there's not en ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 22, 2020 
A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature.
The peer-reviewed academic journal "Satellite Navigation" is online in an open-access format, according to the joint sponsor Aerospace Information Research Institute of the CAS Tuesday.
The journal aims to report ne ... more |
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 Noordwijk, The Netherlands (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
"Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant," Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whos ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 23, 2020 
Preliminary results indicate that NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully executed a 0.4-mile (620-m) flyover of site Nightingale yesterday as part of the mission's Reconnaissance B phase activities. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater high in asteroid Bennu's northern hemisphere.
To perform the pass, the spacecraft left its 0.75-mile (1.2 ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 17, 2020 
China's first civilian high-definition mapping satellite Ziyuan III 01 has celebrated its 8th birthday in orbit.
Despite its five-year design life, it continues to collect data, the Ministry of Natural Resources said Wednesday.
Since it was launched in January 2012, the satellite has sent back 3D data covering 79 million square kilometers of the globe as of Dec. 31, 2019.
It ha ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 22, 2020 
Today, the Solar Orbiter control team is simulating launch for the penultimate time, before the Sun-seeking spacecraft lifts-off for real.
After months of nerve-wracking simulation training, which has seen the control team play out a range of scenarios where something goes wrong, mission control is almost "green for launch".
On 6 February (CET), Solar Orbiter will begin its loopy jou ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 
An international research team with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) participating has detected a propagating heat wave near a massive protostar. It confirms the scenario that such objects grow in bursts. This wave became visible by observing naturally generated microwave lasers, whose spatial arrangement changed unexpectedly rapid.
Although the basic principles of star format ... more |
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 Bozeman MT (SPX) Jan 22, 2020 
A new search led by Montana State University has revealed more than a dozen massive black holes in dwarf galaxies that were previously considered too small to host them, and surprised scientists with their location within the galaxies.
The study, headed by MSU astrophysicist Amy Reines, searched 111 dwarf galaxies within a billion light years of Earth using the National Science Foundation' ... more |
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