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April 19, 2023
STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Will the Earth last forever



Knoxville TN (SPX) Apr 18, 2023
Everything that has a beginning has an end. But the Earth will last for a very long time, and its end will come billions of years after anyone who is alive here now is gone. Before we talk about the future of our planet, let's review its history and when life appeared on it. The history of human beings is very, very short compared with that of Earth. b>4 billion years old br> /b> Our planet formed from a giant cloud of gas and dust in space, which is called a nebula, about 4.6 billion year ... read more

ROCKET SCIENCE
Rocket Lab introduces suborbital testbed rocket, selected for hypersonic test flights
Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Rocket Lab USA, Inc (Nasdaq: RKLB) has formally introduced the HASTE rocket (Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron), a suborbital testbed launch vehicle derived from Rocket Lab's heritage ... more
EARLY EARTH
How did Earth get its water
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Our planet's water could have originated from interactions between the hydrogen-rich atmospheres and magma oceans of the planetary embryos that comprised Earth's formative years, according to new wo ... more
MARSDAILY
Clouds Above, Contact Science Below: Sols 3800-3802
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 18, 2023
Here in Toronto, the weather feels like summer. But in Gale Crater it's coming towards the end of Autumn. At this time of year, we enter Aphelion Cloud Belt season, when we see regular formation of ... more
TECH SPACE
NASA satellite's elusive green lasers spotted at work
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
The green light streaking across the cloudy sky was something that Daichi Fujii had never seen before. The museum curator's motion-detecting cameras were set up near Japan's Mount Fuji to capture me ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS
India approves construction of its own LIGO
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
The Indian government has granted the final approvals necessary for construction to begin on LIGO-India, a nearly identical version of the twin LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observat ... more
SPACEWAR
Space Force "Simple Formula to Go Fast in Space Acquisition"
Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Honorable Frank Calvelli, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Space Acquisition and Integration, released a memorandum April 5, outlining the U.S. Space Force's plan to transform its architectu ... more
TECH SPACE
SwRI joins new NASA institute to qualify, certify additive manufacturing methods
San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Southwest Research Institute will contribute to a new NASA institute to improve understanding and enable rapid certification of metal parts created using advanced additive manufacturing (AM) techniq ... more
ROBO SPACE
Musk says he is out to create 'truth-seeking' AI
San Francisco (AFP) April 18, 2023
Elon Musk is out to counter Microsoft and Google artificial intelligence efforts with "truth-seeking AI" that shuns political correctness, he said during an interview aired late Monday. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Russian cosmonauts take spacewalk outside of ISS
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 18, 2023
Two Russian cosmonauts are conducting a more than six-hour spacewalk Tuesday night outside the International Space Station in their third attempt to move a radiator and an experiment module. ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Mission Ax-2 set to launch stem cells to space
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Cedars-Sinai investigators, in collaboration with Axiom Space of Houston, are sending stem cells to space in early May to explore whether microgravity can make it easier and more efficient to produc ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Stuttgart students launch self-built rocket into space
Stuttgart, Germany (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
The Hybrid Engine Development (HyEnD) student team at the University of Stuttgart spent around three years developing, manufacturing, and testing its hybrid rocket. In mid-April, the rocket will be ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Calnetix Technologies' high-speed blower system installed on ISS
Cerritos CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Calnetix Technologies has announced that their Four Bed Carbon Dioxide Scrubber (FBCO2) high-speed blower system was successfully installed by NASA on the International Space Station (ISS). The magn ... more

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MARSDAILY
Curiosity gets a major software upgrade
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 19, 2023
Years in the making, a major software update that has been installed on NASA's Curiosity rover will enable the Mars robot to drive faster and reduce wear and tear on its wheels. Those are just two o ... more
TECH SPACE
Viasat real-time Earth antennas integrated on Microsoft Azure Orbital
Carlsbad CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, has announced through a collaboration with Microsoft Azure Orbital, the global Viasat Real-Time Earth (RTE) ground service is now accessi ... more
MICROSAT BLITZ
Blue Canyon Technologies to provide microsatellites for INCUS Mission to JPL
Lafayette CO (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Small satellite manufacturer and mission services provider Blue Canyon Technologies, a Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) subsidiary, will design and manufacture three microsatellites to support NASA ... more
SPACEWAR
Millennium Space Systems' Tetra-1 is mission ready
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Since launching Tetra-1 November 1, 2022, Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing (NYSE: BA) company partnered with the U.S. Space Force's Space Systems Command successfully deployed the vehicle from its ... more
AEROSPACE
X-59 gets its tail in Quesst for super quiet super fast planes
Palmdale CA (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
NASA's X-59 has undergone final installation of its lower empennage, better known as the tail assembly. This series of images was taken at Lockheed Martin Skunk Works in Palmdale, California. ... more
EARTH OBSERVATION
Metaspectral to bring SkyFi satellite imagery to its Fusion Platform
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
Metaspectral, a remote sensing software company advancing computer vision using deep learning and hyperspectral imagery, has executed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") with SkyFi, a company providing on-de ... more
CARBON WORLDS
Wonder material graphene claims yet another superlative
Manchester UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2023
In a paper published in Nature this week (13 Apr 2023), researchers from The University of Manchester report record-high magnetoresistance that appears in graphene under ambient conditions. Material ... more
ROCKET SCIENCE
Elon Musk forms X.AI artificial intelligence company
San Francisco (AFP) April 15, 2023
Elon Musk has formed an X.AI artificial intelligence corporation based in the US state of Nevada, according to business documents that surfaced on Friday. ... more

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