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  Miami (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 SpaceX is poised for the first test launch Tuesday of its Falcon Heavy, which aims to become the world's most powerful rocket in operation, capable of ferrying people to the Moon or Mars some day. The launch is the most ambitious yet for SpaceX, and has been hailed by industry experts as a game-changer because of its potential to propel the California-based company to the front of the modern day space race. "NASA may decide to use it (the Falcon Heavy) as a way of fast-tracking its plans to get ... read more |
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Opportunity Celebrates 14 Years of Working on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 05, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. Continuing the exten ... more 
Mount Sharp 'Photobombs' Mars Curiosity RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 02, 2018 A new self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle on Vera Rubin Ridge, which it has been investigating for the past several months. Directly behind the rover is the start of a cla ... more 
A vista from Mars rover looks back over journey so farPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings. ... more 
NASA tests power system to support manned missions to MarsWashington DC (VOA) Jan 30, 2018 United States government agencies say the first tests of a very small nuclear power system designed for missions to Mars have been successful. The American space agency NASA and the Department ... more |
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Opportunity gets dust cleaning and passes 45 kilometers of drivingPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 23, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has moved along the north fork of the local flow channel. However, befo ... more 
Mystery Solved for Mega-Avalanches in Tibet - and Perhaps on MarsTucson Az (SPX) Jan 24, 2018 An international scientific effort determined the cause of a highly unusual and deadly glacier avalanche in Tibet in 2016, a new Nature Geoscience paper says. In July 2016, a glacier in Tibet ... more 
Crater Neukum named after Mars Express founderParis (ESA) Jan 19, 2018 A fascinating martian crater has been chosen to honour the German physicist and planetary scientist, Gerhard Neukum, one of the founders of ESA's Mars Express mission. The International Astron ... more 
Next Mars Analog mission will help improve efficiency and reduce dust exposureDaytona Beach, FL (SPX) Jan 18, 2018 As NASA and others look to return humans to the Moon for longer durations, lunar dust remains an industry concern. Apollo mission crew members described the dust as similar to sandpaper, havin ... more 
New technique for finding life on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 Researchers demonstrate for the first time the potential of existing technology to directly detect and characterize life on Mars and other planets. The study, published in Frontiers in Microbiology, ... more |
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Opportunity takes right at the fork and has successful battery testPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2018 Opportunity is continuing her winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned upstream of a fork in the flow channels. After some deliberatio ... more  |
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Possible Lava Tube Skylights Discovered Near the North Pole of the MoonMountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes ... more 
Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried IcePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 11, 2018 Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes. These eight scarps, ... more 
Scientist's work may provide answer to Martian mountain mysteryDallas TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2018 By seeing which way the wind blows, a University of Texas at Dallas fluid dynamics expert has helped propose a solution to a Martian mountain mystery. Dr. William Anderson, an assistant professor of ... more 
Exploring alien worlds with lasersParis (ESA) Jan 11, 2018 In everyday life we look and touch things to find out what they are made of. A powerful scientific technique does the same using lasers - and in two years' time it will fly in space for the first ti ... more 
Our rover could discover life on Mars - here's what it would take to prove itSt Andrews UK (SPX) Jan 09, 2018 Finding past or present microbial life on Mars would without doubt be one of the greatest scientific discoveries of all time. And in just two years' time, there's a big opportunity to do so, with tw ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jan 25, 2018 
Imagine sending a spacecraft the size of an airline cabin bag to the Moon - what would you have it do? ESA issued that challenge to European teams last year, and two winners have now been chosen.
The Lunar Meteoroid Impact Orbiter, or Lumio for short, would circle over the far side of the Moon to detect bright impact flashes during the lunar night, mapping meteoroid bombardments as they oc ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Feb 06, 2018 
China's first shared education satellite, Young Pioneer 1, carried by the Long March-2D rocket, was launched into space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday afternoon.
The 3-kg CubeSat (100 * 100 * 340mm), Young Pioneer 1, enters an orbit of 502 km above the Earth. The rocket also carried Zhangheng 1, an electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake data, and five other miniaturized ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated.
Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.
Nelson was the lead author of a laboratory study of the photopolarimetric properties of bright particles that explain unusual negative polarization behavior at low phase angles observed for decades in association wi ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 31, 2018 
A bread loaf-sized satellite has produced the world's first map of the global distribution of atmospheric ice in the 883-Gigahertz band, an important frequency in the submillimeter wavelength for studying cloud ice and its effect on Earth's climate.
IceCube - the diminutive spacecraft that deployed from the International Space Station in May 2017- has demonstrated-in-space a commercial 883 ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 
A pair of Russian cosmonauts didn't set out to break the record for longest Russian spacewalk, but what seemed like a relatively straight forward mission turned out to be surprisingly complicated.
Expedition commander Alexander Misurkin and flight engineer Anton Shkaplerov spent 8 hours and 13 minutes outside the International Space Station, a record in Russian space history. In 2013, a ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Unlike the Milky Way, this semi-spiral collection of a few tens-of-billions of stars lacks our galaxy's rich abundance of heavy elements, like carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen. With such a dearth of heavy elements, astronomers predict that the LMC should contain a comparatively paltry amount of complex carbon-based molecules. Previous observations of the LMC seem to support that view.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2018 
The U.S. Air Force has awarded L-3 Link Simulation & Training an $8.2 million contract for retrofits on the Predator Mission Aircrew Training System simulators.
The new award, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is a modification to a previous contract, which is now valued at $120,753,92.
The modified contract is for 40 retrofit communications kits and simulator seats ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the biggest explosions in our solar system). The data on so-called "magnetic reconnection" came from a quartet of new spacecraft that measure radiation and magnetic fields in high Earth orbit.
"We're lo ... more |
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 Miami (AFP) Feb 5, 2018 
SpaceX is poised for the first test launch Tuesday of its Falcon Heavy, which aims to become the world's most powerful rocket in operation, capable of ferrying people to the Moon or Mars some day.
The launch is the most ambitious yet for SpaceX, and has been hailed by industry experts as a game-changer because of its potential to propel the California-based company to the front of the modern ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will soon be on the move, and in order to find it, you will need to follow the STTARS.
Webb telescope, or Webb, is NASA's upcoming infrared space observatory, which is scheduled to launch in 2019. Transporting something as large and as delicate as Webb is no easy task. Enter the Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road and Sea - or STTARS - a specially en ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover and from the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universitat Hannover has developed an advanced squeezed-light source for the gravitational-wave detector Virgo near Pisa.
Now, the Hannover scientists have delivered the setup, installed it, and handed it over ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
The existence of large numbers of molecules in winds powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has puzzled astronomers since they were discovered more than a decade ago. Molecules trace the coldest parts of space, and black holes are the most energetic phenomena in the universe, so finding molecules in black hole winds was like discovering ice in a furnace.
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
Computers can beat chess champions, simulate star explosions, and forecast global climate. We are even teaching them to be infallible problem-solvers and fast learners. And now, physicists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and their collaborators have demonstrated that computers are ready to tackle the universe's greatest mysteries. The team fed t ... more |
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Jiuquan (XNA) Feb 06, 2018
China's first shared education satellite, Young Pioneer 1, carried by the Long March-2D rocket, was launched into space from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday afternoon.
The 3-kg CubeSat (100 * 100 * 340mm), Young Pioneer 1, enters an orbit of 502 km above the Earth. The rocket also carried Zhangheng 1, an electromagnetic satellite to study earthquake data, and five other miniaturized ... more |
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