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  Bonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Just a few weeks from now, the German Aerospace Center's HP3 Mole will start hammering its way automatically into the subsoil of the Red Planet to measure its inner heat. "By participating in the InSight mission, Germany is making a major contribution to expanding our knowledge of the Red Planet," emphasises Pascale Ehrenfreund, Chair of the DLR Executive Board. "The HP3 experiment is an innovation in the exploration of our neighbouring planet - both scientifically and technologically. It is ... read more |
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With InSight on Mars, Scientists Feel Earthly Relief, Get to WorkIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 After cruising for 205 days over 301 million miles, NASA's InSight spacecraft - a mission designed to probe beneath the surface of Mars - landed flawlessly Nov. 26 at Elysium Planitia. Cornell Unive ... more  
NASA Hears MarCO CubeSats Loud and Clear from MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 28, 2018 NASA's MarCO mission was built to see whether two experimental, briefcase-sized spacecraft could survive the trip to deep space, and the two CubeSats proved more than able. After cruising along behi ... more 
InSight unfolds to catch some solar rays on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 27, 2018 NASA's InSight has sent signals to Earth indicating that its solar panels are open and collecting sunlight on the Martian surface. NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter relayed the signals, which were receive ... more 
Mars InSight lands on Red PlanetPasadena, United States (AFP) Nov 26, 2018 Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture. ... more |
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Shaping the surface of Mars with water, wind and iceParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 ESA's Mars Express has imaged an intriguing part of the Red Planet's surface: a rocky, fragmented, furrowed escarpment lying at the boundary of the northern and southern hemisphere. This region is ... more 
ESA lends a hand at MarsParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 The Red Planet will receive its first new resident in six years on Monday when NASA's InSight lander touches down, aiming to investigate the Martian interior. ESA ground stations and orbiters are pl ... more  
Student-designed spacecraft could aid in the exploration of planets in our solar system and beyondDaytona Beach, FL (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 A self-directed spacecraft rotates on a platform inside a glass-enclosed test chamber in the Engineering Physics Propulsion Lab in the College of Arts and Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Unive ... more 
InSight Spacecraft on Course for Mars TouchdownPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2018 NASA's Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, the Monday after Th ... more 
NASA wants people on Mars within 25 yearsWashington (AFP) Nov 13, 2018 Deadly radiation from the cosmos, potential vision loss, and atrophying bones are just some of the challenges scientists must overcome before any future astronaut can set foot on Mars, experts and top NASA officials said Tuesday. ... more |
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 Anxiety at NASA as InSight spacecraft nears Red Planet 
Before Mars landing, a nail-biting 'six and a half minutes of terror'Tampa (AFP) Nov 24, 2018 A spacecraft that cost nearly a billion dollars is on course to make a perilous landing Monday on Mars, if it can survive a high-speed approach and the scorching heat of entering the Red Planet's atmosphere, a process NASA has nicknamed "six and a half minutes of terror." ... more  |
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NASA counts down to landing of Martian quake-sensor, InSightTampa (AFP) Nov 23, 2018 NASA is counting down to a nail-biting touchdown Monday of the $993 million Mars InSight, the first spacecraft to listen for quakes and study the inner workings of another rocky planet. ... more 
Mars Moon Got Its Grooves from Rolling StonesProvidence, RI (SPX) Nov 21, 2018 A new study bolsters the idea that strange grooves crisscrossing the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact. The research ... more 
What two planetary siblings can teach us about lifePasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2018 Mars and Earth are like two siblings who have grown apart. There was a time when their resemblance was uncanny: Both were warm, wet and shrouded in thick atmospheres. But 3 or 4 billion years ... more
HP3 mole onboard NASA's InSight mission soon to land on MarsBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 20, 2018 It will be the deepest hole ever hammered into another celestial body using manmade technology. During the NASA InSight mission, the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the Mole, which ... more 
How NASA will know when InSight touches down on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 19, 2018 What's the sound of a touchdown on Mars? If you're at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it sounds like winning the Super Bowl: cheers, laughter and lots of hollering. But in the minutes before ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2018 
Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation and NASA will work on the concept of a lunar orbital station that may be built with the fully-fledged participation of Russia, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
"Today NASA is highly interested in the full-fledged Russian participation [in development of a lunar station], and I hope that together we will shape the full architecture of ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea - small objects deep in our solar system - can be credited for forming and maintaining their own rings, according new research in Nature Astronomy.
"Rings appear around Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, but scientists found rings around Chariklo and Haumea within the last few years. C ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is now beginning its final approach to explore Ultima Thule - our first Kuiper Belt object (KBO) flyby target - about a billion miles beyond Pluto. And on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, New Horizons will swoop three times closer to "Ultima" than we flew past Pluto three years ago!
As someone who follows New Horizons, let your friends and socia ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff.
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Saturn's rings, passing comets, or co-orbital moons Helene and Po ... more |
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 Sapporo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
Organic compounds undergo drastic variations in their chemical composition as they transfer from the ocean's surface to atmospheric aerosols which act as nuclei to form clouds.
Aerosols, which are suspended fine solid particles or liquid droplets, play significant roles in triggering climate change by scattering or absorbing sunlight, while affecting the cloud formation and precipitation p ... more |
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 Houston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 
Analysis has shown that all five strains of the mysterious bacterium found on the space station belonged to one species, called Enterobacter bugandensis. They resembled the genomes that infected newborn babies on our planet, raising concerns that they could also threaten the astronauts' health.
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are coexisting with a colony of "space bugs" ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate models for the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.
The work also could help astronomers more effectively study planets around stars unlike our Sun, and better use the limited, expensive resou ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 23, 2018 
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Insitu $18 million for mid-endurance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance under the MEUAS 1.5B program.
The award is a modification to an existing contract that raises the ceiling of of the program to $250 million to prevent gaps in ISR services as they switch orders over to MEUAS III.
The ScanEagle is an unmanned aerial vehicl ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 26, 2018 
Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space.
"An instability is a physical process whereby the energy output can essentially grow very quickly without limits," Colin Forsyth, physicist at the University College London's, told UPI in an email.
When a clean swell breaks and crashes on the beach, or when a pile of sand sud ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
The Launch Readiness Review (LRR) will take place on Monday, December 3, 2018 in Kourou to authorize the start of operations for the final countdown.
To be installed as Ariane 5's upper passenger, GSAT-11 is an operational telecommunication satellite designed and manufactured by ISRO.
To be positioned at 74 degrees East, GSAT-11's ISRO's largest and heaviest communication satellite e ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 
In order to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of the dark Universe, ESA's pioneering Euclid mission will require state-of-the-art optics. The first optical element to be delivered, the telescope's primary mirror (M1), has arrived at the premises of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse.
Euclid's optical design is based on a Korsch-type telescope with an aperture ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
Everybody is familiar with granular clusters - while making a cake in the kitchen, you see that the flour forms clumps. Porous dust agglomerates - clumps of clumps of dust grains - are considered to be building materials in the formation of planets. But to reveal how planets are formed, the physical behaviour of these dust clumps has to be properly understood.
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 Porto, Portugal (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
They are massive, they are very small, and they are extremely rare, but may hold the secrets of how galaxies form and evolve. A new study[1] lifts the tip of the veil over the timid life of the massive ultra-compact galaxies. It was published on the 16th of November in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and was carried out by an international team led by Fernando Buitrago, of Instituto de As ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
A research team from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) has successfully developed a new method for machine learning that allows an AI to make classifications without what is known as "negative data," a finding which could lead to wider application to a variety of classification tasks.
Classifying things is critical for our daily lives. For example, we have to detect ... more |
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Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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