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  New Delhi (Sputnik) Feb 17, 2017 ISRO has started a series of ground tests for testing the performance of sensors and actuators for soft landing of the Lander on the lunar surface. India Space Research Organization (ISRO) has selected Russian company JSC Isotope for supply of Radionuclide curium-244 (Cm-244) that enables sources to determine chemical composition of any rocks and soils. "Supplied by JSC Isotope sources will be installed on the Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer (APXS) aimed at analyzing the lunar surface within ... read more |
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Complete Lunar-cy: The Earth Has Sprayed the Moon With Oxygen for BillenniaThe Moon may be peppered with oxygen transmitted by life on Earth, according to a scientific study, opening up the possibility that the Earth's atmosphere of billions of years ago may be preserved o ... more 
Private Space Race Heats Up, Moon Landing Expected in Late 2017Moon Express, the first private company to receive government approval for a space mission, has announced an additional $20 million raised for a lunar voyage in late 2017. A front-runner to wi ... more 
LunaH-Map CubeSat to map the Moon's water depositsArizona State University (ASU) is developing a small satellite that will search hydrogen in lunar craters with the ultimate goal of creating the most detailed map of the moon's water deposits. The s ... more 
India, Israel among five teams fighting for first private Moon landingGoogle and nonprofit company X Prize announced Wednesday that out of 33 original teams, five have secured launch contracts to send spacecraft to the moon. Teams must launch their spacecraft no later ... more |
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China schedules Chang'e-5 lunar probe launchChina plans to launch the Chang'e-5 lunar probe at the end of November this year, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern China's Hainan Province, aboard the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long ... more 
The science behind the Lunar Hydrogen Polar Mapper missionArizona State University's NASA mission to visit a metal asteroid is just beginning, but the first mission that marked the school as a major player in space exploration has been under way for more t ... more 
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on moon, dead at 82US astronaut Eugene Cernan, the last man to set foot on the moon, died Monday at age 82, NASA and his family announced. ... more 
The moon is older than scientists thoughtA UCLA-led research team reports that the moon is at least 4.51 billion years old, or 40 million to 140 million years older than scientists previously thought. The findings - based on an analysis of ... more 
New map of the Moon under creation in ChinaChinese scientists are drawing a 1:2.5 million scale geological map of the Moon. Ouyang Ziyuan, first chief scientist of China's lunar exploration program, said five universities and research ... more 
How the Moons That Came Before Collided to Form the MoonThe Moon, and the question of how it was formed, has long been a source of fascination and wonder. Now, a team of Israeli researchers suggests that the Moon we see every night is not Earth's first m ... more |
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China plans probes to far side, poles of MoonChina is planning missions to explore the far side of the Moon and to send robots to explore both lunar poles. Plans to send astronauts to the Moon are also being discussed, according to Wu Ya ... more 
Lunar sonic boomsThe sonic boom created by an airplane comes from the craft's large, speeding body crashing into molecules in the air. But if you shrank the plane to the size of a molecule, would it still generate a ... more 
India Inc joins hands to bid for moon missionAn Indian aerospace start-ups's plans to send a mission to moon as part of the Google's Lunar XPRIZE challenge has received a major boost in funding from local corporate houses and entrepreneurs. A ... more 
TeamIndus signs contract with ISRO for lunar missionDomestic space technology startup TeamIndus on Thursday signed a first-of-its-kind contract with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to send a TeamIndus robot to the Moon. TeamIndus will l ... more |
  
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have discovered a patch of land in an ancient valley on Mars that appears to have been flooded by water in the not-too-distant past. In doing so, they have pinpointed a prime target to begin searching for past life forms on the Red Planet.
The findings have just been published in Geophysical Research Letters, by Dr Mary Bourke from Trinity, and her c ... more Scientists say Mars valley was flooded with water not long ago Opportunity leaving crater rim for the Plains of Meridiani Opportunity passes 44 kilometers of surface travel after 13 years |
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Newly released images showcase the incredible closeness with which NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now in its "Ring-Grazing" orbits phase, is observing Saturn's dazzling rings of icy debris.
The views are some of the closest-ever images of the outer parts of the main rings, giving scientists an eagerly awaited opportunity to observe features with names like "straw" and "propellers."
Altho ... more Cassini captures stunning view of Saturn moon Daphnis Catching Cassini's call Huygens: 'Ground Truth' From an Alien Moon |
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NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter, which has been in orbit around the gas giant since July 4, 2016, will remain in its current 53-day orbit for the remainder of the mission. This will allow Juno to accomplish its science goals, while avoiding the risk of a previously-planned engine firing that would have reduced the spacecraft's orbital period to 14 days.
"Juno is healthy, its science instrum ... more NASA receives science report on Europa lander concept New Horizons Refines Course for Next Flyby It's Never 'Groundhog Day' at Jupiter |
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ESA's involvement in the world of art is entering a new dimension, thanks to the cooperation with the Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, with the idea of making space activities as inclusive as possible for more of the public on Earth.
Michelangelo Pistoletto is acknowledged as one of the founding fathers of the Italian Arte Povera contemporary art movement and is widely regarded as o ... more Mystery surrounds return of Pentagon's secretive X-37B spaceplane Air Force doctor solves NASA's poop problem Cabbage Patch: 5th crop harvested aboard Space Station |
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Daniel Packwood, Junior Associate Professor at Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS), is improving methods for constructing tiny "nanomaterials" using a "bottom-up" approach called "molecular self-assembly". Using this method, molecules are chosen according to their ability to spontaneously interact and combine to form shapes with specific functions. In the f ... more Liquid metal nano printing set to revolutionize electronics Turning up the heat for perfect nano diamonds Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle |
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Following the successful launch of record number of satellite into the space, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully tested its largest cryogenic engine for a more than 10 minutes. The cryogenic stage designated as C25 was tested for a flight duration of 640 seconds at ISRO Propulsion Complex (IPRC) in Mahendragiri. C25 Stage had earlier been tested successfully for 50 second ... more SpaceX blasts off cargo from historic NASA launchpad The Unique Triumph of PSLV-C37 SpaceX aborts launch after 'odd' rocket engine behavior |
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China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.
The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... more Chinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in April China looks to Mars, Jupiter explorationChina's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
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Machines and devices used in modern industry are required to withstand harsh conditions. When the environmental temperature changes, the volume of the materials used to make these devices usually changes slightly, typically by less than 0.01%. Although this may seem like a trivial change, over time this thermal expansion can seriously degrade the performance of industrial systems and equipment. ... more ESA's six-legged Suntracker flying on a Dragon Sky and Space signs agreement with US Department of Defence Curtiss-Wright offers COTS Module for measuring microgravity acceleration |
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Although scientists have been able to levitate specific types of material, a pair of UChicago undergraduate physics students helped take the science to a new level. Third-year Frankie Fung and fourth-year Mykhaylo Usatyuk led a team of UChicago researchers who demonstrated how to levitate a variety of objects - ceramic and polyethylene spheres, glass bubbles, ice particles, lint strands and this ... more Increasing the sensitivity of next-generation gravitational wave detectors New laser technology from Hannover enables more sensitive gravitational-wave detectors Cosmologists a step closer to understanding quantum gravity |
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Scientists from MIPT, the University of Oxford, and the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences estimated the number of stars disrupted by solitary supermassive black holes in galactic centers formed due to mergers of galaxies containing supermassive black holes. The astrophysicists found out whether gravitational effects arising as two black holes draw closer to one anothe ... more Hubble sees spiral in Andromeda Why are there different 'flavors' of iron around the Solar System Scientists estimate solar nebula's lifetime |
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In the decade to come Russia will face strong competition from China for the commercial launch of satellites for developing countries, according to Ivan Moiseev, director of the Institute of Space Policy."China is trying to expand its space launching services, developing new boosters for different segments of the market," Moiseev told RIA Novosti.
"It has constructed a new spacecraft launc ... more Vega And Gokturk-1A are present for next Arianespace lightweight mission Antares Rides Again Four Galileo satellites are "topped off" for Arianespace's milestone Ariane 5 launch from the Spaceport |
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China plans to launch Shijian-13, its first high-throughput communications satellite, in April, the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) said Friday.
The 4.6-tonne satellite, with a message capacity of more than 20 GB, will be carried into orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket, according to the CAST.
An increase in satellite throughput will provide better access to the Internet ... moreChinese cargo spacecraft set for liftoff in AprilChina looks to Mars, Jupiter explorationChina's first cargo spacecraft to leave factory |
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Today, ground control in Belgium switched off a package that had been continuously watching the Sun from the International Space Station for nine years. 'Solar' has been measuring most of the radiation emitted by our closest star across the electromagnetic spectrum. Built to run for only 18 months, it was still working until today - exceeding all expectations.
Solar's observations are impr ... more What happened to the sun over 7,000 years ago? NASA Scientist Studies Whether Solar Storms Cause Animal Beachings Friday Night's Deep Penumbral Lunar Eclipse |
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Iridium Communications has announced it has received a targeted launch date of mid-June for the second mission of ten Iridium NEXT satellites. Originally anticipated for mid-April of 2017, the date has shifted due to a backlog in SpaceX's launch manifest as a result of last year's September 1st anomaly.
This second launch will deliver another ten Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth-orbit ... more Italy, Russia working closely on Mars exploration, Earth monitoring satellites NASA seeks partnerships with US companies to advance commercial space technologies A New Space Paradigm |
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently detected organic-rich areas on Ceres. Scientists evaluated the geology of the regions to conclude that the organics are most likely native to the dwarf planet. Data from the spacecraft suggest that the interior of Ceres is the source of these organic materials, as opposed to arriving via impacting asteroids or comets, according to a paper published in the Feb. 17, ... more Arecibo Observatory captures revealing images of Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova Minor planet named Bernard Asteroid resembles dungeons and dragons dice |
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The word 'replicant' evokes thoughts of a sci-fi world where society has replaced common creatures with artificial machines that replicate their behaviour. Now researchers from Singapore have shown that if such machines are ever created, they'll run more efficiently if they harness quantum theory to respond to the environment.
This follows the findings of a team from the Centre for Quantum ... more Scientists invent new, faster gait for six-legged robots Now you can 'build your own' bio-bot How algorithms secretly run the world |
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