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NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee. As LRO crossed the lunar south pole heading north at 3,579 mph (1,600 meters per second), the shadow of the Moon was racing across the United States at 1,500 mph (670 meters per second). A few minutes later, LRO began a slow 180-degree turn to look back at Earth, capturing an image ... read more |
Granting weightless wishesParis (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights. Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, ... more
Moon presses Putin over North Korea oil suppliesVladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 6, 2017 South Korean President Moon Jae-In urged Russia on Wednesday to cooperate over cutting oil supplies to North Korea but President Vladimir Putin appeared to pour cold water on the idea. ... more
Trump, Moon agree to end limits on payload of S. Korean missilesSeoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 US President Donald Trump and South Korea's leader Moon Jae-In agreed Monday to remove limits on the payload of the South's missiles, Seoul's presidential office said, as the UN Security Council met to discuss a response to Pyongyang's sixth and most powerful nuclear test. ... more
China, Russia to Have Smooth Space Cooperation, Says ExpertWashington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN rep ... more |
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Trump's turn on S.Korea risks alliance: analystsSeoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 Donald Trump is playing into North Korea's hands by turning on the South, accusing it of appeasement, snubbing its leader and threatening to end their trade deal in moves that analysts say risk weakening a decades-long alliance. ... more
S. Korea seeks rare talks with North to ease military tensionsSeoul (AFP) July 17, 2017 South Korea on Monday offered to hold rare military talks with North Korea, aiming to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. ... more
Trump's turn on S. Korea risks alliance: analystsSeoul (AFP) Sept 4, 2017 Donald Trump is playing into North Korea's hands by turning on the South, accusing it of appeasement, snubbing its leader and threatening to end their trade deal in moves that analysts say risk weakening a decades-long alliance. ... more
Trump, Moon agree to boost S.Korean missile capabilitiesWashington (AFP) Sept 2, 2017 The United States and South Korea agreed Friday to strengthen Seoul's defenses and Washington gave a nod to billions in arms sales to the country, the White House said, days after North Korea fired a missile over Japan and threatened further launches. ... more
Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space ExplorationMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017 Beijing and Moscow may sign an agreement this October on joint space exploration, to be carried out in 2018-2022, Chinese media reported. The deal would cover five areas, including lunar and d ... more
Lockheed Martin Powers-up Next Orion Spacecraft for First TimeDenver CA (SPX) Aug 24, 2017 Engineers at Lockheed Martin and NASA breathed life into the next Orion crew module when they powered up the spacecraft for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Designed for human sp ... more |
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US-South joint drills begin amid North Korea tensionsSeoul (AFP) Aug 21, 2017 Seoul and Washington began annual war games on Monday, with South Korean President Moon Jae-In warning the nuclear-armed North not to use them as an excuse to perpetuate the "vicious cycle" of tensions. ... more
Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is drySan Diego CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2017 The moon is likely very dry in its interior according to a new study from researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, published August 21, 2017 in t ... more
Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration ProjectMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 21, 2017 Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation on Friday said it approved a model of the Luna-25 space station created as part of the development project Luna-Glob Moon exploration program with the star ... more
System tests prepare Orion for deep space explorationKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 Hurtling beyond the Moon at a speedy 25,000 mph for a three-week mission requires a space processor capable of operating with guaranteed reliability, in a high radiation environment tens of thousand ... more |
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Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017
Life on Mars may still be light years away - but it clearly hasn't stopped us from thinking ahead. Next year six space-suited and booted astronauts will head to the Dhofar desert in Oman in an attempt to simulate what life will be like on Mars.
According to scientists, the Dhofar desert is possibly the most realistic place on Earth that is as harsh and uninviting as the landscape of Mars. ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winter Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2017Citizen scientists spot Martian 'spiders' in unexpected places Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017For Moratorium on Sending Commands to Mars, Blame the Sun |
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2017
The heavens often seem vast and unchanging as seen from Earth, but movement in the skies is the norm. The relative motions of both Cassini and Enceladus over a 15-minute period create the movement seen in this movie sequence.
Cassini has monitored Enceladus (313 miles or 504 kilometers across) with a particular interest in the plumes and the geology of the south polar region for many years ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 30, 2017Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2017NASA Announces Cassini End-of-Mission Activities Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017Cassini to begin final five orbits around Saturn |
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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017
NASA's Juno spacecraft will make its seventh science flyby over Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops on Friday, Sept. 1, at 2:49 p.m. PDT (5:49 p.m. EDT and 21:49 UTC). At the time of perijove (defined as the point in Juno's orbit when it is closest to the planet's center), the spacecraft will be about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) above the planet's cloud tops.
Juno launched on Aug. 5, 2011, ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby Cincinnati, OH (SPX) Sep 04, 2017To Pluto and beyond Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 17, 2017New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains |
Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017 Berlin's IFA technology fair, Europe's largest and a bellwether for the Christmas season, draws to a close Wednesday. Here is a quick overview of what's hot and what's not in the aisles.
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- Tablets: the fever that greeted Apple's launch of the iPad in 2010 has long dissipated. Smartphones boast increasingly large screens and high performance in a handier package than the no ... more Miami (AFP) Sept 5, 2017'Star Trek' actor Shatner sends message to Voyager Paris (ESA) Sep 05, 2017ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricane Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2017Record-breaking NASA astronaut comes back to Earth |
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Eindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 28, 2017
In Nature an international team of researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology, Delft University of Technology and the University of California - Santa Barbara presents an advanced quantum chip that will be able to provide definitive proof of the mysterious Majorana particles. These particles, first demonstrated in 2012, are their own antiparticle at one and the same time. The chip, whic ... more Amherst MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017UMass Amherst environmental chemist flashes warning light on new nanoparticle Bethlehem PA (SPX) Aug 28, 2017A more complete picture of the nano world Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2017What the world's tiniest 'monster truck' reveals |
Cayenne (AFP) Sept 6, 2017
An Ariane 5 rocket carrying two commercial satellites aborted its launch in the final countdown as the main engine was being ignited for lift-off Tuesday from the Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.
"In the last seconds of Ariane Flight VA239 launch countdown as the Vulcain cryogenic main stage engine was being ignited, the checkout process detected an anomaly on the launcher, interrupting ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017Pentagon Will Have to Rely on Russian Rocket Engines Until Mid-2020s Stennis Space Center MS (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire Washington DC (UPI) Sep 4, 2017SpaceX tests first stage of 'world's most powerful rocket' |
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Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
Halle, Germany (SPX) Sep 04, 2017
Today's world, rapidly changing because of "big data", is encapsulated in trillions of tiny magnetic objects - magnetic bits - each of which stores one bit of data in magnetic disk drives. A group of scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Halle and Dresden have discovered a new kind of magnetic nano-object in a novel material that could serve as a magnetic bit with cloaking properties to m ... more Menlo Park CA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Artificial intelligence analyzes gravitational lenses 10 million times faster Tallahassee FL (SPX) Aug 28, 2017National Maglab achieves new world record with strongest resistive magnet Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Van Allen probes survive extreme radiation five years on |
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Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017
ESA this week helped to provide children with disabilities the opportunity to experience weightlessness and lunar gravity on aircraft flights.
Eight children from five ESA member states - UK, France, Germany, Belgium, and Italy -boarded the converted Airbus A310 in Bordeaux, France on 24 August as part of the Kid's Weightless Dreams campaign organised by Novespace and Reves de Gosse.
... more Bozeman MT (SPX) Jul 26, 2017MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe Hull UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation Warwick UK (SPX) Jul 07, 2017Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched |
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017
With the help of a gigantic cosmic lens, astronomers have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy nearly five billion light-years away. The achievement is giving them important new clues about a problem at the frontiers of cosmology - the nature and origin of the magnetic fields that play an important role in how galaxies develop over time.
The scientists used the National Science Foundati ... more Madison WI (SPX) Aug 31, 2017Magnetic fields in distant galaxy are new piece of cosmic puzzle Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 29, 2017Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel Munich, Germany (SPX) Aug 31, 2017ALMA finds huge hidden reservoirs of turbulent gas in distant galaxies |
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Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017
China and Russia plan to sign an agreement in October on joint space exploration from 2018 and 2022, which would benefit both nations particularly in manned and future missions to the moon, CGTN reported on Monday.
The bilateral agreement will cover five areas including lunar to deep space exploration, special materials development, collaborations in the area of satellite systems, Earth re ... more Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2017Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2017Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017
During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon's shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee.
As LRO crossed the lunar south pole heading north at 3,579 mph (1,600 meters per second), the shadow of the Moon was racing across the United States at 1,500 mph (670 meters per ... more Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month Joint Base Charleston SC (AFNS) Aug 28, 2017Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 17, 2017NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space |
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017
ASTROSCALE completed a Series C round and raised $53 million in total to date. Private companies, ANA Holdings Inc. (ANA - parent company of ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS Co., Ltd.) and OSG Corporation, join recurring venture capital investors (Innovation Network Corporation of Japan, JAFCO Co., Ltd., and Mitsubishi UFJ Capital) alongside new financier aSTART Co., Ltd.
The successful completion of Se ... more Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Bids for government funding prove strong interest in LaunchUK San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 14, 2017Blue Sky Network Reaffirms Commitment to Brazilian Market |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017
NASA's asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security - Regolith Explorer), will pass about 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) above Earth just before 12:52 p.m. EDT on Friday, Sept. 22. Using Earth as a slingshot, the spacecraft will receive an assist to complete its journey to the asteroid Bennu.
OSIRIS-REx is undertaking ... moreClose encounters of the stellar kind Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 31, 2017House-Sized Near-Earth Objects Rarer Than We Thought Miami (AFP) Aug 30, 2017Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1 |
(UPI) Aug 29, 2017
Maryland-headquartered Robot provider Roboteam Inc. reports it has received new orders for its Micro Tactical Ground Robot to support U.S. and international military missions.
The third-generation robot is an all-terrain system used for explosive ordnance disposal, and in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear material missions and HAZMAT operations.
Roboteam said the two ... more Berlin (AFP) Sept 4, 2017Voice assistants promise a light-fingered future Boston MA (SPX) Aug 31, 2017New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct Chicago IL (SPX) Aug 28, 2017Illinois researchers develop origami-inspired robot |
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