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  Providence RI (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 In research that may prove useful to future lunar explorers, scientists from Brown University have created the first quantitative map of water and its chemical building blocks trapped in the uppermost portion of the Moon's soil. The study, published in Science Advances, builds on the initial discovery in 2009 of water and a related molecule - hydroxyl, which consists of one atom each of hydrogen and oxygen - in the lunar soil. The latest study uses a new calibration of data taken from NASA's Moon ... read more |
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India, Japan Set to Boost Space CooperationNew Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 13, 2017 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming visit to India starting Wednesday is expected to set the pace for greater cooperation between the two countries, especially in the aerospace sector. ... 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 
Japan, S.Korea push Putin over Pyongyang sanctionsVladivostok, Russia (AFP) Sept 7, 2017 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday echoed South Korea's demand for more pressure on Pyongyang after its nuclear tests as the leaders of the two countries looked to grind down resistance from Russia's Vladimir Putin. ... 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 |
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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  
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'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  
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  
NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moonGreenbelt 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 Nashvi ... more |
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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 
Call For Ideas For Research On The Deep Space GatewayParis (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 The European Space Agency (ESA) invites members of the science community in Europe to propose ideas for research that could be performed on the Deep Space Gateway, a crewed spaceship in lunar vicini ... more 
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 |
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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017 
Opportunity is continuing the winter exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
Winter is constraining the available energy, so the project has the rover doing "hops" (drives) from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next. (These lily pads are locations where the terrain is tilted sufficiently to the north to maximize the Sun illumination on the rover's so ... more Los Alamos NM (SPX) Sep 07, 2017Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability  Paris (ESA) Sep 12, 2017New tools for exploring the surface of Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 14, 2017NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Climbing Toward Ridge Top |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2017 
As the Cassini spacecraft nears the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, it is already having a powerful influence on future exploration. In revealing that Saturn's moon Enceladus has many of the ingredients needed for life, the mission has inspired a pivot to the exploration of "ocean worlds" that has been sweeping planetary science over the past decade.
... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2017Cassini Makes its 'Goodbye Kiss' Flyby of Titan  Paris (ESA) Sep 11, 2017Europe's Science Highlights With Cassini  Washington (AFP) Sept 13, 2017Cassini readies final plunge into Saturn |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017 
Scientists on NASA's Juno mission have observed massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter's polar regions that contribute to the giant planet's powerful auroras - only not in ways the researchers expected.
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Jo ... more Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2017Pluto features given first official names  Washington DC (SPX) Sep 06, 2017New Horizons Files Flight Plan for 2019 Flyby  Laurel MD (SPX) Sep 14, 2017Hibernation Over, New Horizons Continues Kuiper Belt Cruise |
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 Bethesda, MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
Sending humans to Mars has been a dream of scientists and a large part of the population ever since Nicolaus Copernicus first postulated that it was a planet, about 500 years ago. Even before that first Soviet satellite, Sputnik 1, was sent into orbit 60 years ago, a mission to Mars has been the subject of many science fiction articles and books.
Over the past half-century technological ad ... more Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 12, 2017Three astronauts blast off for five-month ISS mission  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2017NASA Offers Space Station as Catalyst for Discovery in Washington  Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 04, 2017Voyager Spacecraft: 40 Years of Solar System Discoveries |
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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 |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 
Ten students from UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences took a long drive from Buffalo to the desert of New Mexico in late June, with a rocket called Volans Tauri in tow.
It was so hot, recalls Pete Wilkins, a rising senior majoring in mechanical and aerospace engineering, that even under a tent, his camp chair melted from the 110-degree heat - and it was set up under a tent.
... more Paris (SPX) Sep 14, 2017ArianeGroup to supply from Boeing satellite with new generation of electric propulsion  Paris (SPX) Sep 13, 2017Arianespace announces a new contract, bringing its order book to 53 launches across three rockets  Paris (SPX) Sep 13, 2017EUMETSAT signs with Arianespace for first Metop-SG satellite launch |
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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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 Peterson AFB CO (SPX) Sep 14, 2017 
The 1st Space Operations Squadron at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, accepted two new satellites into operation Sept. 12 to expand their Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program's ability to characterize and track objects in space to support a neighborhood watch out in orbit.
GSSAP provides enhanced space-based space situational awareness to improve the ability to rapidly det ... more Los Angeles CA (Sputnik) Sep 13, 2017Ultrathin spacecraft will collect, deposit orbital debris  Chennai, India (IANS) Sep 12, 2017192 Indian space objects currently in orbit  Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 07, 2017New microscopy method for quick and reliable 3-D imaging of curvilinear nanostructures |
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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 |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Sep 12, 2017 
Like in a nail-biting thriller full of escapes and subterfuge, photons from far-off light sources, such as blazars, could go up against a continuous exchange of identity in their journey through the Universe. This is an operation that would allow these very tiny particles of light to escape an enemy which, if encountered, would annihilate them.
This is the phenomenon studied by a group of ... more London, UK (SPX) Sep 12, 2017Accretion-powered pulsar reveals unique timing glitch  Dwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 07, 2017LOFAR Radio Telescope Discovers Record-Breaking Pulsar  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2017'Extreme' Telescopes Find the 2nd-Fastest-Spinning Pulsar |
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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 ... moreBeijing (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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 Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2017  Two high-intensity solar flares were emitted Wednesday, the second of which was the most intense recorded since the start of this sun cycle in December 2008, NASA said.
These radiation flares, which can disrupt communications satellites, GPS and power grids by reaching the upper Earth atmosphere, were detected and captured by the US Space Agency's Solar Dynamics Observatory.
According to ... more Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2017NASA captures significant solar flare  Paris (ESA) Sep 01, 2017Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 13, 2017 
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's upcoming visit to India starting Wednesday is expected to set the pace for greater cooperation between the two countries, especially in the aerospace sector.
Indian private companies have already expressed keen interest in forging collaborations with the Japanese counterparts. TeamIndus, a Bengaluru-based private aerospace company, which gained global a ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 18, 2017ASTROSCALE Raises a Total of $25 Million in Series C Led by Private Companies  Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017LISA Pathfinder: bake, rattle and roll  London, UK (SPX) Aug 22, 2017Bids for government funding prove strong interest in LaunchUK |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Sep 11, 2017 
Using Earth's gravity to give it an orbital boost, OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu in 2018. The Earth flyby will give astronomers and those with high-end cameras a chance to view this rare encounter.
OSIRIS-REx is on an extraordinary journey to bring back to Earth a sample from the surface of the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu that could potentially record the early history ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2017Radar Reveals Two Moons Orbiting Asteroid Florence  Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 14, 2017NASA-funded research at USC provides evidence of ground-ice on asteroids  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017NASA's Asteroid-Bound Spacecraft to Slingshot Past Earth |
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 Dulles VA (SPX) Sep 13, 2017 
Orbital ATK reports significant progress on the industry's first commercial in-space satellite servicing system. The (MEV-1) spacecraft successfully completed its critical design review earlier this year and is now in production with about 75% of the platform and payload components already delivered to the company's Satellite Manufacturing Facility in Virginia.
The spacecraft will begin ... more Palo Alto, CA (SPX) Sep 12, 2017NASA awards SSL new funding for Dragonfly on-orbit assembly program  Tokyo (AFP) Sept 8, 2017New Japanese sniffs out smelly feet  Beijing (AFP) Sept 7, 2017Chinese robotics artist makes real-life 'Transformers' |
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