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  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2017 NASA is providing an update on the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft after completing a comprehensive review of the launch schedule. This uncrewed mission, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is a critical flight test for the agency's human deep space exploration goals. EM-1 lays the foundation for the first crewed flight of SLS and Orion, as well as a regular cadence of missions thereafter near the Moon and beyond. The review follows an e ... read more |
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NASA Opens $2 Million Third Phase of 3D-Printed Habitat CompetitionHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 Future missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond will require innovative options to shelter our explorers, and we won't be able to carry all of the materials with us from Earth. NASA's 3D-Printed Habita ... more  
Russia locks up six for Moon flight simulationMoscow (AFP) Nov 7, 2017 Three men and three women were sealed in an artificial spacecraft unit in Moscow on Tuesday in a simulation of a 17-day flight to the Moon, a preparation for long-term missions. ... more  
S. Korea to buy 'billions of dollars' of US weapons: TrumpSeoul (AFP) Nov 7, 2017 South Korea has agreed to buy US weapons worth "billions of dollars" to guard against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, US President Donald Trump said Tuesday. ... more 
Trump promises to 'figure it out' with S. Korea's MoonSeoul (AFP) Nov 7, 2017 US President Donald Trump headed to Seoul Tuesday vowing to "figure it all out" with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-In, despite the two allies' differences on how to deal with the nuclear-armed North. ... more |
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S. Korea announces sanctions against PyongyangSeoul (AFP) Nov 6, 2017 South Korea announced new unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang - the first under President Moon Jae-In - on Monday, a day before US President Donald Trump arrives in Seoul on an Asian tour dominated by the North's nuclear programme. ... more  
Wanted: a medical doctor for a cold adventureParis (ESA) Nov 03, 2017 Want to help humanity's exploration of our Solar System? Do you have a medical degree and are not afraid of the dark or the cold? ESA is looking for someone to spend over six months in Antarctica ru ... more  
NASA investigates use of medical-like tools to study samples of the solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 01, 2017 A diagnostic tool, similar in theory to those used by the medical profession to non-invasively image internal organs, bones, soft tissue, and blood vessels, could be equally effective at "triaging" ... more 
Scientist devises a solar reactor to make water and oxygen from moon rocksWashington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2017 Working over a ten year period at the Plataforma Solar de Almeria (CIEMAT) Denk has designed and built a device to make enough oxygen and water for 6 to 8 astronauts, powered by a thermal solar reac ... more
South Korea will not develop nuclear weapons: presidentSeoul (AFP) Nov 1, 2017 South Korea will not develop atomic weapons of its own despite the threat from the nuclear-armed North, President Moon Jae-In declared Wednesday. ... more 
Low-cost clocks for landing on the MoonParis (ESA) Oct 27, 2017 A European clock accurate to a trillionth of a second is set to be used on satellites and missions to the Moon. The ultra-precise time-keeper was conceived by a small company in Latvia, and ES ... more |
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 Lunar lava tube could be used as a moon mission base 
Human presence in Lunar orbit one step closer with successful RS-25 engine testStennis Space Center MS (SPX) Oct 20, 2017 Aerojet Rocketdyne has test-fired its RS-25 engine, E2063, for 500 seconds at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. This is the second RS-25 engine Aerojet Rocketdyne has tested for NASA's sec ... more 
NASA research suggests significant atmosphere in lunar past and possible source of water on MoonHuntsville AL (SPX) Oct 20, 2017 Looking up at the Moon at night, Earth's closest neighbor appears in shades of gray and white; a dry desert in the vacuum of space, inactive and dead for billions of years. Like many things, though, ... more 
Potential human habitat located on MoonWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Oct 20, 2017 A study published in Geophysical Research Letters confirms the existence of a large open lava tube in the Marius Hills region of the moon, which could be used to protect astronauts from hazardous co ... more 
Bigelow and ULA team up to propose a B330 Habitat in Low Lunar OrbitLas Vegas, NV (SPX) Oct 19, 2017 Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are working together to launch a B330 expandable module on ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle. The launch would place a B330 outfitted module in Low Lunar ... more |
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  Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 09, 2017 
Researchers from Lomonosov MSU, Faculty of Soil Science, have studied the resistance microorganisms have against gamma radiation in very low temperatures. The results have been published in the Extremophiles journal.
Average temperature on Mars is -63C, but in polar areas and at night it can be as low as -145C. There is pressure lower 100-1000 times than on the Earth, strong ultraviolet an ... moreHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 08, 2017NASA Opens $2 Million Third Phase of 3D-Printed Habitat Competition  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2017Insight will carry over two million names to Mars  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2017Opportunity Does a Wheelie and is Back on Solid Footing |
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Enough heat to power hydrothermal activity inside Saturn's ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years could be generated through tidal friction if the moon has a highly porous core, a new study finds, working in favour of the moon as a potentially habitable world.
A paper published in Nature Astronomy presents the first concept that explains the key characteristics of 500 km-diameter Encel ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2017Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2017ASA Advances Instrument to Study the Plumes of Enceladus  Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Oct 31, 2017Saturn's Radiation Belts: A Stranger to the Solar Wind |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017 
Jupiter's intense northern and southern lights, or auroras, behave independently of each other according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray and ESA's XMM-Newton observatories. Using XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray observations from March 2007 and May and June 2016, a team of researchers produced maps of Jupiter's X-ray emissions (shown in inset) and identified an X-ray hot spot at each pole. ... more Mountain View CA (SPX) Nov 07, 2017Help Nickname New Horizons' Next Flyby Target  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2017Juno Aces 8th Science Pass of Jupiter, Names New Project Manager  London UK (SPX) Oct 31, 2017Jupiter's X-ray auroras pulse independently |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2017 
NASA is providing an update on the first integrated launch of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft after completing a comprehensive review of the launch schedule.
This uncrewed mission, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) is a critical flight test for the agency's human deep space exploration goals. EM-1 lays the foundation for the first crewed flight of SLS and Orio ... more Paris (ESA) Nov 08, 2017Stressed seedlings in space  Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 8, 2017Brazil's tech junkies seek healing at digital detox clinic  Houston TX (SPX) Nov 06, 2017Orbital ATK's to deliver supplies to International Space Station |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 
Nanoparticles of controllable composition and size have great potential in electrical, optical and chemical devices, but they must be created in a safe and cost-effective way. Kazuhiro Takanabe and coworkers from KAUST now report a simple method for synthesizing metal-sulfide nanoparticles at low temperature without using environmentally harmful solvents.
Metal sulfides, which are crystall ... more Tomsk, Russia (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Gold nanoantennas help in creation of more powerful nanoelectronics  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2017Subset of carbon nanotubes poses cancer risk similar to asbestos in mice  Davis CA (SPX) Nov 06, 2017New, simplified technique makes light metallic nanofoam |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Nov 09, 2017 
Arianespace has launched a Vega rocket to deliver an Earth observation satellite into orbit for the Kingdom of Morocco.
Liftoff of Vega's 11th mission from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana came at 01:42 GMT on 8 November (02:42 CET; 22:42 local time on 7 November).
With a mass at liftoff of 1110 kg, Mohammed VI-A was manoeuvred into its target Sun-synchronous orbit about 5 ... more Dulles VA (SPX) Nov 09, 2017Orbital ATK Successfully Tests First Motor Case for Next Generation Launch Vehicle  Moscow (AFP) Nov 3, 2017Russia embezzlement probe at rocket firm Soyuz  Anchorage AK (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Alaska Aerospace Launches Aurora Launch Services Company |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017 
China plans to launch its reusable spacecraft in 2020, according to a statement from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Tuesday.
Unlike traditional one-off spacecraft, the new spacecraft will fly into the sky like an aircraft, said Chen Hongbo, a researcher from the corporation.
The spacecraft can transport people or payload into the orbit and return to Earth.
C ... more Beijing (XNA) Oct 23, 2017Space will see Communist loyalty: Chinese astronaut  Beijing (XNA) Oct 02, 2017China launches three satellites  Beijing (XNA) Oct 02, 2017Mars probe to carry 13 types of payload on 2020 mission |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 
Cancer cells can be targeted and destroyed with the metal from the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, according to new research by an international collaboration between the University of Warwick and Sun Yat-Sen University in China.
Researchers from the Professor Sadler and Professor O'Connor groups in Warwick's Department of Chemistry and Professor Hui Chao's group at S ... more Ames IA (SPX) Nov 03, 2017One-step 3-D printing of catalysts developed at Ames Laboratory  Washington (UPI) Nov 7, 2017General Atomics awarded $8.8M contract for low power laser demonstrator  Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 02, 2017How to store information in your clothes invisibly, without electronics |
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 Yekaterinburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 27, 2017 
Taking black holes (as a real object) as a test material, scientists from the Ural Federal university (UrFU, Yekaterinburg) found out that a popular theory of gravity which had seemed to work perfectly at the cosmological level (a subclass of Horndeski theory) is hardly applicable to the real world. They presented their study in the Classical and Quantum Gravity journal.
At the moment, acc ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2017Prolific Earth Gravity Satellites End Science Mission  Los Alamos NM (SPX) Oct 25, 2017Supercomputers help Los Alamos team interpret LIGO findings  Cleveland OH (SPX) Oct 24, 2017NASA Challenges Students to Design Microgravity Experiments |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Nov 09, 2017 
An international team of astronomers led by Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) has made a bizarre discovery; a star that refuses to stop shining.
Supernovae, the explosions of stars, have been observed in the thousands and in all cases they marked the death of a star.
But in a study published in the journal Nature, the team discovered a remarkable exception; a star that exploded multiple ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 09, 2017Scientists narrow down the search for dark photons using decade-old particle collider data  Marseilles, France (SPX) Nov 09, 2017Unistellar: Response to eVscope Confirms Interest in Citizen Science  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 09, 2017"Zombie Star" Exploded, Survived and Exploded Again |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017
China plans to launch its reusable spacecraft in 2020, according to a statement from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation Tuesday.
Unlike traditional one-off spacecraft, the new spacecraft will fly into the sky like an aircraft, said Chen Hongbo, a researcher from the corporation.
The spacecraft can transport people or payload into the orbit and return to Earth.
C ... moreBeijing (XNA) Oct 23, 2017Space will see Communist loyalty: Chinese astronaut Beijing (XNA) Oct 02, 2017China launches three satellites Beijing (XNA) Oct 02, 2017Mars probe to carry 13 types of payload on 2020 mission |
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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 06, 2017 
UK teams will lead an international solar-terrestrial and space weather mission, taking on the development of a major science instrument thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency.
The 3 million pounds will support academics working on SMILE (the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer), a European Space Agency (ESA) science mission, being delivered jointly with the Chinese Acade ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 02, 2017NASA Investigates Invisible Magnetic Bubbles in Outer Solar System  La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Oct 25, 2017On the generation of solar spicules and Alfvenic waves  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 25, 2017NASA sounding rocket instrument spots signatures of long-sought small solar flares |
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 Talinn, Estonia (ESA) Nov 03, 2017 
When is the last time you used space technology? Probably a matter of minutes ago, if you took bearings on your phone, checked the weather or withdrew money. Starting Friday, European Space Week celebrates space for the rest of us - as a source of services, jobs and business opportunities.
Hosted in Talinn, Estonia, 3-9 November, European Space Week is bringing together space stakeholders, ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 01, 2017New Chinese sat comms company awaits approval  Yangon (Xinhua) Oct 23, 2017Myanmar to launch own satellite system-2 in 2019: vice president  Toulouse, France (SPX) Oct 16, 2017Eutelsat's Airbus-built full electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite reaches geostationary orbit |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2017 
An international team of astronomers led by NASA scientists successfully completed the first global exercise using a real asteroid to test global response capabilities.
Planning for the so-called "TC4 Observation Campaign" started in April, under the sponsorship of NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office. The exercise commenced in earnest in late July, when the European Southern Obser ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 06, 2017Return of the Comet: 96P Spotted by ESA, NASA Satellites  Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 03, 2017Hubble Sees Nearby Asteroids Photobombing Distant Galaxies  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2017Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact cooled Earth's climate more than previously thought |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 08, 2017 
In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Project have produced a wealth of computational tools for designing new materials useful for a range of applications, from energy and electronics to aeronautics and civil engineering.
But developing processes for producing those materials has continued to depend on a combination of experience, intui ... more Raleigh NC (SPX) Nov 06, 2017Study shows need for adaptive powered knee prosthesis to assist amputees  New York NY (SPX) Oct 26, 2017Researchers unveil tool to debug 'black box' deep learning algorithms  Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2017Physics boosts artificial intelligence methods |
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