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  Washington DC (AFP) Dec 12, 2017 US President Donald Trump directed NASA on Monday to send Americans to the Moon for the first time in decades, a move he said would help prepare for a future Mars trip. "This time we will not only plant our flag and leave our footprint," Trump said at the White House as he signed the new space policy directive. "We will establish a foundation for an eventual mission to Mars and perhaps someday to many worlds beyond." The last time US astronauts visited the Moon was during the Apollo mi ... read more |
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The Second Moon RaceGerroa, Australia (SPX) Mar 13, 2017 The US and China are in an undeclared race back to the Moon. At first glance it's easy to dismiss China's efforts as being little more than what the US and Russia achieved decades ago. And whi ... more 
Robot Moon Base: Beijing's New Lunar Landing ProgramBeijing (XNA) Dec 12, 2017 Scientists are mulling a robot moon station, Chinese space experts said on Tuesday. The base can conduct bigger, more complicated research and experiments, according to space officials who ann ... more  
Beijing bans fireworks, evil spirits rejoiceBeijing (AFP) Dec 1, 2017 China may have invented fireworks but Beijing banned them from the capital Friday ahead of Lunar New Year celebrations, as authorities clamp down on potentially dangerous activities. ... more 
December's 'supermoon' expected to be bigggest, brightest of 2017Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2017 The 'supermoon' set for next week is expected to be the brightest of the year as the moon's orbit will be at its closest point to the earth. ... more |
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Moon's crust underwent resurfacing after forming from magma oceanAustin TX (SPX) Nov 22, 2017 The Earth's Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it spent its early years covered by a roiling global ocean of molten ma ... more 
Japan signals growing support for Deep Space Gateway conceptTokyo, Japan (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2017 The Land of the Rising Sun hopes to be able to put its astronauts on the moon sometime during the 2020s as part of an international program to build a space station in the moon's orbit, local Iomiur ... more 
Russia tests new spaceship set to deliver people, cargo to moonMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2017 Russia has successfully tested a simulator of the spaceship, with the objective of reaching the moon. The experiment's goal was to create conditions similar to those encountered by a mixed crew duri ... more  
SSL Selected to Conduct Power and Propulsion Study for NASA's Deep Space Gateway ConceptPalo Alto CA (SPX) Nov 17, 2017 SSL reports it was selected by NASA to conduct a four-month study for a module that will provide power and control for NASA's deep space gateway concept. The contract award is a tangible demonstrati ... more 
NASA Team Studies CubeSat Mission to Measure Water on the MoonGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 10, 2017 A team of NASA scientists wants to draw a more complete picture of where water exists on the Moon and whether it migrates across the lunar surface, including in the permanently shadowed regions that ... more 
China and the US are both shooting for the moonBristol UK (The Conversation) Nov 10, 2017 On the face of it, it looks like two of the world's biggest powers are racing to get astronauts back on the lunar surface. China is aiming to land crew on the moon by 2036, while on the other side o ... more |
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 Russia locks up six for Moon flight simulation 
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 
Lunar lava tube could be used as a moon mission baseWashington (UPI) Oct 19, 2017 NASA and other agencies have long considered establishing an outpost on the lunar surface - a moon base. Now, scientists at Purdue University may have found the perfect place for it. ... more 
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 |
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  New Rochelle, NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 
The U.S. space exploration program should continue to focus on robotic sample recovery and human missions to Mars, says Scott Hubbard, Editor-in-Chief of New Space. He details the benefits and risks of this strategy in an editorial entitled "Keeping the Focus on Mars," published in New Space, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Ne ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017NASA's oldest Mars rover survives another harsh winter  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 07, 2017Mars Rover Team's Tilted Winter Strategy Works  Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 04, 2017EU exempts fuel for ExoMars mission from Russian sanctions |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2017  New analysis suggests unique atmospheric chemistry explains why the polar vortex on Saturn's moon Titan isn't behaving as expected.
Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and is the only moon in the solar system with a sizable atmosphere. Recent observations suggest that atmosphere hasn't been behaving as predicted by models.
During the winter, air in the upper atmosphere tends to warm ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2017Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn  Bristol UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2017Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan  Paris (ESA) Nov 08, 2017Heating ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft carried out a short, 2.5-minute engine burn on Saturday, Dec. 9 that refined its course toward 2014 MU69, the ancient Kuiper Belt object it will fly by a little more than a year from now.
Setting a record for the farthest spacecraft course correction to date, the engine burn also adjusted the arrival time at MU69 to optimize flyby science.
Telemetry con ... more Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 07, 2017Wrapping up 2017 one year out from MU69  Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 04, 2017Jupiter Blues  Providence RI (SPX) Dec 05, 2017Research bolsters possibility of plate tectonics on Europa |
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 Dubai (AFP) Dec 6, 2017 
Dubai's ruler on Wednesday launched the United Arab Emirates' first space programme aimed at sending four Emirati astronauts to the International Space Station within five years.
"On this day, a new chapter in our history begins with the launch of the first UAE Astronaut Programme," within the next five years, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed Al-Maktoum, the UAE's vice president and prime ministe ... more Moscow (Sputnik) Dec 11, 2017Spaceships and Politics: Sputnik Talks to Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev  Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2017Space Policy Directive calls for human expansion across the solar system  El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2017Aerospace and Mitchell Institute release new report on policy needs for space operations |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 
"Two-dimensional materials" - materials deposited in layers that are only a few atoms thick - are promising for both high-performance electronics and flexible, transparent electronics that could be layered onto physical surfaces to make computing ubiquitous.
The best-known 2-D material is graphene, which is a form of carbon, but recently researchers have been investigating other 2-D materi ... more Moscow, Russia (SPX) Nov 30, 2017Physicists explain metallic conductivity of thin carbon nanotube films  Karlsruher, Germany (SPX) ov 27, 2017Ceria nanoparticles: It is the surface that matters  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 27, 2017Semiconducting carbon nanotubes can reduce noise in interconnects |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 
Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket booster prime contractor Orbital ATK recently completed work at its Utah facilities on the booster nozzles for Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), the first flight of SLS and the Orion spacecraft.
SLS, the world's most powerful rocket, and Orion will take humans on deep space missions, and the boosters provide most of the power to get the spacecraft off the ... more Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2017Rocket Lab to launch rocket from New Zealand  Kourou (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Ariane 5 rocket takes off with European GPS satellites  Moscow (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Russian space agency blames satellite loss on programming error |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017 
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... more Beijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040  Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018  Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Dec 07, 2017 
Anyone with normal vision knows that a ball that seems to quickly be growing larger is probably going to hit them on the nose.
But strap them into a virtual reality headset, and they still may need to take a few lumps before they pay attention to the visual cues that work so well in the real world, according to a new study from University of Wisconsin-Madison psychologists.
"The comp ... more Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 08, 2017Sea urchin spines inspire fracture-resistant cement  Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Dec 08, 2017Clear leads to fully transparent devices  Moscow (AFP) Dec 8, 2017Russia says 'satellite' could have caused radioactive pollution |
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 Mainz, Germany (SPX) Nov 30, 2017 
The magnetic moment of an individual proton is inconceivably small, but can still be quantified. The basis for undertaking this measurement was laid over ten years ago, and physicists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, GSI Darmstadt, and the RIKEN research institute in Japan are still performing experiments to measure this force with a sin ... more Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 28, 2017Physicists make most precise measurement ever of a proton's magnetic moment  Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 15, 2017Listening for gravitational waves using pulsars  New York NY (SPX) Nov 14, 2017Gravity waves from merging supermassive black holes will be found soon |
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Dec 08, 2017 
A team of astronomers from Maryland, Hawaii, Israel, and France has produced the most detailed map ever of the orbits of galaxies in our extended local neighborhood, showing the past motions of almost 1,400 galaxies within 100 million light-years of the Milky Way.
The team reconstructed the galaxies' motions from 13 billion years in the past to the present day. The main gravitational attra ... more Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 06, 2017How hardy is the Webb Telescope  Odense, Denmark (SPX) Dec 07, 2017How does it look when Earth is bombarded with dark matter?  Charlottesville VA (SPX) Dec 06, 2017Massive primordial galaxies found swimming in vast ocean of dark matter |
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Beijing (XNA) Nov 27, 2017
China is now the world leader in remote sensing technologies for scientific purposes and is able to provide an unprecedented amount of data to support research and development for the world, officials said on Tuesday.
Remote sensing refers to aerial or satellite-based technologies to detect and measure objects on Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
On Tuesday, the Ministry of Sci ... moreBeijing (XNA) Nov 19, 2017China plans for nuclear-powered interplanetary capacity by 2040 Beijing (Sputnik) Nov 16, 2017China plans first sea based launch by 2018 Beijing (XNA) Nov 02, 2017China's reusable spacecraft to be launched in 2020 |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 11, 2017 
A solar instrument package designed and built by CU Boulder to help monitor the planet's climate is now set for launch Dec. 12 aboard a a rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The instrument suite is called the Total and Spectral Solar Irradiance Sensor (TSIS-1) and was designed and built by CU Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) for NASA's Goddard S ... moreWashington DC (SPX) Dec 11, 2017Massive Primordial Galaxies Found in 'Halo' of Dark Matter  New York NY (SPX) Dec 11, 2017Mount Sinai researchers use breakthrough technology to understand eclipse eye damage  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 30, 2017All missions on board for NASA heliophysics research |
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 Bangkok, Thailand (SPX) Dec 08, 2017 
mu Space becomes Thailand's first space technology startup to operate a satellite service after the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission awarded a license for the company. The 15-year license covers the operation of a satellite and provision of satellite-based services until 2032.
Speaking on behalf of mu Space, Chief Technical Officer Samathorn Teankingkaeo said his tea ... more London, UK (SPX) Dec 08, 2017New business incubators will help space industry grow  El Segundo CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2017Regulation and compliance for nontraditional space missions  Washington (UPI) Nov 30, 2017Orbital ATK purchase by Northrop Grumman approved by shareholders |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 06, 2017 
Within days of the announcement by NASA's Minor Planet Center of the discovery of the first-ever interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, B612's new Asteroid Institute began a collaborative effort that led to significant analysis about the discovery.
Bryce Bolin, a senior researcher at the Asteroid Institute as well as a DIRAC Institute Fellow, was the lead author on the study measuring 1I/'Oumuamu ... more Boston MA (SPX) Dec 12, 2017Impressive Geminid meteors to peak December 13-14  New Orleans LA (SPX) Dec 12, 2017New simulations suggest meteors explode from the inside  Stirling UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2017Metal asteroid Psyche is all set for an early visit from NASA |
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 San Francisco (AFP) Dec 8, 2017 
If no one comes to the rescue, an online army of "Grinch bots" may end up spoiling Christmas for many kids by using automated software to scoop up prized toys and other sought-after items for big profit.
The bots - yes, the same kinds of automated programs that spread political propaganda and manipulate opinion on social media - can use superfast technology to snatch up popular electronics ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Dec 12, 2017Robots foresee future with automated visualized predictions  Tokyo (AFP) Dec 12, 2017Tokyo airport to be 'scattered' with robots for 2020 Olympics  Washington (UPI) Dec 8, 2017Speedy cockroaches help researchers train robots to walk |
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