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  Ho Chi Minh City (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Vietnam marked 50 years since the audacious Tet Offensive on Wednesday, in a bittersweet ceremony featuring patriotic dance performances recalling the attacks that changed the course of the Vietnam War. The surprise military offensive in 1968 - launched by the communist north on the eve of the Tet lunar new year - targeted more than 100 cities and outposts in southern Vietnam. The assault eventually prompted the US to withdraw from the bloody war, though at the time it was a military disaster ... read more |
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China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplishedBeijing (XNA) Jan 29, 2018 China has accomplished its first successful Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), with a 1.2-meter telescope laser ranging system. Based on the signals of laser pulses reflected by the lunar retro-reflec ... more  
Rare 'super blood blue moon' visible on Jan 31Miami (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 A cosmic event not seen in 36 years - a rare "super blood blue moon" - may be glimpsed January 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Australia. ... more  
Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon. ... more
What scientists can learn about the Moon during the Jan. 31 eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer's equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, camera. Three lunar events ... more |
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Next Mars Analog mission will help improve efficiency and reduce dust exposureDaytona Beach, FL (SPX) Jan 18, 2018 As NASA and others look to return humans to the Moon for longer durations, lunar dust remains an industry concern. Apollo mission crew members described the dust as similar to sandpaper, havin ... more 
Russian company declassifies 1973 report on Lunokhod-2 lunar roverMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 17, 2018 Space equipment manufacturer Russian Space Systems declassified on Tuesday a report on unmanned lunar rover Lunokhod-2 and its 1973 Moon landing mission. The document describes all aspects of ... more 
Possible Lava Tube Skylights Discovered Near the North Pole of the MoonMountain View CA (SPX) Jan 15, 2018 The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute have announced the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava tubes ... more 
Funding runs dry for Indian Google X Prize lunar teamNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jan 11, 2018 TeamIndus - India's first private aerospace startup that is contending for the Google XPrize, has failed to garner adequate financing for its moon mission. Its inability to pay $35 million to Antrix ... more
Scientist reveals what is so special about Chines's next moon missionMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 08, 2018 China is poised to begin a comprehensive lunar exploration program which is expected to kick off with the launch of the Long March 5 rocket in June. Professor Heino Falcke, an astrophysicist at Radb ... more |
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 Astronauts: Trump's proposed Lunar mission will take time 
China Prepares for Breakthrough Chang'e 4 Moon Landing in 2018Beijing (XNA) Jan 02, 2018 2018 could see a breakthrough in lunar exploration: China is planning a mission that, if successful, will see a space landing on the far side of the moon for the first time. The first part of ... more  |
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China solicits messages to be sent to moonBeijing (XNA) Dec 26, 2017 China will solicit 20,000 messages which will be sent into space by a relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, according to China's Lunar and Deep Space Exploration Center. The relay sat ... more 
Thales Alenia Space signs 3 contracts for NASA's deep space explorationRome (SPX) Dec 17, 2017 Thales Alenia Space has signed three contracts in the frame of Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP-2) activities with Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Orbital-ATK, to develop c ... more 
Will Trump send Americans to the Moon? Money talks: expertsMiami (AFP) Dec 14, 2017 US President Donald Trump's decision this week to return Americans to the Moon makes sense as a way to develop technology to one day reach Mars, but only if Congress allocates the money, experts say. ... more 
Researchers analyze thousands of hours of Apollo mission audioDallas TX (SPX) Dec 13, 2017 NASA recorded thousands of hours of audio from the Apollo lunar missions, yet most of us have only been able to hear the highlights. The agency recorded all communications between the astronau ... more 
Trump tells NASA to send Americans to MoonWashington 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 ... more |
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 Mountain View, CA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
New research published in Nature Astronomy seeks to understand how surface clay was formed on Mars despite its cold climate.
The climate on early Mars has presented an enigma for planetary scientists because surface features such as valley networks indicate abundant liquid water was present and the clay minerals found in most ancient surface rocks need even warmer temperatures to form, whi ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.
Nelson was the lead author of a laboratory study of the photopolarimetric properties of bright particles that explain unusual negative polarization behavior at low phase angles observed for decades in association wi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2018 
A pair of Russian cosmonauts didn't set out to break the record for longest Russian spacewalk, but what seemed like a relatively straight forward mission turned out to be surprisingly complicated.
Expedition commander Alexander Misurkin and flight engineer Anton Shkaplerov spent 8 hours and 13 minutes outside the International Space Station, a record in Russian space history. In 2013, a ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 03, 2018 
Physicists have developed a technique based on optical microscopy that can be used to create images of atoms on the nanoscale. In particular, the new method allows the imaging of quantum dots in a semiconductor chip. Together with colleagues from the University of Bochum, scientists from the University of Basel's Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute reported the findings in ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (The Conversation) Feb 06, 2018 
Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket is scheduled for launch on February 6, and the entire space industry is watching with anticipation.
What is so special about this rocket? This vehicle will be the first of its kind, the world's most powerful launch vehicle and targeting an unprecedented level of reusability. The launch has been delayed on numerous occasions since 2013, but if the miss ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2018 
China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, launched in June last year, is put into service for scientific research on Tuesday after finishing in-orbit tests.
It embodies a new phase of China's high-energy astronomy research, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and China National Space Administration.
The 2.5-tonne Hard X-ray ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
New data regarding IMAGE provides some additional - though not yet complete - information on how the spacecraft began to transmit signals again.
On Thanksgiving Day in 2004, the IMAGE spacecraft - at that time still fully functioning - underwent an unexpected power distribution reboot, after which the power returned only on one side - labeled the B side - of the unit. (Satellites are usual ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover and from the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universitat Hannover has developed an advanced squeezed-light source for the gravitational-wave detector Virgo near Pisa.
Now, the Hannover scientists have delivered the setup, installed it, and handed it over ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
Extremely distant galaxies are usually too faint to be seen, even by the largest telescopes. But nature has a solution - gravitational lensing, predicted by Albert Einstein and observed many times by astronomers. Now, an international team of astronomers led by Harald Ebeling from the University of Hawai?i has discovered one of the most extreme instances of magnification by gravitational lensing ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2018
China's first X-ray astronomical satellite, launched in June last year, is put into service for scientific research on Tuesday after finishing in-orbit tests.
It embodies a new phase of China's high-energy astronomy research, according to the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense and China National Space Administration.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 05, 2018 
On Jan. 20, 2018, amateur astronomer Scott Tilley detected an unexpected signal coming from what he later postulated was NASA's long-lost IMAGE satellite, which had not been in contact since 2005. On Jan. 30, NASA - along with help from a community of IMAGE scientists and engineers - confirmed that the signal was indeed from the IMAGE spacecraft. Whatever the next steps for IMAGE may be, the mis ... more |
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 06, 2018 
The space industry is going through an exciting period of innovation and growth. New technology such as high-throughput satellites (HTS) have transformed space architecture and fundamentally changed what had been a fairly static sector. Technology in space is belatedly catching up to the profound advancements in terrestrial IT networks, something many have called the fourth Industrial Revolution ... more |
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 Lawrence KS (SPX) Feb 02, 2018 
On a ho-hum day some 12,800 years ago, the Earth had emerged from another ice age. Things were warming up, and the glaciers had retreated.
Out of nowhere, the sky was lit with fireballs. This was followed by shock waves.
Fires rushed across the landscape, and dust clogged the sky, cutting off the sunlight. As the climate rapidly cooled, plants died, food sources were snuffed out, and ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 
Americans are torn over the promise of artificial intelligence, a new poll showed Wednesday, expressing broad optimism about the emerging technologies but also fearing their negative impacts - including job losses, a poll showed Wednesday.
The Gallup survey showed 79 percent of Americans say artificial intelligence has had a "mostly positive" or "very positive" impact on their lives thus fa ... more |
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