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March 05, 2018
SPACE TRAVEL
Russia, China strike deal to jointly explore outer space



Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 03, 2018
Russian State Space Corporation Ros?osmos and the China National Space Administration signed on Saturday the agreement of intent for cooperation in the sphere of exploration of the Moon and the Outer space as well as on the creation of the Joint Data Center on the Lunar projects, the corporation said in a statement. According to the statement, the State Corporation Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration aim to cooperate in the sphere of exploration of the Moon and the Outer space as ... read more

MOON DAILY
Study details new story for how the moon formed
Boston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
Simon Lock wants to change the way you think about the Moon. A graduate student in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Lock is the lead author of a study that suggests the Moon - r ... more
MOON DAILY
Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration site
Providence RI (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
A detailed study of a giant impact crater on the Moon's far side could provide a roadmap for future lunar explorers. The study, by planetary scientists from Brown University, maps the mineralo ... more
MOON DAILY
How does water change the moon's origin story?
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018
It's amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about 4.4 and 4.5 billion years ago when an object collided with the still-forming proto-Earth. This impact created a ... more
TRADE WARS
China factory expansion slows to 19-month low in February
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2018
China's factory expansion slowed again in February as output and export orders dropped due to the Lunar New Year holidays, hitting a 19-month low, official data showed Wednesday. ... more
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MOON DAILY
On second thought, the Moon's water may be widespread and immobile
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2018
A new analysis of data from two lunar missions finds evidence that the Moon's water is widely distributed across the surface and is not confined to a particular region or type of terrain. The water ... more
MOON DAILY
SwRI scientist helps characterize water on lunar surface
San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2018
A Southwest Research Institute scientist with expertise in how water reacts with lunar soil contributed to a new study that indicates water and/or hydroxyl may be more prevalent on the Moon's surfac ... more
MOON DAILY
Laser-ranged satellite measurement now accurately reflects Earth's tidal perturbations
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2018
Tides on Earth have a far-reaching influence, including disturbing satellites' measurements by affecting their motion. This disturbance can be studied using a model for the gravitational potential o ... more
SINO DAILY
Hong Kong activist on trial over riots
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 21, 2018
Hong Kong's best-known independence activist went on trial on riot charges Wednesday over protests in 2016 which saw the city's worst violence for decades. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA's Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep Space
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 16, 2018
As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the agency is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide the foundation for human exploration deeper into the so ... more
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WATER WORLD
Illegal South African abalone flowing into Hong Kong: report
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 8, 2018
Illegally poached abalone from South Africa is pouring into Hong Kong where the gastronomic gastropods are a traditional and expensive banquet favourite, a new study warned Friday. ... more
MOON DAILY
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Captures New Earth-Moon Image
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). ... more
EPIDEMICS
China confirms first human case of H7N4 bird flu
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2018
China has confirmed the first human case of H7N4 bird flu, prompting Hong Kong to issue a health warning for those travelling to the mainland during the busy Lunar New Year holiday. ... more
MOON DAILY
New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen Earth
Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018
A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon ... more
MOON DAILY
UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for Water
Orlando FL (SPX) Feb 08, 2018
UCF's Phil Metzger and Julie Brisset from the Florida Space Institute recently landed a contract to develop a model to mine the moon for water. Data suggests the moon has water locked away in ... more


India Prepares For Second Lunar Mission with Chandrayaan-2

IRON AND ICE
Two Small Asteroids Safely Pass Earth This Week
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018
Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week. The f ... more
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SINO DAILY
Hong Kong schools shut over deadly flu outbreak
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 7, 2018
Kindergartens and primary schools in Hong Kong will shut early for the Chinese New Year break due to a deadly flu outbreak, the government said Wednesday. ... more
WAR REPORT
Vietnam marks 50 years since launch of Tet Offensive
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. ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplished
Beijing (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
SOLAR SCIENCE
Rare 'super blood blue moon' visible on Jan 31
Miami (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
MOON DAILY
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
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Dyes for 'live' extremophile labeling will help discover life on Mars
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 02, 2018
Researchers from MIPT and their colleagues from Research Center Juelich (Germany) and Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia have described a new method for studying microorganisms that can survive in extreme conditions. The scientists identified a fluorescent dye that enabled them to observe the life cycle of bacteria in real time. Halophiles, which is the ancient Gr ... more
+ Atacama Desert study offers glimpse of what life on Mars could look like
+ Mars Express views moons set against Saturn's rings
+ Curiosity tests a new way to drill on Mars
+ NASA InSight mission to Mars arrives at launch site
+ Life in world's driest desert seen as sign of potential life on Mars
+ Mars Odyssey Observes Martian Moons
+ Dormant desert life hints at possibilities on Mars
Titan topographic map unearths cookie-cutter holes in moon's surface
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
+ Cassini finds Titan has 'sea level' like Earth
+ Giant Storms Cause Palpitations in Saturn's Atmospheric Heartbeat
+ Electrical and Chemical Coupling Between Saturn and Its Ring
+ Unique atmospheric chemistry explains cold vortex on Saturn's moon Titan
+ Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn
+ Unexpected atmospheric vortex behavior on Saturn's moon Titan
+ Heating ocean moon Enceladus for billions of years


Chasing a stellar flash with assistance from GAIA
Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2018
Last year, ESA's Gaia mission helped astronomers make unique observations of Neptune's largest moon, Triton, as it passed in front of a distant star. This is a preview of the superb quality and versatility of the Gaia data that will be released in April. When a small Solar System body such as a moon or an asteroid passes in front of a star and temporarily blocks its light, the occultation ... more
+ The PI's Perspective: Why Didn't Voyager Explore the Kuiper Belt?
+ New Horizons captures record-breaking images in the Kuiper Belt
+ Europa and Other Planetary Bodies May Have Extremely Low-Density Surfaces
+ JUICE ground control gets green light to start development
+ New Year 2019 offers new horizons at MU69 flyby
+ Study explains why Jupiter's jet stream reverses course on a predictable schedule
+ New Horizons Corrects Its Course in the Kuiper Belt
ISS Expedition 54 crew land safely in Kazakhstan
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 28, 2018
Three members of the Expedition 54 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS), including NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hei and Joe Acaba, returned to Earth on Tuesday after months of performing research and spacewalks in low-Earth orbit. Vande Hei, Acaba and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed at 9:31 p.m. EST (8:31 a.m. Feb. 28 in Kazakhstan) sout ... more
+ Russia, China strike deal to jointly explore outer space
+ Knowledge matters for Year of Education on Station
+ Jemison: 'If you want a seat at the table, you can have one'
+ Aerospace introduces new Senior Advisory Council for space policy
+ International team publishes roadmap to enhance radioresistance for space colonization
+ NASA Wants Ideas from University Teams for Future Human Space Missions
+ Cosmonaut, two US astronauts return to Earth from ISS
UT Dallas team's microscopic solution may save researchers big time
Dallas TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
A University of Texas at Dallas graduate student, his advisor and industry collaborators believe they have addressed a long-standing problem troubling scientists and engineers for more than 35 years: How to prevent the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope from crashing into the surface of a material during imaging or lithography. Details of the group's solution appeared in the January is ... more
+ Researchers invent light-emitting nanoantennas
+ Nanomushroom sensors: One material, many applications
+ USTC realizes strong indirect coupling in distant nanomechanical resonators
+ Scalable and cost-effective manufacturing of thin film devices
+ Ultra-efficient removal of carbon monoxide using gold nanoparticles on a molecular support
+ Fast-spinning spheres show nanoscale systems' secrets
+ Scientists observe nanowires as they grow
GOES-S marks 100th launch of Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket booster
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 03, 2018
The launch of the nation's newest weather satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket marks the flight of the 100th Aerojet Rocketdyne AJ-60A solid rocket booster (SRB), the largest monolithically wound SRB ever flown. The AJ-60A is one of numerous Aerojet Rocketdyne products on both the ULA Atlas V launch vehicle and the Lockheed Martin-built Geostationary Operational E ... more
+ Action plan approved for next Ariane 5 launches
+ Arianespace Soyuz set to launch 4 more sats for SES O3b constellation
+ SLS Intertank loaded for shipment, structural testing
+ Space-X lobs Spanish military satellite into orbit
+ Millenium tapped for certification of Vulcan space launch systems
+ RS-25 Engine Throttles Up for Deep Space Exploration
+ Russia jails four for embezzling millions from cosmodrome project


China plans rocket sea-launch
Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2018
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official. Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea. "Th ... more
+ China speeds up research, commercialization of space shuttles
+ Long March rockets on ambitious mission in 2018
+ Chinese taikonauts maintain indomitable spirit in space exploration: senior officer
+ China launches first shared education satellite
+ China's first X-ray space telescope put into service after in-orbit tests
+ China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplished
+ Yang Liwei looks back at China's first manned space mission
Latest updates from NASA on IMAGE Recovery
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 01, 2018
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018 On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more
+ Radioactive cylinder found on Lebanon coast: authority
+ Researchers demonstrate promising method for improving quantum information processing
+ The fine-tuning of two-dimensional materials
+ Silk fibers could be high-tech 'natural metamaterials'
+ Squid skin could be the solution to camouflage material
+ Atomic structure of ultrasound material not what anyone expected
+ Sixty years of technology in space - what's changed?


New method enables high-resolution measurements of magnetism
Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes. Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more
+ ESA Creates Quietest Place In Space
+ Bursting with Excitement - A Look at Bubbles and Fluids in Space
+ NASA Technology to Help Locate Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Waves
+ Transportable optical clock used to measure gravitation for the first time
+ Acoustic tractor beam could pave the way for levitating humans
+ Cutting-Edge Technology Enhances Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detector
+ Deep Learning Pioneered for Real-Time Gravitational Wave Discovery
Unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 04, 2018
A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging data by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The dark matter distribution is estimated by the weak gravitational lensing technique. The team located the positions and le ... more
+ MSU-based scientists found out how to distinguish beams of entangled photons
+ A marriage of light-manipulation technologies
+ Study reveals Milky Way stars being evicted by invading galaxies
+ Search for first stars uncovers 'dark matter'
+ Black holes from small galaxies might emit gamma rays
+ Explaining the increasing temperature of cooling granular gases
+ XMM-Newton spies first clear X-Ray flares from massive stellar lighthouse


China plans rocket sea-launch
Beijing (XNA) Mar 02, 2018
China is planning its first sea-launch of satellites carried by a Long March rocket, according to an aerospace official. Yang Yiqiang, commander-in-chief of the Long March-11 rockets project of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, said that 2018 would see five launches of Long March-11 rockets, with four missions for commercial payloads on land, and one at sea. "Th ... more
+ China speeds up research, commercialization of space shuttles
+ Long March rockets on ambitious mission in 2018
+ Chinese taikonauts maintain indomitable spirit in space exploration: senior officer
+ China launches first shared education satellite
+ China's first X-ray space telescope put into service after in-orbit tests
+ China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplished
+ Yang Liwei looks back at China's first manned space mission


NASA's SDO reveals how magnetic cage on the Sun stopped solar eruption
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2018
A dramatic magnetic power struggle at the Sun's surface lies at the heart of solar eruptions, new research using NASA data shows. The work highlights the role of the Sun's magnetic landscape, or topology, in the development of solar eruptions that can trigger space weather events around Earth. The scientists, led by Tahar Amari, an astrophysicist at the Center for Theoretical Physics at th ... more
+ Towards a better prediction of solar eruptions
+ Pulsating aurora mysteries uncovered with help from THEMIS and ERG missions
+ Where no mission has gone before
+ HINODE captures record breaking solar magnetic field
+ What's behind the most brilliant lights in the sky
+ NASA's newly rediscovered IMAGE mission provided key aurora research
+ GOLD will revolutionize our understanding of space weather
ESA incubators ranked among world's best
Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2018
Two of ESA BIC Sweden's incubators have been ranked fourth and seventh in the world classification of university affiliated business incubators among 259 evaluated in 53 countries. "Being top rated in the world shows that we here in the North are at the forefront and it's feels great," said Jens Lundstrom, CEO for Arctic Business Incubator (ABI) and Manager of ESA Business Incubator Centre ... more
+ Lockheed Martin Completes Foundation for Satellite Factory of the Future
+ Lockheed Martin Completes Assembly on Arabsat's Newest Communications Satellite
+ Goonhilly goes deep space
+ Iridium Certus broadband readies for DOD wsers with COMSAT
+ Airbus and human spaceflight: from Spacelab to Orion
+ Iridium Announces First Land-Mobile Service Providers for Iridium Certus
+ 2018 in Space - Progress and Promise


Hayabusa2 has detected Ryugu
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 03, 2018
On February 26, 2018, Hayabusa2 saw its destination -asteroid Ryugu- for the first time! The photographs were captured by the ONC-T (Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic) onboard the spacecraft. Images were taken between noon JST on February 26th and 9:00am the following morning, with about 300 shots taken in total. Data for nine of these images were transmitted from the spacecraft on Fe ... more
+ Asteroid Institute announces Tech Partners for the ADAM asteroid mapping project
+ Watch an asteroid pass between Earth and the moon on Friday
+ Five Years after the Chelyabinsk Meteor: NASA Leads Efforts in Planetary Defense
+ Seafloor data point to global volcanism after Chicxulub meteor strike
+ Evidence for a massive biomass burning event at the Younger Dryas Boundary
+ Two Small Asteroids Safely Pass Earth This Week
+ New research suggests toward end of Ice Age, human beings witnessed fires larger than dinosaur killers
Beware of replicating sexism in AI, experts warn
Barcelona (AFP) March 1, 2018
Artificial intelligence could emulate human bias, including sexism, if there is no oversight on data used to create it, experts at the world's largest mobile phone fair in Barcelona warned Thursday. "We're all very aware the machines will learn the same bias as those who coded them," Emma McGuiguan, in charge of technology at consultants Accenture, said at the Mobile World Congress. AI i ... more
+ Berkeley Lab 'minimalist machine learning' algorithms analyze images from very little data
+ Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move
+ Robotic crystals that walk n' roll
+ Robo-picker grasps and packs
+ Brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater good
+ Google Assistant adds more languages in global push
+ New stretchable electronic skin sensitive enough to feel ladybug footsteps
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