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  Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released a new policy paper that explores future opportunities in cislunar space-essentially, the space inside the moon's orbit and the orbital area around the moon. Cislunar Development: What to Build- and Why discusses the possible applications for cislunar space-for example, outposts on the moon, extraterrestrial mining operations, interplanetary waystations-and determines the infrastructure that will be needed to realize t ... read more |
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China calls for ideas on design of manned lunar landingBeijing (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 China on Monday called for submissions from the public with creative approaches for the design of its manned lunar landing and ascent vehicles. According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of Ch ... more  
China's Chang'e-4 relay satellite named "Queqiao"Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 The relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe expected to land on the far side of the Moon later this year, has been named "Queqiao" - magpie bridge. The name was announced by the China Na ... more
China to name relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probeBeijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2018 China will give a name to the relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land softly on the far side of the Moon in late 2018. The name will be announced on China's Sp ... more 
The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon BaseWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 As the space race heats up, the first contracts for the manufacture of key components for humanity's Gateway orbital lunar base will be awarded in 2019, according to NASA. Expected to begin ne ... more |
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The Long Game: China Seeks to Transfer Its Silk Industry to Far Side of the MoonBeijing (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 Talk about a trade war, as intra-solar-system transport of silk - one of the world's most popular commodities - could be made on the moon, and imported to earth. Just because China's upcoming ... more 
NASA offers 4K tour of the moonWashington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018 NASA has updated the video tour of the moon first created by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in 2011. ... more  
NASA's newest planet-hunter, TESS, to survey the entire night skyWashington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 With the crippled Kepler almost out of fuel, NASA is preparing the launch of its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS. ... more 
Flowers on the Moon? China's Chang'e-4 to launch lunar springBeijing (XNA) Apr 13, 2018 China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe is expected to do many things unprecedented in space history after it launches later this year, such as touching down softly on the far side of the Moon and taking the ... more  
Research suggests water appeared while Earth was still growingChicago IL (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Up until about ten years ago, scientists thought they had a pretty good picture of how the moon and Earth came to co-exist. Then more precise measurements blew it all wide open, and scientists are s ... more |
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 NAU planetary scientist's study suggests widespread presence of water on the Moon 
New study brings us one step closer to understanding how tidal clocks tickTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which they live. Endogenous biological clocks follow the major cyclical rhythms: the s ... more  |
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Earth's water present before impact formed moon, study findsWashington (UPI) Mar 29, 2018 Based on an extensive collection of lunar and terrestrial samples, researchers have determined that most of the water on Earth was already present at the time of the impact that created the moon. ... more 
Indian space agency postpones second Moon mission to OctoberNew Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 27, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) - India's state-owned space agency - has deferred the launch of Chandrayaan-2, the country's second mission to the moon, to October this year. The ISRO ... more
Second blue moon of the year is last until 2020Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 The last blue moon until 2020 will peak in the sky at 8:37 a.m. EDT Saturday. ... more 
Roscosmos, NASA to set common standards for first lunar orbit stationMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2018 The Russian and US space agencies will meet next month to set out plans for mankind's first outpost in the moon's orbit, which will include a Russia-built module, a source told Sputnik on Thursday. ... more 
Most of Earth's water was likely present before the moon-forming giant impactWashington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 Based on an extensive collection of lunar and terrestrial samples, a new study probing the elusive origins of the Moon - now typically thought to have formed from a collision between a proto-Earth a ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-Moon system. Their work shows that an impact between proto-Mars and a dwarf-planet-sized object likely produced the two moons, as detailed in a paper published in Science Advances.
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope, astronomers uncovered the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops. This result resolves a stubborn, long-standing my ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018  Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgraded microscope, the Light Microscopy Module (LMM), scientists can now see microscopic particles in 3-dimensional images.
On April 12, researchers first viewed the particles, called colloids, in ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A current area of intense interest in nanotechnology is van der Waals heterostructures, which are assemblies of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystalline materials that display attractive conduction properties for use in advanced electronic devices.
A representative 2D semiconductor is graphene, which consists of a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms that is just one atom thick. The d ... more |
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 Vostochny Cosmodrome, Russia (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018 
Foreign tourists interested in checking out the inner workings of Russia's brand new spaceport, or making a selfie against the backdrop of a rocket as it blasts off into space will soon get their chance, with Moscow tour operators working on the excursion details.
Representatives from Roscosmos, Russia's space tourism industry and officials from Amur region's tourism ministry have met with ... more |
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 Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 
The relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe expected to land on the far side of the Moon later this year, has been named "Queqiao" - magpie bridge.
The name was announced by the China National Space Administration (CNSA)Tuesday, China's Space Day.
In a Chinese folktale, magpies form a bridge with their wings on the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to ena ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
To overcome the material rigidity and actuation limitations in current robotic systems, a joint U.S. Army Research Laboratory and University of Minnesota research project sought inspiration from invertebrates.
The U.S. Army uses robots that are structurally rigid, making them impractical when performing military operations in highly congested and contested urban environments, where covert ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 
What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tubingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so-called "plasmonic oligomers") can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanome ... more |
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Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 25, 2018
The relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe expected to land on the far side of the Moon later this year, has been named "Queqiao" - magpie bridge.
The name was announced by the China National Space Administration (CNSA)Tuesday, China's Space Day.
In a Chinese folktale, magpies form a bridge with their wings on the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to ena ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A group of international scientists have met at Queen's University Belfast to finalise plans for a next generation telescope which will help to crack the mysteries of the Sun.
The revolutionary four-metre telescope is being designed to investigate the Sun at unprecedented resolution. It will allow scientists to identify structures as small as 30km, which is the equivalent to finding a poun ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released a new publication that explores the growing popularity of public-private partnerships. The policy paper, Public-Private Partnerships: Stimulating Innovation in the Space Sector, outlines a phased approach for strategizing, planning, and implementing such collaborative arrangements for space-based services and how to ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2018 
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, after a period of hibernation, the asteroid- and comet-hunter has completely scanned the skies nearly eight times and has observed and characterized 29,375 objects in four years of operations. This total includes 788 near-Ea ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 
You can wear an exoskeleton, but it won't turn you into a superhero.
That's the finding of a study in which researchers tested a commercially available exoskeleton - a mechanical arm attached to a harness - that's typically worn by workers to help them carry heavy objects hands-free.
In the journal Applied Ergonomics, the researchers report that that the device relieved stress on the ... more |
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