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  Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface, as well as a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway for astronauts in space beyond the Moon. Right now, NASA is preparing to purchase new small lunar payload delivery services, develop lunar landers, and conduct more research on the Moon's surface ahead of a human return. And that long-te ... read more |
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Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway is First Step Towards Mars - ESA CoordinatorMoscow (Sputnik) May 02, 2018 The Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway, which will be used for deep space exploration and research, is due to start operating by 2025, and NASA is preparing its first manufacture contracts. Philippe Sch ... more 
US plans own space suits for EVAs instead of Russia's at Lunar GatewayMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018 The United States offers to use US-made space suits instead of Russian-made Orlan suits for conducting spacewalks outside the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway, a space industry source told Sputnik. ... more  
Moon holds key to improving satellite views of EarthParis (ESA) May 01, 2018 Many Earth observation satellites make use of an added ingredient to ensure reliable, good quality environmental data: the Moon. While the surface of the Earth is ever changing, the face of th ... more 
China has technological basis for manned lunar landingHarbin (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 China has the technological basis for a manned lunar landing, says Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program. Human exploration of the universe would not stop in low-Earth ... more |
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Moon village already exists in contracts, Says ESA ChiefColorado Springs CO (Sputnik) Apr 19, 2018 Moon village - a product of international collaboration among spacefaring nations - already exists in contracts and remains an open concept, European Space Agency (ESA) Director-General Jan Woerner ... 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  
Aerospace explores next steps in space developmentColorado 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 orbi ... 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 
New research seeks to optimize space travel efficiencyChicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Sending a human into space and doing it efficiently presents a galaxy of challenges. Koki Ho, University of Illinois assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering, and his graduate ... more |
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 China to name relay satellite for Chang'e-4 lunar probe
Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 Scientists are convinced that humankind is capable of turning the Moon into a space outpost: people have cosmodromes, heavy carrier rockets, space modules and lunar rovers. Sputnik reveals what is b ... more  |
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Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has claimed that it has saved $120 million in public money in the upcoming moon mission "Chandrayaan-2," which is expected to be launched in October-Nov ... more 
SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar MissionsGuildford, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a collaboration agreement for Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services at the ... more 
Walking on the Moon - underwaterParis (ESA) Apr 18, 2018 It's one of the deepest 'swimming pools' in Europe, but for three years has been helping preparations for a human return to the Moon. ESA's Neutral Buoyancy Facility at the European Astronaut Centre ... more 
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 |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 03, 2018  The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. While it has been thought that Mars had a warm and wet climate, like Earth, other researchers suggested early Mars might have been largely glaciated.
A recent study by Ramses Ramirez from the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and Robert Craddock from the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 01, 2018 
Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA's Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time, the hearty spacecraft - slightly larger than a full-grown giraffe - sent back spates of discoveries on the gas giant's moons, including the observation of a magnetic environment around Ganymede that was distinct from Jupiter's own magnet ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 02, 2018  As a child watching Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Ted Mosteller dreamed of working for the space program. As leader of NASA's Commercial Crew Program Landing and Recovery Team, he directs a multi-agency operation to rescue astronauts in emergency landing scenarios.
"It's like insurance," he said. "You have insurance on your car or house, but you hope you never have to use it."
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
Nearly a hundred years ago, Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose predicted that quantum mechanics can force a large number of particles to behave in concert as if they were only a single particle. The phenomenon is called Bose-Einstein condensation, and it took until 1995 to create the first such condensate of a gas of alkali atoms.
Although Bose-Einstein condensation has been observed ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 01, 2018 
China aims to recover the first stage of the Long March-8 carrier rocket, which is still under development and is expected to make its maiden flight around 2021, according to a Chinese rocket expert.
It was part of China's endeavors to develop reusable space vehicles, Long Lehao, chief designer of carrier rockets at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, told a space conference in ... more |
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 Wuhan (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
A new type of space cargo transport aircraft is under development and will complete its maiden flight in 2019, a space engineering company based in central China's Wuhan said Thursday.
The aircraft is being developed using technology such as space inflatable deployment, flexible heat shielding and composite materials, enabling it to have a high bearing ratio at a low cost, said Lyu Dongmin ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
A Rice University group's innovative surfactant theory removes limitations of a 100-year-old model for interfacial behavior in enhanced oil recovery.
The lab of Rice chemical engineer Walter Chapman customized a well-worn model to analyze surfactant-containing fluids that are pumped into wells to coax as much oil possible out of rocks deep underground.
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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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 04, 2018 
NASA's decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere on April 30. Orbiting for more than 22 years, the 6,700-pound satellite operated from 1996 to 2012, providing scientists with an unprecedented look into the extreme environments around neutron stars - also known as pulsars - and black holes.
The strong gravity of these objects can pull streams ... more |
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Wuhan (XNA) Apr 30, 2018
A new type of space cargo transport aircraft is under development and will complete its maiden flight in 2019, a space engineering company based in central China's Wuhan said Thursday.
The aircraft is being developed using technology such as space inflatable deployment, flexible heat shielding and composite materials, enabling it to have a high bearing ratio at a low cost, said Lyu Dongmin ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Solar flares, cosmic radiation, and the northern lights are well known phenomena. But exactly how their enormous energy arises is not as well understood.
Now, physicists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new way to study these spectacular space plasma phenomena in a laboratory environment. The results have been published in the renowned journal Nature Communic ... more |
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 London (Sputnik) Apr 30, 2018 
Britain may seek to capitalise on the market in space travel and exploration by developing its own global satellite navigation system, potentially in partnership with countries as disparate as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The United Kingdom is considering the establishment of an independent global satellite positioning system separate from the Galileo Program run by the European Spac ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown University, could shed light on how water got to the early Earth and help account for some trace water detections on the Moon and elsewhere.
"The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is on ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) May 01, 2018 
Students from universities and community colleges across the nation recently participated in third annual Swarmathon. The robotic programming competition took place at NASA Kennedy Space Center's Visitor Complex April 17-19. Their developments may lead to technology that could help astronauts find needed resources while exploring the Moon or Mars.
In her welcoming remarks, Deputy Center Di ... more |
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