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  Paris (ESA) Jul 05, 2018 When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, the dust that clung to their spacesuits made their throats sore and their eyes water. Lunar dust is made of sharp, abrasive and nasty particles, but how toxic is it for humans? The "lunar hay fever", as NASA astronaut Harrison Schmitt described it during the Apollo 17 mission created symptoms in all 12 people who have stepped on the Moon. From sneezing to nasal congestion, in some cases it took days for the reactions to fade. Inside the spacecraft ... read more |
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Waystation to the Solar SystemBethesda, MD (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 It seems like everyone wants to go someplace in the Solar System. President Trump wants to go to the Moon. Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Others want to go to an asteroid. Others just want to go som ... more 
NASA will seek partnership with US Industry to develop lunar gatewayWashington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 As part of the agency's Exploration Campaign, NASA's Gateway will become the orbital outpost for robotic and human exploration operations in deep space. Built with commercial and international partn ... more 
Queqiao satellite the bridge to China's lunar explorationBeijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2018 If all goes to plan, China will soon make history as the first country to put a lander and a rover on the far side of the moon. Information gleaned from such a mission may answer questions about the ... more
Chinese satellite could link world to Moon's far side: space expertBeijing (XNA) Jun 19, 2018 A satellite with a huge golden umbrella-shaped antenna is in an orbit more than 400,000 km from Earth, waiting for Chang'e-4, which is set to be the first ever probe to land softly on the Moon's far ... more |
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Chinese relay satellite brakes near moon for entry into desired orbit Beijing (XNA) May 28, 2018 A Chinese relay satellite Friday braked near the Moon, completing a vital step before entering a desired orbit, according to the China National Space Administration. The satellite, Queqiao, br ... more 
Moonwalking astronaut-artist Alan Bean dies at 86Washington (AFP) May 26, 2018 US astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon, has died, his family announced in a statement released by NASA. He was 86 years old. ... more
NASA: Commercial Partners Key to Sustainable Moon PresenceWashington DC (SPX) May 25, 2018 As NASA shifts human exploration back to the Moon, U.S. commercial partnerships will be a key to expediting missions and building a sustainable presence on the lunar surface. The agency is orchestra ... more
Dozens of volunteers apply for joint US-Russian simulated Lunar orbital flightMoscow (Sputnik) May 24, 2018 About 50 people from various countries have shown interest in an experiment simulating the flight to an orbital station near the Moon, a representative of the Institute of Medicobiological Problems ... more
Dutch Radio Antenna To Depart For The Moon On Chinese MissionDwingeloo, Netherlands (SPX) May 18, 2018 On 21 May 2018, the Chinese space agency will launch the relay satellite Chang'e 4 to an orbit behind the Moon. On board will be a Dutch radio antenna, the Netherlands Chinese Low-Frequency Explorer ... more |
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 Aerojet Rocketdyne demonstrates low-cost, high thrust space engine
China satellite heralds first mission to dark side of MoonBeijing (AFP) May 21, 2018 China launched on Monday a relay satellite that will allow a rover to communicate with the Earth from the far side of the Moon during an unprecedented mission later this year. ... more  |
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Planet hunter snaps test image on Lunar flyby on route to final orbitGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 21, 2018 NASA's next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is one step closer to searching for new worlds after successfully completing a lunar flyby on May 17. The spacecraft pass ... more 
China's Queqiao satellite carries "large umbrella" into deep spaceXichang, China (XNA) May 22, 2018 The relay satellite, launched Monday for China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, is carrying the largest communication antenna ever used in deep space exploration, according to Chinese experts. The lau ... more  
Hong Kong independence leader found guilty of riotingHong Kong (AFP) May 18, 2018 One of Hong Kong's leading independence activists was found guilty of rioting Friday, convicted for his involvement in some of the city's worst protest violence for decades. ... more 
Chinese rewrite record, live 370 days in self-contained moon labBeijing (XNA) May 16, 2018 Chinese volunteers have completed a one-year test living in a simulated space lab in Beijing, setting a new record for the longest stay in a self-contained cabin. Four students, two males and ... more 
Chinese volunteers emerge from virtual moon baseBeijing (AFP) May 15, 2018 A group of Chinese volunteers has emerged from 110 days of isolation in a virtual "lunar lab", state media reported Tuesday, as the country pursues its ambition to put people on the moon. ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge is challenging teams of citizen inventors to push the state of the art of additive construction to design and build sustainable shelters for humans to live on Mars. Previous levels of the challenge have resulted in advanced habitat concepts, material compositions and printing technologies.
The current stage (Phase 3: Level 1) of the multi-level contest c ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jun 27, 2018 
Scientists have found evidence of complex organic molecules on Saturn's moon Enceladus. The chemical signals were identified among spectrometry data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
"We are, yet again, blown away by Enceladus," Christopher Glein, a space scientist at the Southwest Research Institute, said in a news release. "Previously we'd only identified the simplest organic mo ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 
Uranus was hit by a massive object roughly twice the size of Earth that caused the planet to tilt and could explain its freezing temperatures, according to new research.
Astronomers at Durham University, UK, led an international team of experts to investigate how Uranus came to be tilted on its side and what consequences a giant impact would have had on the planet's evolution.
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
Early this morning, Dragon, the spacecraft from the fifteenth SpaceX contracted resupply mission, berthed with the International Space Station carrying one of NanoRacks' largest educational missions to date. In addition to launching 40 student experiments, NanoRacks has also introduced a new commercial company and ongoing professional research into the commercial low-Earth orbit ecosystem.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jun 18, 2018 
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new technique to squeeze infrared light into ultra-confined spaces, generating an intense, nanoscale antenna that could be used to detect single biomolecules.
The researchers harnessed the power of polaritons, particles that blur the distinction between light and matter. This ultra ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 03, 2018 
China aims to develop a new series of small, medium, large and heavy-lift Long March carrier rockets by 2030 to meet the demands of its space operations, according to an expert.
The capacity of Chinese rockets would reach 140 tonnes for low-Earth orbit, 44 tonnes for Earth-Mars transfer orbit, 50 tonnes for Earth-Moon transfer orbit and 66 tonnes for geosynchronous transfer orbit in 2030, ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2018 
China is fast becoming a major space power as both its technology and launching frequency of satellites are improving at a rapid rate.
China became the world's fifth country to send a satellite into space in 1970. So far, a total of 400 satellites have been launched and over 200 are currently in service.
A large family of satellites has been formed in China, covering the fields of co ... more |
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 Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 26, 2018 
Since the start of the space age, mankind has left its mark on the orbital pathways overhead...and not always for the better. Today, some 7,000 tonnes of artificial debris - a mass equivalent to the Eiffel Tower - orbit the planet.
This detritus, ranging from remnants of defunct or broken-up spacecraft to discarded rocket stages, whizzes by at a dizzying 8 km per second - a speed at which ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jun 25, 2018 
Using the MUSE instrument on ESO's VLT , a team led by Thomas Collett from the University of Portsmouth in the UK first calculated the mass of ESO 325-G004 by measuring the movement of stars within this nearby elliptical galaxy .
Collett explains "We used data from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to measure how fast the stars were moving in ESO 325-G004 - this allowed us to infer how muc ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 
A new study using data from NASA's NuSTAR space telescope suggests that Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is accelerating particles to high energies - some of which may reach Earth as cosmic rays.
"We know the blast waves of exploded stars can accelerate cosmic ray particles to speeds comparable to that of light, an incredible energy boost ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Jul 02, 2018
China is fast becoming a major space power as both its technology and launching frequency of satellites are improving at a rapid rate.
China became the world's fifth country to send a satellite into space in 1970. So far, a total of 400 satellites have been launched and over 200 are currently in service.
A large family of satellites has been formed in China, covering the fields of co ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Jul 02, 2018 
A solar telescope that captures images of the entire disk of the Sun, monitoring eruptions taking place simultaneously in different magnetic fields in both the photosphere and chromosphere, is now being installed beside the Goode Solar Telescope (GST) at NJIT's California-based Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO).
The telescope, SOLIS (Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun), c ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jul 03, 2018 
The Australian Space Agency commenced operations on July 1 2018 with the ambition of tripling the Australian space economy by 2030.
But with the Australian government investment of A$41 million, we should not expect anything like NASA (which has a budget more than 2,000 times greater).
On the contrary, the impetus for growth must come from the Australian space industry itself - and t ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2018 
NASA's Dawn spacecraft reached its lowest-ever and final orbit around dwarf planet Ceres on June 6 and has been returning thousands of stunning images and other data.
The flight team maneuvered the spacecraft into an orbit that dives 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the surface of Ceres and viewed Occator Crater, site of the famous bright deposits, and other intriguing regions. In more than ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 04, 2018 
In nature, cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 30 minutes. Now, a robotic cockroach can do even better. Harvard's Ambulatory Microrobot, known as HAMR, can walk on land, swim on the surface of water, and walk underwater for as long as necessary, opening up new environments for this little bot to explore.
This next generation HAMR uses multifunctional foot pads that rely on surface ... more |
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