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  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2018 Russia's lunar exploration program should be a part of an international project, as none of major space powers is capable to explore Earth's only permanent natural satellite without support of other states, the director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Anatoly Petrukovich, told Sputnik. Earlier in September, Dmitry Rogozin, the director general of Russian Roscosmos state space corporation, said that the United States was offering Russia to participate in its luna ... read more |
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Japan firm signs with SpaceX for lunar missionsTokyo (AFP) Sept 26, 2018 A Japanese start-up is to send spacecraft to the moon in a deal signed with Elon Musk's SpaceX, the Tokyo-based firm said Wednesday. ... more 
China aims to explore polar regions of Moon by 2030Beijing (XNA) Sep 26, 2018 China plans to land on and explore the southern and northern polar regions of the Moon by 2030, according to an official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Li Guoping, director ... more  
Russia's RSC Energia Ready to Offer Tourists Moon FlightsMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 25, 2018 Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC Energia) is ready to offer tickets for a lunar tour aboard the Soyuz spacecraft; they will cost between $150 million and $180 million each, a sourc ... more 
India Aims to Establish Firmest Conclusion of Water, Minerals on Moon's SurfaceNew Delhi (Sputnik) Sep 25, 2018 India's second moon mission, Chandrayaan-2, will begin its lunar studies in January-February 2019 with an orbiter that carries a wider range spectrometer that goes up to 5 microns to clearly provide ... more |
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Fly me to the Moon? A look at the space-tourism raceWashington (AFP) Sept 14, 2018 SpaceX is among a handful of companies racing to propel tourists into space. Here are the top projects in the works, and what they involve. ... more 
Danish Aerospace Company ApS to build 'next generation,' multi-function exercise equipment for astronautsOdense, Denmark (SPX) Sep 17, 2018 Danish Aerospace Company ApS (DAC) has received a contract from the European Space Agency (ESA) to build a new multifunction exercise system for astronauts. ESA and NASA plan to test this equi ... more 
Mysterious 'lunar swirls' point to moon's volcanic, magnetic pastNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 The mystery behind lunar swirls, one of the solar system's most beautiful optical anomalies, may finally be solved thanks to a joint Rutgers University and University of California Berkeley study. ... more 
US Geological Survey Hopes to Begin Prospecting for Space Mines SoonWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2018 The US Geological Survey is looking to expand its scope beyond the United States and into the cosmos, applying its understanding of geology to the search for ? and collection of ? valuable mineral r ... more  
Potentially hazardous asteroids to swing past Earth this weekWashington (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 Asteroids deemed potentially hazardous by officials at the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) are set to swing past Earth this week, starting on Tuesday. The first, 2016 ... more |
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 Direct evidence of ice on Moon surface discovered 
Bricks from Moon dustParis (ESA) Aug 21, 2018 Lunar masonry starts on Earth. European researchers are working with Moon dust simulants that could one day allow astronauts to build habitats on our natural satellite and pave the way for human spa ... more  |
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Scientists confirm ice exists at Moon's polesTampa (AFP) Aug 21, 2018 Scientists said Tuesday they have confirmed the existence of ice on the Moon's surface for the first time, a discovery that could one day help humans survive there. ... more 
There's definitely ice on the lunar polesWashington (UPI) Aug 21, 2018 Scientists have confirmed the presence of water ice on the surface of the moon's poles. ... more 
Ice confirmed at the Lunar polesMoffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2018 In the darkest and coldest parts of its polar regions, a team of scientists has directly observed definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface. These ice deposits are patchily distributed ... more  
China unveils Chang'e-4 rover to explore Moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday. Images displayed at Wednesday's press conf ... more 
Sierra Nevada Corporation completes key step for NASA's NextSTEP-2 studySparks NV (SPX) Aug 16, 2018 Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) completed a NASA study for the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), which is the first module planned to be launched for NASA's Gateway in lunar orbit. The study was p ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 26, 2018 
The weird shapes and colors of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have inspired a long-standing debate about their origins.
The dark faces of the moons resemble the primitive asteroids of the outer solar system, suggesting the moons might be asteroids caught long ago in Mars' gravitational pull. But the shapes and angles of the moons' orbits do not fit this capture scenario.
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 25, 2018 
Data from the international Cassini spacecraft that explored Saturn and its moons between 2004 and 2017 has revealed what appear to be giant dust storms in equatorial regions of Titan.
The discovery, described in a paper published in Nature Geoscience, makes Titan the third body in the Solar System where dust storms have been observed - the other two are Earth and Mars.
The observati ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
You never know what you're going to see when you visit a world for the first time - particularly when it's on the solar system's most distant frontier - but you can get ready to see it.
NASA's New Horizons science team recently wrapped up a three-day rehearsal of the busiest days around the mission's Dec. 31- Jan. 1 flyby of Ultima Thule, a Kuiper Belt object orbiting a billion miles beyon ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 25, 2018 
As the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's H-IIB rocket carries NASA's Life Sciences Glovebox toward its berth on the International Space Station, hardware specialists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and their partners around the world are eager to initiate new, high-value biological research in Earth orbit.
The JAXA H-IIB rocket, hauling the state-of-the-ar ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 
Quantum dots are nanometer-sized boxes that have attracted huge scientific interest for use in nanotechnology because their properties obey quantum mechanics and are requisites to develop advanced electronic and photonic devices. Quantum dots that self-assemble during their formation are particularly attractive as tunable light emitters in nanoelectronic devices and to study quantum physics beca ... more |
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 Kirkenes, Norway (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
On Thursday 27 September Nammo successfully completed the first launch of Nucleus, a sounding rocket powered by its new hybrid rocket motor.
Nucleus launched at 14:16: local time from Andoya Space Center in Northern Norway, and reached an altitude of 107.4 km. That made it not only the first rocket powered by a Norwegian motor design to cross the Karman line, the commonly recognized border ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) Oct 01, 2018 
The Earth is currently surrounded by debris launched into space over several decades. This space junk can collide with satellites and not only cause damage to spacecraft but also result in further debris being created.
To preserve a secure space environment, the active removal or de-orbiting of space debris is an emergent technological challenge. If remedial action is not taken in the near ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2018 
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission team plans to switch to a backup system in the Microwave Instrument (MWI) on one of the twin spacecraft this month. Following the switch-over, GRACE-FO is expected to quickly resume science data collection.
A month after launching this past May, GRACE-FO produced its first preliminary gravity field map. The mission ha ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Sep 25, 2018 
"We have observed shapes with different morphologies, such as a spiral similar to a snail's shell. The existence of these substructures has been observed for the first time thanks to the unprecedented precision of the data brought by Gaia satellite, from the European Space Agency (ESA)", says Teresa Antoja, researcher at ICCUB (IEEC-UB) and first signer of the article.
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Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 20, 2018 
Just over a month into its mission, Parker Solar Probe has returned first-light data from each of its four instrument suites. These early observations - while not yet examples of the key science observations Parker Solar Probe will take closer to the Sun - show that each of the instruments is working well. The instruments work in tandem to measure the Sun's electric and magnetic fields, particle ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2018  Despite the fact that only state organizations have the right to develop the space industry in Ukraine, Max Polyakov supports the sphere in the country. He and his Noosphere organize the events concerning the field's theme. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 25, 2018 
The interstellar object 'Oumuamua came from somewhere outside the solar system, but where has remained a mystery.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, however, have identified four stellar candidates from which the object may have originated.
Astronomers first spotted 'Oumuamua in 2017. Unfortunately, by the time scientists noticed the oblong visitor, it was alre ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Sep 27, 2018 
MIT computer scientists have developed a system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in real-time the relevant regions of the image being described.
Unlike current speech-recognition technologies, the model doesn't require manual transcriptions and annotations of the exampl ... more |
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