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October 18, 2018
MOON DAILY
LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the Moon



Herndon, VA (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
LGS Innovations, a technology company providing specialized mission-critical communication research and solutions, has announced that it will be supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Orion EM-2 Optical Communications (O2O) project. LGS Innovations will provide an optical modem that will enable broadband data communications to and from the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle designed to take humans into lunar orbit. Laser communications, the next-generation space ... read more

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China plans to launch 'moon double' into space to illuminate streets
Beijing (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2018
China is participating in another moon-related project in cooperation with Russia. The two countries are planning to develop their own lunar program with the ultimate aim of building a moon base. ... more
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First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the Moon
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Oct 15, 2018
The Apollo 11 lunar landing was the first time humans stepped on another celestial body, and the events leading up to that historic moment - which celebrates its 50th anniversary next year - are dep ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
SAS announces expanded Human Spaceflight Safety Services to support deep space and lunar missions
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 12, 2018
Special Aerospace Services (SAS) has announced the offering of expanded Spaceflight Safety Products and Services that now include support for deep space and lunar missions. SAS developed the expande ... more
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SpaceX delays Israel's first lunar mission to early 2019
Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 11, 2018
The Israeli organisation behind the country's first mission to the moon on Wednesday announced a delay in the vessel's launch from December to early 2019. ... more
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Lockheed Martin solicits ideas for commercial payloads on Orion spacecraft
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) held last week in Bremen, Germany, Lockheed Martin reported it is studying interest in flying commercial payloads aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft. Th ... more
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Lunar craters named in honor of Apollo 8
Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 10, 2018
The newly named craters are visible in the foreground of the iconic Earthrise colour photograph taken by astronaut William Anders. It depicts the moment that our shiny blue Earth came back into view ... more
SOLAR DAILY
ASU researcher innovates solar energy technology in space
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 08, 2018
Experts predict that by 2050 we're going to have global broadband internet satellite networks, in-orbit manufacturing, space tourism, asteroid mining and lunar and Mars bases. More than a giga ... more
SPACE TRAVEL
Russian scientists develop high-precision laser for satellite navigation
Saint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Oct 04, 2018
Scientists from ITMO University developed a laser for precise measurement of the distance between the Moon and Earth. Short pulse duration and high power of this laser help to reduce error in determ ... more
MOON DAILY
Bezos' Blue Origin signs on to ship supplies to Moon by 2023
Washington (Sputnik) Oct 08, 2018
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' aerospace exploration company signed a letter of intent with two German Space companies to deliver "several metric tons" of cargo to the moon over the next five years. B ... more
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See the future at ESA's IAC Start-up Space Zone
Paris (ESA) Oct 04, 2018
From Lego-style satellites that plug together to robot avatars for lunar exploration, satellite maps for Arctic navigation to a DNA-analysing 'tricorder': next week 24 of planet Earth's top start-up ... more
MOON DAILY
Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander Concept
Denver CO (SPX) Oct 04, 2018
At this week's International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, Lockheed Martin experts revealed the company's crewed lunar lander concept and showed how the reusable lander aligns wit ... more
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NASA, Israel Space Agency Sign Agreement for Commercial Lunar Cooperation
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018
NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency (ISA) to cooperatively utilize the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL's commercial lunar mission, expected to land on the Moon in 2019. NASA wi ... more
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China planning probes, manned missions, ultimately a base on moon - Space Chief
Beijing (Sputnik) Oct 02, 2018
China's lunar program is setting ambitious goals, including exploring both lunar poles by 2030 and, further in the future, sending manned missions to the moon and establishing a permanent base there ... more
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Russia's lunar exploration program should be part of internatinal project
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 ... more


Japan firm signs with SpaceX for lunar missions

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China aims to explore polar regions of Moon by 2030
Beijing (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
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TECH SPACE
Origami opens up smart options for architecture on the Moon and Mars
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Sep 25, 2018
Origami and high-performance textiles are transforming architecture plans for smart human habitats and research stations on the Moon and Mars. Initial field tests of the MoonMars project's origami p ... more
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Russia's RSC Energia Ready to Offer Tourists Moon Flights
Moscow (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
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India Aims to Establish Firmest Conclusion of Water, Minerals on Moon's Surface
New 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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Russia's Roscosmos Says to Remain Participant of 1st Moon Orbit Station Project
Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 24, 2018
Russian space agency Roscosmos told Sputnik on Friday that the corporation will continue participating in the international Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway project. Russia was offered to build ... more
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Airbus wins ESA studies for future human base in lunar orbit
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Sep 20, 2018
The European Space Agency (ESA) has commissioned Airbus for two studies for possible European involvement in the future human base in lunar orbit. The Gateway, previously known as the Deep Space Gat ... more
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Scientists to debate landing site for next Mars rover
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 16, 2018
Hundreds of scientists and Mars-exploration enthusiasts will convene in a hotel ballroom just north of Los Angeles later this week to present, discuss and deliberate the future landing site for NASA's next Red Planet rover - Mars 2020. The three-day workshop is the fourth and final in a series designed to ensure NASA receives the broadest range of data and opinion from the scientific community b ... more
+ Efforts to communicate with Opportunity continue
+ The claw game on Mars: NASA InSight plays to win
+ Painting cars for Mars
+ Novel Technique Quickly Maps Young Ice Deposits and Formations on Mars
+ Curiosity rover operating on backup computer during repairs to main processor
+ Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'
+ Opportunity Remains Silent For Over Three Months
Cutting through the mystery of Titan's atmospheric haze
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique among all moons in our solar system for its dense and nitrogen-rich atmosphere that also contains hydrocarbons and other compounds, and the story behind the formation of this rich chemical mix has been the source of some scientific debate. Now, a research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy ... more
+ Surprising chemical complexity of Saturn's rings changing planet's upper atmosphere
+ Latest insights into Saturn's weird magnetic field only make things weirder
+ In its final days, Cassini bathed in 'ring rain'
+ Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn
+ SwRI scientists study Saturn's rings to discover downpour
+ New Radiation Belt Discovered at Saturn
+ Dust storms on Titan spotted by Cassini for the first time


Icy moon of Jupiter, Ganymede, shows evidence of past strike-slip faulting
Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 17, 2018
A recently published study led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic activity, specifically strike-slip tectonism, as is seen in Earth's San Andreas fault. This is the first study to exhaustively consider the role of strike-slip tectonism ... more
+ Icy warning for space missions to Jupiter's moon
+ New Horizons sets up for New Year's flyby of Ultima Thule
+ Hunt for Planet X reveals the Goblin, a faraway dwarf planet
+ While seeking Planet X, astronomers find a distant solar system object
+ Extremely distant Solar System object found
+ New Horizons Team Rehearses For New Year's Flyby
+ Juno image showcases Jupiter's brown barge
Plant hormone makes space farming a possibility
Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists from the University of Zurich have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants' growth - even under the challenging conditions found in space. The idea h ... more
+ Escape capsule with Soyuz MS-10 crew hit ground 5 times before stopping
+ Installing life support the hands-free way
+ Russian cosmonaut reveals what ISS crew truly fears
+ 'Concrete block on your chest': astronauts recount failed space launch
+ NASA says will use Russia's Soyuz despite rocket failure
+ Smell and stress sensors a smash at Tokyo tech fair
+ Kremlin says it's impossible to draw conclusions on Soyuz failure yet
Big discoveries about tiny particles
Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles. Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more
+ Precise control of multimetallic one-nanometer cluster formation achieved
+ Two quantum dots are better than one: Using one dot to sense changes in another
+ Nucleation a boon to sustainable nanomanufacturing
+ New nanoparticle superstructures made from pyramid-shaped building blocks
+ Cannibalistic materials feed on themselves to grow new nanostructures
+ First-ever colored thin films of nanotubes created
+ Nanotubes change the shape of water
Space Launch System Intertank completes functional testing
New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 16, 2018
The intertank that will be flown on Exploration Mission-1 as part of NASA's new rocket, the Space Launch System, has completed its avionics functional testing, at the Michoud Assembly Center in New Orleans. The avionics, shown here inside the intertank structure, guide the vehicle and direct its power during flight. The intertank houses critical electronics that "talk to" the flight comput ... more
+ Russia understands Soyuz incident reasons says Head of Mission
+ EU to be able to use Ariane 6 carrier rockets for manned space flights
+ Roscosmos plans to restart Soyuz launches from late November
+ Advanced Rockets Corp appoints first Chief Operation Officer
+ Jeff Bezos to invest more than $1 bn in Blue Origin in 2019
+ Russian Space Corp gets telemetry data, video to probe Soyuz failure
+ NASA continues fall series of RS-25 engine tests


China launches Centispace-1-s1 satellite
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
+ China tests propulsion system of space station's lab capsules
+ China unveils Chang'e-4 rover to explore Moon's far side
+ China's SatCom launch marketing not limited to business interest
+ China to launch space station Tiangong in 2022, welcomes foreign astronauts
+ China solicits international cooperation experiments on space station
+ Growing US unease with China's new deep space facility in Argentina
+ China developing in-orbit satellite transport vehicle
Kleos Space signs MoU with Airbus to collaborate on In-Space manufacturing technology
Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
Luxembourg-based Kleos Space S.A. has signed a second Memorandum of Understanding with Airbus Defence and Space, as both companies investigate opportunities to collaborate for the manufacture In-Space of structural elements. Kleos Space and parent Magna Parva (UK) have developed an In-Space manufacturing system that will provide a method of producing huge carbon composite 3D structures in ... more
+ Lockheed Martin reaches technical milestone for Long Range Discrimination Radar
+ ELTA nabs $55M contract for combat aircraft radars for Asian customer
+ Bursting the clouds for better communication
+ Virtual reality can boost empathy
+ Shareholders in Chile miner file suit over sale to China's Tianqi
+ Penetrating the soil's surface with radar
+ Blue phosphorus mapped and measured for the first time


RUDN mathematicians confirmed the possibility of data transfer via gravitational waves
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 15, 2018
RUDN mathematicians analyzed the properties of gravitational waves in a generalized affine- metrical space (an algebraic construction operating the notions of a vector and a point) similarly to the properties of electromagnetic waves in Minkowski space-time. It turned out that there is the possibility of transmitting information with the help of nonmetricity waves and transferring it spati ... more
+ RUDN physicist described the shape of a wormhole
+ Kin of gravitational wave source discovered
+ GRACE-FO Satellite Switching to Backup Instrument Processing Unit
+ Boosting gravitational wave detectors with quantum tricks
+ Household phenomenon observed by Leonardo da Vinci finally explained
+ GRAVITY Confirms Predictions of General Relativity Near Galactic Center
+ How to weigh stars with gravitational lensing
Researchers solve mystery at the center of the Milky Way
Lund, Sweden (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in fact an optical illusion. Last spring, researchers published a study about the apparent presence of astonishing and dramatically high levels of three different eleme ... more
+ NASA's Fermi Mission Energizes the Sky With Gamma-ray Constellations
+ Aussie telescope almost doubles known number of mysterious 'fast radio bursts'
+ Dying star emits a whisper
+ "Pulsar in a Box" reveals surprising picture of neutron star's surroundings
+ Update on the Hubble Space Telescope Safe Mode
+ Largest galaxy proto-supercluster found
+ New infrared telescope first to monitor entire northern sky


China launches Centispace-1-s1 satellite
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
+ China tests propulsion system of space station's lab capsules
+ China unveils Chang'e-4 rover to explore Moon's far side
+ China's SatCom launch marketing not limited to business interest
+ China to launch space station Tiangong in 2022, welcomes foreign astronauts
+ China solicits international cooperation experiments on space station
+ Growing US unease with China's new deep space facility in Argentina
+ China developing in-orbit satellite transport vehicle


A break from the buzz: bees go silent during total solar eclipse
Annapolis, MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2018
While millions of Americans took a break from their daily routines on August 21, 2017, to witness a total solar eclipse, they might not have noticed a similar phenomenon happening nearby: In the path of totality, bees took a break from their daily routines, too. In an unprecedented study of a solar eclipse's influence on bee behavior, researchers at the University of Missouri organized a c ... more
+ School students identify sounds caused by solar storm
+ Parker Solar Probe Changed the Game Before it Even Launched
+ Illuminating First Light Data from Parker Solar Probe
+ Solar Orbiter to leave factory for testing
+ NASA-funded Rocket to View Sun with X-Ray Vision
+ Solar eruptions may not have slinky-like shapes after all
+ European researchers develop a new technique to forecast geomagnetic storms
European Space Talks: we need more space!
Paris (ESA) Oct 18, 2018
Space concerns everyone. It contributes to our lives on a daily basis and can help to solve some of humankind's greatest challenges. Find out more, and how space affects you, with European Space Talks... You probably use space without even thinking about it. Whether it's your mobile phone, your car's 'satnav' system (the clue is in the name) or TV weather forecasts, space is involved in so ... more
+ How Max Polyakov from Zaporozhie develops the Ukrainian space industry
+ Source reveals timing of OneWeb satellites' debut launch on Soyuz
+ French Space Agency opens new office in the UAE
+ Maxar's SSL Continues Positive Momentum in Growing US Government Pipeline
+ Space techpreneur to set up over $100m venture unit
+ Britain and Australia enter into space agreement
+ See the future at ESA's IAC Start-up Space Zone


The Asteroids are Coming
Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 17, 2018
This isn't just "buzz" to get you excited about a new movie coming; we really are being buzzed by asteroids and other NEOs (Near Earth Objects), and one day these conjunctions could become collisions! There are lots of NEOs out there orbiting the sun. Some, like comets, are less worrisome since they are composed primarily of ice and small, rocky particles that dissipate upon entering Earth ... more
+ FEFU astrophysicist contributed into international-team efforts on study Comet 29P
+ NASA's OSIRIS-REx executes second asteroid approach maneuver
+ Asteroid named after university of China's science academy
+ Saft batteries power MASCOT on Asteroid Ryugu
+ MASCOT's zigzag course across the dust-free Asteroid Ryugu
+ Japan delays touchdown of Hayabusa2 probe on asteroid: official
+ The threat of Centaurs for the Earth
Invention of ionic decision-maker capable of self-learning
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
A NIMS research group has invented an ionic device, termed as ionic decision-maker, capable of quickly making its own decisions based on previous experience using changes in ionic/molecular concentrations. The group then succeeded in demonstrating its operation. This device is capable of making decisions while efficiently adapting to changing situations by a means unrelated to the storage ... more
+ Sound, vibration recognition boost context-aware computing
+ MIT unveils new $1 bn college for artificial intelligence
+ Teaching machines common sense reasoning
+ No more Iron Man: submarines now have soft, robotic arms
+ Model helps robots navigate more like humans do
+ Increasingly human-like robots spark fascination and fear
+ Machine learning could help regulators identify environmental violations
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