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  McLean VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 Sixty years ago, the United States successfully launched the nation's first satellite into space. The satellite, Explorer 1, was tiny by today's standards: 80 inches long, a bit over 6 inches in diameter, and weighing just under 31 pounds. But unlike the USSR's Sputnik satellite launched a few months earlier, which simply demonstrated the feasibility of getting a satellite to orbit the earth, Explorer I carried scientific instruments designed to measure the atmosphere around the earth. The launch ... read more |
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Seven ways Mars InSight is differentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2018 NASA's Mars InSight lander team is preparing to ship the spacecraft from Lockheed Martin Space in Denver, where it was built and tested, to Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, where it will bec ... more  
How spacecraft testing enabled bone marrow researchGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2018 In the 1970s, a NASA employee stepped up to a challenge posed by the National Institutes of Health or NIH: to freeze bone marrow. "Most people don't know that NASA's work isn't just aerospace, ... more 
Waterbeds simulate weightlessness to help Skinsuits combat back pain in spaceParis (ESA) Feb 22, 2018 Astronauts tend to become taller in weightlessness - causing back pain and making it difficult to fit into spacesuits. Astronauts may be more likely to suffer from 'slipped discs' after landing. ... more 
Nearly a Decade After Mars Phoenix Landed, Another LookPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2018 A recent view from Mars orbit of the site where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed on far-northern Mars nearly a decade ago shows that dust has covered some marks of the landing. The Phoenix l ... more |
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Laser-ranged satellite measurement now accurately reflects Earth's tidal perturbationsWashington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2018 Tides on Earth have a far-reaching influence, including disturbing satellites' measurements by affecting their motion. This disturbance can be studied using a model for the gravitational potential o ... more 
NASA's Lunar Outpost will Extend Human Presence in Deep SpaceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the agency is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide the foundation for human exploration deeper into the so ... more  
Artificial intelligence poses questions for nature of war: MattisWashington (AFP) Feb 18, 2018 Artificial intelligence and its impact on weapons of the future has made US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doubt his own theories on warfare. ... more  
Humans will actually react pretty well to news of alien lifeTempe AZ (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 As humans reach out technologically to see if there are other life forms in the universe, one important question needs to be answered: When we make contact, how are we going to handle it? Will we fe ... more 
Asteroid 'time capsules' may help explain how life started on EarthAtlanta GA (SPX) Feb 19, 2018 In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs - and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining. But for researcher Nichola ... more |
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Bringing a hidden superconducting state to lightUpton NY (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 A team of scientists has detected a hidden state of electronic order in a layered material containing lanthanum, barium, copper, and oxygen (LBCO). When cooled to a certain temperature and with cert ... more  |
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Deep-sea fish use hydrothermal vents to incubate eggsUniversity Park PA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 Some deep-sea skates - cartilaginous fish related to rays and sharks - use volcanic heat emitted at hydrothermal vents to incubate their eggs, according to a new study in the journal Scientific Repo ... more 
Last NASA Communications Satellite of its Kind Joins FleetGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 NASA has begun operating the last satellite of its kind in the network that provides communications and tracking services to more than 40 NASA missions, including critical, real-time communication w ... more 
Leaky Atmosphere Linked To Lightweight PlanetParis (ESA) Feb 13, 2018 The Red Planet's low gravity and lack of magnetic field makes its outermost atmosphere an easy target to be swept away by the solar wind, but new evidence from ESA's Mars Express spacecraft shows th ... more  
Long March rockets on ambitious mission in 2018Xichang, China (XNA) Feb 15, 2018 The Long March-3B rocket launched Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province marked the seventh successful mission of the Long March rocket series since th ... more 
Scientists develop biocompatible anti-burn nanofibersMoscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 A group of NUST MISIS's young scientists, for the very first time in Russia, has presented a new therapeutic material based on nanofibers made of polycaprolactone modified with a thin-film antibacte ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2018 
A recent view from Mars orbit of the site where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed on far-northern Mars nearly a decade ago shows that dust has covered some marks of the landing.
The Phoenix lander itself, plus its back shell and parachute, are still visible in the image taken Dec. 21, 2017, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orb ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
As NASA sets its sights on returning to the Moon, and preparing for Mars, the agency is developing new opportunities in lunar orbit to provide the foundation for human exploration deeper into the solar system. For months, the agency has been studying an orbital outpost concept in the vicinity of the Moon with U.S. industry and the International Space Station partners. As part of the fiscal year ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
NASA's next planet-hunting mission has arrived in Florida to begin preparations for launch. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station nearby NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than April 16, pending range approval.
TESS was delivered Feb. 12 aboard a truck from Orbital ATK in Dull ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 22, 2018 
Elon Musk's Space-X sent a Spanish military satellite into orbit Thursday in a hitch-less liftoff from California, extending the private space company's record of successful launches.
Space-X, which proved the utility of its massive Falcon Heavy rocket earlier this month, put up the Paz imaging satellite and two of the company's own test internet communications satellites on a smaller Falcon ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Feb 15, 2018 
The Long March-3B rocket launched Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province marked the seventh successful mission of the Long March rocket series since the beginning of 2018.
The year 2018 will be an ambitious year for China's space program, with the largest number of Long March rocket launches.
According to Cen Zheng, rocket system command ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 
A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning of Feb. 15, 2013.
The house-sized asteroid entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk at over eleven miles per second and blew apart 14 miles above the ground. The explosion released the energy equ ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018  Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $150 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The contract taps Lockheed Martin's Aculight Corp. to develop, manufacture and deliver two test units in fiscal 2020 - one uni ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2018 
The United States and Israel successfully tested the Arrow 3 weapons system to defend against ballistic missiles.
Israel Aerospace Industries, in collaboration with the Israeli air force and the United States' Missile Defense Agency, conducted the test at 2:30 a.m. Monday at an unidentified site in central Israel, the U.S. Defense Department said in a release.
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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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 New Brunswick, NJ (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
Engineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper manufacturing of flexible thin film devices - from touch screens to window coatings, according to a new study.
The "intense pulsed light sintering" method uses high-energy light over an area nearly 7,000 times larger than a ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes.
Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 22, 2018 
Astronomers reveal a new high resolution map of the magnetic field lines in gas and dust swirling around the supermassive black hole at the centre of our Galaxy, published in a new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The team, led by Professor Pat Roche of the University of Oxford, created the map, which is the first of its kind, using the CanariCam infrared camera attach ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 18, 2018 
Artificial intelligence and its impact on weapons of the future has made US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis doubt his own theories on warfare.
A question on the subject prompted the retired Marine general to give an impromptu seminar on his theory of war Saturday to reporters returning with him from a week-long tour of Europe.
Recalling his own writings, he differentiated between the essent ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 15, 2018 
Orbital ATK has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for development, testing and evaluation of the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Ground Launch Drone Missile, or GQM-163A.
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $79.4 million under a cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery indefinite-quantity contract for operation and maintenance sup ... more |
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