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  Washington 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 next year, a big push to reignite space exploration will see landmark awards for contractors to begin building humanity's first orbital moon base, according to NASA. Intended to be used as a staging area for deep-space exploration and study, the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (LOP-G) will orbit the moon, ... read more |
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Four Years of NASA NEOWISE DataPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2018 NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, after a period of hibern ... more 
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  
Clear as mud: Desiccation cracks help reveal the shape of water on MarsBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 As Curiosity rover marches across Mars, the red planet's watery past comes into clearer focus. In early 2017 scientists announced the discovery of possible desiccation cracks in Gale Crater, w ... more 
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 |
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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  
Scientists blast iron with lasers to study the cores of rocky exoplanetsWashington (UPI) Apr 17, 2018 By blasting a small iron sample with high-powered lasers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, scientists can replicate the extreme pressure and density conditions found inside the cores of large, rocky exoplanets. ... more  
China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket in late 2018Beijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2018 China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the St ... more  
Pluto's Largest Moon, Charon, Gets Its First Official Feature NamesMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The names were ... more 
Are we alone? NASA's new planet hunter aims to find outTampa (AFP) April 16, 2018 SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said. ... more |
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 Close Call: Giant Asteroid Flies Through the Earth-Moon Orbit 
Once upon a time, an exoplanet was discoveredWashington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 In recent history, a very important achievement was the discovery, in 1995, of 51 Pegasi b, the first extrasolar planet ever found around a normal star other than the Sun. In a paper published ... more  |
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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 scientist to discuss 'Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater'Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 The public is invited to a free talk called "Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater," with Dr. Scott Guzewich in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress ... more 
US, Russia likely to go to Mars Together, former NASA astronaut saysColorado Springs (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 The United States and Russia are on a path to jointly explore deep space and will most likely fly to Mars together, former NASA astronaut Ronald M. Sega told Sputnik. "I think we are on a path ... more 
We think we're the first advanced earthlings - but how do we really know?Rochester UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2018 Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? Over the course of tens of millions of years, however, all of the dire ... more  
Atomic Lego guides light below one nanometerBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 All electronic devices in our daily lives - computers, smartphones etc. - consist of billions of transistors, the key building block invented in Bell Labs in the late 1940s. The transistor started o ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
The public is invited to a free talk called "Swimming in Martian Lakes: Curiosity at Gale Crater," with Dr. Scott Guzewich in the Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., on April 25 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EDT.
Guzewich is a speaker in the 2018 NASA Goddard Lectures Series at the Library of Congress. Guzewich is a research astrophysicis ... more |
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 Paris (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 has been the site of the 'Moondive' study, using specially weighted spacesuits to simulate lunar gravity, which is just one sixth that of Earth.
The three-year study took place in the Centre's ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
Legendary explorers and visionaries, real and fictitious, are among those immortalized by the IAU in the first set of official surface-feature names for Pluto's largest moon, Charon. The names were proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU), the internationally recognized authority for na ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) April 16, 2018  SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said.
The next opportunity to blast off the $337 million satellite - which aims to advance the search for extraterrestrial life by scanning the skies for nearby, Earth-like planets - will be Wednesday. ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 19, 2018  The US Air Force is awarding almost $1 billion to Lockheed Martin to design and develop a hypersonic missile that can be launched from a warplane.
The contract follows repeated warnings from senior defense officials about rapid advances by China and Russia in the field of hypersonic weaponry, where missiles can fly at many times the speed of sound and dodge missile-defense systems.
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 Beijing (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 moon mission is unmanned doesn't mean it will be unoccupied, as - in an effort to test possible self-sustaining biospheres that could lead to larger projects - cohabitating flora and fauna will be tra ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 
The second major meteor shower of 2018 is set to peak this weekend. The Lyrids will deliver roughly 20 streaking meteors per hour during its peak.
Saturday night will offer sky-watchers the best chance to take in the shooting stars, but Friday and Sunday nights will host a handful of meteors, too.
"The shower will be best viewed after midnight when the radiant is highest in the s ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday.
The Pentagon last year awarded a $26 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a laser program called SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.)
The idea is to put a laser system on aircraft with an output of about 50 kilowatts to test their ability to zap ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 18, 2018 
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army for Patriot defense systems and launch capabilities.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $200 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract, which is a modification to a previous award.
The contract awarded by the Army Contracting Command, out of Redstone Arsenal, Al., ... 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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 Buffalo NY (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Grow Monsters. Expandable water toys. Whatever you call them, they're plastic-like figurines that swell when placed in water.
New materials science research borrows from this concept; only instead of water, engineers discovered that tiny crystal lattices called "self-assembling molecular nanosheets" expand when exposed to light.
The advancement, described in the Proceedings of the Na ... more |
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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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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
One of the most fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity is the existence of black holes. In spite of the recent detection of gravitational waves from binary black holes by LIGO, direct evidence using electromagnetic waves remains elusive and astronomers are looking for it with radio telescopes.
For the first time, collaborators in the ERC funded project BlackHoleCam, inc ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) scientists have developed a robot that can autonomously assemble an IKEA chair without interruption.
Designed by Assistant Professor Pham Quang Cuong and his team from NTU's School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the robot comprises a 3D camera and two robotic arms equipped with grippers to pick up objects. The team coded ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 20, 2018 
The United States dropped some restrictions Thursday on sales of its advanced drones in order to reinforce the armies of its allies and compete with China on the world arms market.
President Donald Trump's White House announced an update to its policy on arms transfers to promote US exports and jobs, and specifically to loosen the rules on selling unmanned warplanes.
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