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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 space. A prototype system has been successfully built and tested under 'near space' conditions at Kleos' devel ... read more |
LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the MoonHerndon, 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 Adminis ... more
China plans to launch 'moon double' into space to illuminate streetsBeijing (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
Asteroid named after university of China's science academyBeijing (XNA) Oct 18, 2018 An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (Univ ... more
NASA's OSIRIS-REx executes second asteroid approach maneuverGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its second Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-2). The spacecraft's main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft's speed relati ... more |
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Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets formBoston MA (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. T ... more
Strofio will measure Mercury's exosphere on BepiColombo missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 The European Space Agency's BepiColombo spacecraft will launch towards Mercury carrying a unique payload designed and built at Southwest Research Institute: an instrument called Strofio, which will ... more
Algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next levelThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 An international team of scientists, including high performance computing (HPC) experts from the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), astronomers from the Paris Observatory a ... more
Russian Scientists Start Research on Impact of Zero-Gravity on HumansMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 11, 2018 The Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biomedical Problems has initiated research on the influence of zero-G on the human body during flights to the Moon and back; around 20 people will engag ... more
Icy moon of Jupiter, Ganymede, shows evidence of past strike-slip faultingManoa 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 undergo ... more |
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Saft batteries power MASCOT on Asteroid RyuguParis, France (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 Saft, the leader in batteries for space, is celebrating the success of the MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout), an asteroid lander designed to research the origins of the solar system, which reli ... more |
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Scientists to debate landing site for next Mars roverPasadena 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 ... more
Efforts to communicate with Opportunity continuePasadena CA (JPL) Oct 15, 2018 The dust storm on Mars has effectively ended with atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site down to around 1.0 to 1.1, values are typical for storm-free conditions this time of year. No si ... more
Practising for BepiColombo's epic escape to MercuryParis (ESA) Oct 15, 2018 The international BepiColombo spacecraft will soon take flight, on a complex journey to the innermost planet of the Solar System, Mercury. Encompassing nine planetary flybys and travelling a total d ... more
First Man: a new vision of the Apollo 11 mission to set foot on the MoonMelbourne, 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
Bursting the clouds for better communicationGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 We live in an age of long-range information, transmitted either by underground optical fibre or by radio frequency from satellites. But the throughput today is so great that radio frequency is no lo ... 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 |
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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 depicted in the new movie First Man, out in cinemas today.
Director Damien Chazelle has delivered an intense film about astronaut Neil Armstrong, who made those iconic first steps.
But this i ... more |
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 |
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Double dust ring test could spot migrating planets Warwick UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
New research by a team led by an astrophysicist at the University of Warwick has a way of finally telling whether newly forming planets are migrating within the disc of dust and gas that typically surrounds stars or whether they are simply staying put in the same orbit around the star.
Finding real evidence that a planet is migrating (usually inwards) within such discs would help solve a n ... more |
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 |
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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 |
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 |
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Lockheed Martin, General Atomics, Boeing compete for laser-armed drone Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018
Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing have received contract modifications for drone-mounted Low Power Laser Demonstrator system missile defense testing.
Lockheed Martin's contract has increased to a total value of $37.7 million, while General Atomics and Boeing's have been increased to $34 million and $29.4 million respectively, the Department of Defense announced on Friday.
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Lockheed Martin Delivers 300th THAAD Interceptor Washington DC (SPX) Oct 12, 2018
Lockheed Martin has delivered the 300th interceptor for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the only system in the world designed to intercept threats both inside and outside the atmosphere. The production maturity milestone comes as demand for the company's hit-to-kill missile defense system and interceptors continues to grow.
"The Missile Defense Agency, industry and ... more |
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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 |
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 |
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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 |
Physics: Not everything is where it seems to be Innsbruck, Austria (SPX) Oct 18, 2018
With modern optical imaging techniques, the position of objects can be measured with a precision that reaches a few nanometers. These techniques are used in the laboratory, for example, to determine the position of atoms in quantum experiments.
"We want to know the position of our quantum bits very precisely so that we can manipulate and measure them with laser beams," explains Gabriel Ara ... more |
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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 |
DARPA seeks proposals for 3rd OFFSET Swarm Sprint, awards 2nd Contracts Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2018
DARPA's OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems providing critical insights to small ground military units in urban areas where vertical structures, tight spaces, and limited sight lines constrain communications and mobility. DARPA is soliciting proposals for its third swarm sprint, which will focus on the topics of human-swarm teaming an ... more |
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