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  Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is now beginning its final approach to explore Ultima Thule - our first Kuiper Belt object (KBO) flyby target - about a billion miles beyond Pluto. And on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, New Horizons will swoop three times closer to "Ultima" than we flew past Pluto three years ago! As someone who follows New Horizons, let your friends and social media followers know about the upcoming exploration of Ultima and that New Horizons and NASA will make histo ... read more |
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Mars Mole HP3 Arrives at the Red PlanetBonn, Germany (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Just a few weeks from now, the German Aerospace Center's HP3 Mole will start hammering its way automatically into the subsoil of the Red Planet to measure its inner heat. "By participating in ... more 
With InSight on Mars, Scientists Feel Earthly Relief, Get to WorkIthaca NY (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 After cruising for 205 days over 301 million miles, NASA's InSight spacecraft - a mission designed to probe beneath the surface of Mars - landed flawlessly Nov. 26 at Elysium Planitia. Cornell Unive ... more  
Exoplanet mission launch slot announcedParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, will target 15 October to 14 November 2019 for launch. Cheops will lift off on a Soyuz rocket operated by Arianespace from Europe's spaceport in ... more  
Successful second round of experiments with Wendelstein 7-XGarching, Germany (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 During the course of the step-by-step upgrading of Wendelstein 7-X, the plasma vessel was fitted with inner cladding since September of last year. Graphite tiles are now protecting the vessel walls. ... more |
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Lockheed Martin and NASA JPL Successfully Land on MarsDenver CO (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 NASA has a new spacecraft operating on the surface of Mars. This afternoon, the InSight Mars Lander, which was designed, built and tested by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), navigated the dramatic entry ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne Propulsion Delivers Mars InSight to Planet's SurfaceRedmond WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Using sophisticated propulsion devices provided by Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA's Mars InSight lander successfully touched down on the surface of the red planet Nov. 26. The final phase of lnSight ... more 
Research helps in understanding the dynamics of dune formationSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Crescent-shaped dunes called barchans are structures that appear in a wide variety of environments, including beaches and deserts, riverbeds and the seafloor, inside water pipes and oil pipelines, a ... more 
Bacteria Likely to Soon Infect ISS Crew Found to Be Antibiotic-ResistantHouston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 Although the newly researched strains bear a striking similarity to ones typically found on Earth, specifically in intensive care units in hospitals, the discovery is a wake-up call given the no-gra ... more 
New Climate Models of TRAPPIST-1's Seven Intriguing WorldsSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate mod ... more |
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 NASA's Lucy in the Sky with... Asteroids? 
Encouraging prospects for moon huntersZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Astrophysicists of the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich and the Swiss NCCR PlanetS show how the icy moons of Uranus were born. Their result suggests that such potentially habitable worlds are much m ... more  |
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Electric blue thrusters propelling BepiColombo to MercuryParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 In mid-December, twin discs will begin glowing blue on the underside of a minibus-sized spacecraft in deep space. At that moment Europe and Japan's BepiColombo mission will have just come a crucial ... more 
Shaping the surface of Mars with water, wind and iceParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 ESA's Mars Express has imaged an intriguing part of the Red Planet's surface: a rocky, fragmented, furrowed escarpment lying at the boundary of the northern and southern hemisphere. This region is ... more 
ESA lends a hand at MarsParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 The Red Planet will receive its first new resident in six years on Monday when NASA's InSight lander touches down, aiming to investigate the Martian interior. ESA ground stations and orbiters are pl ... more  
Student-designed spacecraft could aid in the exploration of planets in our solar system and beyondDaytona Beach, FL (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 A self-directed spacecraft rotates on a platform inside a glass-enclosed test chamber in the Engineering Physics Propulsion Lab in the College of Arts and Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Unive ... more 
InSight Spacecraft on Course for Mars TouchdownPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2018 NASA's Mars Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft is on track for a soft touchdown on the surface of the Red Planet on Nov. 26, the Monday after Th ... more |
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 Pasadena, United States (AFP) Nov 26, 2018  Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture.
The high-drama landing of the waist-high spacecraft capped a nearly seven year journey, from spacecraft design, to launch to eventual touchdown, marking the eighth successful landing on Mars in ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2018 
Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation and NASA will work on the concept of a lunar orbital station that may be built with the fully-fledged participation of Russia, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
"Today NASA is highly interested in the full-fledged Russian participation [in development of a lunar station], and I hope that together we will shape the full architecture of ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is now beginning its final approach to explore Ultima Thule - our first Kuiper Belt object (KBO) flyby target - about a billion miles beyond Pluto. And on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, New Horizons will swoop three times closer to "Ultima" than we flew past Pluto three years ago!
As someone who follows New Horizons, let your friends and socia ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate models for the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.
The work also could help astronomers more effectively study planets around stars unlike our Sun, and better use the limited, expensive resou ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
The Launch Readiness Review (LRR) will take place on Monday, December 3, 2018 in Kourou to authorize the start of operations for the final countdown.
To be installed as Ariane 5's upper passenger, GSAT-11 is an operational telecommunication satellite designed and manufactured by ISRO.
To be positioned at 74 degrees East, GSAT-11's ISRO's largest and heaviest communication satellite e ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 
Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea - small objects deep in our solar system - can be credited for forming and maintaining their own rings, according new research in Nature Astronomy.
"Rings appear around Saturn, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus, but scientists found rings around Chariklo and Haumea within the last few years. C ... more |
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept.
Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airbo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
U.S. Army has signed a deal to supply the Romanian government with three Raytheon defense systems.
Romania will use the new Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems - the country's second order of the systems in the last two years - to deter any any threats to its borders.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air missile provides the "backbone" to the missile defense capabilities used by ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff.
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Saturn's rings, passing comets, or co-orbital moons Helene and Po ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Nov 15, 2018 
A team of scientists from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with researchers from Monash University Australia, has succeeded in significantly increasing the stability and biocompatibility of special light-transducing nanoparticles.
The team has developed the so-called "upconverting" nanoparticles that not only convert infrared light into UV-visible light, bu ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
Everybody is familiar with granular clusters - while making a cake in the kitchen, you see that the flour forms clumps. Porous dust agglomerates - clumps of clumps of dust grains - are considered to be building materials in the formation of planets. But to reveal how planets are formed, the physical behaviour of these dust clumps has to be properly understood.
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 Porto, Portugal (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
They are massive, they are very small, and they are extremely rare, but may hold the secrets of how galaxies form and evolve. A new study[1] lifts the tip of the veil over the timid life of the massive ultra-compact galaxies. It was published on the 16th of November in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics and was carried out by an international team led by Fernando Buitrago, of Instituto de As ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 
A research team from the RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) has successfully developed a new method for machine learning that allows an AI to make classifications without what is known as "negative data," a finding which could lead to wider application to a variety of classification tasks.
Classifying things is critical for our daily lives. For example, we have to detect ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 23, 2018 
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded Insitu $18 million for mid-endurance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance under the MEUAS 1.5B program.
The award is a modification to an existing contract that raises the ceiling of of the program to $250 million to prevent gaps in ISR services as they switch orders over to MEUAS III.
The ScanEagle is an unmanned aerial vehicl ... more |
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