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  Pullman WA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Modeling the shape and movement of near-Earth asteroids is now up to 25 times faster thanks to new Washington State University research. The WSU scientists improved the software used to track thousands of near-Earth asteroids and comets, which are defined as being within 121 million miles or about 1.3 times the distance to the sun. Their work provides a valuable new tool for studying asteroids and determining which of them might be on a collision course with Earth. Matt Engels, a PhD s ... read more |
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NASA Chief Explains Why America Hasn't Been Back to the Moon Since the 70sWashington DC (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019 Late last week, NASA announced that senior officials in charge of the manned space mission portfolio had been reshuffled amid growing impatience from President Donald Trump to hasten the return huma ... more  
Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly missionNew Haven CT (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale's Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn's icy moon. T ... more 
At 82, NASA pioneer Sue Finley still reaching for the starsWashington (AFP) July 16, 2019 Sue Finley began work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the US prepared to launch its first satellite into orbit in 1958, racing to match the Soviet Union, which had accomplished the feat months earlier. ... more 
Solving combustion instability and saving America's first trips to the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 In May 1961, the fledgling U.S. space program had just 15 minutes of manned spaceflight. Yet the decision on the big goal had already been made: Before 1970, NASA would land a man on the Moon and br ... more |
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Humanity needs bold new space mission, Apollo legends agreeCocoa Beach FL (UPI) Jul 17, 2019 A new, bold challenge in space exploration is needed to advance American prosperity and unite humanity with a common goal, a group of Apollo-era legends said Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of Apoll ... more  
A material way to make Mars habitableBoston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, S ... more 
MASCOT Confirms What Scientists Have Long SuspectedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 Ryugu and other asteroids of the common 'C-class' consist of more porous material than was previously thought. Small fragments of their material are therefore too fragile to survive entry into the a ... more 
ESA identifies demand for satellites around the MoonParis (ESA) Jul 17, 2019 Dozens of very different commercial and institutional missions to the Moon are planned for the coming decades. These encompass everything from NASA's manned Lunar Gateway research station and ... more 
India aims to become 4th nation to land on moonWashington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 India will try to become just the fourth country to make a soft landing on the moon, after its Chandrayaan 2 mission takes off Monday. India's space agency is making final preparations over th ... more |
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First time human-on-a-chip predicts in vivo results based on in vitro modelWashington DC (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 Hesperos Inc., pioneers of the "human-on-a-chip" in vitro system has announced the use of its innovative multi-organ model to successfully measure the concentration and metabolism of two known cardi ... more  |
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Maxar teams with Dynetics on power and propulsion element for Lunar GatewayWestminster CO (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 Maxar Technologies has signed a teaming agreement with Huntsville, Alabama-based Dynetics to support Maxar in building and demonstrating the power and propulsion element for the Gateway - an essenti ... more  
Robot-ants that can jump, communicate with each other and work togetherLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 Individually, ants have only so much strength and intelligence. However, as a colony, they can use complex strategies to complete sophisticated tasks and evade larger predators. At EPFL, robot ... more  
New developments with Chinese satellites over the past decadeBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 To date, 17 Chinese self-developed FengYun (FY) meteorological satellites have been launched, which are widely applied in weather analysis, numerical weather forecasting and climate prediction, as w ... more  
Super salty, subzero Arctic water provides peek at possible life on other planetsSeattle WA (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 In recent years, the idea of life on other planets has become less far-fetched. NASA announced June 27 that it will send a vehicle to Saturn's icy moon, Titan, a celestial body known to harbor surfa ... more 
Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields surrounding Earth and other planetsPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. Now, a team of scientists has completed research into waves that travel through this magnetic, electrically charged ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
People have long dreamed of re-shaping the Martian climate to make it livable for humans. Carl Sagan was the first outside of the realm of science fiction to propose terraforming. In a 1971 paper, Sagan suggested that vaporizing the northern polar ice caps would "yield ~10 s g cm-2 of atmosphere over the planet, higher global temperatures through the greenhouse effect, and a greatly increased li ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jul 17, 2019  Late last week, NASA announced that senior officials in charge of the manned space mission portfolio had been reshuffled amid growing impatience from President Donald Trump to hasten the return human beings to the lunar surface.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has explained why the US suspended its manned lunar program over 40 years ago and what it will take for the US manned space prog ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 11, 2019 
New analysis of Juno mission data suggests Jupiter's auroras are powered by alternating current, not direct current.
Jupiter, a the largest planet in the solar system, boasts an aurora with a radiant power of 100 terawatts, or 100 billion kilowatts. It's the brightest aurora in the solar system.
Like Earth's auroras, Jupiter's light shows are centered around its poles. The aurora ... more |
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jul 13, 2019 
Vast rings of electrically charged particles encircle the Earth and other planets. Now, a team of scientists has completed research into waves that travel through this magnetic, electrically charged environment, known as the magnetosphere, deepening understanding of the region and its interaction with our own planet, and opening up new ways to study other planets across the galaxy.
The sci ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Jul 17, 2019  SpaceX announced Monday that the explosion of its Crew Dragon space capsule during an April test in Florida was due to the failure of a titanium valve.
The explosion put the schedule for a crewed flight of SpaceX missions to the International Space Station in doubt.
Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance for SpaceX, said sending people up in a Dragon capsule this year ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2019 
With eyes bright, Sun Zezhou, chief designer of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, speaks fast but clearly.
"Every time I see the moon, I think how Chinese probes have left permanent footprints on it, especially Chang'e-4, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the far side. As a member of the mission, I'm very proud," said Sun.
Chinese engineers began plans for the Chang'e-1 lunar probe i ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
Ryugu and other asteroids of the common 'C-class' consist of more porous material than was previously thought. Small fragments of their material are therefore too fragile to survive entry into the atmosphere in the event of a collision with Earth. This has revealed the long-suspected cause of the deficit of this meteorite type in finds on Earth.
Researchers at the German Aerospace Center ( ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2019 
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense announced that it seeks developers of laser- and radio frequency-guided weapons to shoot down drones and other enemy threats.
The concept is not new. The United States first employed non-lethal lasers in military service in 2014, largely to disable enemy electrical sensors, and the United Kingdom spent $37 million on a laser prototype in 2017. ... more |
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 Ankara (AFP) July 13, 2019 
Turkey ignored US warnings as it continued Saturday to take delivery of Russia's S-400 missile defence system near Ankara, a defence minstry statement indicated.
"Delivery of S-400 Long Range Air and Missile Defence Systems resumed today," the statement said.
"The fourth Russian plane carrying S-400 parts landed at Murted Airport outside Ankara," it added.
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Jul 17, 2019  By 2034, when the Dragonfly drone mission makes landfall on the surface of Titan, Yale's Juan Lora will have spent nearly half his life studying the climatic tendencies of Saturn's icy moon.
That's when the real work will begin, he says.
Finally, after long years of preparation and modeling, Lora and his colleagues on the scientific end of the NASA Dragonfly mission will begin to get ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
Over the past few decades, DARPA's Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) has enabled revolutionary advances in electronics materials, devices, and systems, which have provided the United States with unique defense and economic advantages. To continue its path of successful electronics innovation, DARPA has announced a new MTO effort called the Microsystems Exploration program.
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 Durham UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's general theory of relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form.
Physicists at Durham University, UK, simulated the cosmos using an alternative model for gravity - f(R)-gravity, a so called Chameleon Theory. The resulting images produced by the simulation show that galaxies like our Mi ... more |
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 Osaka, Japan (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 
A "vacuum" is generally thought to be nothing but empty space. But in fact, a vacuum is filled with "virtual particle-antiparticle pairs" of electrons and positrons that are continuously created and annihilated in unimaginably short time-scales.
The quest for a better understanding of vacuum physics will lead to the elucidation of fundamental questions in modern physics, which is integral ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 
Individually, ants have only so much strength and intelligence. However, as a colony, they can use complex strategies to complete sophisticated tasks and evade larger predators.
At EPFL, robotics researchers in Professor Jamie Paik's Laboratory have reproduced this phenomenon, developing tiny robots that display minimal physical intelligence on an individual level but that are able to comm ... more |
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 Sint-Truiden, Belgium (SPX) Jul 17, 2019 
C-Astral, a SESAR Joint Undertaking demonstrator project lead by Terra Drone-affiliated Unifly, is announcing its successful participation in the first practical SAFIR flight and integration tests at DronePort, Sint-Truiden, Belgium. SAFIR is a large-scale demonstration project aiming to showcase the economic viability of drone use in industrial environments.
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