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  Washington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 A comprehensive catalogue of the bacteria and fungi found on surfaces inside the International Space Station (ISS) is being presented in a study published in the open access journal Microbiome. Knowledge of the composition of the microbial and fungal communities on the ISS can be used to develop safety measures for NASA for long-term space travel or living in space. Dr Kasthuri Venkateswaran, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the corresponding author said: "Specific microbes in indoor s ... read more |
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UCF researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backwardOrlando FL (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they can also make it travel backward. ... more  
British instruments help reveal secrets of Mars atmosphereLondon (ESA) Apr 10, 2019 The 2016 ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is the first in a series of Mars missions to be undertaken jointly by the two space agencies, ESA and Roscosmos. A key goal of this mission is to gain a better und ... more 
Life Could Be Evolving Right Now on Nearest ExoplanetsIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets. When rocky, Earth-like planets were discovered orbit ... more  
Arralis announces 10W GaN-SiC MMIC high power amplifier for K-Band commsLimerick, Ireland (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 Irish company Arralis, global leaders in building technology and products that are the future of global radar and wireless communications, has announced the launch of its new Leonis series GaN-SiC H ... more |
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Public Invited to Help Name Solar System's Largest Unnamed WorldPasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change th ... more 
Samara scientists research how building material for planets appears in the universeSamara, Russia (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 The international team of scientists proposed a sequence of transformations starting from a chemical compound - a triphenylene molecule - to graphene nanoparticles, soot, and carbon dust, which are ... more 
Are brown dwarfs failed stars or super-planets?Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 Brown dwarfs fill the "gap" between stars and the much smaller planets - two very different types of astronomical objects. But how they originate has yet to be fully explained. Astronomers from Heid ... more 
ESA oversees teaching of Europe's next top solderersParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 Satellites are among the most complex machines ever designed, but in key respects they are still hand-made. A set of ESA-approved training schools train and certify the best solderers in Europe, to ... more 
Astronomers find evidence of a planet with a mass almost 13 times that of JupiterSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 In the past three decades, almost 4,000 planet-like objects have been discovered orbiting isolated stars outside the Solar System (exoplanets). Beginning in 2011, it was possible to use NASA's Keple ... more |
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Robots to autocomplete Soldier tasks, new study suggestsAdelphi MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 Smart phones autocorrect in texting, search engines autocomplete queries, and mapping applications redirect navigation in real-time to avoid slowed traffic. These ubiquitous AI-based technologies ad ... more  |
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Maxar and NASA complete Design Review for Restore-L On-Orbit Servicing Spacecraft BusWestminster CO (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 Maxar Technologies reports that the spacecraft bus it is building for NASA's Restore-L project to refuel a satellite in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) has completed an important review process called the Cri ... more 
Space Robotics Market to Surpass $3.5bn by 2025Selbyville DE (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 The space robotics market is predicted to hike from USD 2 billion in 2018 to around USD 3.5 billion by 2025, according to a 2019 Global Market Insights, Inc. report. The market is experiencing rapid ... more 
About 50 pieces of destroyed Indian satellite flying above ISS Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 08, 2019 Around 60 fragments of India's Microsat-R military satellite are currently flying in orbit, 46 of which are flying in orbits located above the apogee of the International Space Station (ISS), accord ... more 
Debris from anti-satellite test no danger to ISS, India saysNew Delhi (AFP) April 6, 2019 India insisted Saturday that debris from its anti-satellite missile test was not a danger to the International Space Station, in a rebuff to criticism from the US space agency. ... more  
China's commercial carrier rocket finishes engine testBeijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2019 China's first carrier rocket for commercial use, the Smart Dragon-1 (SD-1), has finished its engine test, paving way for its maiden flight in the first half of 2019, according to the China Academy o ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
The module that will carry the ExoMars rover and surface science platform from Earth to Mars has arrived in Italy for final integration preparations.
The module, along with electrical ground support equipment, shipped from OHB System in Bremen, Germany, arrived on 2 April at Thales Alenia Space in Turin, Italy.
The mission is the second in the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars programme th ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
European Space Agency operations specialists are helping flight planners at new European space startup PTScientists, headquartered in Berlin, pilot their way to the Moon.
PTScientists are planning to launch lunar landers and rovers as a regular service in the future, with an inaugural flight expected in 2020.
Specialists from ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germa ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published by The Planetary Society today, Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist who helped discover 2007 OR10, announced a campaign inviting the public to pick the best name to submit t ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
Rocky, Earth-like planets orbiting our closest stars could host life, according to a new study that raises the excitement about exoplanets.
When rocky, Earth-like planets were discovered orbiting in the habitable zone of some of our closest stars, excitement skyrocketed - until hopes for life were dashed by the high levels of radiation bombarding those worlds.
Proxima-b, only 4.24 li ... more |
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 Colorado Springs (Sputnik) Apr 09, 2019 
Russia is maintaining a high quality of its RD-180 rocket engines, President and CEO of the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Tory Bruno told Sputnik on the sidelines of the 35th Space Symposium in Colorado Springs.
"They [Russians] are actually doing a very good job and they are being very responsive. The quality is maintained high and we have had no issues with supply from them [...] They hav ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 04, 2019 
China's first carrier rocket for commercial use, the Smart Dragon-1 (SD-1), has finished its engine test, paving way for its maiden flight in the first half of 2019, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
The rocket is the first member of the Dragon series commercial carrier rockets family to be produced by CALT. It has a total length of 19.5 meters, a diameter ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2019 
Metallic asteroids are thought to have started out as blobs of molten iron floating in space. As if that's not strange enough, scientists now think that as the metal cooled and solidified, volcanoes spewing liquid iron could have erupted through a solid iron crust onto the surface of the asteroid.
This scenario emerged from an analysis by planetary scientists at UC Santa Cruz whose investi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 8, 2019 
Leidos has been awarded a $19.3 million contract for system integration and field testing of a laser weapon system being developed at Kirtland Air Force base in New Mexico.
The contract provides for advancing work on state-of-the-art of laser weapon system technology through research and development of laser weapon systems, as well as evaluate performance in relevant operational environ ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2019  Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $1.14 billion contract for Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System for Poland, Bahrain and Romania.
The foreign military sales contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, covers full rate production for the GMLRS surface-to-surface systems for the three nations.
Work on the contract is expected to run through Aug. 31, 2021, and will ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2019  Nestled between Saturn's rings are a collection of mini-moons that NASA's Cassini spacecraft skimmed past in 2017.
On Thursday, for the first time, astronomers and scientists are detailing their findings about the moons in the US journal Science.
Pan, Daphnis, Atlas, Pandora and Epimetheus each measure between eight and 116 kilometers (five to 72 miles) in diameter. They are either round ... more |
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Apr 03, 2019 
Scientists of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with colleagues from Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (FEB RAS), ITMO University and Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) developed a method for efficient mass production of silicon-germanium fully alloyed nanoantennas.
On their basis, optical biosensory platforms and next-generation chemical se ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
The history of science is filled with stories of enthusiastic researchers slowly winning over skeptical colleagues to their point of view. Astrophysicist Scott Hughes can relate to these tales.
"For the first 15 or 16 years of my career I was speaking to astronomers, and I always had the impression that they were politely interested in what I had to say, but regarded me as a little bit of ... more |
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 Tenerife, Spain (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) and the University of Cambridge have detected lithium in a primitive star in our galaxy. The observations were made at the VLT, at the Paranal Observatory of ESO in Chile.
In astrophysics, any element heavier than hydrogen and helium is termed "metal" and lithium is among the lightest of these metals. Researchers at the IAC and ... more |
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 Adelphi MD (SPX) Apr 08, 2019 
Smart phones autocorrect in texting, search engines autocomplete queries, and mapping applications redirect navigation in real-time to avoid slowed traffic. These ubiquitous AI-based technologies adapt to everyday needs and learn user habits by focusing on making the algorithm better, but Army researchers want to enhance AI by providing more information about the intent of the user.
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 Vienna (AFP) April 4, 2019 
It was more of a small step than a giant leap, but the first public outing of a pilotless "drone taxi" in Vienna on Thursday nevertheless offered a glimpse into the possible future of urban travel.
Several big companies such as Boeing and Airbus are working on their own versions of the technology but it was the Chinese firm EHang that unveiled its aircraft to assembled journalists in the Aus ... more |
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