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  Laurel MD (SPX) May 17, 2019 NASA's New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. Analyzing just the first sets of data gathered during the New Horizons spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby of MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) the mission team quickly discovered an object far more complex than expected. The team publishes the first peer-reviewed scientific results and interpretations - just four months after the flyby - in ... read more |
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China develops new-generation rockets for upcoming missionsBeijing (XNA) May 17, 2019 China has developed a number of new-generation carrier rockets to take the country's space industry to the next level. b>The Long March-7 br> /b> The Long March-7 is a medium-sized carrier r ... more  
Chinese lunar rover's "lucky" find could unlock secrets of moon and earthBeijing (XNA) May 17, 2019 China's Yutu-2, the first rover on the far side of the moon, has found materials from deep inside the moon that could help unravel the mystery of the lunar mantle composition and the formation and e ... more 
China's Chang'E 4 Mission Discovers New "Secrets" from Far Side of the MoonBeijing, China (SPX) May 17, 2019 A lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the Moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side of the Moon. The fourth probe of Chang'E (CE-4) was the first mission to land on the far side o ... more  
Reprogrammable satellite takes shapeParis (ESA) May 16, 2019 The payload and platform of the first European satellite that can be completely reprogrammed after launch have been successfully joined together. The assembly of Eutelsat Quantum took place in ... more |
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'Extreme Crunch' Looming if No Limits Put on Space Mining 'Gold Rush' Washington DC (Sputnik) May 15, 2019 Researchers have been proposing to set a special "tripwire" that would issue a warning once humanity is close to mining one eighth of the solar system, which has been preliminarily estimated to occu ... more 
Elkem's Silgrain Powering Space Exploration and ResearchStockholm, Sweden (SPX) May 15, 2019 Elkem is a world-leading supplier of specialised silicon materials to a range of industries, including aluminum, electronics, silicone chemicals, polysilicon, construction, refractories and oilfield ... more  
Small, hardy planets can survive stellar end sequenceWarwick UK (SPX) May 15, 2019 Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research from the University of Warwick has found. ... more 
Study finds new Luna wrinklesPasadena CA (JPL) May 14, 2019 Billions of years ago, Earth's Moon formed vast basins called "mare" (pronounced MAR-ay)*. Scientists have long assumed these basins were dead, still places where the last geologic activity occurred ... more 
China's satellite navigation industry sees rapid developmentBeijing (XNA) May 16, 2019 China's satellite navigation and location services industry achieved a total output value of 301.6 billion yuan (about 43.93 billion US dollars) in 2018, up 18.3 percent than the previous year, acco ... more |
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In robotics classes, Armenian teens dream of high-tech futureYerevan (AFP) May 14, 2019 In a sleek classroom in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, one of the poorest post-Soviet republics, 14-year-old Nazeli Ter-Petrosyan peers at the screen of her Apple Mac. ... more  |
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Beyond the Metal: Investigating Soft Robots at NASA LangleyHampton VA (SPX) May 09, 2019 Into the Spiderverse's newest crew of villains include a brilliant scientist named Doctor Octopus who uses flexible robotic arms to commit her dastardly deeds. Her bionic arms can throw objects, aid ... more 
Shrinking Moon may be generating moonquakesGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 14, 2019 The Moon is shrinking as its interior cools, getting more than about 150 feet (50 meters) skinnier over the last several hundred million years. Just as a grape wrinkles as it shrinks down to a raisi ... more 
Lunar tunnel engineers excited by boring Moon coloniesNaples, Italy (AFP) May 10, 2019 As space agencies prepare to return humans to the Moon, top engineers are racing to design a tunnel boring machine capable of digging underground colonies for the first lunar inhabitants. ... more 
NASA dubs 2024 Moon mission 'Artemis,' asks for $1.6 billionWashington (AFP) May 14, 2019 NASA's next mission to the Moon will be called Artemis, the US space agency announced Monday, though it's still looking for the money to make the journey happen by its accelerated 2024 deadline. ... more  
UA Partners With Space Tango to Test Diagnostic Tool in SpacePhoenix AZ (SPX) May 09, 2019 Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix are partnering with Space Tango, a private aerospace company that designs, builds and operates facilities on the International ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 16, 2019 
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter hit a dizzying milestone this morning: It completed 60,000 loops around the Red Planet at 10:39 a.m. PDT (1:39 p.m. EDT). On average, MRO takes 112 minutes to circle Mars, whipping around at about 2 miles per second (3.4 kilometers per second).
Since entering orbit on March 10, 2006, the spacecraft has been collecting daily science about the planet's surf ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 17, 2019 
China's Yutu-2, the first rover on the far side of the moon, has found materials from deep inside the moon that could help unravel the mystery of the lunar mantle composition and the formation and evolution of the moon and the earth.
Using data obtained by the visible and near infrared spectrometer installed on Yutu-2, a research team led by Li Chunlai, with the National Astronomical Obser ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) May 17, 2019 
NASA's New Horizons mission team has published the first profile of the farthest world ever explored, a planetary building block and Kuiper Belt object called 2014 MU69. Analyzing just the first sets of data gathered during the New Horizons spacecraft's New Year's 2019 flyby of MU69 (nicknamed Ultima Thule) the mission team quickly discovered an object far more complex than expected. The team pu ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) May 15, 2019 
Small, hardy planets packed with dense elements have the best chance of avoiding being crushed and swallowed up when their host star dies, new research from the University of Warwick has found.
Astrophysicists from the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group have modelled the chances of different planets being destroyed by tidal forces when their host stars become white dwarfs and have determined ... more |
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 Huntington Beach CA (SPX) May 13, 2019 
Rocket Lab announced Friday that its next flight will launch multiple spacecraft on a mission procured by satellite rideshare and mission management provider, Spaceflight. The launch window will open in June, with launch taking place from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula.
The mission is Rocket Lab's seventh Electron launch overall and the company's third for 201 ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) May 17, 2019 
China has developed a number of new-generation carrier rockets to take the country's space industry to the next level.
b>The Long March-7 br> /b>
The Long March-7 is a medium-sized carrier rocket with high reliability and safety. It is designed to launch cargo vehicles during the construction of China's manned space station project and meet the long-term demand for upgrading manned carri ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 16, 2019 
Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eradicate. Not even the fiery asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs could rid Earth of its bedbug infestation.
DNA analysis of some 30 different bedbug species showed the insect has been around for at least 115 million years.
Previously, scientists suggested bedbugs emerged between 50 and 60 million years ago. Bats were supposedly the b ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 01, 2019 
A U.S. Air Force exercise involving high-energy microwaves and guided lasers to shoot down drones was a success, contractor Raytheon announced.
Dozens of unmanned aerial targets were defeated in the tests at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., a Raytheon statement released on Tuesday said.
The event expanded on previous directed energy demonstrations, including a U.S. Army exercise ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 16, 2019  The US believes it is "possible" Turkey will decide against buying a Russian air defense system whose proposed purchase has strained relations between the NATO allies, a top official said on Thursday.
Washington has warned for months that Turkey's adoption of the Russian S-400 missile system would endanger Western defense and jeopardize Ankara's planned purchase of 100 of the US's F-35 steal ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy raindrops.
While trying to find the source of Titan's methane, University of Arizona researcher Caitlin Griffith and her team discovered something unexoldpected - a long ice feature that wraps nearl ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 10, 2019 
It took only 10 minutes and a ride aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket for 11 students in the Bruin Spacecraft Group to make history.
At 6:32 a.m. on May 2, their experimental pump designed for use in zero-gravity environments, named "Blue Dawn ," completed its flight into a low-Earth orbit and freefall - thereby becoming the first space payload developed and built entirely ... more |
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 Cracow, Poland (SPX) May 10, 2019 
Collisions of lead nuclei take place under extreme physical conditions. Their course can be described using a model which assumes that the transforming, extremely hot matter - the quark-gluon plasma - flows in the form of hundreds of streaks. Until now, the "fire streaks" seemed to be purely theoretical structures. However, the latest analysis of collisions of individual protons reinforces the h ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) May 13, 2019 
The Digital Innovation Hub Healthcare Robotics (DIH-HERO) has the goals of fostering closer exchanges between science and companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), accelerating the market introduction of innovations, and ensuring mutual support. This independent platform, which can be used by organisations from the fields of healthcare and medical technology with an intere ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 13, 2019 
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $163.6 million contract for support services on the U.S. Army's fleet of MQ-5B Hunter drones.
The company will operate, engineer, reconfigure and maintain the unmanned aerial systems as part of the new contract, the Department of Defense said Friday.
Work will be performed at Northrop Grumman's plant in Sierra Vista, Ariz., with the contract es ... more |
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