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Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to Luna Guildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019 The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on the far side of the moon and involving private companies as well as national space agencies, to put humans back on the lunar surface. But building a moon base and actually living on the moon will require careful planning. First, we need to identify and map available lunar resources, including hydrogen an ... read more |
China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket ... more New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but n ... more New Orleans LA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section, the lowest portion of the massive core stage for NASA's rocket, is assembled and ready to be mated to the rest of the rocket's core stage. ... more Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color. Thanks to coordin ... more |
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Hints of a volcanically active exomoon Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. Today, there are indications that an active moon outside our solar system, an exo-Io, could be hidden at the exoplanet sys ... more Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms -the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below the clouds? What is causing the many st ... more Washington DC (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Many of today's communications, navigation, financial transaction, distributed cloud, and defense applications rely on the precision timing of atomic clocks - or clocks that track time based on the ... more Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2019 Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, held Aug. 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led ... more Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2019 The Trump administration asked the US Congress in May to increase NASA spending next year to accommodate the goal of returning Americans to the surface of the Moon by 2024. NASA is offering $7 ... more |
CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019 An atomic clock that could pave the way for autonomous deep space travel was successfully activated last week and is ready to begin its year-long tech demo, the mission team confirmed on Friday, Aug ... more |
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'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules Geneva (AFP) Sept 2, 2019 Top players in global tech companies kicked off work Monday to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft's president voicing a "sense of urgency". ... more Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun - reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth ar ... more Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2019 Built-in night vision may not be far off. Scientists have developed nanoparticles that allow mice to see near-infrared light. ... more Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 For the first time, scientists built a synthetic biologic system with compartments like real cells. This Army project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could lead to materials that provide ... more Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Sep 02, 2019 DGIST announced on Wednesday, August 21 that Professor Jae Eun Jang's team in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering developed electronic skin technology that can detect "prick" ... more |
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ESA Chief says discussed ExoMars 2020 launch with Roscosmos Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface of the Red Planet. The European Space Agency's Director General Jan Woerner said he had spoken to Russia's Roscosmos during MAKS-2019 to ensure all issues on the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars-202 ... more |
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Pull Me to the Moon: Scientists Revolutionize Space Lift Concept to Save Cash on Lunar Missions New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but not impossible. Scientists have come up with an interesting twist on the old concept of space lift, which should, in theory, significantly cut the cost of future Lunar missions, The Daily Star re ... more |
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color. Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument Hilo HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 A cunning new instrument at Gemini Observatory has achieved what was once thought impossible - namely, the characterization of an exoplanet orbiting a binary star and determining which star of the pair it orbits. In an unprecedented feat, an American research team discovered hidden secrets of an elusive exoplanet using a powerful new instrument at the 8-meter Gemini North telescope on Maun ... more |
Russia Launches Rokot Space Rocket to Orbit Military Satellite Plesetsk, Russia (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019 Russia's Space Forces have launched a Rokot carrier rocket with a military spacecraft from the Plesetsk space centre in the north of the country, the Defence Ministry said. "All pre-launch operations and the launch of the Rokot space rocket were successful. The ground assets of the Space Forces carried out control over the launch and the flight of the launch vehicle", the ministry said. ... more |
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China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit. Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019 This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), an instrument contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sa ... more |
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Rheinmetall, MBDA start work on ship-mounted laser for German navy Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship. While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development. ... more |
Russia receives India's advance payment for S-400 air defence systems Zhukovsky (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019 Washington has repeatedly criticised India's defence cooperation with Russia since it sees the country as its major partner in Southern Asia. The United States made an attempt in 2018 to prevent India from reaching the deal with Russia on purchasing the S-400s. Russia has received from India an advance payment for S-400 air defence missile systems, the Federal Service for Military-Technica ... more |
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A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing rings Los Angeles CA (The Conversation) Aug 15, 2019 Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with them, and if, having done so, observe Saturn and its rings. Whether our time-traveling astronomer would be able to observe Saturn's rings is debatable. Have the rings, in some shape or form, exi ... more |
Physicists create world's smallest engine Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine. Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
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A key piece to understanding how quantum gravity affects low-energy physics Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019 Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect. In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more |
Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the gravitational field of others or the motion of an electron in a magnetic field are extremely well understood, and predictions can be made with astonishing accuracy. However, when the quantum character of the particles and fields inv ... more |
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NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA Challenge Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2019 Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, held Aug. 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, that features wheeled rovers, drones and climbing robots that can rise on pinball-flipper-shaped treads to scale obstacles. Held by ... more |
Iran unveils new reconnaissance and attack drone Tehran (AFP) Sept 1, 2019 Iran on Sunday unveiled a jet-propelled drone it said is capable of finding and attacking targets far from the country's borders with precision. Dubbed the "Kian", the unmanned aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested by experts of the air defence force within about a year, said the head of the force, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard. The drone comes in two models capable of ... more |
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