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  Beijing (XNA) Oct 18, 2019 China is preparing for the upcoming high-density space missions to construct China's space station, and the Long March-5B carrier rocket, set to launch capsules for the space station, is expected to make its maiden flight in 2020. Zhou Jianping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been appointed the chief designer of China's manned space program, and Gu Yidong, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has been appointed the chief space scientist of the program, acco ... read more |
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Space Traffic Controller Not A Job, But An AdventureBethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 In the not-too-distant future an international regulatory and enforcement agency may be looking for Space Traffic Controllers to fill hundreds of positions for well-trained professionals. It i ... more  
Mars InSight's 'Mole' is moving againPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2019 NASA's InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known as "the mole," dig nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) over the past week. While modest, the movement is significan ... more  
India's second Moon mission begins spectroscopic studies of lunar surfaceNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2019 espite the setback in India's second lunar mission - Chandrayaan-2, the rover of the satellite continues to go around the Moon with all its payloads and is completely functional. The lander failed t ... more  
The search for extrasolar planets continuesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 The discovery of the first exoplanet almost 25 years ago changed our perception of the origin and evolution of the Universe and challenged the uniqueness of our own Solar System. Today, scientists f ... more |
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China's first astronaut expects stepping onto MoonBeijing (XNA) Oct 17, 2019 Chinese first astronaut Yang Liwei said he was looking forward to setting foot on the moon. He made the remarks at the 16th anniversary of his flying into space aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraf ... more 
Russia's ability to return to the Moon in near future in questionMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 17, 2019 On Tuesday, a Roscosmos source revealed that the Russian space agency might send an anthropomorphic robot to the Moon as soon as three to four years from now, with its design expected to be based on ... more 
MRO HiRISE camera views InSight and Curiosity on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 17, 2019 The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently sent home eye-catching views of the agency's InSight lander and its Curiosity rover. HiRISE has been monitoring InSight's landi ... more 
Gas 'waterfalls' reveal infant planets around young starCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 The birthplaces of planets are disks made out of gas and dust. Astronomers study these so-called protoplanetary disks to understand the processes of planet formation. Beautiful images of disks made ... more 
ExoMars parachute progressParis (ESA) Oct 16, 2019 Positive steps towards solving the problems discovered with the ExoMars mission parachutes have been taken in the last month to keep on track for the July-August 2020 launch window. The missio ... more |
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Analysis of Galileo's Jupiter entry probe reveals gaps in heat shield modelingWashington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 The entry probe of the Galileo mission to Jupiter entered the planet's atmosphere in 1995 in fiery fashion. As the probe descended from Mach 50 to Mach 1 and generated enough heat to cause plasma re ... more  |
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Planned new rocket carries hope for China's manned lunar landing programBeijing (XNA) Oct 17, 2019 Space engineers have made a key step in designing a new generation launch vehicle that could help start China's manned lunar exploration program, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technol ... more  
Quantum paradox experiment may lead to more accurate clocks and sensorsBrisbane, Australia (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 More accurate clocks and sensors may result from a recently proposed experiment, linking an Einstein-devised paradox to quantum mechanics. University of Queensland physicist Dr Magdalena Zych ... more  
Safe Genes Tool Kit Takes ShapeWashington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 DARPA launched the Safe Genes program in 2017 to establish a "safety by design" strategy for guiding the development of an array of powerful, emergent genome editing technologies. Consistent with th ... more 
UK eases sanctions on Moscow to allow activities related to joint space mission to MarsLondon, UK (Sputnik) Oct 04, 2019 The United Kingdom has eased sanctions on Russia by amending its Export Control Order 2014 to allow for certain activities necessary for the ExoMars-2020 joint Russia-EU space mission. "Articl ... more 
China's rocket-carrying ships depart for transportation missionNanjing (XNA) Oct 14, 2019 China's two rocket-carrying ships departed Saturday from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province on a transportation mission. The two Yuanwang ships are China's first ships made exclusively to ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2019 
NASA's InSight spacecraft has used its robotic arm to help its heat probe, known as "the mole," dig nearly 2 centimeters (3/4 of an inch) over the past week. While modest, the movement is significant: Designed to dig as much as 16 feet (5 meters) underground to gauge the heat escaping from the planet's interior, the mole has only managed to partially bury itself since it started hammering in Feb ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 18, 2019 
espite the setback in India's second lunar mission - Chandrayaan-2, the rover of the satellite continues to go around the Moon with all its payloads and is completely functional. The lander failed to soft-land on the surface of the Moon and lost contact with the Earth Station of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
The Rover has now started collecting data on the lunar surface an ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2019 
The discovery of the first exoplanet almost 25 years ago changed our perception of the origin and evolution of the Universe and challenged the uniqueness of our own Solar System. Today, scientists from the German Aerospace Center and other organisations are using new techniques and instruments on ESA missions such as CHEOPS and PLATO to set their sights even higher - the hunt for a second Earth. ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 15, 2019 
Deployment of a long-range hypersonic weapon system by the U.S. Army is expected by 2023, the Association of the United States Army was told at its annual convention.
Robert Strider, deputy director of Army hypersonic programs on Monday told attendees of the AUSA convention that an experimental prototype, "with residual combat capability," will be fielded by 2023, as announced by the Ar ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 18, 2019 
China is preparing for the upcoming high-density space missions to construct China's space station, and the Long March-5B carrier rocket, set to launch capsules for the space station, is expected to make its maiden flight in 2020.
Zhou Jianping, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has been appointed the chief designer of China's manned space program, and Gu Yidong, an aca ... more |
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 La Palma, Spain (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
The study of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is driven by both scientific and practical reasons. Because of their proximity to our planet, they can provide key information regarding the delivery of water and organic-rich material to the early Earth, and the subsequent emergence of life. On the other hand, these small bodies of the solar system have non-negligible long-term probabilities of colliding ... more |
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 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.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 16, 2019 
The U.S. Army does not intend to purchase additional Israeli-made Iron Dome missile defense systems, but may have to, the officer leading a missile group said.
The purchase of the interim system in the summer of 2019 was a stopgap measure, officials said, meant to meet Congress's 2023 deadline on missile defense in the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act for the Army to develop its ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 9, 2019 
Move over Jupiter, Saturn is now the most moon-rich planet in the solar system. This week, astronomers at the Carnegie Institution for Science announced the discovery of 20 new moons around Saturn.
"Using some of the largest telescopes in the world, we are now completing the inventory of small moons around the giant planets," lead researcher Scott S. Sheppard said in a news release. "Th ... more |
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 Bath UK (SPX) Sep 23, 2019 
A new nanomaterial developed by scientists at the University of Bath could solve a conundrum faced by scientists probing some of the most promising types of future pharmaceuticals.
Scientists who study the nanoscale - with molecules and materials 10,000 smaller than a pinhead - need to be able to test the way that some molecules twist, known as their chirality, because mirror image molecul ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star formation.
While galaxy clusters have been used to magnify objects at optical wavelengths, this is the first time scientists have leveraged ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 18, 2019 
"Weather" in clusters of galaxies may explain a longstanding puzzle, according to a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. The scientists used sophisticated simulations to show how powerful jets from supermassive black holes are disrupted by the motion of hot gas and galaxies, preventing gas from cooling, which could otherwise form stars. The team publish their work in the journal M ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 
Today's commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations - wings at one factory, fuselage sections at another, tail components somewhere else - and then flown to a central plant in huge cargo planes for final assembly.
But what if the final assembly was the only assembly, with the whole plane built out of a large array of tiny identical pieces, all p ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2019 
Israeli defense contractor Elbit Systems announced the sale of over 1,000 THOR mini-drones to an unnamed Southeast Asian country in a $153 million deal.
The contract for the unmanned aircraft systems, including other unmanned aircraft manufactured by the company, will be executed over a 22-month period, Elbit said earlier this week.
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