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  Beijing (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 China on Monday called for submissions from the public with creative approaches for the design of its manned lunar landing and ascent vehicles. According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program, the aim is to find innovative ideas for the design of manned lunar surface landing and ascent vehicles. Submissions should include new concepts, approaches, and technology, and will be accepted from people from all walks of life with an interest in the space program. "M ... read more |
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Space smash: simulating when satellites collideParis (ESA) Apr 25, 2018 Satellites orbiting Earth are moving at many kilometres per second - so what happens when their paths cross? Satellite collisions are rare, and their consequences poorly understood, so a new project ... more 
NASA engineers dream big with small spacecraftPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 20, 2018 Many of NASA's most iconic spacecraft towered over the engineers who built them: think Voyagers 1 and 2, Cassini or Galileo - all large machines that could measure up to a school bus. But in t ... more  
Structured light and nanomaterials open new ways to tailor light at the nanoscaleHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tubingen (Germany) ha ... more  
Physicists gain control over transitions between different states of matterSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 An international group of physicists managed for the first time to experimentally observe the transition between two different states of matter: propagating polariton-solitons and a Bose-Einstein co ... more |
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Atoms may hum a tune from grand cosmic symphonyCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Researchers playing with a cloud of ultracold atoms uncovered behavior that bears a striking resemblance to the universe in microcosm. Their work, which forges new connections between atomic physics ... more
Aerospace offers new solutions for Space Traffic ManagementColorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 The Aerospace Corporation's Center for Space Policy and Strategy (CSPS) released two new policy papers that examine major implications for space traffic management due to the proliferation of small, ... more 
The New Space Race: NASA to Award 1st Contracts for Gateway Moon BaseWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 As the space race heats up, the first contracts for the manufacture of key components for humanity's Gateway orbital lunar base will be awarded in 2019, according to NASA. Expected to begin ne ... more 
Moon Colonization: Why do we want it and what technologies do we have?Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 Scientists are convinced that humankind is capable of turning the Moon into a space outpost: people have cosmodromes, heavy carrier rockets, space modules and lunar rovers. Sputnik reveals what is b ... more 
Indian Space Agency claims to have saved $120 mln on second Lunar missionNew Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 20, 2018 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has claimed that it has saved $120 million in public money in the upcoming moon mission "Chandrayaan-2," which is expected to be launched in October-Nov ... more |
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Lyrid meteor shower to peak over the weekendWashington (UPI) Apr 20, 2018 The second major meteor shower of 2018 is set to peak this weekend. The Lyrids will deliver roughly 20 streaking meteors per hour during its peak. ... more  |
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Are we alone? NASA's new planet hunter aims to find outTampa (AFP) April 16, 2018 SpaceX postponed the launch of NASA's new planet-hunting mission Monday in order to verify the Falcon 9 rocket's navigation systems, the California-based company said. ... more 
Ultrafast electron oscillation and dephasing monitored by attosecond light sourceYokohama, Japan (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Collaborative research team of Prof. Jun Takeda and Associate Prof. Ikufumi Katayama in the laboratory of Yokohama National University (YNU) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) successfully obs ... more 
Close Call: Giant Asteroid Flies Through the Earth-Moon OrbitTucson AZ (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2018 With just a few hours' notice, a relatively large asteroid whipped through the Earth-moon orbit over the weekend. You may have missed it though; humanity only learned of the asteroid hours before th ... more  
Understanding Mercury's Magnetic TailCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 Theoretical physicists used simulations to explain the unusual readings collected in 2009 by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) mission. The origin of ener ... more 
SSTL and Goonhilly Earth Station Sign Collaboration Agreement with ESA for Commercial Lunar MissionsGuildford, UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), Goonhilly Earth Station (GES) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a collaboration agreement for Commercial Lunar Mission Support Services at the ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope, astronomers uncovered the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops. This result resolves a stubborn, long-standing my ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
We know more about the surface of the moon that we do about the bottom of the ocean. The sea floor is an alien landscape, with crushing pressure, near-total darkness, and fluids wafting from cracks in the Earth's crust. It's also home to some weird animals that scientists are only just getting to know. Case in point: deep-sea expeditions and drones have revealed a giant group of octopuses and th ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth-Moon system. Their work shows that an impact between proto-Mars and a dwarf-planet-sized object likely produced the two moons, as detailed in a paper published in Science Advances.
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 
China on Monday called for submissions from the public with creative approaches for the design of its manned lunar landing and ascent vehicles.
According to Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program, the aim is to find innovative ideas for the design of manned lunar surface landing and ascent vehicles.
Submissions should include new concepts, approaches, and techn ... more |
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 Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 23, 2018 
What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tubingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so-called "plasmonic oligomers") can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanome ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 24, 2018 
The next Sentinel satellite for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme is poised for liftoff from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia.
The Sentinel-3B satellite has been at the cosmodrome since mid-March being readied for its ride into space on 25 April at 17:57 GMT (19:57 CEST).
After being sealed from view in the rocket fairing last week, it was rolled out to ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 23, 2018 
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013, after a period of hibernation, the asteroid- and comet-hunter has completely scanned the skies nearly eight times and has observed and characterized 29,375 objects in four years of operations. This total includes 788 near-Ea ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A group of international scientists have met at Queen's University Belfast to finalise plans for a next generation telescope which will help to crack the mysteries of the Sun.
The revolutionary four-metre telescope is being designed to investigate the Sun at unprecedented resolution. It will allow scientists to identify structures as small as 30km, which is the equivalent to finding a poun ... more |
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 Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 25, 2018 
The relay satellite for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe expected to land on the far side of the Moon later this year, has been named "Queqiao" - magpie bridge.
The name was announced by the China National Space Administration (CNSA)Tuesday, China's Space Day.
In a Chinese folktale, magpies form a bridge with their wings on the seventh night of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to ena ... more |
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Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Apr 23, 2018
What happens when you excite novel assemblies of nanomaterials using structured light? Joint research between Tampere University of Technology (TUT) (Finland) and University of Tubingen (Germany) has shown that carefully structured light and matching arrangements of metal nanostructures (so-called "plasmonic oligomers") can be combined to alter the properties of the generated light at the nanome ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 23, 2018 
Early hominins had adopted a human-like gait prior to the emergence of the Homo genus, new research suggests.
After analyzing a series of 3.6-million-year-old hominin footprints, researchers determined human-like bipedalism evolved much earlier than previously thought.
"Fossil footprints are truly the only direct evidence of walking in the past," David Raichlen, an associate prof ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Apr 19, 2018  Standard flat imagery of space science is a thing of the past for researchers at NASA's Glenn Research Center and Procter and Gamble Co. (P and G). Using the International Space Station's newly upgraded microscope, the Light Microscopy Module (LMM), scientists can now see microscopic particles in 3-dimensional images.
On April 12, researchers first viewed the particles, called colloids, in ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 24, 2018 
The end of the last ice age was precipitated by a shift in the circulation of the North Pacific Ocean some 15,000 years ago.
According to new research by scientists at the University of St. Andrews, the altered circulation released large amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, warming Earth's climate.
Scientists modeled the ancient shifts in circulation and ocean-atmosphere gas excha ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2018 
Just after the likely next head of US Pacific Command told Congress China's undersea warfare capability is one of the most pressing threats to the US, a new report says Beijing is establishing another base in the South China Sea for deploying manned and unmanned submersible vehicles.
The base would be located in Sanya, a city on the southern edge of China's Hainan island, Asia Times report ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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