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October 23, 2018

Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study  Paris (AFP) Oct 22, 2018 - Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years ago, researchers reported Monday. In some locations, the amount of oxygen available could even keep alive a primitive, multicellular animal such as a sponge, they reported in the journal Nature Geosciences. "We discovered that ... more

Scientific research will help to understand the origin of life in the universe  Samara, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively with the combustion and high-temperature processing of organic raw materials such as oil, coal, wood, garbage, food, tobacco underpin the formation of PAHs. However, the scientists from Samara University, together with their colleagues from the University of Hawaii, Flori ... more

Earth observation data market to reach $2.4B  Montreal, Paris (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - According to the 11th edition of Euroconsult's report, Satellite-Based Earth Observation: Market Prospects to 2027, the commercial Earth observation (EO) data market could reach $2.4 billion in 2027, driven by a mixture of defense and new commercial markets and supported by the arrival of new constellation operators. The EO market for value-added services (VAS) should reach over $5.7 billi ... more

Taxi tests for Paul Allen's Stratolaunch successfully reach 90 mph  Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 - Stratolaunch, one of the world's largest aircraft, which is intended to launch payloads rockets into Earth's orbit, successfully carried out taxi tests on a runway in the Mojave Desert just days before the project's founder and driving force Paul Allen died, the company said in a statement on Friday. "The team performed medium-speed taxi testing at the Mojave Air and Space Port in October ... more

Probe commission rules out sabotage as possible cause of Soyuz failure  Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 - The state commission investigating the Soyuz-FG booster failure has ruled out sabotage during the assembly of the rocket as a possible cause, a space industry source told Sputnik. "The Commission understands that the damage was not intentional," the source said, noting that the commission had ruled deliberate sabotage as a possible version. Russia's Roscosmos State Space Corporation ... more

LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the Moon  Herndon, VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - LGS Innovations, a technology company providing specialized mission-critical communication research and solutions, has announced that it will be supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Orion EM-2 Optical Communications (O2O) project. LGS Innovations will provide an optical modem that will enable broadband data communications to and from the Orion Multi-Purpose ... more

FEFU astrophysicist contributed into international-team efforts on study Comet 29P  Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P) which was successfully accomplished recently. The findings came as a real surprise revealed that the dust environment of 29P predominantly consists of only one type ... more

US Air Force's X-37B space plane marks 400 days in orbit  Washington DC (Sputnik) Oct 22, 2018 - The US Air Force's unmanned X-37B space plane has passed its 400-day mark, inching its way toward setting a new flight duration record for the Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) mission. The spacecraft, the fifth of its kind, was initially rocketed into orbit on September 7, 2017, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, according to Space.com. All previous OTV missions established new flight records, wit ... more

Zooming in on Mexico's landscape  Paris (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 - As part of a scientific collaboration with the Mexican Space Agency and other Mexican scientific public entities, ESA has combined images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to produce a detailed view of the different types of vegetation growing across the entire country. The high-resolution land-cover map combines images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 between 2016 and 2018. Se ... more  GOES-17 begins move to its new operational position Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 - NOAA's GOES-17 satellite is getting ready to move to its new vantage point at 137.2 degrees west longitude, allowing us to see the weather at high resolution in the western U.S., Alaska and Hawaii, and much of the Pacific Ocean. On a warm, sunny evening in Cape Canaveral, Florida, NOAA launched its newest geostationary satellite, GOES-S, into space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Eleven ... more  Government of Canada to invest $7.2M in exactEarth Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - exactEarth Ltd. reports the Government of Canada will make an investment of $7.2 million over three-years to support the development, management and expansion of exactView RT, the Company's real-time Satellite-AIS service. The investment is being made through the GoC's Strategic Innovation Fund ("SIF"), a program designed to support businesses across all sectors of the economy by encouragi ... more  Hubble moving closer to normal science operations  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 - NASA took great strides last week to press into service a Hubble Space Telescope backup gyroscope (gyro) that was incorrectly returning extremely high rotation rates. The backup gyro was turned on after the spacecraft entered safe mode due to a failed gyro on Friday, Oct. 5. The rotation rates produced by the backup gyro have since reduced and are now within an expected range. Additional tests w ... more Superflares From Young Red Dwarf Stars Imperil Planets  Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - The word "HAZMAT" describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to life itself. Imagine the term being applied to entire planets, where violent flares from the host star may make worlds uninhabitable by affecting their atmospheres. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is observing such stars through a large program called HAZMAT - Habitable Zones and M dwarf Activity across Ti ... more  NASA's first image of Mars from a cubesat  Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2018 - NASA's MarCO mission was designed to find out if briefcase-sized spacecraft called CubeSats could survive the journey to deep space. Now, MarCO - which stands for Mars Cube One - has Mars in sight. One of the twin MarCO CubeSats snapped this image of Mars on Oct. 3 - the first image of the Red Planet ever produced by this class of tiny, low-cost spacecraft. The two CubeSats are officially ... more  Space industry entropy  Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 - "Entropy" is defined as a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work. Many use this term to describe the degree of disorder or randomness in a system. A third definition is a lack of order or predictability with gradual decline into disorder. The second law of thermodynamics tells us that entropy always increases as ava ... more  Penetrating the soil's surface with radar  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 - Ground penetrating radar isn't something from the latest sci-fi movie. It's actually a tool used by soil scientists to measure the amount of moisture in soil quickly and easily. As with most technologies, it is getting better and new ways to use it are being tested. Jonathan Algeo, a graduate student at Rutgers University, has spent his studies making ground penetrating radar better for di ... more  High-performance flexible transparent force touch sensor for wearable devices  Guseong-Dong, South Korea (SPX) Oct 16, 2018 - Researchers reported a high-performance and transparent nanoforce touch sensor by developing a thin, flexible, and transparent hierarchical nanocomposite (HNC) film. The research team says their sensor simultaneously features all the necessary characters for industrial-grade application: high sensitivity, transparency, bending insensitivity, and manufacturability. Force touch sensors that ... more  Electrical enhancement: Engineers speed up electrons in semiconductors  Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 - Researchers from Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have sped up the movement of electrons in organic semiconductor films by two to three orders of magnitude. The speedier electronics could lead to improved solar power and transistor use across the world, according to the scientists. They published their resu ... more

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