| SpaceX Crew Dragon releases photos of emergency escape engines test
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 Cape Canaveral FL (Sputnik) Nov 15, 2019 SpaceX fired up the engines on its new passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, during a ground test in Cape Canaveral, Florida, paving the way for the company to perform a crucial test flight of the vehicle in the months ahead. The engines that SpaceX ignited Thursday are part of the Crew Dragon's emergency abort system - a test of the important part of the spacecraft that will activate in
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| Astronauts conduct first spacewalk to fix cosmic particle detector on ISS
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 15, 2019 NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano are back inside the space station after a spacewalk that lasted six hours and 39 minutes. The spacewalk switched their spacesuits to battery power at 6:39 a.m. ET on Friday morning, starting the clock on the first in a series of challenging spacewalks. They returned to the space station and removed their spa
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| Study proposes light signature for detecting black hole mergers
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 Gravitational wave detectors are finding black hole mergers in the universe at the rate of one per week. If these mergers occur in empty space, researchers cannot see associated light that is needed to determine where they happened. However, a new study in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the City University of New York (CUNY), su
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| Kacific1 satellite arrives at SpaceX launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida
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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 The Kacific1 communications satellite, built by Boeing, has arrived at SpaceX facilities in Cape Canaveral, Florida, where it will be launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket to geostationary orbit. Owned by Kacific Broadband Satellites Group (Kacific), this next-generation high-throughput Ka-band satellite will stream broadband to 25 nations in South East Asia and the Pacific Islands via 56 spot b
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| Making planets in a rocket
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2019 How are celestial bodies created? Aside from philosophical questions, researchers are taking practical steps to investigate the very first moments when planets are born - on a sounding rocket launching from Sweden next week. Astronomers conclude that planets are formed out of cosmic dust and gas from an interstellar cloud around a new-born star, but exactly how dust particles start to asse
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| NASA finds Neptune moons locked in 'Dance of Avoidance'
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2019 Even by the wild standards of the outer solar system, the strange orbits that carry Neptune's two innermost moons are unprecedented, according to newly published research. Orbital dynamics experts are calling it a "dance of avoidance" performed by the tiny moons Naiad and Thalassa. The two are true partners, orbiting only about 1,150 miles (1,850 kilometers) apart. But they never get that
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| Mars scientists investigate ancient life in Australia
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 18, 2019 As any geologist worth his or her salt will tell you, there are rocks, and then there are rocks. Next July, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are launching rovers to Mars that will search for signs of past microbial life, and to find them, the scientists with NASA's Mars 2020 mission and ESA's ExoMars will need to examine different kinds of rocks that lend compelling insights into the env
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| Images from solar observatory peel away layers of a stellar mystery
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 Newark NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2019 An international team of scientists, including three researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), has shed new light on one of the central mysteries of solar physics: how energy from the Sun is transferred to the star's upper atmosphere, heating it to 1 million degrees Fahrenheit and higher in some regions, temperatures that are vastly hotter than the Sun's surface. With n
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| New Moon-seeking sensor aims to improve Earth Observations
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 15, 2019 A new instrument with its eye on the Moon is taking off aboard a high-altitude NASA plane to measure the Moon's brightness and eventually help Earth observing sensors make more accurate measurements. The airborne Lunar Spectral Irradiance Instrument (air-LUSI) is flying aboard NASA's ER-2 airplane. The ER-2 is able to soar above clouds, about 70,000 feet above ground. The flights, which oc
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| NASA overpaid Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars: auditor
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 Washington (AFP) Nov 15, 2019 NASA "overpaid" Boeing by hundreds of millions of dollars on a fixed contract to develop a spaceship to carry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), an audit report has said, compensation it called "unnecessary." The US has relied on Russia to transport its crews to the ISS since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, but has hired Boeing and SpaceX under multi-billion d
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