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Tag: EXPERIMENTS IN SPACE
Cancer research that’s out-of-this-world
Australia’s first space research mission to the International Space Station will attempt to establish how some of the most aggressive cancer cells behave in a zero-gravity environment
2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
RENO, Nev. (Nov. 25, 2019) – The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, a distinguished scientist, astronaut, explorer and author of “Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention” as the recipient…
New Horizons team, mission principal investigator Stern receive Sir Arthur Clarke Award
Award recognizes international space achievement for New Horizons’ exploration of Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
2020 DRI Nevada Medal of Science to honor Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, first American woman to walk in space
RENO, Nev. (Nov. 25, 2019) – The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, a distinguished scientist, astronaut, explorer and author of “Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention” as the recipient…
New Horizons team, mission principal investigator Stern receive Sir Arthur Clarke Award
Award recognizes international space achievement for New Horizons’ exploration of Pluto and Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth
Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating in a suspected thermonuclear explosion (a hydrogen bomb) on 3 September 2017. Now a team…
New moon-seeking sensor aims to improve earth observations
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…
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…November 14, 2019 – A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States,…
Space-based radar suggests North Korean nuke equivalent to ’17 Hiroshimas’
North Korea withdrew from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. It subsequently developed nuclear weapons, with five underground nuclear tests culminating in a suspected thermonuclear explosion (a hydrogen bomb) on 3 September 2017. Now a team…
NASA Sending solar power generator developed at Ben-Gurion U to space station
NASA Sending Solar Power Generator Developed at Ben-Gurion University to the International Space Station BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…November 14, 2019 – A new solar power generator prototype developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and research teams in the United States,…
New moon-seeking sensor aims to improve earth observations
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…
Human heart cells are altered by spaceflight, but return to (mostly) normal on Earth
Heart muscle cells derived from stem cells show remarkable adaptability to their environment during and after spaceflight, according to a study publishing November 7 in the journal Stem Cell Reports . The researchers examined cell-level cardiac function and gene expression…
SwRI demonstrates balloon-based solar observatory
Low-cost option breaks down barriers to solar research
132 grams to communicate with Mars
Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night … Mars is not very hospitable! It’s for these extreme conditions that the research team of Christophe Craeye, a professor at the UCLouvain Louvain School of Engineering, developed antennas for the…
UCLouvain researcher makes the heart of Mars speak
For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has been working on understanding the Earth’s core. In a few months, she will be able to complete her research by…
132 grams to communicate with Mars
Dust storms, ionising cosmic radiation, extreme cold at night … Mars is not very hospitable! It’s for these extreme conditions that the research team of Christophe Craeye, a professor at the UCLouvain Louvain School of Engineering, developed antennas for the…
UCLouvain researcher makes the heart of Mars speak
For 20 years, Véronique Dehant, a space scientist at University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has been working on understanding the Earth’s core. In a few months, she will be able to complete her research by…
Assembler robots make large structures from little pieces
Systems of tiny robots may someday build high-performance structures, from airplanes to space settlements
Astronomers use giant galaxy cluster as X-ray magnifying lens
New lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation
NRL launches space weather instrument on NASA satellite
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) instrument aboard NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite will deliver unprecedented information to help scientists investigate how both terrestrial and solar weather impact the ionosphere, the ionized region of Earth’s upper atmosphere.…
Technology to use hot air balloons for rocket launches competes in a startup battlefield
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Leo Aerospace, a Purdue University-affiliated startup looking to launch rockets with the help of hot air balloons, has taken to the technology battlefield to receive worldwide attention for its technology. Members of the Leo team took…
Artemis, meet ARTEMIS: Pursuing Sun science at the moon
By 2024, NASA will land astronauts, including the first woman and next man, on the Moon as part of the Artemis lunar exploration program. This won’t be the first time NASA takes the name Artemis to the Moon though. Two…
Scientists observe year-long plateaus in decline of type Ia supernova light curves
This is a surprising finding as astronomers had expected that the light curve would not only continue decreasing but even experience a sharp drop, rather than flattening into a plateau. The discovery is a huge step forward for astronomers as…
Teams of mobile 3D printing robots could fix bridges on Earth and build them to Mars
BROOKLYN, New York, Wednesday, October 2, 2019 – Commercial 3D printing — or additive manufacturing (AM) — is a booming industry. But if printers were liberated from the typical setup involving an immobile box and a gantry, and set free…
SwRI scientist part of team characterizing near-Earth objects
NASA studying population to understand impact risks, potential exploration
Telescope seeking new planets launches via football field-sized balloon
Instrument designed and built by UMass Lowell targets Earth-like objects in space hidden by stars’ glare
SwRI-led PUNCH mission to image Sun’s outer corona enters Phase B
PUNCH team begins work on preliminary flight design for 2023 mission
The 2019 CNRS innovation medallists
Trained at the University of Tromsø (Norway) and recruited at the Laboratory of Plasma Physics (CNRS/Ecole polytechnique/Observatoire de Paris/Université Paris-Sud/Sorbonne Université), Ane Aanesland, a CNRS researcher, is currently President and CEO of ThrustMe, a startup specialising in the propulsion of…
Innovative model created for NASA to predict vitamin levels in spaceflight food
Mathematical tool from UMass Amherst researchers will ensure proper nutrition for astronauts on long
Clemson physicists lead rocket missions to explore Earth’s atmosphere
Clemson University physicists will conduct a pair of three-year rocket missions funded by NASA Helio
Sandia experiments at temperature of sun offer solutions to solar model problems
Sandia’s Z machine helps reconcile sun’s energy and composition
Melatonin is a potential drug for the prevention of bone loss during space flight
[Background] For proper and healthy metabolism of bone, appropriate stimuli are necessary. In outer space with microgravity, calcium is lost from bone and bone mass is reduced. Measurement of the bone density of astronauts before and after a long stay…
Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision
UMD-led team re-examined data from a 2016 gamma-ray burst and found a signature that perfectly match
Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision
UMD-led team re-examined data from a 2016 gamma-ray burst and found a signature that perfectly match