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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact. Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia and at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, New Mexico. These antennae are n ... read more |
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Brewing up Earth's earliest lifeBoston MA (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 Around 4 billion years ago, Earth was an inhospitable place, devoid of oxygen, bursting with volcanic eruptions, and bombarded by asteroids, with no signs of life in even the simplest forms. But som ... more 
A Cosmic Gorilla Effect Could Blind the Detection of AliensMadrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 One of the problems that have long intrigued experts in cosmology is how to detect possible extraterrestrial signals. Are we really looking in the right direction? Maybe not, according to the study ... more  
Trace Gas Orbiter reaches stable Mars orbit, ready to start science missionWashington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 After a year of aerobraking, the Trace Gas Orbiter has finally reached a stable orbit around Mars and will soon commence with its science mission. ... more  
NASA sends sperm into space for human reproduction studyWashington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 Whether or not humans have ever had sex in space remains an open debate on the internet. NASA, however, is more interested in the hypothetical question of whether or not humans can conceive in space. ... more |
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Planet hunter TESS will also help astronomers study starsAmes IA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Steve Kawaler is heading back to Florida to witness the launch of another NASA spacecraft that will search for planets beyond our solar system. There will be much for Kawaler to see at the lau ... more 
UA-led NASA survey seen as steppingstone for astronomyTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Imagine trying to see a firefly next to a distant spotlight, where the beams from the spotlight all but drown out the faint glow from the firefly. Add fog, and both lights are dimmed. Is the glow fr ... more 
"Bungee Jumping": Russian Scientists Suggest Using Ropes to Ship Cargo From MarsMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 09, 2018 Sustainable methods of transportation are there for us not merely on Earth, but perhaps also in outer space, with researchers now striving to find more or less "green" options even for cargo deliver ... more  
Russia's Robot FEDOR to Be the First to Fly to Space on Board New SpacecraftMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned ... more 
Space Maid: Robot Harpoon and Net System to Attempt Space CleanupMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2018 Humanity has grown accustomed to autonomous cleaning robots since the Roomba's debut in 2002. Now, we might have an upgrade: scientists have sent a prototype satellite equipped with a net and harpoo ... more |
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Berkeley engineers build smallest volume, most efficient wireless nerve stimulatorBerkeley CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 In 2016, University of California, Berkeley, engineers demonstrated the first implanted, ultrasonic neural dust sensors, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerv ... more  |
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First Interdisciplinary Conference on Habitability in early solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Media are invited to tune into a livecast from astrobiology experts at the first Goddard international interdisciplinary conference on habitability in the early solar system. The "Environments ... more  
NAU planetary scientist's study suggests widespread presence of water on the MoonFlagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in m ... more 
NASA's Idea to Send Swarm of Robots to MarsMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 05, 2018 NASA has announced their intent to fund research which will send a swarm of Robot bees up to Mars to explore the red planet. Sputnik spoke to Sethu Vijayakumar, Professor of Robotics at the Universi ... more 
Opportunity Completes In-Situ Work on 'Aguas Calientes'Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 03, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley ... more 
It's givin' me excitations: U-M study uncovers first steps of photosynthesisAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 Photosynthesis has driven life on this planet for more than 3 billion years - first in bacteria, then in plants - but we don't know exactly how it works. Now, a University of Michigan biophysi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 
After a year of aerobraking, the Trace Gas Orbiter has finally reached a stable orbit around Mars and will soon commence with its science mission.
The Trace Gas Orbiter is the European Space Agency's newest Martian probe. It's goal is to survey the Red Planet's atmosphere in search of gases that could offer insights into geological or biological activity happening on Mars' surface.
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in mainstream science news, such as Science Daily and Outer Places.
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across t ... more |
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 Palo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
SSL has been selected by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and build critical equipment for a spacecraft that will explore Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. The award reflects SSL's leadership role in the space industry as a valued contractor supporting NASA mission needs and long-term commitment to accelerating innovation for the new space economy.
The Europa Clipper spacecraft, se ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
One of the problems that have long intrigued experts in cosmology is how to detect possible extraterrestrial signals. Are we really looking in the right direction? Maybe not, according to the study that the neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel Garcia, from the University of Cadiz, publish in the journal Acta Astronautica.
"When we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to ... more |
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 Redmond WA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Aerojet Rocketdyne's NEXT-C ion propulsion engine has successfully cleared NASA's critical design review (CDR), confirming the technology achieved all program requirements and is ready for final production of the flight units.
NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) was developed by NASA and is being commercialized by Aerojet Rocketdyne. NEXT-C has 7kW of maximum power and g ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 
The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
After years of searching, scientists are confident they're finally closing in on the location of the crater left by a meteorite that struck Australasia 800,000 years ago.
When the 12-mile-wide meteor struck Earth, debris was exploded in the sky and deposited across the region. The fragments have not been hard to come by, and yet, scientists have failed to locate the crater.
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2018 
The US Air Force will this summer begin testing a laser that will be mounted on an F-15 warplane, an official said Monday.
The Pentagon last year awarded a $26 million contract to Lockheed Martin for a laser program called SHiELD (Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator.)
The idea is to put a laser system on aircraft with an output of about 50 kilowatts to test their ability to zap ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) April 8, 2018 
On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming.
The message delivered via the country's alert system, part of its much-hyped J-Alert mechanism, warned of a big one directly hitting the Japanese capital - potentially on the scale of the devastating 2011 ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2018 
When a gravitational wave reaches Earth, every second counts. The data processing speed will have a crucial impact on how much astronomers can learn from these space-time ripples, says computer scientist Cao Junwei.
"In an era of multi-messenger astronomy, we have to shorten the time as much as possible so as to trigger the alert quickly enough for follow-up observations," says Cao, who le ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe's earliest light to map huge tubelike structures invisible to our eyes - known as filaments - that serve as superhighways for delivering matter to dense hubs such as galaxy clusters.
The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berke ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
The new Russian manned spacecraft Federatsiya (Federation) is designed to deliver people and cargo to low earth orbit, as well as to the moon. The first such spaceship is expected to be commissioned by 2021.
It will be a modernized version of the humanoid robot FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) that is expected to be the first to fly to outer space on board the state ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 
SRC Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for services in support of counter unmanned aerial systems.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $57.5 million under the terms of a undefinitized contract action.
The agreement enables SRC Inc., out of North Syracuse, N.Y., for counter unmanned aerial systems.
Work on the contract w ... more |
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