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  Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is unique among all moons in our solar system for its dense and nitrogen-rich atmosphere that also contains hydrocarbons and other compounds, and the story behind the formation of this rich chemical mix has been the source of some scientific debate. Now, a research collaboration involving scientists in the Chemical Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has zeroed in on a low-temperature chemical mechanism ... read more |
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Polar Wandering on Dwarf Planet Ceres RevealedTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 Dwarf planet Ceres experienced an indirect polar reorientation of approximately 36 degrees, a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Pasquale Tricarico says. Tricarico's pap ... more  
Novel Technique Quickly Maps Young Ice Deposits and Formations on MarsTucson AZ (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 A new investigative technique has shown the latitudinal distribution of ice-rich landforms on Mars. This large-scale study enables future, more detailed investigations to study several young deposit ... more  
Russian Scientists Start Research on Impact of Zero-Gravity on HumansMoscow (Sputnik) Oct 09, 2018 The Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biomedical Problems has initiated research on the influence of zero-G on the human body during flights to the Moon and back; around 20 people will engag ... more  
New Horizons sets up for New Year's flyby of Ultima ThuleLaurel MD (SPX) Oct 08, 2018 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft carried out a short engine burn on Oct. 3 to home in on the location and timing of its New Year's flyby of the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Word fr ... more |
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Curiosity Rover to Temporarily Switch 'Brains'Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2018 Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a det ... more 
MASCOT lands safely on Asteroid RyuguMASCOT on board Hayabusa2 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, located approximately 300 million kilometres from Earth, has a new inhabitant: On 3 October 2018, the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout ... more  
Liquid crystals and the origin of lifeWashington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 The display screens of modern televisions, cell phones and computer monitors rely on liquid crystals - materials that flow like liquids but have molecules oriented in crystal-like structures. ... more 
New Radiation Belt Discovered at SaturnGottingen, Germany (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 Approximately one year ago a spectacular dive into Saturn ended NASA's Cassini mission - and with it a unique, 13-year research expedition to the Saturnian system. In the mission's last five months, ... more 
While seeking Planet X, astronomers find a distant solar system objectManoa HI (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that supports the presence of a larger Planet X. The ne ... more |
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 Groundbreaking Science Emerges from Ultra-Close Orbits of Saturn 
Hayabusa-2 drops another lander on the surface of RyuguWashington (UPI) Oct 3, 2018 Hayabusa-2, Japan's asteroid-orbiting probe, has put another miniature lander on the surface of Ryugu. ... more  |
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'Spacesuits' protect microbes destined to live in spaceBerkeley CA (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 Just as spacesuits help astronauts survive in inhospitable environments, newly developed "spacesuits" for bacteria allow them to survive in environments that would otherwise kill them. Univers ... more  
Lockheed Martin Reveals New Human Lunar Lander ConceptDenver CO (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 At this week's International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, Lockheed Martin experts revealed the company's crewed lunar lander concept and showed how the reusable lander aligns wit ... more 
Astronomers find first evidence of possible moon outside our Solar SystemBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 Using NASA's Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, astronomers have uncovered tantalizing evidence of what could be the first discovery of a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system. This ... more 
NASA, Israel Space Agency Sign Agreement for Commercial Lunar CooperationWashington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 NASA has signed an agreement with the Israel Space Agency (ISA) to cooperatively utilize the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL's commercial lunar mission, expected to land on the Moon in 2019. NASA wi ... more  
China launches Centispace-1-s1 satelliteJiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday. This is the second commercial launch by the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 04, 2018 
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week commanded the agency's Curiosity rover to switch to its second computer. The switch will enable engineers to do a detailed diagnosis of a technical issue that has prevented the rover's active computer from storing science and some key engineering data since Sept. 15.
Like many NASA spacecraft, Curiosity was de ... more |
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 Denver CO (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
At this week's International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Bremen, Germany, Lockheed Martin experts revealed the company's crewed lunar lander concept and showed how the reusable lander aligns with NASA's lunar Gateway and future Mars missions.
The crewed lunar lander is a single stage, fully reusable system that incorporates flight-proven technologies and systems from NASA's Orion space ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
Astronomers have discovered a new object at the edge of our solar system. The new extremely distant object far beyond Pluto has an orbit that supports the presence of a larger Planet X.
The newly-found object, called 2015 TG387, was announced by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center on October 1. A paper with the full details of the discovery has also been submitted to ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 04, 2018 
The display screens of modern televisions, cell phones and computer monitors rely on liquid crystals - materials that flow like liquids but have molecules oriented in crystal-like structures.
However, liquid crystals may have played a far more ancient role: helping to assemble Earth's first biomolecules. Researchers reporting in ACS Nano have found that short RNA molecules can form liquid ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Oct 5, 2018 
NASA has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019.
It will be the first manned US launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing US astronauts to hitch costly rides aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Oct 01, 2018 
China launched its Centispace-1-s1 satellite on a Kuaizhou-1A rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:13 p.m. Saturday.
This is the second commercial launch by the Kuaizhou-1A rocket. The first launch in January 2017 sent three satellites into space.
The Kuaizhou-1A was developed by a rocket technology company under the China Aerospace Science and Industr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 3, 2018 
Hayabusa-2, Japan's asteroid-orbiting probe, has put another miniature lander on the surface of Ryugu.
The box-shaped lander, Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, was designed by a team of engineers from Germany and France.
Engineers at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, confirmed MASCOT's safe landing on the asteroid's surface.
"It could not have gone better," MASCOT ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 4, 2018 
Lockheed Martin, General Atomics and Boeing have received contract modifications for drone-mounted Low Power Laser Demonstrator system missile defense testing.
Lockheed Martin's contract has increased to a total value of $37.7 million, while General Atomics and Boeing's have been increased to $34 million and $29.4 million respectively, the Department of Defense announced on Friday.
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2018 
Raytheon has received a $22.7 million contract for engineering, travel costs and other services for AN/SPY-6 Air and Missile Defense Radar production.
The AMDR is being developed for air defense requirements of several classes of ships. The suite includes a S-Band and X-band radar and a Radar Suite Controller. AMDR is capable of long range conventional radar, exoatmospheric detection, t ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Oct 05, 2018 
Approximately one year ago a spectacular dive into Saturn ended NASA's Cassini mission - and with it a unique, 13-year research expedition to the Saturnian system. In the mission's last five months, the probe entered uncharted territory again: 22 times it plunged into the hitherto almost unexplored region between the planet Saturn and its innermost ring, the D-ring.
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 Newark DE (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
From photonics to pharmaceuticals, materials made with polymer nanoparticles hold promise for products of the future. However, there are still gaps in understanding the properties of these tiny plastic-like particles.
Now, Hojin Kim, a graduate student in chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Delaware, together with a team of collaborating scientists at the Max Planck ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 17, 2018 
The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On (GRACE-FO) mission team plans to switch to a backup system in the Microwave Instrument (MWI) on one of the twin spacecraft this month. Following the switch-over, GRACE-FO is expected to quickly resume science data collection.
A month after launching this past May, GRACE-FO produced its first preliminary gravity field map. The mission ha ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 09, 2018 
When studying the early universe, astronomers have different methods at their disposal: One is to look to very large distances and therefore back in time, to see the first stars and galaxies as they were many billions of years ago.
Another option is to examine the oldest surviving stars from our own galaxy, the Milky Way, and use them to get a glimpse of what the conditions were like in th ... more |
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 Madrid (AFP) Oct 6, 2018 
Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.
She and others like her are a prime focus of robotic research, as their uncanny human form could be key to integrating such machines into our lives, said researchers gathered this week at the annual International Conference on Intelligent Robots.
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (AFNS) Oct 08, 2018 
The Air Force has designated the GOLauncher1 hypersonic flight research vehicle as X-60A. The vehicle is being developed by Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. under contract to the Air Force Research Laboratory, Aerospace Systems Directorate, High Speed Systems Division.
It is an air-dropped liquid rocket, specifically designed for hypersonic flight research to mature technologies incl ... more |
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