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  Orlando FL (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 Before civilization can move off world it must make sure its structures work on the extraterrestrial foundations upon which they will be built. University of Central Florida researchers are already laying the groundwork for the off-world jump by creating standards for extraterrestrial surfaces. Their work was detailed recently in a study published in the journal Icarus. "I'm firmly convinced that by the end of the century there will be more economic activity off planet Earth than on planet E ... read more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes to work after lunar nightBeijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2019 The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work after "sleeping" during their second lunar night on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 7:52 a.m. last Friday, and ... more  
Asteroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thoughtBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to ... more  
The case of the over-tilting exoplanetsNew Haven CT (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration - their orbits seem to have been pushed apart by a powerful unk ... more  
SwRI-led New Horizons research indicates small Kuiper Belt objects are surprisingly rareSan Antonio TX (SPX) Mar 04, 2019 Using New Horizons data from the Pluto-Charon flyby in 2015, a Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists have indirectly discovered a distinct and surprising lack of very small objects in ... more |
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Clues to Martian Life Found in Chilean DesertLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 A robotic rover deployed in the most Mars-like environment on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile, has successfully recovered subsurface soil samples during a trial mission to find signs of life. ... more 
First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on MarsParis (ESA) Mar 01, 2019 Mars Express has revealed the first geological evidence of a system of ancient interconnected lakes that once lay deep beneath the Red Planet's surface, five of which may contain minerals crucial to ... more 
Canada 'going to the Moon': TrudeauOttawa (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 Canada will join NASA's space mission to put an orbiter around the Moon in a few years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. ... more 
So Fit For Mars It's Like Being ThereParis (ESA) Mar 01, 2019 Rovers are versatile explorers on the surface of other planets, but they do need some training before setting off. A model of Rosalind Franklin rover that will be sent to Mars in 2021 is scouting th ... more 
Prototype Mars Rover Gets Workout Controlled from 6,000 Miles AwaySwindon UK (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 A space control centre in the UK has been used to test-drive a prototype Mars rover thousands of miles away in Chile's Atacama desert. Experts at the European Space Agency's centre in Oxfordsh ... more |
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 NASA-funded research creates DNA-like molecule to aid search for alien life 
Life on Mars: my 15 amazing years with Oppy, NASA's record-breaking roverStirling UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 "It's getting dark, my batteries are running low." With this final poignant message, the most successful mission to Mars - originally planned to last 90 days - ended after 15 years, in a dust storm ... more  |
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NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn'Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation - and the Moon has the scars to prove it. Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS missio ... more 
Astronomers Optimistic About Planet Nine's ExistenceArbor MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Seeing is believing, but when it comes to Planet Nine, complex calculations of space objects' behavior, careful observation of orbital anomalies, and watchful observation of the region beyond Neptun ... more 
Five Teams Win NASA DALI Awards to Advance Future Lunar MissionsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 When NASA solicits future investigations of the Moon five teams involving scientists and engineers at the NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be ready. The agency's De ... more  
Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflipBoston MA (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 MIT's new mini cheetah robot is springy and light on its feet, with a range of motion that rivals a champion gymnast. The four-legged powerpack can bend and swing its legs wide, enabling it to walk ... more 
Assembly in the air: Using sound to defy gravityBath UK (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 Scientists at the University of Bath have levitated particles using sound in an experiment which could have applications in so-called "soft robotics" and help reveal how planets start to form. ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
On 28 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4,000 hammer blows over a period of four hours.
"On its way into the depths, the Mole seems to have hi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation - and the Moon has the scars to prove it.
Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS mission - short for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun - suggests how the solar wind and the Moon's crustal magnetic fields work together to gi ... more |
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 Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Seeing is believing, but when it comes to Planet Nine, complex calculations of space objects' behavior, careful observation of orbital anomalies, and watchful observation of the region beyond Neptune will have to do for now.
"The strongest argument in favor of Planet Nine is that independent lines of evidence can all be explained by a proposed new planet with the same properties. In other ... more |
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 New Haven CT (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
For almost a decade, astronomers have tried to explain why so many pairs of planets outside our solar system have an odd configuration - their orbits seem to have been pushed apart by a powerful unknown mechanism. Yale researchers say they've found a possible answer, and it implies that the planets' poles are majorly tilted.
The finding could have a big impact on how researchers estimate t ... more |
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 Fino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
March 4th, 2019: D-Orbit S.p.A., an Italian service provider of the New Space sector, signed a multi-year framework agreement with US-based launch operator Firefly Aerospace Inc. (Firefly) to purchase launch capacity of the Firefly Alpha launch vehicle.
The agreement grants D-Orbit the status of a preferred launch aggregation partner for the European market, allowing D-Orbit to purchase, m ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
The Long ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
A popular theme in the movies is that of an incoming asteroid that could extinguish life on the planet, and our heroes are launched into space to blow it up. But incoming asteroids may be harder to break than scientists previously thought, finds a Johns Hopkins study that used a new understanding of rock fracture and a new computer modeling method to simulate asteroid collisions.
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $850 million modification to an existing contract for element development and support services for a key part of the military's ballistic missile defense system the Missile Defense Agency.
The contract modification, announced Thursday by the Defense Department, will bring the value of an already existing contract for work on the Terminal High Altitud ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn's moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to Titan's mysterious atmosphere is the "cooking" of organic material in the moon's interior.
"Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique amo ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystalline structures can alter how electricity or light passes through them.
They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips. T ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has combined radio telescopes from five continents to prove the existence of a narrow stream of material, a so-called jet, emerging from the only gravitational wave event involving two neutron stars observed so far. With its high sensitivity and excellent performance, the 100- ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 05, 2019 
Optical clocks of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT, Japan) and LNE-SYRTE (Systemes de Reference Temps-Espace, Observatoire de Paris, Universite PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, France) evaluated the latest "one second" tick of the International Atomic Time (TAI) and provided these data to the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) to be referred ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 04, 2019 
GMV has recently presented the results obtained in ERGO and ESROCOS, two robotic-technology building blocks led by GMV within the European Commission's H2020 Space Robotics Technologies Strategic Research Cluster (SRC), its biggest space robotics program.
The SRC's first activities have focused on the design, manufacture and testing of five common robotic-building blocks for space-based op ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2019 
During the Australian International Airshow, Boeing unveiled its newest unmanned drone, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System.
The system was viewed Wednesday by Australian Defense Minister Christopher Pyne at Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia, 25 miles north of Melbourne.
The first flight is planned for 2020, according to Boeing in a news release.
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