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  Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 The processes behind the release and consumption of methane on Mars have been discussed since methane was measured for the first time for approx. 15 years ago. Now, an interdisciplinary research group from Aarhus University has proposed a previously overlooked physical-chemical process that can explain methane's consumption. For approx. 15 years ago, one could for the first time read about methane in Mars's atmosphere. This aroused great interest, also outside the scientific circles, since methane ... read more |
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SMU's 'Titans in a jar' could answer key questions ahead of NASA's space explorationDallas TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn's icy moon - Titan - has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by ... more  
First taste of space for Spacebus Neo satelliteParis (ESA) Jun 28, 2019 The thermal vacuum test campaign of the first Spacebus Neo satellite was completed on 25 June. Less than 100 metres from the Mediterranean Sea, the Konnect satellite has spent the past six weeks bei ... more  
Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costsNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Rutgers computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses time and money. "We can achieve low-cost, ... more 
InSight Uncovers the 'Mole' on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 05, 2019 Behold the "mole": The heat-sensing spike that NASA's InSight lander deployed on the Martian surface is now visible. Last week, the spacecraft's robotic arm successfully removed the support structur ... more |
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The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034Laurel, United States (AFP) July 4, 2019 Elizabeth Turtle was overjoyed when, on June 26, she received a call from NASA: her project to send a drone quadcopter to Titan, Saturn's largest moon, was given the green light, which came with a budget of nearly a billion dollars. ... more 
ATLAS expands on-orbit customer base, bolsters global ground networkTraverse City MI (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 ATLAS Space Operations, a leading innovator of ground communications in the space industry, continues to grow its on-orbit customer base with two additional launches this past week. BlackSky Global' ... more  
Astronomers Help Wage War on CancerLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 Techniques developed by astronomers could help in the fight against breast and skin cancer. Charlie Jeynes at the University of Exeter will present his and Prof. Tim Harries team's work 3 July at th ... more  
China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbitBeijing (Sputnik) Jul 02, 2019 The satellites, which will reportedly include Yaogan-class remote sensing vehicles and named after the Leo constellation, are expected to be equipped with a self-piloting system. Beijing plans ... more  
Lightning bolt underwaterBochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Electrochemical cells help recycle CO2. However, the catalytic surfaces get worn down in the process. Researchers at the Collaborative Research Centre 1316 "Transient atmospheric plasmas: from plasm ... more |
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'Oumuamua Is Not an Alien SpacecraftHonolulu HI (SPX) Jul 02, 2019 An international team of asteroid and comet experts, including two from the University of Hawaii, agrees on a natural origin for our first interstellar visitor. On October 19, 2017, the Panoramic Su ... more  |
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When CubeSats meet asteroidParis (ESA) Jul 01, 2019 ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence, being designed to survey the smallest asteroid ever explored, is really three spacecraft in one. The main mothership will carry two briefcase-sized CubeSats ... more 
A new property of light discoveredWashington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Researchers have discovered that light can possess a new property, self-torque. This discovery could open up exciting possibilities in light-related applications, researchers explain in a related vi ... more 
Inflatable Decelerator Will Hitch a Ride on the JPSS-2 SatelliteGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 02, 2019 An inflatable decelerator technology that could one day help humans land on Mars will fly on the same Atlas V rocket as the JPSS-2 satellite. The Apollo lunar landers fired retro rockets to la ... more 
Half of Indian Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still Orbiting in Space - Harvard AstronomerNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2019 India's anti-satellite missile was a three-stage rocket, which successfully engaged an Indian orbiting target satellite on 27 March. The Indian defence ministry claims that the test was conducted to ... more  
Planet Seeding and PanspermiaHaifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 The first detection of an interstellar asteroid/comet-like object visiting the solar system two years ago has sparked the ideas about the possibility of interstellar travel. New research from the Te ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2019 
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have installed the SuperCam Mast Unit onto the Mars 2020 rover. The instrument's camera, laser and spectrometers can identify the chemical and mineral makeup of targets as small as a pencil point from a distance of more than 20 feet (6 meters).
SuperCam is a next-generation version of the ChemCam instrument operating on ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 
A new spacecraft-mounted camera system funded by NASA is poised to return the first high-resolution video of a landing plume as it lands on the Moon.
The Heimdall camera system project, headed by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist R. Aileen Yingst, consists of four color cameras and a DVR to store images until they can be uplinked to Earth.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 
A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation.
"One of the least understood steps in planet growth is the formation of planetesimals, bodies more than a kilometer across, which are just large enough to be held together by gravity," said SwRI scientist Dr. David Nesvorny, the l ... more |
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 Haifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 
The first detection of an interstellar asteroid/comet-like object visiting the solar system two years ago has sparked the ideas about the possibility of interstellar travel. New research from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology suggests that such objects also raise far reaching implications about the origins of planets across the galaxy, and possibly even the initial formation of the sol ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 02, 2019 
The US United Launch Alliance (ULA) spokeswoman Julie Arnold said that there was an emergency situation with Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine in 2018 during a launch of Atlas V carrier rocket, noting that the incident did not affect the flight.
In June, the US Government Accountability Office released a report on NASA's Commercial Crew Program that noted an emergency situation with an eng ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Jul 02, 2019 
The satellites, which will reportedly include Yaogan-class remote sensing vehicles and named after the Leo constellation, are expected to be equipped with a self-piloting system.
Beijing plans to deploy 192 artificial intelligence satellites into orbit to observe the Earth's surface by 2021, China Central Television (CCTV) reports.
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Jul 02, 2019 
An international team of asteroid and comet experts, including two from the University of Hawaii, agrees on a natural origin for our first interstellar visitor. On October 19, 2017, the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 (Pan-STARRS1) telescope, located at the University of Hawaii's Haleakala Observatory, discovered the first known interstellar object to pass through our sola ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jun 25, 2019  Colonel Richard Haggerty and Dr. Boris Zhdanov share insights into how the FY18 budget appropriations affected directed energy (DE) programs, where DE acquisition and force integration is heading in FY19, their priorities for research and development, and more. Colonel Haggerty is the ninth Project Manager for Instrumentation, Targets, Threat Simulators and SOF Training Systems (PM ITTS) at PEO STRI, U.S. Army. Dr. Zhdanov is a Senior Scientist at the Laser and Optics Research Center (LORC) at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). ... more |
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 Stockholm (AFP) July 1, 2019 
Sweden's armed forces said Monday it had deployed a new air defence missile system on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, following years of increased militarisation in the region.
"Through its geographical location the island provides essential military advantages in regards to protection and control of shipping, air control over the Baltic Sea and the ability to place military units a ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 
Researchers from Southern Methodist University (SMU) could help determine if Saturn's icy moon - Titan - has ever been home to life long before NASA completes an exploratory visit to its surface by a drone helicopter.
NASA announced in late June that its "Dragonfly" mission would launch toward Saturn's largest moon in 2026, expecting to arrive in 2034. The goal of the mission is to use a r ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 
Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian, imaginary craft that generate their own gravity by spinning around in space.
Now, a team from CU Boulder is working to make those out-there technologies a reality.
The researchers, led by aerospace engineer Torin Clark, can't mimic those ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 05, 2019 
Like whirlpools in the ocean, spinning black holes in space create a swirling torrent around them. However, black holes do not create eddies of wind or water. Rather, they generate disks of gas and dust heated to hundreds of millions of degrees that glow in X-ray light.
Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and chance alignments across billions of light years, astronomers have d ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
Many work processes would be almost unthinkable today without robots. But robots operating in manufacturing facilities have often posed risks to workers because they are not responsive enough to their surroundings. To make it easier for people and robots to work in close proximity in the future, Prof. Matthias Althoff of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new system: IMPROV ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 04, 2019 
Frequentis Defense Inc. received an $8.4 million U.S. Navy contract for work on the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned air vehicle, the Defense Department announced.
The company, based in Columbia, Md., will provide engineering and logistics for the design, development, test, manufacture and repair of the MD-5A Unmanned Carrier Aviation Mission Control System, which supports the MQ-25. The integra ... more |
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