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  Tokyo (AFP) July 11, 2019 Japan's Hayabusa2 probe made a "perfect" touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid, collecting samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system. "We've collected a part of the solar system's history," project manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a jubilant press conference hours after the successful landing was confirmed. "We have never gathered sub-surface material from a celestial body further away than the Moon," he added. "We di ... read more |
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The Moon now has hundreds of artifacts. Should they be protected?Washington (AFP) July 11, 2019 Three rovers, six US flags, dozens of probes that either landed successfully or crashed, tools, cameras and trash: the Moon is dotted with hundreds of objects as a result of space exploration. ... more 
Modeling early meteorite impacts on the moonDavis CA (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 As our solar system was forming nearly four and a half billion years ago, a planet-sized object struck the early Earth, leading to the formation of the moon, possibly from a hot, spinning cloud of r ... more  
Astroscale advances debris removal concept through ESA and OneWeb Sunrise ProjectLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 Astroscale has been awarded a contract under the Sunrise Project, a Public-Private Partnership led by the European Space Agency (ESA) and OneWeb, a global communications company on a mission to conn ... more  
Upside-down 3D-printed skin and bone, for humans to MarsParis (ESA) Jul 11, 2019 3D printing human tissue could help keep astronauts healthy all the way to Mars. An ESA project has produced its first bioprinted skin and bone samples. These state-of-the-art samples were pre ... more |
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For climbing robots, the sky's the limitPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 11, 2019 Robots can drive on the plains and craters of Mars, but what if we could explore cliffs, polar caps and other hard-to-reach places on the Red Planet and beyond? Designed by engineers at NASA's Jet P ... more 
Japan's asteroid probe Hayabusa2 set for final touchdownTokyo (AFP) July 10, 2019 Japan's Hayabusa2 probe began descending on Wednesday for its final touchdown on a distant asteroid, hoping to collect samples that could shed light on the evolution of the solar system. ... more  
Discovering Exoplanets with Gravitational WavesPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 In a recent paper in Nature Astronomy, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute/AEI) in Potsdam and from the French Alternative Energies and Ato ... more 
Jumping space robot 'flies' like a spacecraftParis (ESA) Jul 08, 2019 Astronauts on the Moon found themselves hopping around, rather than simply walking. Switzerland's SpaceBok planetary exploration robot has followed their example, launching all four legs off the gro ... more 
Zwicky Transient Facility Spots Asteroid with Shortest YearPasadena CA (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 Astronomers have spotted an unusual asteroid with the shortest "year" known for any asteroid. The rocky body, dubbed 2019 LF6, is about a kilometer in size and circles the Sun roughly every 151 days ... more |
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 Sustaining Life on Long-Term Crewed Missions Will Require Planetary Resources 
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  |
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Tiny motor can 'walk' to carry out tasksBoston MA (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 Years ago, MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld had an audacious thought. Struck by the fact that all the world's living things are built out of combinations of just 20 amino acids, he wondered: Might it ... more  
From Moon to Mars, Chinese space engineers rise to new challengesBeijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2019 With eyes bright, Sun Zezhou, chief designer of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, speaks fast but clearly. "Every time I see the moon, I think how Chinese probes have left permanent footprints on ... more 
New camera system to offer high-resolution images, video of lunar landingTucson 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 ... more 
Amateur astronomers play a part in efforts to keep space safeLondon, UK (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 Heavy traffic is commonplace on Earth but now congestion is becoming an increasing problem in space. With over 22,000 artificial satellites in orbit it is essential to keep track of their positions ... more 
ThinKom completes technology validation on Telesat low-earth orbit satelliteHawthorne CA (SPX) Jul 03, 2019 ThinKom Solutions has announced the completion of the first live test of a commercially available phased-array antenna with Telesat's Phase 1 LEO satellite. The test was performed using a production ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
When astronauts live and work on the Moon, they will need access to life-sustaining oxygen, water and other resources. On the Moon, and eventually Mars, they could collect local resources on the surface and transform them into breathable air; water for drinking, hygiene, and farming; rocket propellants and more. It's a practice called in-situ resource utilization (ISRU).
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 11, 2019 
Both the lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe switched to dormant mode for the lunar night on the far side of the moon on Tuesday morning (Beijing Time).
The scientific instruments on the Chang'e-4 probe worked well during the seventh lunar day after the probe made the first-ever soft-landing on the Von Karman Crater in the South Pole-Aitken Basin on the far side of the moon on Jan. ... more |
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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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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jul 11, 2019 
Using nature's color palette from early Earth, Cornell University astronomers have created a cosmic "cheat sheet" in order to understand where discovered exoplanets may fall along their own evolutionary spectrum.
Jack O'Malley-James, a research associate at the Carl Sagan Institute, and Lisa Kaltenegger, professor of astronomy and director of the Carl Sagan Institute, co-authored "Expandin ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jul 09, 2019 
The latest ESA Partnership Projects mission has launched two tiny supercomputing nanosatellites aboard a Soyuz rocket from Vostochny in Russia.
The parallel supercomputing scalable devices, aboard the lightweight, shoebox-sized nanosatellites, can be programmed to both receive and process data while in orbit. This enables them to select high-quality data and immediately transfer it to Eart ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 08, 2019 
With eyes bright, Sun Zezhou, chief designer of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe, speaks fast but clearly.
"Every time I see the moon, I think how Chinese probes have left permanent footprints on it, especially Chang'e-4, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the far side. As a member of the mission, I'm very proud," said Sun.
Chinese engineers began plans for the Chang'e-1 lunar probe i ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) July 11, 2019  Japan's Hayabusa2 probe made a "perfect" touchdown Thursday on a distant asteroid, collecting samples from beneath the surface in an unprecedented mission that could shed light on the origins of the solar system.
"We've collected a part of the solar system's history," project manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a jubilant press conference hours after the successful landing was confirmed.
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 10, 2019 
The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense announced that it seeks developers of laser- and radio frequency-guided weapons to shoot down drones and other enemy threats.
The concept is not new. The United States first employed non-lethal lasers in military service in 2014, largely to disable enemy electrical sensors, and the United Kingdom spent $37 million on a laser prototype in 2017. ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 09, 2019 
In late June, Sergei Chemezov, chief executive of the country's defence industry giant Rostec, said that Russia had recently started manufacturing the sophisticated S-500 missile systems.
The new S-500 air defence system will specifically be aimed at countering an attack from outer space, Yuri Muravkin, the deputy chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces' anti-aircraft missile troops, told th ... 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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 Durham UK (SPX) Jul 09, 2019 
Supercomputer simulations of galaxies have shown that Einstein's general theory of relativity might not be the only way to explain how gravity works or how galaxies form.
Physicists at Durham University, UK, simulated the cosmos using an alternative model for gravity - f(R)-gravity, a so called Chameleon Theory. The resulting images produced by the simulation show that galaxies like our Mi ... 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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 Boston MA (SPX) Jul 08, 2019 
Years ago, MIT Professor Neil Gershenfeld had an audacious thought. Struck by the fact that all the world's living things are built out of combinations of just 20 amino acids, he wondered: Might it be possible to create a kit of just 20 fundamental parts that could be used to assemble all of the different technological products in the world?
Gershenfeld and his students have been making st ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jul 9, 2019 
The U.S. Navy's MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter has reached initial operational capability, paving the way for fleet operations and training.
On June 28, the sea-based, vertical lift drone manufactured by Northrop Grumman was declared to achieve operational capability, the Navy said Monday.
The aircraft is designed to provide reconnaissance, situational awareness and precisi ... more |
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