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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 19, 2019 It's the final boarding call for you to stow your name on NASA's Mars 2020 rover before it launches to the Red Planet. The Sept. 30 deadline for NASA's "Send Your Name to Mars" campaign gives the mission enough time to stencil the submitted names - over 9.4 million so far - on a chip that will be affixed to the Mars 2020 rover. This rover is scheduled to launch as early as July 2020 and expected to touch down on Mars in February 2021. The Mars 2020 rover represents the initial leg of humanity's fi ... read more |
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Audit faults NASA for failing to detect schedule delays for moon returnWashington (Sputnik) Sep 19, 2019 NASA's push to return humans to the Moon by 2024 is threatened by a failure to account for schedule delays and cost overruns, the General Accountability Office said in a report on Wednesday. " ... more  
'Snow-Cannon' Enceladus shines up Saturn's super-reflective moonsGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 Radar observations of Saturn's moons, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys, show that Enceladus is acting as a 'snow-cannon,' coating itself and its neighbours with fresh water-ice particles to make them daz ... more  
New global Space Safety Coalition establishedMaui HI (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 A first-of-its-kind global ad hoc coalition dedicated to developing and maintaining a set of "living" space-safety best practices was announced at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Te ... more  
Huge Volcano on Jupiter's Moon Io Erupts on Regular ScheduleTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, a large moon of Jupiter, has been erupting on a relatively regular schedule. ... more |
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The rare molecule weighing in on the birth of planetsLeeds UK (SPX) Sep 13, 2019 Astronomers using one of the most advanced radio telescopes have discovered a rare molecule in the dust and gas disc around a young star - and it may provide an answer to one of the conundrums facin ... more 
Saturn's Rings Shine in New Hubble PortraitBaltimore MD (SPX) Sep 13, 2019 Anyone who has ever peered at Saturn through a small telescope is immediately enticed by its elegant rings, which make the far-flung planet one of the most exotic-looking, opulent worlds in the sola ... more 
Research redefines lower limit for planet size habitabilityBoston MA (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 In The Little Prince, the classic novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the titular prince lives on a house-sized asteroid so small that he can watch the sunset any time of day by moving his chair a ... more 
NASA Funds CubeSat Pathfinder Mission to Unique Lunar OrbitWashington DC (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 NASA has awarded a $13.7 million contract to Advanced Space of Boulder, Colorado, to develop and operate a CubeSat mission to the same lunar orbit targeted for Gateway - an orbiting outpost astronau ... more 
US Space Module Genesis II Might Crash into Relict Russian SatelliteWashington DC (Sputnik) Sep 18, 2019 The space habitat development company Bigelow Aerospace tweeted on Tuesday that two inoperative satellites, the US's Genesis II and Russia's Soviet-era Cosmos 1300, might collide. While the od ... more |
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New color-changing smart skin inspired by chameleonsWashington (UPI) Sep 11, 2019 Scientists have managed to create new "smart skin" that changes color but doesn't change size, just like a chameleon. ... more  |
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Milestones on the way to the nuclear clockVienna, Austria (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 If you want to build the most accurate clock in the world, you need something that "ticks" very fast and extremely precise. In an atomic clock, electrons are used, which can be switched back and for ... more  
Russia terminates robot Fedor after space odysseyMoscow (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 It's mission over for a robot called Fedor that Russia blasted to the International Space Station, the developers said Wednesday, admitting he could not replace astronauts on space walks. ... more 
At NY Fashion Week, robotic dresses take on a life of their ownNew York (AFP) Sept 11, 2019 Fashion and technology have often gone hand in hand, improving supply chains and bringing the world's runways to the masses, but at this week's shows in New York, robotic designs took center stage. ... more  
Two Asteroids to Safely Fly by EarthWashington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2019 Two relatively medium-sized asteroids will fly safely past Earth overnight Sept. 13-14 (Eastern U.S. time). NASA is tracking the objects, but orbit calculations ruled out any chance that the objects ... more 
Mars 2020 Spacecraft Comes Full CirclePasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2019 Engineers took NASA's Mars 2020 for a spin on Aug. 29, 2019. The 2,300-pound (1,040-kilogram) Martian vehicle was rotated clockwise and counterclockwise at about 1 revolution per minute on what is c ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 17, 2019 
Scientists at TU Dortmund University have generated high-accuracy 3D models of terrain within the landing ellipse of the ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars rover, Rosalind Franklin. The Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) have a resolution of about 25 cm per pixel and will help scientists to understand the geography and geological characteristics of the region and to plan the path of the rover around the site.
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 Washington (Sputnik) Sep 19, 2019 
NASA's push to return humans to the Moon by 2024 is threatened by a failure to account for schedule delays and cost overruns, the General Accountability Office said in a report on Wednesday.
"For example, NASA should enhance contract management and oversight to improve program outcomes," the report said. "NASA's past approach in this area has left it ill-positioned to identify early warnin ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 
Volcanic eruptions are difficult to predict, but observations have shown the largest and most powerful volcano on Io, a large moon of Jupiter, has been erupting on a relatively regular schedule.
The volcano Loki is expected to erupt in mid-September 2019, according to a poster by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun presented this week.
"Loki is the largest and ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 12, 2019 
With data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, water vapour has been detected in the atmosphere of a super-Earth within the habitable zone by University College London (UCL) researchers in a world first. K2-18b, which is eight times the mass of Earth, is now the only planet orbiting a star outside the solar system, or exoplanet, known to have both water and temperatures that could support l ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 18, 2019 
Aerojet Rocketdyne has scored parts of several big contracts in the burgeoning US missile program, including developing a hypersonic missile and the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), the next generation of nuclear ballistic missiles.
In the race to build the next generation of ground-based missile systems, Aerojet Rocketdyne is poised to profit bigtime from the bevy of contracts bei ... more |
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 Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019 
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday.
The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit.
Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more |
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 Hilo HI (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 
The first-ever comet from beyond our Solar System has been successfully imaged by the Gemini Observatory in multiple colors. The image of the newly discovered object, denoted C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), was obtained on the night of 9-10 September using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii's Maunakea.
"This image was possible because of Gemini's ability to r ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship.
While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development.
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 Ankara (AFP) Sept 16, 2019  Russian President Vladimir Putin offered to sell Saudi Arabia its missile defence systems on Monday in the wake of the weekend attack on its oil facilities.
"We are ready to help Saudi Arabia so that she can protect her territory.
"She can do so in the same way that Iran has already done in buying the S-300 Russian missile system and the same way that Turkey has already done in buying ... more |
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 
Radar observations of Saturn's moons, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys, show that Enceladus is acting as a 'snow-cannon,' coating itself and its neighbours with fresh water-ice particles to make them dazzlingly reflective. The extreme radar brightness also points to the presence of 'boomerang' structures beneath the surface that boost the moons' efficiency in returning the microwave signals to the sp ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
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 Noordwijk, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 06, 2019 
Imagine being able to increase the force of gravity simply by turning a dial. A United Nations fellowship is offering this opportunity to researchers all over the world, through access to ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge.
Manipulate gravity and a lot of other factors shift too: bubbles in liquid alter their behaviour, convection currents accelerate and metal alloys f ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Sep 16, 2019 
The expansion rate of the universe today is described by the so-called Hubble constant, and different techniques have come to inconsistent results about how fast our universe actually does expand.
An international team led by the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) has now used two gravitational lenses as new tools to calibrate the distances to hundreds of observed supernovae and t ... more |
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 New York (AFP) Sept 11, 2019  Fashion and technology have often gone hand in hand, improving supply chains and bringing the world's runways to the masses, but at this week's shows in New York, robotic designs took center stage.
The dresses were conceived with the help of a kit designed by Anina Trepte, a former model and founder of the 360Fashion Network, who wants designers to integrate technology into their work even i ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2019 
A team of defense contractors has remotely launched Javelin missiles from an unmanned vehicle.
The Javelin Joint Venture team, a partnership of Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin, fired the Javelin missiles from a Kongsberg remote launcher mounted on a Titan unmanned ground vehicle in a test fire at the U.S. Army Redstone Test Center in Alabama.
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