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  Westminster CO (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Maxar Technologies has delivered the robotic Sample Handling Assembly (SHA) for NASA's Mars 2020 rover. As the Mars 2020 rover explores the red planet, the SHA will process and store samples acquired from the Martian surface. The SHA is the sixth robotic arm that Maxar has designed, built and delivered for use on Mars. As part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, the Mars 2020 rover will attempt to answer critical questions about the potential for life on Mars. Maxar's expert roboticists will ... read more |
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NASA finds no traces of ISRO Vikram lunar landerNew Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter's latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 Septemb ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 11th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Oct 24, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 11th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 5:1 ... more  
New lightweight, portable robotic suit to increase running and walking performanceSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 While walking may not seem like a burden for most people, for others, this simple task can often feel exhausting. For patients recovering from surgery or stroke, those with Parkinson's Disease, thos ... more  
Breakthrough Listen to collaborate with scientists from NASA's TESS TeamNew York NY (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Breakthrough Listen announced this week at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, DC, a new collaboration with scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. ... more |
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Cascades of gas around young star indicate early stages of planet formationWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 What does a gestating baby planet look like? New research in Nature by a team including Carnegie's Jaehan Bae investigated the effects of three planets in the process of forming around a young star, ... more 
Building blocks of all life gain new understandingManchester UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 New research on an enzyme that is essential for photosynthesis and all life on earth has uncovered a key finding in its structure which reveals how light can interact with matter to make an essentia ... more  
No defects found in reproductive ability of male mice returning from short stay in spaceOsaka, Japan (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 A team of researchers led by Professor Ikawa Masahito from the Research Institute for Microbial Diseases of Osaka University, in a joint research project with the University of Tsukuba and the Japan ... more 
When Exoplanets CollideMoffett Field (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 A dramatic glimpse of the aftermath of a collision between two exoplanets is giving scientists a view at what can happen when planets crash into each other. A similar event in our own solar system m ... more 
Blue Origin's moon deal with Lockheed, other firms, signals new eraWashington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2019 Blue Origin announced Tuesday a new partnership with old-guard aerospace firms Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper to land on the moon - signalling a new era in U.S. space exploration. ... more |
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Automating collision avoidanceParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2019 ESA is preparing to use machine learning to protect satellites from the very real and growing danger of space debris. The Agency is developing a collision avoidance system that will automatica ... more  |
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New generation of intelligent bio-interfaces could overcome aspects of spinal cord injuryWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 Spinal cord injury disrupts the connection between brain and body, causing devastating loss of physiological function to the wounded warfighter. In addition to paralysis, service members living with ... more 
Assembler robots make large structures from little piecesBoston MA (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 Today's commercial aircraft are typically manufactured in sections, often in different locations - wings at one factory, fuselage sections at another, tail components somewhere else - and then flown ... more 
Safe Genes Tool Kit Takes ShapeWashington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 DARPA launched the Safe Genes program in 2017 to establish a "safety by design" strategy for guiding the development of an array of powerful, emergent genome editing technologies. Consistent with th ... more  
Gravity crystals: A new method for exploring the physics of white dwarf starsFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Grab a mixing bowl from your kitchen, throw in a handful of aluminum balls, apply some high voltage, and watch an elegant dance unfold where particles re-arrange themselves into a distinct "crystal" ... more 
New insights could help tame speedy ions in fusion plasmasFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 To create a practical fusion energy reactor, researchers need to control particles known as fast ions. These speedy ions, which are electrically charged hydrogen atoms, provide much of the self-heat ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2019 
Don't miss the out-of-this-world opportunity to name NASA's next Mars rover: U.S. students in kindergarten through 12th grade, attending public, private or home schools, have only through Nov. 1 to propose their name for the rover to be launched to Mars in 2020.
Just think about what it means to have something you named conducting history-making science on the Red Planet - or, if you are o ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Oct 24, 2019 
NASA has found no trace of the Indian lunar lander, dubbed Vikram, in the images captured during its Moon orbiter's latest flyby of the lunar region where the lander made a hard landing on 7 September, Project Scientist for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission Noah Petro said.
The Indian Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was put into lunar orbit on 20 August. During the mission, the Vikra ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 02, 2019 
Last night, NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter successfully executed a 10.5-hour propulsive maneuver - extraordinarily long by mission standards. The goal of the burn, as it's known, will keep the solar-powered spacecraft out of what would have been a mission-ending shadow cast by Jupiter on the spacecraft during its next close flyby of the planet on Nov. 3, 2019.
Juno began the maneuver yeste ... more |
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 Moffett Field (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
A dramatic glimpse of the aftermath of a collision between two exoplanets is giving scientists a view at what can happen when planets crash into each other. A similar event in our own solar system may have formed our Moon.
Known as BD +20 307, this double-star system is more than 300 light years from Earth with stars that are at least one billion years old. Yet this mature system has shown ... more |
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 New Orleans LA (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
Engineers and technicians at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans have structurally mated the first of four RS-25 engines to the core stage for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket that will help power the first Artemis mission to the Moon.
Integration of the RS-25 engines to the recently completed core stage structure is a collaborative, multistep process for NASA and its pa ... more |
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 Washington DC (XNA) Oct 23, 2019 
"I miss an important space agency in this panel. Where is China?" Attendees at a plenary of the ongoing weeklong International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington brought the question atop the panel voting system and demanded an answer.
The crowd-sourced question popped up after the audience found that Wu Yanhua, vice administrator of China National Space Administration (CNSA) sched ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
Comets are known to have a temper. As they swoop in from the outer edges of our solar system, these icy bodies begin spewing gas and dust as they venture closer to the Sun. Their luminous outbursts can result in spectacular sights that grace the night sky for days, weeks or even months.
But comets aren't born that way, and their pathway from their original formation location toward the inn ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2019 
Raytheon Co. announced the delivery, to the U.S. Air Force, of the first high-energy laser system to counter drone threats.
The system will be tested in a year-long overseas deployment, the company said on Tuesday.
Raytheon received a $23.8 million contract in August to build two high-energy laser systems, as well as a $16 million contract for a microwave counter-drone system kno ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 23, 2019 
Turkey is in talks to buy more S-400 missile defence systems from Moscow, Russia's state arms exporter said, despite Washington's repeated warnings against such a purchase.
Alexander Mikheyev, head of state arms exporter Rosoboronexport, told Interfax news agency that the two countries were discussing financing and "a delivery schedule".
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 
A team led by a University of Hawaii at Manoa chemistry professor and researcher has been able to provide answers to key questions about the surface of Saturn's moon Titan.
Physical chemist Ralf I. Kaiser and fellow researchers examined remote sensing data regarding NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission to Titan - the only solar system body besides Earth with a solid surface, lakes and a thick at ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2019 
Evening gowns with interwoven LEDs may look extravagant, but the light sources need a constant power supply from devices that are as well wearable, durable, and lightweight. Chinese scientists have manufactured fibrous electrodes for wearable devices that are flexible and excel by their high energy density. A microfluidic technology was key for the preparation of the electrode material was a mic ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star formation.
While galaxy clusters have been used to magnify objects at optical wavelengths, this is the first time scientists have leveraged ... more |
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 Davis CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
New measurements of the rate of expansion of the universe, led by astronomers at the University of California, Davis, add to a growing mystery: Estimates of a fundamental constant made with different methods keep giving different results.
"There's a lot of excitement, a lot of mystification and from my point of view it's a lot of fun," said Chris Fassnacht, professor of physics at UC Davis ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 
While walking may not seem like a burden for most people, for others, this simple task can often feel exhausting. For patients recovering from surgery or stroke, those with Parkinson's Disease, those with restricted mobility, and even for soldiers or firemen carrying heavy loads over difficult terrain, walking or running can be a struggle.
Many researchers have pondered over this problem o ... more |
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 University Park PA (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 
To inspire advanced robotic technology, researchers in the Penn State Department of Mechanical Engineering have published the most complete description of how flying insects land upside-down.
The paper was published Oct. 23 in Science Advances. "Through this work, we sought to understand how a fly executes the maneuvers of landing upside down in the blink of an eye," said Bo Cheng, assista ... more |
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