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  Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday. The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later. Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure. span class="BDL">Source: Xinhua News Agency /span> ... read more |
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Waves in thin Martian air with wide effectsLisboa, Portugal (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 Mars has a very thin atmosphere, with nearly one hundredth the density of ours on Earth, and gravity pulls with little more than one third of the strength we feel on our planet. As a result, dust st ... more  
On mission to eradicate virus germs, China firms see the UV lightBeijing (AFP) March 13, 2020 Ultraviolet light is being beamed through public buses and lifts in China to wipe out any possible germs as part of efforts to clear the country of the deadly coronavirus epidemic. ... more 
Growing stem cells for deep space explorationDarmstadt, Germany (ESA) Mar 18, 2020 Earth's magnetosphere protects us from the most harmful cosmic rays that bombard our planet but beyond this natural shield, astronauts are subjected to radiation that is a hundred times more than at ... more  
Long-distance fiber link poised to create powerful networks of optical clocksWashington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical telecommunications fiber network stable enough to remotely interrogate optical atomic ... more |
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Vast collapsed terrains on Mercury might be windows into ancient habitabilityTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 New research raises the possibility that some parts of Mercury's subsurface, and those of similar planets in the galaxy, once could have been capable of fostering prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps ev ... more 
Mercury's 400 C heat may help it make its own iceAtlanta GA (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 It is already hard to believe that there is ice on Mercury, where daytime temperatures reach 400 degrees Celsius, or 750 degrees Fahrenheit. Now an upcoming study says that the Vulcan heat on the pl ... more  
RUAG Space to supply payload adapters and separation systems for the Soyuz launchersZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 GK Launch Services, an operator of Soyuz-2 commercial launches and RUAG Space, a leading independent space product supplier, have signed a Long-term Purchase Agreement for Payload Adapters and Separ ... more  
Feeding fusion: hydrogen ice pellets prove effective for fueling fusion plasmasPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Researchers have found that injecting pellets of hydrogen ice rather than puffing hydrogen gas improves fusion performance at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, which General Atomics operates for ... more 
Permanent magnets stronger than those on refrigerator could be a solution for delivering fusion energyPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Permanent magnets akin to those used on refrigerators could speed the development of fusion energy - the same energy produced by the sun and stars. In principle, such magnets can greatly simpl ... more |
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NASA selects first science instruments to send to Lunar GatewayWashington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 NASA has selected the first two scientific investigations to fly aboard the Gateway, an orbital outpost which will support Artemis lunar operations while demonstrating the technologies necessary to ... more  |
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ExoMars to take off for the Red Planet in 2022Paris (ESA) Mar 12, 2020 The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone the launch of the second ExoMars mission to study the Red Planet to 2022. The joint ESA-Roscosmos p ... more 
Producing human tissue in spaceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 On 6 March at 11:50 PM EST, the International Space Station resupply mission Space X CRS-20 took off from Cape Canaveral (USA). On board: 250 test tubes from the University of Zurich containing adul ... more  
Robots that admit mistakes foster better conversation in humansNew Haven CT (SPX) Mar 10, 2020 Three people and a robot form a team playing a game. The robot makes a mistake, costing the team a round. Like any good teammate, it acknowledges the error. "Sorry, guys, I made the mistake ... more 
UNM scientists find Earth and moon not identical oxygen twinsAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study release ... more  
Scientists have discovered the origins of the building blocks of lifeNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that powered early life on Earth and serve as chemical signals that NASA could ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues.
The unmanned ExoMars, whose mission is to land a robot on the Red Planet to seek out signs of life, was scheduled to launch later this year after experiencing several delays. But even that ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 
The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The last Soviet interplanetary automatic station was Luna-24, launched in 1976. Russia in its history has not yet sent a spacecraft to the moon.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured patches, one of which clearly stands out: the Great Red Spot. This is an Earth-sized anticyclone that has been observed for over 350 years, but has suddenly decreased in size in recent years.
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that powered early life on Earth and serve as chemical signals that NASA could use to search for life on other planets.
Their study, which predicts what the earliest proteins looked like 3.5 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, is published in the journal Proceedings of the N ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 
The health and safety of our Student Launch teams, our NASA workforce and our challenge partners has always been, and continues to be, NASA's first priority.
NASA has been carefully monitoring the health concerns related to the COVID-19 virus, particularly the risk of large gatherings and travel. NASA has determined that the best course of action is to replace this year's in-person year-en ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 
The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday.
The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later.
Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure.
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 16, 2020 
Scientists have detected ammonium salts on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (shown in this image on the right) by analysing data collected by the Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on ESA's Rosetta mission between August 2014 and May 2015.
The new study, led by Olivier Poch of Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France, and publis ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020  Lockheed Martin was awarded a $22.4 million contract for work on the Layered Laser Defense system prototype onboard a Navy littoral combat ship, the Department of Defense announced.
The deal, announced Monday by the Pentagon, funds integration, demonstration, testing and operation of the LLD weapon system on board a vessel while the ship is underway.
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 Clear AK (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) program has completed delivery of the first ten antenna panels to Clear, Alaska, that will make up the first of the system's two radar antenna arrays.
Lockheed Martin continues to successfully achieve all program milestones as it works towards delivering the radar to MDA in 2020. The system will serve as a critical s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it's merely a moon tethered by gravity to its cosmic ruler, Saturn, Titan has all the trappings of a planet, including clouds, rain, lakes and rivers, and even a subsurface ocean of salty water.
Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan in 1655, calling it sim ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 
Spiral structure is seen in a variety of natural objects, ranging from plants and animals to tropical cyclones and galaxies. Now researchers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have developed a technique to accurately measure the winding arms of spiral galaxies that is so easy, virtually anyone can participate. This new and simple method is currently being applied in a citizen scien ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 14, 2020 
In recent years, the development of quantum computers beyond the capability of classical computers has become a new frontier in science and technology and a key direction to realize quantum supremacy. However, conventional quantum computing has a serious challenge due to quantum decoherence effect and requires a significant amount of error correction in scaling quantum qubits.
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Digging on the Moon is a hard job for a robot. It has to be able to collect and move lunar soil, or regolith, but anything launching to the Moon needs to be lightweight. The problem is excavators rely on their weight and traction to dig on Earth. NASA has a solution, but is looking for ideas to make it better. Once matured, robotic excavators could help NASA establish a sustainable presence on t ... more |
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 Hawthorne CA (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 
Skyryse has unveiled FlightOS, a new flight automation system that can retrofit onto any aircraft to enable anyone to fly as safely as the best pilots on their best day using intuitive controls. The aircraft-agnostic system introduces a new paradigm in flight safety and capabilities through simplified flight control operations.
FlightOS leverages Skyryse's full flight automation so pilots ... more |
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