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  Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 14, 2020 What is the origin of the famous interstellar object 'Oumuamua? How was it formed and where did it come from? An article published on April 13 in Nature Astronomy by ZHANG Yun from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and Douglas N. C. Lin from University of California, Santa Cruz, offers a first comprehensive answer to this mystery, which involves tidal forces like those felt by Earth's oceans and explains all of the unusual characteristics of this interstellar obje ... read more |
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Japan plans to launch micro probe into lunar orbit using solid-fuel rocketTokyo (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2020 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is planning to launch a micro explorer to the Moon's orbit using a solid-fuel Epsilon rocket in the first half of the 2020s, the Kyodo news agency reported on ... more  
Self-powered X-ray detector to revolutionize imaging for medicine and securityLos Alamos NM (SPX) Apr 14, 2020 A new X-ray detector prototype is on the brink of revolutionizing medical imaging, with dramatic reduction in radiation exposure and the associated health risks, while also boosting resolution in se ... more 
NASA selects early-stage technology concepts for new, continued studyWashington DC (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 Future technologies that could image Exo Planets, enable quicker trips to Mars and send robots to explore ocean worlds might have started out as NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC). The program ... more  
Swinging for the Space FencePeterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 The 20th Space Control Squadron Detachment 4 at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama manages a fence. But not just any fence. A Space Fence. I know what you're thinking...is it actually a giant fence in space? ... more |
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Help Pave the Way for Artemis: Send NASA Your Mini Moon Payload DesignsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2020 Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes - from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like the Vola ... more 
Apollo 13's 50th anniversary recalls NASA tragedy turned triumphWashington DC (UPI) Apr 10, 2020 The 50th anniversary of Apollo 13's launch on Saturday recalls a NASA tragedy that turned into a triumph of training and innovation. ... more 
DARPA program to build travel adapter for human bodyWashington DC (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Warfighters are travelers and thus suffer from travelers' ailments including disrupted sleep cycles and limited access to safe food and water. Warfighters who have not slept well have lower alertnes ... more 
NASA awards contract to deliver science, tech to Moon ahead of human missionsHouston TX (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 NASA has selected Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California, to deliver and operate eight payloads - with nine science and technology instruments - to the Moon's South Pole in 2022, to help lay the ... more 
When the Moon dust settles, it won't settle in VIPER's wheelsMoffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 Moon dust is a formidable adversary - the grains are as fine as powder and as sharp as tiny shards of glass. During the Apollo 17 mission to the Moon, the astronauts lamented how the dust found its ... more |
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 Space Tango wins NASA utilization awards for LEO Commercialization of biomedical applications  
Robots may become heroes in war on coronavirusSan Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2020 Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus. ... more  |
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L3Harris Technologies to modernize US capabilities to detect orbital objectsMelbourne FLw (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $23 million contract to modernize and sustain critical space infrastructure used by the military to keep track of activities and objects in space. The curren ... more 
Autonomous Solutions and Phantom Auto Partner to Deploy Unmanned Yard TrucksMendon UT (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 A new fully unmanned yard truck solution combines the expertise of four companies: Autonomous Solutions, Phantom Auto, FANUC America Corporation, and Terberg "The combination of these four le ... more 
Sellafield research uncovers microbial life in fuel pondsManchester UK (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 Two new research papers from The University of Manchester, working with colleagues at Sellafield Limited and the National Nuclear Laboratory show that microbes can actively colonise some of the most ... more 
Swiss 'hackathon' seeks new paths in virus battleGeneva (AFP) April 6, 2020 More than 5,000 people took part over the weekend in a virtual "hackathon" in Switzerland to generate fresh ideas for how to deal with and combat COVID-19, organisers said Monday. ... more 
Technique offers path for biomanufacturing medicines during space flightsTroy NY (SPX) Apr 14, 2020 An instrument currently aboard the International Space Station could grow E. coli bacteria in space, opening a new path to bio-manufacturing drugs during long term space flights. Research published ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 10, 2020 
With the launch period of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover opening in 14 weeks, final preparations of the spacecraft continue at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the past week, the assembly, test and launch operations team completed important milestones, fueling the descent stage - also known as the sky crane - and attaching the Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft in hist ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 13, 2020 
Future exploration of the Moon and beyond will require tools of all shapes and sizes - from sweeping orbiters to the tiniest of rovers. In addition to current planned scientific rovers like the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, or VIPER, NASA could one day send even smaller rovers to help scout the Moon's surface.
These tiny robots would provide mission flexibility and colle ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 14, 2020 
What is the origin of the famous interstellar object 'Oumuamua? How was it formed and where did it come from? An article published on April 13 in Nature Astronomy by ZHANG Yun from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC) and Douglas N. C. Lin from University of California, Santa Cruz, offers a first comprehensive answer to this mystery, which involves tidal forc ... more |
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 Vandenberg AFB CA (AFNS) Apr 14, 2020 
A United Launch Alliance barge, carrying Delta IV Heavy booster cores, second stage and payload faring, docked and delivered the rocket body parts April 5, 2020, at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
The ULA barge, known as the RocketShip, delivered the parts in preparation for an upcoming launch scheduled for later this year showcasing the ongoing mission amidst COVID-19.
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 07, 2020 
China has been testing high-tech parachutes to control rocket debris and make space launches safer, according to the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).
During the March 9 launch of a Long March-3B rocket carrying a satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, a booster was equipped with parachutes and control devices.
After the booster separated from the rocke ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 13, 2020 
In August, a robotic spacecraft will make NASA's first-ever attempt to descend to the surface of an asteroid, collect a sample, and ultimately bring it safely back to Earth. In order to achieve this challenging feat, the OSIRIS-REx mission team devised new techniques to operate in asteroid Bennu's microgravity environment - but they still need experience flying the spacecraft in close proximity ... 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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 14, 2020 
Last month, a subsidiary of S-500 maker Almaz-Antey confirmed that multiple components of the next generation air defence system had been developed and tested, with the completed complex to start testing with the military later this year.
The S-500 is not just a conventional air and missile defence system, but an anti-space weapon whose introduction will fundamentally change Russia's air d ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 
The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the high temperatures. Their heat source has been one of the great mysteries of planetary science.
New analysis of data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a viable explanation for what's keeping ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 13, 2020 
Scientists have developed a way to remotely control the release of adrenal hormones like adrenaline and cortisol.
Previous studies have linked problems with the regulation of hormones from the adrenal gland with mental health disorders, such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
The new research, detailed in the journal Science Advances, could help scientists investig ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
A team from the University of Adelaide in South Australia are behind a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors reaching into space.
Gravitational waves are faint ripples in space time caused by distant events like collisions between black holes or neutron stars.
These cosmic waves are detected at places like the A ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Apr 09, 2020 
No matter where we look, the same rules apply everywhere in space: countless calculations of astrophysics are based on this basic principle. A recent study by the Universities of Bonn and Harvard, however, has thrown this principle into question. Should the measured values be confirmed, this would toss many assumptions about the properties of the universe overboard. The results are published in ... more |
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 San Francisco (AFP) April 9, 2020 
Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus.
One team of robots temporarily cared for patients in a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 outbreak began.
Meals were served, temperatures taken and communications handled by mac ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Apr 08, 2020 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has set up the Air Force's first high-energy laser weapon system overseas for a 12-month field assessment. The Air Force Strategic Development Planning and Experimentation (SDPE) Office located here is leading the project.
"The receiving combatant command will utilize this system as an operational asset against small unmanned aircraft systems for the durat ... more |
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