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  Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mars Helicopter will carry no instruments and collect no data - NASA describes merely flying it all as "high-risk, high-reward" research. With the risks of extraterrestrial flight in mind, Penn Engineers are suggesting a different approach to exploring the skies of other worlds: a fleet of tiny aircraft th ... read more |
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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  
Exoplanet apparently disappears in latest Hubble observationsBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 Now you see it, now you don't. What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight. Though this happens in science fiction, such as Superman's home pl ... more 
ASU scientists lead study of galaxy's 'water worlds'Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thous ... more 
Hubble observes aftermath of massive collisionGarching, Germany (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 What astronomers thought was a planet beyond our solar system has now seemingly vanished from sight. Astronomers now suggest that a full-grown planet never existed in the first place. The NASA/ESA H ... more |
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Intelsat 901 Satellite Returns to Service Using Northrop Grumman's Mission Extension VehicleDulles VA (SPX) Apr 20, 2020 Intelsat announced Friday that Intelsat 901 has returned to service following the successful docking with the first Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-1) from Northrop Grumman Corporation and the compan ... more 
Scientists find microbes eating ethane spewing from deep-sea ventsWashington DC (UPI) Apr 21, 2020 Scientists in Germany have discovered a community of microbes that subsist on the ethane seeping from hot deep-sea vents at the bottom of the Gulf of California. They described their findings Tuesday in the journal mBio. ... 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 
Singapore disinfecting robot trialled in virus fightSingapore (AFP) April 17, 2020 Singapore researchers have invented a disinfecting robot with an arm that mimics human movement, to help take the load off overworked cleaners during the coronavirus pandemic. ... more 
Salmon parasite is world's first non-oxygen breathing animalWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 Scientists have discovered an unusual species of parasite hiding the muscles of salmon. The tiny species, comprised of just ten cells, is unlike all other animals known to science. The species, Henneguya salminicola, doesn't breathe oxygen. ... more |
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Moon dust and 3D printing will be standard for future lunar operationsMilan, Italy (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Can 3D Printers support extra-terrestrial colonisation in Space? One of the major challenges related to space exploration is the development of production technologies capable of exploiting the few ... more  |
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HD 158259 and it's six planets almost in rhythmGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 An international team lead by researchers of the University of Geneva has discovered a six-planets system. Almost visible to the naked eye in the Draco constellation, the star HD 158259 has be ... more 
CHEOPS space telescope ready for scientific operationBern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 CHEOPS is a joint mission by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Switzerland, under the leadership of the University of Bern in collaboration with the University of Geneva (UNIGE). After almost thre ... more  
New photon-counting camera captures 3D images with record speed and resolutionWashington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 Researchers have developed the first megapixel photon-counting camera based on new-generation image sensor technology that uses single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The new camera can detect sing ... more 
ESA helps analyse untouched Moon rocksParis (ESA) Apr 17, 2020 Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient processes on ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 17th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Apr 17, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 17th lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 1:24 p. ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
This summer, NASA plans to launch its next Mars rover, Perseverance, which will carry with it the first aircraft to ever fly on another planet, the Mars Helicopter. As the first of its kind, the Mars Helicopter will carry no instruments and collect no data - NASA describes merely flying it all as "high-risk, high-reward" research.
With the risks of extraterrestrial flight in mind, Penn Eng ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 17, 2020 
Almost 50 years after the Apollo missions returned lunar material to Earth, ESA experts are helping to uncover the secrets of two previously unopened samples to learn more about ancient processes on the Moon - and to refine and practice techniques for future sample return missions.
With one sample already being analysed, preparations are now being made to open the second later this year. ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 16, 2020 
New Horizons is healthy and performing perfectly as it flies deeper and deeper into the Kuiper Belt! Recently we conducted an engineering review of the spacecraft to "trend" how it was working compared to when it was launched. The result was amazing: Every system and science instrument aboard New Horizons is working as well as it did when we lifted off, more than 14 years and almost 5 billion mi ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Astrophysical observations have shown that Neptune-like water-rich exoplanets are common in our galaxy. These "water worlds" are believed to be covered with a thick layer of water, hundreds to thousands of miles deep, above a rocky mantle.
While water-rich exoplanets are common, their composition is very different from Earth, so there are many unknowns in terms of these planets' structure, ... more |
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 Tsukuba, Japan (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
Governments throughout the world use rockets to launch satellites and people into orbit. This currently requires a lot of high-energy fuel, which is 95% of total rocket mass. Because the launch cost of a rocket can reach 10 billion yen, launching a 1-gram payload is said to be the same as buying 1 gram of gold. Minimizing the total cost of launching rockets would maximize the scientific payloads ... more |
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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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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
On Aug. 30, 2019, when amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov gazed upward with his homemade telescope, he spotted an object moving in an unusual direction. Now called 2I/Borisov, this runaway point of light turned out to be the first confirmed comet to enter our solar system from some unknown place beyond our Sun's influence. Astronomers everywhere rushed to take a look with some of the most powerf ... more |
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 Falls Church VA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020 
The Counter-Rocket Artillery and Mortar (C-RAM) system of systems was deployed in 2005 to address a joint urgent operational need to defend our troops against rocket, artillery and mortar attacks in four primary pillars: sense, warn, intercept and respond.
Countless soldiers deployed over the past decade and a half have heard the jarring yet familiar "Incoming! Incoming!" siren warning in ... more |
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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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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 21, 2020 
The expectations of the gravitational-wave research community have been fulfilled: gravitational-wave discoveries are now part of their daily work as they have identified in the past observing run, O3, new gravitational-wave candidates about once a week. But now, the researchers have published a remarkable signal unlike any of those seen before: GW190412 is the first observation of a binary blac ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 22, 2020
New results from an ambitious sky survey program, called ALPINE, reveal that rotating disk-shaped galaxies may have existed in large numbers earlier in the universe than previously thought.
The ALPINE program, formally named "ALMA Large Program to Investigate C+ at Early Times," uses data obtained from 70 hours of sky observations with the ALMA observatory ( ... 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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2020 
Swift Tactical Systems, a subsidiary of Swift Engineering, and Silvus Technologies have entered into a strategic alliance. This collaboration combines Swift's world-class unmanned aircraft systems with Silvus' advanced MIMO communication systems for tactical applications.
The commercial agreement will enable Swift to integrate the locally manufactured radios into its family of American mad ... more |
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