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  Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon's South Pole in late 2023. The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot will help pave the way for astronaut missions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024 and will bring NASA a step closer to developing a sustainable, long-term presence on the Moon as part of the agency's Artemis program. "The VIPER rover and the commercial partnership that will deliver it ... read more |
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First Citizen Science Successes for Backyard AstronomyMountain View CA (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Citizen science pioneers recently made two contributions to a better knowledge of outer space. Backyard astronomers of the SETI Institute and Unistellar network conducted in April citizen science ob ... more  
New control technique could improve accuracy of industrial robotsBeijing, China (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 Feedforward mechanisms used to control machines are much more accurate than feedback mechanisms, but they can be computationally hard. A new method has improved over conventional techniques and is s ... more  
MESSENGER Shows How a Spacecraft Could End Neutron Lifetime StalemateLaurel MD (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 Neutrons aren't a model of resilience when it comes to living a single life. Strip one from an atom's nucleus and it will quickly disintegrate into an electron and a proton. But scientists can't det ... more  
Neuroscientists discover neural circuits that control hibernation-like behaviors in miceBoston MA (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 The dream of suspended animation has long captivated the human imagination, reflected in countless works of mythology and fiction, from King Arthur and Sleeping Beauty to Captain America and Han Sol ... more |
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Ancient micrometeoroids carried specks of stardust, water to asteroid 4 VestaSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 The formation of our solar system was a messy affair. Most of the material that existed before its formation - material formed around other, long-dead stars - was vaporized, then recondensed into ne ... more  
Plant pathogens can adapt to a variety of climates, hostsWashington DC (UPI) Jun 11, 2020 New research suggests crop pathogens are exceptionally adaptive - perhaps, alarmingly so. Scientists found a large percentage of known crop pathogens can adapt to a variety of climate conditions and infect a diversity of crop hosts. ... more 
Space-enabled mobile bio-lab to test key workers for COVID-19Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2020 A deployable laboratory that can test frontline healthcare staff, civil protection volunteers and police forces for the coronavirus has left Belgium and is on its way to Piedmont, Italy. Italy ... more  
'Whispering gallery' effect controls electron beams with lightGottingen, Germany (SPX) Jun 08, 2020 When you speak softly in one of the galleries of St Paul's cathedral, the sound runs so easily around the dome that visitors anywhere on its circumference can hear it. This striking phenomenon has b ... more 
Presence of airborne dust could signify increased habitability of distant planetsExeter UK (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Scientists have expanded our understanding of potentially habitable planets orbiting distant stars by including a critical climate component - the presence of airborne dust. The researchers su ... more |
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 NASA awards Northrop Grumman Artemis contract for Gateway Crew Cabin  
Digital lift-off: Roscosmos and Zyfra to jointly develop digital technologies for Russia's space industryHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Russia's state corporation responsible for space flights and cosmonautic programs, Roscosmos, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Finnish-Russian industrial digitalization leader Zyfra ... more  |
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx discovers sunlight can crack rocks on Asteroid BennuGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 Asteroids don't just sit there doing nothing as they orbit the Sun. They get bombarded by meteoroids, blasted by space radiation, and now, for the first time, scientists are seeing evidence that eve ... more  
Three new views of Mars' moon PhobosPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2020 Three new views of the Martian moon Phobos have been captured by NASA's Odyssey orbiter. Taken this past winter and this spring, they capture the moon as it drifts into and out of Mars' shadow. ... more  
Saturn's Moon Titan drifting away faster than previously thoughtPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2020 Just as our own Moon floats away from Earth a tiny bit more each year, other moons are doing the same with their host planets. As a moon orbits, its gravity pulls on the planet, causing a temporary ... more 
NASA to announce selection of company to fly VIPER rover to MoonWashington DC (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 NASA will announce the commercial provider selected to deliver NASA's new water-hunting mobile robot, the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER), to the South Pole of the Moon durin ... more  
Private investment fuels China commercial space sector growthParis, France (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 In its latest research titled "China Space Industry Report," Euroconsult provides in depth analysis of how commercialization is driving both growth and technology advances in the Chinese space secto ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) June 9, 2020  The first Arab space mission to Mars, armed with probes to study the Red Planet's atmosphere, is designed to inspire the region's youth and pave the way for scientific breakthroughs, officials said Tuesday.
The unmanned probe Al-Amal - Hope in Arabic - is to blast off from a Japanese space centre on July 15, with preparations now in their final stages.
The project is the next giant ste ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 
NASA has awarded Astrobotic of Pittsburgh $199.5 million to deliver NASA's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon's South Pole in late 2023.
The water-seeking mobile VIPER robot will help pave the way for astronaut missions to the lunar surface beginning in 2024 and will bring NASA a step closer to developing a sustainable, long-term presence on the Moon as par ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 14, 2020 
When the New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto in 2015, one of the many fascinating features its images revealed was that this small, frigid world in the distant solar system has a hazy atmosphere. Now, new data helps explain how Pluto's haze is formed from the faint light of the Sun 3.7 billion miles away as it moves through an unusual orbit.
Remote observations of Pluto by NASA's teles ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Jun 09, 2020 
The aliens came on Oct. 19, 2017. That was the day telescopes picked up a strange object with an odd, elongated shape that moved like a comet-but had no apparent tail. The object, which baffled astronomers and led some to claim it could be a spacecraft sent by intelligent life, was named 'Oumuamua, which means "messenger from afar arriving first" in Hawaiian. But a new theory proposed by Univers ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jun 10, 2020  Winds have scrubbed a rocket launch planned in New Zealand early Thursday morning is to propel five small satellites into orbit, including a Boston University experiment to measure solar winds and the Earth's magnetosphere. A new target launch date has not been announced. California-based Rocket Labs, which owns the New Zealand launch site, is scheduled to send the satellites into orbit aboard the company's Electron rocket at 12:43 a.m. EDT from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula. The launch was set for 2:32 a.m. if delays happen. ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Jun 05, 2020 
In its latest research titled "China Space Industry Report," Euroconsult provides in depth analysis of how commercialization is driving both growth and technology advances in the Chinese space sector, with oversubscribed IPOs and a wave of private investment.
China Satcom is now the world's highest valued pure satellite operator with a market cap of US$11 billion as of May 2020, while Chin ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
Close-up observations of asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contain the first evidence of thermal fracturing of rocks on an airless body, a Nature Communications paper by Planetary Science Institute Research Scientist Jamie Molaro says.
Thermal fracturing or thermal stress weathering occurs as rocks heat and cool each day, and mechanical stresses build up that can cause cracks ... more |
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 Pearl Harbor (USN) May 22, 2020 
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) successfully disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a Solid State Laser - Technology Maturation Laser Weapon System Demonstrator (LWSD) MK 2 MOD 0 on May 16.
LWSD is a high-energy laser weapon system demonstrator developed by the Office of Naval Research and installed on Portland for an at-sea demonstration. LWSD's operational em ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jun 12, 2020 
The US Senate Armed Services Committee approved additional funding for missile defence, including for hypersonic weapons, in the National Defence Authorization Act (NDAA) for the fiscal year 2021, a summary of the draft bill revealed.
The Armed Services Committee on Thursday voted 25-2 to advance the fiscal year 2021 NDAA to the Senate floor.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 09, 2020 
Just as our own Moon floats away from Earth a tiny bit more each year, other moons are doing the same with their host planets. As a moon orbits, its gravity pulls on the planet, causing a temporary bulge in the planet as it passes.
Over time, the energy created by the bulging and subsiding transfers from the planet to the moon, nudging it farther and farther out. Our Moon drifts 1.5 inches ... more |
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 Oak Ridge TN (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
A team led by the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory synthesized a tiny structure with high surface area and discovered how its unique architecture drives ions across interfaces to transport energy or information. Their "nanobrush" contains bristles made of alternating crystal sheets with vertically aligned interfaces and plentiful pores.
"These are major technical accomp ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 10, 2020 
ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs have selected a team from Mahidol University, Thailand to carry out research using ESA's hypergravity-generating Large Diameter Centrifuge. The team will see how watermeal - the smallest flowering plant on Earth, even smaller than the more familiar duckweed - responds to changing gravity levels to assess its usefulness for space-based lif ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Jun 12, 2020 
Scientists have found a way of measuring neutron lifetime from space for the first time - a discovery that could teach us more about the early universe.
Knowing the lifetime of neutrons is key to understanding the formation of elements after the Big Bang that formed the universe 13.8 billion years ago.
Scientists at Durham University, UK, and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 
Feedforward mechanisms used to control machines are much more accurate than feedback mechanisms, but they can be computationally hard. A new method has improved over conventional techniques and is set to be tried out on industrial robots and machine vision.
Most people will be familiar with 'feedback', where a machine such as a thermostat corrects itself after observing an error in perform ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 10, 2020 
The technology multinational GMV has won a contract under the Spanish MoD's RAPAZ program for the supply of four Class I Seeker RPASs, to be integrated into the intelligence units of the Paratrooper Brigade and the Tercio de Armada de Infanteria de Marina (Marine Infantry Protection Force), thus providing them with the most advanced version of the unmanned aircraft Seeker.
The UAS Seeker i ... more |
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