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  Stevenage UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Airbus Defence and Space has won the next phase of the study contract (Advanced B2) from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the advanced Sample Fetch Rover which will be used to collect samples from the surface of Mars. Mars Sample Return is a joint NASA and ESA campaign to return samples from the Red Planet. NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission Perseverance will collect Martian soils and rock samples and leave them on the surface in small metal tubes. In 2026 NASA will launch an ESA rover to Mar ... read more |
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx produces Nightingale mosaicTucson AZ (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3. A total of 345 PolyCam images were stitched together to produce the ... more 
ExoMars spots unique green glow at the Red PlanetParis (ESA) Jun 16, 2020 ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has detected glowing green oxygen in Mars' atmosphere - the first time that this emission has been seen around a planet other than Earth. On Earth, glowing oxyg ... more  
Proposed NASA Mission Would Visit Neptune's Curious Moon TritonPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2020 When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune's strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary science cliffhanger. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Neptune, ... more  
Using sunlight to save satellites from a fate of 'space junk'West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 No satellite stays the same once launched into space. How much it changes can go unnoticed - until something bad happens. Carolin Frueh is among only a handful of researchers who have persiste ... more |
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NASA invites competitors to shoot for the moon and beyondHuntsville AL (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 NASA is inviting additional teams to compete in the Cube Quest Challenge. You can still participate in the in-space phase of the challenge and be eligible to win part of a $4.5 million prize purse. ... more  
Applying 'magic angle' twistronics to manipulate the flow of lightSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 15, 2020 Monash researchers are part of an international collaboration applying 'twistronics' concepts (the science of layering and twisting 2D materials to control their electrical properties) to manipulate ... more 
NASA's Mars Rover Drivers Need Your HelpPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2020 You may be able to help NASA's Curiosity rover drivers better navigate Mars. Using the online tool AI4Mars to label terrain features in pictures downloaded from the Red Planet, you can train an arti ... 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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 Space-enabled mobile bio-lab to test key workers for COVID-19 
Pause button for light particlesDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 How do you stop something that is faster than anything else, intangible and always in motion by nature? A team led by physicists Dr. Thorsten Peters and Professor Thomas Halfmann is doing the seemin ... more  |
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Superlens squeezes light into nanospaceMoscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Russian and Danish researchers have made a first-ever experimental observation of a plasmon nanojet. This physical phenomenon enables nanoscale focusing of light and, theoretically, allows engineers ... more  
Borrowing from robotics, scientists automate mapping of quantum systemsSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 Scientists at the University of Sydney have adapted techniques from autonomous vehicles and robotics to efficiently assess the performance of quantum devices, an important process to help stabilise ... more  
Astronomers discover how long-lived Peter Pan discs evolveLondon, UK (SPX) Jun 11, 2020 New research from scientists at Queen Mary University of London has revealed how long-lived Peter Pan discs form, which could provide new insights into how planets arise. Planet-forming, or pr ... more 
NASA Selects Astrobotic to Fly Water-Hunting Rover to the MoonWashington 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 mobi ... 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 |
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 Stevenage UK (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
Airbus Defence and Space has won the next phase of the study contract (Advanced B2) from the European Space Agency (ESA) for the advanced Sample Fetch Rover which will be used to collect samples from the surface of Mars.
Mars Sample Return is a joint NASA and ESA campaign to return samples from the Red Planet. NASA's 2020 Mars rover mission Perseverance will collect Martian soils and rock ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
NASA is inviting additional teams to compete in the Cube Quest Challenge. You can still participate in the in-space phase of the challenge and be eligible to win part of a $4.5 million prize purse.
The Cube Quest Challenge, NASA's first in-space competition, incentivizes teams to design, build and deliver small satellites capable of advanced operations near and beyond the Moon. To compete, ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2020 
When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune's strange moon Triton three decades ago, it wrote a planetary science cliffhanger. Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to have flown past Neptune, and it left a lot of unanswered questions. The views were as stunning as they were puzzling, revealing massive, dark plumes of icy material spraying out from Triton's surface. But how? Images showed t ... more |
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 Nottingham UK (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
One of the biggest and longest-standing questions in the history of human thought is whether there are other intelligent life forms within our Universe. Obtaining good estimates of the number of possible extraterrestrial civilizations has however been very challenging.
A new study led by the University of Nottingham and published in The Astrophysical Journal has taken a new approach to thi ... more |
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 Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Jun 12, 2020 
With this mission, designated Flight VV16, Arianespace underscores its comprehensive range of innovative and competitive services to address the nano- and micro-satellite market sub-segment, serving both institutional and commercial needs. The creation of such a new service using the company's light-lift Vega led to the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) project.
The European Space Ag ... more |
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 Wenchang, China (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
Homestay and catering industries related to aerospace are expected to be developed in Wenchang township, the location of China's fourth satellite launch center in tropical Hainan province, according to a local official.
"I believe the two new industries will further contribute to our economy and employment, even though we have just put forward the idea and are still studied specific measur ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
This view of sample site Nightingale on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on March 3. A total of 345 PolyCam images were stitched together to produce the mosaic, which shows the site at 0.2 inches (4 mm) per pixel at full size.
These images were captured when the spacecraft performed an 820-foot (250-meter) reconnaissance pass over site Nighting ... 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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 Tokyo (AFP) June 16, 2020 
Japan "can't move ahead" with a costly US missile defence system, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday, throwing his support behind a decision to suspend deployment of the controversial programme.
In a surprise announcement a day earlier, Japan's Defence Minister Taro Kono said the deployment of the Aegis Ashore system would be suspended, citing cost and time constraints.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 
Volcano-like features seen in polar regions of Saturn's moon Titan by NASA's Cassini spacecraft could be evidence of explosive eruptions that may continue today, according to a new paper by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Charles A. Wood and coauthor Jani Radebaugh of Brigham Young University.
Morphological features such as nested collapses, elevated ramparts, halos, and islan ... 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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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2020 
This month marks 25 years since scientists first produced a fifth state of matter, which has extraordinary properties totally unlike solids, liquids, gases and plasmas. The achievement garnered a Nobel Prize and changed physics.
A new study in the journal Nature builds on that legacy. In July 2018, NASA's Cold Atom Lab became the first facility to produce that fifth state of matter, called ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
Scientists at the University of Sydney have adapted techniques from autonomous vehicles and robotics to efficiently assess the performance of quantum devices, an important process to help stabilise the emerging technologies.
The innovative approach has been shown experimentally to outperform simplistic characterisation of these environments by a factor of three, with a much higher result f ... more |
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 Aberdeen Proving Ground MD (SPX) Jun 15, 2020 
he U.S. Army has implemented a one-of-a-kind outdoor system to test swarming drones--with a capacity of more than 1,500 times the volume of a typical testing facility.
Future Soldiers will operate with many of these unmanned aircraft systems across the battlespace, using an interconnected swarm to provide capabilities for situational awareness, defense and logistics.
To enable the te ... more |
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