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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2020 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rover's astrobiology mission will seek signs of past microscopic life on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero Crater landing site, and demonstrate key technologies to help prepare for future robotic and human exploration. And the rover will do all that while collecting the first samples of Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust) for return to Earth by a set of future missions. "Fifty-one year ... read more |
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NASA's new Mars mission will take at least a decade to confirm lifeWashington DC (UPI) Jun 17, 2020 NASA's new microbe-hunting Mars rover, scheduled for launch July 20, is the most sophisticated rover yet, but it will take at least a decade to determine whether samples the machine collects exhibit signs of life, agency officials said Wednesday. ... more 
Martian rover motors aheadParis (ESA) Jun 17, 2020 European engineers, together with Canada, are working on the technologies needed to find and retrieve samples from Mars, as part of ESA's plans to send material from the Red Planet to Earth. T ... more  
As many as six billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimatesVancouver, Canada (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 To be considered Earth-like, a planet must be rocky, roughly Earth-sized and orbiting Sun-like (G-type) stars. It also has to orbit in the habitable zones of its star - the range of distances from a ... more  
Evidence for Volcanic Craters on Saturn's Moon TitanTucson 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 Planetar ... 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 
Electrically charged dust storms drive Martian chlorine cycleSt. Louis MO (SPX) Jun 16, 2020 How's the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientists show ... more 
Research sheds new light on intelligent life existing across the galaxyNottingham 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 pos ... more |
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 NASA invites competitors to shoot for the moon and beyond 
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  |
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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  
Space Mission Launches that will Carry Experiment Aimed at Solving Antibiotic ResistanceRamat Gan, Israel (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 Israel's Sheba Medical Center, Tel HaShomer will make history on June 18 as one of the world's first hospitals to launch a bio-medical experiment in space. To help solve the worsening global problem ... more  
Satellite launch center Wenchang eyes boosting homestay, catering sectorsWenchang, 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 ... more  
A proven method for stabilizing efforts to bring fusion power to EarthPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 All efforts to replicate in tokamak fusion facilities the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars must cope with a constant problem - transient heat bursts that can halt fusion reactions and dam ... 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 |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 18, 2020 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is just over a month from its July 20 targeted launch date. The rover's astrobiology mission will seek signs of past microscopic life on Mars, explore the geology of the Jezero Crater landing site, and demonstrate key technologies to help prepare for future robotic and human exploration. And the rover will do all that while collecting the first samples of Martian r ... 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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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Jun 18, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX announced in a Tuesday tweet that the American space manufacturer is planning to construct floating spaceports at sea, which will be used to launch rockets into space and hypersonic flights around the globe.
"SpaceX is building floating, superheavy-class spaceports for Mars, moon and hypersonic travel around Earth," Musk tweeted.
Musk linked to another tweet regard ... 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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 
On June 15, 2020, a citizen scientist spotted a never-before-seen comet in data from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO - the 4,000th comet discovery in the spacecraft's 25-year history.
The comet is nicknamed SOHO-4000, pending its official designation from the Minor Planet Center. Like most other SOHO-discovered comets, SOHO-4000 is part of the Kreutz family of sungrazers. T ... 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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 Dubendorf, Switzerland (SPX) Jun 17, 2020 
The smallest motor in the world - consisting of just 16 atoms: this was developed by a team of researchers from Empa and EPFL. "This brings us close to the ultimate size limit for molecular motors," explains Oliver Groning, head of the Functional Surfaces Research Group at Empa. The motor measures less than one nanometer - in other words it is around 100,000 times smaller than the diameter of a ... 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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 Paris. France (SPX) Jun 18, 2020 
An international collaboration bringing together over 200 scientists from 13 countries has shown that the very high-energy gamma-ray emission from quasars, galaxies with a highly energetic nucleus, is not concentrated in the region close to their central black hole but in fact extends over several thousand light-years along jets of plasma.
This discovery shakes up current scenarios for the ... 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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