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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system. A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy terrains found on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Both are thought to host vast subsurface oceans of salty water under a thick ice crust. But while that makes the ... read more |
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Final Beidou launch marks major milestone in China's space effortBeijing (XNA) Jun 24, 2020 The final satellite to complete the third-generation network of China's Beidou Navigation Satellite System was launched on Tuesday morning, marking a milestone in the nation's space endeavor. ... more  
NASA Extends Deep Space Atomic Clock MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 As the time when NASA will begin sending humans back to the Moon draws closer, crewed trips to Mars are an enticing next step. But future space explorers will need new tools when traveling to such d ... more 
China's tracking ship wraps up satellite launch monitoringBeijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean o ... more  
Ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa "could be habitable"Washington DC (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter's moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition they have calculated that this water, believed to be ... more |
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Hera and its asteroid targetParis (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence seen approaching the Dimorphos asteroid moonlet, which is destined to become the subject of an audacious deflection experiment. The newly-named Dimorph ... more  
Discovering an exoplanet the size of NeptuneMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 An exoplanet the size of Neptune has been discovered around the young star AU Microscopii, thanks in part to the work of Jonathan Gagne, a former iREx Banting postdoctoral researcher who is now a sc ... more 
Space Team Theorizes Rare Exomoon DiscoveryLondon, Canada (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 Western University astronomers may have spotted six new moons orbiting planets in solar systems far from our own - an otherworldly discovery so rare it must wait on future technologies to confirm. U ... more  
Geometry of intricately fabricated glass makes light trap itselfUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Laser light traveling through ornately microfabricated glass has been shown to interact with itself to form self-sustaining wave patterns called solitons. The intricate design fabricated in the glas ... more  
How NASA's Mars Helicopter Will Reach the Red Planet's SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2020 NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) of interplanetary space to get to Mars. But for the team working on the fi ... more |
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 Evidence supports 'hot start' scenario and early ocean formation on Pluto 
Breakthrough listen releases list of "exotica"San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Breakthrough Listen, the initiative to find signs of intelligent life in the Universe, has released an innovative catalog of "Exotica" - a diverse list of objects of potential interest to astronomer ... more  |
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NASA scientist simulates sunsets on other worldsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 Have you ever wondered what a sunset on Uranus might look like? As you can see in the animation above, a Uranian sunset is a rich azure that fades into royal blue with hints of turquoise. This blue- ... more 
Young giant planet offers clues to formation of exotic worldsPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2020 For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 ... more  
ESA awards NanoAvionics contract to develop new satellite propulsion technologiesVilnius, Lithuania (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 The European Space Agency (ESA) has granted 1 million euros to nanosatellite mission integrator NanoAvionics to develop key components for small satellite propulsion systems. The new propulsion tech ... more 
Researchers discover unique material design for brain-like computationsAdelphi MD (SPX) Jun 19, 2020 Over the past few decades, computers have seen dramatic progress in processing power; however, even the most advanced computers are relatively rudimentary in comparison with the complexities and cap ... more 
An experiment in recreating primordial proteins solves a long-standing riddleRehovot, Israel (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 What did the very first proteins look like - those that appeared on Earth around 3.7 billion years ago? Prof. Dan Tawfik of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Prof. Norman Metanis of the Hebrew U ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 24, 2020 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter will travel with the Perseverance rover through 314 million miles (505 million kilometers) of interplanetary space to get to Mars. But for the team working on the first experimental flight test on another planet, engineering the final 5 inches (13 centimeters) of the journey has been among the most challenging of all. To safely navigate those 5 inches - the dista ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jun 22, 2020 
Final Frontier Design (FFD) is pleased to announce the award of multiple contracts for components of NASA's next generation xEMU Lunar space suit.
The xEMU Lunar space suit will be used in the Artemis mission, the first US planetary space mission since Apollo.
The development awards include the Lunar xEMU space suit boot, hip, and waist joints, and will culminate with hardware delive ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The accretion of new material during Pluto's formation may have generated enough heat to create a liquid ocean that has persisted beneath an icy crust to the present day, despite the dwarf planet's orbit far from the sun in the cold outer reaches of the solar system.
This "hot start" scenario, presented in a paper published June 22 in Nature Geoscience, contrasts with the traditional view ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 23, 2020 
For most of human history our understanding of how planets form and evolve was based on the eight (or nine) planets in our solar system. But over the last 25 years, the discovery of more than 4,000 exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system, changed all that.
Among the most intriguing of these distant worlds is a class of exoplanets called hot Jupiters. Similar in size to Jupiter, the ... more |
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 Gold Coast, Australia (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
Australia's leading rocket company has reached another milestone in its mission to launch small satellites to space by 2022.
Rocket engineers at Gilmour Space Technologies in Queensland, Australia, have completed the first in a series of major technology demonstrations this year: a successful 45-second 'hot fire' of their upper-stage hybrid rocket engine.
"This was our longest and mo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jun 25, 2020 
Yuanwang-6 - China's space-tracking ship, Yuanwang-6, has completed maritime monitoring for the last satellite launch of the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday.
The satellite, the 55th of the BeiDou family, was launched at 9:43 am (Beijing Time) on Tuesday. It was sent into the preset orbit by a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang S ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 
ESA's Hera mission for planetary defence seen approaching the Dimorphos asteroid moonlet, which is destined to become the subject of an audacious deflection experiment.
The newly-named Dimorphos - at 160 m across, about the size of Egypt's Great Pyramid - orbits around the main 780 m mountain-sized Didymos near-Earth asteroid. Next year NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will l ... 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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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2020 
The world's most advanced missile defense satellite recently and successfully came out of almost two months of harsh simulated space environmental testing.
On June 9, the U.S. Space Force's fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit satellite (SBIRS GEO-5) successfully completed Thermal Vacuum (TVAC) testing at Lockheed Martin's Sunnyvale, California satellite manufacturi ... more |
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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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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 24, 2020 
When the most massive stars die, they collapse under their own gravity and leave behind black holes; when stars that are a bit less massive die, they explode in supernovas and leave behind dense, dead remnants of stars called neutron stars. For decades, astronomers have been puzzled by a gap that lies between neutron stars and black holes: the heaviest known neutron star is no more than 2.5 time ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 25, 2020 
European and Russian specialists recently worked together to catch signals from an astrophysical observatory mission, now mapping X-ray sources in our galaxy and beyond, discovering previously unknown supermassive black holes.
In a joint technology demonstration conducted in April and May, ESA, Roscosmos, and the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI RAN) in coop ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 25, 2020 
Steam locomotion may sound like an antiquated way to get around, but it might be getting a science fiction makeover as we expand our reach into the solar system.
A novel robotic concept being investigated at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California would use steam propulsion to hop across the sort of icy terrains found on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. Bo ... more |
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 Sigonella Italy (SPX) Jun 25, 2020 
The NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Force (NAGSF), with support from Northrop Grumman Corporation, marked a significant milestone recently in the System Level Performance Verification with the completion of a nine-hour training and test flight conducted for the first time under control of NAGSF trained pilots.
"Northrop Grumman is proud to support NAGSF pilots training as they control fl ... more |
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