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  Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world's foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we expect to see NASA's Mars Perseverance rover finally take off from Florida. For many nations and their people, space is becoming ... read more |
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NASA's Perseverance Rover will carry first spacesuit materials to MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 29, 2020 NASA is preparing to send the first woman and next man to the Moon, part of a larger strategy to send the first astronauts to the surface of Mars. But before they get there, they'll be faced with a ... more 
Aerojet Rocketdyne will help rocket Perseverance to MarsCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 Aerojet Rocketdyne is playing a critical role in NASA's latest mission to the red planet. NASA's Mars 2020 mission with the Perseverance Rover is slated to launch on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) A ... more 
NYUAD astrophysicist investigates the possibility of life below the surface of MarsAbu Dhabi UAE (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 Although no life has been detected on the Martian surface, a new study from astrophysicist and research scientist at the Center for Space Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, Dimitra Atri finds that conditions ... more 
New method determines planetary regolith thermal conductivityTucson AZ (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 A new analytic model for calculating the effective thermal conductivity of planetary regolith allows scientists to better understand the connections between the physical and thermal properties of pl ... more |
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After intense testing, Mars helicopter Ingenuity ready to flyWashington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 After years of design tweaks and dozens of flight tests, engineers are confident the Ingenuity helicopter is ready to make history with the first flight by a powered aircraft on another planet. ... more 
Mars 2020 mission to be guided by USGS astrogeology mapsWashington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 When NASA's Perseverance rover lands on Mars next year, it will be equipped with some of the most precise maps of Mars ever created, courtesy of the USGS Astrogeology Science Center. Not only are th ... more 
ExoMars finds new gas signatures in the martian atmosphereParis (ESA) Jul 28, 2020 ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has spotted new gas signatures at Mars. These unlock new secrets about the martian atmosphere, and will enable a more accurate determination of whether there is metha ... more 
China's probe radar to explore internal structure of MarsBeijing (XNA) Jul 28, 2020 After landing on Mars, China's Tianwen-1 probe will detect the surface and internal structure of the red planet by using its onboard radar equipment. A ground-penetrating radar, a key probe in ... more 
Hong Kong PolyU contributes key ops camera to China's Mars missionHong Kong (Xinhua) Jul 28, 2020 China's first Mars probe Tianwen-1 was launched on Thursday with the Mars Landing Surveillance Camera (Mars Camera) developed by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). According to Poly ... more |
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Russian Cosmonauts Could Be Going to the Moon Without a Super-Heavy Launch VehicleMoscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russi ... more  |
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NASA's Mars 2020 mission will search for traces of past microbial life with the Perseverance roverBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 With Perseverance, its most complex Mars rover to date, NASA is opening a new chapter in the search for traces of ancient life on Mars. The launch of the new rover is scheduled to take place on 30 J ... more
China Mars mission faces many obstaclesBeijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 A Mars landing mission must overcome a wide variety of difficulties and obstacles before it can fly through the Martian atmosphere and land on the planet's surface, experts said. The mission m ... more 
Study reveals composition of gel-like lunar substanceBeijing, China (SPX) Jul 23, 2020 The unusual dark greenish and glistening "gel-like" substance in a crater on the far side of the moon has attracted widespread interest following its discovery by the Chang'e-4 rover in July 2019. ... more 
Meet Marshall's Caleb Fassett, NASA Scientist Who Discovered Next Mars Rover Landing SiteHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 24, 2020 Imagine fulfilling your life's ambition to explore a previously uncharted dried lakebed and the prehistoric river deltas that once emptied into it, carrying clay and other rich alluvial debris - and ... more  
Spaceflight Inc chooses Tethers Unlimited's Terminator Tape to deorbit of Orbit Transfer VehicleBothell WA (SPX) Jul 27, 2020 Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) is pleased to announce that Spaceflight Inc. has selected TUI's NanoSat Terminator Tape Deorbit System for end-of life disposal of its new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jul 27, 2020 
After years of design tweaks and dozens of flight tests, engineers are confident the Ingenuity helicopter is ready to make history with the first flight by a powered aircraft on another planet.
The mission is scheduled to launch from Florida on Thursday. If all goes as planned, the Mars helicopter will lift off from the Martian surface next April. But even if Ingenuity never makes it of ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 
Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russian manned spaceflight programs.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocket. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 23, 2020 
On its way inbound for a Dec. 26, 2019, flyby of Jupiter, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew in the proximity of the north pole of the ninth-largest object in the solar system, the moon Ganymede. The infrared imagery collected by the spacecraft's Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument provides the first infrared mapping of the massive moon's northern frontier.
The only moon in the sola ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next year.
Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world's foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we expect to see NASA's Mars ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
NASA and its international partners have assigned crew members for Crew-2, which will be the second operational SpaceX Crew Dragon flight to the International Space Station as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively, for the mission. JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astron ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
The composition of Antarctic micrometeorites and other tiny but precious rocks such as those from space missions - is really hard to analyze without some sample loss. But a new technique should make it easier, cheaper and faster to characterize them while preserving more of the sample. The findings were published on the peer reviewed journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science on May 21.
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 McLean VA (SPX) Jul 21, 2020 
Northrop Grumman has formed a strategic supplier agreement with Epirus, Inc. to offer the company's Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) capability as a component of Northrop Grumman's Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (C-UAS) systems-of-systems solution offering.
The agreement augments Northrop Grumman's advanced end-to-end C-UAS capabilities by including Epirus' EMP systems to defeat UAS swarms, and ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
Japan's announcement on the suspension of the deployment of Aegis Ashore missile defense systems marks a potential shift in the country's security strategy. The turning point depends on the substitute for Aegis Ashore. The country is now considering pre-emptive strike capabilities as a possibility, targeting missile launchers in North Korea first instead of intercepting incoming missiles. Interc ... 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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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
University of Colorado Boulder researchers have used ultra-fast extreme ultraviolet lasers to measure the properties of materials more than 100 times thinner than a human red blood cell.
The team, led by scientists at JILA, reported its new feat of wafer-thinness this week in the journal Physical Review Materials. The group's target, a film just 5 nanometers thick, is the thinnest material ... more |
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 Brussels, Belgium (SPX) Jul 02, 2020 
QinetiQ's space business has secured a new contract worth 8.5m euro with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the development and production of microgravity-based heat transfer experiments, expected to be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2026.
Called the Heat Transfer Host 1, or simply HOST1, the contract includes the development of the experimentation platform and four ... more |
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 Eugene OR (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
Using known distances of 50 galaxies from Earth to refine calculations in Hubble's constant, a research team led by a University of Oregon astronomer estimates the age of the universe at 12.6 billion years.
Approaches to date the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe, rely on mathematics and computational modeling, using distance estimates of the oldest stars, the behavior of galaxies ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge focuses on discovering innovative approaches to map, navigate, and search complex underground environments across three diverse subdomains: human-made tunnels, urban underground, and natural cave systems. Two previous scored events - Tunnel and Urban Circuits - featured both Virtual and Systems Competitions.
DARPA has made the difficult decision to pro ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jul 20, 2020 
The use of tethered unmanned aerial vehicles (TUAVs) has been modeled as a powerful new tool for improving cellular phone and internet networks. When employed as flying base stations with a cable connection, multirotor drones promise to quickly ramp up coverage, increase the efficiency of urban networks and provide much needed access in remote rural areas.
"Our aim has been to show that TU ... more |
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