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  Denver CO (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 Voyager Space Holdings, Inc. (Voyager), a global leader in integrated space services, has announced that its subsidiary, Altius Space Machines, Inc. (Altius), was selected as a subcontractor to Dynetics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, to support the development of a human landing system for NASA's Artemis program. With Altius support, Dynetics aims to enable the Artemis program that will land the first woman and next man on the Moon by 2024. Leveraging its deep expertise in space robotics, A ... read more |
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Surprisingly dense exoplanet challenges planet formation theoriesWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 New detailed observations with NSF's NOIRLab facilities reveal a young exoplanet, orbiting a young star in the Hyades cluster, that is unusually dense for its size and age. Weighing in at 25 Earth-m ... more  
Second rehearsal puts OSIRIS-REx on path to sample collectionTucson AZ (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 Yesterday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed its final practice run of the sampling sequence, reaching an approximate altitude of 131 feet (40 meters) over sample site Nightingale before executing ... more  
Ingenuity Mars Helicopter recharges its batteries in flightPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2020 NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received a checkout and recharge of its power system on Friday, Aug. 7, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars with the Perseverance rover. This marks th ... more  
Lander exhaust could cloud studies of Lunar icesLaurel, MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows that exhaust from a midsized lunar lander can quickly spread around the Moon and potent ... more |
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India's Chandrayaan-2 images Sarabhai CraterNew Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 14, 2020 India's soft Moon landing, Chandrayaan-2, failed on 7 September 2019 due to a reduction in velocity beyond the designed parameters. However, its orbiter has continued to perform "as per the design p ... more 
Microbes in the seabed survive on little energyPotsdam, Germany (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 All life needs energy. Where there is not enough energy available, there can be no life. But how much is enough? A new study led by James Bradley of the German Research Centre for Geosciences ... more 
VLBA finds planet orbiting small, cool starCharlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Using the supersharp radio "vision" of the National Science Foundation's continent-wide Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), astronomers have discovered a Saturn-sized planet closely orbiting a small, c ... more 
Hubble uses Earth as a Proxy for identifying oxygen on exoplanetsBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth's own brand of sunscreen - ozone - in our atmosphere. This method simulates how astrono ... more  
Shallow Lightning and Mushballs reveal ammonia to Juno scientistsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 New results from NASA's Juno mission at Jupiter suggest our solar system's largest planet is home to what's called "shallow lightning." An unexpected form of electrical discharge, shallow lightning ... more |
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 Huge ring-like structure on Ganymede's surface may have been caused by violent impact 
Inside the ice giants of spaceTrieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 A new theoretical method paves the way to modelling the interior of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, thanks to computer simulations on the water contained within them. The tool, developed by ... more  |
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NASA's planet hunter completes its primary missionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 On July 4, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey. In capturing this giant mosaic, TE ... more 
NASA selects SwRI to participate in $6B Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV ContractSan Antonio, TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 NASA has selected Southwest Research Institute to take part in the $6 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition IV contract. SwRI will be listed in the NASA spacec ... more 
Bright areas on Ceres come from salty water belowPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 12, 2020 NASA's Dawn spacecraft gave scientists extraordinary close-up views of the dwarf planet Ceres, which lies in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. By the time the mission ended in October ... more  
China seeks payload ideas for mission to moon, asteroidBeijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the China National Space Administration. It is asking for primary, middle ... more 
Lava oceans may not explain the brightness of some hot super-EarthsBoston MA (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 Arguably some of the weirdest, most extreme planets among the more than 4,000 exoplanets discovered to date are the hot super-Earths - rocky, flaming-hot worlds that zing so precariously close to th ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2020 
NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter received a checkout and recharge of its power system on Friday, Aug. 7, one week into its near seven-month journey to Mars with the Perseverance rover. This marks the first time the helicopter has been powered up and its batteries have been charged in the space environment.
During the eight-hour operation, the performance of the rotorcraft's six lithium-ion ... more |
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 Laurel, MD (SPX) Aug 16, 2020 
A new study led by scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows that exhaust from a midsized lunar lander can quickly spread around the Moon and potentially contaminate scientifically vital ices at the lunar poles.
Computer simulations of water vapor emitted by a 2,650-pound (1,200-kilogram) lander - about a quarter of the dry mass of the Apol ... more |
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 Kobe, Japan (SPX) Aug 12, 2020 
Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft in order to investigate the orientation and distribution of the ancient tectonic troughs found on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. They discovered that these troughs are concentrically distributed across almost the entire su ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 07, 2020 
Taking advantage of a total lunar eclipse, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have detected Earth's own brand of sunscreen - ozone - in our atmosphere. This method simulates how astronomers and astrobiology researchers will search for evidence of life beyond Earth by observing potential "biosignatures" on exoplanets (planets around other stars).
Hubble did not look at Earth di ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are working to install an adapter that will connect the Orion spacecraft to its rocket for the Artemis I mission around the Moon. This is one of the final major hardware operations for Orion inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building prior to integration with the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket.
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 07, 2020 
China is soliciting ideas for payloads aboard its proposed missions to the moon, an asteroid and a comet, according to the China National Space Administration.
It is asking for primary, middle school and university students across the country to provide ideas for payloads that would fly aboard the Chang'e 7 probe to the moon, and on another spacecraft to the asteroid 2016HO3 and the comet ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
Yesterday, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performed its final practice run of the sampling sequence, reaching an approximate altitude of 131 feet (40 meters) over sample site Nightingale before executing a back-away burn. Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx's primary sample collection site, is located within a crater in Bennu's northern hemisphere.
The approximately four-hour "Matchpoint" rehearsal took th ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 11, 2020 
The Army is evaluating new air and missile defense systems - and testing laser weapons - after postponing some tests due to COVID-19.
Soldiers from the 3rd Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment and 3rd Bn., 6th Air Defense Artillery Air Missile Defense Test Detachment are involved in a limited user test of the Integrated Battle Command System that began in early July, accordi ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2020 
South Korea is to invest more than $250 billion in missile defense systems and new submarines to help deter North Korea military threats.
According to South Korea's five-year defense program for 2021-25, Seoul is to develop a missile interceptor similar to Israel's Iron Dome, Yonhap and Money Today reported Monday.
The Israeli system, designed to intercept and destroy short-range pro ... 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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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Scientists have found that a physical property called 'quantum negativity' can be used to take more precise measurements of everything from molecular distances to gravitational waves.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, have shown that quantum particles can carry an unlimited amount of information about things they have interacted with. The results, reported ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 14, 2020  Scientists in Chicago have developed a way to keep quantum states operating for longer periods of time - a breakthrough they say could accelerate the development of quantum communication, computing and sensing.
Hundreds of studies have hinted at the power of quantum mechanics, and scientists have predicted quantum technologies will provide a speed boost to computers, beef up cyber secu ... more |
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 Geneva (AFP) Aug 10, 2020 
Human Rights Watch said Monday it was seeking a new international treaty to halt the race towards fully autonomous weapons, claiming a growing number of countries wanted an outright ban.
The non-governmental organisation (NGO) said 30 countries are now explicitly seeking a ban, after compiling an overview of 97 nations with a stated position on the use and development of what it termed "kill ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Aug 14, 2020 
SqwaQ, a leader in communications technology for robotics, autonomy and aviation, revealed today that it has successfully demonstrated its patented airborne LTE drone communications technology for multiple partners. The technology enables drones, helicopters, air taxis and other connected aircraft to share the same airspace rather than being segregated.
This eliminates the need for UTM (Un ... more |
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