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  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 NASA's 2020 Mars mission has been en route to the Red Planet for two months now. The Perseverance rover on board the spacecraft is set to land in Jezero crater on 18 February 2021. There, the rover, which weighs almost one tonne, will search for signs of past microbial life. Jezero crater was chosen for good scientific reasons. Within the crater lie two ancient river deltas in which many hydrated minerals have been discovered - proof that liquid water existed there for a very long period of time. ... read more |
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Search for New Worlds at Home with NASA's Planet Patrol ProjectGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the public to collaborate with profe ... more  
18 SPCS now predicts debris-on-debris collisions in space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness for allVandenberg AFB CA (AFNS) Sep 29, 2020 For the first time, the Combined Force Space Component Command's 18th Space Control Squadron began publically sharing data for debris-on-debris conjunction predictions via www.Space-Track.org, Sept. ... more  
First tests for landing the Martian Moons eXploration RoverBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Ph ... more  
MIT physicists inch closer to zero-emissions power sourceWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2020 For the last few years, scientists at MIT have been working on a fusion research experiment called SPARC and, according to a series of papers - published Tuesday in the Journal of Plasma Physics - the research is going quite smoothly. ... more |
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Titan's lakes can stratify like those on EarthTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan, composed of methane, ethane, and nitrogen rather than water, experience density driven stratification, forming layers similar to lakes on Earth. However, whereas lakes ... more 
Exoplanet hunter snares 'extreme' superhot worldParis (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 A European Space Agency satellite tasked with tracking down exoplanets has made its first big catch, a world so hot that its atmosphere could melt iron, astrophysicists have reported. ... more 
Is there other life in the universeWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Every rock on Mars is a time capsule for Briony Horgan, potentially holding information from billions of years ago that could help answer the questions about life in the universe today. Horgan ... more 
The most sensitive optical receivers yet for space communicationsGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 Communications in space demand the most sensitive receivers possible for maximum reach, while also requiring high bit-rate operations. A novel concept for laser-beam based communications, using an a ... more 
Helping robots avoid collisionsBoston MA (SPX) Sep 18, 2020 George Konidaris still remembers his disheartening introduction to robotics. "When you're a young student and you want to program a robot, the first thing that hits you is this immense disappointmen ... more |
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 Eighteen new astronauts chosen for China's space station mission  
UAE sets sights on the moonDubai (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it will launch an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024 as it seeks to expand its space sector. ... more  |
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NASA and HeroX Seek Innovative Energy Solutions to Power Lunar ActivitiesHouston TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 HeroX, the social network for innovation and the world's leading platform for crowdsourced solutions, has launched the prize competition "NASA's Watts on the Moon Challenge" on behalf of NASA. In su ... more 
Simulations give clues to atmospheric loss from Moon's originDurham UK (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 Earth could have lost anywhere between 10 and 60 percent of its atmosphere in the collision that is thought to have formed the Moon. New research led by Durham University, UK, shows how the ex ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Begins its Countdown to TAGTucson AZ (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 A historic moment is on the horizon for NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. In just a few weeks, the robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will descend to asteroid Bennu's boulder-strewn surface, touch down for a fe ... more 
Study: Mars has four bodies of water underneath surfaceWashington DC (UPI) Sep 29, 2020 Planetary scientists say in a new report that Mars has four subsurface lakes, which could be a habitat for life. ... more  
SwRI study describes discovery of close binary trans-Neptunian objectSan Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2020 A new study authored by Southwest Research In-stitute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Leiva and Buie utilized data obtained by the ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 29, 2020  When the Apollo astronauts landed on the Moon, they brought devices with them called retroreflectors, which are essentially small arrays of mirrors. The plan was for scientists on Earth to aim lasers at them and calculate the time it took for the beams to return. This provided exceptionally precise measurements of the Moon's orbit and shape, including how it changed slightly based on Earth's gra ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Sept 29, 2020 
The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it will launch an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024 as it seeks to expand its space sector.
The UAE - a collection of seven emirates better known for its skyscrapers, palm-shaped islands and opulent mega attractions - is a newcomer to the world of space exploration but quickly making its mark.
In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 29, 2020  A new study authored by Southwest Research In-stitute scientists Rodrigo Leiva and Marc Buie reveals the binary nature of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO). Leiva and Buie utilized data obtained by the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON), a citizen science research net-work dedicated to observing the outer solar system. The study was published this month in The Astrophy ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
Help NASA find exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system, through a newly launched website called Planet Patrol. This citizen science platform allows members of the public to collaborate with professional astronomers as they sort through a stockpile of star-studded images collected by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
"Automated methods of processing TESS data sometimes ... more |
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 Augsburg, Germany (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Rocket Factory Augsburg AG (RFA), a participation of space technology company OHB SE, will be establishing a launch site for a micro launcher together with Norwegian company Andoya Space. The two partners have now signed a letter of intent to this effect. The site is to provide launch services for small satellites from 2022.
"This partnership is of key importance as it will enable RFA and ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 01, 2020 
The third batch of Chinese astronauts has been selected for the nation's coming space station mission, the China Manned Space Agency said on Thursday morning.
The 18 new astronauts - 17 men and one woman - are in three groups: seven will become spacecraft pilots, another seven will turn into spaceflight engineers, and the last four will be mission payload specialists, the agency said in a ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
On 15 September, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed with the German company OHB the 129.4-million euro contract covering the detailed design, manufacturing, and testing of the HERA mission. This mission, ESA's first ever planetary defense mission, will be Europe's contribution to an international asteroid deflection effort carried out jointly with NASA and due for lift-off in October 2024. ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 23, 2020  Since the mid-1960s few weapons have held as much potential and have constantly failed to live up to that potential as Directed Energy Weapons (DEW). However, since the turn of this century even as most countries have curtailed both their hopes and funding from the highs of decades past, DEWs have gradually and quietly matured.
DEWs use the electromagnetic spectrum (light and radio energy) ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 01, 2020 
US Army officials unveiled plans on Tuesday for a vehicle-mounted electronic jamming system that will uniquely have the ability to jam incoming projectiles, fouling their targeting in the moments before impact.
At the Army's CEMAlite conference on Tuesday, three Army colonels discussed a new electronic warfare system they hope to employ in the coming years to disrupt enemy weapons systems ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 
Lakes on Saturn's moon Titan, composed of methane, ethane, and nitrogen rather than water, experience density driven stratification, forming layers similar to lakes on Earth. However, whereas lakes on Earth stratify in response to temperature, Titan's lakes stratify solely due to the strange chemical interactions between its surface liquids and atmosphere, says a paper by Planetary Science Insti ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 07, 2020 
"Eat your vitamins" might be replaced with "ingest your ceramic nano-particles" in the future as space research is giving more weight to the idea that nanoscopic particles could help protect cells from common causes of damage.
Oxidative stress occurs in our bodies when cells lose the natural balance of electrons in the molecules that we are made of. This is a common and constant occurrence ... more |
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 Baton Rouge LA (SPX) Sep 29, 2020  Gravitational wave detectors have opened a new window to the universe by measuring the ripples in spacetime produced by colliding black holes and neutron stars, but they are ultimately limited by quantum fluctuations induced by light reflecting off of mirrors. LSU Ph.D. physics alumnus Jonathan Cripe and his team of LSU researchers have conducted a new experiment with scientists from Caltech and ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Sep 23, 2020  Fairy circles are one of nature's greatest enigmas and most visually stunning phenomena. An international research team led by the University of Gottingen has now, for the first time, collected detailed data to show that Alan Turing's model explains the striking vegetation patterns of the Australian fairy circles. In addition, the researchers showed that the grasses that make up these patterns a ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission will have a German-French rover on board when it is launched in 2024. The rover will land on the Martian moon Phobos and explore its surface for approximately three months. Initial landing tests are currently underway at the German Aerospace Center Landing and Mobility Test Facility (Lande- und Mobilitaetstest ... more |
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 Wright-Patterson AFB OH (SPX) Sep 29, 2020  The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Center for Rapid Innovation (CRI) and DZYNE Technologies Incorporated resumed flight testing of the ROBOpilot unmanned air platform and completed a successful fourth flight test September 24 at Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, during which ROBOpilot flew for approximately 2.2 hours, completing all test objectives.
This event represents a return to fligh ... more |
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