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  Washington DC (UPI) Sep 30, 2020 Congress must approve more funding for NASA's Artemis moon program in the next few months if a 2024 landing is to occur, agency administrator Jim Bridenstine testified Wednesday. "If we get to February of 2021 without an appropriation, that's going to really put the brakes on our ability to achieve a moon landing by as early as 2024," Bridenstine told members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee in Washington, D.C. The space agency seeks more than $7 billion for A ... read more |
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NASA's New Mars Rover Is Ready for Space LasersPasadena 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 laser ... more 
Japan aiming to send hopping spacecraft fuelled by lunar water to MoonMoscow (Sputnik) Sep 30, 2020 The project for a top-notch station, Gateway, is a would-be collaboration with the US, and has already driven the Japanese space agency to apply for hefty government funding - around $2.7 billion ye ... more  
GMV to carry out the development phase of the GNC system to guide the HERA missionMadrid, 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 ... more 
ExoMars moves onTurin, Italy (ESA) Sep 30, 2020 Last Sunday night a long, heavy truck hit the road escorted from Italy with a precious cargo. While most of the citizens in Turin prepared to enjoy their dinner, several modules of the ExoMars space ... 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  
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  
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 
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  
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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Subterranean Challenge Identifies Qualified Teams for Cave Circuit Virtual CompetitionWashington DC (SPX) Oct 01, 2020 DARPA's Subterranean (SubT) Challenge will host its Cave Circuit Virtual Competition, which focuses on innovative solutions to map, navigate, and search complex, simulated cave environments November ... more  |
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NOAA'S GOES-T satellite undergoes testing to simulate launch and orbit conditionsLittleton CO (SPX) Sep 30, 2020 GOES-T, the third satellite in NOAA's GOES-R Series, is fully assembled and beginning a set of rigorous tests to ensure it can withstand the harsh conditions of launch and the space environment in w ... more 
Let them eat rocksRiverside CA (SPX) Sep 24, 2020 UC Riverside is leading an effort that could help ensure food security and improve the worst effects of climate change - by studying rock-eating bacteria and fungi. These microbes break apart ... 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 
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 
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 |
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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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 30, 2020 
The project for a top-notch station, Gateway, is a would-be collaboration with the US, and has already driven the Japanese space agency to apply for hefty government funding - around $2.7 billion yearly for the next 15 years.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has asserted it intends to engage in a lunar exploration mission beginning in the mid-2030s, making use of hydrogen fuel ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 01, 2020 
Using the Very Large Telescope, a powerful observatory in Chile, astronomers have identified six galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole when the universe was just 900 million years old.
The discovery, described Thursday in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, helps explain how supermassive black holes got so big so soon after the Big Bang.
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 Boston 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 disappointment at how much you can't do with that robot," he says.
Most new roboticists want to program their robots to solve interesting, complex tasks - but it turns out that just moving them through space ... more |
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 Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) Oct 1, 2020 
Turkey and Iran are increasingly adopting "game-changing" drones as their weapon of choice against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, prompting fears for the safety of civilians and stoking geopolitical tensions.
"Not a day goes by without us seeing a drone," said Mohammad Hassan, mayor of Qandil, the mountainous Iraqi stronghold of Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
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