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  Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:12 p.m. EDT. Live coverage of the spacecraft's descent to the asteroid's surface for its "Touch-And-Go," or TAG, maneuver, which will be managed by Lockheed Martin Space near Denver, will begin at 5 p.m. on NASA Television and the agency's website. Begin ... read more |
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Faces Behind NASA's Artemis Gateway - Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey IngramWashington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 The Gateway program is making progress toward establishing a sustainable lunar presence. Behind the scenes, women like Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram are working hard to make the Gateway a real ... more 
Airbus selected for ESA's Moon lander studyBremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as one of the two primes for the definition phase of the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3 ). In this study (phase A/B1), Airbus will de ... more  
No social distancing at the beginning of lifeZagreb, Croatia (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Bacteria are a dominant form of life that inhabit every environment on Earth. This includes human bodies, where they outnumber our cells and genes and regulate our existence for good or bad. Bacteri ... more 
UK and NASA sign international agreement ahead of mission to the MoonLondon, UK (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 NASA's Artemis programme aims to land the first woman and the next man on the Moon by 2024. Commercial and international partners will collaborate to achieve a sustainable presence on the lunar surf ... more |
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China's Xichang launch center to carry out 10 missions by end of MarchBeijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 Southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center will carry out 10 space launches including the Chang'e 5 lunar probe by the end of March next year, a center official said on Monday. The cent ... more  
This transforming rover can explore the toughest terrainPasadena CA (JPL) Oct 14, 2020 A rover trundles over rocky terrain, its four metal wheels clattering along until they encounter a seemingly insurmountable hazard: a steep slope. Down below is a potential trove of science targets. ... more  
Natural fibres threaded into satellites for safer missionsParis (ESA) Oct 14, 2020 A natural fibre that once wrapped early Egyptian mummies and was worn by Roman aristocrats has found a space-age purpose. Threading fibres from the flax plant through satellite panel material can he ... more  
Physicists conduct controlled transport of stored light experimentMainz, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 A team of physicists led by Professor Patrick Windpassinger at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has successfully transported light stored in a quantum memory over a distance of 1.2 millimet ... more  
Robot swarms follow instructions to create artWashington DC (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 What if you could instruct a swarm of robots to paint a picture? The concept may sound far-fetched, but a recent study in open-access journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI has shown that it is possib ... more |
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 Engineers print wearable sensors directly on skin without heat 
What tiny surfing robots teach us about surface tensionHoughton MI (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 Spend an afternoon by a creek in the woods, and you're likely to notice water striders - long-legged insects that dimple the surface of the water as they skate across. Or, dip one side of a toothpic ... more  |
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Airbus to bring first Mars samples to EarthToulouse, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as prime contractor for the Mars Sample Return's Earth Return Orbiter (ERO) - the first ever spacecraft to bring samples back to Earth fro ... more 
NASA announces eight-nation space coalition under 'Artemis Accords'Washington (AFP) Oct 13, 2020 NASA announced on Tuesday that eight countries have signed an international agreement called the Artemis Accords that outlines the principles of future exploration of the Moon and beyond. ... more 
NASA, JAXA to Send Sampling Technology to Moon and PhobosPasadena CA (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 NASA and Japan's space agency JAXA have selected a new low-cost sample collection technology for 2 missions to the Moon and the Martian moon Phobos. PlanetVac, developed by Altadena, Californi ... more 
The current state of Space DebrisParis (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 The number of debris objects, their combined mass, and the total area they take up has been steadily increasing since the beginning of the space age. This is further fuelled by a large number of in- ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 23rd lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the 23rd lunar day on the far side of the moon. The lander woke up at 11:56 a.m. Sunday, Beijing Time, and the rover Yutu-2, o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 14, 2020 
A rover trundles over rocky terrain, its four metal wheels clattering along until they encounter a seemingly insurmountable hazard: a steep slope. Down below is a potential trove of science targets. With a typical rover, the operators would need to find another target, but this is DuAxel, a robot built for situations exactly like this.
The rover is actually made of a pair of two-wheeled ro ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
The Gateway program is making progress toward establishing a sustainable lunar presence. Behind the scenes, women like Sharada Vitalpur and Lindsey Ingram are working hard to make the Gateway a reality, while encouraging the next generation of explorers to pursue their passion and achieve success.
Meet Sharada Vitalpur, Communication and Tracking Systems Manager for Gateway
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
In 2015, the New Horizons space probe discovered spectacular snowcapped mountains on Pluto, which are strikingly similar to mountains on Earth. Such a landscape had never before been observed elsewhere in the Solar System.
However, as atmospheric temperatures on our planet decrease at altitude, on Pluto they heat up at altitude as a result of solar radiation. So where does this ice come fr ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Scientists suspect that the planet Jupiter played an important role in the development of life on Earth, because its gravity often deflects potentially dangerous asteroids and comets on their orbits into the zone of rocky planets in a way that reduces the number of catastrophic collisions.
This circumstance therefore repeatedly raises the question whether such a combination of planets is r ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Oct 14, 2020 
Arianespace has announced that new shared payload opportunities to low Earth orbit (LEO) have been opened with its Vega launcher's Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS).
For the next launch opportunity - Vega Flight VV18, targeted for the first quarter of 2021 - five companies already have signed contracts for payload slots, thereby fully booking the capacity on this mission.
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 Beijing (XNA) Oct 13, 2020 
Southwest China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center will carry out 10 space launches including the Chang'e 5 lunar probe by the end of March next year, a center official said on Monday.
The center will carry out launch missions twice a month on average, with a minimum interval of five days, said Zhang Xueyu, director of the launch center.
The country on Monday sent its new optical remo ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
NASA will broadcast coverage of a first for the agency as its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission attempts to collect a sample of asteroid Bennu on Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 6:12 p.m. EDT.
Live coverage of the spacecraft's descent to the asteroid's surface for its "Touch-And-Go," or TAG, maneuver, which will be managed by Lo ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 09, 2020 
Turkey is preparing live-fire exercises in the Aegean Sea, angering Greece, and has transported its Russian-made S-400 air defense system to the Black Sea.
Turkey, whose military buildup and claims of sovereignty in the Mediterranean Sea have angered Greece, announced it will stage exercises in the Aegean Sea from Oct. 26 to Oct. 28, in Turkish-held and international waters.
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 07, 2020 
With its dazzling system of icy rings, Saturn has been a subject of fascination since ancient times. Even now the sixth planet from the sun holds many mysteries, partly because its distance away makes direct observation difficult and partly because this gas giant (which is multiple times the size of our planet) has a composition and atmosphere, mostly hydrogen and helium, so unlike that of Earth ... 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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 College Park MD (SPX) Oct 13, 2020 
It's been three years since the landmark detection of a neutron star merger from gravitational waves. And since that day, an international team of researchers led by University of Maryland astronomer Eleonora Troja has been continuously monitoring the subsequent radiation emissions to provide the most complete picture of such an event.
Their analysis provides possible explanations for X-ra ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020 
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos' mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos. (A mysterious entity called dark ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 13, 2020 
A controller in Germany operated ESA's gripper-equipped Interact rover around a simulated moonscape at the Agency's technical heart in the Netherlands, to practice retrieving geological samples. At the same time a smaller Germany-based rover interacted with ESA's rover as if together at the same site - in a dress rehearsal for a robotic test campaign to the Moon-like volcanic slopes of Mount Etn ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 11, 2020 
The self-driving car industry has made great autonomy advances, but mostly for well-structured and highly predictable environments. In complex militarily-relevant settings, robotic vehicles have not demonstrated operationally relevant speed and aren't autonomously reliable.
While vehicle platforms that can handle difficult terrain exist, their autonomy algorithms and software often can't p ... more |
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