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  Washington (AFP) Oct 23, 2020 NASA said Friday that its robotic spacecraft Osiris-Rex had succeeded in collecting a large sample of particles from the Bennu asteroid this week - but so much that it was leaking. The team in charge of the probe is now working to quickly stow the remaining samples that would eventually be delivered back to Earth to provide key scientific insights. "A substantial fraction of the required collected mass is seen escaping," mission chief Dante Lauretta said in a phone briefing with journalists. ... read more |
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NASA invites students to join Lucy Mission in space contestWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 Kicking off the one-year countdown to the launch of NASA's Lucy mission, middle and high school students in U.S. public, private and home schools can enter the Lucy in Space contest starting today. ... more  
Intuitive Machines wins order to search for ice at Lunar south poleHouston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022. The ice drilling mis ... more 
NASA selects intuitive machines to land water-measuring payload on the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 NASA has awarded Intuitive Machines of Houston approximately $47 million to deliver a drill combined with a mass spectrometer to the Moon by December 2022 under the agency's Commercial Lunar Payload ... more  
Zeptoseconds: new world record in short time measurementFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the forma ... more |
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AI and photonics join forces to make it easier to find 'new Earths'Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 Australian scientists have developed a new type of sensor to measure and correct the distortion of starlight caused by viewing through the Earth's atmosphere, which should make it easier to study th ... more  
ALMA shows volcanic impact on Io's atmosphereCharlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Io. Io is the m ... more 
Smile, wave: Some exoplanets may be able to see us, tooIthaca NY (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away - resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph - two astronomers now o ... more  
SPAINSAT NG program completes Preliminary Design ReviewMadrid, Spain (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 The SPAINSAT NG programme, owned and operated by Hisdesat, has successfully passed the preliminary design review (PDR) of the payload and the full satellite, including PDR of Pacis 3 (PPP) elements. ... more  
NASA prototype can diagnose multiple illnesses by analyzing breathWashington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2020 NASA researchers have created a prototype of a technology that can diagnose a variety of illnesses and abnormalities just by analyzing compounds in a person's breath. ... more |
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 China Focus: 18 reserve astronauts selected for China's manned space program 
NASA images suggest OSIRIS-REx collection arm grabbed rocks from BennuWashington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2020 Images released Wednesday by NASA suggest the OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-And-Go sample collection event was a success. ... more  |
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Trouble in Orbit - 2021Bethesda, MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 We are all aware of the growing amount of junk floating around Earth in low orbits. Ultimately, the mass and distribution of junk and active satellites will exceed the capacity of space to safely co ... more  
Translating lost languages using machine learningBoston MA (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 Recent research suggests that most languages that have ever existed are no longer spoken. Dozens of these dead languages are also considered to be lost, or "undeciphered" - that is, we don't know en ... more 
Microbial diversity below seafloor is as rich as on Earth's surfaceKingston RI (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 For the first time, researchers have mapped the biological diversity of marine sediment, one of Earth's largest global biomes. Although marine sediment covers 70% of the Earth's surface, little was ... more 
NASA Johnson builds labs to study new asteroid samples, cosmic mysteriesOSIRIS-REx at ARES Houston TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2020 When the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touches asteroid Bennu, it will capture NASA's first sample from an asteroid and provide rare specimens for research that scientists hop ... more 
A global collaboration to move artificial intelligence principles to practiceBoston MA (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 Today, artificial intelligence - and the computing systems that underlie it - are more than just matters of technology; they are matters of state and society, of governance and the public interest. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 23, 2020 
On Oct. 8, 2020, with COVID-19 safety protocols in place, team members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission waited for a reply from the Mars Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrumentation 2 (MEDLI2) suite onboard the spacecraft, which is currently en route to the Red Planet.
MEDLI2 is a collection of sensors that will measure aerothermal environments and thermal protection system mater ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to deliver the Polar Resources Ice Mining Experiment (PRIME-1) drill, combined with a mass spectrometer, to the Moon by December 2022.
The ice drilling mission is the Houston-based company's second Moon contract award under NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative.
"Laying the foundation to return humans to the Moon is an incredi ... more |
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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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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 
Three decades after Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that Voyager 1 snap Earth's picture from billions of miles away - resulting in the iconic Pale Blue Dot photograph - two astronomers now offer another unique cosmic perspective: Some exoplanets - planets from beyond our own solar system - have a direct line of sight to observe Earth's biological qualities from far, far away.
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 London, UK (SPX) Oct 23, 2020 
Hundreds of space jobs will be created in Scotland following the approval of plans for Lockheed Martin to transfer its satellite launch operations to Shetland Space Centre by the UK government. Shetland Space Centre anticipates that by 2024, the spaceport site could support a total of 605 jobs in Scotland including 140 locally and 210 across the wider Shetland region. A further 150 jobs will als ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Oct 23, 2020 
China's manned space program has entered the mission preparation stage with the selection of a new group of 18 reserve astronauts. According to the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the reserve astronauts, including one female, have been selected recently from 2,500 candidates. Among them are seven spacecraft pilots, seven space flight engineers and four payload experts.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 20, 2020 
On October 20, Estelle Church sent commands instructing NASA's mission to touch asteroid Bennu, becoming NASA's first mission to collect a sample of material from an asteroid's surface. Church has been planning this moment for the past five years, thinking about all the things that could end the Touch-And-Go (TAG) mission.
Church's job is to keep the spacecraft safe. She has to think and p ... 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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 Bethesda VA (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
Lockheed Martin teamed with Aerojet Rocketdyne on a proposal to compete for the Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) contract for The Missile Defense Agency (MDA).
Lockheed Martin is offering an interceptor designed from the ground up as an all-up-round to address all elements of environmental survivability from day one. Our partner Aerojet Rocketdyne will power our primary propulsion to addr ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2020 
New radio images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) show for the first time the direct effect of volcanic activity on the atmosphere of Jupiter's moon Io.
Io is the most volcanically active moon in our solar system. It hosts more than 400 active volcanoes, spewing out sulfur gases that give Io its yellow-white-orange-red colors when they freeze out on its surface. ... 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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 Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020 
In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the formation and breakup of chemical bonds occurs in the realm of femtoseconds. A femtosecond equals 0.000000000000001 seconds, or 10 exp -15 seconds.
Now atomic physicists at Goethe University in Profe ... more |
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 Singapore (SPX) Oct 16, 2020 
Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way for robots to have the artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise pain and to self-repair when damaged.
The system has AI-enabled sensor nodes to process and respond to 'pain' arising from pressure exerted by a physical force. The system also allows the robot to ... 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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