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  Washington (AFP) Nov 23, 2021 NASA is preparing to launch a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid - a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth. It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) is a real proof-of-concept experiment, blasting off at 10:21 pm Pacific Time Tuesday (0621 GMT Wednesday) aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Its target object: Dimorphos, a "moonle ... read more |
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Catching asteroid deflection mission's first wordsParis (ESA) Nov 23, 2021 When NASA's DART spacecraft launches on 24 November on a world-first mission to deflect an asteroid, ESA's Estrack network will play a vital role - finding, tracking and maintaining contact with the ... more 
NASA's DART asteroid collision mission nears launchWashington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 NASA is set to launch a spacecraft from California on Tuesday night to smack head on into an asteroid next fall in an effort to understand how humanity could prevent such a space body from colliding with Earth. ... more  
Russia creates debris field near ISSBethesda MD (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 On November 15, 2021, the International Space Station (ISS) Flight Control team was notified of indications of a satellite breakup that may create sufficient debris to pose a collision threat to the ... more  
ASU team celebrates 20th anniversary of NASA's Mars Odyssey Orbiter arrival at the Red PlanetTempe AZ (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 This year, NASA is observing the 20th anniversary of the 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiter, the longest-lived spacecraft at the Red Planet; and a mission that has helped locate water ice, find landing sites ... more |
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Roasted and Shredded by a Stellar SidekickHuntsville AL (SPX) Nov 23, 2021 An exhausted star still has some punches to deliver. Astronomers have found that a white dwarf is pummeling a companion object - either a lightweight star or a planet - with incessant blasts of heat ... more 
New deep learning method adds 301 planets to Kepler's total countPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2021 Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude ... more 
NASA announces discovery of 301 new exoplanetsWashington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 NASA scientists have discovered another 301 exoplanets - those outside the solar system. ... more  
Battelle Energy Alliance, NASA seek industry partners to design nuclear power system for lunar applicationsIdaho Falls ID (SPX) Nov 22, 2021 Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, and NASA are seeking proposals from nuclear and space industry leaders to develop innovative techn ... more 
Rocky roads through LanzaroteParis (ESA) Nov 22, 2021 Take away the clouds, bulk up the humans with suits and add an orange-red filter and this could be an image from a future mission to Mars. The actual site, the Corona lava tube in Lanzarote, S ... more |
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How ultracold, superdense atoms become invisibleBoston MA (SPX) Nov 19, 2021 An atom's electrons are arranged in energy shells. Like concertgoers in an arena, each electron occupies a single chair and cannot drop to a lower tier if all its chairs are occupied. This fundament ... more 
When debris disaster strikesParis (ESA) Nov 19, 2021 In 2021 so far, some 2467 new objects large enough to be tracked have been added to world catalogues of orbital objects, out of which 1493 are new satellites and the rest are debris. While new objec ... more 
Planetary defenders: after NASA's DART comes ESA's HeraParis (ESA) Nov 19, 2021 The world will be watching the milestone launch of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, DART, spacecraft on Wednesday, 24 November, intended to alter one small part of the Solar System forever. ... more 
Russian MoD: US Perfectly Aware Fragments of Downed Satellite Pose No Threat to Space ActivitiesMoscow (Sputnik) Nov 18, 2021 On Monday, State Department spokesman Ned Price accused Russia of "recklessly" carrying out a destructive satellite test using an anti-satellite missile against a defunct Soviet satellite. Washingto ... more 
Celestia STS introduces new approach to spacecraft test and simulationNoordwijk, Netherland (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 Celestia STS, a specialist in ground-based solutions for satellite testing, communications and data processing, has launched MPIP, a multi-purpose interface platform that offers a novel approach to ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 16th flight over the weekend, the space agency announced Monday.
The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said the helicopter captured color images of Mars' surface during the flight, which saw it travel 116 meters northeast for 109 seconds.
"Mars helicopter continues to thrive!" the lab wrote on Twitter.
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 Idaho Falls ID (SPX) Nov 22, 2021 
Battelle Energy Alliance, contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, and NASA are seeking proposals from nuclear and space industry leaders to develop innovative technologies for a fission surface power (FSP) system for lunar power applications. The request for proposal can be viewed here. Proposals are due by Feb. 19, 2022.
The FSP project is sponsored by NA ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 29, 2021 
New findings from NASA's Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet's distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the unseen processes below its clouds. The results highlight the inner workings of the belts and zones of clouds encircling Jupiter, as well as its polar cyclones and even the Great Red Spot.
Researchers published several papers o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 23, 2021 
Scientists recently added a whopping 301 newly validated exoplanets to the total exoplanet tally. The throng of planets is the latest to join the 4,569 already validated planets orbiting a multitude of distant stars. How did scientists discover such a huge number of planets, seemingly all at once? The answer lies with a new deep neural network called ExoMiner.
Deep neural networks are mach ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Nov 19, 2021 
RocketStar, an industry leader transforming access to space with fully reusable rockets, has announced that the company has been selected by the U.S Air Force to participate in a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a novel plasma thruster designed to greatly enhance space propulsion capabilities using fusion.
RocketStar submitted its proposal to the SBIR program in ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 08, 2021 
The extravehicular activities (EVAs) carried out by two Chinese astronauts from Sunday evening till early Monday morning will help expand the capabilities of the mechanical arm on the country's space station, said the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST).
Astronauts Zhai Zhigang and Wang Yaping were out of China's space station core module Tianhe by 8:28 p.m. (Beijing Time) Sunday, and ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 23, 2021 
When NASA's DART spacecraft launches on 24 November on a world-first mission to deflect an asteroid, ESA's Estrack network will play a vital role - finding, tracking and maintaining contact with the mission as it departs Earth heading toward its target, a 170-metre asteroid 'moon' named Dimorphos.
At about the length of one-and-a-half football fields side-by-side, Dimorphos is currently al ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Nov 04, 2021 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate is partnering with The University of New Mexico (UNM) to establish a center for directed energy studies, a congressionally-funded endeavor.
The Directed Energy Center will be based at UNM and jointly managed by UNM's School of Engineering and UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). AFRL is recognized as the nation's ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 22, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Other Transactional (OT) Agreements to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon Missiles and Defense to complete an accelerated concept design of the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) for MDA's regional hypersonic missile defense program.
Any prototypes designed will fit into the current Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system.
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 Honolulu HI (SPX) Oct 18, 2021 
Strike-slip faulting, the type of motion common to California's well-known San Andreas Fault, was reported recently to possibly occur on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. New research, led by planetary scientists from the University of Hawai?i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), suggests this tectonic motion may be active on Titan, deforming the icy surface.
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 Groningen, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 27, 2021 
It is an intuitive rule of thumb: if you reduce the density of a material, its stiffness will also be reduced. But scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US noticed that materials that are based on sandwich nanotubes retained their stiffness at lower densities.
Modelling by materials scientists from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) revealed how this ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Nov 09, 2021 
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration unveiled several studies that shed important new light on the nature of gravitational waves-ripples in time and space produced by merging black holes and/or neutron stars. They include a "census" of gravitational wave events to date and a new catalog of results from the second half of its third observing run (O3b), describing 90 gravitational wave events observ ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 16, 2021 
The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently mapped the central compact object of the galaxy M87 with an unprecedented angular resolution. Though the remarkable breakthrough has been interpreted based on theory that M87 contains a rotating or "Kerr" black hole.
New research published in EPJ C by Chandrachur Chakraborty and Qingjuan Yu at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics ... more |
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 Haifa, Israel (SPX) Nov 18, 2021 
Elbit Systems and Roboteam launches ROOK, a multi-payload military 6X6 Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) that features unique design and built-in autonomy suite offering a combination of greater capacity, improved maneuverability and must-have on-field agility that are key for greater mission effectiveness.
The ROOK UGV was developed based on the operational experience accumulated through fiel ... more |
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 Northrop Grumman 
San Diego CA (SPX) Nov 23, 2021
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the United States Air Force to provide dynamic inflight rerouting for RQ-4B Global Hawk. The software update, known as Dynamic Mission Operations (DYNAMO), will enhance Global Hawk's ability to provide critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance data to geographic combatant commanders.
"DYNAMO is p ... more |
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