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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 machine learning methods that automatically learn a task when provided with enough data. ExoMiner is a new deep ne ... read more |
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Analysis of Mars's wind-induced vibrations sheds light on the planet's subsurface propertiesCologne, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 Seismic data collected in Elysium Planitia, the second largest volcanic region on Mars, suggest the presence of a shallow sedimentary layer sandwiched between lava flows beneath the planet's surface ... more  
New software, new drill target, and an existential questionPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021 A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven years that I have operated spacecraft both in orbit and on the surface of Mars, ... 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  
Fission System to power exploration on the Moon's surface and beyondCleveland OH (SPX) Nov 22, 2021 Exploration of the Moon and Mars requires the power of human imagination and vision. It also takes the power of electricity to bring science and technology to life when astronauts land and stay on t ... more |
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Curiosity sends a picture postcard from MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021 NASA's Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars' Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two ver ... more 
Hubble Finds Flame Nebula's Searing Stars May Halt Planet FormationBaltimore MD (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 The Flame Nebula or NGC 2024 is a large star-forming region in the constellation Orion that lies about 1,400 light-years from Earth. Hubble studied this nebula to look for protoplanetary disks, or " ... more 
One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours longBoston MA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has turned up more than 4,000 far-flung worlds, orbiting stars thousands of light years from Earth. These extrasolar planets are a veritable menagerie, f ... more  
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 
Mars helicopter Ingenuity completes 16th flightWashington DC (UPI) Nov 22, 2021 NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity completed its 16th flight over the weekend, the space agency announced Monday. ... 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 
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 
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  
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 
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 |
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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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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Mining-tech leaders IMDEX - the company behind breakthrough drill and blast technology BLASTDOG TM - is backing development of an Australian-made lunar rover that NASA could send to the moon by 2026.
IMDEX is part of a group of companies supporting Australian Remote Operations for Space and Earth (AROSE) that is looking to leverage autonomous technology prevalent in the mining sector for u ... 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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 London, UK (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Exotrail signed a contract with Luxembourg-based satellite manufacturer OHB Luxspace for a co- engineering phase aiming the further integration of ExoMGTM - cluster2, a configuration of Exotrail's high thrust and flexible electric propulsion product family, into the Triton-X Heavy platform. This co-engineering phase comes as part of the development of a next generation of multi-mission microsate ... 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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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Space Force conducted the system level Critical Design Review (CDR) for the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 space program. This marks another significant step toward the first NGG satellite launch in 2025.
NGG is the Space Force's new, advanced space-based missile warning system that incorporates improved wa ... more |
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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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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
A mystery of mathematics that has remained unsolved for more than 150 years can be unraveled thanks to a completely unexpected approach coming from statistical physics. This is the important conclusion of Giuseppe Mussardo, professor of Theoretical Physics at SISSA, and Andre Leclair of Cornell University (USA) reported in an article just published in the Journal of Statistical Mechanics (JSTAT) ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 24, 2021 
A plane has a pilot. A bus has a driver. A train has a conductor. But who controls a Mars rover? During the last seven years that I have operated spacecraft both in orbit and on the surface of Mars, I've come back again and again to the question of who is most responsible for making a spacecraft go.
Is it the ACE who sends the commands to the Deep Space Network (DSN) to be sent to the spac ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Personnel from the Spanish Army's Paratrooper Brigade (BRIPAC) have evaluated the operability of the Class I Micro Passer UAS system from Aurea Avionics and GMV, a 1.9 kg unmanned aircraft designed to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to defense and security users.
The event took place in October at the Casas de Uceda Firing and Maneuvering Range (CMT ... more |
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