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  Washington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 For space exploration to be successful, it's vital to understand - and find ways to address - underlying causes of the health issues that have been observed in astronauts who have spent extended periods of time off world. These problems include loss of bone and muscle mass, immune dysfunction, and heart and liver problems. Using data collected from a number of different resources, a multidisciplinary team is reporting discovery of a common thread that drives this damage: mitochondrial dysfunction. ... read more |
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Research provides new insights on health effects of long-duration space flightFort Collins CO (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 The historic NASA Twins Study investigated identical twin astronauts Scott and Mark Kelly and provided new information on the health effects of spending time in space. Colorado State Universit ... more 
Space travel can adversely impact energy production in a cellWashington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 Studies of both mice and humans who have traveled into space reveal that critical parts of a cell's energy production machinery, the mitochondria, can be made dysfunctional due to changes in gravity ... more 
Fruit flies reveal new insights into space travel's effect on the heartSan Diego CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that fruit flies that spent several weeks on the International Space Station (ISS) - about half of their lives - experienc ... more  
China to build lunar research station prototype: scientistHaikou, China (XNA) Nov 27, 2020 China plans to build a prototype for a lunar scientific research station in the fourth phase of the country's lunar exploration program, said Wu Weiren, chief designer of the program. The prot ... more |
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ESA and ClearSpace SA sign contract for world's first debris removal missionParis (ESA) Nov 27, 2020 ESA is signing an 86 million euro contract with an industrial team led by the Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA to purchase a unique service: the first removal of an item of space debris from orbit. As a ... more  
How it took decades for space program to take offBeijing (XNA) Nov 26, 2020 Back in 1970, the year China launched its first satellite, some scientists suggested that the government should start a lunar exploration program. However, their suggestion was turned down by ... more 
Space worms experiment reveals gravity affects genesExeter UK (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 Living at low gravity affects cells at the genetic level, according to a study of worms in space. Genetic analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans worms on the International Space Station showed "su ... more  
MOXIE could help future rockets launch off MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 25, 2020 NASA's Perseverance rover carries a device to convert Martian air into oxygen that, if produced on a larger scale, could be used not just for breathing, but also for fuel. One of the hardest things ... more 
China's 'space dream': A Long March to the MoonBeijing (AFP) Nov 24, 2020 China's launch this week of an unmanned spacecraft aimed at bringing back lunar rocks - the first attempt by any nation to retrieve samples from the Moon in four decades - underlines just how far the country has come in achieving its "space dream". ... more |
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 Moon mission tasked with number of firsts for China 
Experts expect major contributions from Chang'e 5 lunar missionBeijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2020 Space experts and educators from around the world are closely following the Chang'e 5 mission and are optimistic it can achieve its targets. Professor Martin Sweeting, a fellow of the Royal Society ... more  |
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Yutu 2 rover still operating on far side of moonBeijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2020 China's Yutu 2 rover has been operating on the lunar surface for 692 Earth days, cementing its status as the second-longest-working rover on the moon, the China National Space Administration said. ... more 
'Conscientiousness' key to team success during space missionsLondon, Canada (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 NASA is working towards sending humans to Mars by 2030. If all goes according to plan, the flight crew's return trip to the red planet will take about two-and-half years. That's a long time to spend ... more  
Here's Looking at You, MKIDSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 In the years since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system - more than 4,000 have been observed. Usually, their presence is given away by th ... more 
A planet-forming disk still fed by the mother cloudGarching, Germany (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 Stellar systems like our own form inside interstellar clouds of gas and dust that collapse producing young stars surrounded by protoplanetary disks. Planets form within these protoplanetary disks, l ... more 
A terrestrial-mass planet on the run?Washington DC (SPX) Nov 22, 2020 Scientists have long believed that there may be billions to trillions of rogue planets drifting through our galaxy, unattached to any host star. A recent study has now identified one such candidate ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 27, 2020 
You're controlling your very own space agency at the dawn of the space age, with the ultimate goal of setting foot on the surface of Mars. Which technologies should you research? Which rockets should you build? Should you aim for the Moon first or head straight to the Red Planet?
That's the premise of Mars Horizon, a new strategy game from UK company Auroch Digital, created with help from ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 
Astronomers using data collected with the Lowell Discovery Telescope (LDT) have helped to characterize only the second known minimoon of Earth, a newly discovered asteroid with the designation 2020 CD3, or CD3 for short. The LDT observations helped to clarify both the rotation rate and the orbit of this diminutive body, the latter of which helped prove that CD3 is a natural body and not some rel ... more |
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 Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
The Swedish-led satellite instrument Particle Environment Package (PEP) will help researchers at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) to understand how three of Jupiter's icy moons are affected by the particles around Jupiter and search for the pre-conditions for life. After 14 years of work, the instrument is ready to take its place on ESA's Jupiter spacecraft JUICE.
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2020 
In the years since astronomers discovered the first exoplanet - a planet that orbits a star outside the solar system - more than 4,000 have been observed. Usually, their presence is given away by the slight effects they have on their parent stars, which vastly outshine them. For a decade and half, scientists have been trying to image exoplanets directly, but the Earth's atmosphere presents a maj ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 
NASA has stacked the first piece of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket on the mobile launcher in preparation for the Artemis I launch next year. At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, engineers lowered the first of 10 segments into place Nov. 21 for the twin solid rocket boosters that will power the first flight of the agency's new deep space rocket. Artemis I will be an uncrewed flight to ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 25, 2020 
The Chang'e 5 lunar mission will need to overcome a succession of challenges and difficulties before it can be declared a complete success, project insiders said.
Mission spokesman Pei Zhaoyu said Chang'e 5 will be the first Chinese spacecraft to carry out sample collection and launch operations on an extraterrestrial body, and these maneuvers will be extremely demanding and sophisticated ... more |
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Nov 26, 2020 
Astrophysicists from Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) joined the international research team for explaining the difference in the results of observation of the comet 41P/ Tuttle - Giacobini - Kresak. Researchers believe that data obtained by three independent teams are complementary and its complex analysis helps to unravel the mystery of dust chemical composition of comet 41P and other con ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2020 
The U.S. Navy Surface War Center announced a test in which an autonomous drone was launched and landed on a moving ship as a target for laser weapons.
The tests, held last week at the NSWC Division at Port Hueneme, Calif., involved software made for the Navy by Planck Aerosystems Inc. that allow the drone to follow the ship without people controlling it, the Navy said.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2020 
The Russian military has successfully tested a new anti-ballistic missile. It was launched from the Sary-Shagan testing range in Kazakhstan and hit the simulated target, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Russian Defense Ministry noted that the missile defense system is designed to protect against air and space attacks.
"At the Sary-Shagan testing range (Republic o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2020 
Scientists have used data from NASA's Cassini mission to delve into the impact craters on the surface of Titan, revealing more detail than ever before about how the craters evolve and how weather drives changes on the surface of Saturn's mammoth moon.
Like Earth, Titan has a thick atmosphere that acts as a protective shield from meteoroids; meanwhile, erosion and other geologic processes e ... more |
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 Upton NY (SPX) Nov 11, 2020 
Three-dimensional (3-D) nanostructured materials - those with complex shapes at a size scale of billionths of a meter - that can conduct electricity without resistance could be used in a range of quantum devices. For example, such 3-D superconducting nanostructures could find application in signal amplifiers to enhance the speed and accuracy of quantum computers and ultrasensitive magnetic field ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 19, 2020 
What resembles a donut or the iris of an eye is actually a liquid cell illuminated from below.
Part of the Chemo-Hydrodynamic Patterns and Instabilities (CHYPI) experiment that recently flew on the 73rd ESA parabolic flight campaign, this cell has a lot to offer the chemical solutions industry.
Researchers behind CHYPI are seeking to validate a theoretical model, developed by Anne De ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2020 
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will detect vestiges of sound waves that once rippled through the primordial cosmic sea. According to new simulations, Roman's observations could extend these measurements into an unprobed epoch between the universe's infancy and the present day. Studying the echoes from this era will help us trace the evolution of the universe and solve pressing cosmic c ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
A small drone takes a test flight through a space filled with randomly placed cardboard cylinders acting as stand-ins for trees, people or structures. The algorithm controlling the drone has been trained on a thousand simulated obstacle-laden courses, but it's never seen one like this. Still, nine times out of 10, the pint-sized plane dodges all the obstacles in its path.
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Nov 18, 2020 
Smart cities are developing around the world. In order to turn them into sustainable and livable spaces, one of the key points is that they must respond to new mobility challenges. As days go by, betting on the introduction of a reliable and safe unmanned vehicle network on its transport routes is not as impossible.
In this context, UAV Navigation and CATEC have presented a project within ... more |
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