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  Washington DC (UPI) Nov 29, 2021 An asteroid that measures the same size as the height of the Great Pyramid of Giza, is expected to pass by Earth on Monday afternoon, according to NASA. The 430-foot asteroid, 1994 WR12, will pass by our planet at a distance of 3.8 million miles. The space rock was first identified in 1994 by American astronomer Carolyn S. Shoemaker. NASA's official measurement puts the asteroid at closer to 390 feet and says it will whisk past Earth by 3.82 million miles. The asteroid was ... read more |
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Orbital harmony limits late arrival of water on TRAPPIST-1 planetsHouston TX (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 Seven Earth-sized planets orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 in near-perfect harmony, and U.S. and European researchers have used that harmony to determine how much physical abuse the planets could have with ... more  
Tianzhou cargo craft to help advance scienceBeijing (XNA) Nov 29, 2021 Chinese scientists, researchers and engineers now have the opportunity to use the country's robotic cargo spacecraft to carry out experiments and tests, according to the China Manned Space Agency. ... more  
Guiding Tianwen-1 to China's first successful Mars rover landingBeijing, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 Mars landing missions only succeed about half the time, a rate largely determined by the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase, according to the researchers who designed Tianwen-1's control systems ... more 
New possibilities for life at the bottom of Earth and other Oceanic WorldsTempe AZ (SPX) Nov 29, 2021 In the strange, dark world of the ocean floor, underwater fissures, called hydrothermal vents, host complex communities of life. These vents belch scorching hot fluids into extremely cold seawater, ... more |
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Rocket industrial park put into operation in WuhanWuhan (XNA) Nov 26, 2021 The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) said that it completed the construction of an intelligent satellite production line and a rocket industrial park in the central C ... more 
For the curious there's always room for secondsPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 26, 2021 As we head into a long weekend for the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, Curiosity will take advantage of some extra time at the Zechstein drill location to conduct even more science. The team has bee ... more  
Mining tech heads for the stars as IMDEX backs lunar rover projectPerth, 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 ... more 
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 
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 |
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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 
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 
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  
Eagle professor's space debris removal device receives patentDaytona Beach FL (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 An Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University professor and his co-inventors patented a device that provides a workable strategy for combating the problem of debris accumulating in space from defunct sate ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Nov 30, 2021 
Mars landing missions only succeed about half the time, a rate largely determined by the entry, descent and landing (EDL) phase, according to the researchers who designed Tianwen-1's control systems. They published their guidance, navigation and control approach for Tianwen-1 on October 16 in Space: Science and Technology.
"The EDL phase, which begins at the Mars atmosphere interface and e ... more |
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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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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 
A system designed to provide data from the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) for analysis in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has successfully acquired data from a VLA antenna. The system - dubbed COSMIC: the Commensal Open Source Multimode Interferometer Cluster - is designed to receive data from a newly-developed parallel Ethernet interface ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2021 
Rocket Lab has confirmed it will attempt to catch a returning rocket booster mid-air with a helicopter during the company's next recovery mission. The confirmation follows the successful demonstration of helicopter shadow operations for the first time during the company's 22nd Electron launch last week in the company's latest effort to make Electron the world's first reusable, orbital-class comm ... more |
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 Wuhan (XNA) Nov 26, 2021 
The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited (CASIC) said that it completed the construction of an intelligent satellite production line and a rocket industrial park in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.
Located in the Wuhan National Aerospace Industry Base, both the production line and the industrial park went into operation, said Liu Shiquan, general manager of the CASIC. ... more |
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 Umea, Sweden (SPX) Nov 26, 2021 
Comets have an environment of plasma which contains a large number of ions with low energies. It is necessary to understand these low-energy ions' properties in order to understand the physical processes occurring around the comet.
As low-energy ions are difficult to measure Sofia Bergman devised a new method to analyze measurements of these ions around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in h ... 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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 Moscow (AFP) Nov 25, 2021 
Russia on Thursday successfully placed into orbit a military satellite believed to be part of the Kremlin's early warning anti-missile system.
A Soyuz rocket carrying a classified payload blasted off from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia in the early hours of Thursday morning, the defence ministry said.
At 0109 GMT a rocket was launched that put a "space apparatus into orbit in ... 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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 Beijing (AFP) Nov 26, 2021 
It looks like a normal car but the white taxi by the kerb has nobody driving it, and communicates with customers digitally to obtain directions and take payment.
Beijing this week approved its first autonomous taxis for commercial use, bringing dozens of the so-called "robotaxis" to the streets of the Chinese capital.
The vehicles can only carry two passengers at a time and are confined ... 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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