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  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 06, 2021 NASA's Lucy mission is one step closer to launch as L'TES, the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer, has been successfully integrated on to the spacecraft. "Having two of the three instruments integrated onto the spacecraft is an exciting milestone," said Donya Douglas-Bradshaw, Lucy project manager from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The L'TES team is to be commended for their true dedication and determination." Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Tr ... read more |
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China Focus: 400 mln km within 163 days, China's Mars probe heads for red planetBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2021 China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 400 million km by Sunday morning and is expected to enter Mars orbit next month, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). ... more 
Remote sensing data sheds light on when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its waterProvidence RI (SPX) Jan 06, 2021 Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers ... more 
Tianwen 1 robotic probe to enter Mars orbit in FebBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 robotic Mars probe had traveled more than 400 million kilometers by Sunday morning and is set to enter a Mars orbit next month, according to the China National Space Administration ... more  
Danes staying in origami-inspired 'Lunar' camp in Greenland end their missionMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 01, 2021 The two architects built the foldable futuristic-looking shelter as part of an experiment to establish whether ordinary people without training could survive in harsh conditions, including those on ... more |
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Lunar gold rush could create conflict on the ground if we don't act nowLondon, UK (The Conversation) Jan 01, 2021 When it comes to the Moon, everyone wants the same things. Not in the sense of having shared goals, but in the sense that all players target the same strategic sites - state agencies and the private ... more  
Chinese space enterprise gears up for record-breaking 40-plus launches in 2021Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2021 The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), the leading force of the country's space industry, has released a plan for more than 40 space launches for 2021, a new high following t ... more  
A robotic revolution for urban natureLeeds UK (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife. International research, involving over 170 experts and led by the University ... more  
Novel public-private partnership facilitates development of fusion energyPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 01, 2021 The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) is collaborating with private industry on cutting-edge fusion research aimed at achieving commercial fusion energy. T ... more 
Army research leads to more effective training model for robotsAdelphi MD (SPX) Dec 31, 2020 Multi-domain operations, the Army's future operating concept, requires autonomous agents with learning components to operate alongside the warfighter. New Army research reduces the unpredictability ... more |
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Discovery boosts theory that life on Earth arose from RNA-DNA mixLa Jolla CA (SPX) Dec 31, 2020 Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new view of how life originated on our planet. In a study published in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, th ... more  |
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High-brightness source of coherent light spanning from the UV to THzMunich, Germany (SPX) Dec 31, 2020 Analytical optical methods are vital to our modern society as they permit the fast and secure identification of substances within solids, liquids or gases. These methods rely on light interacting wi ... more  
Ripples in space-time could provide clues to missing components of the universeChicago IL (SPX) Dec 31, 2020 There's something a little off about our theory of the universe. Almost everything fits, but there's a fly in the cosmic ointment, a particle of sand in the infinite sandwich. Some scientists think ... more 
Experiment takes 'snapshots' of light, stops light, uses light to change properties of matterPittsburgh PA (SPX) Dec 30, 2020 Light travels at a speed of about 300,000,000 meters per second as light particles, photons, or equivalently as electromagnetic field waves. Experiments led by Hrvoje Petek, an R.K. Mellon professor ... more 
Knowledge of asteroid composition to help avert collisionsHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Dec 29, 2020 The European Space Agency ESA and NASA are working together to determine how the Earth might be protected against the threat posed by asteroids by altering their trajectory. VTT is taking part in th ... more 
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanetIthaca NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Bootes. The signal could b ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2021 
China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has traveled more than 400 million km by Sunday morning and is expected to enter Mars orbit next month, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
As of 6 a.m. on Sunday (Beijing Time), the Mars probe had flown in space for 163 days. It was about 130 million km from Earth and about 8.3 million km from Mars.
According to the CNSA, the pro ... more |
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 London, UK (The Conversation) Jan 01, 2021 
When it comes to the Moon, everyone wants the same things. Not in the sense of having shared goals, but in the sense that all players target the same strategic sites - state agencies and the private sector alike. That's because, whether you want to do science or make money, you will need things such as water and light.
Many countries and private companies have ambitious plans to explore or ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet.
The storm, which is wider than the Atlantic Ocean, was born in the planet's northern hemisphere and discovered by Hubble in 2018. Observations a year later showed that it began drifting southward toward the equator, where such storms ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Dec 31, 2020 
Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new view of how life originated on our planet.
In a study published in the chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie, they demonstrated that a simple compound called diamidophosphate (DAP), which was plausibly present on Earth before life arose, could have chemically knitted together tiny DNA building blocks called deo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 06, 2021 
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the country's leading space contractor, says it plans to launch more than 40 missions this year, including some for the nation's space station program.
In a report read at the State-owned conglomerate's annual space programs meeting on Monday in Beijing, the company said the most important missions in 2021 will be sending the space station's maj ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 01, 2021
China's space industry has produced a remarkable scorecard this year: characterized by the nation's first independent Mars mission, the completion of a global navigation satellite network and a landmark adventure that retrieved rocks and soil from the moon.
The most significant event in China's space field, and also one of the most notable space activities globally, this year-the Chang'e 5 ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Jan 06, 2021 
Last month, Japan's Hayabusa2 mission brought home a cache of rocks collected from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. While analysis of those returned samples is just getting underway, researchers are using data from the spacecraft's other instruments to reveal new details about the asteroid's past.
In a study published in Nature Astronomy, researchers offer an explanation for why Ryugu i ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 22, 2020 
Congress has added $1.3 billion into the Missile Defense Agency's fiscal 2021 budget, in excess of what the agency asked for in February.
The agency had requested $9.13 billion, a $1.27 billion decrease from last year's budget, but also submitted a list of unfunded requirements that totaled nearly $1 billion.
In the bill, lawmakers describe a "concerning" disconnect between the M ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The studies indicate the possibility that a varied metabolic menu could support a potentially diverse microbial community in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon's icy facade.
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 30, 2020  Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have discovered a way to make self-assembled nanowires of transition metal chalcogenides at scale using chemical vapor deposition. By changing the substrate where the wires form, they can tune how these wires are arranged, from aligned configurations of atomically thin sheets to random networks of bundles. This paves the way to industrial deployment ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Dec 10, 2020 
China sent two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Thursday morning.
The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:14 am (Beijing Time), according to the ce ... more |
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 Ithica NY (SPX) Jan 05, 2021  From a mountain high in Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation's Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have taken a fresh look at the oldest light in the universe. Their new observations plus a bit of cosmic geometry suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old, give or take 40 million years.
The new estimate matches the one provided by the standard mo ... more |
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 Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 
Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife.
International research, involving over 170 experts and led by the University of Leeds, assessed the opportunities and challenges that this cutting-edge technology could have for urban nature and green spaces.
The researchers highlighted opportunities to improve how we m ... more |
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 Tehran (AFP) Jan 4, 2021 
Iran's army is set to hold a "joint and large-scale" drone drill with its different divisions primarily in central Iran on Tuesday, the state news agency IRNA reported.
The two-day drill will involve "hundreds of operational drones of the army's ground, air and navy forces in the general area of Semnan (province) and different parts" of the country, IRNA said on Monday.
The Iran-manufact ... more |
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