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  Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 On May 10, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back to Earth. During its Oct. 20, 2020, sample collection event, the spacecraft collected a substantial amount of material from Bennu's surface, likely exceeding the mission's requirement of 2 ounces (60 grams). The spacecraft is scheduled to deliver the sample to Earth on Sep. 24, 2023. "Leaving Bennu's vi ... read more |
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AI: ensuring that humans remain in the centerKarlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 Valuable support or job killer? Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to enhance efficiency of business processes, but also changes the environment of workers. Profitable use of AI technologies for ... more 
Motiv Space Systems and JPL to develop robotic arm for extreme cold environmentsPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 Motiv Space Systems, in partnership with JPL, has announced the development of COLDArm, the first-in-kind robotic arm that will be built to survive the extreme cold of the Moon's South Pole ushering ... more  
Moon rock on Joe Biden's desk raises hopes for lunar returnWashington DC (UPI) Jan 26, 2021 A moon rock that President Joe Biden has placed in the Oval Office came from the last Apollo mission in 1972, raising hopes that he will support a new lunar landing program already underway. ... more  
Purdue scientist ready for Mars rover touchdownWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 The Mars Perseverance Rover will fly 300 million miles over almost seven months, but the seven minutes spent waiting to receive a radio signal confirming the rover has landed will seem like an etern ... more |
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New Mars rover may collect first sounds recorded on another planetWashington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2021 When three new Mars missions reach the Red Planet in February, recording the first sounds from another planet is to be among the scientific milestones. ... more  
Holding the system of HR 8799 togetherWashington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 All four planets orbiting the star HR 8799 were identified via direct imaging - a feat made possible only because of the planets' large sizes and their wide orbits. Planetary systems with these char ... more 
The seven rocky planets of TRAPPIST-1 seem to have very similar compositionsLiege, Belgium (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 A new international study led by astrophysicist Eric Agol from the University of Washington has measured the densities of the seven planets of the exoplanetary system TRAPPIST-1 with extreme precisi ... more 
Astronomers discover first cloudless, Jupiter-like planetBoston MA (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this ... more  
A Hot Spot on JupiterWashington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 This composite image shows a hot spot in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the image on the left, taken on Sept. 16, 2020 by the Gemini North Telescope, the hot spot appears bright in the infrared at a wavel ... more |
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Saturn's Tilt Caused By Its MoonsParis, France (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 Rather like David versus Goliath, it appears that Saturn's tilt may in fact be caused by its moons. This is the conclusion of recent work carried out by scientists from the CNRS, Sorbonne University ... more  |
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The 15th Anniversary of New Horizons Leaving EarthBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 New Horizons is healthy and continues to send data back from the Kuiper Belt, even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and the Sun. But the mission's jam-packed plans for new Kuipe ... more  
European team to collaborate in optical communicationSolna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) and Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands (Airbus DS NL) have signed a memorandum of understanding for collaborative activities regarding ground equipment for space-to ... more  
China's space tracking ship completes satellite launch monitoringAboard Yuanwang-5 (Xinhua) Jan 22, 2021 China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-5 completed its mission in the Pacific Ocean to monitor and ensure the launch of the Tiantong 1-03 satellite on Wednesday. China successfully launched the ... more 
US leading race in artificial intelligence, China rising: surveyWashington (AFP) Jan 25, 2021 The United States is leading rivals in development and use of artificial intelligence while China is rising quickly and the European Union is lagging, a research report showed Monday. ... more  
Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was rightPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 
The Mars Perseverance Rover will fly 300 million miles over almost seven months, but the seven minutes spent waiting to receive a radio signal confirming the rover has landed will seem like an eternity for scientists and researchers back on Earth.
That wait is dubbed the "seven minutes of terror" and Briony Horgan, Purdue University associate professor of planetary science, calls it the sc ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 26, 2021  A moon rock that President Joe Biden has placed in the Oval Office came from the last Apollo mission in 1972, raising hopes that he will support a new lunar landing program already underway.
The White House said the moon rock was part of Biden's goal to have the office reflect the best of American accomplishments.
Astronauts chipped the rock from a large boulder at the base of th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
This composite image shows a hot spot in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the image on the left, taken on Sept. 16, 2020 by the Gemini North Telescope, the hot spot appears bright in the infrared at a wavelength of 5 microns.
The inset image on the right was taken by the JunoCam visible-light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, also on Sept. 16, during Juno's 29th close pass by Jupiter. Here, th ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 
Musical notes that sound pleasant together can form a harmony. These notes are usually in a special relationship with each other: when expressed as frequencies, their ratios result in simple fractions, such as four-thirds or three-halves. Similarly, a planetary system can also form a kind of harmony when planets, whose orbital period ratios form simple fractions, regularly attract each other wit ... more |
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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 
When the big ring of nine Merlin engines on the Falcon 9 rocket rumbled to life, propelling NASA's SpaceX Crew-1 spacecraft and its occupants to their historic rendezvous with the International Space Station, most spectators were watching for the customary bloom of smoke and fire.
NASA manager Steve Gaddis and his team were also listening, anticipating the musical sound of success. At 7:27 ... more |
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 Aboard Yuanwang-5 (Xinhua) Jan 22, 2021 
China's space tracking ship Yuanwang-5 completed its mission in the Pacific Ocean to monitor and ensure the launch of the Tiantong 1-03 satellite on Wednesday.
China successfully launched the mobile telecommunication satellite at 12:25 a.m. (Beijing Time) on Wednesday. The satellite entered its planned orbit.
As the only maritime monitoring site for the launch, Yuanwang-5 was respons ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 
On May 10, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back to Earth.
During its Oct. 20, 2020, sample collection event, the spacecraft collected a substantial amount of material from Bennu's surface, likely exceeding the mission's requirement of 2 ounces (60 ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Linear accelerators, LINACs for short, are devices that accelerate electrons or other sub-atomic particles along a straight line to generate a beam of high energy. LINACs have a variety of commercial uses such as generating X-rays for cargo inspection, medical diagnostics, food sterilization, and even enabling precise external radiation treatments to destroy cancer cells without damaging surroun ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Jan 25, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce award of Other Transaction Agreements (OTA) with L3Harris Technologies, Inc and Northrop Grumman Systems Cooporation for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program's Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration. Phase IIb will continue developing the capability to support Warfighter fire-control quality data requiremen ... more |
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 Cornell NY (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000 feet deep near its center - enough room for a potential robotic submarine to explore.
After sifting through data from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission, the researchers detailed their finding ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Jan 25, 2021  Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work by breaking up the metal's grain structure - the microscopic crystalline domains that form a bulk piece of metal. Smaller grains make for harder metals.
Now, a group of Brown University researchers has found a way to cust ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 
A group of international scientists, including an Australian astrophysicist, has used knowhow from gravitational wave astronomy (used to find black holes in space) to study ancient marine fossils as a predictor of climate change.
The research, published in the journal Climate of the Past, is a unique collaboration between palaeontologists, astrophysicists and mathematicians - to improve th ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2021  Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact that they are actually amongst the simplest solutions to Einstein's field equations of general relativity.
In fact, black holes can be fully characterized by only three physical quantities: their mass, spin and charge. Since they have no additional "hairy" attributes ... more |
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 Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 
Valuable support or job killer? Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to enhance efficiency of business processes, but also changes the environment of workers. Profitable use of AI technologies for digitization in the energy sector and ways for human beings to remain in the center are studied by the new MeKIDI project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The project is aimed a ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 
NASA is funding a major project on the future of autonomous air cargo transportation, and The University of Texas at Austin will be playing a lead role. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout - the largest global logistics effort since World War II - has underscored the importance of increasing efficiencies in the global supply chain infrastructure. Autonomous aerial vehicles have the potential to revolut ... more |
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