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  Dubai (AFP) Feb 9, 2021 The United Arab Emirates' "Hope" probe on Monday successfully entered Mars' orbit, making history as the Arab world's first interplanetary mission. The probe is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, but the UAE also wants it to serve as an inspiration for the region's youth. "To the people of the UAE, to the Arab and Muslim nations, we announce the succesful arrival to Mars' orbit. Praise be to God," said Omran Sharaf, the mission's project manager. Officials at mission control ... read more |
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NASA awards contract to launch initial elements for lunar outpostWashington DC (SPX) Feb 10, 2021 NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the agency's Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) and Habitation and Logistics Outpos ... more 
Water ice resources identified in Martian northern hemisphereTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 Areas featuring subsurface frozen water ice that could benefit future human explorers have been identified in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars, a new paper led by Planetary Science Institute Senio ... more  
RUAG Space provides Solar Subsystem for planet hunter PLATOZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 The "planet-hunting" mission PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) of the European Space Agency (ESA) is a space-based observatory to find and study extrasolar planetary systems with ... more  
New fiber optic temperature sensing approach to keep fusion power plants runningBoston MA (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 The pursuit of fusion as a safe, carbon-free, always-on energy source has intensified in recent years, with a number of organizations pursuing aggressive timelines for technology demonstrations and ... more |
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Perseverance in testing helps assure a safe landing on MarsEdwards AFB CA (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 After a nearly seven-month journey to Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is slated to land at the Red Planet's Jezero Crater Feb.18, 2021, a rugged expanse chosen for its scientific research and sample ... more 
Where Should Future Astronauts Land on Mars? Follow the WaterPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2021 A new NASA paper provides the most detailed map to date of near-surface water ice on the Red Planet. So you want to build a Mars base. Where to start? Like any human settlement, it would be be ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx to Fly a Farewell Tour of BennuTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 On April 7, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will give asteroid Bennu one last glance before saying farewell. Before departing for Earth on May 10, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a final flyby of B ... more 
UAE's 'Hope' probe to be first in trio of Mars missionsDubai (AFP) Feb 7, 2021 The first Arab space mission, the UAE's "Hope" probe, is expected to reach Mars' orbit on Tuesday, making it the first of three spacecraft to arrive at the Red Planet this month. ... more 
Orbit Logic Tackles Autonomous Lunar Exploration with Robotic SwarmsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 Orbit Logic has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract sponsored by NASA to develop the Intelligent Navigation, Planning, and Awareness for Swarm Systems (IN-PASS) ... more |
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Chang'e 4 lander, rover resume work on moonBeijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2021 The lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have resumed work for their 27th lunar day on the far side of the moon. The Yutu 2 rover activated at 4:26 am on Saturday and the lander activated j ... more  |
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Harvard astronomer argues that alien vessel paid us a visitWashington (AFP) Feb 6, 2021 Discovering there's intelligent life beyond our planet could be the most transformative event in human history - but what if scientists decided to collectively ignore evidence suggesting it already happened? ... more 
Sarah al-Amiri: young minister behind UAE mission to MarsDubai (AFP) Feb 7, 2021 When Sarah al-Amiri was a child growing up in Abu Dhabi with a fascination for space, her young country seemed light years away from reaching for the stars. ... more 
China's space probe sends back its first image of MarsBeijing (AFP) Feb 6, 2021 China's Tianwen-1 probe has sent back its first image of Mars, the national space agency said, as the mission prepares to touch down on the Red Planet later this year. ... more
Tianwen 1 makes orbital correction as Mars arrival draws nearBeijing (XNA) Feb 08, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 Mars probe conducted its fourth orbital correction on Friday evening, as the spacecraft makes ready for its arrival in orbit around Feb 10, according to the China National Space Ad ... more  
Existential threat to the space economy in 2021Bethesda MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 Many recent articles have expressed concern about the growing amount of junk floating around Earth in low orbits. Ultimately, the mass and distribution of junk and active satellites will exceed the ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Feb 9, 2021  The United Arab Emirates' "Hope" probe on Monday successfully entered Mars' orbit, making history as the Arab world's first interplanetary mission.
The probe is designed to reveal the secrets of Martian weather, but the UAE also wants it to serve as an inspiration for the region's youth.
"To the people of the UAE, to the Arab and Muslim nations, we announce the succesful arrival to Mars' ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2021 
The lander and rover of the Chang'e 4 probe have resumed work for their 27th lunar day on the far side of the moon.
The Yutu 2 rover activated at 4:26 am on Saturday and the lander activated just over 12 hours later, the China National Space Administration's Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center said.
Yutu 2 has traveled about 628.5 meters on the far side of the moon. It is now ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2021  Among Jupiter's Galilean moons, icy Europa or volcanic Io often take the spotlight - but their sibling moon Ganymede has plenty of secrets to share. Powerful new millimeter observations have now provided insight into this complex satellite's surface.
The frozen, alien landscape of Ganymede contains a little of everything. Shadowy regions of ancient, battered dark terrain are cross-cut by n ... more |
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 Albuquerque NM (SPX) Feb 10, 2021 
The huge forces generated by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories are being used to replicate the gravitational pressures on so-called "super-Earths" to determine which might maintain atmospheres that could support life.
Astronomers believe that super-Earths - collections of rocks up to eight times larger than Earth - exist in the millions in our galaxy. "The question before us is whet ... more |
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 Sparks NV (SPX) Feb 10, 2021 
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC), the global aerospace and national security company owned by Eren and Fatih Ozmen, is a step closer to landing the world's first commercial spaceplane on U.S. soil. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) awarded the re-entry site license to Cape Canaveral Spaceport Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) in Florida at requ ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2021 
"Earnest and serious, considerate and meticulous, sound and reliable, and absolutely safe" is the motto of Guo Shiyu's father, the deputy chief engineer of an institution under China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.
The principle was first brought up in 1964 by then-Premier Zhou Enlai to guide the country's scientific research on national defense. It's also the goal of Guo, an ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 
On April 7, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission will give asteroid Bennu one last glance before saying farewell. Before departing for Earth on May 10, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will perform a final flyby of Bennu - capturing its last images of sample collection site Nightingale to look for transformations on Bennu's surface after the Oct. 20, 2020, sample collection event.
The OSIRIS-REx mission tea ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 01, 2021  The Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate recently held its newest wargaming, modeling and simulation event at Kirtland Air Force Base.
The Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEUCE, under the leadership of the directorate's wargaming team, brought together F-16 pilots, F-15E weapon systems officers and an Airborne Warning and Control System air battle manage ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 08, 2021 
China conducted a land-based, midcourse missile interception test on Thursday-the fifth land-based, anti-ballistic missile test the country has publicly announced.
The Defense Ministry said in a brief statement late on Thursday that the test had achieved its goals, and the operation was defensive in nature, not targeting any other country.
Before the latest operation, China had succe ... more |
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 Paris, 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 and the University of Pisa, which shows that the current tilt of Saturn's rotation axis is caused by the migration of its satellites, and especially by that of its largest moon, Titan.
Recent o ... 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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 Morgantown WV (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 
In data gathered and analyzed over 13 years, the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) Physics Frontiers Center (PFC) has found an intriguing low-frequency signal that may be attributable to gravitational waves.
NANOGrav researchers - including a number from West Virginia University's (WVU's) Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Gravitati ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 05, 2021 
Researchers from the international BASE collaboration at CERN, Switzerland, which is led by the RIKEN Fundamental Symmetries Laboratory, have discovered a new avenue to search for axions--a hypothetical particle that is one of the candidates of dark matter particles.
The group, which usually performs ultra-high precision measurements of the fundamental properties of trapped antimatter, has ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 4, 2021 
To study biological molecules like proteins, scientists rely on cryo-electron microscopy. The 3D-imaging technology is ideal for studying proteins that exist in only a single structural arrangement, or conformation.
Unfortunately, many proteins can assume a variety of shapes, complicating bio-molecular surveys.
Thanks to a new machine-learning algorithm, however, scientists can n ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2021 
DARPA's LongShot program, which is developing an air-launched unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the ability to employ multiple air-to-air weapons, has awarded contracts to General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for preliminary Phase I design work. The objective is to develop a novel UAV that can significantly extend engagement ranges, increase mission effectiveness, and reduce the ... more |
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