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  Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 Long road trips can be tedious and boring. That's why many road travelers break up their arduous journey by making rest stops along the way. Astronomers found that at least one roaming comet is doing the same thing. The wayward object made a temporary stop near giant Jupiter. The icy visitor has plenty of company: It has settled near the family of captured asteroids known as Trojans that are co-orbiting the Sun alongside Jupiter. This is the first time a comet-like object has been spotted ne ... read more |
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L3Harris Technologies Awarded Second Year of Space Object-Tracking Modernization ContractMelbourne FL (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 L3Harris Technologies (has been awarded $89 million for option-year two of a U.S. Space Force and U.S. Space Command contract to continue maintaining and modernizing infrastructure to track objects ... more  
Canada to join US mission to moonOttawa Canada (XNA) Feb 26, 2021 Canada announced on Thursday that it will send an astronaut to orbit the moon in 2023 as part of NASA's Artemis II mission. "It's official!" Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Indust ... more  
Testing proves its worth with successful mars parachute deploymentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 26, 2021 The giant canopy that helped land Perseverance on Mars was tested here on Earth at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Test. Test again. Test again. Testing spacecraft components ... more  
NASA grants renewal and funding for deep space health protectionsHouston TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 After a favorable program review in December 2020, NASA has exercised its option to renew the Houston-based Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) until 2028. TRISH works closely ... more |
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SwRI scientists image a bright meteoroid explosion in Jupiter's atmosphereSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter's clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrogra ... more  
Big galaxies steal star-forming gas from their smaller neighboursPerth, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the space between the stars of smaller satellite galaxies. In research published this week astronomers have discovered that these small ... more 
Tianwen 1 probe enters preset parking orbitBeijing (XNA) Feb 24, 2021 China's Tianwen 1 robotic probe entered its preset parking orbit above Mars on Wednesday and will fly in this orbit for about three months before releasing its landing capsule, said the China Nation ... more 
How were the trojan asteroids discovered and namedBoulder CO (SPX) Feb 23, 2021 On Feb. 22, 1906, German astrophotographer Max Wolf helped reshape our understanding of the solar system. Again. Born in 1863, Wolf had a habit of dramatically altering the astronomy landscape. ... more 
Imaging space debris in high resolutionPhiladelphia PA (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 Litter is not only a problem on Earth. According to NASA, there are currently millions of pieces of space junk in the range of altitudes from 200 to 2,000 kilometers above the Earth's surface, which ... more |
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Hi, Robot: Japan's android pets ease virus isolationTokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2021 Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic. ... more  |
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Martian moons have a common ancestorZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 23, 2021 Phobos and Deimos are the remains of a larger Martian moon that was disrupted between 1 and 2.7 billion years ago, say researchers from the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich and the Physics Inst ... more  
Keeping an eye on the fusion futureBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 "That was your warmup. Now we're really in the thick of it." Daniel Korsun '20 is reflecting on his four years of undergraduate preparation and research at MIT as he enters "the thick" of graduate s ... more 
An aggressive market-driven model for US fusion power developmentBoston MA (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sci ... more 
NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Provides Front-Row Seat to Landing, First Audio Recording of Red PlanetPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 22, 2021 New video from NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover chronicles major milestones during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb. 18 as the spacecraft plumme ... more 
China's lunar rover travels 652 meters on far sideBeijing (XNA) Feb 23, 2021 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have been switched to dormant mode for the lunar night after working stably for the 27th lunar day, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Progr ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 
A Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientist examined 11 Mars years of image data to understand the seasonal processes that create linear gullies on the slopes of the megadune in the Russell crater on Mars.
In early spring images, captured by two different cameras on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, SwRI's Dr. Cynthia Dinwiddie noticed airborne plumes of dusty material associated with t ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2021 
In a first step towards uncovering the Moon's subterranean secrets, in 2019 we asked for your ideas to detect, map and explore lunar caves. Five ideas were selected to be studied in more detail, each addressing different phases of a potential mission.
Through these five Sysnova studies, three mission scenarios were developed - one to perform a preliminary scout of entry pits and undergroun ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
From aboard the Juno spacecraft, a Southwest Research Institute-led instrument observing auroras serendipitously spotted a bright flash above Jupiter's clouds last spring. The Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) team studied the data and determined that they had captured a bolide, an extremely bright meteoroid explosion in the gas giant's upper atmosphere.
"Jupiter undergoes a huge number of im ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
Large galaxies are known to strip the gas that occupies the space between the stars of smaller satellite galaxies.
In research published this week astronomers have discovered that these small satellite galaxies also contain less 'molecular' gas at their centres.
Molecular gas is found in giant clouds in the centres of galaxies and is the building material for new stars. Large galaxie ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Feb 26, 2021 
Texas-based Firefly Aerospace plans to launch its new Alpha rocket from California in April and send a lunar lander to the moon by 2023.
The 95-foot-high launch vehicle is designed to lift satellite payloads that weigh just over a ton into low-Earth orbit, or slightly lighter loads to a higher orbit.
Firefly has existed for only four years, and would join a small, but growing, group ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 24, 2021 
Chinese President Xi Jinping met representatives of space scientists and engineers who participated in the research and development of the Chang'e-5 lunar mission in Beijing Monday.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, also visited an exhibition on the lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e-5 probe ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Feb 25, 2021 
Researchers believe they have closed the case of what killed the dinosaurs, definitively linking their extinction with an asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago by finding a key piece of evidence: asteroid dust inside the impact crater.
Death by asteroid rather than by a series of volcanic eruptions or some other global calamity has been the leading hypothesis since the 1980 ... more |
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 Toronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
MDA reports it has been awarded an initial contract with an expected production value of more than CAD$60 million on the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project.
Lockheed Martin Canada has contracted MDA to provide the Laser Warning and Countermeasure (LWCM) System that will protect the ships against laser and optical guided threats.
MDA's Canadian-built solutions have the potential ... more |
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 Fort Belvoir VA (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
On 27 January, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Aegis Technical Representative (TECHREP) witnessed the successful demonstration of the first software release of the Japanese J7.B Aegis Weapon System equipped with SPY-7 radar in Moorestown, New Jersey.
Overall, there has been significant program progress since Japan's Aegis SPY-7 system selection in July 2018, and this demonst ... 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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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
Polished glass has been at the center of imaging systems for centuries. Their precise curvature enables lenses to focus light and produce sharp images, whether the object in view is a single cell, the page of a book, or a far-off galaxy.
Changing focus to see clearly at all these scales typically requires physically moving a lens, by tilting, sliding, or otherwise shifting the lens, usuall ... more |
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 Cleveland OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
NASA teamed up with a group of researchers from Dr. Jacob Chung's lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville and the Aerospace Corporation based in El Segundo, California, to test two technologies to reduce the amount of cryogenic propellant consumed during future space missions. Instead of working in a typical lab, a plane following a parabolic flight path briefly suspended the technologie ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 24, 2021 
For only the second time, astronomers have linked an elusive particle called a high-energy neutrino to an object outside our galaxy. Using ground- and space-based facilities, including NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, they traced the neutrino to a black hole tearing apart a star, a rare cataclysmic occurrence called a tidal disruption event.
"Astrophysicists have long theorized that ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 26, 2021 
Nami Hamaura says she feels less lonely working from home thanks to her singing companion Charlie, one of a new generation of cute and clever Japanese robots whose sales are booming in the pandemic.
Smart home assistants such as Amazon's Alexa have found success worldwide, but tech firms in Japan are reporting huge demand for more humanlike alternatives, as people seek solace during coronavi ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Feb 26, 2021 
The Counter-UAS Online Summit will provide a forum for military leaders, program executive officers, industry executives, academics and researchers to focus on CUAS operations across the US Military, Federal Government, Critical Infrastructure, public sector, and other soft target areas.
The event will take place Online this March 31 - April 2. Make sure to check out the most-up-to-date br ... more |
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