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  London, UK (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 Scientists at the University of Liverpool, funded by the UK Space Agency, are using space to understand what happens to human muscles as we age, and why.? When astronauts spend time in space, without the effects of gravity, their muscles get weaker, just as they do in older age, before recovering when they return to Earth. By studying what happens to muscle tissue in space, the team can compare the findings to what happens on Earth. This will help the solve the puzzle of why muscles get weak ... read more |
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On they march as China records 401st flight of Long March rocket familyBeijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2021 China launched a relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China early on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's major ... more  
Preparations underway for moon landingBeijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2021 China is making preparations for a moon landing that will place its astronauts on the lunar surface, according to a senior official at the China Manned Space Agency. Dong Nengli, head of the a ... more  
Looking Back, Looking Forward To New HorizonsBoulder CO (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from deep in the Kuiper Belt - more than 5 billion miles away - even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and Sun. A ... more  
Cliffs and notches keeps Curiosity team busy: Sols 3330-3332Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2021 We had quite a few special investigations lately, which took the front seat (read: all our power and time) lately. They ranged from boulders to DAN investigations that saw the rover parked very clos ... more |
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Cracking the mystery of nitrogen ice dynamics on PlutoParis, France (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Sputnik Planitia, a basin on the surface of Pluto1 filled with nitrogen ice, displays an astonishing pattern of flat polygons separated by narrow troughs. This feature is a sign of thermal convectio ... more 
Production of electricity on the Moon is in the hands of EstoniansTallinn, Estonia (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 Katriin Kristmann, a doctoral student in chemical and materials science at TalTech (Tallinn University of Technology), began research aimed at developing technology for the production of monograin l ... more  
Fugro's remote space operations complex to be located in Perth, AustraliaPerth, Australia (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 Fugro confirms the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex (SpAARC) will be located in the heart of downtown Perth's central business district (CBD). Housed ... more 
NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity notches 18th flightWashington DC (UPI) Dec 20, 2021 The Mars helicopter Ingenuity traveled 754 feet at 5.6 mph on its 18th flight on the Red Planet, NASA has confirmed. ... more  
How NASA's Psyche Mission Will Explore an Unexplored WorldPasadena CA (JPL) Dec 21, 2021 Launching in August 2022 and arriving at the asteroid belt in 2026, NASA's Psyche spacecraft will orbit a world we can barely pinpoint from Earth and have never visited. The target of NASA's P ... more |
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Opening a 50-year-old Christmas present from the MoonParis (ESA) Dec 20, 2021 A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take place - a piercing tool built by ESA will open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allo ... more 
New technologies make Chinese astronauts' in-orbit lives easierBeijing (XNA) Dec 20, 2021 Chinese astronauts live and work more conveniently and comfortably in orbit with the application of advanced information technology, said the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC ... more 
Out of the Shadows of the Maria Gordon notch: Sols 3328-3329Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2021 Our Sol 3326 drive was successful, completing our shot through the Maria Gordon notch, with its spectacular structures and deep shadows, and continuing our climb up Mount Sharp. To keep MAHLI safe o ... more 
Innovative silicon nanochip can reprogram biological tissue in living bodyBloomington IN (SPX) Dec 10, 2021 A silicon device that can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells has advanced from prototype to standardized fabrication, meaning it can now be made in a consistent, reproducible way. ... more  
'Cyborg' artist who 'hears' colour turns to time travelMataro, Spain (AFP) Dec 20, 2021 For Neil Harbisson, a self-described "cyborg" artist living near Barcelona, colour is quite literally music to his ears thanks to an antenna he designed to overcome colour blindness. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 20, 2021 
Our Sol 3326 drive was successful, completing our shot through the Maria Gordon notch, with its spectacular structures and deep shadows, and continuing our climb up Mount Sharp. To keep MAHLI safe over the upcoming holiday break, this plan was the last chance to take images with MAHLI's cover open until we plan the sols post-holiday, so the team was on the hunt for a good target.
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A pretty special gift unwrapping will soon take place - a piercing tool built by ESA will open a Moon soil container from Apollo 17 that has gone untouched for nearly 50 years. The opening will allow the extraction of precious lunar gases which may have been preserved in the sample.
Analysis of the gaseous volatiles will allow scientists to better understand the geology of the Moon and hel ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
New Horizons remains healthy and continues to send valuable data from deep in the Kuiper Belt - more than 5 billion miles away - even as it speeds farther and farther from the Earth and Sun.
As 2021 winds down, I want to recount what the New Horizons project has accomplished this year, and also look ahead to tell you about our plans for 2022.
During a busy and productive 2021, our sc ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
It's hard to imagine a more inhospitable world than our closest planetary neighbor. With an atmosphere thick with carbon dioxide, and a surface hot enough to melt lead, Venus is a scorched and suffocating wasteland where life as we know it could not survive. The planet's clouds are similarly hostile, blanketing the planet in droplets of sulfuric acid caustic enough to burn a hole through human s ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Dec 21, 2021 
The launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, which astronomers hope will herald a new era of discovery, was again pushed back Tuesday until at least Christmas Day due to "adverse weather conditions" at the launch site in French Guiana, NASA said.
The new target date, if determined to be viable, would be an actual Christmas gift for scientists who have been waiting three decades to see the l ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 15, 2021 
China launched a relay satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern China early on Tuesday morning, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, the nation's major space contractor.
A Long March 3B carrier rocket blasted off at 0:09 am and then deployed the Tianlian II-02 satellite into orbit, the State-owned company said in a statement. The mission marke ... more |
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 Sydney, Australia (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
Every so often, the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud throw galactic snowballs made up of ice, dust and rocks our way: 4.6-billion-year-old leftovers from the formation of the solar system.
These snowballs - or as we know them, comets - go through a colourful metamorphosis as they cross the sky, with many comets' heads turning a radiant green colour that gets brighter as they approach the Sun. ... 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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 Huntsville AL (SPX) Dec 21, 2021 
The Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) team has completed its System Requirements Review (SRR) and is proceeding with initial system design, further risk reduction testing, and critical component qualification activities.
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) approved the SRR, which was completed ahead of schedule, and is the first major technical revie ... 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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 Goleta CA (SPX) Dec 09, 2021 
On April 18, 2019, the European Space Agency's Gaia Mission alerted astronomers worldwide to an unusually bright but fleeting celestial event: the gravitational microlensing event Gaia19bld. The temporary, chance alignment between two unrelated star systems produced twin images of the background star and gave scientists their first opportunity to actually observe the arc-shaped images move in re ... more |
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 Mataro, Spain (AFP) Dec 20, 2021 
For Neil Harbisson, a self-described "cyborg" artist living near Barcelona, colour is quite literally music to his ears thanks to an antenna he designed to overcome colour blindness.
Well-known in Spain and with an international following that enabled him to meet the likes of Leonardo di Caprio and Tom Cruise, Harbisson is now testing out a new device designed to feel physically the passing ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Dec 17, 2021 
Fugro confirms the Australian Space Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Control Complex (SpAARC) will be located in the heart of downtown Perth's central business district (CBD). Housed in Western Australia's (WA's) largest telecommunications exchange, and thanks to an ongoing partnership with Telstra, Fugro's world-class facility will manage robotics and remote operations in Austra ... more |
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 Palmdale CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2021 
Northrop Grumman Corporation recently completed a significant milestone in the production of Australia's first MQ-4C Triton high-altitude, long-endurance (HALE) aircraft when the aircraft fuselage was mounted onto Triton's unique one-piece wing. Once completed and delivered, Triton's powerful payload and endurance will provide the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) with the ability to detect and ... more |
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