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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2022 The team has made good progress implementing the initial recovery steps outlined in last week's blog. Our first success: The upper two pebbles were ejected from the bit carousel during a test. This is great news, as these small chunks of debris are believed to be the cause of the unsuccessful transfer of the drill bit and sample tube into the carousel back on Dec. 29. Our second success: We appear to have removed most - if not all - of the cored rock that remained in Sample Tube 261. b>Pebbles in ... read more |
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Future trillion dollar 'space economy' threatened by debris, WVU researcher saysMorgantown WV (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush Mehta, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at West Virginia Universit ... more 
China satellite in close encounter with Russian debris: state mediaBeijing (AFP) Jan 20, 2022 A Chinese satellite had a near collision with one of the many chunks of debris left by the fallout of a recent Russian anti-satellite missile test, state media reported. ... more  
Scientists are a step closer to finding planets like EarthLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 The UK Space Agency has invested 25 million pounds in innovative science for the European Space Agency mission, called Planetary Transits and Oscillations of stars (PLATO), ensuring UK scientists an ... more
PLATO clears decisive hurdleBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the green light to build the flight models of the spacecraft and science payload for the PLATO mission to search for extrasolar planets. The Critical Milest ... more |
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Sols 3362-3363: Sedimentologist's DelightPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2022 After a few sols of challenges that prevented us from getting close-up MAHLI imaging of this dark outcrop in front of us, today we were finally able to plan the contact science that we were hoping f ... more 
Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars cratersPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 New Curtin University research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years. The study, published i ... more 
Sols 3364-3366: Back at the ProwBoston MA (SPX) Jan 22, 2022 On Wednesday we collected our first MAHLI images of the outcrops we've been studying the last few sols, and then drove back to the Prow to give us another chance to investigate the fascinating sedim ... more  
Chinese lunar rover's 2-year travelogue on moon's far side reportedBeijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2022 Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two years of service that depicted the unique and untrodden moonscape on the moon's far side, revealing its notable dif ... more  
Looking Up at the Asteroids in the NeighborhoodMedford MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 Asteroids fly through our solar system all the time, but it's rare for us to take notice of them. But that's changed this week, as an asteroid passes within 1,231,184 miles of Earth on January 18. T ... more |
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Dust storm grounded Mars helicopter, but it's ready to fly againWashington DC (UPI) Jan 20, 2021 One of the Red Planet's famous dust storms has kept the Mars helicopter Ingenuity grounded for two weeks, but the aircraft is scheduled for its 19th flight as early as Sunday, according to NASA. ... more 
SETI's plan for a sky-monitoring telescope on the moonMountain View CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2022 The SETI Institute teamed up with Louisiana State University (LSU) and Mississippi State University (MSU) to help students design the science program for AstronetX PBC's first lunar-based camera (L- ... more  
China's rocket technology hits the ski slopesDalian (XNA) Jan 20, 2022 Who would ever have thought that technology used on China's largest carrier rocket would be used to improve the safety of skiers? Chinese scientists have developed a strong ski helmet with spa ... more 
Sol 3361: Keeping the Dog LeashedGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 Our initial plan was to conduct a MAHLI "dog's eye" imaging sequence on the beautiful Panari outcrop that we are parked before. During a dog's eye sequence, the rover's arm walks the MAHLI cam ... more  
SwRI scientist uncovers evidence for an internal ocean in small Saturn moonSan Antonio, TX (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 A Southwest Research Institute scientist set out to prove that the tiny, innermost moon of Saturn was a frozen inert satellite and instead discovered compelling evidence that Mimas has a liquid inte ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 21, 2022 
After a few sols of challenges that prevented us from getting close-up MAHLI imaging of this dark outcrop in front of us, today we were finally able to plan the contact science that we were hoping for.
Yesterday there was a small rock under the right rear rover wheel, so we had to kick that rock to the curb to get into a stable position for using the rover arm. This morning's downlink data ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 21, 2022 
Chinese scientists published the country's lunar rover travelogue of its first two years of service that depicted the unique and untrodden moonscape on the moon's far side, revealing its notable differences with the near side with in situ evidence.
The study published on Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal, Science Robotics, described cloddy soil, gel-like rocks, and fresh small craters ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2022 
Planets like Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn with global magnetic fields of their own are surrounded by so-called radiation belts: Trapped in the magnetic field, fast moving charged particles such as electrons, protons, and heavier ions whiz around thus forming the invisible, torus-shaped radiation belts. With their high velocities reaching almost the speed of light, the particles can ionize other mo ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
The catalog of planet candidates found with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) recently passed 5,000 TOIs, or TESS Objects of Interest.
The catalog has been growing steadily since the start of the mission in 2018, and the batch of TOIs boosting the catalog to over 5,000 come mostly from the Faint Star Search led by MIT postdoc Michelle Kunimoto.
Kunimoto reflects, "T ... more |
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 Orlando FL (UPI) Jan 21, 2022 
NASA is preparing the huge Space Launch System moon rocket for final tests on a Kennedy Space Center launchpad in February that would clear the way for a moon launch as early as late March.
The 322-foot-tall SLS rocket for the Artemis I mission is the largest since the last Saturn V rocket rolled out to a launch pad in 1972.
The first lunar mission in decades will help NASA understan ... more |
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 Dalian (XNA) Jan 20, 2022 
Who would ever have thought that technology used on China's largest carrier rocket would be used to improve the safety of skiers?
Chinese scientists have developed a strong ski helmet with space technology originally used on the Long March-5 rocket, the country's heaviest launch vehicle and the carrier of Mars probe Tianwen-1.
The helmet, designed by a team from the Dalian University ... more |
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 Medford MA (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
Asteroids fly through our solar system all the time, but it's rare for us to take notice of them. But that's changed this week, as an asteroid passes within 1,231,184 miles of Earth on January 18. The asteroid, dubbed 7482 (1994 PC1), was first seen in 1994 and is about two-thirds of a mile wide.
One likely reason Americans are paying more attention is because many millions have watched th ... 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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2021 
United Launch Alliance sent two space tracking satellites into orbit for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Friday afternoon.
The Atlas V rocket lifted off as planned at 2 p.m. EST into a mostly cloudy sky from Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station near Kennedy Space Center. The single solid rocket booster strapped to the rocket also ignited, contributing to the rocket's fi ... more |
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 San Antonio, TX (SPX) Jan 20, 2022 
A Southwest Research Institute scientist set out to prove that the tiny, innermost moon of Saturn was a frozen inert satellite and instead discovered compelling evidence that Mimas has a liquid internal ocean. In the waning days of NASA's Cassini mission, the spacecraft identified a curious libration, or oscillation, in the moon's rotation, which often points to a geologically active body able t ... more |
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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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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jan 18, 2022 
According to the South China Morning Post, the facility located in Jiangsu Province, will play an important part in the exploration of the Moon as China plans to land its astronauts on Earth's satellite by 2030 and set up a base there.
Chinese scientists have built an artificial moon that will make it possible to conduct experiments in low gravity. According to the researchers, their creat ... more |
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 Rochester NY (SPX) Jan 21, 2022 
For the first time, scientists believe they have detected a merger of two black holes with eccentric orbits. According to a paper published in Nature Astronomy by researchers from Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation and the University of Florida, this can help explain how some of the black hole mergers detected by LIGO Scientific Collaboration ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 14, 2022 
DARPA's Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency (RACER) program is picking up speed after three teams were selected to go to the starting line last October. The program is focused on advancing off-road autonomy of combat vehicles and seeks to demonstrate the ability of these platforms to travel at speeds that maintain pace with manned combat vehicles in complex terrain typical o ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 18, 2022 
Airbus, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), NTT DOCOMO, and SKY Perfect JSAT have jointly begun studying the feasibility of collaborating on future high-altitude platform stations (HAPS)-based connectivity services as part of a future space-based wireless connectivity ecosystem.
Launched with a memorandum of understanding (MOU), the study aims to identify the early deployment ... more |
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