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  Washington DC (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 NASA has awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Space of Littleton, Colorado, to build the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), a small, lightweight rocket to launch rock, sediment, and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet. The award brings NASA a step closer to the first robotic round-trip to bring samples safely to Earth through the Mars Sample Return Program. "This groundbreaking endeavor is destined to inspire the world when the first robotic round-trip mission retrieves a sample from a ... read more |
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AI for Earth and Space: Call for researchers and expertsMountain View CA (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Frontier Development Lab (FDL) is kicking off its 7th year with a call for applications and the search for an expanded faculty. This year will be the program's biggest and most ambitious to date, wi ... more 
Nobody Tell Elmo About IssolePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 07, 2022 America's favorite red monster may not be interested in rocks, but Perseverance can't wait to keep exploring the rocks on Mars! How does the rover study rocks up-close? The Mars2020 Pers ... more 
Lockheed Martin wins NASA contract to bring Mars samples back to EarthWashington (AFP) Feb 8, 2022 Lockheed Martin's space division has won a NASA contract to build the rocket that will return the first Mars rock samples to Earth in the 2030s, the US space agency said Monday. ... more 
NASA-Funded Study Extends Period When Mars Could Have Supported LifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 03, 2022 The surface of Mars is barren and inhospitable, but perhaps it wasn't always that way. Billions of years ago, when life emerged on Earth, the climate of Mars could have been Earth-like as well, with ... more |
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ESA determines new 'space time'Paris (ESA) Feb 01, 2022 Since November 2021, ESA's satellites and ground stations have been running on a newly defined, incredibly precise "ESOC time". Measured by two atomic clocks in the basement of the ESOC mission cont ... more 
Sols 3374-3375: MAHLI Lets the Dog Out at the Prow!Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 04, 2022 In our weekend drive we aimed to get up close to the "Toron" block, which is a "float rock" or out of place chunk of bedrock in the workspace. Unlike many float rocks, Toron's original location (tan ... more  
Israel Signs Artemis AccordsWashington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2022 In becoming the first country to sign the Artemis Accords in 2022, Israel affirmed its commitment to a common set of principles to guide cooperation among nations participating in 21st century space ... more  
Youngest pair of asteroids in solar system detectedFlagstaff AZ (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 An international team of astronomers has discovered a pair of asteroids that split off from their parent body a mere 300 years ago. The duo is exceptional because it is the youngest known "asteroid ... more  
Juno and Hubble data reveal electromagnetic 'tug-of-war' lights up Jupiter's upper atmosphereLeicester UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA's Juno probe and the Hubb ... more |
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Puffy planets lose atmospheres, become Super EarthsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Exoplanets come in shapes and sizes that are not found in our solar system. These include small gaseous planets called mini-Neptunes and rocky planets several times Earth's mass called super-Earths. ... more  
Weightless placozoa - how gravity influences genetic informationBerlin, Germany (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 Usually, placozoa prefer warmer temperatures. For science, the simplest multicellular organisms in the world have made its way to northern Sweden - and from there into microgravity for a short time. ... more 
Uncrewed Artemis I mission to Moon pushed backWashington (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 The first mission in NASA's program to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until spring at the earliest, the US space agency said Wednesday, saying it needed more time to complete safety checks. ... more 
Shocked zircon find a 'one-off gift' from MarsPerth, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for understanding when ... more  
People prefer interacting with female robots in hotelsEverett WA (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 People are more comfortable talking to female rather than male robots working in service roles in hotels, according to a study by Washington State University researcher Soobin Seo. The study, ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
Curtin University researchers studying a Martian meteorite have found the first evidence of high-intensity damage caused by asteroid impact, in findings that have implications for understanding when conditions suitable for life may have existed on early Mars.
Published in leading journal Science Advances, the research examined grains of the mineral zircon in Martian meteorite NWA 7034. The ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 
The first mission in NASA's program to take humans back to the Moon has been delayed until spring at the earliest, the US space agency said Wednesday, saying it needed more time to complete safety checks.
The Artemis I launch, initially scheduled for late 2021 and then postponed twice more, will now happen no earlier than April.
"Teams are taking operations a step at a time to ensure the ... more |
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 Leicester UK (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
New Leicester space research has revealed, for the first time, a complex 'tug-of-war' lights up aurorae in Jupiter's upper atmosphere, using a combination of data from NASA's Juno probe and the Hubble Space Telescope.
The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, describes the delicate current cycle driven by Jupiter's rapid rotation and the release of sulphur ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Exoplanets come in shapes and sizes that are not found in our solar system. These include small gaseous planets called mini-Neptunes and rocky planets several times Earth's mass called super-Earths.
Now, astronomers have identified two different cases of "mini-Neptune" planets that are losing their puffy atmospheres and likely transforming into super-Earths. Radiation from the planets' sta ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 04, 2022 
With Britain's first satellite launches set to take place this year, the SatelLife Competition is looking for the best new ideas for how to use data collected from space to benefit daily life, from supporting local communities and the NHS, to monitoring the environment and tackling climate change.
The competition is now in its fifth year, with previous winning ideas including drones carryi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 28, 2022 
China will explore the moon's polar regions and is mulling over a manned lunar landing in the coming five years, according to a white paper released on Friday.
The white paper, titled "China's Space Program: A 2021 Perspective," said China will continue its studies and research "on the plan for a human lunar landing."
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
An international team of astronomers has discovered a pair of asteroids that split off from their parent body a mere 300 years ago. The duo is exceptional because it is the youngest known "asteroid pair" by at least a factor of ten, it passes close to Earth's orbit, and it has properties that are hard to explain given its young age.
The majority of asteroids in our solar system reside in t ... 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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 Peterson SFB CO (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
The fifth Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (SBIRS GEO-5) satellite built by Lockheed Martin, has been operationally accepted by the U.S. Space Force less than a year after being launched into orbit.
The early missile warning satellite is a "Go-Fast" success story, completing all on-orbit testing with accelerated analysis, resulting in a 40% improvement over GEO-1 thro ... 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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 Wurzburg, Germany (SPX) Feb 08, 2022 
Graphene is a carbon material that forms extremely thin layers. Because of its unusual properties, it is interesting for many technical applications. This also applies to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which can be regarded as cut-outs of graphene. They are considered promising materials for organic photovoltaics or for field-effect transistors.
Large, single-layer PAH molecules ... 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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 Manoa HI (SPX) Feb 07, 2022 
Everything in our universe moves, but the timescales needed to see motion are often vastly greater than human lifetimes. In a major new study, a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Maryland and University of Paris-Saclay has traced the movement of 10,000 galaxies and clusters of galaxies, the dominant congregations of matter, within 350 ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 02, 2022 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Perceptually-enabled Task Guidance (PTG) program to develop a prototype artificial intelligence (AI) assistant. The prototype will be embedded in an augmented reality (AR) headset to help rotary pilots perform expected and unexpected tasks.
Northrop Grumman, in partnership ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) Feb 2, 2022 
The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday said it prevented another drone attack over its territory, after Washington said it will send a warship and fighter jets to help defend its Gulf ally as conflict with Yemeni rebels intensifies.
The UAE, a major financial hub and part of the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels for seven years, announced the "interception and dest ... more |
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