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  Dulles VA (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 Northrop Grumman Corporation's SpaceLogistics has announced a launch agreement for its Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) spacecraft, and the sale of its first Mission Extension Pod (MEP). Under the launch agreement, SpaceX will provide launch services for a planned spring 2024 launch of the MRV and several MEPs. Optus, Australia's largest satellite owner and operator, recently completed a purchase agreement with SpaceLogistics for installation of one of the MEPs on its D3 satellite in 2025. "Our cont ... read more |
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Ahead of lunar rocket crash, astronomers call for better space debris trackingWashington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2021 A mixup among leading astronomers about a rocket that will crash into the moon on March 4 has led to calls for better debris tracking of Deep Space manufactured objects. ... more  
Rocky Road offers plenty of tasty science bites during Sols 3391-3394Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2022 MSL planning was met with beautiful images of our path ahead, like this one. We ended up planning to look at many of these rocks with our science instruments before driving on. This is a busy plan, ... more 
China denies making space junk set to crash into MoonBeijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2022 China on Monday denied responsibility for a rocket set to slam into the Moon, after experts said the piece of space junk likely came from Beijing's lunar exploration programme. ... more  
Day of Discovery: 7 Earth-Size PlanetsPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 23, 2022 Newspapers around the world printed the discovery on their front pages: Astronomers had found that a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 was home to a close-knit family of seven Earth-size planets. NAS ... more |
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Brains of cosmonauts get 'rewired' to adapt to long-term space missions, study findsAntwerp, Belgium (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 A new study published in Frontiers in Neural Circuits is the first to analyze the structural connectivity changes that happen in the brain after long-duration spaceflight. The results show significa ... more 
'Tatooine-like' exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescopeBirmingham UK (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University of Birmingham. The planet, called Kepler-16b, has so far ... more  
China's Chang'e-4 discovers glass globules on far side of moonBeijing (XNA) Feb 20, 2022 The Yutu-2 lunar rover of China's Chang'e-4 mission has discovered two macroscopic translucent glass globules during its exploration of the far side of the moon, which could potentially help reveal ... more 
Getting ready for lunar orbitTurin, Italy (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway. As the n ... more |
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A Sol in the Life of a RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2022 What does Percy do all day? A Martian day- or Sol- is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, and while every Sol is different, each one is packed full of exciting science activities, observations, and discov ... more 
NASA's Perseverance celebrates first year on Mars by learning to runPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2022 NASA's Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb. 18, 2021, and the six-wheeled scientist has other important accomplishments in store as it ... more 
Can a planet have a mind of its own?Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 The collective activity of life-all of the microbes, plants, and animals-have changed planet Earth. Take, for example, plants: plants 'invented' a way of undergoing photosynthesis to enhance t ... more  
JILA atomic clocks measure Einstein's general relativity at millimeter scaleWashington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, ... more |
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UAE invests in drones, robots as unmanned warfare takes offAbu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 22, 2022 The United Arab Emirates is ploughing money into drones, robots and other unmanned weaponry as autonomous warfare becomes more and more widespread - including in attacks on the Gulf country by Yemeni rebels. ... more 
Latecoere strengthens its space activities through three cooperations with AirbusToulouse, France (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 Latecoere, a leading partner of major international aircraft manufacturers and the European leader in satellite wiring, is strengthening its activity in the space industry thanks to three major coop ... more 
New laser station lights the way to debris reductionParis (ESA) Feb 16, 2022 ESA's Izana-1 laser ranging station in Tenerife, Spain, has recently undergone months of testing and commissioning, passing its final tests with flying colours. As it reached 'station acceptance', i ... more 
AI enables strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basinIthaca NY (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 An international team of researchers has for the first time demonstrated how artificial intelligence can be harnessed for sustainable hydropower development across the entire Amazon basin - stretchi ... more 
Self-healing materials for robotics made from 'jelly' and saltCambridge UK (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 Researchers have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications. The low-c ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2022 
NASA's Perseverance rover has notched up a slew of firsts since touching down on Mars one year ago, on Feb. 18, 2021, and the six-wheeled scientist has other important accomplishments in store as it speeds toward its new destination and a new science campaign.
Weighing roughly 1 ton (1,025 kilograms), Perseverance is the heaviest rover ever to touch down on Mars, returning dramatic video o ... more |
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 Turin, Italy (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst visited Thales Alenia Space in Turin recently to test out and provide feedback on accommodations for the next human outpost in space, the lunar Gateway.
As the name implies, the Gateway will be located within the Moon's orbit and is being built by Thales Alenia Space on behalf of ESA. Among its components is the International Habitation Module or I-Hab.
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Feb 15, 2022 
Three prominent features on the Kuiper Belt object Arrokoth - the farthest planetary body ever explored, by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft - now have official names.
Proposed by the New Horizons team and approved by the International Astronomical Union, the new feature names follow a theme set by "Arrokoth" itself, which means "sky" in the Powhatan/Algonquin Native American language.
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 Birmingham UK (SPX) Feb 23, 2022 
A rare exoplanet which orbits around two stars at once has been detected using a ground-based telescope by a team led by the University of Birmingham.
The planet, called Kepler-16b, has so far only been seen using the Kepler space telescope. It orbits around two stars, with the two orbits also orbiting one another, forming a binary star system. Kepler-16b is located some 245 light years fr ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 21, 2021 
SpaceX successfully launched 46 of the company's own Starlink broadband Internet communications satellites from Florida on Monday.
The mission, Starlink 4-8, was the first since the company lost about 40 of the Starlink satellites on Feb. 4 during a solar storm that thickened the air and caused the satellites to burn up as they crashed back through the atmosphere.
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 11, 2022 
China will make six manned space flights in 2022 to complete the building of its space station and see the maiden flight of Long March-6A, the country's first carrier rocket powered by a solid and liquid engine.
Ma Tao, deputy director of the Space Department of the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC), revealed on Wednesday China's rocket launch plan at a press confer ... more |
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 Menlo Park CA (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
When a space rock survives the turbulent passage through Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface, it generates shockwaves that can compress and transform minerals in the planet's crust. Since these changes depend on the pressure produced upon impact, experts can use features in Earth's minerals to learn about the meteorite's life story, from the moment of collision all the way back to the con ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at Kirtland AFB, Jan. 24-28, 2022. The Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEKE DEUCE, explored synergies between directed energy and kinetic concepts in the future battlespace.
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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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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn. A University of Leicester-led team has found that Saturn is unique among planets observed to date in that some of its aurorae are generated by swirling winds within its own atmosphere, and not just from the planet's surrounding magnetosphere.
The study, which is based on observations ma ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 11, 2022 
Physicists from MIPT and Skoltech have found a way to modify and purposely tune the electronic properties of carbon nanotubes to meet the requirements of novel electronic devices. The paper came out in the Carbon journal.
Carbon nanomaterials form an extensive class of compounds that includes graphene, fullerenes, nanotubes, nanofibers, and more. Although the physical properties of many of ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 21, 2022 
In the beginning, all that Stephan Schlamminger wanted to do was to write down an equation that would help him obtain a more precise value for G, the gravitational constant that determines the strength of the attraction between massive objects. To gauge that attraction, Schlamminger, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and his colleagues, studied the motion o ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 17, 2022 
JILA physicists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, or more specifically, the effect called time dilation, at the smallest scale ever, showing that two tiny atomic clocks, separated by just a millimeter or the width of a sharp pencil tip, tick at different rates.
The experiments, described in the Feb. 17 issue of Nature, suggest how to make atomic clocks 50 times ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 20, 2022 
What does Percy do all day? A Martian day- or Sol- is 24 hours and 37 minutes long, and while every Sol is different, each one is packed full of exciting science activities, observations, and discoveries! Let's follow Percy on Sol 345 (February 8th, 2022) to catch a glimpse into the daily life of a Martian explorer.
Percy woke up early in the morning at 02:07 LMST (Local Mean Solar Time on ... more |
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 Abu Dhabi (AFP) Feb 20, 2022 
The UAE and its allies warned Sunday of the rising threat of drone attacks, as Middle East militants rapidly acquire a taste for the cheap and easily accessible unmanned systems.
But while the countries called for a collective effort to protect airspaces against the small and often hard to detect targets, one question remained: how to easily stop a drone attack?
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