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  Paris (AFP) March 1, 2022 A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars is "very unlikely" to launch this year due to sanctions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency said. The launch of the Rosalind Franklin rover, whose mission is to drill into Martian soil to seek out signs of life, was originally planned for 2020 but postponed due to Covid-19 and technical delays. In January the ESA declared the ExoMars mission was ready to launch this September, with Russia providing the launcher, descent ... read more |
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First Multiple-Sol DrivePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2022 Perseverance capped its first year on Mars by speeding back around Seitah toward what is expected to be the final sampling location in its crater floor campaign. The drive on Mars was split across t ... more 
Sols 3398-3400: The Road AheadPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2022 The drive on Sol 3397 went well and gave us some good perspective on the road ahead, as seen in the above Navcam image. Curiosity is perched at the edge of the pediment, carefully planning our route ... more  
Canberra well placed to play a role in global asteroid detectionCanberra, Australia (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 A UNSW researcher says we can improve our ability to detect dangerous asteroids from the Southern Hemisphere. NASA's Near-Earth Object Observation Program painstakingly documents all asteroid ... more  
China establishes deep space exploration laboratoryBeijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 China's deep space exploration laboratory has been officially inaugurated, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Co-established by the CNSA, Anhui Province and the Unive ... more |
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Organic compounds on CeresGottingen, Germany (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 The third-largest crater on the dwarf planet Ceres was geologically active at least once many millions of years after its formation. In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, ... more 
Ch'al-Type Rocks at Santa CruzPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2022 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. About 20 inches (50 centimeters ... more  
HSE University researchers discover what happens on the bright side of the moonMoscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 Researchers from HSE University have developed a mathematical model that explains the levitation of charged dust particles over the sunlit lunar surface for almost any latitude. For the first time, ... more  
Roman Space Telescope could snap first image of a Jupiter-like worldGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars ... more |
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The rise and fall of the riskiest asteroid in a decadeParis (ESA) Feb 25, 2022 For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon's attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be enti ... more 
Sols 3396-3397: Sediment Before the PedimentPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2022 If all goes according to plan, the rover's drive on sol 3397 will position us at the edge of the rocks that cap Greenheugh Pediment. This drive was pushed back from sol 3395 in order to collect even ... more 
NASA opens second phase of $5 Million Lunar Power Prize CompetitionHuntsville AL (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Under Artemis, NASA plans to return to the Moon using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before. This will require lunar surface systems that can deliver continuo ... more 
MIT Lunar Station Corp helps support safe lunar missionsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 This year NASA hopes to return astronauts to the Moon as early as March or April. Strategically, the Moon has something essential for life in space: water. Lunar ice can supply oxygen for hu ... more |
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Thales Alenia Space wins study contract to develop payload to extract Oxygen on the MoonBristol UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a study contract with the European Space Agency worth one million euros for a payload concept to extract oxyg ... more 
Caution! Martian wind at workParis (ESA) Feb 24, 2022 This image from ESA's Mars Express shows part of possibly the largest single source of dust on Mars: a wind-sculpted feature known as the Medusae Fossae Formation, or MFF. The MFF is not only ... more 
Sol 3395: Last Chance for ContactPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2022 Before the science team says "OK TO GO!," today's plan involves getting one of the last looks at the rocks right below the Greenheugh Pediment, some observations at the contact between them, and som ... 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  
Repellent wrap shown to shed all viruses and bacteriaHamilton, Canada (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 New research by the inventors of a promising pathogen-repellent wrap has confirmed that it sheds not only bacteria, as previously proven, but also viruses, boosting its potential usefulness for inte ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 25, 2022 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover snapped this view of a hill in Mars' Jezero Crater called "Santa Cruz" on April 29, 2021, the 68th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. About 20 inches (50 centimeters) across on average, the boulders in the foreground are among the type of rocks the rover team has named "Ch'al" (the Navajo term for "frog" and pronounced "chesh"). Perseverance will return to the ar ... more |
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 Bristol UK (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a study contract with the European Space Agency worth one million euros for a payload concept to extract oxygen from Moon rock.
For a sustainable habitation on the Moon, humans will need to utilise resources that they find on the Moon rather than transport these resources from Earth; one of these resou ... more |
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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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 25, 2022 
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, now under construction, will test new technologies for space-based planet hunting. The mission aims to photograph worlds and dusty disks around nearby stars with detail up to a thousand times better than possible with other observatories.
Roman will use its Coronagraph Instrument - a system of masks, prisms, detectors, and even self-flexing mirrors ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 28, 2021  NASA and Houston-based Axiom Space are in the final stages of training and preparation to launch the first all-private astronaut mission, Ax-1, to the International Space Station in late March, mission leaders said Monday.
But don't call the crew - three billionaires paying $55 million each - space tourists, Michael Lopez-Alegria, former astronaut and Ax-1 mission commander, said du ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 01, 2022 
China's deep space exploration laboratory has been officially inaugurated, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
Co-established by the CNSA, Anhui Province and the University of Science and Technology of China, the laboratory is headquartered in Hefei.
It will carry out science and technology research focusing on major national projects in the field of deep spa ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2022 
For a few tense days this January, a roughly 70-metre asteroid became the riskiest observed in over a decade. Despite the Moon's attempt to scupper observations, the asteroid is now known to be entirely safe.
Initial observations of an asteroid dubbed '2022 AE1' showed a potential Earth impact on 4 July 2023 - not enough time to attempt deflection and large enough to do real damage to a lo ... 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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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
Tightening a string, e.g. when tuning a guitar, makes it vibrate faster. But when strings are nano-sized, increased tension also reduces, or 'dilutes', the loss of the string's vibrational modes.
This effect, known as 'dissipation dilution', has been exploited to develop mechanical devices for quantum technologies, where engineered, tensioned nanostrings with a thickness of just a few tens ... 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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 Hefei, China (SPX) Feb 28, 2022 
Dr. HE Zhicheng and his coworkers from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences created a new way to measure the physical properties of galactic ionized gas, and discovered the acceleration of quasar outflows at the scale of tens of parsecs for the first time. Their paper was published on Science Advances
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 24, 2022 
If faced with the choice of sending a swarm of full-sized, distinct robots to space, or a large crew of smaller robotic modules, you might want to enlist the latter. Modular robots, like those depicted in films such as "Big Hero 6," hold a special type of promise for their self-assembling and reconfiguring abilities. But for all of the ambitious desire for fast, reliable deployment in domains ex ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a contract for Mjolnir, a next-generation counter electronics weapon system, to defend against adversarial drone activity, to Leidos Inc.
Building upon the success of the Tactical High-Power Operational Responder (THOR) technology demonstrator, Leidos will build an advanced high power microwave (HPM) weapon system to bring the newest technology ... more |
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