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  Paris (ESA) Mar 10, 2022 Following a competition, ESA has selected the industrial team that will design and build the first experimental payload to extract oxygen from the surface of the Moon. The winning consortium, led by Thales Alenia Space in the UK, has been tasked with producing a small piece of equipment that will evaluate the prospect of building larger lunar plants to extract propellant for spacecraft and breathable air for astronauts - as well as metallic raw materials for equipment. The compact payload will nee ... read more |
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Moving right along - slowly but surely during Sols 3409-3410Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2022 We are continuing to slowly move through this very challenging terrain - over the weekend we made it about 4 meters before the drive stopped when the rover sensed more difficulty. The attached image ... more 
Buzz Aldrin's famous 1969 moon walk picture sells at auctionCopenhagen (AFP) March 9, 2022 More than 70 original NASA photographs including a celebrated image of Buzz Aldrin's moon walk taken by Neil Armstrong were sold at auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday for more than 155,000 euros ($172,000). ... more  
Expedition to highest active volcano unearths clues about life on other worldsBoulder CO (SPX) Mar 09, 2022 A harsh sun shines down through a cloudless sky, across a vast and unforgiving landscape. It's covered in gray rock, giant ice sculptures and expansive fields of spiky, yellow and orange bushes. In ... more 
First photos from the Moon under the hammer in DenmarkCopenhagen (AFP) March 8, 2022 The first NASA photographs taken on the Moon, including the first shot of an "Earthrise" and Buzz Aldrin walking on the surface, will be auctioned off in Copenhagen on Wednesday. ... more |
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NASA's Angie Jackman works to develop rocket that will bring Mars samples to Earthby Molly Porter for MSFC News Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 09, 2022 Right now, some 182 million miles separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But groundbreaking flight hardware developed at NASA's Marshall S ... more 
Astronomers discover largest molecule yet in a planet-forming discMunich, Germany (SPX) Mar 09, 2022 Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-forming disc. ... more  
Stonehenge served as an ancient solar calendar - new analysisPoole UK (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 It had long been thought that the famous site of Stonehenge served as an ancient calendar, given its alignment with the solstices. Now, research has identified how it may have worked. New find ... more  
NeoPhotonics offers ultra-narrow linewidth laser for LEO satellitesSan Jose CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 NeoPhotonics Corporation (NYSE: NPTN), a leading developer of silicon photonics and advanced hybrid photonic integrated circuit-based lasers, modules and subsystems for bandwidth-intensive, high-spe ... more |
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NASA expands research into mining lunar ice, minerals to sustain humans on the moonOrlando FL (UPI) Mar 08, 2022 NASA's desire to mine ice and minerals on the moon is driving new research on Earth into how astronauts could use moon materials to make machine parts, pave roads and construct living quarters. Scie ... more 
Challenges await sample-return expedition to MarsBeijing (XNA) Mar 08, 2022 Chinese scientists and engineers will need to solve a host of technological challenges to accomplish an ambitious sample-return mission to Mars, said Wu Weiren, a key figure in the country's deep-sp ... more 
WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsuleby Talia Ogliore for WUSTL News St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on t ... more  
China launches seven new satellitesXichang (XNA) Mar 08, 2022 China has successfully sent seven satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday. Six satellites produced by Beijing-based Galaxy ... more |
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NASA Studies 'New' 50-Year-Old Lunar Sample to Prep for Return to MoonHouston TX (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one of the last unopened, Apollo-era lunar samples to learn more about the M ... more 
A River Runs Through It: Onward to the DeltaPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022 The delta is calling and we must go! With one Earth year in its rearview mirror, the Perseverance rover has been racking up the odometry en route to the site of it's next science campaign. It's been ... more  
NASA begins assembly of Europa ClipperPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022 When it's fully assembled, NASA's Europa Clipper will be as large as an SUV with solar arrays long enough to span a basketball court - all the better to help power the spacecraft during its journey ... more 
Sols 3403-3404: Tiptoe to the PedimentPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 07, 2022 The terrain continues to challenge us as we make our way up onto the Greenheugh pediment. Monday's drive ended sooner than expected when the rover sensed the road was rockier than anticipated, so it ... more 
Moon and Mars superoxides for oxygen farmingParis (ESA) Mar 07, 2022 The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidising material could be sufficiently reactive that they would produce chemical burns on astronau ... more |
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The dusty faces of the Moon and Mars conceal unseen hazards for future explorers. Areas of highly oxidising material could be sufficiently reactive that they would produce chemical burns on astronauts' unprotected skin or lungs. Taking inspiration from a pioneering search for Martian life, a Greek team is developing a device to detect these 'reactive oxygen species' - as well as harvest sufficie ... more |
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People say good things come to those who wait. NASA thinks 50 years is the right amount of time as it begins tapping into one of the last unopened, Apollo-era lunar samples to learn more about the Moon and prepare for a return to its surface.
The sample is being opened at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston by the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division (ARES), which sa ... more |
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When it's fully assembled, NASA's Europa Clipper will be as large as an SUV with solar arrays long enough to span a basketball court - all the better to help power the spacecraft during its journey to Jupiter's icy moon Europa. And just about every detail of the spacecraft will have been hand-crafted.
The assembly effort is already underway in clean rooms at the agency's Jet Propulsion Lab ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 09, 2022 
A harsh sun shines down through a cloudless sky, across a vast and unforgiving landscape. It's covered in gray rock, giant ice sculptures and expansive fields of spiky, yellow and orange bushes. In the distance, intimidating mountain peaks dominate the desolate scene, many miles from the nearest town. Yet alpacas roam freely and flamingos seek out scarce water, both unexpected sights in this wil ... more |
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 Cardiff UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 
Leading launch company Virgin Orbit (Nasdaq: VORB) and European in-space manufacturing tech start-up Space Forge has announced an agreement to launch the first satellite developed in Wales in summer 2022.
In a historic moment for UK space, the satellite will be launched as part of a broader joint UK-US mission to open the country's first domestic space port in summer 2022 out of Spaceport ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Mar 08, 2022 
China has successfully sent seven satellites into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday.
Six satellites produced by Beijing-based GalaxySpace and a commercial remote sensing satellite were launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 2:01 p.m. (Beijing Time) and have entered their planned orbit.
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The dating ends speculation that the meteorite impacted after the appearance of humans and opens up a new understanding of Earth's evolution in the post-dinosaur era.
Ever since 2015, when researchers at the University of Copenhagen's GLO ... more |
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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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 Riyadh (AFP) March 7, 2022 
Saudi Arabia announced a deal Monday with US firm Lockheed Martin to manufacture elements of the missile defences of the Gulf state, the target of frequent cross-border attacks by rebels in Yemen.
Its military industries authority, cited by state news agency SPA, approved two projects to produce launchers and other equipment used in the THAAD anti-missile defence system.
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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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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Nanoparticles (which have sizes ranging between 3-500 nm), and sub-nanoclusters (which are around 1 nm in diameter) are utilized in many fields, including medicine, robotics, materials science, and engineering. Their small size and large surface-area-to-volume ratios give them unique properties, rendering them valuable in a variety of applications, ranging from pollution control to chemical synt ... more |
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 Mumbai, India (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 
A new study by researchers from the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS) and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) discovers a unifying thread in two approaches to quantum gravity that were previously believed to be separate.
Finding a theory of quantum gravity - which would combine both quantum mechanical and gravitational effects - is one of the great unsol ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Mar 10, 2022 
How can Einstein's theory of gravity be unified with quantum mechanics? It is a challenge that could give us deep insights into phenomena such as black holes and the birth of the universe. Now, a new article in Nature Communications, written by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and MIT, USA, presents results that cast new light on important challenges in understanding q ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 04, 2022 
Noah rode out his flood in an ark. Winnie-the-Pooh had an upside-down umbrella. Fire ants (Solenopsis invicta), meanwhile, form floating rafts made up of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of individual insects.
A new study by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder lays out the simple physics-based rules that govern how these ant rafts morph over time: shrinking, expanding or ... more |
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 Riyadh (AFP) March 9, 2022  Air defence systems have been front and centre at Saudi Arabia's first defence show as drone and missile attacks increase in the energy-rich Gulf.
Deadly strikes on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates claimed by Yemeni rebels have been the talk of shows held in the two countries in recent weeks.
Six hundred companies from about 40 countries showed off the latest military technolog ... more |
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