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  Laurel MD (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission team have determined multiple episodes of cryovolcanism may have created some kinds of surface structures on Pluto, the likes of which are not seen anywhere else in the solar system. Material expelled from below the surface of this distant, icy planet could have created a region of large domes and rises flanked by hills, mounds and depressions. New Horizons was NASA's mission to make the first exploration of Pluto and its system of five moons. "The particu ... read more |
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Shenzhou XIII astronauts prep for returnBeijing (XNA) Mar 30, 2022 Three astronauts stationed in China's Tiangong space station are preparing for their return trip in the middle of April, packing up personal items, experimental products and other materials, putting ... more  
SENER and Aerdron team up to develop drone to fly on MarsMadrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded SENER Aeroespacial the AERIAL project to design an unmanned aerial vehicle or drone capable of flying in the low density, pressure and temperature of the Mart ... more  
PickNik Robotics to work with Sierra Space on space roboticsBoulder CO (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 PickNik Robotics, a leader in robotics software and engineering services, has announced that it is collaborating with the team at Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company with 1,100 employee ... more 
Mounds of ice in craters give new insight into Mars' past climateWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 mill ... more |
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ESA supports Indian lunar and solar missionsParis (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is launching two pioneering scientific spacecraft this year, one to study the Sun, and one to land on the Moon - the nation's first soft landing on anot ... more 
Satellites around the Moon come another step closerParis (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 ESA is going to the Moon - in collaboration with its international partners - and seeks to build a lasting lunar link to enable sustainable space exploration. The agency has now evaluated init ... more 
Juice's journey and Jupiter system tourParis (ESA) Mar 30, 2022 ESA's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and ... more 
Sols 3428-3429 has the science definitely overflowingPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 30, 2022 Unfortunately, our weekend drive stalled, so this morning we found ourselves still at Friday's workspace. Fortunately, it was an understood issue... and this was a good place to spend some extra tim ... more |
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Koons on the Moon -- sculptures to be placed on lunar surfaceNew York (AFP) March 29, 2022 American pop artist Jeff Koons is to send sculptures to the Moon later this year on a spacecraft blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, his gallery said Tuesday. ... more  
Surface simulation lab launches new chapter in Australian space researchAdelaide, Australia (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 the University of Adelaide launched its new Exterres Laboratory. The lab, which is the first of its kind in Australia, is an off-Earth surface testing environment for space technology like rovers, ... more 
Next steps for ExoMars with the rover readyParis (ESA) Mar 29, 2022 The ESA-led Rosalind Franklin rover has a unique potential to search for evidence of past life on Mars thanks to its drill and laboratory. It will be the first rover to drill 2 m below the surface, ... more 
Sample Tally for the Crater Floor CampaignPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2022 Perseverance has spent a little over one Earth year in Jezero crater. In the last week, the team reached a very special milestone as we officially completed our first science campaign focused on the ... more |
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Sols 3425-3427: Vuggy BuggyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 I learned a new word today: vug. Vugs are small cavities or pits on a rock surface and the rock in our workspace today was noticeably "vuggy." Particularly, the triangular rock face in the bottom ce ... more 
Winning rovers of lunar polar challengeParis (ESA) Mar 29, 2022 The poles of the Moon have emerged as enticing goals for future exploration, given their potential for harbouring water and other volatiles. So ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre ... more  
Methane could be the first detectable indication of life beyond EarthSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 If life is abundant in the universe, atmospheric methane may be the first sign of life beyond Earth detectable by astronomers. Although nonbiological processes can generate methane, a new study by s ... more 
China's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft leaves space station core moduleBeijing (XNA) Mar 28, 2022 China's cargo spacecraft Tianzhou-2 separated from the core module of the country's space station Sunday afternoon, announced the China Manned Space Agency. At 3:59 pm Beijing Time, Tianzhou-2 ... more 
Turning astronaut waste into fuel on MarsParis (ESA) Mar 25, 2022 To survive on Mars will mean maximising use of all available resources. A team from Spanish technological centre Tekniker is working on a system that uses sunlight to produce fuel from astronaut was ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
Newly discovered deposits of layered ice in craters scattered around Mars' southern hemisphere provide insights into how the planet's orientation controlled the planet's climate over the past 4 million years, according to a new study. The findings help scientists understand what controlled Mars' past climate, which is essential for predicting when the planet could have been habitable.
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The poles of the Moon have emerged as enticing goals for future exploration, given their potential for harbouring water and other volatiles. So ESA and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre, ESRIC, challenged European and Canadian engineering teams to develop vehicles capable of prospecting resources within in these shadowy regions - then put their designs to the test in a realistic lun ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 
Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter's moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could potentially help sustain alien life, according to a team of researchers led by The University of Texas at Austin.
This theory has been proposed by others, but the researchers put it to the test by building the world's first physics-based computer si ... more |
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 Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 29, 2022 
If life is abundant in the universe, atmospheric methane may be the first sign of life beyond Earth detectable by astronomers. Although nonbiological processes can generate methane, a new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz establishes a set of circumstances in which a persuasive case could be made for biological activity as the source of methane in a rocky planet's atmosphere.
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 Taiyuan, China (XNA) Mar 30, 2022 
China conducted the maiden flight of its Long March 6A carrier rocket on Tuesday afternoon at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in Shanxi province, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.
The 50-meter rocket blasted off at 5:50 pm from a newly constructed launch tower at the Taiyuan launch center, roaring up into the dusk sky. It transported two satellites-Pujiang 2 and ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 30, 2022 
Three astronauts stationed in China's Tiangong space station are preparing for their return trip in the middle of April, packing up personal items, experimental products and other materials, putting equipment into place and exercising to prepare their bodies for Earth's gravity.
The astronauts, Zhai Zhigang, Wang Yaping and Ye Guangfu, have to tidy up a large number of materials, including ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
The study, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Estatal Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (Julio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University) (UNESP) of Brazil are participating, analyses the surface and dynamics of Apophis, an asteroid that will pass close to Earth in 2029.
The Apophis asteroid was discovered in 2004 and has been monitored since then due ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
The Missile Defense Agency, in partnership with the U.S. Army Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency, successfully conducted a flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System. The test, designated Flight Test THAAD Weapon System (FTT)-21, was conducted at t ... more |
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 Davis UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2022 
In 2006, the Cassini spacecraft recorded geyser curtains shooting forth from "tiger stripe" fissures near the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus - sometimes as much as 200 kilograms of water per second. A new study suggests how expanding ice during millennia-long cooling cycles could sometimes crack the moon's icy shell and let its inner ocean out, providing a possible explanation for the gey ... 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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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Researchers from the UAB, IFAE and University College London propose using the variations in distance between the Earth and the Moon, which can be measured with a precision of less than a centimeter, as a new gravitational wave detector within a frequency range that current devices cannot detect. The research, which could pave the way for the detection of signals from the early universe, was pub ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 25, 2022 
It all started around 13.8 billion years ago with a big, cosmological "bang" that brought the universe suddenly and spectacularly into existence. Shortly after, the infant universe cooled dramatically and went completely dark.
Then, within a couple hundred million years after the Big Bang, the universe woke up, as gravity gathered matter into the first stars and galaxies. Light from these ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
PickNik Robotics, a leader in robotics software and engineering services, has announced that it is collaborating with the team at Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company with 1,100 employees, more than 500 missions and over 30 years of space flight heritage. The collaboration will explore implementation of robotic autonomy and controllability for autonomous maintenance of space habitat ... more |
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 Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
The wind is not just 'wind' - but a complicated arrangement of turbulent features that are influenced by the surrounding environment. Air turbulence is created by the landscape, but also by buildings, roads and wind turbines. In the ESTABLIS-UAS project, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) is researching these flow effects. For this purpose, a swarm of dr ... more |
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