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  Littleton CO (SPX) Apr 05, 2022 Lockheed Martin has released an open-source, non-proprietary interface standard to support on-orbit docking within the industry. With unity of effort in mind, Lockheed Martin has published this Mission Augmentation Port (MAP) interface standard online to support industry approaches to on-orbit servicing and mission augmentation. Those interested in incorporating the standard in their space vehicles can download the necessary documents at www.LockheedMartin.com/MAP. The MAP standard provides ... read more |
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Hubble finds a planet forming in an unconventional wayBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 05, 2022 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has directly photographed evidence of a Jupiter-like protoplanet forming through what researchers describe as an "intense and violent process." This discovery supports ... more  
Solving the challenges of robotic pizza-makingBoston MA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 Imagine a pizza maker working with a ball of dough. She might use a spatula to lift the dough onto a cutting board then use a rolling pin to flatten it into a circle. Easy, right? Not if this pizza ... more  
Shake and Bake as NASA's Psyche tested in spacelike conditionsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2022 To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft was tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid. The conditions that ... more  
NASA's Perseverance rover listens in the thin Martian atmosphereBerlin, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Mars has a very thin atmosphere, which at the surface has a density approximately one percent that of Earth's. Until recently, it was unclear whether there is anything to hear in the barren landscap ... more |
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Magma makes marsquakes rock Red PlanetCanberra, Australia (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Volcanic activity beneath the surface of Mars could be responsible for triggering repetitive marsquakes, which are similar to earthquakes, in a specific region of the Red Planet, researchers from Th ... more 
Making Tracks to the DeltaPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2022 Perseverance is in a drive campaign going faster than any previous rover. How fast, you may ask? Its actual speed is just under a tenth of a mile per hour, but it's faster than its predecessors. It ... more 
Miniaturized laser systems to seek out traces of life in spaceJena, Germany (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Was there life on Mars? This is the question that the European Space Agency (ESA) is setting out to answer with its ExoMars mission. The mission, in which Russia is a participant, is scheduled to la ... more 
Kepler telescope delivers new planetary discovery from the graveManchester UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star a ... more |
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Prenatal protoplanet upends planet formation modelsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 05, 2022 An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date. ... more 
NASA simulator helps to shed light on mysteries of Solar SystemLisbon, Portugal (SPX) Apr 04, 2022 Even in our cosmic backyard, the Solar System, many questions remain open. On Venus there are formations similar to volcanoes, but it is not known if they are active. The surface of Mars suggests th ... more 
Space debris found in rural India likely from 'China rocket'Mumbai (AFP) April 4, 2022 A large metal ring and sphere that villagers in rural western India said fell from the sky over the weekend could be from a Chinese rocket launched into space last year, officials told local media. ... more  
Tianzhou 2 re-enters Earth's atmosphere, mostly burns upBeijing (XNA) Apr 01, 2022 China's Tianzhou 2 cargo spaceship fell back to Earth on Thursday afternoon with most of its body burnt up during the reentry process, according to the China Manned Space Agency. The agency sa ... more |
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Mars' thin atmosphere means quieter sounds, new data showsWashington DC (UPI) Apr 1, 2021 Data from NASA's Perseverance Rover has given scientists their first clear picture of how sound travels on Mars' surface. ... more 
First audio recorded on Mars reveals two speeds of soundParis (AFP) April 1, 2022 The first audio recordings on Mars reveal a quiet planet with occasional gusts of wind where two different speeds of sound would have a strange delayed effect on hearing, scientists said Friday. ... more 
Out Like a Lamb for Sols 3430-3431Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2022 The rover engineers better understand the minor issue that occurred after our weekend activities. While we're still in the same location, they can fix the issue in this plan. Our arm activities in t ... more  
Scientists find Mercury has magnetic stormsFairbanks AS (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. The research by scientists in the United Stat ... more 
Martian brain freezeParis (ESA) Mar 31, 2022 New views from ESA's Mars Express reveal fascinating ice-related features in Mars' Utopia region - home to the largest known impact basin not only on the Red Planet, but in the Solar System. U ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 04, 2022 
Perseverance is in a drive campaign going faster than any previous rover. How fast, you may ask? Its actual speed is just under a tenth of a mile per hour, but it's faster than its predecessors. It is making comparatively rapid progress by devoting several hours per day to driving on very smooth terrain.
That has allowed Perseverance to break previous rovers' records for the distance trave ... more |
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 New 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.
Koons, one of the most celebrated and expensive living artists, is famed for kitsch pieces such as "Ballon Dog" and "Rabbit," and his work is exhibited in galleries around the world.
His latest project "Moon Phas ... more |
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 Paris (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 the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant planets now known to orbit other stars.
This animation depicts Juice's journey to Jupiter and highlights from its foreseen tour of the ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 05, 2022 
An international research team has discovered a new planet so young that it has yet to emerge from the womb of matter where it is forming. This is the youngest protoplanet discovered to date.
It's location and the surrounding patterns of matter suggest that an alternative method of planet formation may be at work. This discovery could help to explain the histories and features of extrasola ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 4, 2021 
Axiom Space announced it would delay its first private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to no earlier than Friday, April 8.
If all goes as planned, a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket will ferry four private citizens, strapped inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, to the space station. Liftoff is scheduled for 11:17 a.m. EDT.
The mission was scheduled for Wednes ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 01, 2022 
China's Tianzhou 2 cargo spaceship fell back to Earth on Thursday afternoon with most of its body burnt up during the reentry process, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The agency said in a statement the robotic craft started to enter the atmosphere around 6:40 pm under the ground control and the extreme heat caused by air friction dismantled and destroyed most of the ship. A few ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 05, 2022 
To prepare for its launch in August, the Psyche spacecraft was tested to ensure it can operate in the extreme conditions it will face on its trip to a metal-rich asteroid.
The conditions that a NASA spacecraft endures are extreme: the violent shaking and cacophony of a rocket launch, the jolt of separating from the launch vehicle, the extreme temperature fluctuations in and out of the Sun' ... 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.
"DEKE DEUCE require ... more |
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 White Sands NM (SPX) Mar 30, 2022 
Lockheed Martin, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and the U.S. Army have further integrated the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) interceptor into the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System - resulting in a more tightly integrated, layered missile defense system.
During a test, the THAAD system successfully launched a PAC-3 MSE to intercept a tactical ballistic mis ... 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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 College Station TX (SPX) Mar 31, 2022  Finding the specific sound a rock makes when it cracks and breaks seems impossible when surrounded by other subsurface noises. But Texas A and M University researcher Dr. Siddharth Misra, the Ted H. Smith, Jr. '75 and Max R. Vordenbaum '73 DVG Associate Professor in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, discovered a way to hear and validate that sound in a project funded by the B ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Apr 01, 2022 
Imagine a pizza maker working with a ball of dough. She might use a spatula to lift the dough onto a cutting board then use a rolling pin to flatten it into a circle. Easy, right? Not if this pizza maker is a robot.
For a robot, working with a deformable object like dough is tricky because the shape of dough can change in many ways, which are difficult to represent with an equation. Plus, ... more |
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 San Juan PR (SPX) Apr 05, 2022 
Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) ("Red Cat'' or the "Company"), a hardware-enabled software provider to the drone industry, announces that its subsidiary Teal Drones (Teal) has secured an order for 15 Golden Eagle drone units, plus spares and training, from a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) member country that has committed them to deployment in the Ukraine.
"Drones in the c ... more |
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