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  Washington (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2022 China continues to display a lack of transparency and willingness to cooperate with the United States and other countries in space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday. "We want cooperation that has not been forthcoming from the Chinese government (but) it takes two to tango," Nelson told a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "We simply haven't had any transparency from the Chinese." When China launched its space station, the first stage of its booster space r ... read more |
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Solar beats nuclear at many potential settlement sites on Mars Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 The high efficiency, light weight and flexibility of the latest solar cell technology means photovoltaics could provide all the power needed for an extended mission to Mars, or even a permanent sett ... more 
Back Through the Buttes! Sols 3456-3457Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 27, 2022 Our weekend drive brought us successfully to our planned stop. The priority in this Touch and Go drive plan is to image the buttes which surround us. Mastcam will image "Blackcraig" and "Maringma" b ... more 
Xi Focus: Invigorating China's space exploration dreamBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 On April 24, 1970, a young man in a village in Northwest China's Shaanxi province was thrilled to get the news that China sent its first satellite Dongfanghong 1 into space. That young man, Xi ... more  
Scientists model landscape formation on Titan, revealing an Earth-like alien worldStanford CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are compose ... more |
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China starts engineering development of lunar exploration program's fourth phaseBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 China will start engineering development of the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program this year, according to a senior official of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Sunday. ... more 
New geological research shows Mars may have been more habitable than we thoughtToronot, Canada (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 New research by Dr. Steve Grasby, Research Scientist at Natural Resource Canada's Geological Survey of Canada, could indicate a more habitable environment than previously thought for the red planet, ... more 
China starts engineering development of lunar exploration program's fourth phaseBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 China will start engineering development of the fourth phase of its lunar exploration program this year, according to a senior official of the China National Space Administration on Sunday. Th ... more 
China looking at sending robotic probe to far side of moonBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 Chinese scientists and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust and rocks from the far side of the moon, an ambitious endeavor that will likely make it a world's first, said ... more |
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Greenland Ice, Jupiter Moon Share Similar FeatureWashington DC (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 Parallel ice ridges, a common feature on Jupiter's moon Europa, are found on Greenland's ice sheet - and could bode well for Europa's potential habitability. Parallel ice ridges in Greenland b ... more  
Hubble observations used to answer key exoplanet questionsParis (ESA) Apr 26, 2022 Archival observations of 25 hot Jupiters by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have been analysed by an international team of astronomers, enabling them to answer five open questions important to o ... more 
Carbon dioxide glaciers are moving at the Martian south poleTucson AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Glaciers of carbon dioxide are moving, creating deposits kilometers thick today across the south polar region of Mars, something that could have been going on more than 600,000 years, a paper by Pla ... more 
Microrobot collectives display versatile movement patternsStuttgart, Germany (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), Cornell University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed collectives of microrobots which can move in any desired ... more |
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Enigmatic rocks on Mars show evidence of a violent originTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 Determining the history of Mars, how it formed and evolved over time, has been a goal of both orbiter and rover missions to the Red Planet for decades. Analyzing data from several of these Mars miss ... more 
Chinese research institutions set to receive 4th batch of lunar samplesBeijing (XNA) Apr 27, 2022 China has announced a list of research institutions that are set to receive the fourth batch of lunar samples brought back by the country's Chang'e-5 mission. The samples, which weigh 8.768 gr ... more 
China mulls mission on far side of moonBeijing (XNA) Apr 26, 2022 Chinese scientists and engineers are considering sending a robotic probe to collect dust and rocks from the far side of the moon, an ambitious endeavor that would likely be a world first, according ... more 
Meteorites from the red desert of Australia support search for life on the red planet MarsLucas Heights, Australia (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on Earth that could be used in ... more 
Two largest Marsquakes to date recorded from planet's far sideAlbany CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude 4.1 marsquake. The pair are the first recorded events to ... more |
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NASA's Perseverance rover, searching for evidence of past life on Mars, has completed a 31-Martian-day journey of roughly 3 miles after collecting eight rock-core samples from its first science campaign.
As of April 13, the rover was "at the doorstep of Jezero Crater's ancient Martian river delta" searching for signs of microscopic life, according to NASA.
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 22, 2022 
The test version of a unique satellite navigation receiver has been delivered for integration testing on the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft. The NaviMoon satnav receiver is designed to perform the farthest ever positioning fix from Earth, employing signals that will be millions of times fainter than those used by our smartphones or cars.
"This engineering model of our NaviMoon receiver is the ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 19, 2022  Ridges that criss-cross the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa indicate there are shallow pockets of water beneath, boosting hopes in the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists said Tuesday.
Europa has long been a candidate for finding life in our solar system due to its vast ocean, which is widely thought to contain liquid water - a key ingredient for life.
There is a problem: ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 26, 2022 
Archival observations of 25 hot Jupiters by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have been analysed by an international team of astronomers, enabling them to answer five open questions important to our understanding of exoplanet atmospheres. Amongst other findings, the team found that the presence of metal oxides and hydrides in the hottest exoplanet atmospheres was clearly correlated with the at ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 26, 2022  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites lifts off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on April 21, 2022.
On the right, NASA's Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard sits atop a mobile launcher at Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, wh ... more |
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 Washington (Sputnik) Apr 27, 2022 
China continues to display a lack of transparency and willingness to cooperate with the United States and other countries in space, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday.
"We want cooperation that has not been forthcoming from the Chinese government (but) it takes two to tango," Nelson told a press conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. "We simply haven't had any trans ... more |
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 Charlottesville VA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 
Powerful radar systems have played a major role in the study of planets, moons, asteroids, and other objects in our Solar System for several decades, and now have a "unique role" to play in planetary defense - "providing protection to the nations of the world from devastating asteroid and comet impacts," according to the newly released Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. ... more |
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 Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 15, 2022 
The ground-based laser system homed in on the red drone flying by, shooting a high-energy beam invisible to the naked eye. Suddenly, a fiery orange glow flared on the drone, smoke poured from its engine and a parachute opened as the craft tumbled downward, disabled by the laser beam.
The February demonstration marked the first time the U.S. Navy used an all-electric, high-energy laser weap ... more |
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 Dallas TX (SPX) Apr 22, 2022  Lockheed Martin has received a contract totaling $74 million to produce the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). The award amount covers the production of an eighth THAAD battery for the U.S. government. It's expected to be fielded by 2025.
"This award demonstrates the U.S. government's continued confi ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 26, 2022 
Saturn's moon Titan looks very much like Earth from space, with rivers, lakes, and seas filled by rain tumbling through a thick atmosphere. While these landscapes may look familiar, they are composed of materials that are undoubtedly different - liquid methane streams streak Titan's icy surface and nitrogen winds build hydrocarbon sand dunes.
The presence of these materials - whose mechani ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Apr 14, 2022 
From designing new biomaterials to novel photonic devices, new materials built through a process called bottom-up nanofabrication, or self-assembly, are opening up pathways to new technologies with properties tuned at the nanoscale. However, to fully unlock the potential of these new materials, researchers need to "see" into their tiny creations so that they can control the design and fabricatio ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2022 
AstroAccess, an organization dedicated to promoting disability inclusion in space exploration, has announced that they will be flying a second cohort of Disabled Ambassadors on a Zero Gravity Corporation flight to experience weightlessness and investigate microgravity accessibility solutions.
This follows the historic inaugural AstroAccess flight of twelve individuals in October 2021. Astr ... more |
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 Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 21, 2022 
In some of the most crowded parts of the universe, black holes may be tearing apart thousands of stars and using their remains to pack on weight. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, could help answer key questions about an elusive class of black holes.
While astronomers have previously found many examples of black holes tearing stars apart, little evidence has been ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 22, 2022 
If man's best friend is a dog, then in the future astronauts' closest companions might well be rovers. A technique allowing astronauts in orbit to control rovers exploring planetary surfaces has been developed by a research team from ESA, the German Aerospace Center DLR and European academia and industry, culminating in an Earth-based rover session commanded from the International Space Station. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 27, 2022 
The world's largest drone maker DJI has said it will suspend all business operations in Russia and Ukraine, in a rare public move by a Chinese firm since Moscow's invasion of its neighbour.
Russia has been hit with an avalanche of sanctions over the war and many Western multinationals have pulled out of the country.
Beijing has refused to condemn the invasion, however, and Chinese compan ... more |
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