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  Greenbelt MD (AFP) Nov 12, 2018 Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits its instructions. Around 9:30 Mars time, a message arrives from California, where it was sent 15 minutes earlier. "Drive forward 10 meters, turn to an azimuth of 45 degrees, now turn on your autonomous capabilities and drive." The Curiosity rover executes the commands, ... read more |
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China releases smart solution for verifying reliability of space equipment componentsBeijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment compone ... more  
Small tissue chips in space a big leap forward for researchHouston TX (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 A small device that contains human cells in a 3D matrix represents a giant leap in the ability of scientists to test how those cells respond to stresses, drugs and genetic changes. About the size of ... more 
BFR Spawns New Mars TV Series with Homesteading and ProfiteersLos Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 11, 2018 Hollywood, California, November 8, 2018 (SPX) Then the screen thundered as space is understood to require brute force to get there. Then the complexities of living on Mars is brought too life in a n ... more 
Scientists capture the sound of sunrise on MarsChelmsford UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 Scientists have created the soundtrack of the 5,000th Mars sunrise captured by the robotic exploration rover, Opportunity, using data sonification techniques to create a two-minute piece of music. ... more |
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Cosmic Detective Work: Why We Care About Space RocksPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2018 The entire history of human existence is a tiny blip in our solar system's 4.5-billion-year history. No one was around to see planets forming and undergoing dramatic changes before settling in their ... more 
Five Months Since We Received A Signal From OpportunityPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 08, 2018 The global dust storm on Mars has ended and atmospheric opacity (tau) over the rover site hovers around a typical seasonal value between 1.0 and 1.2. No signal from Opportunity has been heard ... more 
Scientists push back against Harvard 'alien spacecraft' theoryTampa (AFP) Nov 6, 2018 A scientific paper led by two researchers at Harvard University made a splash this week by claiming that a cigar-shaped rock zooming through our solar system may have been sent by aliens. ... more 
Aboard the first spacecraft to the Trojan asteroidsGreenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 Ralph, one of NASA's most well-traveled space explorers, has voyaged far and accomplished much: on the New Horizons mission, Ralph obtained stunning flyby images of Jupiter and its moons; this was f ... more  
Physicists create new, simpler-than-ever quantum 'hard drive for light'Edmonton, Canada (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Physicists at the University of Alberta in Canada have developed a new way to build quantum memories, a method for storing delicate quantum information encoded into pulses of light. "We've dev ... more |
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 'Autonomous Warrior': UK Army Conducts its Largest Test of Battlefield Robots  
From the cosmos to fusion plasmas, PPPL presents findings at global APS gatheringPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Nov 13, 2018 More than 135 researchers and students from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) presented their latest findings at the 60th annual meeting of the America ... more  |
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Spacetime - a creation of well-known actors?Moscow, Poland (SPX) Nov 09, 2018 Most physicists believe that the structure of spacetime is formed in an unknown way in the vicinity of the Planck scale, i.e. at distances close to one trillionth of a trillionth of a metre. However ... more  
Chinese state media debuts 'AI' news anchorsShanghai (AFP) Nov 9, 2018 China's state-controlled news broadcasters have long been considered somewhat robotic in their daily recitation of pro-government propaganda and a pair of new presenters will do little to dispel that view. ... more  
European-built Service Module arrives in US for first Orion lunar missionKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 The powerhouse that will help NASA's Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Expl ... more 
Inside job: A new technique to cool a fusion reactorPortland OR (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 Fusion offers the potential of near limitless energy by heating a gas trapped in a magnetic field to incredibly high temperatures where atoms are so energetic that they fuse together when they colli ... more 
The Mars InSight Landing Site Is Just Plain PerfectPasadena CA (JPL) Nov 06, 2018 No doubt about it, NASA explores some of the most awe-inspiring locations in our solar system and beyond. Once seen, who can forget the majesty of astronaut Jim Irwin standing before the stark beaut ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 12, 2018 
The ExoMars Landing Site Selection Working Group has recommended Oxia Planum as the landing site for the ESA-Roscosmos rover and surface science platform that will launch to the Red Planet in 2020.
The proposal will be reviewed internally by ESA and Roscosmos with an official confirmation expected mid-2019.
At the heart of the ExoMars programme is the quest to determine if life has e ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 
The powerhouse that will help NASA's Orion spacecraft venture beyond the Moon is stateside. The European-built service module that will propel, power and cool during Orion flight to the Moon on Exploration Mission-1 arrived from Germany at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday to begin final outfitting, integration and testing with the crew module and other Orion elements.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
A Southwest Research Institute team using internal research funds has made several discoveries that expand the range and value of a future Pluto orbiter mission. The breakthroughs define a fuel-saving orbital tour and demonstrate that an orbiter can continue exploration in the Kuiper Belt after surveying Pluto. These and other results from the study will be reported this week at a workshop on fu ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that laser technology on Earth could, in principle, be fashioned into something of a planetary porch light - a beacon strong enough to attract attention from as far as 20,000 light years away.
The research, which author James Clark calls a "feasibility study," appears in The Astrophysical Journal. The ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 
The first heavy-lift Angara A5V carrier rocket equipped with a hydrogen space tug will be launched from the Vostochny space center in Russia's Far East in 2026, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin said on Sunday.
The rocket's launch was initially set to take place in 2027, according to the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
"On Vostochny [space center]... 2026 - the be ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Nov 13, 2018 
The Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization (CSU) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences released a smart solution for verifying the operational reliability of space equipment components on Friday.
The selection of space equipment components involves reliability verification, data collection, transmission and comparison.
The smart solution will help shorten the time to ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 07, 2018 
Ralph, one of NASA's most well-traveled space explorers, has voyaged far and accomplished much: on the New Horizons mission, Ralph obtained stunning flyby images of Jupiter and its moons; this was followed by a visit to Pluto where Ralph took the first high-definition pictures of the iconic minor planet. And, in 2021, Ralph journeys with the Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
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 Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2018 
The Missile Defense Agency awarded Lockheed Martin a nine month, $25.5 million contract extension to continue development of its Low Power Laser Demonstrator (LPLD) missile interceptor concept. This program, awarded Aug. 31, builds on a 2017 contract to develop an initial LPLD concept.
Lockheed Martin's LPLD concept consists of a fiber laser system on a high-performing, high-altitude airbo ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 2, 2018 
U.S. Army has signed a deal to supply the Romanian government with three Raytheon defense systems.
Romania will use the new Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems - the country's second order of the systems in the last two years - to deter any any threats to its borders.
The Patriot is a surface-to-air missile provides the "backbone" to the missile defense capabilities used by ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 25, 2018 
Mysterious straight bright stripes have been discovered on Saturn's moon Dione, says research by Planetary Science Institute Associate Research Scientist Alex Patthoff.
The origins of these linear virgae (virgae meaning a stripe or streak of color) are most likely caused by the draping of surface materials like material from Saturn's rings, passing comets, or co-orbital moons Helene and Po ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 12, 2018 
An inexpensive way to make products incorporating nanoparticles - such as high-performance energy devices or sophisticated diagnostic tests - has been developed by researchers.
The process could speed the commercial development of devices, materials and technologies that exploit the physical properties of nanoparticles, which are thousands of times thinner than a human hair.
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 Nathan, Australia (SPX) Nov 06, 2018 
Griffith University researchers have demonstrated a procedure for making precise measurements of speed, acceleration, material properties and even gravity waves possible, approaching the ultimate sensitivity allowed by laws of quantum physics.
Published in Nature Communications, the work saw the Griffith team, led by Professor Geoff Pryde, working with photons (single particles of light) a ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
Two galaxies, drawn together by the force of gravity, are merging into a tangled mass of dense gas and dust. Structure is giving way to chaos, but hiding behind this messy cloud of material are two supermassive black holes, nestled at the center of each of the galaxies, that are now excitingly close, giving astronomers the best view yet of the pair marching toward coalescence into one mega black ... more |
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 London, UK (Sputnik) Nov 13, 2018 
The exercises are but the latest in a series of noticeable efforts by the British military establishment to increase know-how in the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotic weapons technologies.
The British Army has started an unprecedentedly large testing of battlefield robots, according to the Daily Mail.
The event, dubbed the 'Autonomous Warrior 2018,' will last for abou ... more |
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 Guildford UK (SPX) Nov 08, 2018 
In the first study of its kind, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, academics from the University of Surrey and the University of Oxford have examined how Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) may have a substantial impact on the future of urban tourism.
When we think of automated vehicles it seems to be a topic that sits firmly in science fiction, from cars with character in The Love Bug (19 ... more |
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