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  Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 "Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original. But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuster in its own right. Lunar landings date back to the 1960s. The United States landed 12 people on six sep ... read more |
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Capella Space Selects Phase Four for Maxwell On-Orbit Propulsion SystemEl Segundo CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Phase Four, a best in class provider of electric radio frequency (RF) thrusters for in-space propulsion, announced that Capella Space, an aerospace and information services company providing Earth o ... more 
China's Chang'e-4 probe wakes up after first lunar nightBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2019 The rover and the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe have been awakened by sunlight after a long "sleep" during the first extremely cold night on the moon, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) ... more 
Chang'e-4 finds moon's far side colder than expected during nightBeijing (XNA) Feb 01, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 probe, having made the first-ever soft landing on moon's far side, found that the temperature of the lunar surface dropped to as low as minus 190 degrees centigrade, colder than ex ... more  
Sodium, Not Heat, Reveals Volcanic Activity on Jupiter's Moon IoTucson AZ (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said. "These results highlight the growin ... more |
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China to send over 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches in 2019Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2019 China is going to send more than 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches this year, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Tuesday. The major missi ... more 
Observers Puzzled by Mysterious 'Empty Trash Bag' Orbiting EarthLondon, UK (Sputnik) Jan 31, 2019 A Hawaiian telescope, part of NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), has spotted a satellite orbiting the Earth at an average distance of 262,000 kilometres. Sky watchers from ... more 
Maxar/SSL ends participation in DARPA's robotic satellites servicing programPalo Alto CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2019 SSL, a Maxar Technologies company reports it has exercised its right to terminate participation in the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) program, a public-private partnership wit ... more  
Engineers program marine robots to take calculated risksBoston MA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 We know far less about the Earth's oceans than we do about the surface of the moon or Mars. The sea floor is carved with expansive canyons, towering seamounts, deep trenches, and sheer cliffs, most ... more 
Engineers build a soft robotics perception system inspired by humansSan Diego CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 An international team of researchers has developed a perception system for soft robots inspired by the way humans process information about their own bodies in space and in relation to other objects ... more |
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 Building Trusted Human-Machine Partnerships 
A step closer to self-aware machinesNew York NY (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 Robots that are self-aware have been science fiction fodder for decades, and now we may finally be getting closer. Humans are unique in being able to imagine themselves - to picture themselves in fu ... more  |
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Most people overlook artificial intelligence despite flawless adviceAdelphi MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 If you were convinced you knew the way home, would you still turn on your GPS? Army scientists recently attempted to answer a similar question due to an ongoing concern that artificial intelligence, ... more  
Curiosity Says Farewell to Mars' Vera Rubin RidgePasadena CA (JPL) Jan 29, 2019 NASA's Curiosity rover has taken its last selfie on Vera Rubin Ridge and descended toward a clay region of Mount Sharp. The twisting ridge on Mars has been the rover's home for more than a yea ... more  
Plasmonic pioneers fire away in fight over lightHouston TX (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 When you light up a metal nanoparticle, you get light back. It's often a different color. That's a fact - but the why is up for debate. In a new paper in the American Chemical Society journal ... more 
Speed of light: Toward a future quantum internetToronto, Canada (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 Engineering researchers have demonstrated proof-of-principle for a device that could serve as the backbone of a future quantum Internet. University of Toronto Engineering professor Hoi-Kwong Lo and ... more 
Automation to hit most jobs, but overall impact 'muted': studyWashington (AFP) Jan 24, 2019 Artificial intelligence and automation will lead to job losses in "virtually all occupational groups" over the coming decades in the United States, but the overall impact on employment will be "muted," a prominent think tank study said Thursday. ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
The density of rock layers on the terrain that climbs from the base of Mars' Gale Crater to Mount Sharp is less dense than expected, according to the latest report on the Red Planet's geology from a team of scientists including Carnegie's Shaunna Morrison. Their work is published in Science.
Scientists still aren't sure how this mountain grew inside of the crater, which has been a longstan ... more |
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 Columbus OG (The Conversation) Feb 04, 2019 
"Moon of Israel" is an epic 1924 film from the golden era of silent movies, and helped launch the directing career of Michael Curtiz, of "Casablanca" fame. Sequels seldom live up to the original.
But if Israel's plans to put a robotic lander on the moon in February 2019 can be considered a sequel, this new "Moon of Israel" mission, led by the nonprofit company SpaceIL, will be a blockbuste ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
A large volcanic event was detected on Jupiter's moon Io using Jovian sodium nebula brightness variation, a new paper in Astrophysical Journal Letters said.
"These results highlight the growing body of evidence that the traditional way of monitoring Io's volcanism - by looking for temperature changes on its surface caused by hot lava - is not able to reliably find these large gas release e ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass that's between that of Neptune and Saturn, and its location beyond the "snow line" of its host star, an alien world of this scale was supposed to be rare.
Aparna Bhattacharya, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Maryland and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), le ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 04, 2019 
Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos has finally approved the design of the Yenisei super-heavy class launch vehicle for future lunar missions, it will use the RD-180 and RD-171MB engines, a Russian space industry source told Sputnik.
"Only one version of the super-heavy class rocket is being considered now. It has been proposed by the Samara-based Progress rocket space center and com ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 31, 2019 
China is going to send more than 50 spacecraft into space via over 30 launches this year, according to the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) on Tuesday.
The major missions include the third Long March-5 large carrier rocket to be launched in July, said Yang Baohua, vice president of the CASC, at a press conference.
The second Long March-5 rocket was launched f ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 31, 2019 
Place names for locations on the surface of Ryugu were discussed by Division F (Planetary Systems and Bioastronomy) of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (hereafter IAU WG) and approved in December 2018. We will introduce the place names in this article and the background to their selection.
As the appearance of Ryugu gradually became ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2019 
The U.S. Air Force announced it is planning future experiments involving laser and microwave energy weapons after recent successes in testing sessions.
Future experiments in the Directed Energy Experimentation Campaign are planned at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, the Air Force said Tuesday in a statement.
The tests by the 704th Test Group, essentially the use of mi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2019 
The U.S. State Department has approved Japan's $2.15 billion purchase of two land-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense systems.
On Tuesday, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of the possible sale.
Defense News reported it was the first foreign military sales announcement since the end of a 35-day partial government shu ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jan 24, 2019 
A new Southwest Research Institute study tackles one of the greatest mysteries about Titan, one of Saturn's moons: the origin of its thick, nitrogen-rich atmosphere. The study posits that one key to Titan's mysterious atmosphere is the "cooking" of organic material in the moon's interior.
"Titan is a very interesting moon because it has this very thick atmosphere, which makes it unique amo ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jan 29, 2019 
In the movie Avengers: Infinity War, one of the coolest scenes occurs when Iron Man activates his nanotech armor and controls nanoparticles to form the armor upon his skin. Actually, developing such a technique to assemble nanomaterials into macroscopic bulk materials that maintain their unique nanoscale properties is still a challenging task for scientists in the real world. Meanwhile, it is al ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
According to one of the most fundamental principles in physics, an observer on a moving train uses the same laws to describe a ball on the platform as an observer standing on the platform - physical laws are independent on the choice of a reference frame. Reference frames such as the train and the platform are physical systems and ultimately follow quantum-mechanical rules.
They can be, fo ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 01, 2019 
We know far less about the Earth's oceans than we do about the surface of the moon or Mars. The sea floor is carved with expansive canyons, towering seamounts, deep trenches, and sheer cliffs, most of which are considered too dangerous or inaccessible for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) to navigate.
But what if the reward for traversing such places was worth the risk?
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 Miami FL (SPX) Jan 30, 2019 
Airborne Response, the South Florida-based provider of Mission Critical Unmanned Solutions for industry and government, completed Exercise Lightning Shield - a full-scale training exercise held on Thursday, January 24 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. Airborne Response provided aerial support for the U.S. Army National Guard and specialized elements of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department.
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