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  Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 On 28 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4,000 hammer blows over a period of four hours. "On its way into the depths, the Mole seems to have hit a stone, tilted about 15 degrees and pushed it aside or past it," reports Tilman Spohn, principal investigat ... read more |
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Astronauts Assemble Tools to Test Space TechGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Technology drives exploration for future human missions to the Moon, Mars and beyond. For spacecraft to journey farther and live longer, we'll need to store and transfer super-cold liquids used for ... more 
Clues to Martian Life Found in Chilean DesertLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 A robotic rover deployed in the most Mars-like environment on Earth, the Atacama Desert in Chile, has successfully recovered subsurface soil samples during a trial mission to find signs of life. ... more 
First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on MarsParis (ESA) Mar 01, 2019 Mars Express has revealed the first geological evidence of a system of ancient interconnected lakes that once lay deep beneath the Red Planet's surface, five of which may contain minerals crucial to ... more  
Canada 'going to the Moon': TrudeauOttawa (AFP) Feb 28, 2019 Canada will join NASA's space mission to put an orbiter around the Moon in a few years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Thursday. ... more |
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Exiled planet linked to stellar flyby 3 million years agoBerkeley CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 Some of the peculiar aspects of our solar system - an enveloping cloud of comets, dwarf planets in weird orbits and, if it truly exists, a possible Planet Nine far from the sun - have been linked to ... more  
FedEx to test 'SameDay Bot' for local deliveriesSan Francisco (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 Global courier service FedEx on Wednesday announced plans to test a "SameDay Bot" autonomous delivery device designed to carry purchases from retail shops to local customers. ... more 
GMV achieves important breakthroughs in robotics systems and autonomyMadrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 GMV has recently presented the results obtained in ERGO and ESROCOS, two robotic-technology building blocks led by GMV within the European Commission's H2020 Space Robotics Technologies Strategic Re ... more 
NASA Mission Reveals Origins of Moon's 'Sunburn'Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation - and the Moon has the scars to prove it. Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS missio ... more  
Astronomers Optimistic About Planet Nine's ExistenceArbor MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 Seeing is believing, but when it comes to Planet Nine, complex calculations of space objects' behavior, careful observation of orbital anomalies, and watchful observation of the region beyond Neptun ... more |
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 Five Teams Win NASA DALI Awards to Advance Future Lunar Missions 
New NASA mission could find more than 1,000 planetsColumbus OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 A NASA telescope that will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find as many as 1,400 new planets outside Earth's solar system, n ... more  |
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NASA engineers are investigating Curiosity probe's computer resetWashington (UPI) Feb 25, 2019 Curiosity is taking a hiatus from its scientific mission, according to the rover's most recent Twitter update. ... more 
Cobham SATCOM extends partnership with Inmarsat for L-band ground components for I-6 satellitesCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Feb 27, 2019 Cobham SATCOM, the leading global provider of satellite communications solutions, has announced that it would provide L-band ground infrastructure for Inmarsat's I-6 constellation, currently set for ... more  
A prosthetic that restores the sense of where your hand isLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 The next-generation bionic hand, developed by researchers from EPFL, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa and the A. Gemelli University Polyclinic in Rome, enables amputees to regain a v ... more 
China eyes bans for rogue scientists after gene-editing uproarBeijing (AFP) Feb 27, 2019 China has drafted new rules to supervise biotechnology research, with fines and bans against rogue scientists after a Chinese researcher caused a global outcry by claiming that he gene-edited babies. ... more 
Spider silk could be used as robotic muscleBoston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 Spider silk, already known as one of the strongest materials for its weight, turns out to have another unusual property that might lead to new kinds of artificial muscles or robotic actuators, resea ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
On 28 February 2019, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) 'Mole' fully automatically hammered its way into the Martian subsurface for the first time. In a first step, it penetrated to a depth between 18 and 50 centimetres into the Martian soil with 4,000 hammer blows over a period of four hours.
"On its way into the depths, the Mole seems to have hi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Every object, planet or person traveling through space has to contend with the Sun's damaging radiation - and the Moon has the scars to prove it.
Research using data from NASA's ARTEMIS mission - short for Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence and Electrodynamics of the Moon's Interaction with the Sun - suggests how the solar wind and the Moon's crustal magnetic fields work together to gi ... more |
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 Arbor MI (SPX) Feb 28, 2019 
Seeing is believing, but when it comes to Planet Nine, complex calculations of space objects' behavior, careful observation of orbital anomalies, and watchful observation of the region beyond Neptune will have to do for now.
"The strongest argument in favor of Planet Nine is that independent lines of evidence can all be explained by a proposed new planet with the same properties. In other ... more |
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 Columbus OH (SPX) Feb 26, 2019 
A NASA telescope that will give humans the largest, deepest, clearest picture of the universe since the Hubble Space Telescope could find as many as 1,400 new planets outside Earth's solar system, new research suggests.
The new telescope paves the way for a more accurate, more focused search for extraterrestrial life, according to researchers.
The study, by a team of astronomers at T ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFP) Mar 03, 2019  SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.
"We can confirm hard capture is complete," NASA said.
The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
The docking began at 1051 GMT, more than 248 miles (400 kilometers) above the E ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 12, 2019 
China announced Monday that it is developing the modified version of the Long March-6 rocket to add four solid boosters to increase its carrying capacity.
The improved medium-left carrier rocket will be sent into space by 2020, according to the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology under the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation, which designed the rocket.
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 Tokyo (AFP) Feb 22, 2019 
A Japanese probe sent to collect samples from an asteroid 300 million kilometres away for clues about the origin of life and the solar system landed successfully on Friday, scientists said.
Hayabusa2 touched down briefly on the Ryugu asteroid, fired a bullet into the surface to puff up dust for collection and blasted back to its holding position, said officials from the Japan Aerospace Explo ... 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) Mar 1, 2019 
Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded an $850 million modification to an existing contract for element development and support services for a key part of the military's ballistic missile defense system the Missile Defense Agency.
The contract modification, announced Thursday by the Defense Department, will bring the value of an already existing contract for work on the Terminal High Altitud ... 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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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 25, 2019 
Nanowires have the potential to revolutionize the technology around us. Measuring just 5-100 nanometers in diameter (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter), these tiny, needle-shaped crystalline structures can alter how electricity or light passes through them.
They can emit, concentrate and absorb light and could therefore be used to add optical functionalities to electronic chips. T ... more |
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 22, 2019 
An international research team including astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, has combined radio telescopes from five continents to prove the existence of a narrow stream of material, a so-called jet, emerging from the only gravitational wave event involving two neutron stars observed so far. With its high sensitivity and excellent performance, the 100- ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
For the first time, scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) have succeeded in losslessly guiding positrons, the antiparticles of electrons, into a magnetic field trap.
This is an important step towards creating a matter-antimatter plasma of electrons and positrons, like the plasmas believed to occur near neutron stars a ... more |
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 Madrid, Spain (SPX) Mar 01, 2019 
GMV has recently presented the results obtained in ERGO and ESROCOS, two robotic-technology building blocks led by GMV within the European Commission's H2020 Space Robotics Technologies Strategic Research Cluster (SRC), its biggest space robotics program.
The SRC's first activities have focused on the design, manufacture and testing of five common robotic-building blocks for space-based op ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2019 
During the Australian International Airshow, Boeing unveiled its newest unmanned drone, the Boeing Airpower Teaming System.
The system was viewed Wednesday by Australian Defense Minister Christopher Pyne at Avalon Airport in Victoria, Australia, 25 miles north of Melbourne.
The first flight is planned for 2020, according to Boeing in a news release.
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