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  Paris (ESA) May 02, 2019 Small enough to be an aircraft carry-on, the Juventas spacecraft nevertheless has big mission goals. Once in orbit around its target body, Juventas will unfurl an antenna larger than itself, to perform the very first subsurface radar survey of an asteroid. ESA's proposed Hera mission for planetary defence will explore the twin Didymos asteroids, but it will not go there alone: it will also serve as mothership for Europe's first two 'CubeSats' to travel into deep space. CubeSats are nanosatel ... read more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for fifth lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the fifth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at 7:40 ... more 
Scientists Planning Now for Asteroid Flyby a Decade AwayCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 On April 13, 2029, a speck of light will streak across the sky, getting brighter and faster. At one point it will travel more than the width of the full Moon within a minute and it will get as brigh ... more 
ASU researchers find water in samples from asteroid ItokawaTucson AZ (SPX) May 02, 2019 Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came from asteroid Itokawa and were col ... more 
Rock hits Moon during lunar eclipseLondon, UK (SPX) May 01, 2019 The flash from the impact of the meteorite on the eclipsed Moon, seen as the dot at top left (indicated by the arrow in the second image), as recorded by two of the telescopes operating in the frame ... more |
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Deep learning takes Saturn by stormLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 A 'deep learning' approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to UCL and University of Arizona researchers. The new techniq ... more  
China's tracking ship Yuanwang-2 starts new mission after retirementNanjing (XNA) May 01, 2019 China's retired space tracking ship Yuanwang-2 will start its new mission of public education in the city of Jiangyin, in east China's Jiangsu Province. The Yuanwang-2 was donated to the Jiang ... more  
Rapid destruction of Earth-like atmospheres by young starsVienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science. ... more  
ESA to Lose Member State Support if ExoMars Launch Postponed - Director-GeneralWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member coun ... more
NASA chief calls for global effort to study asteroid threatWashington (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has called for more global participation in efforts to deflect asteroids that could collide with Earth. ... more |
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NASA Awards PathFinder Digital Contract to Study Free Space OpticsSanford FL (SPX) May 01, 2019 PathFinder Digital was awarded a contract by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study the feasibility of developing a transportable research and test platform to facilitate ... more  |
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An army of micro-robots can wipe out dental plaquePhiladelphia PA (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. What if, instead, a dentist could deploy a small army of ... more 
What's on the far side of the Moon?Columbus OH (The Conversation) Apr 29, 2019 Looking up at the silvery orb of the Moon, you might recognize familiar shadows and shapes on its face from one night to the next. You see the same view of the Moon our early ancestors did as it lig ... more  
China's quest for clean, limitless energy heats upHefei, China (AFP) April 28, 2019 A ground-breaking fusion reactor built by Chinese scientists is underscoring Beijing's determination to be at the core of clean energy technology, as it eyes a fully-functioning plant by 2050. ... more 
FEDOR Space Rescuer: Roscosmos 'Trains' Anthropomorphic Robot for Manned MissionMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 15, 2019 Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos and Rocket and Space Corporation Energia have received FEDOR (Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research) anthropomorphic robot for its potential use ... more 
Artificial intelligence speeds efforts to develop clean, virtually limitless fusion energyPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer science that is transforming scientific inquiry and industry, could now speed the development of safe, clean and virtually limitless fusion energy ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 26, 2019 
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russia's Roscosmos should not consider postponing the launch of the ExoMars mission as its rescheduling will lead to the loss of support from European member countries, Director-General Jan Woerner told Sputnik.
"I don't accept a discussion about rescheduling because we already postponed the launch for two years, from 2018 to 2020, and I believe industry ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 30, 2019 
The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the fifth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night.
The lander woke up at 7:40 a.m. Monday, and the rover, Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2), awoke at 1:45 p.m. Sunday. Both are in normal working condition, according to the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
Much has changed technologically since NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to investigate, among other things, the heat engine driving the gas giant's atmospheric circulation.
A NASA scientist and his team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, are taking advantage of those advances to mature a smaller, more capable net flux radiometer.
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 Vienna, Austria (SPX) Apr 26, 2019 
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets fundamentally important in modern science.
Fundamentally important for the habitability of a planet is whether or not it can hold onto an atmosphere, which requires that the atmosphere is not completely lost early in the lifetime of the pl ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) May 02, 2019 
A company that supplied faulty aluminium parts for rocket launches will pay $46 million to NASA, the Department of Defence, and other victims of its fraud scheme.
Sapa Profiles, Inc. (SPI), an aluminium manufacturer based in Oregon and one of NASA's suppliers in 2009 and 2011, pleaded guilty to fraud, the agency said in a statement on Tuesday. According to the court documents released on A ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) May 01, 2019 
China's retired space tracking ship Yuanwang-2 will start its new mission of public education in the city of Jiangyin, in east China's Jiangsu Province.
The Yuanwang-2 was donated to the Jiangyin municipal government on Sunday. The vessel will start its new mission in science popularization education after serving China's aerospace development for more than 40 years.
Both China's fir ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 02, 2019 
Two cosmochemists at Arizona State University have made the first-ever measurements of water contained in samples from the surface of an asteroid. The samples came from asteroid Itokawa and were collected by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa.
The team's findings suggest that impacts early in Earth's history by similar asteroids could have delivered as much as half of our planet's ocean wat ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) May 01, 2019 
A U.S. Air Force exercise involving high-energy microwaves and guided lasers to shoot down drones was a success, contractor Raytheon announced.
Dozens of unmanned aerial targets were defeated in the tests at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., a Raytheon statement released on Tuesday said.
The event expanded on previous directed energy demonstrations, including a U.S. Army exercise ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 29, 2019 
Lockheed Martin has exercised a $13.9 million in support of the U.S. Navy's AEGIS combat system.
The AEGIS speed to capability development contract includes systems engineering, modeling and simulation, and design cycles. The contract also includes completion of the development and fielding of the AEGIS Baseline 9 AEGIS Weapon System and integrated AEGIS Combat System on AEGIS Technical ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
A 'deep learning' approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to UCL and University of Arizona researchers.
The new technique, called PlanetNet, identifies and maps the components and features in turbulent regions of Saturn's atmosphere, giving insights into the processes that drive them.
A study, published in Natur ... more |
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 Usurbil, Spain (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Compared to so-far used global heating schemes, which are slow and energy-costly, light-controlled heating, using optical degrees of freedom such as light wavelength, polarisation, and power, allows to implement local, efficient, and fast heating schemes for the use in nanomagnetic computation or to quantify collective emergent phenomena in artificial spin systems.
Single-domain nanoscale ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission lasted a good 15 years - more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, respectively, they had record ... more |
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 Fort Collins CO (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 
Bill Fairbank is looking for...nothing.
The Colorado State University professor of physics studies the fundamental matter particles known as neutrinos, and an exceedingly rare instance of radioactive decay in which neutrinos - otherwise present in such decays - are nowhere to be found.
This theorized but never-before-observed process, called "neutrinoless double-beta decay," would ro ... more |
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 Philadelphia PA (SPX) Apr 30, 2019  A visit to the dentist typically involves time-consuming and sometimes unpleasant scraping with mechanical tools to remove plaque from teeth. What if, instead, a dentist could deploy a small army of tiny robots to precisely and non-invasively remove that buildup?
A team of engineers, dentists, and biologists from the University of Pennsylvania developed a microscopic robotic cleaning crew. ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Iris Automation, an artificial intelligence and safety avionics company, has announced the launch of Casia - the first commercially available computer vision detect-and-avoid solution to enable Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) operations for autonomous vehicles.
Providing the "eyes and brain" for drones, Casia enables missions beyond visual line of sight.
For the first time, there ... more |
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