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  Denver CO (SPX) May 05, 2019 Protecting against the extremes of space travel is critical to the success of any mission. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has successfully completed the flight hardware structure of the heat shield, validating the physical integrity with a final static test after exposing it to flight-like thermal conditions. The heat shield is half of the large and sophisticated two-part aeroshell that Lockheed Martin is designing and building to encapsulate NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars 2020 rover from the ... read more |
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Hera's APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made ofParis (ESA) May 03, 2019 From Earth asteroids appear as little more than dots in the sky. Europe's miniature APEX spacecraft will operate as a mineral prospector in deep space, surveying the make-up of its target asteroids ... more  
Magma is the key to the moon's makeupNew Haven CT (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 For more than a century, scientists have squabbled over how the Earth's moon formed. But researchers at Yale and in Japan say they may have the answer. Many theorists believe a Mars-sized obje ... more  
ESA explores ageing process in spaceParis (ESA) May 05, 2019 Wrinkles, muscle pain, high blood pressure and a clumsy brain are all natural consequences of getting old. As our cells rust over time, a key to fighting chronic disease may be in tiny, smartly desi ... more 
India aims to be 1st country to land rover on Moon's south poleNew Delhi (Xinhua) May 06, 2019 India will become the first country to land a rover on the Moon's the south pole if the country's space agency "Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)" successfully achieves the feat during the c ... more |
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Quantum sensor for photonsInnsbruck, Austria (SPX) May 06, 2019 Physicist Tracy Northup is currently researching the development of quantum internet at the University of Innsbruck. The American citizen builds interfaces with which quantum information can be tran ... more 
Hera's CubeSat to perform first radar probe of an asteroidParis (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 perf ... more  
Cosmic dust reveals new insights on the formation of solar systemToronto, Canada (SPX) Apr 30, 2019 The study of a tiny grain of stardust - older than our solar system - is shining new light on how planetary systems are formed. The microbe-sized extraterrestrial particle, which originated fr ... 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 |
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 China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for fifth lunar day 
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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Researchers find ice feature on Saturn's giant moonTucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy rain ... more 
Giant planets and big data: What deep learning reveals about Saturn's stormsTucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 A "deep learning" approach to detecting storms on Saturn is set to transform our understanding of planetary atmospheres, according to University College London and University of Arizona researchers. ... 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 
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  
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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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 03, 2019 
Dust is not just a household nuisance; it's a planetary one, particularly on Mars. Before astronauts visit the Red Planet, we need to understand how the dust particles that often fill the atmosphere could impact them and their equipment.
The global Martian dust storm of summer 2018 - the one that blotted out sunlight for weeks and put NASA's beloved Opportunity rover out of business - offe ... more |
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 New Delhi (Xinhua) May 06, 2019 
India will become the first country to land a rover on the Moon's the south pole if the country's space agency "Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)" successfully achieves the feat during the country's second Moon mission "Chandrayaan-2" later this year.
"This is a place where nobody has gone. All the ISRO missions till now to the Moon have landed near the Moon's equator," ISRO Chairm ... 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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 Washington DC (SPX) May 03, 2019 
Which of Earth's features were essential for the origin and sustenance of life? And how do scientists identify those features on other worlds?
A team of investigators with array of expertise ranging from geochemistry to planetary science to astronomy published this week an essay in Science [https://science.sciencemag.org] urging the research community to recognize the vital importance of a ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (Sputnik) May 05, 2019 
Japanese space company Interstellar Technologies successfully launched the country's first private rocket dubbed MOMO-3, the NHK broadcaster reported on Saturday.
The previous two launches, in July 2017 and in June 2018, failed.
The rocket safely reached an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 miles), which was the aim of the launch, the broadcaster said.
The length of MOMO is 10 met ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) May 03, 2019 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-7 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean, beginning its first maritime space monitoring mission this year.
The ship departed from a port in eastern China's Jiangsu Province Wednesday.
As a part of China's new generation of spacecraft tracking ships, Yuanwang-7 is about 220 meters long, 40 meters high and has a displacement of nearly 30,000 tonnes. I ... more |
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 College Park, United States (AFP) May 4, 2019 
After devastating the French Riviera in 2013, destroying Dhaka in 2015 and saving Tokyo in 2017, an international asteroid impact simulation ended Friday with its latest disaster - New York in ruins.
Despite a simulated eight years of preparation, scientists and engineers tried but failed to deflect the killer asteroid.
The exercise has become a regular event among the international co ... 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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 Istanbul (AFP) May 5, 2019 
Turkey on Sunday dismissed US threats of sanctions if it went ahead with a Russian missile purchase, saying it would not renege on a pledge to Moscow.
Washington has warned its NATO ally for months that Ankara's adoption of Russian S-400 missile technology alongside US F-35 fighters would pose a threat to the jets and endanger Western defence.
The US has said it will halt a joint F-35 pr ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) May 01, 2019 
Rain, seas and a surface of eroding organic material can be found both on Earth and on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. However, on Titan it is methane, not water, that fills the lakes with slushy raindrops.
While trying to find the source of Titan's methane, University of Arizona researcher Caitlin Griffith and her team discovered something unexoldpected - a long ice feature that wraps nearl ... 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.
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 London, UK (SPX) May 03, 2019 
Massive collisions in the universe between black holes or dead stars appear to be at the higher end of estimates as, following the latest switching on of the three upgraded LIGO and Virgo detectors, scientists have detected gravitational waves emanating from the collision of two neutron stars, and another that could be the first evidence of neutron star-black hole collision.
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) May 03, 2019 
Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive "history book" of galaxies into one single image, using 16 years' worth of observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
The deep-sky mosaic, created from nearly 7,500 individual exposures, provides a wide portrait of the distant universe, containing 265,000 galaxies that stretch back through 13.3 billion years of time to ... 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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 Ames IA (SPX) May 03, 2019 
Search and rescue crews are already using drones to locate missing hikers. Farmers are flying them over fields to survey crops. And delivery companies will soon use drones to drop packages at your doorstep.
With so many applications for the technology, an Iowa State University researcher says the next step is to expand capacity by deploying fleets of drones. But making that happen is not a ... more |
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