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  Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 When the first humans stepped onto the Moon a half-century ago on July 20, 1969, they knew they were venturing into the unknown. Some had feared their lander would be swallowed up by bottomless layers of dust as almost nothing was known about the Moon's surface at the time. But they knew it wouldn't, thanks in large part to groundbreaking research being performed at the University of Arizona's then fledging Lunar and Planetary Laboratory. When Gerard P. Kuiper founded the laboratory nine years ear ... read more |
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InSight's Team Tries New Strategy to Help the "Mole"Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2019 Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Pa ... more  
Five Things to Know about NASA's Deep Space Atomic ClockPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2019 NASA is sending a new technology to space on June 22 that will change the way we navigate our spacecraft - even how we send astronauts to Mars and beyond. Built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Labora ... more  
Exomoons may be home to extra-terrestrial lifeLincoln UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Linc ... more  
Robots activated by water may be the next frontierNew York NY (SPX(SPX) Jun 03, 2019 New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators - devi ... more |
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Bacteria's protein quality control agent offers insight into origins of lifeJupiter FL (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 Our cells' process for transforming genes into useful proteins works much like an automobile factory's assembly line; there are schematics, parts, workers, motors, quality control systems and even r ... more 
What Causes Flashes on the MoonWurzburg, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 On the Moon flashes and other enigmatic light phenomena can be observed again and again. With a new telescope, a professor at the University of Wurzburg wants to get to the bottom of these phenomena ... more 
Mars on Earth - what next?Paris (ESA) Jun 02, 2019 A Mars Sample Return campaign would bring samples of the Red Planet back to Earth for examination in the best terrestrial laboratories - but choosing the samples and storing them on Mars for later r ... more 
'Fettuccine' may be most obvious sign of life on MarsChampaign IL (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 A rover scanning the surface of Mars for evidence of life might want to check for rocks that look like pasta, researchers report in the journal Astrobiology. The bacterium that controls the fo ... more  
Keep the orbital neighborhood cleanWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 More than 22,000 objects floating in space are currently being tracked by the U.S. Air Force. That number is expected to double within five years, due in large part to increased global demand for sa ... more |
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 Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets 
Better together: human and robot co-workersGottingen, Germany (SPX(SPX) Jun 03, 2019 More and more processes are being automated and digitised. Self-driving delivery vehicles, such as forklifts, are finding their way into many areas - and companies are reporting potential time and c ... more  |
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NASA's Mars 2020 gets HD eyesPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 02, 2019 One of the first operations the Mars 2020 rover will perform after touching down on the Red Planet's Jezero Crater on Feb. 18, 2021, will be to raise its remote sensing mast (RSM), which carries imp ... more  
VLT Observes Passing Double Asteroid Hurtling by EarthGarching, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 The unique capabilities of the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope have enabled it to obtain the sharpest images of a double asteroid as it flew by Earth on 25 May. While this double ast ... more 
Five ethical questions for how we choose to use the MoonMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Jun 04, 2019 he Moon has always served as an inspiration for humanity, and there are many potential benefits for further exploration of our planet's rocky satellite. But we need to establish guidelines to ... more 
Pair of Fledgling Planets Seen Growing Around Young StarBaltimore MD (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 Astronomers have directly imaged two exoplanets that are gravitationally carving out a wide gap within a planet-forming disk surrounding a young star. While over a dozen exoplanets have been directl ... more 
ExoMars orbiter prepares for Rosalind FranklinParis (ESA) May 31, 2019 On 15 June, the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will follow a different path. An 'Inclination Change Manoeuvre' will put the spacecraft in an altered orbit, e ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 06, 2019 
Scientists and engineers have a new plan for getting NASA InSight's heat probe, also known as the "mole," digging again on Mars. Part of an instrument called the Heat Flow and Physical Properties Package (HP3), the mole is a self-hammering spike designed to dig as much as 16 feet (5 meters) below the surface and record temperature.
But the mole hasn't been able to dig deeper than about 12 ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
NASA is gearing up for a test of the system that will help keep astronauts safe when traveling to the Moon aboard agency's Orion spacecraft. The Ascent Abort-2 (AA-2) flight test will put Orion's launch abort system (LAS) to work in a high-flying, fast-paced trial without crew aboard.
The test paves the way for Artemis 2, the first flight of astronauts aboard Orion and the powerful new Spa ... more |
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 Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) May 21, 2019 
With less than a fifth of the Moon's mass, Pluto can still retain an atmosphere, though a tenuous envelope of gas produced by the periodical sublimation of nitrogen ices. A study that followed the evolution of Pluto's atmosphere for fourteen years shows its seasonal nature, and predicts that it will now start to condensate as frost.
This study1 was published in the journal Astronomy and As ... more |
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 Lincoln UK (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
Moons orbiting planets outside our solar system could offer another clue about the pool of worlds that may be home to extra-terrestrial life, according to an astrophysicist at the University of Lincoln.
Exoplanets are planets outside our solar system and up to this point nearly 4,000 have been discovered. Only a small proportion of these are likely to be able to sustain life, existing in w ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 06, 2019 
Initially proposed in 2016, ESA's Space Rider reentry vehicle provides a return to Earth and landing capability that compliments the existing launch options of the Ariane and Vega families. Having recently completed system and subsystem preliminary design reviews, Space Rider is advancing quickly towards the Critical design review at the end of 2019.
Launched on Vega-C, Space Rider will se ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jun 04, 2019 
The unique capabilities of the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope have enabled it to obtain the sharpest images of a double asteroid as it flew by Earth on 25 May. While this double asteroid was not itself a threatening object, scientists used the opportunity to rehearse the response to a hazardous Near-Earth Object (NEO), proving that ESO's front-line technology could be critical i ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) May 27, 2019 
In an attempt to outflank Russian and Chinese naval tactics, the US Navy is rushing to put a laser defense system on its destroyers - first, for the purpose of improving targeting, but eventually scaling the lasers up to being weapons in themselves.
The US Navy aims to begin replacing its present anti-missile weapons systems with laser-based ones beginning in 2021 with the guided missile d ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 30, 2019 
A top Pentagon official said on Thursday the consequences would be "devastating" for Turkey's joint F-35 fighter program and its cooperation with NATO if the country bought a Russian missile defense system.
Kathryn Wheelbarger, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, said that Ankara's planned purchase of the S-400 system would damage Turkey's ability to wo ... 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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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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 Sendai, Japan (SPX) May 23, 2019 
One of the most unknown phenomena in modern physics is gravity. Its measurement and laws remain somewhat of an enigma. Researchers at Tohoku University have revealed important information about a new aspect of the nature of gravity by probing the smallest mass-scale.
Professor Nobuyuki Matsumoto has led a team of researchers to develop a gravity sensor based on monitoring the displacement ... more |
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 Evanston IL (SPX) Jun 06, 2019 
An international team has constructed the most detailed, highest resolution simulation of a black hole to date. The simulation proves theoretical predictions about the nature of accretion disks - the matter that orbits and eventually falls into a black hole - that have never before been seen.
The research will publish on June 5 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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 New York NY (SPX(SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
New research from the laboratory of Ozgur Sahin, associate professor of biological sciences and physics at Columbia University, shows that materials can be fabricated to create soft actuators - devices that convert energy into physical motion - that are strong and flexible, and, most important, resistant to water damage.
"There's a growing trend of making anything we interact with and touc ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 31, 2019 
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. received a $36.4 million contract modification for unmanned drone services in Afghanistan, the Defense Department announced.
The contract, announced Thursday, provides for nine months of Group 5 unmanned air system intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services.
The air system, the MQ-9 Reaper, is part of Group 5, which indicates ... more |
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