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  Bonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 The Crew Interactive Mobile CompaniON (CIMON) mobile astronaut assistant, which is equipped with artificial intelligence (AI), returned to Earth on 27 August 2019. The SpaceX CRS-18 Dragon spacecraft carrying CIMON was undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 16:59 CEST; the capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean approximately 480 kilometres southwest of Los Angeles and was recovered at 22:21 CEST. "We expect CIMON to return to Germany at the end of October," reports Christian Ka ... read more |
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Russian humanoid robot boards space station after delayMoscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend. ... more  
UCF Student Working as Image Analyst for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Recovery MissionOrlando FL (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 While many students spent their summer break at the beach or working to earn tuition money, UCF physics student Jennifer Nolau spent her break analyzing thousands and thousands of digital images bea ... more  
Scientists Explore Outback as Testbed for MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019 This week, scientists from NASA's upcoming Mars 2020 mission joined their counterparts from the joint European-Russian ExoMars mission in an expedition to the Australian Outback, one of the most rem ... more 
Australia set to welcome JAXA's Hayabusa2Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 To learn more about the solar system's origin and evolution, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) is investigating typical types of asteroids. Analysing samples from asteroids enables us to ... more |
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ALMA shows what's inside Jupiter's stormsCharlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Swirling clouds, big colorful belts, giant storms -the beautiful and turbulent atmosphere of Jupiter has been showcased many times. But what is going on below the clouds? What is causing the many st ... more 
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful beltsBerkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color. Thanks to coordin ... more  
The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperaturesMontreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 A new study by McGill University astronomers has found that the temperature on the nightsides of different hot Jupiters - planets that are similar size in to Jupiter, but orbit other stars - is surp ... more  
Laser printing technology: Creating the perfect bioprinterMoscow, Russia (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Scientists from Russia, China, and the US have drawn the attention of the scientific community to one of the newest and most promising areas in bioprinting - laser-induced forward transfer (LIFT). T ... more 
Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on EarthBarcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive than Earth itself has. "This is a surprising conclusion", said lead researcher Dr Stephanie Olson, "it shows ... more |
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India's Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still in Space - NASANew Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 23, 2019 In its latest assessment on debris in space published in Orbital Debris Quarterly News, NASA claimed there are 101 pieces of debris big enough to be tracked, of which 49 pieces remain in orbit as of ... more  |
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New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formationWashington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019 Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system. ... more  
NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities for Tech to Study Dark Regions on the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 NASA plans to land humans on the Moon by 2024 with the Artemis program. Before astronauts step on the lunar surface again, new technology instruments will study the surface. NASA is engaging t ... more 
Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on MarsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, a well-known Mars anal ... more 
The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu - a fragile cosmic 'rubble pile'Berlin, Germany (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 In the summer of 2018, the asteroid Ryugu, which measures only approximately 850 metres across, was visited by the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft. On board was the 10-kilogram German-French Mobile As ... more 
NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA ChallengePasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2019 Robots from all over the world will compete to find objects in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Systems Competition, held Aug. 15-22 in mining tunnels under Pittsburgh. Among them will be a team led ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Microbial life on Mars may potentially be transported across the planet on dust particles carried by wind, according to a study conducted in the Atacama Desert in North Chile, a well-known Mars analogue. The findings are published in Scientific Reports.
Armando Azua-Bustos and colleagues investigated whether microbial life could move across the Atacama Desert using on wind-driven dust part ... more |
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 New Delhi (IANS) Aug 27, 2019 
Chandrayaan-2 has captured the first image of the Moon, two days after entering the lunar orbit. The picture was taken by Vikram, the spacecraft's lander and shows the Mare Orientale basin and Apollo craters. The image was taken at a height of about 2, 650 km from the lunar surface on August 21.
"Take a look at the first Moon image captured by #Chandrayaan2 #VikramLander taken at a height ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter's atmosphere are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color.
Thanks to coordinated observations of the planet in January 2017 by six ground-based optical and radio telescopes and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a University of California, Berkeley, astronomer and her colleagues ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
A new study indicates that some exoplanets may have better conditions for life to thrive than Earth itself has. "This is a surprising conclusion", said lead researcher Dr Stephanie Olson, "it shows us that conditions on some exoplanets with favourable ocean circulation patterns could be better suited to support life that is more abundant or more active than life on Earth."
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 Houston TX (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 
On July 27, 2019, a Dragon cargo spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station carrying dozens of scientific experiments. Now, Dragon heads home. It brings samples, hardware and data from completed investigations back to Earth on its return trip, with undocking from the station currently scheduled for one month after arrival: August 27.
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 21, 2019 
China's new communication satellite ChinaSat 18, sent into space on Monday, has experienced abnormalities, and space engineers are investigating the cause.
The ChinaSat 18 satellite was launched at 8:03 p.m. (Beijing Time) on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The satellite separated with the carrier rocket a ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 22, 2019  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.
The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 meters (135 feet ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Aug 12, 2019 
German defense contractors Rheinmetall and MBDA Deutschland will build a high-energy laser for installation aboard a German navy ship.
While performance specifications or timetables have not yet been developed by the government Federal Office for Bundeswehr Equipment, the announcement last week is the first time the German military has entered the arena of laser weapon development.
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally.
Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, which are designed to be fired by the ship-board Aegis system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said.
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 Los Angeles CA (The Conversation) Aug 15, 2019 
Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with them, and if, having done so, observe Saturn and its rings.
Whether our time-traveling astronomer would be able to observe Saturn's rings is debatable. Have the rings, in some shape or form, exi ... more |
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 Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
Theoretical physicists at Trinity College Dublin are among an international collaboration that has built the world's smallest engine - which, as a single calcium ion, is approximately ten billion times smaller than a car engine.
Work performed by Professor John Goold's QuSys group in Trinity's School of Physics describes the science behind this tiny motor. The research, published in intern ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Aug 09, 2019  Researchers have, for the first time, identified the sufficient and necessary conditions that the low-energy limit of quantum gravity theories must satisfy to preserve the main features of the Unruh effect.
In a new study, led by researchers from SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, the Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Waterloo, a solid theoretica ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 23, 2019 
The interaction between fields and matter is a recurring theme throughout physics. Classical cases such as the trajectories of one celestial body moving in the gravitational field of others or the motion of an electron in a magnetic field are extremely well understood, and predictions can be made with astonishing accuracy.
However, when the quantum character of the particles and fields inv ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2019 
It was second time lucky on Tuesday as an unmanned spacecraft carrying Russia's first humanoid robot docked at the International Space Station following a failed attempt over the weekend.
"Sorry for the delay. Got stuck in traffic. Am ready to carry on with work," the robot's Twitter account said in a jokey first tweet from space.
Copying human movements and designed to help with high-ri ... more |
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 Germantown MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 
Hughes Network Systems has announced a new joint solutions to extend mobile network connectivity using an integrated combination of VNC's deployable LTE technology with Hughes JUPITER and HM satellite systems. The new solutions support various global applications for government, militaries, first responders, and commercial Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).
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