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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2019 Engineers attached NASA's Mars Helicopter, which will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet, to the belly of the Mars 2020 rover in the High Bay 1 clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The twin-rotor, solar-powered helicopter was connected, along with the Mars Helicopter Delivery System, to a plate on the rover's belly that includes a cover to shield the helicopter from debris during entry, descent and landing. The helicopter will remain encapsulated after l ... read more |
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ExoMars rover ready for environment testingParis (ESA) Aug 28, 2019 The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment. The fina ... more  
China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for ninth lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Aug 27, 2019 The lander and rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the ninth lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extremely cold night. The lander woke up at 8:10 a ... more 
Chandrayaan-2's Third Lunar-Bound Orbit Manoeuvre Performed Successfully: ISRONew Delhi (IANS) Aug 29, 2019 The telemetry, tracking and command network of the Indian space agency (ISTRAC) performed the third lunar-bound orbit manoeuvre for Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft, the agency said on Wednesday. "The next ... more  
Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprintMontreal, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 Researchers have successfully created a model of the Universe using artificial intelligence, reports a new study. Researchers seek to understand our Universe by making model predictions to match obs ... more |
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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  
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 
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 |
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Newly Discovered Giant Planet Slingshots Around Its StarPasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2019 Astronomers have discovered a planet three times the mass of Jupiter that travels on a long, egg-shaped path around its star. If this planet were somehow placed into our own solar system, it would s ... more  |
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How light steers electrons in metalsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 27, 2019 The distribution of electrons in transition metals, which represent a large part of the periodic table of chemical elements, is responsible for many of their interesting properties used in applicati ... more  
DARPA making progress on miniaturized atomic clocks for future PNT applicationsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 22, 2019 Many of today's communications, navigation, financial transaction, distributed cloud, and defense applications rely on the precision timing of atomic clocks - or clocks that track time based on the ... more 
CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISSBonn, 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 spacecraf ... more 
NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic ClockPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 27, 2019 An atomic clock that could pave the way for autonomous deep space travel was successfully activated last week and is ready to begin its year-long tech demo, the mission team confirmed on Friday, Aug ... more 
Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night visionWashington (UPI) Aug 27, 2019 Built-in night vision may not be far off. Scientists have developed nanoparticles that allow mice to see near-infrared light. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2019 
The Rosalind Franklin ExoMars rover has completed its construction activities in the UK and will now depart to France for testing under the conditions of the Red Planet's environment.
The final pieces of the rover's scientific suite of instruments were attached at the Airbus Defence and Space site in Stevenage over the last weeks. The finishing touches included the 'eyes' of the rover: the ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 29, 2019 
The Trump administration asked the US Congress in May to increase NASA spending next year to accommodate the goal of returning Americans to the surface of the Moon by 2024.
NASA is offering $7 billion to take the first steps for an accelerated US return to the lunar surface within five years, writes Bloomberg Business.
The proposal issued by NASA could be for as long as 15 years and ... 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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 Montreal, 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 surprisingly uniform, suggesting the dark sides of these massive gaseous planets have clouds made of minerals and rocks.
Using data from the Spitzer Space and the Hubble Space telescopes, the resear ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 29, 2019 
On August 28, Chinese leading commercial launcher developer and launch service provider LandSpace Technology Corporation Ltd. (LandSpace) announced during MAKS-2019 that the company is seeking and accepting payloads from around the world for the maiden launch of its proprietary ZhuQue-2 (ZQ-2) launcher powered by a LOX/LCH4 liquid-propellant rocket engine (LRE).
LandSpace President Zhang L ... more |
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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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 Orlando 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 beamed to her from an asteroid millions of miles from Earth.
Curled up in her favorite pajamas with her laptop in her off-campus apartment, the 25-year-old from South Florida, spent about 10 hours ... 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 DC (UPI) Aug 28, 2019 
Japan released more information on the North Korean missile that was launched on Saturday, when Pyongyang tested what it has described as a "super large multiple rocket launcher."
Japanese Defense Minister Takeshi Iwaya said Tuesday the missile that flew in an easterly direction from North Korea's coast, facing Japan, was a "new model," Yomiuri Shimbun reported.
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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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