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September 04, 2019
TIME AND SPACE
General Atomics Orbital Test Bed Satellite Payload Commissioning Underway



San Diego, CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2019
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that commissioning of NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, is now underway. GA-EMS' OTB was successfully launched at 2:30 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2019 on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. "Our OTB spacecraft is operating nominally and we have successfully met the first milestone in DSAC commissioning which involves power up and establishing normal telemetry," ... read more

ROBO SPACE
Psychosensory electronic skin technology for future AI and humanoid development
Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Sep 02, 2019
DGIST announced on Wednesday, August 21 that Professor Jae Eun Jang's team in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering developed electronic skin technology that can detect "prick" ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Melatonin is a potential drug for the prevention of bone loss during space flight
Kanazawa, Japan (SPX) Sep 04, 2019
For proper and healthy metabolism of bone, appropriate stimuli are necessary. In outer space with microgravity, calcium is lost from bone and bone mass is reduced. Measurement of the bone density of ... more
SPACE MEDICINE
Laser printing technology: Creating the perfect bioprinter
Moscow, 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
MOON DAILY
Pull Me to the Moon: Scientists Revolutionize Space Lift Concept to Save Cash on Lunar Missions
New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019
There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but n ... more
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MOON DAILY
SLS Rocket Engine Section Completed for Artemis I
New Orleans LA (SPX) Sep 02, 2019
The Space Launch System (SLS) rocket engine section, the lowest portion of the massive core stage for NASA's rocket, is assembled and ready to be mated to the rest of the rocket's core stage. ... more
OUTER PLANETS
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts
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 coordin ... more
MARSDAILY
ESA Chief says discussed ExoMars 2020 launch with Roscosmos
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019
The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface ... more
IRON AND ICE
OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019
This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from ... more
TECH SPACE
ESA spacecraft dodges large constellation
Paris (ESA) Sep 04, 2019
For the first time, ESA has performed a 'collision avoidance manoeuvre' to protect one of its spacecraft from colliding with a satellite in a large constellation. On Monday morning, the Agency ... more
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ROBO SPACE
'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules
Geneva (AFP) Sept 2, 2019
Top players in global tech companies kicked off work Monday to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft's president voicing a "sense of urgency". ... more
ROBO SPACE
CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS
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 spacecraf ... more
TIME AND SPACE
NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic Clock
Pasadena 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
MOON DAILY
Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to Luna
Guildford UK (The Conversation) Sep 02, 2019
The space race between the US and Russia ended half a century ago when US astronauts became the first to walk on the moon. Today there's yet another race, prompted by China's successful landing on t ... more
DRAGON SPACE
China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket ... more


Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic archives

SPACE MEDICINE
Nanoparticles could grant humans permanent night vision
Washington (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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SPACE MEDICINE
Scientists build a synthetic system to improve wound treatment, drug delivery for soldiers
Research Triangle Park NC (SPX) Aug 23, 2019
For the first time, scientists built a synthetic biologic system with compartments like real cells. This Army project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst could lead to materials that provide ... more
MARSDAILY
NASA engineers attach Mars Helicopter to Mars 2020 rover
Washington (UPI) Aug 29, 2019
NASA engineers have installed the miniature helicopter on the space agency's Mars 2020 rover. The Mars Helicopter, nicknamed Scout, will be the first aircraft to fly on another planet. ... more
EXO WORLDS
Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument
Hilo HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019
A cunning new instrument at Gemini Observatory has achieved what was once thought impossible - namely, the characterization of an exoplanet orbiting a binary star and determining which star of the p ... more
EXO WORLDS
Hints of a volcanically active exomoon
Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 30, 2019
Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active body in our solar system. Today, there are indications that an active moon outside our solar system, an exo-Io, could be hidden at the exoplanet sys ... more
MARSDAILY
NASA's Mars Helicopter Attached to Mars 2020 Rover
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 Laborator ... more
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ESA Chief says discussed ExoMars 2020 launch with Roscosmos
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019
The 2020 mission of the ExoMars programme is expected to deliver a European rover and a Russian surface platform to the surface of Mars. The rover is expected to spend one year exploring the surface of the Red Planet. The European Space Agency's Director General Jan Woerner said he had spoken to Russia's Roscosmos during MAKS-2019 to ensure all issues on the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars-202 ... more
+ NASA engineers attach Mars Helicopter to Mars 2020 rover
+ NASA Invites Students to Name Next Mars Rover
+ NASA's Mars Helicopter Attached to Mars 2020 Rover
+ ExoMars rover ready for environment testing
+ Scientists Explore Outback as Testbed for Mars
+ A step closer to solving the methane mystery on Mars
+ Atacama Desert microbes may hold clues to life on Mars


Pull Me to the Moon: Scientists Revolutionize Space Lift Concept to Save Cash on Lunar Missions
New York NY (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019
There is no need to tether a massive cable to the Earth's surface if you can "dangle" it into Earth's orbit from the Moon, a group of Columbia University scientists say. It would be difficult, but not impossible. Scientists have come up with an interesting twist on the old concept of space lift, which should, in theory, significantly cut the cost of future Lunar missions, The Daily Star re ... more
+ SLS Rocket Engine Section Completed for Artemis I
+ Ttiny satellites that will pave the way to Luna
+ NASA offers $7B in contracts to accelerate work towards 2024 Moon landing target
+ Chandrayaan-2's Third Lunar-Bound Orbit Manoeuvre Performed Successfully: ISRO
+ Chandrayaan-2 Captures First Image of Moon Showing Mare Orientale Basin, Apollo Craters
+ China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for ninth lunar day
+ NASA Seeks BIG Ideas from Universities for Tech to Study Dark Regions on the Moon
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet's colorful belts
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
+ ALMA shows what's inside Jupiter's storms
+ Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet
+ Mission to Jupiter's icy moon confirmed
+ Giant Impact Disrupted Jupiter's Core
+ Young Jupiter Was Smacked Head-On by Massive Newborn Planet
+ Hubble showcases new portrait of Jupiter
+ Jupiter's auroras powered by alternating current
Deep-sea sediments reveal solar system chaos: An advance in dating geologic archives
Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 30, 2019
A day is the time for Earth to make one complete rotation on its axis, a year is the time for Earth to make one revolution around the Sun - reminders that basic units of time and periods on Earth are intimately linked to our planet's motion in space relative to the Sun. In fact, we mostly live our lives to the rhythm of these astronomical cycles. The same goes for climate cycles. The cycle ... more
+ Exoplanets Can't Hide Their Secrets from Innovative New Instrument
+ Hints of a volcanically active exomoon
+ Canadian astronomers determine Earth's fingerprint
+ The dark side of extrasolar planets share surprisingly similar temperatures
+ Study shows some exoplanets may have greater variety of life than exists on Earth
+ Newly Discovered Giant Planet Slingshots Around Its Star
+ A second planet in the Beta Pictoris System
Russia Launches Rokot Space Rocket to Orbit Military Satellite
Plesetsk, Russia (Sputnik) Sep 02, 2019
Russia's Space Forces have launched a Rokot carrier rocket with a military spacecraft from the Plesetsk space centre in the north of the country, the Defence Ministry said. "All pre-launch operations and the launch of the Rokot space rocket were successful. The ground assets of the Space Forces carried out control over the launch and the flight of the launch vehicle", the ministry said. ... more
+ Dynetics, Raytheon producing glide bodies for hypersonic weapon prototypes
+ Trump says US 'not involved' in Iranian rocket failure
+ Study tests performance of electric solid propellant
+ US Sanctions Iran's Space Agency, Space Research Centre Days After Failed Satellite Launch
+ Arianespace will launch Ovzon-3 satellite
+ NASA prepares for green run testing, practices lifting SLS Core Stage
+ China's first medium-scale launcher with LOX LCH4 propellants ZQ-2 soliciting payloads worldwide


China's KZ-1A rocket launches two satellites
Jiuquan, China (XNA) Sep 02, 2019
Two satellites for technological experiments were sent into space by a Kuaizhou-1A, or KZ-1A, carrier rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China on Saturday. The rocket blasted off at 7:41 a.m. and sent the two satellites into their planned orbit. Kuaizhou-1A, meaning speedy vessel, is a low-cost solid-fuel carrier rocket with high reliability and a short prep ... more
+ China's newly launched communication satellite suffers abnormality
+ China launches first private rocket capable of carrying satellites
+ Chinese scientists say goodbye to Tiangong-2
+ China's space lab Tiangong 2 destroyed in controlled fall to earth
+ From Moon to Mars, Chinese space engineers rise to new challenges
+ China plans to deploy almost 200 AU-controlled satellites into orbit
+ Luokung and Land Space to develop control system for space and ground assets
OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2019
This animated flyover of each of the four candidate sample collection sites on asteroid Bennu, selected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, was produced using close-range data from the OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA), an instrument contributed by the Canadian Space Agency. It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sa ... more
+ Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection
+ UCF Student Working as Image Analyst for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Recovery Mission
+ Australia set to welcome JAXA's Hayabusa2
+ Arecibo Observatory Gets $19M NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids
+ Monster Asteroid Nearly Twice as Big as London's Shard Tower Heading Toward Earth - Report
+ New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation
+ The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu - a fragile cosmic 'rubble pile'


Rheinmetall, MBDA start work on ship-mounted laser for German navy
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. ... more
+ Raytheon to produce drone-killing lasers for Air Force testing
+ US Air Force seeks wargame simulators for battles with laser weapons
+ France to develop anti-satellite laser weapons: minister
+ United Kingdom enters laser weapons race
+ The Future of Directed Energy: Insights from the U.S. Army and Air Force
+ U.S. Marines test vehicle-mounted laser for shooting down drones
+ Directed Energy Outlook: Preparing for Full Deployment
Russia receives India's advance payment for S-400 air defence systems
Zhukovsky (Sputnik) Aug 30, 2019
Washington has repeatedly criticised India's defence cooperation with Russia since it sees the country as its major partner in Southern Asia. The United States made an attempt in 2018 to prevent India from reaching the deal with Russia on purchasing the S-400s. Russia has received from India an advance payment for S-400 air defence missile systems, the Federal Service for Military-Technica ... more
+ MDA test of remote-fired THAAD missile interceptor a success
+ Raytheon nabs $10.8M contract to support Kuwait's Patriot missiles
+ State Department approves $3.3B missile sale to Japan
+ Tokyo: North Korea aims to 'break through' Japan's missile defense zone
+ US approves $3.3bn sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan
+ Saudi intercepts six Yemen rebel missiles: coalition
+ Iran unveils home-grown missile defence system


A brief astronomical history of Saturn's amazing rings
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
+ Yale researcher has a window seat for planning NASA's Dragonfly mission
+ SMU's 'Titans in a jar' could answer key questions ahead of NASA's space exploration
+ The mission of a lifetime: a drone on Titan in 2034
+ Dragonfly Mission to Study Titan for Origins, Signs of Life
+ NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of Life
+ "Bathtub rings" around Titan's lakes might be made of alien crystals
+ Cassini reveals new sculpting in Saturn rings
Physicists create world's smallest engine
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
+ DNA origami joins forces with molecular motors to build nanoscale machines
+ DARPA Announces Microsystems Exploration Program
+ Monitoring the lifecycle of tiny catalyst nanoparticles
+ Fast and selective optical heating for functional nanomagnetic metamaterials
+ 2D gold quantum dots are atomically tunable with nanotubes
+ Harnessing microorganisms for smart microsystems
+ AD alloyed nanoantennas for temperature-feedback identification of viruses and explosives


A key piece to understanding how quantum gravity affects low-energy physics
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
+ Fastest eclipsing binary, a valuable target for gravitational wave studies
+ Chameleon Theory Could Change How We Think About Gravity
+ Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction
+ Researchers find quantum gravity has no symmetry
+ Development of a displacement sensor to measure gravity of smallest source mass ever
+ Gravitational waves leave a detectable mark, physicists say
+ UCLA students touch space with a microgravity experiment
General Atomics Orbital Test Bed Satellite Payload Commissioning Underway
San Diego, CA (SPX) Sep 04, 2019
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has announced that commissioning of NASA's Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), the primary hosted payload on-board the Orbital Test Bed (OTB) satellite, is now underway. GA-EMS' OTB was successfully launched at 2:30 a.m. EDT on June 25, 2019 on board the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. "Our OTB spacecraft is operating nominally and we have successfu ... more
+ Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiber
+ Towards an 'orrery' for quantum gauge theory
+ From crystals to glasses: a new unified theory for heat transport
+ NASA Activates Deep Space Atomic Clock
+ Providing a solution to the worst-ever prediction in physics
+ AI learns to model our universe
+ DARPA making progress on miniaturized atomic clocks for future PNT applications


Psychosensory electronic skin technology for future AI and humanoid development
Daegu, South Korea (SPX) Sep 02, 2019
DGIST announced on Wednesday, August 21 that Professor Jae Eun Jang's team in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering developed electronic skin technology that can detect "prick" and "hot" pain sensations like humans. This research result is expected to be applied on the development of humanoid robots and patients wearing prosthetic hands in the future. The attempt to m ... more
+ 'Sense of urgency', as top tech players seek AI ethical rules
+ CIMON back on Earth after 14 months on the ISS
+ NASA Robots Compete Underground in DARPA Challenge
+ Russian humanoid robot boards space station after delay
+ Russia sends 'Fedor' its first humanoid robot into space
+ Amazon, Microsoft, 'putting world at risk of killer AI': study
+ Employees less upset at being replaced by robots than by other people
Iran unveils new reconnaissance and attack drone
Tehran (AFP) Sept 1, 2019
Iran on Sunday unveiled a jet-propelled drone it said is capable of finding and attacking targets far from the country's borders with precision. Dubbed the "Kian", the unmanned aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested by experts of the air defence force within about a year, said the head of the force, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard. The drone comes in two models capable of ... more
+ Iraq paramilitary force says Israel behind latest drone attack
+ Hughes partners with startup to extend LTE Coverage using helicopters and UAVs
+ Drone buzzes above vineyard helping Luxembourg winegrower
+ Skyfront Perimeter Drone Performs The First Beyond-Line-of-Sight Flight under FAA Part 107
+ AFRL conducts first flight of robopilot unmanned air platform
+ Teams test swarm autonomy in second major OFFSET field experiment
+ S.Korea tests drone delivery in remote regions
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